Gwain-Prime Saga (Gwain Saga/Transformers Prime)

Chapter 9: Revealing Truths

The entourage drove all the way back to the castle, and they knew to hurry fast, for the sun was already setting. Before entering the city, Bee suggests to Prowl to turn his sirens on so that people could clear the path for them, to which he complied. As the group sped through the city, people in a quarter-mile radius gathered in the streets to take a look at the cars that passed through the roads into the castle, the most unique one being the police car with its sirens blaring.

Upon arrival, the gates automatically opened and let them in. Soon, the group met the queen and the rest of the remaining Autobots. As everyone got out of their way and began chattering to each other, Prowl transforms to his Bot form and looks at Ultra Magnus, who gives him a discreet look.

Prowl makes a salute.

"Commander Magnus, sir!"

"At ease, soldier."

Suddenly Magnus's eyes widened as he stared down at Prowl. It was clear he'd seen him before.

"Officer Prowl... Never have I thought I would see someone like you in this mess."

"My apologies, sir, I... wasn't expecting to be here either. And neither does my hu- er... 'vampire' partner here."

He looks at Clint, who was a little further away from the rest of the entire group, with his arms crossed while staring off into some distance. Telling from his stance and posture, it was clear to Magnus that for a police officer, Clint was a distant one

Just then, the queen walked over to the foreign authority group and had her eyes locked on Clint himself, who raised an eyebrow at first. But once he realized who she might be, judging from her appearance and her expression towards them, makes a more respectful stance. But instead of regarding the act of respect, Gwain walks towards the officer and grabs him by the collar to his surprise, removes his shades, and stares him right in the eye, much to her displeasure. The sight was indeed a strange one, for no other officer would expect being held by the collar by the highest figure of authority around, unless it were their own drill sergeant or their commanding chief.

Clint once again raises an eyebrow and asks,

"Is there something you need, your highness...?"

Having to say the "your highness" part felt somewhat cringeworthy for Clint deep down, is coming from a country that has a president instead of a monarch. And Gwain, on the other hand, was caught off-guard by his silent yet deep voice, and the fact that a human just asked if she needed anything.

She whispers to him, almost growling just so that others don't hear her,

"I know what you really are, human. And I will not hesitate to kill you here and now."

He takes her hands off his collar, adjusts his shades back on, and looks back at Gwain with a pressuring stare. Clint responds to her,

"And for what justified reason do you have for that? Because if you kill me now right here, then you're just gonna horrify your people for your actions."

"Don't you dare tell me what to-"

"And sure, humanity can be one big cesspool, with half of us being the worst people you could imagine, but there's the other half of us who have families and friends, just like you and your lot. And you should be thankful, because out of the entire human population worldwide, only 10% of us are even lucky enough to even have a good home and education... while the rest of us have to toil for eternity unless we get lucky..."

On that note, Clint went silent and stared down, then walked away, putting his hands in his pockets. He then proceeds to sit down right by a nearby flowering plant that sat along the main castle walkway and stared off into the stars.