Song crossed herself as she turned on her one engine, diving wildly through the water, in hope of getting as far away of the driller as possible.
The Driller turns and lunges after Wildsong, powering through the water with its propellers at a speed greater than Wildsong could achieve. Its mouth opens to reveal rings of sharp, metal teeth that spin along tracks lining the creature’s throat.
Headlong and his friend were in a dire situation; neither of their alt-modes were built to work under the sea, and Headlong couldn’t even transform, at that. One of the Driller’s claws snatches him up, and the other Decepticon disappears in a cloud of sand.
Song flies upwards, before suddenly stopping and letting herself be hit by the speeding monster’s head. She then tries to force her two blasters between the Driller’s scales and opened fire.
Wildsong’s weapons inflict little damage upon the Driller, only irritating the beast. The creature groans as it twists its body and dives into the sea floor.
Song does her best trying to keep herself on the beast, shooting at it between its scales and using her second oair of arms to dig deeper onto its skin.
Wildsong’s attack does little to harm the Driller as it burrows head-first into the sand, throwing the Autobot off its maw and into the path of the blades chopping through the water along its body. Headlong, still in the grasp of one of the Driller’s claws, is dragged under with the beast.
Zepar tries to contact Lightshift, Vigor and Thrust (I hope I’m remembering their names right) on the comlink.
Song started yelling and shooting at the driller’s mouth, hanging with her two lower legs by one of the teeth getting out of his mouth.
“Got any explosives?!” she yelled to Headlong.
SideStep tilts his glass and sips some more of the Engex.
The three answer the comlinks.
“Yes?” Lightshift asks.
“Gronius would like to meet with you in private, he wants to see if your interested in helping him with something important to him.” Zepar replies.
“Ah, thanks for informing us.” Lightshift replied.
“Where should we meet him?”
“Uhm… Hello?” Gronius asked, not entirely shore who would respond."
The Splitters might probably recognise his voice.
@meepinater
Song, now on the seafloor, tried to look around for Headlong before the Driller would plan it’s next attack.
@Chromeharpoon
Shockwave continues to toil at the components of the Cortical Psychic Patch, attempting to jury-rig away to piece them together, and connect them to Salvation so that they could be used. The cyclops figured his chances of success were low, but he’d need a pair of test subjects to be sure.
On a desk nearby was a datapad containing his research notes, which was all he had been able to take with him from the Adjutant when our heroes rescued him, along with a few prototype weapons.
On the other side of the hall, Sprocket tinkers with an ancient relic- a mining tool of some kind that Forcep had recovered from the body of a Knight of Cybertron, which Gronius had recovered from the wreck of the Inquisitive Savant.
“Thrift, I’m not gonna try and hook up the transwarp drive to the warp cannon so we can ‘banish fools to the shadow realm’,” Salvo sighs.
“Oh come on!” Thrift complains, throwing up his hands. “How hard could it be?”
“It’d be impossible,” Salvo retorts.
Headlong was gone, grabbed by the Driller and pulled under the sand with the creature. It was doubtful he was still alive. The other Decepticon was nowhere to be seen.
The sand around Wildsong undulates as the Driller travels just below the surface, snaking around the Autobot.
Song sighs.
“May your Prime take care of you.” she thought, before giving off all of her power to propel herself to the surface.
“Gronius!” Lightshift greeted the fellow crewmember.
“Lightshift here. Zepar said you needed something?”
“Oh, yes. We are calling together a team. Like some sort of Wreckers but… Not really. It’s mostly just a rescue mission, but you’ll see. I need you three to come to the cathedral a few hours from now, is that cool?”
“Absolutely. Just let us know when and we’ll be there.” Lightshift replied.