The search for the Pioneer could be considered smooth enough, though the process had been a bit troublesome.
Thanks to the shrinking gun, Dilos did not need to worry about how to move the Pioneer back to the base. What worried him was something else.
Underground base on Isla Sorna.
"You're saying Earth also has natural Energon deposits? Why haven't I received any news about that?"
Holding the "toy" Thundercracker in his hand, Dilos asked doubtfully, "And isn't this stuff supposed to be extremely rare? Are you sure Earth has it too?"
Energon was the life energy Cybertronians depended on to survive. Beyond that, it could also serve as the power source for the various weapons, equipment, and transport devices used by Cybertronians.
Most importantly, the energy contained within Energon was simply enormous. Even an energy crystal the size of a fist contained at least as much total energy as more than a dozen Arc Reactors.
If such a special energy deposit truly existed on Earth, then large organizations like S.H.I.E.L.D. should have long since been using every possible method to continually explore and develop the planet's surface. Yet if that were the case, there was no way Dilos should not have heard even a whisper of it.
Leaving himself aside, even Lex's intelligence network had no reason not to know about the existence of this energy.
"It's merely difficult to find. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
Thundercracker answered carefully, "And you're right. Planets with Energon are indeed relatively rare, but I'm certain Earth is one of them."
At the end, Thundercracker added, "When my men and I arrived on Earth tens of thousands of years ago, we found quite a few natural Energon deposits. It's just that most of those deposits were located ten to twenty kilometers underground,