Lightning Arrives

"So that's it. I was wondering why the Decepticon Corps suddenly sent Replica Soldiers to attack us. It was all just a show!"

Having suddenly grasped the truth, Sun Cheng combined it with the intelligence he had just received. With that line of thought, every question that had troubled him for days could now be explained.

Their previous clash had already told him that the Triple Changer Lightning had arrived in the Solar System.

But even with his arrival, Starscream would still be the one in control of the Decepticon base on the moon.

After all, Sun Cheng knew that Megatron was now nothing more than a head.

With Starscream wearing him down, unless Shockwave arrived, even Sun Cheng himself would never allow Megatron to receive a new body.

That was politics—the most vile, filthy kind of politics.

And without Megatron to keep him in check, Lightning and the advance force that had arrived with him definitely could not contend with Starscream.

Thus, the vast majority of Decepticons in the Solar System were now under Starscream's direct command.

Given Starscream's personality, if he truly intended to make a move against him, it would certainly be a swift and decisive strike like thunder.

Sun Cheng could practically devise Starscream's method of invading Earth for him: first, deploy no fewer than two thousand Decepticon Replica Soldiers to infiltrate Earth in advance and lie in wait around South America.

Once the invasion began, those Decepticons would serve as the first wave, launching attacks everywhere at once, landing and wreaking havoc at any cost in order to draw as much of Sun Cheng's attention as possible.

Then, the main Replica Corps force—more than five thousand strong—would launch from the moon and conduct an air raid on South America.

If Sun Cheng were the commander,