During the slapdown.

[nottabeater]

((happens same time as this))

Bee glances toward the place that Endeavour lifted off from earlier, then turns her head slightly and listens to the sparklings where they're gathered around Jeimu under the table in the Workshop. The thought that her friends are up in space going against Starscream seems a little surreal in a way. But after everything else that's happened since they came to Earth....

"Yeah," she mutters to herself.

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Epps turns his attention to getting people back safely, though now the channels are open as Bumblebee notices the problem and tears open the block. Calls start coming through, and the sound of copter blades sound in the not too far distance.

The mercenary commander calls the retreat. She and her men were here to kill soldiers and maybe take out some non combatants, not fight ghostly hallucinations that can suck their guns away from them and whose own gun is far too real.

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

"Yeah that's what I thought." Jazz huffs slightly as he watches them run off. After the mercs get a suitable distance away he turns and drops the guns as he plods over to his friends and helps to guid them safely back to the base. "Primus, gettin' shot hurts."

[nottabeater.livejournal.com]

"You alright?" Fig looks up with concern, not even wincing at the roar of a chopper setting down nearby or of a pair of jets going over.

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

"I hurt man. Like all over. They didn'y fire off that much though did they?"

[nottabeater.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I thought they were too busy yellin' to hit anythin'." He frowns.

//Jazz?// calls Bee.

//Daddy, they lost Aunty Dev!// reports Rap anxiously. //Wait, Aunty 'Mia thinks it was her PINpoint goin' off. AuntyMu's lookin'.//

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

//I'm hurtin' but the baddies are gone, from here.// He broadcasts to them. //I-I'm comin' in. Here in a sec.//

He gives Fig a pained grin. "I need to head back in. Somethin's up with the team we got in space."

[nottabeater.livejournal.com]

"Sure, man," the Warrent Officer nods, but then yelps and dives for cover as something hits the ground only ten foot away.

"The @$%$#%$#!" says another soldier. "That looked like one'a the 'Bots!"

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

Jazz stumbles over and begins to click and beep in Cybertronian as he investigates the critter who made landfall.

Then gasps in shock.

//Bee, I'm seein' some thing that looks like Dev.//

[nottabeater.livejournal.com]

//No, no! Dev's in Newfoundland. Watch out, the others are coming down,// she says hastily. //Make sure nobody gets squished!//

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

"Everybody! Get ta cover! Bee says there's something else comin' down!"

[nottabeater.livejournal.com]

The men look upward, then scatter like well-trained quail at sight of the massive 'rocks' that are plummeting toward Earth. The ground shakes with impacts, and a Rachetish groan come from one of the new craters.

[dajazzmech.livejournal.com]

"What in Primus's name is going on?!" Jazz says from his position of leaning protectively over Epps and Fig.

//Bee? What in the flying blue pit is going on?//