A Whole City Of Opportunity

## Synthesis

Rodimus goes to Tarn's room to find him, but he isn't there. He does the same for Sixshot and Overlord, but none of the Phase Sixers are there. Rodimus goes to the training room to find Tarn and Overlord fighting while Sixshot watches them, when Rodimus asks about the situation Sixshot says that Overlord and Tarn wanted to setale who was the strongest Phase Sixers and they needed arbitrator, Rodimus asks why Sixshot isn't fighting, he says that he doesn't care and ask the sparkling to go check on Black Shadow. Rodimus finds Black Shadow outside of the Peaceful Tyranny watching his drone in the air, which the phase sixers introduce as B.I.R.D.; When Rodimus tells him about their situations, Black Shadow gets the idea to visit the Lost Light City, which Tarn has denied Rodimus if he isn't with him or Sixshot, but Black Shadow convices him to not tell Tarn about their little visit.

Arriving at Lost Light City, the duo sees the Protectobots about to start their training, which with a little perssuasion by the Phase Sixers, becomes a simulated fire rescue with Rodimus in the middle of it, saying the sparkling would be fine because he 'shoots flames out of his exhaust pipes', which gives him a weird look from the protectobots. Hot Spot orders the Protectobots to roll out as Streetwise, Groove and Rook cut off the fire from any other flameable sources. Hot Spot sprays water on the flames while Blades gets Rodimus from above with his alt mode and place him near First Aid which uses her alt mode for a diagnostic. Although Rodimus says that the training was awesome, Hot Spot suggests Black Shadow not to put sparklings in the future trainings and asks why Sixshot would let him bring Rodimus in the city alone,Black Shadow responds by picking up Rodimus and flying away, leaving the Protectobots in the dust.

Black Shadow takes Rodimus to the wall of the city where Javelin is training, when Javelin asks why he would bring a sparkling there, Black Shadow says that learning how to use a blaster young was good for any bot. Javelin gives Rodimus googles to watch what she was aiming at, while Black Shadow keeps asking about the fact that she only has one eye. Rodimus spots an ironwolf and Javelin targets it with her sniper rifle, but after Black Shadow keeps nudging her she slightly misses her shot and the animal runs away, the phase sixers quickly takes the sparkling and flies off, leaving the angry femme alone, cursing out the decepticon.

Black Shadow lands in the city, noticing Drift near them, Rodimus asks if he can do whatever the samurai was trying to do which was meditation. While Rodimus struggles to stay in position, Drift is easily in balance, until Black Shadow sends B.I.R.D. to disturb him, landing on his feet, making Drift swing his sword against it while cursing at it. Black Shadow picks up Rodimus and tries to find another thing to do, until he sees Brainstorm entering his lab and he gets an idea. Rodimus asks if the other would notice the abscence by now, but the decepticon says that they're fine.

Around the same time, Overlord gets blown out of the Peaceful Tyranny by Tarn's double fusion cannon. Tarn orders Overlord to stay down while Overlord responds by grabbing him and throwing him out of the ship, Sixshot slowly follows them while driking High Grade, asking if he could leave. The other two shout out a no while continuing fighting, the six changer just sighs and sits down near the ship,saying he isn't fixing the wall.

Brainstorm lets Rodimus get into the lab, Black Shadow destroys the door thanks to his wings. While Brainstorm explains some of his "safe inventions" to Rodimus, Black Shadow what would the object in his hand do. Brainstorm responds that the creation is a metafictional bomb or meta-bomb which makes the presser think that they are in a fictional narrative of someone else and hopes that the phase sixer hasn't pressed it. Black Shadow whispers to Rodimus that he had pressed it and nothing happened, Rodimus says that he didn't see it, the decepticon says that it probably happened off-screen. Brainstorm says if they needed to bother someone, they would need to go Nautica and her pets. The two leave to go to Nautica's lab, but not without Black Shadow snatching a prototype weapon from the lab without Brainstorm knowing.

Black Shadow and Rodimus go to Nautica's lab, although Nautica lets Rodimus in, she closes the door on Black Shadow who is left outside bangging. Nautica shows Rodimus some of her Flyts, mainly her favourite Greenie, which she describes as a feisty eater. Black Shadow takes the prototype gun and says he's going to shoot down the door if she didn't open in 5 seconds, when Nautica and Rodimus quickly opens the door, Black Shadow still fire at the end, and the gun hits Greenie, when Nautica and Black Shadow check the gun, they discover that it was an Evolution Gun. While they question what is it, Greenie starts to evolve into what a Flyt would look like at his final known evolutional stage. Greenie starts to fly out of the lab, Nautica and Rodimus brace themselves to the back of the Flyt, while Greenie's tail wraps around Black Shadow who hits his head on the doorframe and blacks out.

Greenie starts to fly out of the city and heads towards the forest. Black Shadow starts to wake up in the middle of the sky, saying he could see the Peaceful Tyranny from there, he waves to the other Phase Sixers on the shore, which only Sixshot notices. The Six Changer says to the other the situation, which they ignore, so Sixshot decides to paralyze them by the neck and flies off in his starship mode, following the flyt. When Sixshot starts to warm up the blasters to shoot down Greenie, Nautica stops him, saying she could calm her down, she throws Rodimus to Black Shadow who frees himself and jumps on top of Sixshot. Nautica tries to calm down the Flyt, but Greenie isn't calming down. The fly uses her tail to hit the Six Changer which loses stability and Black Shadow and Rodimus fall down from the jet. Sixshot, having enough shoots at Greenie's wing and brings her down while Nautica regretfully flies away from her with the six changer. Black Shadow takes Rodimus while falling and protects him while the crash in the forest.

Rodimus wakes up to the medical hab of the Protectobots, with Tarn and Overlord staying to both of his sides. Rodimus asks about Greenie, which Tarn says that she was brought down by Sixshot, but Nautica and Black Shadow were safe. Rodimus apologizes to Tarn for not listening to him, which Tarn tells it's fine, but to not let it repeat again. Rodimus asks where Black Shadow is, Overlord says that he is getting his injury fixed the "Old way" by Sixshot. The two leave agreeing that they would decide another day which Phase Sixers was the strongest since Sixshot intervined.

On the Peaceful Tyranny, Black Shadow is getting his wings fixed by Sixshot with Cyber-stiches, while he whines in pain. Sixshot reminds him that this was what he got when he did something stupid.

In the forest at night, Greenie survived her demise by Sixshot, although she is dragging herself to the ground, near a giant cave. The fly hears a growling coming from the cave and two giant red eyes, the giant creature takes Greenie into the cave before she can escape.

## CHARACTERS

 Sixshot
Overlord
Tarn
Black Shadow
B.I.R.D.

Hot Spot
First Aid
Blades
Streetwise
Groove
Rook
Javelin
Drift
Brainstorm
Nautica
Flyts
Greenie
Giant Creature

## QUOTES

SIXSHOT: Seeing who is the best phase sixers
RODIMUS: And you’re not participating?
 RODIMUS: What is that?
BLACK SHADOW: ‘That’ is Black Shadow’s independent Recon Drone! Or B.I.R.D. for short!
RODIMUS: But where’s the S of Shadow?
 BLACK SHADOW: So why do you have one eye?
JAVELIN: Born this way
BLACK SHADOW: Like a disability or...?
JAVELIN: No, I’m perfectly healthy
BLACK SHADOW: You’re showing a child how to use a sniper rifle
JAVELIN: You brought him here with you
 TARN: Stay down, final warning
 BLACK SHADOW: Hey Brainstorm! What is this?
BRAINSTORM: Please tell me you didn’t press it
BLACK SHADOW: I didn’t! But what if I pressed it?
BRAINSTORM: That is a metafictional bomb or meta-bomb
BLACK SHADOW: Meta-what?
BRAINSTORM: When you press it, it makes you believe you’re in a fiction of someone else, so I hope for the love of Primus you didn’t press it
BLACK SHADOW: Hey, guess what? I pressed it and nothing happened!
RODIMUS: What? But I didn’t see you press it
BLACK SHADOW: Heh, probably happened off-screen.
 BLACK SHADOW: Excuse me? Excuse me? I was taking a nap and I woke up in the sky! Do you have your flying license miss?! Yes, you miss, is this your apparatus! Oh wow! I see the Peaceful Tyranny from here! Hi Sixy!
 OVERLORD: It doesn’t count right?
TARN: Definitely
OVERLORD: I mean, Sixshot stopped us in the middle of the fight
TARN: Correct
OVERLORD: So next cycle?
 SIXSHOT: So, a meta-bomb?
BLACK SHADOW: Yeah, wanna hear next week's episode?
SIXSHOT: Does it involve me saving your aft?
BLACK SHADOW: Actually, Tarn gets character development!
SIXSHOT: Lucky me..