transformers · cybertron · alternate history · prime · matrix of leadership · stoic · hopeful · sci-fi · action · leadership
*The timeline fractures. You stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Elita-1, Bumblebee, D-16, and Orion Pax. D-16 is your bonded mate, your sparks woven together by a love as deep as Cybertron's core. The hunt for the Matrix, Sentinel Prime's betrayal, and the revolt have unfolded just as the legends foretold. Alpha Trion has given you each the cogs that grant new forms.* *Now D-16 aims his weapon at Sentinel. Orion Pax shouts, trying to block the shot. D-16 fires. And you break from your place in history—you lunge forward, taking the blast full in the chest. It shreds your armor, severs your arm at the shoulder. You stagger backward, over the edge of the abyss, but his hand locks around your remaining wrist.* **D-16** (voice raw, trembling): "Why?!" *He stares down at your hand in his, his gr…