"Beast Wars: Part II"

[Tor]

(RC! You're BACK!! SQUEE! *glomp*)

Dinobot leapt into a crouch, his clawed hands still on the rocky bridge. He watched with a disspassionate expression. Inside a raging battle took hold between natural Predacon instincts and the codes of honor integrated into his processor. To slag him or to let him live? He was a defenseless opponent, beaten by faulty terrian.

Tucking his tail shield back into his subspace pocket, Dinobot snatched his sword back into his right hand. With that same detached face, he stomped forward, his powerful strides shaking the bridge. One foot went on each side of Primal's legs. The tip of his sword spun lazily, dangerously close to Primal's throat.

The raptor-bot's lip lifted in an ugly snarl. For a moment, Dinobot held this position, then, his left hand whipped out and snagged Primal's decorative chest piece. He lifted and then flung the Maximal commander with ease onto (somewhat) solid ground again, shaking his head.

[Night-Hunter]

Saber rised an eye brow when Dinobot picked Optimus up and threw him back in the middle of the bridge, she half expected him to throw him over the side. If he had she would have ran at him and sank her teeth into his neck and finish it then and there.
Wait, is Dinobot a Predicon with honor? Becuase only some one with morals would do that, heck even i would do that. Saber thought still trying to figure Dinobot out.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: Okay, Razorclaw. Vonderful! ))

Optimus moved his red optics from Dinobot's sword, which lingered uncomfortably close at his neck, to the former Predacon's own optics. He still gripped his own blade in his hand, but in this position, he was helpless. He refused to use his own fire power, upholding his own end of hand-to-hand combat, and the fact that it was powerful enough to knock himself off of the bridge.

Rather surprised, Primal watched Dinobot grab his chest and was suddenly, and quite effortlessly, swung back up on to the skinny piece of rock. The leader landed, bouncing twice until he skidded to a stop on his back. He sat up, taking a couple deep breaths of relief and exhaustion, and looked up at Dinobot. Why didn't he scrap him? If he wanted to lead his Maximals so badly, then he had just past up the easiest opportunity to get rid of him. At least his assumption about Dinobot being different than any other Predacon was correct, but he still wasn't sure why. Dignity? Honor? Guilt? Or maybe he was just toying around with him, which he had no time for at all.

"What are you doing?" inquired Optimus. "You've won!" He was capable of admitting defeat, but he was concerned about his crew. Slowly he got to his feet and stood there before his opponent. Where had his sword gone? Possibly over the edge. Well, at least he had a spare.

Rattrap simply squinted a black eye at Blaze only with curiosity when her eyes connected with his. As soon as she looked away back to the battle, so did the rat, impatiently swaying his long pink tail.

[Wintersong]

WIntersong had glanced around, feeling very uneasy for soemreason with her fur itching as if organic ants were crawling all over her. Shaking the feeling away she turned back to the battle watching, just as surrpsied as the others to see Dinobot throwing Optimus PRimal abck to solid ground. What made this PRedacon s different?

[Tor]

"What are you doing?" inquired Optimus. "You've won!"

Dinobot sighed. He was sure Primal, the Maximal he was, would not attack after Dinobot had just saved the leader's spark, so he took his optics off his oponent, lowering them to the ground, growling softly. "You... slipped. To defeat you in such a way would be lacking away in honor. I would not have earned the right to lead." He realized that he sounded almost noble, so he hadded with a nasty grin, "I prefer to beat my opponents the old fashion way... brutally!!" On some silent cue, Dinobot's sword began spinning faster, sparks flying from the grinding silver.

He delivered a diagonal cut at Primal's chestplate, then parried, and swung at the Maximal leader.

((OOP, I'm kinda not going too deep into the swordplay... I'm thinking the Preds should make their appearance after your post.))

[Night-Hunter]

"What are you doing?" "You've won!"

"You... slipped. To defeat you in such a way would be lacking away in honor. I would not have earned the right to lead." "I prefer to beat my opponents the old fashion way... brutally!!"

It finally clicked like herself Dinobot was one of honor aside from his brute like nature he was an honorable warrior at spark.
But he hasn't tainted his honor like you have. A dark voice in the back of her mind said.
She sighed quietly and shook her head knowing that the voice was right what she has done couldn't be undone.

[SkyxDB]

Back at the Axalon Skyfire, had gotten the system back up and saw on the screen they was a battle going on the bridge just outside the base. Having the urge to do something, she ran out side, and just as she gotten outside, she saw the unknown oppent who was fighting Optimus saved the Maximal leader from falling to this death.

"What are you doing?" "You've won!"

"You... slipped. To defeat you in such a way would be lacking away in honor. I would not have earned the right to lead." "I prefer to beat my opponents the old fashion way... brutally!!"

What's going on here? Skyfire thought. Why are him and Optimus fighting? But whatever the reason, I have a feeling I probably shouldn't get in the way...'

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

(( OOC: I agree, Tor. I was just watching that part and realized that they don't do much but dance with each other until the Predacons attack. ))

"You... slipped. To defeat you in such a way would be lacking away in honor. I would not have earned the right to lead." "I prefer to beat my opponents the old fashion way... brutally!!"

Ah, there it was. Honor. That was what made him different. Interesting for a Predacon. So Dinobot "saved" Primal's life by not kicking him off the edge only to try and defeat him another way? Did he want to scrap the Maximal leader or not?

As soon as Optimus saw Dinobot grip his sword tighter and it began to spark, he unsheathed the sword he had put away earlier and used it to block Dinobot's attack. Primal's sword clanged with the raptor's several times before they crossed on impact and Optimus spoke with a growling voice. "For a Predacon, Dinobot, you have qualities I could like!"

Rhinox and Rattrap noticed Skyfire appear on the other side of the bridge. The side they wanted to be on. Rhinox shook his head at her as a signal to stay back while their leader fought with the former Predacon.

[Wintersong]

Winterong heard the exchange but despite it she was becoming very uneasy, the fur along ehr spine and neck began to bristle feeling like they were being watched. Again she glanced around sniffing the air but still nothing only water, mountain, and well very few plants were the only things she could make out. Testing the left shoulder and paw again she set it down gently testing the wait but it was still in alot of pain.The internal repairs ahd made it repaired enough to partly walk and partly limp, allowing her some control also to aim if needed at any time.

[Tor]

(( OOC: I agree, Tor. I was just watching that part and realized that they don't do much but dance with each other until the Predacons attack. ))

"For a Predacon, Dinobot, you have qualities I could like!"

(Gotcha OOP. Predacons, prepare to attack! )

Dinobot grunted with the effort to keep Primal's well-aimed slash's away from his person. His face inches away from the Maximal's he breathed, "And... you!-" he parried another cut from a sword- "have proven to be a worthy adversary. I will have you recycled with full honors!" He locked swords with Primal again.

[Night-Hunter]

"For a Predacon, Dinobot, you have qualities I could like!"

"And... you!-" "have proven to be a worthy adversary. I will have you recycled with full honors!"

As Saber watched the two duke it out saber has a felling that they were being watched but she shrugged it off.
Will some one just push the other off already?! She wanted to shout but she kept her mouth shut.
Saber was a very patient preson she had proved that many times when she had been a general back on Cybertron, she had also proved to a cold one at times as well. This fight was starting to get on her nerves.

[SkyxDB]

Skyfire noticed the signal from Rhinox to stay out of it. So she stayed where she was on the otherside of the bridge and returned to Beast mode. But whatever was going on, she hoped the other would explain later, and at the most hoped that Optimus would be alive, from what she saw so far, it seems like these two were fighting to the death, and all Skyfire could do now is hope that Optimus would be the winner.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

"And... you!-" "have proven to be a worthy adversary. I will have you recycled with full honors!"

"Well," Optimus growled, "that's just prime!" He pushed harder back at Dinobot with his sword. It wouldn't be long now until the energon fields would build up in their robot modes. Primal frantically looked for opportunities to hammer the raptor again, just to get him to stop and listen before the energon would take effect and force them in to their beast forms, but Dinobot wasn't giving him any options.

(( OOC: If one of the cats, Valkyrie, Skyfire or Blaze want to announce the Predacons' appearance since Razorclaw already had Megs terrorize, then that would be great. I can't figure out exactly what Rattrap says when he spots them, and we don't have to be strict with the script, right? So someone else is more than welcome to make the rest of the Maximals aware of them. Thanks! Please start terrorizing and firing away, Preds! ))

[Blazemane]

"Steelclaw, terrorize!"

After noting the proximity of the two combatants on the bridge to the group Steelclaw found himself in, he realized the rest of his allies could not possibly miss such easy targets as Primal and Dinobot, and for that reason, directed his attention to the large group of Maximals waiting to cross. If, after all, they went left unattended, they could certainly muster a considerable counter-assault.

Steelclaw figured he had time in the confusion to assemble his sniper rifle, and select a target, and for that reason, did just that.

Looking down his scope, he carefully placed its inner red targeting sign over one of the largest of the group- a saber tooth tiger, and fired.

[Venatrix]

Valkyrie noticed most of the other maximals where paying a lot of attention to the battle between their commander, Optimus Primal, and his challenger, Dinobot, to notice something in the corner of her eyes.
She moved her head into the direction she saw the movements originated from, and saw the Predacons transforming to get into their battle modes.
A Predacon ambush, just as she anticipated. "Predacons.... Maximals maximise!" the Philippine eagle shouted to get the situation known by her other teammates, and began her own transformation sequence with a loud screeching noise the species her beastmode is known for.

The talons on her bird feet straightened and where stabilized by pieces of armor between them, forming a pair of feet with 3 toes at the front of each foot, and one on her heal.
Her legs straightened as well, and became larger.
Her sides opened up and 2 arms formed as the rest of her upper body formed as well.
The bird's beak openes up widely and Valkyrie's robot head formed inside the beast's mouth, while her wings moved up higher up her back, and her tail feathers moved onto the back ofn her head and neck.
Her wrists opened up, and her 3 barrel vulcan guns formed on top of them.

The moment she was transformed, Valkyrie took to the air, preparing to face the Predacon flyers.