Hello, everyone Centurion Maximo here and welcome back to Transformers: Multiversal Clash. The Autobot Snowtooth has joined with the group from the Arctic Circle. That's obviously a good thing. Also, Cyborg didn't get to go on the last mission as Remus was rightfully worried about his circuits freezing up.

However, on the flipside, The Corrupted already have soldiers working with the Decepticons. They rebuild quickly with the help of the Decepticons and that's not good. I wonder what they could cook up next. If you have any ideas for specific Corrupted soldiers that should have names or commanders like Slyger and Granox who will be brought in at some point, or in general for any part of the Corrupted, please let me know.

Snowtooth had joined the group which is good news. However, the good news isn't to last as an Energon signature has been detected in the Mojave Desert. Adding to that, a familiar Decepticon appears…

Fear The Thunder

*The Hub. Tenkai Knight's Quarters. 15:23 pm*

The Tenkai Knights along with Remus were talking about the Decepticons and Corrupted apparently working together. "Sorry, but I just don't see Villius working with anyone or anything. He's too egotistical for that." Ceylan reasoned.

"Even egotistical maniacs can realize that working with another is a good way to accomplish your goals." Gen retorted.

"The Decepticons must've promised Villius something in return for the Corrupted working with the Decepticons." Remus brought up.

"What do you think that is? Faster update time for their upgrades?" Toxsa asked.

"Maybe just time to build up his team for an upcoming playoff." Chooki pondered.

"It's more likely that he's joined up with them just for more power." Guren guessed. "Luckily for all of us, Corrupted Soldiers are as dimwitted as ever."

"No kidding." Beni giggled. "They went down like potatoes."

"Still, this is troubling. We should remain on guard in case Villius and the Corrupted cook up something new with the Decepticons." Remus said.

"Right!" The Tenkai Knights agreed.

"You know, I've been thinking. Since we got transported here by Remus here, do you think we'll get new upgrades?" Toxsa asked which actually got the other Knights thinking about it.

"That's… actually a good question." Ceylan agreed. "Hey, Remus, are we able to gain new abilities to go with our current ones?"

"You know, I'm not quite sure." Remus brought his hand to his chin. "I've honestly hadn't thought about till just now. Well, that's just another thing to…" He was interrupted by his tablet going off. He checked it and saw a new Energon signature had been detected. "My answer will have to wait. Everyone to the main lobby now!" He sprinted out, the Tenkai Knights following close behind him.

*The Hub. Main Lobby. 15:33 pm*

Remus was in his station with the orb while everyone else had entered the main lobby a couple of minutes ago. "Alright. What's going down?" Gogo asked.

"A new Energon signature has been detected in the Mojave Desert, California." Remus explained. "It looks like it's bigger than the one in Nevada. Karmi, I want you to go with them on this one while Snowtooth stays here."

"Yes! My first mission in the field!" Karmi cheered. Hiro rolled his eyes with a small grin.

"Aw, come on!" Snowtooth complained. "I wanna go!"

"Sorry, but your alternate mode is a creature from the Arcitc Circle." Remus reminded. "You'll stick out in the desert."

"He's right." Bumblebee agreed with Remus. "Your colors would make you an easy target. Best you stay here for this mission."

"Plus, I've had Karmi working on and analyzing the Energon we brought back from Nevada." Remus revealed.

"Really? Have you discovered anything?" Fred asked excitedly.

"So far, I think I've developed a way to shield us from dangerous Energon Overexposure." Karmi answered.

"Now, this may be a mission to gather more Energon, we should still be on the lookout for the Decepticons." Robin reminded.

"Not to mention the Corrupted since they're working with the Decepticons." Guren added.

"I have faith in all of you. Now, time to go." Remus smiled as he sent them to their destination.

*Mojave Desert. California. 15:40 pm*

The group arrived in the Mojave Desert with Miss Science. "Alright. Miss Science, can we please see what you've come up with?" Alpha Leader asked, interested in what was going to be shown.

Miss Science smiled. "Gladly." She took out what looked like a hexagonal-shaped device out of her backpack and held it in her hand. "This is what I call an Energon Shield. Remus wanted me to create something just in case we stumble upon unstable Energon in any of our missions. Bumblebee helped out majorly when he could."

"Looks like your time was well spent." Bravenwolf complimented. "No doubt these will come in handy."

"Well, of course." Miss Science grinned. "All of us in Big Hero 6 go to the best school back home."

"Now that we've introduced this little device, we'd better search for that Energon." Robin reminded.

"Indeed." Dromus agreed. "We have to find it before the Decepticons." With that, they began searching, unaware of what would lay ahead of them.

A half-hour later, they were still searching for the Energon signature when they saw a shadow looming over them. "What was that?" Lydendor asked.

"It was probably just a bird." Plasma Blade assumed.

"It's not good to assume things. The least likely can be the most dangerous." Bumblebee muttered to himself.

"Hey! I see a blue glow over there!" Beast Boy announced. That got everyone's attention as they ran over to see where he was pointing and indeed, that blue glow was there. "That's gotta be the Energon!"

"Then let's grab it before the Decepticons get here." Fredzilla suggested.

All of a sudden, they heard a jet engine that sounded louder than normal. It took Bumblebee a few seconds to recognize the sound and his optics widened when he saw the jet: A teal blue A-10 Thunderbolt. "It's already too late for that."

The others were wondering what Bumblebee meant and then they heard the jet shout out "THUNDERCRACKER!" as it unleashed a barrage of missiles upon the group who barely managed to duck for cover.

"What the hell?!" Robin shouted as the jet seemed to come back around. There were small fired everywhere now.

"Of all Decepticons to show up, it had to be him." Bumblebee groaned as his audio receptors were affected. "Everyone, this is a Decepticon I know. In fact, most Autobots know him mostly to how loud he is."

"And this Decepticon's name is…?" High Roller asked.

Bumblebee sighed. "You just heard him say it."

The jet transformed to robot mode and there stood the Decepticon that just shouted out loud. "The pipsqueak's right! You just heard me shout my name!"

Vanetta began to giggle quietly. "Your name is Thundercracker? That's ridiculous!"

"Oh, I'll show you ridiculous." Thundercracker growled as a machine gun popped out of his arm and he immediately began firing it at the group. They mostly dodged the shots, but a couple of them did get hit. High Roller and Fredzilla tried a combo attack, but Thundercracker immediately flew out of the way which resulted in the two bumping into each other instead.

While he was still in the air, Thundercracker continued firing missiles at the ground. The group were finding it hard to dodge his missiles, even though they weren't heat-seeking. "This guy's unreal! Nothing like the Vehicon drones!" Cyborg shouted.

"He's a lot faster than them, that's for sure!" Valorn added as he dodged another missile. "It feels like we've skipped to the first official boss level!"

"How tough is this guy?!" Vanetta screamed.

"He's one of the top Seekers in all of the Decepticons!" Bumblebee shouted, answering Vanetta's question.

"You didn't think of mentioning this before we got here?" Raven asked, obviously a little frustrated as she evaded missiles among machine gun fire.

"Well, I didn't we be fighting him for our fourth mission and it's just a simple Energon retrieval!" Bumblebee retorted as he shot at Thundercracker with his plasma cannons.

"Why don't we save the arguments for later when we're not in a fight for our lives!" Alpha Leader shouted. "Omega Robo! Let's take to the air!"

Alpha Leader latched onto Omega Robo who then took off to meet Thundercracker on his own turf. When they caught up to him, Thundercracker was merely smirking. "You really think you and your primitive toy can do any good against me?" He mocked as he shot his machine gun at them. Alpha Leader and Omega Robo dodged the enemy fire.

Back on the ground, a portal opened up and several Vehicon Drones ran out of it. "Looks like we have our own party down here!" Beast Boy got into a fighting stance.

"We have to get that Energon!" Bumblebee urged as he fired on the Vehicons. The others except Miss Science went out to fight the Vehicons while she began cooking up something. They were using individual to tag-team strategies to bring down the Vehicons. However, the Vehicons transformed to their alternate mode and sped/flew around shooting at the group.

"It seems they are changing up the tactics!" Starfire exclaimed firing starbolts at the aerial Vehicons. A couple were brought down, but more were shooting at her and Raven. They had to evade more than attack.

The Tenkai Knights were slicing up, slashing, and shooting the Vehicon Drones with their weapons with varying degrees of success. "We need speed right now!" Valorn shouted. "We're too slow!"

"Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Valorn!" Tributon shouted back.

Suddenly, Robin's communicator and Cyborg's arm went off. They answered and saw it was Remus. "What is it? We're kinda in the middle of a battle here!" Cyborg exclaimed. "Can't really be distracted unless it's good news!"

"I know, and I have a gift for you and Robin. You need wheels, well, now you've got them." Remus grinned. A portal opened up and Robin's motorcycle and Cyborg's car drove through. "I think the words you both will say after the mission are thank you." The communication cut off right after that.

"My baby!" Cyborg cheered as he and Robin sprinted towards their respective vehicles. One in/on their vehicles, they sped right back into battle and the weapons proved to be a tipping point for the battle.

Back with Alpha Leader, Omega Robo, and Thundercracker, the Decepticon was fed up with his opponent's relentless dodging, so he fired a spherical object from his arm with unleashed an electrical pulse, causing Omega Robo's wings to short out which resulted in the two falling down to the ground. They hit the ground, hard. Thundercracker touched down quickly after. "Finally, you're still. Now, you both suffer and die." He aimed his weapons and prepared to fire.

However, he was hit with a vial that broke as soon as it hit his chasis. What he saw a strange substance that quickly spread all over him, restricting his movement. "WHAT IS THIS?!" He roared.

"A little something I cooked up with Madame Chem I like to call Instant Restriction Foam." Miss Science grinned. "You're stuck!"

"We finally took care of the Vehicons and the Energon's loaded in my car! Let's get out of here!" Cyborg yelled. The portal opened and they all went through it.

*The Hub. Main Lobby. 17:20 pm*

"So, there were no Corrupted this time, but Thundercracker was there and basically wiped the floor with you for a lot of the battle." Remus correctly guessed.

"Yep. He knocked Hiro and Baymax out of the sky." Honey Lemon. "How are they doing?"

"Baymax is being worked on and is almost ready to go. Hiro, on the other hand, is going to be out of action for a couple of days considering the height he fell from." Remus answered.

"Well. I have to say thank you, Remus for getting me my baby." Cyborg smiled.

Remus chuckled at Cyborg calling his car his 'baby'. "No problem. We need every advantage we can get over all terrain."

*The Hub. Medical Bay. Hiro & Karmi. 17:31 pm*

Hiro was lying in a hospital bed with bandages wrapped around one of his legs and his midsection. "That was quite a fall I took." Hiro commented.

"Can you please not joke about you hitting the ground at such high velocity?" Karmi asked softly.

"Sorry." Hiro sheepishly said. "So, Instant Restriction Foam, huh?"

"Yep. Not bad for my first mission in the field, huh?" Karmi grinned.

"Not too bad at all." Hiro grinned back. "We were right to bring you onto the team."

Karmi smiled for a minute, but she then frowned. "Listen, Hiro. I'm so sorry for how I treated you. I-I've never had any friends as they thought I was a freak for analyzing viruses and being a nerd when it comes to biology. Admittedly, you've grown on me." Karmi was tearing up at this point.

Hiro used his good arm to cup Karmi's cheek. "Hey, hey. I forgave a long while ago because I know how you feel. I never really had any friends until Tadashi introduced me to SFIT. I was initially annoyed at you multiple times at first, but over time, you've grown on me. Plus, we were like frenemy rivals at the time, constantly competing with each other despite specializing in different fields making each other better. I'm just glad you're with us in protecting the world."

"I'm glad for that, too." Karmi whispered with a smile. She and Hiro stared into each other's eyes. They didn't notice their faces getting closer and closer, their eyes getting more lidded. However, right before their lips subconsciously met, Fred burst in. "Hiro! How are you..." Fred stopped when he saw how close Hiro and Karmi's faces were. Karmi realized this and ran out with a huge blush on her face. "Did I interrupt something?"

Hiro sighed. "No, you didn't, Fred."

Hello, everyone. I hope you all liked this chapter of Transformers: Multiversal Clash. Thundercracker has made debut this chapter and I hope people like that. Thundercracker is actually one of my favorite aerial Decepticons and I feel he's a character from the Transformers franchise that always had great potential, but always got the short end of the stick in every piece of media he's in except IDW comics solely because he's a Starscream recolor. If you haven't read Transformers Spotlight: Thundercracker, I recommend it. Anyway, as you've read, his alternate mode is different as it's an A-10 Thunderbolt as I felt that fits him a lot better and I gave him a couple new toys and upgrades such as the Shock Grenades specifically made only for him. If you have other ideas for Thundercracker, or specific features/weapons/abilities for specific characters, please let me know.

This was Karmi's first mission in the field and I say she did ok at best. However, practice and more time make perfect. Still, I'd say she's better at support than straight combat. In fact, she cooks up something called Instant Restriction Foam with a little help from Madame Chem. She spends some time with Hiro in the medical bay where a potential moment is ruined for them thanks to Fred.

Now, Robin has his R-Cycle and Cyborg has his T-Car which provides them with a speed advantage somewhat. Cyborg especially is very happy to have his car with him. Now, the mission was completed, but by the skin of their teeth.

As usual, if anyone has any ideas for this story, please let me know in the comments/reviews, or personally PM me.