Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 7, 2009 21:26:22 GMT
TALK TO THE ANIMALS or THE BRAINS OF THE OPERATION – PART 2
His name was Killbison, a slightly unhinged robot, it has to be said, but one of the best fighters in the elite of the Destron army.
Somewhere in the tropical rain forests of Africa, around the middle of the 16th Century.
“BISON BREAST ATTAAACK!â€
Killbison shielded his comrades with his thickly armoured hide as the Legion of New Cybertron focussed its firepower on their position, while his breastplate obediently disengaged in response to his command and transformed into a four-legged robot somewhat resembling a YaJuran buffalo, which lowered its head and charged the moment its feet struck the earth.
Bison Breast as the uprights called him – Download to his fellow breastplates – shattered the right leg of the first Road Caesar with a blow from his forehead, bellowing his animalistic fury, but a second Brainmaster gestalt was waiting right behind his clone brother as he fell and caught the Destron beast across the jaw with a powerful left hook, sending him crashing through the trees. He came up hard against a solid rock face and fell limp to the ground.
In desperation, Leozack ordered his team to form Liokaiser, and the one-of-a-kind Destron super-warrior made his last stand against a veritable platoon of Road Caesars. With his cloaking field disabled and Legion warships having routed the Destron fleet in orbit, they were all out of options. Liokaiser speared one Road Caesar, then uprooted a kapok tree and brought it down on the head of another. At that point they opened fire in earnest and blew him into his smouldering component parts.
The Destron beasts Nightscan, Ironjaw, Deathcharge, Silentpaw and Hawkeye gathered around Download as he rose groggily to his feet. The buffalo looked across at their six masters, all of them now blasted into blissful unconsciousness, as the Cybertrons moved in for the kill.
“(Shall we go and save them, then?)†demanded Hawkeye, speaking in their own peculiar, secret language.
“(Are they definitely out for the count?)†queried Ironjaw.
“(I’m not sensing any higher neural activity,)†confirmed Nightscan.
“(All right,)†said Download. “(Nightscan, you fly to North America and find the Ark. You have the co-ordinates I gave you, and the program I want you to install and run on Auntie’s operating system. Get back here as quickly as you can. Hawkeye, go to Britain and deliver the message we discussed to Junglewalker and Eyrie. But mind you don’t let Deathsaurus or the Autobots there see you.)†The two flyers took off. “(The rest of you, go and secure the Brainmasters’ landing craft for our use. Get it prepared for launch. I’ll finish up here.)â€
Download walked out into the clearing.
“EXCUSE ME!†he called up to the lead Road Caesar. The Legion of New Cybertron gestalt paused in the act of terminating Leozack and the rest of them and bent down to examine the lowly beast. “That’s better,†said Download. “I just wanted to tell you, you’ve got something in your eye.†And a blue-white surge of Matrix energy blasted out from the Destron buffalo, overloading all the super-warrior’s higher functions. The crackling electricity spread across the battlefield, stunning each giant soldier with an excess of the Transformers’ lifeforce. They toppled to the ground with a sound of splintering wood and lay dazed where they fell. They’d recover, but with a terrible hangover.
Download trotted over to inspect the damage done to his master Killbison. Nothing too serious, he was relieved to find. Then hearing the sound of engines he looked up to see the Legion landing craft approaching. Good, they could use it to slip past the warships in orbit and rejoin the Destron fleet, once Hawkeye and Nightscan returned. The only tricky thing would be explaining it all to the uprights in grunts of one syllable when they came round, but Nightscan would probably be able to sort something out on that front.
His name was Killbison, a slightly unhinged robot and one of the best fighters in the elite of the Destron army. He was partnered with Bison Breast, or Bisonbresto, a loyal robot buffalo-thing good for leaping out of Killbison’s chest, bellowing loudly and head-butting things. Unknown to Killbison, Bison Breast was known to his fellow breastplates as Download, which was the name he used to go by back when he was the 184th Autobot Overlord of the planet Cybertron, data-sifter extraordinary and Matrix-bearer, successor to Circuit Zero and Brown Convoy, predecessor to Sentinel Prime, Traachon and Optimus Prime, and the only Autobot Overlord to decide to give up the Matrix voluntarily and go into retirement, following an assassination attempt that changed his life.
That day, when his escort of bodyguards was wiped out by Insecticons on the expressway from Vos to Iacon, he had come close to death. He realised then that his ambition of setting his species to rights through quiet administration, behind-the-scenes influence and secret diplomacy could never be achieved whilst holding a grand title that marked him out for assault on his person. Leadership only made one a target and got in the way of doing what really needed to be done, especially when playing a long game. And Download’s game was one of the longest.
Like many Autobot Overlords before him, Download knew he had the ability to use the Creation Matrix for more than merely giving life, but chose not to, up until that day. The day before he gave it up was the day he accessed its full potential, and transformed himself into a powerful armoured form that would keep him safe from death. He used its life-giving powers one last time. And he did other things with the Matrix that day, things he kept secret from his closest friends even now. The Matrix was passed to Sentinel, and Download retired into obscurity with his new feline bodyguard Silentpaw and a few others to carry on his secret work. And time forgot him.
His name was Killbison, a slightly unhinged robot, it has to be said, but one of the best fighters in the elite of the Destron army.
Somewhere in the tropical rain forests of Africa, around the middle of the 16th Century.
“BISON BREAST ATTAAACK!â€
Killbison shielded his comrades with his thickly armoured hide as the Legion of New Cybertron focussed its firepower on their position, while his breastplate obediently disengaged in response to his command and transformed into a four-legged robot somewhat resembling a YaJuran buffalo, which lowered its head and charged the moment its feet struck the earth.
Bison Breast as the uprights called him – Download to his fellow breastplates – shattered the right leg of the first Road Caesar with a blow from his forehead, bellowing his animalistic fury, but a second Brainmaster gestalt was waiting right behind his clone brother as he fell and caught the Destron beast across the jaw with a powerful left hook, sending him crashing through the trees. He came up hard against a solid rock face and fell limp to the ground.
In desperation, Leozack ordered his team to form Liokaiser, and the one-of-a-kind Destron super-warrior made his last stand against a veritable platoon of Road Caesars. With his cloaking field disabled and Legion warships having routed the Destron fleet in orbit, they were all out of options. Liokaiser speared one Road Caesar, then uprooted a kapok tree and brought it down on the head of another. At that point they opened fire in earnest and blew him into his smouldering component parts.
The Destron beasts Nightscan, Ironjaw, Deathcharge, Silentpaw and Hawkeye gathered around Download as he rose groggily to his feet. The buffalo looked across at their six masters, all of them now blasted into blissful unconsciousness, as the Cybertrons moved in for the kill.
“(Shall we go and save them, then?)†demanded Hawkeye, speaking in their own peculiar, secret language.
“(Are they definitely out for the count?)†queried Ironjaw.
“(I’m not sensing any higher neural activity,)†confirmed Nightscan.
“(All right,)†said Download. “(Nightscan, you fly to North America and find the Ark. You have the co-ordinates I gave you, and the program I want you to install and run on Auntie’s operating system. Get back here as quickly as you can. Hawkeye, go to Britain and deliver the message we discussed to Junglewalker and Eyrie. But mind you don’t let Deathsaurus or the Autobots there see you.)†The two flyers took off. “(The rest of you, go and secure the Brainmasters’ landing craft for our use. Get it prepared for launch. I’ll finish up here.)â€
Download walked out into the clearing.
“EXCUSE ME!†he called up to the lead Road Caesar. The Legion of New Cybertron gestalt paused in the act of terminating Leozack and the rest of them and bent down to examine the lowly beast. “That’s better,†said Download. “I just wanted to tell you, you’ve got something in your eye.†And a blue-white surge of Matrix energy blasted out from the Destron buffalo, overloading all the super-warrior’s higher functions. The crackling electricity spread across the battlefield, stunning each giant soldier with an excess of the Transformers’ lifeforce. They toppled to the ground with a sound of splintering wood and lay dazed where they fell. They’d recover, but with a terrible hangover.
Download trotted over to inspect the damage done to his master Killbison. Nothing too serious, he was relieved to find. Then hearing the sound of engines he looked up to see the Legion landing craft approaching. Good, they could use it to slip past the warships in orbit and rejoin the Destron fleet, once Hawkeye and Nightscan returned. The only tricky thing would be explaining it all to the uprights in grunts of one syllable when they came round, but Nightscan would probably be able to sort something out on that front.
His name was Killbison, a slightly unhinged robot and one of the best fighters in the elite of the Destron army. He was partnered with Bison Breast, or Bisonbresto, a loyal robot buffalo-thing good for leaping out of Killbison’s chest, bellowing loudly and head-butting things. Unknown to Killbison, Bison Breast was known to his fellow breastplates as Download, which was the name he used to go by back when he was the 184th Autobot Overlord of the planet Cybertron, data-sifter extraordinary and Matrix-bearer, successor to Circuit Zero and Brown Convoy, predecessor to Sentinel Prime, Traachon and Optimus Prime, and the only Autobot Overlord to decide to give up the Matrix voluntarily and go into retirement, following an assassination attempt that changed his life.
That day, when his escort of bodyguards was wiped out by Insecticons on the expressway from Vos to Iacon, he had come close to death. He realised then that his ambition of setting his species to rights through quiet administration, behind-the-scenes influence and secret diplomacy could never be achieved whilst holding a grand title that marked him out for assault on his person. Leadership only made one a target and got in the way of doing what really needed to be done, especially when playing a long game. And Download’s game was one of the longest.
Like many Autobot Overlords before him, Download knew he had the ability to use the Creation Matrix for more than merely giving life, but chose not to, up until that day. The day before he gave it up was the day he accessed its full potential, and transformed himself into a powerful armoured form that would keep him safe from death. He used its life-giving powers one last time. And he did other things with the Matrix that day, things he kept secret from his closest friends even now. The Matrix was passed to Sentinel, and Download retired into obscurity with his new feline bodyguard Silentpaw and a few others to carry on his secret work. And time forgot him.