Chapter 553: Fifth Hundred and Fifty-First Chapter: The Talks

"Screech!"

Ratchet retracted his right hand, which was still emitting white smoke, blew on the welding tip he had transformed, and then said to Sideswipe, "The external injuries are no problem; a few days of rest will have you fully recovered!"

Sideswipe, who usually resembled a cold warrior, looked truly disheveled at this moment.

Ratchet had just helped him reattach a severed arm, and there were wound after wound on his chest, back, thighs, and even his head.

It was clear that Sideswipe had just experienced a fierce battle not long ago.

"Thank you!"

Sideswipe moved his newly reattached arm; because there were still internal components needing to consume energy from his Spark to regenerate, the arm he had just reattached was clearly not very agile.

Ratchet nodded; he was already accustomed to Sideswipe's coldness.

Turning his head to look at Optimus Prime, who was greeting the wounded nearby, Ratchet's expression was not good. "Leader, when will the new Energy Cubes be delivered? Our recent war with the Decepticons has been very intense; if we don't have enough Energy Cubes to replenish, many warriors won't be able to recover as quickly."

Ever since the patrol team led by Ironhide discovered Decepticons in the Mariana Trench region.

Afterward, the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticon Legion over the corpse of Megatron broke out.

Over the past dozen days or so, the Decepticons have organized three waves of invasions, successively committing 37 Decepticons.

Among them, quite a few high-level Decepticon Warriors even participated in the fighting. The defensive pressure on the Autobot side has been increasing, and Ironhide, Sideswipe, and others have already been rotated out to rest.

There was no help for it; facing the increasingly fierce offensives of the Decepticons, Ironhide took a blast to his abdomen, while Sideswipe, having lost a weapon he habitually used, had an arm severed by Barricade during the fight.

Of course, Barricade didn't manage to gain the upper hand either; he was also pierced through his chassis by a blade from Sideswipe and fled in a sorry state.

Optimus Prime frowned as he looked at the subordinates who had just returned from the front line to rest; his expression was grim.

He had not personally directed the fighting in the Mariana Trench region recently.

Because U. S. military satellites had captured the image of Soundwave; clearly, this intelligence chief of the Decepticon Legion posed a threat in Optimus Prime's mind second only to the never-seen Starscream, and even above that mysterious The Fallen.

As a result, he had led a team to track Soundwave's trail, circling almost the entire Eurasia.

Just as they were about to catch the opponent, Soundwave suddenly broke into Russian territory, and Optimus Prime could only temporarily give up the pursuit.

This was the tacit understanding between the two nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, and it was also the fragile understanding between him and Sun Cheng.

Ever since the last time Ironhide led a team to try to destroy the Decepticons potentially hiding in Severodvinsk, only for the Task to fail, Optimus Prime had considered personally leading a team to go and crusade against Sun Cheng again.

However, because the U. S. government had placed too much distrust and pressure on them, coupled with the fact that Sun Cheng had repeatedly shown goodwill toward them later, he had suppressed the idea for the time being, albeit with lingering doubts.

Afterward, Russia seemed to become a hedgehog in the eyes of the Autobots and the Americans.

Both the Autobots and the Americans wanted to resolve it, but both had reservations and couldn't act, and they had to constantly remind each other not to blindly provoke a conflict.

Russia, because of this, became a stalemate.

"The new Energy Cubes won't arrive for another two months... High-Stands and his team have already shipped a batch of Energy Cubes from the VT-8 Planet. But that place is 184 light-years away from Earth..."

Ever since the end of the Second Cybertronian Civil War, the Autobots had completely lost all their strongholds on the planet Cybertron, leaving only a very small number of Autobots to remain on the planet as Guerrillas to harass the Decepticons, while the main force was forced to retreat to a satellite of Cybertron to continue resisting the Decepticon Legion.

Losing the planet Cybertron meant they had no supplies or energy replenishment.

Over the past hundred years or more, Optimus Prime had dispatched many expedition teams throughout the galaxy, searching for the AllSpark while looking for the colonial planets built by the planet Cybertron during the Ancient Council era.

Many colonial planets were forced to close during the Cosmic Rust and the two civil wars.

Among them, there were still many colonial planets that remained rich in mineral resources, and some planets on the verge of death could also have thermal energy extracted from their cores to be converted into Energy Cubes.

The VT-8 Planet was one of the colonial planets closest to Earth; after being discovered by the Autobots, it had currently become one of their most important material supply planets.

"Two months, huh..."

Ratchet looked troubled; the hatred between them and the Decepticon Legion meant that the Autobots would always choose to face their enemies directly once they discovered their tracks.

But the reality was that as more and more Autobots responded to Optimus Prime's call and rushed to Earth from all over the galaxy, the energy they consumed daily was already more than the Autobots could handle.

After all, although Cybertronians did not need to eat like humans, to maintain a massive chassis weighing several tons or even dozens of tons, the Spark inside an Autobot was consuming energy every moment.

Especially after a battle, there was an even greater need to quickly absorb Energy Cubes to replenish the deficit within the Spark.

Otherwise, once the Spark lacked sufficient energy, let alone consuming energy to recover from their chassis injuries, they would likely lose the ability to function.

In the past dozen days, in order to prevent the corpse of Megatron in the Mariana Trench from being taken away by the Decepticons, the Autobots had already engaged in several fierce battles with the invading Decepticons, causing the Autobots' already tight energy supply to deteriorate further.

"Perhaps we should ask the humans for help!"

Ratchet hesitated before looking at Optimus Prime to suggest.

"I object!"

Sideswipe refused directly, and Ironhide also shook his head in opposition: "I don't agree with this either. Humans have never truly trusted us. They have repeatedly detained the corpses of the Decepticons we wiped out and have been studying how to deal with us!"

Although Optimus Prime advocated for cooperation with humans, just as humans had never trusted them, he actually had never fully trusted the U. S. government either.

Optimus Prime also knew about the matter Ironhide mentioned; the U. S. government was indeed experimenting on Decepticon corpses to study weapons to deal with them, these aliens.

But if they didn't cooperate with the U. S. government, given the current strength of the Autobots, who had been defeated twice in the civil war, it would still be very difficult to deal with the Decepticon Legion.

Optimus Prime was hesitating over whether to compromise with reality and expose such a major weakness of theirs to the Americans.

Just at this moment, a long-distance communication suddenly came from Bumblebee, who was still in the United States protecting the American boy Sam. After receiving and reading the message, the blue light in Optimus Prime's eyes flickered violently for an instant.

"Leader..."

Ironhide and the others all noticed Optimus Prime's abnormality. He waved his hand, "It's Bumblebee; he just sent a communication from the U. S. side!"

He frowned and looked around at the Autobots who were all looking at him, his voice heavy: "Frenzy has contacted Bumblebee through the communicator left with Sam; he hopes to talk to me personally!"