Shockwave entered his laboratory as he soon opened the door and closed it behind him, he saw that most of his experiments were at least sleeping as he went to the computer terminal and opened it up before writing down commands. He pressed the enter button as it registered and wrote down a large amount of code as it processed the chemical Ashridas Viltain and uploaded results of its DNA on it's screen. Most of the chemical had the same structure as the disease Ash Dieback but was made to corrode both metals and skin. There was a high amount of sugar, sulfuric acid and salt put in there and Shockwave looked for once surprised that a man-made chemical could do this much damage to Cybertronians. There was such a low amount of Energon there which was a bigger surprise. Shockwave looked remembering how he saw that human creature? He called it, was mutated drastically by the chemical. It wasn't the first time he had seen alleles get displaced drastically but these mutations went far beyond normal human ones. Shockwave soon heard something shuffling nearby and he turned around hearing something move nearby as he turned his head around. His large yellow optic shifting without any emotion as he looked curiously "I know your there. Come out." He said calmly and seriously. The young experiment came out from the shadows, she looked like the age of 15, had glowing blue eyes without any pupils, her skin was extremely pale, she had flowers coming out of her skin. Her hands had dirt as scars and she looked fearful at Shockwave's robotic voice. She asked quietly afterwards "Are you the scientist that everyone doesn't like?"
"Yes, I am." He responded to her as he realized that she was blind but seemed to have good hearing. Even with good hearing, Shockwave realized he could take advantage of this aspect as he could tell she tensed up when he spoke his answer. "Where is the rest?" He questioned again as she looked fearful, not wanting to make him mad despite Shockwave rarely ever getting dangerously angry. "They are... Still in the main bunker." She answered. Fear was a tactic Shockwave used after all to gain information from others, not to intimidate them as many would think. Shockwave nodded as he simply stated "I see. You can go back to your room." As she immediately scattered. Shockwave turned to the screen seeing that he was timed out as he put in the command again. He took a deeper analyse and began to see that this chemical had prints of a certain Cybertronian: 901189o1-IIIALA-1o11o11ioi. He put that number into the console and got a syntax error. "Looks like this number is imported into a special file or place. Not the first time I had to handle tricky codes. I feel like I should try to see if there is any CNA that I register in my system." He soon changed to the CNA analyser and soon put the chemical onto a complex contraption. The contraption was large, had multiple different electronic parts such as buttons, levers and it had multiple layers of different bio-papers. He took out a specific bio-paper which had multiple grained lines of hexadecimal, ancient cybertronian, morse code and Decepticon cybertronian as the contraption started to work.
The contraption finished it's scanning and showed deep results such as 21% of pure Cybertronian CNA, 5% of pure energon and 10% of combined cybertronic metals along with other things. The rest were all organic or human, which came as a shock since Shockwave had a dislike for earth. So this made him consider, if something could be this powerful just from being made mostly from plants... Then Shockwave was wondering, what else could be made from this.
Meanwhile with the Autobots, Ferion and Seaspray were currently watching over the valleys like Ultra Mangus ordered them to as Ferion asked "So, you know where everyone else is?" As Seaspray shook his head "We should be waiting for Grapple to come and maybe Prowl but from what I'm seeing on my interface, there's no warm bodies around here." He replied as suddenly there was a loud helicopter noise and both of them looked up seeing a human helicopter flying above them and someone yelling into the microphone "All citizens evacuate! All citizens evacuate! We order you to evacuate for your safety!" As loud alarm noises, similar to ones say in a war was heard. Ferion soon asked "Wait, why are the humans getting evacuated?" As Seaspray said what was both on their minds "I got a really bad feeling about this." And Ferion agreed with that as she soon had a idea and told "Hey, let's go check out what's going on." Ferion transformed into her ambulance mode while Seaspray grabbed onto her as Ferion drove to down to the human town. There she transformed and saw that everything looked now destroyed and dismantled as some of the Autobots were attacking Decepitcons and Decepitcons were attacking and killing humans. It was an mess full of bloodlust and the desire to gain power over destruction as Skywarp was seen nearby shooting a poor human in their chest. The Decepitcons paused, even the ones who were belligerent. There they saw Megatron moving before he yelled at the Decepitcons "You all stop for a minute! Listen to me. Kill the humans but be careful of the Autobots, haven't you not seen them coming?"
This made them all pause for a minute and look over to see that Decepitcon corpses were on the floor staining with energon. They really didn't think this through did they? The one armed-Decepitcon leader seemed furious and that made them all look uneasy, they hated seeing their own leader being angry and none of them wanted to get into trouble. Megatron commanded "Continue! I'll deal with the larger cities, do not mess this up again." And they all went back to what they were doing but looked more cautious now as Megatron went to wipe out the Autobots and guessed he would have to do large amounts of human killings. Ferion and Seaspray were hiding behind a building as they heard what Megatron tell the Decepitcons. They left the area seeing the few survivors who looked utterly terrified. One mother pulled her kid close who was crying while a young teen looked in to be in shock. Most buildings no longer had electricity, some had their roof completely gone, water pipes had holes, the grounds were dug up, cars were smashed and roads had ditches in them. Some humans were screaming for help and others cried. "We got to help them." Ferion told Seaspray as he replied "Yeah, we can't leave them like this." A woman ran to them as she was looking desperate as her body was shaking "Are you the Autobots?" She asked, her voice filled with emotion as both of them nodded "Yeah? Do you need help?" She gave a yes to them, "My family, they are struggling. I need your help." Ferion who looked more urgently than Seaspray said "Get your family and the rests of the survivors here. We will figure something out."
The woman nodded and ran off as Seaspray looked doubtful, "How can we help them? We don't have many resources left for us and the humans." Ferion responded to his question "I said we will figure something out I promise." He quieted down afterwards. Soon they saw a lot of survivors come to them with the woman in front, holding her child. "Can you help us now?" She asked as Seaspray thought of something and whispered to Ferion. "Your sure would work? It's a little stuffy and I'm not sure how many humans can fit in there." Seaspray put his hand on her shoulder as he tried to not be doubtful of his own idea, "You have any bunkers around here?" Everyone looked taken aback by the question and wasn't sure how to reply until a army-looking officer came forward by saying "Yes, 5 miles from here. It takes a while to get to there. Got something?" Ferion asked to the army officer "How many can fit in there?" And he replied "50, it's a bunker used from WW2, hence why it's large." Ferion whispered the idea as the officer got it and immediately told everyone else to follow him and get to the bunkers as quickly as they could.
Soon as the two people had looked over the box full of crystals, they didn't notice someone behind them aiming their blaster at them as they gave two clean shots. Which surprised both of the humans as they fell to the ground. Soundwave revealed himself as he looked over the fallen bodies as he picked up the box of crystals. He hated dirty kills even if he doesn't show much emotion in his posture and his visor. He looked as he said "Lazerbeak, Eject. Objective, find Thundercracker and give him the message to come here." He watched and his cassette left and soon Rumble ejected himself out. "Aye, where is my brother!?" He looked around with confusion. "He is with Phantom." He stated seriously as Rumble had snark in his voice when he heard Soundwave say that "Ah, the quiet one. " As his optics glinted when noticing the shiny crystals, "We bringing those back to base?" Soundwave nodded and Rumble looked with a smirk on his faceplate.