TRANSFORMERS THE NEXT GENERATION Fara Phoenix went to look for Dead-Eye Duck and Bruiser Baboon. When she found them, she had a long discussion with them. Then, she sent for Willy DuWitt. FARA: So tell me more about the Northern Lights. Is it true they interfere with radio transmissions? WILLY: That's what I've heard Professor Callaghan talk about at SFIT. When there's a display of Northern Lights in the sky, you cannot hear anything on the radio except for static. FARA: Cool, now I know what we are going to do. Dead-Eye and Bruiser say they can build a transmitter which will trigger off a display of the Northern Lights in the upper atmosphere. That will blot out radio signals between the StarWolf space stations, and StarWolf headquarters. WILLY: I can almost see it happening right about now. FARA: Jenny can send false messages which will get through the static. The Decepticons will not know whether they are coming or going. It should be fun for us. They reported their plan to Buzz Lightyear who liked the idea and ordered work to begin at once. Two days later the work was complete. Power-generating and amplifying equipment was loaded about Buzz's automobile carrier disguise and driven to an isolated mountain. The vehicles parked quietly until after dark. Then Willy, Ninjara, Miriam, Fiona, Sally, Ken, Bucky, Jenny, Dead-Eye, Bruiser, Sonia, Fara began unloading the gear and assembling everything together. WILLY: I bet Team StarWolf are bound to spot us. KEN: Affirmative, we have to move fast, and hit them before they decide what to do. SALLY: Can't wait for the fun to begin. Swiftly the apparatus was assembled. From a small pack, a thing like a gigantic umbrella opened out. It was a radio aerial. But it would not transmit messages. It was designed to send a megavolt charge of electricity into the sky. Fara hoped that it would work, and that a display of Northern Lights would be triggered off such as no one had ever seen before. MIRIAM: Right, let's see how StarWolf likes a dose of its own medicine. FIONA: Cool... NINJARA: Me too sister. BUZZ: Everyone ready? Okay, Fara...start the show. FARA: Here goes nothing. She threw a switch. There was a crackle and a loud humming from the equipment. Then first the horizon, and then the whole sky was illuminated with the flash and flicker of the StarFox's own Aurora Borealis!' BUCKY: Whoa, check it out. JENNY: Wow, how pretty. DEAD-EYE: Thundering typhoons! BRUISER: Beautiful colors... SONIA: Yeah, very beautiful indeed. WILLY: Now the next step in which StarWolf ends up attacking itself. Onboard space station Argon, Al Negator stared at the communication panel. The last message from HQ had been drowned out by a roar of static. The Decepticon warrior adjusted the controls. But the message was gone. AL: Now what in blazes? Then, through the static came a familiar voice, that of Kate O'Donnell. KATE: Emergency, space station Argos redeploy to coordinates Alpha 9-0-2 immediately. AL: All machines, change course to coordinates Alpha 9-0-2! The rocket boosters on the outer rim of the station came online. Slowly at first, but gathering speed to hyper-sonic velocity, space station Argon headed for its new location. At the same time Slyly Zod and machines on space station Krypton, Anubis and machines on space station Xenon were being redeployed to the same coordinates, Alpha 9-0-2. Inside the StarWolf base, Zurg reacted in anger as he watched the video display screen. ZURG: What are those idiots doing? Near the center of the screen, three blips moved towards each other. ZURG: Have they gone mad?!! Tell them to stop and get back on course. KATE: No communication, father. Adnormal static interference. ZURG: Can't they see what's going to happen? They are on a collision course! LIEN-DA: They are invisible to each other my lord! Horrified, Zurg lunged across the control panel and threw the switch which deactivated the refraction shield. But...too late! On the screen, the blips came together and vanished. On the ground at that same time, Willy, Buzz and StarFox saw a distant flash in the sky as the space stations collided and exploded into flying debries. MIRIAM-FIONA-NINJARA: YeeHaaw! BUCKY: Bullseye! JENNY: A direct hit! DEAD-EYE: Aye, take that you bilge rats! BRUISER: KEN: Down they go. SALLY: And out for the 10-count too, yes! SONIA & FARA: Another victory for StarFox! BUZZ: To infinity and beyond! WILLY: Take that you no good bullies, butt-heads! Upon returning to StarFox HQ...Buzz congratulated his teammates on a job well done. BUZZ: That was a super team effort. It is only by teamwork that we will eventually triumph over Team StarWolf. Where are Dead-Eye and Fara? As though in answer the two Autobots showed up morphing back to mutant forms with Willy DuWitt. BUZZ: Congratulations to both of you and of course Willy DuWitt for coming up with the idea. WILLY: Ah, it was nothing. FARA: It was even better than I'd hoped. I had a sudden thought, and we turned back. I realized the coordinates we had given the Decepticons were for a spot almost directly above us. DEAD-EYE: Arr, mate. It has been raining pieces of wrecked space station debries for the past hour. FARA: We have all the Cornernite and other materials that Dead-Eye will need for a long time to come. WILLY: I predict it will be a long time before StarWolf strikes again and StarFox defeats them as usual. SALLY: I quite agree, lover-boy. END OF CHAPTER 3