I just want to say that I am really really sorry for not getting this out faster! My server had a major computer system crash and it was total havock! Anyway here’s the conclusion to the first part of Glitch.

From his throne in the Darkside Megatron sneered wickedly, how easy this had been. With most of the Maximals in the field, the perfect time to strike arose. Teletron Sentinel had successfully become in his control, he intended to torment and destroy the Maximals with their own defense system. Looking at the console he observed that two Maximals were still present in the Axalon, namely Rattrapp and Airazor and the crafty sneer on his purple face grew. Toying wth the two captives would be his sadistic form of entertainment. Chuckling quietly to himself the tyrant thought of what to play out on the two prisoners he had in his grasp.

Rhinox was still in robot mode along with Prowl who was holding Snowblaze in his arms. He didn’t know what to do, even though he built Teletron Sentinel. The sight og the fullpower plasma shield up and covering the Axalon with its shimmering green glow made his mech fluid boil. Next to him Prowl still was in shock at the fact that the base had been lost, clutching Snowblaze close to his black and silver chest armor, she slightly moved trying to get her systems functional. The male glanced down at her when he felt her movements, hope starting to egnite in his ice blue optics. He lowered his head close to her and whispered "Snowy are you okay?" Still there was hardly any response from her and Prowl sighed as he refocused his attention on the problem at hand. Rhinox tried in vain his commlink to Optimus but all he got was energon interferance. Dinobot, Slasher Red and Cheetor were all along with Optimus. Polar Claw, Tigatron, and Snowstalker were all at the Arctic Outpost, so nobody at all was around to help them regain power in the Axalon. Rhinox worried about Rattrapp and Airazor. Once Rattrapp had been trapped by Sentinel but now the defense grid was uped more than one notch, it was down right lethal.

Blackarachnia was gasping for air as she finished racing down a Maximal corridor. She was the one who had given Megatron the control over Axalon’s defense grid by subjecting the core with a virus. She had a diminutive grin on her face at the fact that she was no longer classified an intruder to the Maximal base anymore, the sirens were going off but the reason of alarm was because the two Maximals present were the "intruders". She met up with the hole where she originally entered and found that the others could no longer enter the enemy base due to the fact that the plasma shield was now up and surrounding the Axalon. The she spider stuck her head out to see the three Maximals standing almost dumb founded at the front of the Axalon. Their base was still on an angle and it tilted like the leaning tower of Pisa. Jerking her head back in she realised she was the only Predacon in the Maximal base, although she was the only one, the Predacons had control over this ship and with this thought she headed to the main control room to contact "grape face" for further instructions.

Poking the tip of his gun around the corner of a crossway, Rattrapp crouched down on his one knee, optics tiny slits, his caution chips on max, along with every muscle cable in his body tense and he glanced back at the femme behind him. Airazor had her back against the wall as she clutched her laser to her chest tightly. To Rattrapp the situation was all too familiar, this had happened to him once before, but he was not modest, he knew the odds this time of the two getting out alive. Before he just had himself to look after now he had to help another out. Being a spy guy wasn’t the easiest job in the world but it certainly gave Rattrapp serious help when he needed it, which was pretty often. His caution chips detected that the defense grid was only on alert not totally full blown yet, he suspected that Megadork hadn’t figuredd out the most complex systems of  Teletron Sentinel. Rattrapp knew that most  fatal defense item on the list of the base’s defenses was the ion disrupter field. He thanked the Matrix it hadn’t been activated, for if it had it only took less than a micronano click to extinguish the enemy spark. The ion disrupter field could detect intruders and if they moved at all one micrometer they were, should we say, totally terminated! The male jerked his head once toward Airazor and at full alert they began their way back toward the computer core.

In the Darkside, the vicious Megatron was viewing the options in front of himself on the console. The horrid smile on his face gaining in length as he selected his attack plan. After flicking a few buttons he punched in the commands he desired on the computer and it complied to the Axalon and it was only the intruders inside’s guess what was going to be thrown at them. Thank Primus Megatron hadn’t yet seen the code to enter the "Fatal Defenses" section of the main system. This wasn’t mild what he first was going to give them a dose of. He chuckled loud and it echoed in the Predacon command room, then a thought struck him about the other Maximals he had to deal with outside of the Maximal base. Checking their postion carefully megatron noticed that his troops were close to the three Maximal figures which were shown on the screen, all three in front of the Axalon. He signalled Inferno, Waspinator, and Terrorsaur to take out the Maximals in the area. The data screen showed that only two of the three were functioning, it only increased his evil optimism. He then activated the systems for the beginning to the destruction of the two Maximals.

The two Maximal males had to find a plan of action. Rhinox said the only thing they could do at the moment was to retreat to a safer location to find a place to settle Snowblaze, if she was going to to recover and help them at all, she needed time. They moved back toward  a wooded area about 3 clicks from their previous positions. Prowl lowered his femme gentely to the ground and crouched down beside her. He was worried and frustrated, not only for the Axalon, but for his mate. The knock which had knocked her systems offline must have done some damage to he head and upper back, she should recover if her internal repair circuits were still online. He twisted his mouth into worry and he knew she would have been telling him not worry for her. Rhinox kept up  his guard, he knew that there were Preds lurking around, but he didn’t know where. Prowl was holding her hand and his optics were shut off when he felt a squeese increase on his hand, he flashed on his optics and quickly glanced at her face. Snowblaze’s baby blue optics flickered wirely and soon they were in half power hazily looking up at Prowl, this relieved Prowl emmensely. She was a fighter, no blow no matter how hard would keep her down for good. Rhinox then heard the sound of guns reloading and he turned to see three enemy flyers aiming their weapons straight at the three, Prowl got up from beside Snowblaze and braced himself next to Rhinox. Rhinox was no fool, he knew how to get out their grasp.

Reverting to his huge rhino mode, Rhinox scraped the ground with one foot, sending up some dust in the air like a bull, telling them he was hostile and was ready for them. Prowl reverted to his winged black jaguar mode and he moved his body low to the ground as if ready to pounce, his white canines bared, ears back and claws gripping the soil, he was ready for battle. The three Preds were too modest to see the odds aginst them now, and as the two massive Maximal males slammed through all three of them taking all them down with the blow, the flyers each found new pain running throughout their circuits. They had underminded the two Maximals, now as the rhino bucked his head up and slammed a horn straight through Terrorsaur’s middle and Waspinator had the shit slashed out of him by the massive black cat digging his claws deep into the green metal with roars bellowing forth from him, all was lost to them, except for one.

Inferno flew high up above the commotion below him, he watched as the two Maximals didn’t see he was aiming his fire gun right at them. The minute chuckle the fire ant gave to himself was heard by another. She slowly stood up, her internal repairs complete the femme was a little bit disoriented. Snowblaze adjusted her optics so they were at full power and took in the situation before her, her mate and comrade were under attack. Glancing upward, Snowblaze saw Infero just about ready to shoot his fire flame at Rhinox, she narrowed her optic ridges in an angry tilt. 
"Beast mode." The two words triggered her transformation to show her silvery fur, white wings, and ice blue eyes, back to her winged snow leopard mode. Her face contorted with fury, the snow leopard bent her body down then took up to the air, dove white wings spread wide and wind past her feathers, lifting her up straight toward her target. Inferno was just about to shoot his flame when he was rammed on his back straight down toward the ground. He was screaming in mad fury as he felt the weight which was pushing him straight toward the ground increase ten fold, claws digging into his red metal. As the ground becomes the main feature in his optics Inferno slams to the ground with Snowblaze on top of his back, pushing him into the soil, but he soon goes offline seeing nothing but darkness.

Waspinator and Terrorsaur are also non functional and laying on their backs, pain is shown on their contorted faces. Rhinox and Prowl both get off of their enemies, still in beast mode. Prowl had received a blow to his back flank when Waspinator had the chance to blast him once while he himself was being scrapped. Rhinox had no injuries at all and was now walking over to where Snowblaze was still gripping Inferno’s back, her teeth still beared and she was panting between them. Prowl limped over to Rhinox’s side to see his mate as she was clentching the now offline Inferno, her face was so fierce. He limped up beside her and she let her features fade as he approached her. Letting her claws retract into her soft paws she moved her head to nuzzle his as he cuddled her neck with his head, purring in satisfaction at the fact she was all right.  Snowblaze got down off of Inferno and licked her paw wound, the Pred’s red shrapnel had dug into her paw and gave her a deep, nasty wound. She lifted her head up to see her surroundings, Prowl and Rhinox remained in their current spots as the winged snow leopard walked past Rhinox as she took in the sight before her optics. The Axalon at full alert and screaming out that the Maximals were the enemy, gipped her spark and she stared at the base as her silent thoughts rustled around her just like the wind that blew through her soft, silvery fur. She started to move towards it in determination, and the two males followed as they all marched on toward the glitched Axalon.

The commands which were issued by Megatron were now being played out inside the Axalon as the two Maximals trapped inside were making their way toward the command center. Rattrapp gripped his laser close to him as he stalked his way along the corridor, Airazor was directly behind him. Moving along the corridor they heard the alarm aburtly stop and Rattrapp immediately stopped in his tracks. The defenses had been risen to attack the intruders and he knew this, the silence was deafening. They started to move ahead down a straight corridor, when the side metal panels slid out of place and a horde of automatic guns were pointed at the two, the guns were lined all the way down the hallway and it was almost impossible to pass throught the hall without being shot. Serious damage was about to come and the thoughts which difted throught the rat’s CPU were complex enough to get them out of this mess.

Inspite of the odds against them the two Maximals edged forward and started blasting the guns away in their sockets. Plenty were still in place and blazing their ammo at the two with enormus fury and they sent toward them a wall of fire and lasers, pushing them back, but also fire damage straight into their circuits. Then as if things weren’t bad enough, Rattrapp felt the solid, metal ground beneath him go to a slippery mess and he and Airazor fell backwards until they landed on their backs. The zero friction fluid was in place, now Rattrapp was sorry he mocked it in the beginning they couldn’t move at all, not even to manuvre around the shots being fired at them.
Airazor screamed out loud as a beam hit her straight in the chest plate, the impact made her slide back even more until she started to move forward toward the wall of laser fire, unable to stop. 
"Hang on kid!" Rattrapp reached out for her hand as she started to glide past him, he grabbed it but soon he was on his way with her to the impending danger. They slide through the fire wall and they felt everything in their bodies screech with agony. The impact made both shut their optics off and they slide past the fire wall straight into the metal wall which was the intersection of the next hall.

Shaking his head, Rattrapp felt serveral areas in his frame explode in pain, still he ignored it, he was more concerned about the stun guns pointed right at them. The stun gun fired off its ammo and just before it would have hit him, Rattrapp dodged the beam and it hit Airazor right on. It was minimal and she struggled to get up, the zero friction fluid was still beneath them, they just had to work with it. They propelled themselves along the floor out of the way of the automatic guns and the stunner. They rounded the corner to stop to observe their condition, charred and mech fluid was flowing. "You all right?" Rattrapp asked her, and she weakly gave him a raspy answer of  "Not really." They smirked at each other for a moment then decided to rest for a minute. He leaned his back to the wall and she glided over beside him, she placed her head on his shoulder and shut off her optic sensors. He looked down at her a small grin crossing his face. Megatron took notice to that they were both standing still in their postion, he then entered some more codes so that they’d get another round of pain. The new commands had been sent and soon the little rest break was over. Airazor opened her optics to see tangler beams heading right at them and soon the engery restraints tangled around their tattered frames.  Rattrapp struggled on the ground as the restraints grew tighter around himself, he thought of a time past when he saw Dinobot squirming around on the ground one time when he had hit him with the tangler beam, now he was cursing the damn thing for ever being invented.  They struggled and tossed themselves around despretely trying to free themselves. Airazor was just about to break out of the confinements when she was hit with a spector beam, the purple beam hits the servo fluids. Extremely dangerous, the spector beam froze all of her servo fluids and soon she wasn’t moving at all, Rattrapp went cold with fear, Megs had found the  "Fatal Defenses". The femme had taken too many shots to her systems and with this new dosage to her condition, she couldn’t process even her thoughts anymore. Rattrapp let out a yell and he broke his confinements, he managed to get to his comrade, seeing she was non function but she still had hope, Rattrapp hit a system button on her frame that sent her into emergency stasis. He gave her one more look before heading out toward the command room, fury pushing him on.

Blackarachnia was in the command room and she looked out at the three approching Maximals and she grinned widely to herself as she was told by Megatron to activate the external auto guns. Taking this without hesistation she sent the guns blasting after them. The flames from the guns looked like not too much of a challenge to the snow leopard, she had a plan. "Rhinox Maximize!" He was told to start firing at the shields so it took all the attention from Snowblaze, and Rhinox loved using his giant chain guns. Prowl took to the sky in his winged black jaguar mode, while up there he turned toward the direction of the Axalon, some of the external auto guns went to fire up at him. Amidst the fire he shouted  "Prowl, Maximize!" He reverted to robotic mode and as he dove fast forward to the Maximal base he brought his wings around and he fired two torpedoes straight at the guns below, one was blown away and created a hole in the shield. Snowblaze took the moment to dive straight through and she made it to the other side as the green plama flashed back over where it hadn’t been. The man lift was down, but it didn’t work for her. She looked up the lift hole and it was opened right into the command center, taking her claws she dug them into the metal and climbed up the man lift shaft into the comm room.

When she came up into the room she was greeted with the sight of  Rattrapp fighting Blackarachnia, hand to hand. They punched each other and soon she decked him so hard he flew back a few feet. "I don't have time to deal with you rodent!"  "Make time!" With that the rat pounced forward and punched her with such force that she was knocked offline. He got up and looked over at Snowblaze "What’s up cloud kitty? You just gotta know how to talk to unwelcome guests. Let’s see what we can do to get ol’ T.S. back in our control!" Snowblaze nodded at him and she made her way over to his side around the command table.  "Snowblaze, Maximize!" Her gears shifted and soon she was in her robotic mode punching away at the console. "There must be a antivirus program, Rhinox must have installed one." The rat looked up at her and he was silent with thought. Thinking back to when they had that boring lesson on this defense grid, Rattrapp was at a loss. "Do you remember what was said at the meeting we had about Teletron Sentinel, how to fix any major glitches? I can’t remember." "I don’t. I was too depressed to even listen, that was when Prowl wasn’t here. And from what I do remember you were in recharge for most of the meeting. All I remember is some bits and pieces. Rhinox once told me about the friend or foe program it has a mechanism in it which sends out a signal throughout Axalon to resist Pred control." "Bingo! That’s just what we need, uhhhh head over to the side corridor panel and enter the commands in the grid. She turned and made her way to the first corridor, she took off the metal panel and entered the codes into the grid system. A flicker or two were on the screens and soon the correct control program was racing throughout the pathways of Axalon, telling it to resist Predacon control. Rattrapp entered a few more commands into the command table to make sure that the the system was encypted and no longer under Megatron’s control. But Megatron had his own last card to play as well.

"Maximal systems over riding Predacon linkup." the computer sounded to Megatron. 
"Blast it all to the Pit!" Megatron had thought he had succeeded this time, in fact he didn’t realize that his plan had a tiny little hole where the Maximals had figured out how to defeat him in this round. Before he would lose total control Megatron activated the ion disrupter field, he grinned at the fact that at least he would get rid of the three Maximals inside of the Axalon. Outside the Axalon, Optimus Primal and his back up had arrived and were standing with Rhinox and Prowl, all useless at the moment. All they could do was wait and hope that the three Maximals inside could get the Axalon back. 

"I.D.F. activation iminite." rang out the Axalon’s computer. "Strip my gears and call me a floor lamp! I don’t believe this! Snowblaze DON’T MOVE AT ALL!" Rattrapp knew that the ion disrupter field would terminate them all if they moved at all. The blue haze started to fill the command center. Snowblaze was scared beyond belief, she concentrated her systems not to move at all. Rattrapp’s gun was teerering along the edge of the comm table when it began to fall off the table toward the floor. It was soon blown up in mid fall and Rattrapp and Snowblaze didn’t move for all they were worth. Outside all the Maximals heard the computer’s message and Prowl felt his fuel pump jack hammer in his chest, he was desprete for all of his friends to be all right.

The commands that the two Maximals had ebtered were racing throughtout Axalon and soon it was correcting every thing in Pred control, the command center was last and the blue haze surrounding them was thrown offline. "Maximal control achieved." The computer’s sound was music to Snowblaze’s audios.  They were able to move again, and with Blackarachnia offline the plama shield disappeared. The Maximals outside were in confusion, they didn’t know if the three had survived or were terminated, for the shield could go down if no more intruders were present. 

In the Axalon, Snowblaze dragged  Blackarachnia into the Maximum security paddocks on level two while Rattrapp retraced his steps and went to pick up poor Airazor who was still in stasis lock. Rattrapp had Airazor in his arms when he met up with Snowblaze, they headed back to the  Medbay to take care of Airazor, when she was stable enough they went to the command center to get to the man lifts.

From the outside a loud scream of fury was heard from the direction of the Darkside,  the Maximals knew they had won. Smiles crossed everyone’s faces as the man lift came down and Rattrapp and Snowblaze were on it.  The two walked toward the group in front of them. Optimus was relieved to have the base back in Maximal control. "A job well done Rattrapp and Snowblaze. But where is Airazor?" Rattrapp grew silent and he looked at the ground when he told him she was in the Medbay, but was stable. They all went into the Axalon, all but Prowl and Snowblaze. 

"Are you all right?" Prowl asked her. The femme smiled at her mate and she giggled. "You’re always worried about my stasis aren’t you darling?"  "Yeah I guess you could say that but it’s only because I love you." She moved her body to his and placed her head on his black chest armor. He placed his arms around her and he stroked her softly. The day had been too long and they were both glad it was over. She lifted her head up to look at his optics, she smiled warmly at him and said quietly "There’s no sense defending your honor, just go ahead and kiss me if you want to." He smiled at her and possessed her lips with his own, they kissed and soon parted. Even though the sun was setting with a golden glow, thunder could be heard on the horizon. Was more trouble brewing?