Aaaaand action!

[city_awake]

*Metroplex opens his largest gate and lets down the bridge, preparing the road for the Hunt Down That Rat Bastard Drath Squad. Who emerges? Stay tuned and find out!*

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[chaos_gunner]

*there's a scream of wildly overstressed engines from somewhere above, and a human sublight shuttle descends from the sky. Well, it might be a shuttle. It's hard to be certain exactly, given that it's descending in a magnificent ball of fire as its ablative armour struggles with re-entry speeds it was never really designed to cope with

[city_awake]

((*dies* Galvatron, I love you. Also, does this mean 'Boots can quit with the being banished now?))

*Metroplex wisely keeps his thoughts about Galvatron's entrance to himself, merely opening a side door.* VICTOR DRATH'S FACILITY HAS BEEN DESTROYED; YOUR BODY IS MOSTLY INTACT, AND THE OTHER DECEPTICONS' BODIES ARE SAFE. STATUS OF AUTOBOT BODIES UNKNOWN. WE HAVE A TEAM IN PURSUIT OF DRATH NOW. *Meanwhile, Metroplex remotely boots up one of the spare EDC interceptors. It's ugly, but it's hella fast and that's what counts.*

[chaos_gunner]

((I don't see why not, though I'd rather like to see them meet face to face for it. ^_^ Where is she?))

Unknown? So what happened to Rodimus - and the Matrix?!

And get me a patch through to whoever's leading the team hunting Drath! *snarls, aside* I want to tell them to leave some for me when they're done interrogating him!

[apprentice_lurk]

((EEEE. I think if I'm officially not-banished, I'm the highest-ranking one on the team hunting Drath. What a coincidence!

*...bouncebouncebounce*

We literally just up and left Metroplex, so I can turn around and boggle at the landing if you like. Heck, I'm volunteering to be their transport.))

[navigatorsghost]

((Fantastic, do it! ^_^))

[eliteinpink]

(( Whaddaya mean "unknown", 'plex? Ground-zero at the big-aft explosion that left Galvatron only partially intact? Elita's being nice when she says she doesn't know but that you shouldn't hope for much. ))

[apprentice_lurk]

((I think he means 'let's tell Galvatron this when it's less likely he'll actively try to kill something over it' rather than 'we don't know'.))

[navigatorsghost]

((Also, bear in mind that by rights, Roddy's almost as tough as Galvatron. He could well have made it.))

[apprentice_lurk]

*still in sight of Metroplex, having just rounded up the search-and-kick-aft party, nearly falls out of the sky in shock when a fireball comes hurtling out of the sky* What the fuck-?!

*screams around and starts charging back to Metroplex* //Raven, 'Shifter, Swindle, get Drath! If that's another one of his nasties we can at least grab him and make him sit through it!//

*and just as she turns and hurtles back to the city in a scream of thrusters and high dudgeon, the patch from Metroplex comes through...* //Team Leader Dreadboots, nowthebloodyhell what?!//

[chaos_gunner]

//Dreadboots?!//

//...*gleeful laughter* Well, I did say I needed a fast ship! Get down here!//

[apprentice_lurk]

*just...gapes*

*...then fires her engines and screams down out of the sky so fast she almost leaves her colours behind* //Galvatron?!// *voice is rather higher than it should be, unsurprisingly*

[chaos_gunner]

//Yes, who else?! I'm lifting your banishment, get in here!// *"here" being the nearest comm station to the door in Metroplex, of course*

[apprentice_lurk]

//...Yes sir!//

*hits the ground running, hard enough to stagger though not enough to slow her down, and comes charging in through the door-*

*glances about, unconsciously looking on her own eye-level, then looks down*

...

Geez, boss... *crouches down, then remembers who she's talking to and transforms, opening her canopy* ...Nice horns.

[chaos_gunner]

*snorts wryly* *half-turns, to reveal that he's apparently growing a tail as well*

I don't think these bodies can stand up too well to having our sparks in them! We need to do something about that! *jerks a thumb at Cyclonus, the skin of whose upper arms is starting to peel and shred over what look horribly like sprouting, bone-blade imitations of his natural wings - the ex-jet isn't looking like he's in pain, but there's a distinctly uneasy set to his features*

*hops up into Dreadboots' open canopy, waving the other two up with him* Right! Catch us up to Drath, first! We'll start with him!

[hidden_watcher]

*sits down against the wall of Dreadboots' passenger compartment, leaning his head back and shutting his eyes. So far he's done little but chase along after Galvatron, and while the warlord may be able to run on nothing but rage and determination indefinitely, Scourge isn't sure he can. He's tired, this body is in need of refuelling, and frankly, yes, he's terrified. Not to mention rather weirded out by being smaller and more vulnerable than his apprentice.*

*quietly, to 'Boots* Do you need any help or can I just stay here for a bit?

[apprentice_lurk]

*engine hums quietly around him* Nah. I know where we're going, and by the looks of you you need all the sleep you can get. *desperately wants to wrap her wings around them and hug them, but knows it wouldn't do any good*

...There ought to be some chocolate in there somewhere. I found it after I'd been scaled up, Snowcat must've dropped it when I gave him a lift when he was human. Just don't eat the wrapper. *invisible half-grin*

*lifts off the floor and makes a hard turn back out to the door, then points her nose up and picks up speed, thrusters roaring dully through her cockpit* /Raven and the others went on ahead. Shouldn't take long to catch them./