"Mercy be upon those who have the shoes of a legend to fill"
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Smokescreen's Pov.
It had been a few hours since everyone had gotten back together, I learned that agent follow had come in after I had destroyed dark mounts power core. Which they were able to use their jets an destroy the compound completely. I was glad to hear it that Megatron now was back to only having his war ship, which was still bad but hey, still a victory. Follow had set us up on an army base in one of its hangers, Ratchet working to block out life signals so the cons couldn't track us. There was also a new face here, I hadn't known that Ultra Magnus had shown up on earth and was up on top with Megatron while I was dealing with the core. Good thing I had did so, the explosion had given him time to escape before Agent Follow came in.
I was glad to see everyone alright and alive, it was heartwarming to see Jack also reuniting with his mother. I smiled sadly to myself as I sat in the corner of the room, I had yet to transform in front of the others since I had yet to tell them what happened. I didn't know how too, who could blame me, how do you tell someone that their leader is dead and that he had given me of all bots the matrix. Well, technically the matrix picked me but that was beside the point. I groaned in frustration as I backed up further into the shadows as I tried to think. 'I really wish you were here Optimus..' I thought as I sighed heavily as my vehicle mod sack further against the ground in slight exasperation. "You hurt or something kid?" I jumped in my vehicle mod as I heard Wheeljack speak, I saw he was leaning against the wall near me as he looked down at me.
"No! I'm just fine, never better!" I said a little to quickly and loud as I watched everyone looked towards me, I sank slightly at their gazes as they stared at me. "Smokescreen, you haven't transformed since we got here. You sure you're fine? Was your T-cog damaged?" Ratchet spoke next as he turned from his work on the new computer set up. I was silent as everyone watched me waiting for an answer, I then sighed heavily as I drove from my spot and parked in the middle of the room. "Then what's wrong Smokescreen?" I turned my mirror up as I looked to the humans on the platform, Raf having been the one to ask. "Yea, you never sulk." I watched as Miko leaned on the railing beside him and the other humans. I looked down as I thought a moment before I looked back to them all. "There's something I need to tell you...all of you.." I said as I watched them all share looks before looking back to me.
"What is it?" Bulkhead asked as he stood with Wheeljack, I was silent a moment before I took a breath. I kept my optics closed as I finally transformed and slowly stood up, I heard a couple gasps as I opened them and looked around at everyone's expressions. I grew slightly curious as I had yet to check out my new look and looked down at myself. I had already known I had grown a few feet as I now stood as tall as Bulkhead but that wasn't the only thing, my legs were slightly reshaped as it looked like I had a set of high boots on, kind of similar to how Optimus' were but not as big. My upper body was a bit slimmer in my midsection and my chest was broader, along with my shoulders an arms. I glanced behind me as my car doors still sat where they were before. I felt the sides of my head as I noticed my head fins had grown as well along with my head crest. "Huh, I didn't realize I changed this much." I said slightly to myself.
"What do you mean by that?" I looked down to Arcee as she heard me, my doors lowered on my back as I looked away a bit. I rubbed the back of my neck as I thought on what to say "Well....you can say it has something to do with what I need to tell ya guys." I said as I looked back to everyone. "First things first is that Optimus-" I wasn't even able to finish as Ratchet interrupted me. "You know where Optimus is?" he asked as everyone gave hopeful looks as they waited eagerly, I gave an uneasy look as I watched them. "Yes....." I answered truthfully as I looked down and heard the others get excited. "Thank primus, where is he, if he didn't come with you he must be injured." Ratchet said as he knew that Optimus had stayed behind and was most likely injured badly if he had gotten out.
"You're correct Ratchet but....he doesn't need patched up....not anymore." I said with great dread an grift as I couldn't bring myself to look at my team. "Smokey, what are you saying?" I heard Miko ask and I closed my optics as my doors lowered even further against my back. "Optimus.....Optimus is dead." I said as I let those words sank in I balled my fists as I looked away "I-I tried to save him but he was to injured and suffered to his wounds before I had come to help you all.." I explained what had happened an how I had went back to help him an brought him somewhere Megatron couldn't get him. "That can't be.." Arcee said as she stepped back and Bee put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. I looked to everyone as they all shared the same grift an hurt of the lose of our leader, our friend.
"If it is true, then we have not time to waste." we all turned as Ultra Magnus stepped forward "We must still get to him before the cons do, the matrix must not fall into the hands of Megatron and so another can be chosen to lead." he said as he looked to Ratchet who confirmed his words with a nod as he realized he was right. I gave an uneasy look as I knew what was coming next "Megatron won't get his hands on it." I said as everyone looked to me. "How do you know?" I looked to Agent Follow as he asked. I was silent a moment before I looked to my chest where the matrix lied. I hesitated a moment before I opened my chest slowly, I watched as everyone gasped at the sight of the matrix that sat just in front of my spark. "Smokescreen...does that mean you are?" Ratchet was the first to speak as he stared in shock an disbelief at the sight before looking at me.
I met his optics a moment before I gave a single nod "I'm...the next Prime..." I said as I closed my chest. "But how? why would Optimus pick you? of all the bots he could have pick." I winced at Ratchets words as they hurt but I couldn't blame him and sighed. "You think I had a choice in this? I couldn't even pross that prime died in front of me before this thing came up and attached itself to me." I said as I threw my arms up as I showed I was just as confused as all of them. I sighed heavily though as I held my head "Look we can discuss this later.....we have to retrieve Optimus before anyone else does. Out of anyone, he deserves to have a proper send off." I said as I really didn't want to continue this conversation. Everyone looked to each other before they walked off and got ready to head out, I sighed heavily as I went over with Ratchet and gave him Optimus location.
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