I don't own Transformers. Hello and I'm back…a little late though. Unfavorable circumstances have delayed the work on the story so I am sorry to say but chapters will no longer be posted weekly. Instead, they will be posted every 2 Saturdays…if possible. But in other news, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Grimlock voice vote. The winner is FOC voice! Now on with the story!

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Kaleia: At the end of chapter 6 Dead End discovered that Megatron didn't want anyone killing Starscream…at least not yet. Dead End ordered Stinger to abort the mission to kill Starscream (a mission given to him as soon as Dead End found out Starscream was responsible for the Space Bridge problems). Sorry if the ending was a little unclear.

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Warpath was, once again, cleaning his weaponry, starting with his basic weapons, and then eventually coming to his last item, his own chest cannon.

The Wrecker happily sang an old tune he just loved.

"I got the cons...IN A HEADLOCK, I got the cons...IN MY SHOTGUN SIGHT, I load my weapons and I'm ready to fight, if you say that's wrong then I'll show you what's right, cause I got the cons...FACE BETWEEN MY HAMMER, I got the-"

"Warpath?" The tall red mech looked down to see Jack looking right at him.

"Yeah Jake?"

"No...Jack"

"Wheeljack wants something?"

"NO, I'm saying my name is Jack" Jack said.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Warpath let out a long sound of understanding before continuing with "What do you need Jack?"

"I was just wondering where you heard that song...I could've swore I heard Ratchet singing something like that before" Jack explained. Warpath put down his origin-less huge polishing cloth on the table.

"Well, an old Autobot Veteran taught it to me. His name was Ironhide" Warpath said.

"Yip yip yip yip…Did you just say Ironhide?" Ratchet came over to Warpath and Jack.

"Oh yeah! You, Bumblebee and Optimus were special friends of Ironhide weren't you?" Warpath asked.

"That is correct Warpath. It is very tragic that he couldn't be standing with us this very day" Ratchet said in a sad tone.

"Agreed, last known mission he went on was a scouting mission, nobody ka-ame (came) back from that" Warpath said, also with sadness.

"Well, you must have had some good times with him" Jack said, trying to cheer up everyone.

"OH we totally Ka-did. Let me tell you about the first time I met him"

-Many stellar cycles ago-

"Luke, I am your Father" Darth Vader said.

"NOOOOOO"

-...Many stellar cycles ago ON CYBERTRON!-

"So I ripped his head off and attached an explosive to it. Then after using the con's face for facial recognition, I chucked his head through the doors as they opened and Ka-bliterated the guards on the other side" a younger and shorter Warpath explained excitedly, walking down a hall with Cliffjumper...yeah that's right, Cliffjumper.

"Well that's one way to take a Decepticon Outpost" Cliffjumper noted.

"Yeah, you could say they had gotten too far 'ahead' of themselves" Warpath joked. Cliffjumper groaned.

"That's horrible...and it doesn't even make much sense" Cliffjumper said.

"Oh really? How about, they really blew their tops over that move"

"No"

"Hey, I gave them a 'heads up'"

"...are you serious?"

"Whenever someone says 'Use your head Warpath' I'm gonna say 'Why, using cons' heads gives us mind-blowing resu-"

"WARPATH, STOP!"

...

Both bots broke into a fit of laughter, enjoying the...okay, I honestly don't know what's with them. But in any case, both bots came to a stop when they were right outside the armoury.

"Well this is where we part ways, see ya around Cliff. Try not to die" Warpath said.

"Don't worry. Remember, when you mess with Cliffjumper" Cliffjumper started as he continued down the hall.

"You get the horns" Warpath finished, walking into the armoury.

Warpath already knew what he needed. He grabbed a Nucleon Charge Sniper Rifle off the wall before going to the full-auto rack. He grabbed one Neutron Assault Rifle (WFC) and then went over to the rocket stack to grab a light Thermo Rocket Launcher (WFC as usual). He was about to go for some grenade before a hand cut him off.

"I'll take those" Warpath looked up to see a red bot with black shoulders grab the last few grenades.

"Who in the heck are you to deny me the tools I need to deliver a violent and painful death to all cons who get in my way?" Warpath angrily asked.

"Name's Ironhide kid, and I'm your partner on this mission" Ironhide said.

"Command paired me up with an ancient walking pile o' scrap! I knew Ka-mand was up to something" Warpath muttered. Ironhide then aimed his Scatter Blaster at Warpath in a short sudden movement.

"…nice reflexes, not my weapon of choice though, only good from a short range" Warpath said. Ironhide changed his shotgun back into his hand.

"You're from the Wreckers, shouldn't you challenge yourself more" Ironhide asked, grabbing some ammo clips.

"I'll challenge myself when I stop having fun doing what I'm doing" Warpath said.

"Hey kid, head's up!"

Warpath spun around and caught a cylinder-like object, about the size of a large grenade.

"You have some pretty good reflexes too. That one grenade can create a bigger explosion than those grenades I just grabbed. Now if you're done picking out your toys how about we go test these babies out" Ironhide said heading out the door.

"Now your ka-speaking my language gramps" Warpath said, following Ironhide.

"Command only told me that I would meet my partner in the Armoury, care to brief me on what we're doing?" Warpath asked.

"The cons recently took over a section of Omicron city, an area that currently is out of our scout's vision range. No clue what's out there except for the fact they're able to shoot down any air forces within Nano clicks. Command wanted to send in only a small amount Autobots" Ironhide said.

"Recon?"

"No, scouts were sent in before to do an in-and-out no confrontation reconnaissance…no one came back. Command needed a team to blindly go into a Decepticon controlled area and do as much damage they can" Ironhide explained.

"Sounds like a suicide mission, but Ka-mand never supports those" Warpath said. Ironhide stopped in his tracks and gave a very serious look toward Warpath.

"…THEY SUPPORT THOSE?"

"Quiet kid, I thought Wreckers face impossible odds all the time" Ironhide said.

"Yeah but that involves the full team, not one Wrecker and an old timer" Warpath said.

"Call me old timer again and I'll kill you before we even make it to the hangar" Ironhide said, continuing to walk.

"I thought you said any ships were shot down before they could even do anything" Warpath said.

"Beyond the city gates is not where we're going…at least not by air, we're gonna be landing at the outskirts" Ironhide said, walking through the hangar entrance doors. Inside there were several Autobot ships, mostly transports. Ironhide and Warpath stopped at one ship in particular.

"Warpath meet the others" the door to the ship opened up and Ironhide walked inside, followed by Warpath "Jazz, an Autobot specialist" a white bot with a blue visor waved at Warpath "the new guy's got style" Jazz said.

"Don't encourage him too much Jazz. Here with us we also have Mirage, master of stealth, and our pilot, Sideswipe" Ironhide said, referring to the blue and white Autobot and then a shorter red Autobot sitting in the pilot seat.

"Oh really, I'm just the 'pilot'. You call Jazz a specialist, Mirage the master of stealth but I'm simply the pilot" Sideswipe complained.

"Fine, you're a NOISY pilot, how about we lift off and get this mission done with" Ironhide said, sitting down in a seat attached to the wall. Warpath sat next to Jazz and Mirage.

"You definitely look like a Wrecker, what's it like to have a cannon in your gut" Mirage asked.

"Like you're literally a living weapon" Warpath replied.

"Can the chit chat and let me give you all a full briefing. Our target is Omicron City, a very populated area before the war. Now its citizens were moved to Iacon and most of the city is filled with soldiers of either faction…until recently. It is now filled with Decepticons and we have no idea as to what's in there other than Anti-Air defences. Ground forces ought to be pretty tough too" Ironhide explained before pressing a button on his arm which projected an image onto the floor (yes, the button itself is a mini projector).

"This is a diagram of what the city used to look like, we have no updated information that gives us factual information on how the con's changed it, so we can only guess where everything is" Ironhide said.

"And we're really going off un-confirmed information" Mirage asked.

"It's better than nothing. In order to shoot down aircraft the Anti-Air defences have to be somewhere in this section, it's the only way they can shoot down ships. They should also have some pretty important stuff in the plaza, since it's hardest to get too" Ironhide then pressed a button that switched the image "We're not going to the plaza, not with the small team we have. But we are gonna make sure to pay a visit to the Decepticon's only known position in the city. This outpost was the first sign and only sign of Decepticon activity before they took over and shut our eyes on their operations. There is a chance that we might be able to get some kind of information or advantage by eliminating all hostiles in the building, taking it over. But we're gonna split into two teams, to divide the cons' attention. Warpath and I will weaken the defences by hitting their Anti-Air and neutralizing any hostiles we see. Mirage and Jazz will sneak into the Decepticon outpost and only start making noise once they're in position for a takeover. Sideswipe will pick up me and Warpath once the defences are down and then Reinforcements will arrive. Then we'll assist Mirage and Jazz" Ironhide said, closing the hologram.

Mirage and Jazz gave each other a fist-bump, Sideswipe just nodded, and Warpath…looked confused.

"Ok, I think I got it, but just to be sure…Tell me again I wasn't ka-listening"

-One large groan, second explanation, and useless bits of flying later-

Warpath and Ironhide stepped off the ship onto the barren metal ground. The ship took off towards its second destination afterward.

"Let's roll" Ironhide said before transforming into his Cybertronian vehicle mode. Warpath did the same, switching into his tank mode (Warpath is currently in a WFC skin, he didn't switch to his current Prime skin I gave him until later).

Although trucks are typically faster than tanks, Warpath was having no problem keeping up with Ironhide.

"Looks like you ain't as slow as you are in the neuro-net kid" Ironhide joked.

"And you're keeping up pretty good yourself gramps" Warpath joked back. After a few cycles of driving, Ironhide transformed into his robot mode, followed by Warpath.

"Why'd we stop, the city gates are at least a megacycle's time of ka-driving" Warpath asked.

"You measured distance wrong, only half a megacycle…sound familiar"

'Oh' Warpath thought 'The range of my Sniper Rifle' Warpath changed his right hand into said rifle and zoomed in.

"…holy scrap. That Ka-an't (can't) be right, the gates are crawling with cons"

"Welcome to Omicron kid"

And done Chapter 7. Sorry it took so long, I'm hoping it was worth the wait. We'll have part 2 of this awesome adventure up in 2 weeks if we can. Until then, please read, review, and have fun. But please remember that when you are leaving a review it would be polite to keep all audiences in mind and choose your words accordingly (I personally don't mind getting an occasional swear in the review, but other readers might not be so comfortable). Thanks, and have a nice day!