When the Ganymede colonists came to pick up their new purifier, Kael handed them a sleek, silver tanker truck with a faint red glow in its headlights.
Then he transformed back, parked beside the colony’s water tanks, and hummed quietly—a Decepticon’s lullaby for a world that would never know his name. tformer designer
"Sorry, buddy," Kael whispered, running a scanner over the Seeker’s dormant chassis. "You were built to conquer. Now you filter rust." When the Ganymede colonists came to pick up
Stormfall’s lone optic glowed red.
"Good filter. Better soldier." End of story. "You were built to conquer
"What’s that extra button on the dashboard?" the colonist asked.
He didn’t finish the neural erase. Instead, he modified the transformation pattern. He grafted a single thruster back onto Stormfall’s spine, hidden inside the tanker mode’s chassis. He rewrote the final line of code: