1071/Battleground: Tyger Pax 3 - 4

**Blast Off has posed:**
Blast Off is feeling better after some time to mend and relax in his own wine shop, and now it's back to business. The shuttleformer's on assignment to defend Tyger Pax from likely Autobot invasian, and it quickly goes from likely to \*happening\*. Blast Off, sitting on top of one of the base's towers, gets a notification from a nearby sensor that Bot signals are approaching. "Hmmm, heads up, we've got incoming after all. Brawl, you have my permission to go smash some things. ....Just not me. Or the base." He flips a switch to send some missiles at the incoming forces.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex comes along with his brothers, eager and willing to help efend the bases. He cackles. "Lets give them a pounding. Im on defenses." he runs immediately to the defenses. "Its been too long. Finally. Violence!"

**Brawl has posed:**
At the mention of smash Brawl's optics go fully online. He was wondering if there was going to be action and the shuttleformer just made sure the assignment is not boring, "Right, right, keep the place intact." The tankmech quickly moves to lookout in whatever direction the bots are coming from.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Indeed, Autobot forces are approaching from the north, the nearest Bot-occupied city. Once again, Prowl is sprearheading the attack. Immediately, they are set upon by waves of marauder turrets and assault drones, which manage to zap the strategies a few times. However, he bides his time as the frontline infantry go charge into battle, assessing the situation before he makes a move. He notes a significant Combaticon presence, then starts scoping out the base, looking for structural vulnerabilities.

**Starlock has posed:**
     Starlock lets out a notably pained hiss as she was hit by one of the turret rounds, seemed her shoulder had just been peeking out juuust enough from her hiding spot to be struck by Vortex, but be missed by Brawl... And then one of the drones goes off and she curses out, quickly crouching down and flips open the vitals-read out monitor in her forearm to check Prowl's own status, before she started attending to a few of her own minor wounds, as well as ensuring her refueling tank's locks where disengaged.

      She'd then zip out towards the defences to at least hopefully cut some sort of important wire, or fuel line with her Energon Blades!

**Blast Off has posed:**
They keep coming, too, also as expected. Blast Off braces himself as the base shakes a few times due to the Autobot's assault, then after a bit of radio chatter he exits his post, leaving base controls to others, and transforms to lift off and head \*towards\* the Autobots, quickly transforming to root mode again from a spot ona ruined building above the Autobots. Close, but not super close... but close enough to bring out his flamethrower. JOY! "You want more, Prowl? I'll be happy to oblige!" He fiddles with the controls a bit but eventually hits upon a setting and.... well, here's hoping this works the way he intends!

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex nods 'Right. So.." aims the scrapmaker at the group "You guys want more of this?" He laughs insanely, aiming at all of the Autobots. "I missed this!"

**Brawl has posed:**
Brawl emits a rumble as he moves away from the base weapons and makes his way to where the bots are in tank mode. Once he arrives he quickly transforms back to robot mode. Since BO called dibs on Prowl he focuses his optics on the other, "Time fo fun!" The tankmech waits for the flames to clear before going in swinging at Starlock.

**Starlock has posed:**
     Fire? Fire was ironically one of the things Starlock handled best! However she was quick enough to zip out of the way of Blast Off's stream of flames, unforntally what she could not handle was the bases weapons, which left a nasty wound in her frame. Thankfully the Big tank mech known as Brawl, was just that, big, slow, tank mech, that Starlock was able to quickly weave around and even springboard off of, activating her pede boosters, and launch herself back towards her unit, where she checks her readout monitor once more, before tending to her own wounds.

      "<<Yeep, definitely got their attention.>>" She'd laugh weakly.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl gets flamed again, the fire singing his armor. "I'm glad you're enjoying your new little toy." he says, his tone somehow flat yet mocking at the same time. However, most of his attention is focused on recalibrating his internal targeting algorithms, and calling for backup.

    << Prowl to Praxus hub, backup requested at Tyger Pax offensive. >>
    << Confirmed, deploying the sixchanger. >>

    Okay that might have been overkill, but if that's all they had available then so be it. << Quickswitch, focus the defenses, forwarding recon data packets to you now. >>

**Quickswitch has posed:**
There's another tank lurking nearby. This one is equipped with a nasty drill and a moody disposition. Quickswitch is underground, burrowing in such a way as to weaken the ground. Then, suddenly, a sharp scream of metal against metal and Quickswitch arrives. The huge tank studies the scene, <<Data received, Prowl>> he shifts to robot mode, fires, then pistol mode and aims for the enemy firepower along the base.

**Blast Off has posed:**
Blast Off smirks under his faceplate at Prowl. "I am indeed! You make such a fine target for it!" His armor fluffs for a second before smoothing again. He glances over to see Starlock, and if she happens to look his way at that time, he'll give her a slight nod of the head as a subtle sort of acknowledgement. But she will not find him going easy on her, no. He raises his flamethrower again, going for another round of fire. YOU get fire, and YOU, and YOU! You ALL get FIRE!

**Brawl has posed:**
Brawl looks away from the femme as Quickswitch makes his presence known. Quickly moving he unholsters his electron gun from subspace, "Hey big mech! Get over here!" Watching the flying gun for a moments he quickly fires off a few bursts at the sixchanger.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex chuckles. "More autobots. This is gonna be fun." He says from the defenses. "Well the more to bring down then. Come at me, AUtobots. Come at me!" He cackles, absorbed in the sweet sweet sensation of violence.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl gets flame jetted again, though it doesn't do that much more than it was already doing. "Enjoy yourself while you can." he replies simply, and takes a pot shot at the Combaticon shuttle. << Excellent work Quickswitch, keep it up. We're on a timetable here, we need to take the defenses down before reinforcements arrive or this offensive is a bust. >>

**Starlock has posed:**
     Starlock is once more, moore than capable of dodging a flamethrower, she had a lot of practice with Sinnertwin, after all, however Vortex's follow-up with the base hits, where Blast Off misses, and it did put a hole in her armor, given, not as large as the last, and she hisses out, checking the read-out monitor once more.

      For someone /not/ on fire, she was still in the worse shape comparatively. She'd make her way over to Prowl to try and deal with some of the damage and at least try to put /some/ of the fire out. Second she gets close though she tucks-and-rolls out of the way of the misplaced shot, shuttering her optics in a mix of confusion, before shaking her helm and continuing on with her original path, grateful she had her battle mask on. "<<I'm Okay.>>" She'd chirp over the commlink.

**Quickswitch has posed:**
The wrath of fire blasts the laser cannon! No sooner than this, the assault unit hears the combaticon Brawl address it, feels the arcing sting of electricity flow through it. "...I have orders, and they are to be obeyed..." Quickswitch issues. Then suddenly, the Decepticon defenses rip through him. He transforms to jet mode and takes to the air. From above, he fires upon the defenses.

**Blast Off has posed:**
Blast Off will enjoy himself! He grins under the faceplate, having a most \*un\*gentlemechly glee at all this, but while it's exhilirating, it's also exhausting, and he finds his energy reserves have dipped too low. Glancing back at the base, his smile turns to a frown. The base looks pretty bad... Hmm. Blast Off transforms once again and flies back, transforming and landing on the tower to get at the controls once again. He chooses the drones this time, sending the last bunch out to try routing the Autobots before they can do irreversable damage.

**Brawl has posed:**
"Get down here, gasket breath!" , Brawl yells out as the six changer goes higher. He still ignores the other two as he transforms and moves to another position. Aiming up he charges a loud blast from both barrels of his sonic cannons and lets loose.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex finds the defenses low on energy and aims his glue gun at Quickswitch. "Well. Defenses are shot. Doesn't mean we are does it?" He fires from the ground, still chuckling to himself like nothings changed.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Once Prowl manages to squeeze off that potshot, his systems clear up and return to normal. Starlock does manage to put the flames out, though the heat does still continue to burn the surface. But now it was time to let loose, despite the fire from Blast Off's flamethrower still burning. Speaking of fire though, it's the Decepticons' turn to be on fire.

    He loads another one of those incendiary rounds into his shoulder-mounted launchers and begins to capitalize on the data he previously collected. A drone manages to zap him again, though it doesn't do that much damage and he just sort of raises a sidearm and shoots it out of the sky without even turning its way.

    And now, here comes the fire. Again.

**Quickswitch has posed:**
"Hsssss!" Quickswitch hisses as Blast Off's flamethrower attack continues to do its work. Then, a sonic wave blasts his fuselage. And if that weren't enough, the fragging combaticon Vortex takes to the defenses and fires, striking a wing he failed to dodge in appropriate time. He sighs. Sloppy. ...This must be remedied...

The sixchanger swoops to the ground and transforms to tank mode. Tank vs tank!

Not quite, not before Quickswitch focuses on the Con defenses. He radioes Starlock, "I could use your assistance. My systems have taken more damage than I'd care admitting.>> All the while, fire scorches and burns where Blast Off left his mark.

**Starlock has posed:**
     hops out of the way of Blast Off's shot once more and takes a vent glaring out at the defenders, she'd then look down noting the alert on her readout monitor about Quickswitch's medical state. She'd quickly run out from cover, activate her boosters, and sped towards the Sixchanger, while receiving his radio for help.

      "<<Already on it mate, medical assist incoming!>>" She'd reply as she got over to the larger mech, and started making repairs.

**Blast Off has posed:**
Blast Off gets a taste of his own medicine... after giving Prowl HIS. Fair enough. Probably. The shuttleformer grits his dentae as the flames come, though his heat shields protect him from more significant damage. Still, ow.

Blast Off tries to think... what would Onslaught do? Their base is crumbling, the Bots are coming on strong but have sustained damage.... he takes another look at the Autobot medic, who was just over there repairing her comrades. Onslaught might take out the medic. Welp. Sorry, Starlock, but you just got placed on the hit list. Blast Off uses his own highly accurate scanning and analyzation to transmit data over to Brawl. "<< Take out that medic, Brawl. We can't let her keep repairing her teammates. >>"

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex nods "Blooping the medic on the right." He tightbeams, aiming at Starlock. "Hey Starlock? What starts with come here and ends in bloop?" he says as he aims for the medic as well!

**Brawl has posed:**
Brawl emits a chuckle as the sixchanger is forced down but not out, "Oh yeah!" As the fire hits he grumbles, " Melt you down later! " Even as the flames scorch his body he turns to charge the other tank until he recieves the tightbeam. Quickly changing course in a attempt to try to crush Starlock under his treads.

**Starlock has posed:**
     "<<On it!>>" Starlock radioed Quickswitch, thankfully having already been near him allowed for her to also quickly refuel him, only to be violently be knocked off Quickswitch, and onto the ground, a loud crack ringing out as one of her support struts are damaged, it looks as painful as it sounds with wires sparking and sputtering.

      She'd pant heavily, and rolled out of the way, springing herself up onto her pedes once more. She would note both her readout monitor, and internal alarms blaring at her, she'd start heading for Autobot lines as quick as she could, which was notable slower then normal thanks to the damage.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl watches the defenses as they begin to crumble. << Autobots, we are on the cusp of victory. Starlock, deploy your fuel tank to Quickswitch. Quickswitch, stay focused on the outer wall--I've identified more structural weaknesses to direct your firepower toward. Forwarding the data now. >> He sends the information over an encrypted frequency, himself ducking into cover.

**Quickswitch has posed:**
The assault unit coolly considered its options. It was unfortunate that the medic was under attack, and needed someone to assist, but it had its orders and the defenses must fall. ..Still, she's under attack! The contradictory thoughts fight for supremecy in his mind. Then, Prowl's order comes through, and the data with it. It transforms to laser cannon mode and fires a tight, white-hot beam of energy...

**Blast Off has posed:**
This has been fast and furious and Blast Off is feeling the pressure. His frame, just recently repaired, is sending out warning signals to him. Still, while he may not have much energy on his own, the base still has some, so he flips some switches and sends more firepower- though not actually fire this time- the Bots' way. "We've reenforcements on the way.... just don't know if they'll make it in time. If we can just prevent any more structural damage...."

**Brawl has posed:**
"Dat just means gotta blast em all to scrap!", Brawl sends to his brothers as he backs off after the ram. The impact along with the remaining fire disorient him for a few moments. Turning his turret quickly left to right as he regains his focus before attempting to shoot all bots in the area.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex cackles through the fire. "So.. lets work on getting that medic down then the flamethrower." he says, firing his laser rifle at Starlock. "Wish they'd get close enough for me to sta..wait. No distance is good." he says, forgetting he doesnt have rotors to stab people.

**Starlock has posed:**
     "<<Nng.. Way..a..ahead of you.>>" She'd commlink back, taking another shot from Blast Off that sends her rolling forward, and flat onto the ground once more, despite the pooling Energon from her wounds, she groans out in pain, and pushes herself up once more and continued stumbling forward, only to be knocked down once more by Vortex!

      Fortunately for the Decepticons, she stays down this time in a pool of her own energon, which is also unfortunate for the Autobots... However what is fortunate for the Autobots is that Starlock did manage to get Switch refueled.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl keeps his optics focused on the base defenses, seeing that it is about to crumble. << Press forward, Autobots. >> he encourages, even as another Marauder drone grazes his shoulder armor, though he doesn't pay it much mind. << Starlock is down, medevac teams route to <coordinates> for extraction. >>

    Stepping briefly out from cover, he fires a missile at the base, hoping to deal the final blow. But surely even if he doesn't, Quickswitch will...

**Quickswitch has posed:**
As Starlock falls, the assault unit tries to ignore the din of too many thoughts. How dare they, how /dare/ they. We need to get back to base.. Got this, nothing to be worried about and we'll take Starlock back for repairs. It stares down the length of its barrel, barely reacting as defensive fire hits him. It knows what it must do. But when Prowl's missile completely disables the base, Quickswitch follows up with a white-hot beam of his own, kind of a 'kiss my aft' gesture.

**Blast Off has posed:**
"Do it!" Blast Off calls to Brawl, though he sighs as the shots miss, then he looks to Vortex- and "Yes!" The rotary's shot finally puts the medic out of action! He does a little fist pump gesture, then the fist slides down as he also sort of.... feels sorry for the medic. He has a flashback to her repairing him in prison and...well... no time for kindness on the battlefield, is there? The Autobots attacked \*them\*, after all! He frowns, but other things quickly gain his attention, anyway. Namely Prowl and Quickswitch dealing the final blows to the base, which crumbles under them.

"Decepticons, retreat!" Blast Off has just enough energy left to transform and open his cargo bay. "<< Get in, Vortex. Brawl. We're \*leaving\*. >>" Once they're loaded up, he blasts off back towards the reenforcements that didn't arrive quite soon enough.

**Brawl has posed:**
Brawl is half tempted for a parting shot but immediately turns, treads digging into the ground as he makes way to the shuttleformer to get onboard.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex moves over to the shuttleformer. "We're all alive this time. We're doing awesome." hes still chuckling to himself like this was the best battle ever.