Grimlock POV

Me Grimlock hear Mom on communicator, while holding back Megatron.

Ruby: Ironwood is declaring Martial Law and abandoning Mantle! Salem is coming and he's going to use the Staff to move Atlas! We have to stop him or Mantle will be des-

Grimlock: Ruby? Ruby?! Mom! RAAAH!

Me punch Megatron in face sending him miles back.

Grimlock: Doc?!

Ratchet: Her signal was blocked off...

Ratchet then looks at the scroll he built into his arm.

Ratchet: Ironwood has placed an order on all of us to be placed under arrest!

Grimlock: Dinobots! Rampage and destroy Terrorcons!

Slag suddenly bursts out of the dog pile he and Slash were under and roars

Slag: About damn time!

Slag unleashes everything he has and smashes through every zombie in way and frees the others.

Me Grimlock turn back to Megatron and endure three blaster shots to my chest which flies me back across the ground.

(Unicron): They will all die alone, as will you.

Me Grimlock having hard time finding strength to get up, me fighting for entire night and Aura broken, Megatron raises hammer to finish me. Suddenly, explosion behind Megatron sends him over Grimlock and ends up behind me a ways.

Me Grimlock look up and see Predaking fly down and transform before landing.

Grimlock: *with a growl* Predaking.

Predaking approaches me and stares down with a scowl.

Predaking: How the mighty have fallen.

3rd Person POV

On the prison transport carrying Robyn, Qrow, Clover and Tyrian.

Robyn: Declaring Martial Law?! We can't let him do this!

Clover: Ms. Hill, I'm sure the General understands the enormity of his--

Clover gets a notification on his scroll and looks at it. The screen shows mugshots of Team RWBY, JNPR, Oscar, the Dinobots, Ratchet and Qrow. The text above the mugshots states:

"WANTED!
Detain on sight!"

Clover puts his scroll away and sighs before standing up, and begins approaching Qrow, who grips the hilt of his weapon.

Qrow: Clover....

Robyn's scroll now vibrates, she brings it out and sees the same Wanted notification.

Clover: Qrow, you should know, I've been asked to bring you in.

Tyrian: *laughing* A free ride and a show!

Clover: There's also an alert out for Team RWBY's arrest.

Qrow: What?! Has James lost his mind?!

Robyn: He's trying to stop anyone who will get in the way of his inhumane plan.

Robyn stands and deploys her crossbow.

Robyn: Looks like he underestimated me. *aims at Clover* Again.

Clover: Only Qrow is under arrest. After everything we've been through tonight please don't make me arrest you too.

Robyn clenches her teeth and glares at Clover, the bolt on her crossbow being pulled back against the string. Clover activates his fishing rod in response.

Qrow: Cut it out! Both of you. We're almost back to Atlas. Let's talk to James personally and--

Tyrian: It's taking a very long time for this show to get to the good part.

Qrow: Shut up!

Robyn: He's right. Let's get this ober with.

Qrow: Robyn-

Robyn fires her bolt, which Clover casually blocks it with his weapon. Robyn shifts her weapon into a bladed shield form and charges at Clover, who blocks it shortens his weapon, hooks hers and pulls on it, knocking Robyn to the floor.

Qrow: *annoyed sigh* Fine.

Qrow gets up, drawing his sword and swinging it at Clover, who jumps out of the way. He swings again, and Clover blocks with his rod, locking weapons with him.

Clover: I wish it hadn't come to this.

Qrow: I doesn't have to!

Robyn jumps back and three duke it out until Tyrian manages to make the transport nose dive and crash.

In Ironwood's office, Team RWBY and the Ace-Ops are at odds.

Weiss: Please, think about what you're doing.

Harriet: You heard the General. Until this is sorted out, you're under arrest.

Harriet brings out her scroll and hits a button. The blue lights turn red and metal covers the windows. Yang looks at the windows, then at Harriet.

Yang: Really?

Vine then steps forward, raising a hand.

Vine: Don't make this difficult.

Blake steps forward.

Blake: Don't make us have to get out of here by force.

Yang deploys her weapons, and Blake and Weiss draw their swords. On the other side of the room, Vine activates his Semblance while Harriet and Elm draw their weapons. Marrow waves his hands.

Marrow: Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're not actually gonna slug it out, are we?

Harriet: We're not doing anything. They decide what happens next.

Ruby walks over from Ironwood's desk to stand with her teammates and transforms Crescent Rose into scythe mode. Marrow sighs and draws his gun.

Harriet: You think you're going to stop us. *scoffs* We're the best Huntsmen in Atlas.

Ruby: You were. Then you trained us.

Ruby uses her Semblance to rush past the Ace-Ops, smashing through the door, and Harriet angrily chases after her with her own Semblance. The remaining members of RWBY and Ace-Ops charge forward and attack; Yang fights Elm, Blake fights Marrow, and Weiss fights Vine.

Ruby zooms across the foyer, and up the stairs, stopping in front of the elevator. Before she has a chance to do anything, Harriet catches up, rushes around her, and kicks her in the head, knocking her against a pair of elevator doors hard enough to dent them. She then begins walking toward Ruby.

Ruby: Come on Harriet! We're playing right into Salem's hands! You know we need to be working together!

Harriet: Don't give me that crap! *she brushes her nose with a thumb* I had you kids pegged from the start.

Harriet zooms forward again with her Semblance. Meanwhile, Yang and Elm are descending the stairs in front of Ironwood's office into the foyer. Elm is blocking a flurry of punches with her hammer, and Yang manages to punch her in the face, knocking her the rest of the way down the stairs. Yang then propels herself forward with the recoil from her weapons, ready to punch, but Elm uses her Smeblance to stand her ground and then swings he head to headbutt Yang. She then slams her hammer into Yang, sending her flying through a doorway. Vine uses his Semblance to chase Blake, who is swinging around the foyer with Gambol Shroud in kusarigama form.

Blake lands on the floor with a roll and dodges as Vine sends his energy arms toward her. Yang ducks under one of his enrgy arms and leaves a trail of small bombs as Elm chases her around the room. She detonates the bombs, but Elm is unfazed. Yang continues to run around the room, while Blake resumes swinging around with her kusarigama. Vine finally manages to catch Blake and tosses her to Elm, who catches her while using her Semblance. She holds her hammer's pole against Blake to keep Blake pressed against herself.

Yang: Huh?

Noticing Blake has been captured, Yang stops running and faces Elm and Vine.

Vine: If you come quietly, we won't hurt you.

Elm: Speak for yourself! They betrayed us!

Blake: You're betraying the people you've sworn to protect!

Yang: It's not worth it, Blake. They're just following orders now.

Infuriated, Elm throws Blake against a wall and charges towards Yang. Vine sighs and use his Semblance on his feet to raise himself up onto a ledge.

In Ironwood's office, Weiss is using her glyphs to swiftly move around the room, slashing at Marrow with Myrtenastor, but Marrow keeps blocking with his boomerang. He throws his boomerang at Weiss, and she deflects it, then stabs the tip of her rapier into the floor, using Ice Dust to create a thin layer of ice in a triangle in front of her. While Marrow tries to keep his footing, Weiss switches dust types and sends a horizontal arc of fire toward him. He leaps over the fire, singing the tip of his tail as he does so. The ice melts, and a mist forms in the room.

Marrow: I know you Schnees are used to getting what you want. But it's time to let this one go!

Multiple glyphs appear and begin shooting ice crystals at Marrow, who blocks them all with his boomerang.

Weiss: This is my home. And I'm not giving it up without a fight.

The mist clears and Marrow sees Weiss standing atop Ironwood's desk. She swings her rapier to the side, striking a pose while her Arma Gigas summon stands up behind her and readies it's sword.

Back on the tundra, Predaking stands over Grimlock, Slag sees this and becomes mixed with rage and concern.

Slag: Grimlock!

Slag tries to run to Grimlock but is tackled by several of the still many zombies.

Grimlock POV

Grimlock is exhausted and can't quite stand up on my own, so me just glare at Predaking, waiting for the final blow.

Predaking: This is your lucky day, Grimlock.

Instead of an attack, Predaking grabs Grimlock's arm and pulls me to my feet, Grimlock loses confusion and pulls hand away from Predaking.

Grimlock: What do you want?

Predaking: Make no mistake, I have no intention of following you, but if Megatron finishes you, then I lose my chance to prove I'm the strongest. I will be the one to kill you, but right now, we have a common foe.

Grimlock: Me Grimlock will destroy Megatron, keep out of my way!

Predaking: No, I too have a score to settle with Megatron. But he's grown stronger since his supposed demise. It sucks, but we're gonna have to work together to best him, you and me.

Grimlock: No way! You think Grimlock forget what you did to my family!

Predaking: Silence! You had just as much to do with my bretheren's demise as Megatron.

Grimlock: *thinks for a moment* Thought you said this planet isn't big enough for two kings?

Predaking: With all this Dark Energon, there won't be a planet left to fight over.

Grimlock want to just pound Predaking into the dirt, but me fear he right.

Grimlock: *snorts* This only time Grimlock team up with you!

Predaking: Trust me, this isn't fun for me either! We'll fight this out another day!

Predaking/Grimlock: LET'S GO!

Both Grimlock and Predaking charge forward at (Unicron) in robot form and throw punches at (Unicron). Somehow, Megatron endured all of our attacks and shot Predaking with his cannon, which sent him to me, me stop Predaking and yell.

Grimlock: Use fire!

Predaking recovered in midair and blasted a fireball while me transform-

-and let flames engulf me and me charge at Megatron like flaming battering ram. Megatron jumped to avoid me, but Predaking had rushed in and managed to execute a front flipping kick, and while in midair, transformed into Predacon form.

Predaking: *ROAR*

Grimlock: *ROAR*

Me swipe with tail, and Megatron jumped and shot at me with cannon arm, hitting me. Predaking flies above Megatron and uses point blank fireball in his face, sending him collapsing to ground. Thankfully, my Aura finally recovered a bit, me roar before stomping my foot on the ground and create shockwave sending many rocks at Megatron. Megatron used arms to block, me and Predaking both combine our fire breath attacks and hit Megatron.

3rd Person POV

In the smoke, while the two beastial kings wait for (Unicron's) next move, Unicron has just realized that Megatron tried to decieve him and he is not happy about it.

Unicron: You dare to decieve me and have both of us destroyed!

Megatron: Perhaps not destroyed just damaged enough in our shared form will no longer be of use to you and force you to abandon what remains. For regaining my free will even over a mangled and defficient frame is preferable to enduring a waking life as your slave!

Unicron: For your insolence, I will only make you endure greater suffering!

Back in the real world, the smoke clears and (Unicron) is still standing, both beasts growl.

(Unicron): You'll have to do better than that.

Predaking flies in first and strafes (Unicron's) chest then immediately flies up and Grimlock is already there and bites down around (Unicron's) head and throws him to the left where Predaking uses his fire breath to knock (Unicron) to the ground. (Unicron) though, recovered and shot a cannon blast powerful enough to knock Predaking out of the sky. Grimlock charges in and (Unicron) shot his cannon hitting him hard, and causing Grimlock to collapse to the ground and skid to a stop in front of (Unicron).

Given the order to go all out, the rest of the Dinobots have managed to break themselves out of their predicaments and defeated the remaining undead Terrorcons. All gather round as Ratchet drops Snarl's blaster in exhaustion.

Slash: *exhausted* Is.... Is everyone.... okay?

Sludge: *exhuasted* Sludge tired.

Ratchet: It also didn't help that we were exposed to so much Dark Energon energy.

Slag: Pull yourselves together! We gotta help Grimlock!

The grouo pull themselves together as (Unicron) stands over Grimlock and summons his hammer and raises it above his head.

(Unicron): It appears you weren't strong enough after all.

Slag: Because he's never alone in the fight!

(Unicron) turns to see Slag in his Dinobot form, charging at him, (Unicron) jumps to avoid it and Slag charges past. Slash, though, had already jumped over (Unicron) in her Dinobot form and slashed with her foot claws. While (Unicron) was distracted, Swoop flew behind him and kicked (Unicron) down to the ground. (Unicron) got up but was swt upon by Ratchet shooting Snarl's blaster at him, (Unicron) blocked and tried to ready his cannon, but Slag used his Semblance and hit him like a hundred freight trains. The hit sent (Unicron) flying forward, Slam winded up his tail club and uppercut (Unicron) when he got close, sending him into the air. Before (Unicron) could recover, Predaking flew above him and shot a fire ball at him, sending him careening to the ground. Snarl was already winding up his own tail and smacked (Unicron) back into the air, by this point Grimlock, in Dinobot form, had gotten back to his feet and jumped at (Unicron), grabbed him with his mouth and dragged him down and slammed him into the ground. Grimlock then rolled out of the way, because Sludge was already reared up onto his back legs with his Semblance ready.

Sludge: SLUDGE SMASH!

Sludge slammed down with all his power and weight, the whole group took a second to breath while the smoke cleared.

(Unicron): I've had enough of this!

(Unicron) suddenly transformed into his flying mode and took off into orbit faster than even Slash could react.

Swoop: I could still-

Grimlock: No! *transforms into robot form* He's too far and he's not coming back.

Slam: *grunts* ?

Grimlock: Grimlock guess he going to Cybertron.

Ratchet: We have to warn the Autobots!

Grimlock nods and trues his comminicator.

Grimlock: Brains! Wheelie!

Wheelie: Go boss.

Meanwhile, back in Ironwood's office, Ruby zooms across the foyer with her Semblance and stops at the top of staircase in front of the office, with Harriet chases her. Harriet leaps over the stairs and kicks Ruby in the chest, knocking her into the office, just in time for her to see Marrow throwing his boomerang at Weiss. Weiss readies her rapier, but Ruby uses her Semblance to rush to her side and deflect ghe boomerang with her scythe. Marrow catches his boomerang, and Harriet stops beside him.

Harriet: Marrow! Cut the crap, will you!?

Marrow: I'm trying to arrest her, not kill her, Hare. You're being excessive!

The two duck under the Arma Gigas' sword as it swings toward them.

Harriet: It's not excessive if it's necessary!

They hear the sound of Ruby's Semblance, and Harriet looks over at Ironwood's desk, where she can only see Weiss, the Arma Gigas summon and some falling rose petals. Behind her, Ruby is already on her way through the door, and Harriet growls and chases after her.

Yang is hanging onto Gambol Shroud's ribbon, and Blake swings her forward, sending her flying toward Elm, who attempts and fails to block Yang's punch. Yang turns around and rushes toward Elm again, but Elm roots herself with her Semblance and slams the top of her hammer into her, knocking her backward. She hears a gunshot behind her and turns and leans just in time to see the kusarigama form of Gambol Shroud flying toward her. She sets her hammer down, grabs the sickle with one hand and the ribbon with the other and pulls, jerking Blake through the air toward her. She picks up her hammer back up, spins it, and slams it into Blake's torso, sending her flying straight up into the air where she is caught by Vine's Semblance. Vine slams her into a stone square in the wall, cracking it and causing her Aura to flicker. He proceeds to hold her there.

Seeing this, Yang gasps and the returns her attention to Elm, diving under Elm's hammer as she swings it towards her. Elm then swings hammer down at Yang, who grabs the hammer's pole and shoots Elm in the face, sending her flying backward. Yang then fires at Vine, who attempts to block with his free arm, but the bullets burst into a small explosion, causing him to cry out and loosen his grip on Blake. Blake breaks free and drops down to the floor.

Elm: Time to wrap this up, Vine. They've had their chance. Don't be soft.

Yang stands beside Blake and tosses Gambol Shroud back to her.

Vine: Are you telling me? Or yourself?

Vine uses his Semblance to grab chunks of the broken part of the wall, and Elm looks annoyed. Blake and Yang exchange a look, smiling at each other. Yang readies her weapons, and Blake unfolds Gambol Shroud into katana form. The two then rush forward, Yang using recoil to propel herself.

Elm swings her hammer horizontally at them, but Yang ducks down and slides under it, while Blake backflips and then grabs onto the hammer's head, using the momentum to fling herself into the air past Elm. The two run from Elm, and Yang uses the recoil to dodge the stone chunks that Vine throws at her before finally catching one of the chunks. She rapidly attaches several bombs to the chunk and tosses it into the air. Above her, Blake is hanging from ceiling with Gambol Shroud's ribbon and kicks the stine towards Vine, who knocks it away with his Semblance. He then uses his energy arms to catch Blake as she falls from the ceiling.

Vine pulls Blake over to him and soon finds that, not only is her back covered in the bombs Yang attached to the stone, but she is actually a clone. The clone vanishes as the bombs begin beeping, and the blast from the blast send Vine into the air. Yang shoots the floor, using the recoil to send herself toward Vine. As she passes him, she steals his bolas from the back of his belt. Once she is above him, she throws the bolas down, wrapping it around him. She then uses recoil to send herself spinning down toward him, grabs his legs, spins through the air, and sends him hurtling toward the floor. The impact sends a web of cracks through the floor and breaks his Aura.

Yang lands on the floor, and Blake drops down from a ledge on the wall. Elm looks down at Vine and then looks at Blake and Yang, surprised. Ruby, Harriet, Marrow and Weiss briefly stop their fights to look at Vine. Ruby and Harriet have moved their fight back to the hall with the elevators.

Marrow turns to look at Weiss, and his eyes widen as he sees her Arma Gigas summon preparing to swing it's sword down at him. He moves out of the way, and Weiss creates glyphs over the bookshelves along one wall, with ice spikes sprouting from the center of the glyphs. As Marrow lands on his feet, she creates another glyph, which blows him towards the ice spikes, and he barely manages to avoid hitting any of them. He then leaps out of the way as the Arma Gigas swings it's sword down, shattering the ice spikes he was surrounded by less than a second ago.

The Arma Gigas continues to swing it's sword through the ice spikes as Marrow makes his way across them. He throws his boomerang, sending it curving through the air toward Weiss, who deflects it with her rapier. He catches it then snaps his fingers and points at her.

Marrow: Stay!

Weiss is forced to freeze in place, but her Arma Gigas still rushes toward him, smashing through the ice spikes. Marrow leaps from the ice spike he was standing on, landing on the floor. The Arma Gigas moves in front of him and raises it sword, he then snaps his fingers and pints at it as it begins swinging it's sword down at him.

Marrow: Stay!

The sword stops just above his head, and he takes a moment to catch his breath. Weiss creates four glyphs and channels Fire Dust through them to send four fireballs through the air. The fireballs converge and slam into Marrow, knocking him to the floor and breaking his Aura.

Harriet uses her Semblance to repeatedly rush around the room, up and down walls, passing Ruby and attacking her each time. Finally, she stops behind Ruby, leaps into the air and punches her in the back of the head, knocking her down with enough force to crack the floor. She stands over Ruby with her feet on either side of her and pins Ruby's arms to her back.

She grabs her bolas, Ruby though gets an idea from watching Grimlock, she pulls her arms out of the pin, Harriet tries to keep her down but Ruby forces herself to her feet with Harriet losing ground until Ruby yells and throws her up and tears herself out of Harriet's grip. Ruby then elbows Harriet in the nose, then uses her Semblance and splits into two petal blurs, both end up behind Harriet. One of the blurs snatches the bolas Harriet was holding, and by the time Ruby reappears behind her, Ruby has tied the bolas around Harriet. Ruby then grabs her and pulls off a Russian Suplex, slamming Harriet into the floor, Ruby then gets up and before Harriet gets up, garbs her head slams it into the floor breaking Harriet's Aura.

Ruby: *breaths heavy* It didn't have to be like this.

Yang, who is holding onto the kusarigama form of Gambol Shroud, swings Blake overhead toward Elm, who has rooted herself in place with her Semblance. Elm pushes the pole of her hammer at Blake, who uses it to bounce herself into the air over Elm and swings her kusarigama at her. Elm turns and swings her hammer at Blake as she drops down, only for Blake to create a clone to take the hit and propel herself into the air. While Elm continues to attack Blake, who shoots at her, Yang fires explosive bullets at the floor all over the room, creating deep cracks. This is what Slag does to mess with Slam's Semblance, which is basically the same as Elm's.

Blake then uses her kusarigama to swing away from Elm, who turns to face Yang and roots herself in place again, Elm notices that the ground beneath her feet is loose and lifts her foot to find the floor is completely shattered. She glares at Yang and spins her hammer, deactivating her Semblance. Yang propels herself forward with Ember Celica's recoil, and Elm shifts her hammer into it's rocket launcher form. Yang stops herself just short of Elm, activates her Semblance and punches the floor, creating an outward blast that sends Elm flying into the air and shatters the floor even more.

High above them, Blake kicks off from the sky light to send herself toward Elm, and Yang uses recoil to propel herself upward with her Semblance still active. As the two pass Elm in mid-air, Yang punches her and Blake slashes with her katana. Elm screams as her Aura shimmers, and her Aura finally breaks when she lands on the floor. Blake and Yang land on the floor behind her, and Yang deactivates her Semblance.

Yang: I think Slag and Sludge would be proud.

Blake: *giggles* Yeah, that was kinda fun.

Weiss joins Yang and Blake in the foyer using a glyph to drop Marrow gently next to Elm and Vine, the trio then see Ruby dragging an uncinscious Harriet and tosses her with the rest of the Ace-Ops.

Yang: Saw that move you pulled back there, Sis.

Ruby: Yeah well, Harriet was countering every normal trick I had so I took a page out of Grimlock's playbook.

Weiss: Let me guess....

RWBY: When in doubt, muscle your way out. *laughs*

Ruby: *refocuses* We have to stop Ironwood. If he can't access the Relic, he can't move Atlas.

Weiss: All we have to do is get to the Winter Maiden.

Yang: Blake and I will look for the others.

Blake: *worried* I hope the kids are alright though.

Ruby: But our scrolls aren't-

Everyone's communicator beeps and a familiar voice is heard.

Ratchet: Hello? Team RWBY? JNPR? Can anyone hear this, please respond.

Ruby: Ratchet?

Ratchet: Ms. Rose! *sigh of relief* Thank the All Spark.

Grimlock: *over communicator* Mom?

Ruby: Grimlock! Are you all okay?!

Grimlock: Tired but alive. The undead Terrorcon army has been Dinobotted.

Yang: That's great to hear. Slag, you doing okay?

Slag: *through heavy breathing* Yeah, top notch, Ma.

Sludge: Sludge tired.

Blake: You did great, sweety, Mommy's proud of you.

Weiss: Snarl? Swoop?

Snarl: Present and accounted for, Mom.

Grimlock: How 'bout you? What happened?

Ruby: Well, Ironwood is trying to use the Staff of Creation to raise Atlas far out of Salem's reach and leave the people in Mantle to die. We need to stop him.

Grimlock: Where do you need us?

Ruby: Jaune? You there?

Jaune: Ruby! Oh thank goodness.

Ruby: You guys okay?

Jaune: No, we've lost track of Oscar, we went to collect him from the dorm, but the dorm was trashed, I think he might be in trouble.

Yang: Blake and I are on our way to you, we'll help find him.

Grimlock: Give us your location. Slag, Sludge, take Slash and Slam and find Oscar and the Lamp.

Slag: Meet you there, Ma?

Yang: Not if I see you first.

Ruby: Weiss and I are going to protect the Winter Maiden.

Swoop: Snarl and I know the way there, we'll take Grimlock and meet you there.

Weiss: Be careful, Cinder is still alive, somehow.

Grimlock: *growls* Cinder. We're on our way.

Back in the Autobot base, Ratchet asks...

Ratchet: What do you need me to do?

Grimlock: Go to Cybertron and help the Autobots against Megatron.

Ratchet: But, I can't leave you guys like this-

Grimlock: They need you more than we do. It's where you're needed the most. *to Predaking* And you're going with.

Predaking: What?!

Grimlock: Me Grimlock can send you to Cybertron peacefully, *transforms into Robot form* or me can hogtie you and throw you through. *growls*

Predaking: *annoyed growl* Fine.

Ratchet: I'll be back, I promise.

Grimlock: Me gonna break this behind you so Ironwood can't use it. This one way trip.

Ratchet sighs before nodding then shakes Grimlock's hand. Grimlock opens the Space Bridge to Cybertron, Predaking goes through, but not before saying...

Predaking: We'll have a rematch in the future.

Grimlock: Can't wait.

Ratchet finally manages to pull himself out of Sludge's hug and nods before going through as well.

Brains: Transport complete.

Grimlock shuts down the Bridge then uses his fists to destroy everything in the base. He then turns to the rest of the group.

Grimlock: You all know your jobs. Dinobots attack!

Wheelie and Brains hitch a ride with Swoop and the two teams go their seperate ways.

(A/N): And Cut! Great work everyone! Take a breather, you've all earned it.

Alright, volume finale is coming up next, so be ready.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed. Have a great rest of your day/noght and I'll see you next time. PEACE OUT!!!