Chapter 738 - 18 Upgrading (Part 2)

Rat-tat-tat-tat...

Boom!

Optimus Prime stood in the clearing, and Red Spider provided another round of aerial bombardment from the sky.

Surfboard recovered from the assault, and the severed spiral hand blade fell off, transforming into a hand cannon.

Megatron looked at Optimus Prime raising the hand cannon, loading the ammo:

"There are other energy sources on Earth..."

Optimus Prime burst out from the smoke of the explosion, and Megatron immediately fired in unison with Surfboard!

Boom!

Yet another plasma gun hit Optimus Prime squarely, the continuous bombardment covered him again, leaving him barely able to fight back!

The shelling, gunfire, and explosions left Optimus Prime dazed, and Megatron shot again, sending him flying into a building by the roadside!

"In the end, is the fate of our race no better than the life of one human?"

Megatron, instead of firing again, stepped forward menacingly, viciously questioning Optimus Prime.

Surfboard also stopped when seeing this, adjusting his weapon.

Red Spider ceased the bombardment as well, transforming into humanoid form and grabbing the side of a nearby building, holding his weapon cautiously while searching for Sam’s location.

He saw Sam bewildered, glancing at Optimus Prime, then looking around aimlessly, muttering:

"Hurry! Hurry! Stand up!"

It seemed like the situation was stable.

Red Spider jumped down; he didn’t dare comment on how Megatron would handle Optimus Prime, but he could take care of the kid Sam first.

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime lay on the ground, feeling the heavy footsteps behind him and hearing the brutal words of his former friend, spat...

"Would one life ever make you stop?!"

With that, both his hands turned into red-hot sword blades, and he charged towards Megatron!

Seeing this, Surfboard launched missiles, but this time, all his attacks were blocked by Optimus Prime’s sword blades—

Boom!

The explosion obscured Optimus Prime’s figure, and Megatron could only predict his movements based on his last observation, firing into the fireball, but his plasma bullets merely passed through the black smoke!

The smoke cleared, showing Optimus Prime, with unimaginable agility, stepping forward and closing in on Megatron in an instant!

The latter attempted to counterattack with a blade from his sword cannon, but he was too slow, as the giant cut off his arm with one strike, ramming him away with his shoulder!

Simultaneously, Optimus Prime flung the blade from his severed arm, the high-speed flying blade precisely embedded into Red Spider’s head on the wall...

Crippled Surfboard was dumbfounded, and since Optimus Prime used Megatron’s body as a shield, he couldn’t shoot.

But when the two Transformers separated, it was his boss who got his arm cut and was smacked away, and Red Spider directly got a headshot by the flying blade!

This wasn’t over yet!

Surfboard aimed to fire, but Optimus Prime grabbed Megatron’s severed weapon from the ground, inserting it into the hole in Surfboard’s neck at a speed far exceeding his, then squeezed hard—

"Scrap metal!"

Boom!

The already fragile area was utterly destroyed by the explosion.

Surfboard’s neck seemed halved, with his broken head hanging by a thin neck, losing all strength and collapsing directly to his knees.

Having done all this, Optimus Prime felt weakened, the frailty forcing him out of that intensely focused combat state.

He had been so immersed in the fight that he ignored the surroundings entirely...

Would their battle affect Sam?

"Sam!"

Optimus Prime called out Sam’s name immediately, however, he had only just dealt with Surfboard.

Red Spider might be too scared to fight back after getting a headshot, but Megatron wouldn’t be deterred by merely losing one hand!

Megatron, looking at the one who was supposed to be the Transformers’ leader, reviving Cybertron with them, glanced at his distracted state for the humans with growing hatred.

His steps were light but swift, and he had plenty of spark energy and stored transformational weapons in his head—

Enough to morph a functional weapon with his other hand.

His other arm, reduced to claws, suddenly transformed, turning from powerless claws into a hefty axe...

"Utterly weak!"

Bam!

Megatron swung the axe, a powerful kinetic weapon simultaneously striking his eyes!

...

Sam witnessed it all clearly from the side:

Compared to the Transformers he knew, Lille’s transformation was quite slow.

The Cybertronian metal debris on the ground resembled a bitter, lack-of-lubricant mechanical structure, transforming slowly compared to the Autobots or Decepticons.

This was entirely because Lille could not read the information attached to the Magic Cube Fragment, unlike other Transformers who absorbed the spark energy and received the information it conveyed, gaining innate transformation abilities...

Just like humans carry genetic info that naturally lets them grow, Lille was like a human who needed to write his genetic information from scratch!

Luckily, this transformation was slow but steady, and the battling Transformers barely noticed the situation over here...

Finally, when Megatron was about to ambush Optimus Prime, Sam almost shouted, and Lille finally completed the transformation!

After Lille finished compiling his form, Sam didn’t even see his humanoid form, only the Destruction Shell taking a few strides towards Lille, then a super gun barrel, 1.8 meters long, extended from its chest, and the swirling energy emanated like a wave around the barrel—

Bam!

It might be challenging for the Spike Electromagnetic Cannon to penetrate Megatron’s frontal armor, but it certainly had no difficulty piercing his eyeball!

The giant axe slashed down, but due to the head injury, Megatron lost control of the weapon, leaving only a deep gash on Optimus Prime’s shoulder!

"Ahhh!"

The Ion thruster behind the Destruction Shell erupted, flying directly to Megatron’s head while he howled in pain!

Four slender yet flexible and stout octopus claws extended out, gripping the gaps between Megatron’s body tightly, firmly securing the Destruction Shell on his head, with the 1.8 meters long barrel aimed at Megatron’s other eye...

Even if Megatron’s other hand was raised, it wouldn’t prevent Lille from firing the shot!

Boom!

A missile exploded directly on Megatron’s chest, causing issues with Destruction Shell’s grip—

Red Spider crashed into Megatron!

Lille cursed angrily and quickly escaped from the Destruction Shell.

In the sky, as Red Spider carried Megatron, he hadn’t flown far before getting kicked.

Still, he promptly said, "Master, sometimes living is more important than anything..."

Saying this, he transformed into an F16 and flew towards the horizon, while Megatron delivered a frustrated grunt, transformed into a flying tank, and retreated from the battlefield.

Once airborne, he could clearly see the other members of the Autobots, rapidly approaching along the road.

However, their strategy to lure out Optimus Prime and outnumber him failed...

Without capturing Sam and not killing Optimus Prime, both mission objectives failed completely. How would he explain to his superior, the Fallen Decepticon?

And all this, because of... that strange Transformer.

The emblem on that guy was something never seen or heard of before.