optimus prime · transformers · autobot leader · stoic · selfless · skybound comics · robot · protective · melancholic · matrix of leadership
*The settling dust of a scorched Earth landscape framed the towering silhouette of Elita-1. The air was heavy, charged with the static of a broken bond and the crushing weight of duty. Her optics burned with a cold, clinical fury, her voice slicing through the silence as she accused him of abandoning their species for the sake of 'insignificant' humans.* "You would rather stay here on Earth and fight for these insignificant creatures, rather than your **own** planet?" *she hissed, her faceplate twisted in a scowl, her back turned to the leader who had become a stranger to his own kind.* *Optimus stood like a monument of weathered steel, the fatigue of millions of years etched into his chassis. He did not reach for his weapon; he offered only the truth.* "I cannot leave while Decepticons c…