Chapter 1003: Blocking the Door

Arctic Circle, within the borders of Canada, inside the Northwest Territories.

Onslaught stood somewhat irritably at the entrance of a cave carved into the hard rock face of a canyon, watching the howling cold wind outside.

For some unknown reason, he had felt a deep sense of unease for some time now.

Onslaught had no so-called primitive faith, nor did he ever believe in the Autobot theory of being protected by the Primes.

However, Onslaught never doubted his own intuition; as an exceptionally confident person, he had actually realized from the unease of these past few days that he might have been targeted by some enemy hidden in the shadows.

Yes!

Amidst the howling cold wind, the light in Onslaught's eyes was flickering at an astonishing frequency.

At this moment, he was controlling all the surveillance devices deployed in this area, searching for the opponent who might be hiding in the dark.

Regarding his own personality, Onslaught was naturally aware of it as well.

He was too arrogant, unwilling to submit even to Megatron.

Therefore, after the Decepticon Legion was established, he and his Combaticons were slowly squeezed out of the decision-making circle from their initial position at the absolute center of power.

Later on, because of the rebellion of Swindle and a few other pieces of trash, he was ruthlessly targeted by the overbearing Megatron who had caught them in the act.

If Onslaught hadn't reluctantly softened his stance at the time, he, one of the four giants from the inception of the Decepticon Legion, would have long since become just a name in the memories of other Decepticons and Autobots, like the countless high-ranking commanders who died in the civil war.

But softening his stance did not mean Onslaught had completely surrendered to Megatron; on the contrary, his attitude toward Megatron from beginning to end was much like that of Starscream.

Because of this reason, Onslaught was constantly suppressed within the Decepticon Legion.

Having accumulated enough combat experience long ago, he only lacked a massive influx of resources to become another powerful Leader under the Decepticon Legion, which was why he still hadn't squeezed into that true circle of the strong even now.

So toward Megatron, Onslaught felt fear, but even more so, resentment.

Consequently, the powerful Decepticon Legion, which others saw as overbearing, was something Onslaught could abandon at any time.

If Megatron returned, Onslaught felt it was not impossible that he had been targeted by this ambitious hero, who might attempt to use violence to force him into service.

Moreover, his current opponents were not limited to just Megatron.

Onslaught's relationship with Starscream was also poor; due to his arrogance and their mutual scheming in the early years, although the two occasionally cooperated, neither would mind killing the other if they caught the chance.

Besides them, there were a large number of Autobots on Earth.

As the former commander of the Combaticons and one of the four earliest giants of the Decepticon Legion, the number of Autobots who had died at Onslaught's hands was too many for even him to remember clearly.

If the Autobots accidentally discovered his trail, he believed a life-and-death struggle would be inevitable.

However, these were not what Onslaught was most worried about right now.

Compared to these opponents, the one he was most wary of now should be that troublesome opponent he had occasionally given pointers to back then, only to end up cultivating—Frenzy.

At the mere thought of that guy Frenzy, Onslaught felt the Spark in his chest begin to churn with anger.

He had accidentally discovered some peculiarities in the little guy back then, and after his later observations, he really did discover that Frenzy was hiding quite a few secrets.

He was a member of the Cassette Corps controlled by Soundwave, who had replaced him as one of the new four giants of the Decepticon Legion, yet because he had once resisted Soundwave, his memories were sealed when he was re-Awakened by Soundwave after his death in battle.

Onslaught also accidentally discovered that Starscream seemed to have noticed this as well and had done something to him.

Onslaught's relationship with neither Soundwave nor Starscream could be called good, and originally he just wanted to cause some trouble for these two scoundrels.

Plus, at the time, under Frenzy's guidance, he had successfully found the AllSpark and obtained enough information from the AllSpark for his promotion.

And he had also obtained the head of Jazz, the lieutenant of the young Autobot leader Optimus Prime, from Frenzy; at that time, Onslaught already had the idea of rebuilding the Combaticons.

Combining all these factors, before Onslaught prepared to go into seclusion and sleep to allow himself to promote into a powerful Leader-class Warrior, he 'gifted' some of the assets he had brought from Cybertron to Frenzy.

Those assets of his, if one said they were casual, they were indeed casual; most of them were nothing more than Decepticon Workers that even he himself looked down upon.

But to say they were worthless would not be accurate.

At the very least, that Super Intelligence manufactured during the peak of Cybertronian civilization was something even Onslaught himself could not obtain a second unit of now.

The reason Onslaught left it to Frenzy back then was just because he felt the other party was only temporarily keeping it for him for a few years.

Who would have thought that he would be Awakened early during his own promotion process and even be discovered and held in check by Starscream.

By the time Onslaught wanted to go find Frenzy again, he discovered that the other party had already grown into a behemoth that even he found difficult to handle.

Ever since he had clashed with Frenzy last time and suffered a great loss at his hands, Onslaught had begun to treat Frenzy as one of his life-and-death enemies.

Onslaught rarely fought battles he wasn't sure of; he was indeed arrogant and unruly, but when it was time to be steady and serious, he could also be patient.

In the nearly one year that had passed, he had specifically investigated Frenzy's situation.

He didn't know until he investigated, but once he did, even the habitually arrogant Onslaught was truly taken aback.

With Frenzy's current influence and strength, tracking him might have some difficulty, but it was not impossible to trace.

If he were truly targeted by him, facing that Frenzy who should have been on good terms with him but was pushed onto the enemy's side by his own hands, Onslaught really felt a bit lacking in confidence.

Onslaught searched earnestly just like that, and through the thousands of surveillance devices he had deployed in advance, before long, he finally detected a trace of abnormality from the massive amount of surveillance data fed back.

"Something's fishy!"

In one area, the data fed back was basically consistent with the previous few days.

After Onslaught's Brain quickly processed and compared the past information, he sneered and leaped out of the cave, nimbly climbing up the rugged canyon wall, and soon arrived within that strange area.

At the same time, he also issued a support order to the other members of the Combaticons.

"Come out!"

Onslaught looked at the empty ground before him that showed no signs of abnormality and suddenly shouted loudly.

No one responded to him; the scenery before him remained the same.

Onslaught grinned ferociously and clenched his fist tightly, throwing a punch with full force viciously toward the front.

When the fist struck a place about two meters away from him, a circle of ripples, like water waves, suddenly appeared in the air before him, flickering constantly.

At the same time, the surrounding scenery, which had looked completely normal just a moment ago, also began to distort along with the constantly flickering ripples.

When Onslaught saw clearly the behemoth behind those ripples, his expression changed abruptly.

A spaceship?!