Chapter Two

Jazz's head crash right into the wall of the Decepticon jail cell. Next to him was Prowl, seriously injured like himself. Waiting for Ironhide's backup, Thundercracker and an attack party had ambushed them both, demanding back their info chip, but Jazz refused.

"You have thirty cycles to give us the info chip or both of your heads will be on spikes, next to your pathetic Primes." Thundercracker threatened.

Jazz tried to get up, but Thundercracker fired a Path Blaster shot at his shoulder and Jazz was sent against the wall again. Thundercracker left the room and closed the door behind him, activating the Energized Laser Bars to forbid the captured Autobots from escaping.

"We need to get out of here." Prowl said.

"Tell me something I don't know, smart-guy!" Jazz snapped.

"If that's the case, I bet you don't know what that slaggin' info chip can also tell Ratchet." Prowl said.

"You gonna tell me then?" Jazz asked.

"If the data codes are multiplied by 62.183, divided by 9.45 and then reversed the digits, it pinpoints that exact location of the Matrix of Leadership." Prowl explained.

The Matrix of Leadership? That was the one ancient Autobot Relic that can transform an ordinary Autobot's spark into the spark of a Prime.

"Does he know who Primus will choose to lead our army to victory?" Jazz asked.

"Rodimus." Prowl replied.

"Then somehow we have to get out of here. Data comunications to the Autobot HQ are down, and that's the only way to get Ironhide and a rescue part to well... rescue us." Jazz explained. "The only thing we can do now is bust out ourselves."

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 "Bumblebee, get down!" Cliffjumper shouted to his squad member. Bumblebee, his fellow yellow Autobot, was fighting fist combat with Soundwave, the Decepticon data transmisser. But Bumblebee couldn't be helped, as the rest of the three squad members were having trouble against Brawl, a Decepticon tank, and a couple dozen of drones.

"Glyph! Behind you!" Tap-Out warned the blue Autobot. She easily jumped over the blast, landing behind the drone that had fired the blast and quickly ended its spark with a punch through its chest. 

Cliffjumper's squad team had been (before he was killed) Sentinel Prime's top battle squad. Cliffjumper the red leader, Bumblebee the yellow second-in-command, Glyph the blue scout, and Tap-Out the bronze muscle. Together, they could take down any enemy. Their only struggle was with Brawl, about twice the size of each of them.

The tank fired two arm-missiles at Cliffjumper, he dodged to the side and placed his hands into a position that allowed Tap-Out to jump off of them and punch Brawl in the face. But Brawl grabbed him shortly after and flung Tap-Out against the wall, but before the Decepticon could blast the Autobot into scrap metal Glyph jumped onto Brawl's back and shifted his arm slightly before firing, missing Tap-Out. Cliffjumped jumped on as well, climbed onto Glyph's shoulders and jumped off of her, spinning the air and blasting at Brawl's tank barrels on his back, destroying them.

Coming down, Brawl grabbed Cliffjumper but Tap-Out, with his Techvolt, blasted a beam of electric energy that removed Brawl's forearm from his body. With his remaining arm, Brawl swatted away Tap-Out, grabbed Glyph by the waist and flung her against a wall. Picking up Cliffjumper from the ground by his arm, Brawl kicked the red Autobot, still holding on to the arm, tearing it off in the process.

Brawl loaded his remaining arm-missile, and aimed at Cliffjumper. The Autobot closed his eyes and waited for Primus.