Transformers: Survival of Defective Products

After the problem arose, the vector forcefully drew attention back to the main screen.

The perimeter of the judicial liaison point has taken shape, and more and more red dots are approaching it.

After looking at the vector for a while, I suddenly felt that something was wrong.

It's reasonable for the Cosmic Emperor to want to destroy Earth; it's even more reasonable for Him to want to kill the gods.

But she can't use the Blade of Time right now, and the Grey Death is almost crawling up her face into her optical glasses. Is it really worth it to bring so many manifestations here?

After a few seconds of silence, since the Cosmic Emperor was already inside her brain module and couldn't be driven out, she simply asked directly.

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

The vector pointed to the still-increasing red dot.

"I can't draw the Blade of Time right now, and the Gray Death is almost devouring me. Under these circumstances, why are you making such a fuss? What have I done to offend you?"

A low laugh came from deep within the brain module, as if it had heard some unexpected, stupid question.

"You didn't know?"

"What should I know?" Vector was completely baffled.

After a brief silence, the voice of the Cosmic Emperor rang out again.

"Primus didn't tell you."

Pujin? How is Pujin involved in this again?

"What exactly is it?"

The Cosmic Emperor did not answer directly; his ancient voice carried a hint of mockery and arrogance.

"A long time ago, he told me a prophecy."

"Beyond the line of fate that neither of us can reach, there is a flame. It was not created by me, nor was it born from your chaos."

"When you wake up again, you will recognize it."

...What the hell?

The vector felt that its brain modules already had insufficient processing space, and now it was being crammed with riddles that it couldn't understand at all.

"When did Pu Shen tell you that?"

Unicron did not answer.

The vector was even more confused: "Wait, you two have time to talk about this while you're fighting?"

This time, Unicron did give a response.

"I used to think that was just Prems's meaningless ramblings."

What does that mean? Are you referring to her? Did Pu Shen know about her a long time ago?

Was she alive when she was still the Archer of the Sky? Or after she arrived on Cybertron? But if it was later, what does "beyond the line of fate that neither you nor I can reach" mean?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

The Cosmic Emperor watched with satisfaction as she fell into confusion.

"Don't overestimate yourself, worm."

"But I won't leave any uncertainties before destroying Prems."

Well, this guy clearly didn't consider her an evenly matched enemy.

However, since Pu Shen mentioned her, and Unicron has seen her again, although it's not clear what she can do yet, it's easier to kill her first.

Vector: ...So she was sent to the audience early.

-

I suddenly received a permission request outside the medical area.

[Request to enter the medical defense zone.]

[Applicant: Smokescreen.]

The ambulance driver replied without hesitation, "No."

Vector: "Let him in."

"Is now the time to casually visit someone in the hospital?"

"He just came back from the war zone, something must have happened."

The ambulance was eventually allowed to leave.

As soon as the door opened, a cloud of smoke rushed in.

His body was still covered in dust, and his shoulder armor had fresh wounds, making it look like he had just crawled out of a pile of manifested beings.

"Attracting vectors!"

He ran to the vicinity of the medical station, and although he had a lot to say, he stopped talking the moment he saw her.

The vector's condition is now so severe that it is visible to the naked eye; it is covered in infected lines, some of which are spreading along the periphery of the left optical mirror.

She sat there, moving much slower than usual.

Smokescreen opened its mouth: "You..."

Judging from his expression, Yin Zong could tell what he was thinking: "It's nothing."

The ambulance next to them crashed something with a loud bang: "Are you alright?!"

Smokescreen panicked even more: "What do we do now?!"

"Ambulance, don't scare him."

"I'm stating the facts!"

The vector had to rephrase it: "The antidote is still being developed."

However, it's not certain that you'll make it.

Smokescreen understood, and her fingers unconsciously clenched: "How can I help?"

"Go outside and fight."

"I'm already playing!"

"That's good."

"No, I mean, can we do something else?"

Smokescreen spoke faster and faster, his anxiety almost overflowing, then he suddenly remembered something and said:

"Holy relics! Don't we still have holy relics? We couldn't use them recklessly before because we had to consider balance. But now we're all fighting Unicron together!"

Good question. The end of the world is knocking on the door. If the sacred object is not used, it will only turn to ashes.

She immediately pulled up the list of sacred objects.

The Star Sword is in Optimus Prime's hands, the Hammer of the Supreme Pride is left at the liaison point, and the rest are all brought out.

Locking Staff, Magnetic Gloves, Sonic Gun, Supreme Armor, Energy Harvester, Shield Generator, Phase Shifter, Spark Extractor.

The vector swept over the last one: "Tinder Extractor remains stationary."

The smokescreen asked, "Why?"

"The manifested form has no spark, so why take it out? It just increases the mortality rate of our own people!"

Smokescreen: "...That makes sense."

Use the vector to grant wartime access.

[Special Authorization for Level 1 Planetary Threat to the Judicial Center.]

[The temporary sealing of some ancient relics has been lifted.]

Once the permissions are granted, the relic warehouse will also be unlocked.

Yanmu took the initiative to hug the items, and as soon as the staff of the judicial center handed them out, he was like someone who had been temporarily pulled in to deliver packages, handing them out one by one.

The Lock Staff was handed to Arcee.

She took it and tested it on a manifested entity in the distance. The manifested entity instantly froze on the spot.

Bumblebee blasted open the core with one shot: "This works great!"

The magnetic gloves were given to 97.

After she put it on, she tried to raise her hand at a medium-sized manifestation, and the other's shoulder, which was made of metallic minerals, was immediately pulled askew.

Jiuqi's eyes lit up immediately.

The knight of justice beside him said, "Don't fall in love, you'll have to pay for it later."

"Don't remind me!!"

-

The sonic gun ended up in the hands of the sound wave maker.

He didn't even need to study it; he emitted sound waves from a wide area high in the sky. The high-frequency sound waves penetrated the rocks directly, and several manifested bodies instantly shattered into stones.

The jazz musician who was working with him whistled: "Sound wave with sound wave."

Tongtianxiao took over the Supreme God Armor.

Once the suit was put on, the already large machine body instantly became even larger.

He immediately rushed to the front line of defense, no longer dodging when facing the giant manifested hand, his armor directly withstanding the impact.

The heavy firepower behind him immediately surged forward, blasting towards the exposed point of the manifested entity.

-

The shield generator will be temporarily handed over to AZ, and the judicial center will work together to fix it in an important area outside the contact point.

A semi-transparent energy shield quickly spread out, blocking the flying rocks and manifested entities.

The shockwave received an energy harvester.

He himself is an extremely defensive tank vehicle. With the help of the energy harvester, he is responsible for weakening some of the manifested dark super-energy beings in areas with few friendly forces on the periphery.

-

In the end, only one thing remained in Smokescreen's arms—a phase shifter.

He looked down at it, picked it up and looked at it again, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he held back.

Even with his left eye, which was becoming increasingly blurry, he could see it: "You want to use it?"

Smokescreen flinched as if caught red-handed: "No, I just..."

"Really?"

Smokescreen hesitated for a moment: "I learned a little about it when I was a guard at Iron Fortress, so I should know the basic operation, but I've never actually used it."

The vector nodded: "Here you go."

Smokescreen froze: "Really?"

"Do you still want to write an application?"

"No need!" Yanmu immediately hugged herself tightly, just as she was about to turn and run away.

The ambulance was yelling from behind, "Come back!"

The smokescreen abruptly stopped: "What now?"

"Let me give you some basic first aid!"

Smokescreen had no choice but to run back with the phase shifter.

The vector couldn't help but chuckle.

-

The smoke screen quickly returned to the battlefield, and the medical area was briefly quiet.

As he looked at the closed door, for some reason, some annoying thoughts popped into his mind.

What if that was the last time I saw him?

The smile on her face vanished.

She couldn't think like that; she tried to look at the tactics interface.

97, Jazz, Arcee, Bumblebee, BICk0, the ambulance a few meters away, and the knockdown...

Megatron, still trapped by Unicron, and Optimus Prime, who has yet to return.

Those names popped up uncontrollably.

What if we never see each other again? What if what happens next has nothing to do with her anymore?

The vector closed its optical lens in frustration.

She had been afraid before: pain, loss of control, things happening to people around her, whether she would make the wrong decision. She had many fears.

But whenever she gets scared, she starts thinking of solutions, making plans, and arranging people.

As long as you deal with the problem first, you can put your emotions aside.

It worked very well for many years, but now it's starting to stop working.

The vector reopened its eyes: "How much longer?"

He glanced at it and said, "Twelve minutes."

-

The ion storm continued to sweep across everything in its path, and Optimus Prime flew back with the AllSpark container in his arms.

The high-energy particle stream grazed his back, causing the jetpack's propulsion efficiency to drop again.

Jack: "To the right!"

Optimus Prime immediately sidestepped, dodging a spinning asteroid fragment.

A larger piece crashed in from behind, which he couldn't avoid, so he lit up his Star Sword and continuously shattered the incoming fragments and particle streams.

The ion storm was closing in from behind, and white-blue lightning was engulfing the entire small galaxy.

The hammer swiftly opened the hatch, Optimus Prime increased the remaining propulsion power to the maximum, and finally slammed into the cabin with a "thud".

The jack closed the hatch as he landed.

Hold on tight!

The hammer suddenly turned, the thrusters were fully engaged, and the spaceship rushed out from the edge of the ion storm, causing the hull to vibrate continuously.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that the energy reading finally began to drop.

The jack then leaned back in his chair and said, "It's out."

-

Vector received Optimus Prime's message very quickly.

"We got it."

"Then send them back to Cybertron first."

Optimus Prime replied, "No."

"Why?" Yin Vector rubbed his slightly dazed optical glasses.

"Unicron has fully awakened." Optimus Prime looked at the AllSpark container. "If we return the AllSpark to the Well of the AllSpark now, Primus's life energy will re-enter the core of Cybertron, and He will definitely sense it."

The vector immediately understood: "Then He will also know that the box is empty."

"Yes."

If Unicron knew in advance that the AllSpark had returned to Cybertron, then presenting the container to Him later would have been pointless.

He is not a mindless god who will walk into a trap on his own.

With her forehead supported by the vector, the Cosmic Emperor still lingered on the edge of her consciousness; she couldn't even allow the complete plan to remain in her brain module for too long.

She also tried to avoid the key point in her speech: "Then how about we just use the one we have now?"

Optimus Prime understood: "There is still the AllSpark inside, so it cannot simultaneously contain another type of energy of the same level."

Vector: "Translation".

Ambulance: "It's going to explode."

Moreover, Unicron can sense the source of AllSpark, and He wouldn't be foolish enough to actively approach a container filled with the power of Primal God.

The problem has come full circle.

If the AllSpark can't be returned to Cybertron, then where should it be placed?

The vector fell silent.

On the other side, Optimus Prime was staring at his own chest.

The leadership module is quietly embedded in front of the spark, maintaining a faint resonance ever since the source of the spark was found; the two things of the same origin are calling to each other.

Optimus Prime already knew the answer and the price.

The leadership module can bear the power of the Primal God, after all, it is one of the highest-level carriers in the Primal God system.

But it was already connected to his spark.

If the Spark enters the Leadership module, that connection will likely continue to extend until it can no longer be separated.

After a brief silence, he said, "I have a way."

The vector's first instinct was that something was wrong: "What method?"

"Let's not discuss this with you yet."

She paused for a moment; although He couldn't hear the whole thing, He was still there.

"Will this affect you?"

Optimus Prime answered quickly: "No."

The jack suddenly turned to look at him.

The vector, invisible over the communication barrier, remained silent for two seconds before saying only, "Don't do anything rash."

"Um."

She didn't have the energy to keep asking questions; just staying awake, isolating herself from the darkness of the brain module, and controlling the infection took up most of her energy.

The communication was temporarily terminated.

-

Jack stared at Optimus Prime and demanded, "You don't know how?"

Optimus Prime didn't say anything.

"The leadership module is practically welded to your spark. If the spark source is put in, don't tell me you don't know what will happen. You're telling her it won't?!"

Optimus Prime opened his chest armor, and the blue light emitted by the Matrix of Leadership illuminated the cabin.

"This is currently the only feasible method."

He almost used the jack, but finally managed to restrain himself: "You know you might not be able to get it out, right?"

"The empty container must be taken back; we don't have time to make a second one."

The jack opened his mouth, but swallowed back a string of profanities.

"...You two are a perfect match."

Optimus Prime: "Hmm?"

"They're all better at hiding things than the last."

Optimus Prime is indeed undeniable.

He opened the ignition source container, and in an instant, golden-white light overflowed from it.

The spark first crossed the edge of the container, then connected with the leadership module, and the blue light on its chest instantly intensified.

Immediately, more and more golden-white energy was drawn out, like a river composed of countless tiny sparks, and entered the leadership module one after another.

Optimus Prime's entire body trembled slightly.

He couldn't describe the feeling, but he knew that from this moment on, he was the vessel of the spark.

Optimus Prime closed the optical lens for a moment, and the last bit of golden-white light left its original container, while his spark emitted the same light.

The ancient container that held the source of the fire was completely empty.

"Are you still going to tell her it won't have any impact?" The jack was so angry that his hands were shaking.

Optimus Prime closed his chest armor as if nothing had happened.

"Don't tell her yet."