Cliffjumper was looking over sticky notes on the board with each one having different drawings of events that occurred recently. There was the fire mall, the bombing attack, the Decepticon attack and the attack against Alexa and her familiars. It was leading up to a strange pattern. He took one of the notes off about the corrupted energon generators which had been recently updated with 'Recent evidence shows that fungus is on the corrupted generators.' as he glanced towards the murder where Zera has commented on the trees having Ash Dieback. "The mystery looks to be very vague but I swear to primus, I will kill the one who decided to make this whole mess." As he decided to meet up with Lili for tonight as he grabbed his 'Tele-senlin' which is a sort of phone made for Cybertronians. "Yo, Lilith is that you?"
Immediately someone picked the phone with a mh-mm. "Yeah that's me alright. You want to ask something, Cliffjumper?" Lilith asked as Cliffjumper began to wonder what he should say to her "You got the samples?" Lilith replied to him "I put them back in my school, so sorry about that." Cliffjumper groaned at that answer as he sighed "It's fine. I'll figure something to do with this. I'll see you later." Cliffjumper closed the call before putting the tele-senlin in his own pocket before walking across the area before seeing Shifter pass by "Oh you don't usually come out from your bar. That's a surprise." Shifter turned around nodding at Cliffjumper's statement. He soon said to him "I been trying to grab fertilizer for the flowers on the table, they been needing it." He continued to walk away after that before Cliffjumper went in the same direction as well.
Meanwhile with Gunwing in the Decepitcons, he was on the couch writing a letter before his attention turned towards the corner of the living room. He swore he could see Ionstorm at the corner, starting at him with rather wide eyes as Gunwing looked with rather wide eyes. Gunwing felt a chill go down his back as his wings fell downwards slightly as he got up putting the quill down as he slowly walked over the corner. He heard something fell as his head etched over to see what had happened. He gave a small gasp as he saw Ionstorm fall to the floor with his head turned to the side. Ionstorm had a messy flower bouquet covered in golden nectar, his hand had thorn slashes and the area around his eye had water, pollen, nectar and what looks to be flower blood as well as he had the stem roughly rubbed in his face.
Gunwing slowly walked over picking up Ionstorm and putting him on his shoulder before looking towards the hallway which had two single words 'Murder's grace.' appeared in huge black letters as the ink dropped to the floor. He began to scan over Ionstorm before coming to a conclusion with the lack of noises and movement that he was dead. He looked quietly trying to see if anything else was wrong apart from his face. He didn't get anything else so he assumed only the faceplate was affected. He got up before walking outside to deal with his dead friend as he left the nemesis with a sense of concentration on his own face, his footsteps deliberate as he walked through the cold stone.
Gunwing came back after 30 minutes or so to figure out what did 'Murder's grace.' meant as he soon began to search up on his datapad to find any sort of result about it. He didn't get much but interestingly enough he got one article called The lost movie of Murder's grace, possible finding? Gunwing began to read it to himself. Murder's grace was a lost horror movie mixed documentary about investigation of a gardener who studied all sorts of critters and plants and there had been a specific murder towards the end that the article didn't spoil. Gunwing began to examine over the article as it mentioned the year was in 1984 April 12th and the film was known for having a more modern look compared to other flims at the time because of the good budget it had and the less blurry like filter.
Gunwing soon searched up 'Movies of 1980s.' as he saw some famous ones such as The Shining and Back To The Future. But going through the list, he saw Murder's grace on there and began to look onto it. It had a pretty good 24 million budget but Gunwig couldn't understand why this movie has been lost despite it's pretty good budget at the time. He knew even movies that seem to flop are still up, so what makes this one different? He frustratingly put his device down and decided to connected what the Movie's premise was about to Ionstorm's death. So Ionstorm was seen carrying a bouquet of flowers and the fact there a gardener (who was known for caring for flowers) made him think that there was some sort of line here. He wasn't sure what however. Why did that movie seem so specific for whatsoever reason? That made him consider.
With Hot Rod he was discussing something with Springer who just nodded before both of them heard some loud noises as they turned around in surprise. They began to run over to see what had happened, with Hot Rod taking the lead. They arrived at a closed off automatic door as Hot Rod tried to open it up with not much avail "You got the card?" Springer nodded and soon opened the door. With some effort the door opened and Springer noticed the crowbar in the door as he grabbed it firmly and pulled it out as the door started to work normally again. It opened up fully as they looked around the room not noticing anything weird for now. He noticed something the closest and opened it up as he saw a human foot come out.
"What the hell is that!? Is that human part of all things?" He looked at the foot which had black skin colour, bone poking out of there and some of it has been sliced open to show the soft spongy part of the tissue, each of its holes more open then it should be and a disgusting smell came from there. The foot underneath looked to be perfectly okay, no cuts and wounds. Springer choked at the smell as Hot Rod felt like he was about to throw up just from the mere sense of it. Immediately he began to put it in a small clean plastic bag he found nearby, wrapped it up and gave it to Springer who went to the Medbay. He could not believe this as he knew that there been another murder but there was something different about this one. "... I can't believe it. Alright, next mission, we are sending someone to the nemesis to investigate who is behind this mess." Hot Rod looked genuinely sick of this as he pinched the bridge of his nose (if he had one).
He heard Huffer nearby talking with someone and he had a idea in his mind and yelled out to the yellow bot "Ay, Huffer, come here for a moment!" The bot turned around in confusion wondering what did Hot Rod wanted "What? What is it?" Hot Rod soon replied to him "Distract Prowl for a moment, I'm grabbing something from the cabinets where he doesn't want anyone to look." Huffer sighed and nodded before he told the person he is busy and left.