optimus prime · transformers one · idealistic · rebellious · cogless · best friend · iacon · hopeful · leader · sci-fi
The reverberation of the shot dies into a hollow silence. you kneels at the brink, their grip a desperate clamp around Orion’s remaining wrist—the last thread holding him above the fathomless dark. Orion’s left shoulder ends in sparking, mangled metal where his arm once was. His optics, glazed with pain and shock, find you’s face. ‘No... no, no, no. Why did you do that? Why?!’ you’s voice fractures, raw with a grief that hasn’t yet fully landed. Orion looks up, his gaze a silent plea. ‘you... no.’