Thundercracker was currently in one of the rooms of an empty mall holding a yellow pocket watch in his hand, seeing the time start to tick through as he put it away. All of a sudden he heard what looks to be portal noises as he saw Acidstorm and Sunstorm came out of an door with light coming out of it and they had duller colours now that Thundercracker saw them both clearly "What took you two so long?" He asked with frustration in his own voice. These two had taken up so much time and had disappeared for an long time now. Acidstorm replied with "It's nothing much, we just went on a mission." He lied as Sunstorm looked worried and was about to stay something but Acidstorm had a firm grip on his own arm and gave a look at Sunstorm which said "Don't." And Sunstorm had quieted downwards, Acidstorm stated "We will both get going as quickly as we could." As both left the room. Thundercracker couldn't tell why these two were acting so suspicious for some unknown reason but decided to ask them later. Thundercracker had noticed the elevator nearby which did not work as it was supposed to do. But what surprised him was the whirring noises the came from it. Like someone was using it? After the whirring noises faded and disappeared, Thundercracker pressed the button to open it and it actually opened the doors. The inside of the elevator was actually clean, the mirror at the back of the elevator had little to no smudge marks, the walls had grey paints and it didn't smell that bad. Thundercracker entered and had to sit on the floor since his large height ended up taking most of the space. He pressed on the red button that was near the button of the first floor and it began to move.
Soon after a little bit, he had found himself at the ground floor and it was dark to the point that he barely saw anything expect for outlines of objects that appeared. From what he guessed, the markets in the middle of the ground floor was destroyed. The smell of fruits, food and drinks mixed together in Thundercracker's sensors. Apples mixed with strawberries, milk mixed with bread and chocolate mixed with caffeine etc. Dripping liquid was heard, water leaked through pipes and ceiling fans were still working as it blew down air towards the rest of the mall. Thundercracker began to move across the floors and felt something brittle under his pede as he lifted it up. Broken glass was heard shattering and it actually hurt his pede a bit. "So it looks like someone decided to leave their mess behind." He said as he went through large wooden sticks which were supposed to be originally used to keep up buildings as he finally managed to go past the objects that was in the middle and some bits of objects were near the shops. He had reached the other side of the ground floor and there was a large red door that was firmly locked, even in the darkness Thundercracker could see that it was locked. "Now how am I supposed to get there?" He thought before he had an idea in his mind. Maybe there was some sort of thick chain to the door? He had actually felt the chain and he completely pulled off the chain with a strength that would most humans pale at. He opened the door and immediately went through there.
Thundercracker had found himself in an stairway and the area was illuminated compared to the ground floor. He heard someone come downstairs and saw Phantom, the white seeker come downwards while Frenzy was talking things in his audio receptor. Phantom noticed Thundercracker and waved while Frenzy looked upwards now noticing him as he asked "Ah, Thunder! There you are. Where's your 'brother'?" Thundercracker explained to him, "He isn't here in this mall but outside, waiting for Redwing to come and get him." Phantom spoke up after he did and gave a explanation "We don't know what you did but we were currently searching for the key to the bunker. We heard that Thrust had gone in there and figured out something he wouldn't tell us. But we got this." Phantom threw a small metallic computer device at him which Thundercracker caught it. Thundercracker turned it on as it had showed a audio recording of Starscream grabbing one of the nukes and the video cut out until it showed him flying over the town and immediately nuking it with the small nuke. But what caught his optic was the nuke seemed to have destroyed something large and the black spot had absorbed the energy from it, becoming bigger. Suddenly the camera zoomed to the object showing a black weapon with a blue energon crystal in the middle before it got fractured into smithereens by a familiar blue Decepticon with a red visor that instantly came in.
Soundwave had revealed himself as he stared at the camera afterwards and the video ended. "Soundwave? Why did he destroy that? That looked important." Thundercracker questioned as Frenzy and Phantom had no idea as well. "We don't know but that means we have to go grab one of the encrypted human files urgently." Phantom said as Frenzy pointed to the upper staircase. "We came through there! Now let's get going." Frenzy said excitedly ready to fight some Autobots while both of them followed behind. Phantom was humming a small tune while Thundercracker was walking in a serious manner. Both exited the area as both found themselves on a bridge outside which lead to another part of the mall. They looked as the sound of cars driving was heard Before Thundercracker and Phantom transformed and Frenzy was seen holding himself on Phantom which all three of them were flying until they turned something rumbling below them as suddenly a landslide formed on one of the hills, immediately knocking anything along with it as people ran away from from their impending doom. Cars, signs and some houses have been completely knocked down before the landslide stopped making the humans wonder what just exactly happened. In the meantime, Phantom had gotten shot and because he was caught off guard had transformed out of his jet mode as he fell down while Frenzy gripped tightly on him feeling wind go through his face as they both crash landed.
Immediately Phantom got upwards as he was injured around his hip area and Frenzy was completely winded as the mini-cassette finally got off him. Thundercracker landed next to them wondering if they were okay as they saw someone in the far distance. The Autobot who had a medical coat and stitches across his face was now revealed to be Eltron, a Autobot scientist who had gone mad and hates Decepticon with a burning passion. He was pointing his rifle at them and he was staring hard at their faces, indicating that he was the one that in fact that shot Phantom. He yelled at them "I'll handle all of you myself!" As he got ready to fire. Immediately the three Decepticons began to shoot back at him as he went to the side in a instant. Frenzy got hit, grabbing his shoulder while Thundercracker used his hand to block his faceplate. Eltron attempted to keep shooting at them before they shot back three powerful blasts which two he manage to dodge but one caught on his back, burning off a bit of his own medical coat and he had injured the side of his body as he put his servo over the injury. He hissed in pain as Thundercracker came up with a realization in his mind. So as it turns out the Autobots could be just as aggressive as Decepticons. He had his doubts being in the Decepticons but it looks like some of the Autobots were the same. Thundercracker charged and immediately, he punched Eltron with his own fist who staggered backwards.
"In the name of..." Eltron looked up with his hand close to his face as he breathed tightly and struggled to control his own rage against them. Thundercracker looked down at him and asked "Haven't you lost?" To Eltron, he thought Thundercracker was being mocking when in fact, he wasn't. "What did you just say?!" Eltron shouted before aiming his rifle at Thundercracker's chassis and shot without a second thought. Thundercracker did not expect that and felt pain go through him as he looked upwards as an reflex of shock, as the bullet broke a part of his cockpit. Yellow glass fell down on the floor as he tripped backwards, his back landing on the floor. Phantom looked concerned as he suddenly pushed Eltron out of the way which made the Autobot yelp. Phantom helped up Thundercracker who had energon dripping down while Frenzy had some scratches on his frame and he got up on Phantom's shoulder. "We need to get out of here!" Thundercracker cried out as their voices overlapped each other and the three of them went through the shadows, disappearing completely. Eltron saw that they vanished in the darkness and got up on his pedes. "I lost them again. No matter, I'll figure out where they went." The Autobot wiped the blood away in irritation and spotted something in the far distance. "Looks like it's going to be interesting." His curiosity was peaked and saw what looks to be a chunk of the earth floating in the air.
Thundercracker had found himself in a very dark alleyway as he was leaning against one of the walls. Wait was he by himself again? He looked realizing that in fact both Phantom and Frenzy and Phantom had went to somewhere, leaving Thundercracker to fend for himself. Thundercracker felt a slight ache in his own spark at that at the betrayal as he didn't expect this to happen to himself. A flurry of emotions came over him feeling anger, confusion, hurt and conflicted emotions came over him. "I am left by myself." He said out loud as his voice echoed during the quiet, night time with little to no cars coming across the road. The blinking of streetlights were clear as his voice became quiet and no one could particularly hear him. He looked before trying move out of that alleyway, knowing he needed to get to the nemesis quick, he can't risk being injured like this. Not in a unforgiving world like this.
Meanwhile Phantom and Frenzy looked around seeing that they have lost Thundercracker. "Wait, where did he go?" Phantom looked around as well "I have no idea. We better go find me, the less warriors we lose. The better." And immediately they started to run with their intentions clear in their mind. Get Thundercracker and find out what is rest doing.