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Decepticons were far too disciplined to let them attempt such a move. The only way to destroy them utterly would be to sacrifice the ship in a suicide play, a call that Cannonball was in no position to make. There was only one thing for him to do.
    “Transfer reserve power to the communications array. I need to cut through this interference and talk to the captain! Now!”
    M EGATRON SIDESTEPPED ANOTHER ONE OF T HUNDERTRON ’ S wild swings with his cutlass.
    “You can’t beat me, Megatron!” the pirate leader snarled. “You can’t win!”
    Megatron sent Thundertron flying with a solid head butt. “You have delusions of grandeur, my soon to be disintegrated friend!”
    But Thundertron changed back into his lion mode and sprinted at full speed, knocking Megatron off his feet. As Megatron struggled to get back off the ground, Thundertron’s tail extended a few meters and wrapped itself around Megatron’s neck, and then Thundertron’s mighty front paws smashed him in the chest and pinned him to the ground. Megatron’s vision was filled with teeth. The giant lion’s mouth opened wide to engulf him, but at the last moment, the Decepticon leader managed to jam his forearm under the robot lion’s throat, keeping the snapping jaws at bay. Thundertron pushed as hard as he could, straining to shear off the Decepticon’s faceplate with his teeth. The two bots strained desperately for advantage, and then suddenly Thundertron heard a familiar ping in his ear. His personal communicator—and with it the panicked voice of his first mate, Cannonball.
    “Captain! We can’t keep up the fight against the
Nemesis
! There’s too great a chance we’ll lose the ship!” The words sent a chill down the pirate leader’s spine. Without the
Tidal Wave
their operations would be fatally impaired. There would be no way to complete his life’s mission of wiping the universe free of the Cybertronian scum he loathed. But to have Megatron at his mercy was an opportunity that might not come again for so long … Yet his ship was in peril … Even as Thundertron contemplated his options, Megatron twisted in his grip and got loose. Thundertron whirled to face him.
    “Luck has favored you today, Megatron, but mark my words, we will meet again!” And with that, he fired his thruster jets and sped off back toward the
Tidal Wave.
Megatron rose to his feet and carefully aimed his fusion cannon at the departing Star Seeker. As he pulled the trigger, Thundertron darted behind an asteroid, fouling his shot. All Megatron could do was laugh at the irony.
    “Yes, pirate,” he said, “lucky indeed.” Shifting to spaceship mode, he surged back toward the duel between the flagships. The
Tidal Wave
was clearly getting the worse of it. Flame was spewing from multiple points on the pirate flagship’s armor. For a moment, Megatron wondered if he should follow Thundertron and finish this. But then he realized that there was still enough gunnery on the
Tidal Wave
to keep lone bots like himself from getting too close. Plasma bolts tore past him; he ducked and weaved and then turned away altogether, speeding back to the
Nemesis
. As he switched back to bot form and stormed onto the bridge, Starscream and Soundwave saluted.
    “Congratulations, lord,” said Starscream. “You have won a glorious—”
    “Shut up, idiot. I won nothing. The craven fool retreated.”
    “Their fleet is, too,” said Soundwave.
    He was right. The
Tidal Wave
was breaking off from the combat, turning away from the
Nemesis
, its swarms of Star Seekers adjusting course to follow while several of the lesser surviving warships moved to provide rearguard cover.
    “Shall we pursue them?” Starscream asked.
    “No,” said Megatron. “Let them go.”
    “Let them
go
?” Starscream was incredulous.
    “Would you care to pursue them single-handedly?”
    Starscream shook his head.
    “My lord,” Soundwave said, “the
Tidal Wave
is hailing us.”
    “Put them through,” Megatron