Chapter 476: The Fierce Battle Begins (Part 1)

"Boom!"

A loud noise suddenly rang out. Several NEST soldiers responsible for standing guard around the garage looked over in surprise. When they realized it was Skids who had lost his temper for some reason and punched the garage wall, they walked away, looking somewhat enlightened.

Ironhide glanced at Sideswipe, who was walking out of the garage with a sullen face, and at Chromia, who was standing silently by his side. He sighed helplessly, walked up, and patted Skids on the shoulder.

"Stop being angry. Get ready, we're leaving!"

He naturally knew what was wrong with Skids; if you really counted them up, almost everyone in the team he led was at odds with Frenzy.

Not to mention Skids, whose twin brother Mudflap had died at the hands of Frenzy; Sideswipe had also lost one of his Triangular Blades because of Frenzy; and Chromia had been seriously injured during the last Severed Dawn Operation to invade Severodvinsk.

Even Ironhide himself had been injured in two separate operations targeting Frenzy.

It could be said that these Autobots all held deep grudges against Frenzy.

This was the reason why, after hearing Optimus Prime instruct Bumblebee to take the initiative to contact Frenzy, all the Autobots showed signs of displeasure.

Fortunately, Optimus Prime had served as the Autobot Leader for a hundred years. Coupled with the fact that he was already one of the most powerful Warriors in the Autobot camp and a student of the previous Leader, Sentinel Prime, his prestige had been established among the Autobots in the hundred years since Sentinel Prime disappeared.

Therefore, although Skids and the others were unhappy with Optimus Prime's order, they could only throw tantrums in private; they wouldn't actually defy the Leader's command.

And Ironhide was also a Warrior with a fiery temper; his mind was not delicate enough to soothe his teammates in time after discovering a problem.

Because this operation had not been notified to NEST and the United States government in advance, Ironhide and his party of Autobots naturally could not enjoy the travel conveniences of the past.

Without the United States Air Force transport planes to carry them, and without United States Navy ships to escort them, the four Autobots snuck away from Diego Garcia. Because everyone was carrying anger in their hearts, Ironhide and his party sped through the sea at a speed of over one hundred knots, and the distance of thousands of nautical miles did not delay them for long.

In less than two days, the Autobots arrived at the Mariana Trench, coming to the deep trench where the U. S. military had discarded the remains of Megatron.

"Sideswipe, come with me to check the condition of Megatron's corpse. Chromia, you and Skids stay here on guard. Be careful not to be exposed!"

As soon as they arrived, Ironhide, serving as the squad Commander, issued the order.

When the U. S. military originally threw Megatron's remains into the depths of the Mariana Trench, considering that Decepticons still appeared on Earth from time to time, to prevent Decepticons from stealing Megatron's corpse in the future, the nearby Guam Naval Base received orders to regularly dispatch fleets to patrol and guard the sea area of thousands of square kilometers nearby.

It had been almost a year since then. Perhaps because nothing had happened, and because such large-scale fleet patrols were extremely expensive, only one U. S. tactical nuclear submarine remained patrolling and guarding the surrounding waters.

After the Battle of Las Vegas, Optimus Prime and the others had learned all the details of the former Sector 7 through exchanges with the Americans and Bumblebee's intelligence gathering.

Because of this, Ironhide and the others knew that many of the military radars the U. S. military had upgraded were improved versions created by technical personnel who had been assigned to various major U. S. weapons companies and military institutions after Sector 7 was disbanded. Once an Autobot or Decepticon approached within a certain range, they would be detected by the radar.

Moreover, a spy satellite belonging to the U. S. military would also fly over this area at regular intervals; being discovered would always be troublesome.

Chromia nodded. She and Skids did not surface, but swam at a depth of tens of meters underwater, like whales.

The body shapes and structures of Mechanical Life, which were different from humans, allowed them to move freely even in the deep sea.

But this did not mean that the deep sea had no effect on them; on the contrary, the seawater on Earth contained salt and various other elements, which were corrosive to metal.

At the same time, the water pressure on the seabed would also act on the bodies of the Mechanical Life.

This was why, when the Americans proposed throwing Megatron's remains into the depths of the Mariana Trench, Optimus Prime ultimately agreed.

However, as long as a Mechanical Life was still alive, the Spark within its body could continuously release energy to maintain its chassis. Therefore, although Ironhide and the others were not as flexible in fighting and moving in the sea as they were on land, their actual combat power was not significantly affected.

Sideswipe and Ironhide descended into the trench, enduring the increasingly strong water pressure and darkness, and before long, they reached the bottom of the trench.

Although Megatron's corpse had been transported here by a U. S. military ship, it was the Autobots who had discarded him into the deep bottom of the trench.

Ironhide was one of the Autobots who participated in discarding Megatron's corpse at that time, so it didn't take much effort to quickly find the remains of Megatron, who had been lying quietly on the seabed for nearly a year.

Sideswipe was seeing this fallen state of his for the first time. Seeing a ferocious mechanical giant lying quietly at the bottom of the trench from afar, he remained silent for a long time before speaking for the first time.

"Is this Megatron? So, after a tyrant dies, he is no different from an Ordinary Warrior!"

It was no wonder his tone was full of sarcasm; having been soaked in the seabed for nearly a year, Megatron looked as wretched as could be.

The once-invincible, formidable chassis on Cybertron was now covered in bluish-white spots, and it was unclear whether they were oxides from seawater corrosion or caused by deep-sea organisms parasitizing him.

On his chest, a terrifying wound looked particularly striking.

Sideswipe had not participated in the Battle of Las Vegas. Although he had seen Megatron from afar several times back on Cybertron, this was his first time observing this tyrant from such a close distance.

He couldn't help but move closer, leaning down to take a closer look at the huge wound on his chest.

Unexpectedly, perhaps the seabed water current stirred up by his footsteps startled a flat, strange fish that had built a nest in the wound on Megatron's chest, and it darted out with a 'whoosh'.

Sideswipe was startled by it. A Warrior's alertness made him subconsciously draw his Triangular Blade, and with a wave, he accurately chopped the strange fish that had darted out several meters into two pieces.

Looking at the blood flowing from its body, and after confirming that this was indeed a creature from Earth rather than some Mechanical Life, he slowly put away his Triangular Blade and nodded slightly to Ironhide, who had also been startled by his actions, but he no longer had the thought of carefully examining Megatron's corpse.

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