Salvation: Part II

Atlantis sinks onto his knees as Thrust’s shots rip through his legs, and the giant drops his sword into the keyhole, twisting it to revive four more of the broken Sentinels kneeling around the arena.


“Seems like it,” Topside remarks, glancing around the hall, his curiosity tempered by his caution.

As the giant was turning the sword, Zepar went for its head again, intent to actually make some sizable damage to it.


“Bah weep granah weep nini bon!” Epsilon calls out into the hallway.

Atlantis was already beginning to mend his wounds, and Zepar’s blade slashes across his chest as he rises.


There is no response; Epsilon’s rendition of the Universal Greeting echoes down the hall.

Uh… no us kill!” Sprocket shouts in broken Ancient.

Zepar tries everything he could, dragonfire, his arm cannon, his greatswords, his secondary blades, his tail, his dragon mouth’s teeth and even his shank, anything to try and get some decent damage on this thing.


Epsilon looks and listens for any sign of response from within the ship, activating his radar to warn him if anything approaches.

“And how are we going to do that?” He asked.


Scorchlock would follow the path.

“Aw, come on!” Vigor complained.
He raised his handcannon and fired off several shots at one of the freshly awakened Sentinels.
Lightshift fired his assault rifle at another Sentinel, while Thrust fired his sniper rifle at Atlantis again.

Atlantis backs away as Zepar’s attacks carve up the armor on his legs, and Thrust’s shot strikes his side. The giant raises his sword and slashes at Zepar.

This Sentinel raises a shield to protect itself, halting in its advance while the shots strike the energy barrier.

The other Sentinel charges through Lightshift’s barrage, flashes of light popping off its armor as the bullets strike its legs and torso. The drone thrusts its sword at Lightshift’s chest once it got within its weapon’s range.


Scorchlock soon arrives at the fortress, with five sets of footsteps telling him that Zepar and company had already entered the facility.


“Motherboard sent me the location of Zepar’s search team,” ■■■■■■■■■■■■ explains. “Apparently, he believes he’s found where the next key is being kept.”


No response comes, and Epsilon’s radar picks up nothing unusual.

Topside was getting restless; this ship was fascinating, yes, but there were more pressing matters at hand- the Omega Key. He needed to find it soon, before Bludgeon and his fleet caught up to them again…

Sprocket, meanwhile, furiously types into his datapad, looking around at the ship’s extravagant architecture and comparing it to the remains of the other eight colony ships found throughout the cybertronian colony worlds.

Zepar gets hit and is throw to the side, he growls and charges at a Sentinel from behind, aiming to drive the Twilight Saber through its chest to try and kill it.


Epsilon takes a careful step into the ship, “If there’s anyone inhere, we’re just gonna look around and sorry if we break anything.”

The Sentinel facing off against Vigor is Zepar’s unlucky victim. The Dark Energon blade of the Twilight Saber hisses as it pierces the Sentinel’s chest, spreading jagged, violet veins of energy over the machine’s armor from the wound. The drone sinks to its knees.


No response comes. Topside suddenly places a finger to his temple as he receives a message from Motherboard.

“Flyby,” he says, turning to the pilot. “Get back to the ship; take her to the coordinates Motherboard’s sending to the navi-computer. One of our search teams might’ve found what we’re looking for.”

Vigor fires his handcannon at the Sentinel’s head.

Lightshift stepped to the side and dodged the attack, and he would attempt to lock up the joints on the Sentinels arm and throw him over his (Lightshift’s) hip.

The Sentinel’s head snaps backward as the bullet strikes its left eye, blowing apart much of the surrounding part of its face.

This attack is too awesome not to succeed, and the Sentinel is thrown into the dirt.

“Yeah go chew on that for a while.” Vigor snaps, firing again.

Lightshift pulls out his assault rifle and fires at the base of the Sentinel’s neck.

The Sentinel slides off Zepar’s blade, falling face-first into the dirt.

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The first of the shots fired from the rifle shatter some of the mechanisms in the Sentinel’s neck, but the drone raises its shield to protect itself from the rest. It thrusts its arm up to try and push Lightshift away.

Zepar tries to revive the Sentinel as a Terrorcon to do his bidding.


Epsilon explores the nearby area of the ship.

Shards of Dark Energon crystal burst from the Sentinel’s armor as it picks itself up off the ground, its mechanisms screeching as the Blood of Unicron twists the machine into a more monstrous form:

However, it seemed that the Sentinel hadn’t been entirely disabled- tongues of Blue Cybermatter labor to fight the corruption, but for now the robot was under Zepar’s control.

Three of the four Sentinel’s remained active, and Atlantis had taken the opportunity to repair Hyperborea with cybermatter from his sword. The two giants hang back to let their wounds heal while the Sentinels attacked our heroes.


Epsilon enters the colony ship’s ring. The corridor widened here, and the ceiling was adorned with delicate filigree- circular patterns studded with blue and white lights and orbs of crystal. Lifts in the outer wall could carry Epsilon to other levels of the ring, or he could proceed into the central shaft of the colony ship.

Zepar loses it and pours all the energy he could into a single cannon shot at Faux-Atlantis’ head, aiming for its neck to decapitate it.


Epsilon continues to explore the ship, looking for anything of interest.

The shot doesn’t decapitate Atlantis, though it does momentarily disable the giant- he falls onto his knees as cybermatter begins to enact repairs. Hyperborea brandishes her sword and steps in front of her companion, as do two of the Sentinels.


Zepar’s wanderings take him into the central spire of the colony ship, where he enters a spherical chamber. Four catwalks led to a platform in the center, suspended above a pool of blue-white liquid that gently rippled and emitted faint ringing sound, like a wind chime.

On the platform, a machine sits plugged into a squat, hexagonal pedestal:

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The first of the shots fired from the rifle shatter some of the mechanisms in the Sentinel’s neck, but the drone raises its shield to protect itself from the rest. It thrusts its arm up to try and push Lightshift away.
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Lightshift stumbles back and trips, landing on his rear end.
Thrust transforms into jet mode and fires his weapons at the Sentinel.

Epsilon approached the device, being careful not to touch it.


Zepar barrels past the faux-Hyperborea, intending to finish the job on faux-Atlantis.

Three Sentinels remained active, though one was under Zepar’s control for the moment. Zepar himself was charging at Atlantis and Hyperborea.

Hyperborea transforms into her dragon form, shooting a foreleg out after Zepar to try and grab the Angelicon by the right arm.

The Sentinel keeps its shield raised as it picks itself up off the floor, crouching to hide more of itself behind the energy barrier.


The four round objects protruding from he device each radiated their own glow, the same color as the crystal each one bore in their construction. A red light shone within the blue ornament atop the device’s center.