Chapter 610: Fierce Battle with The Fallen (Part 2)

Flowers bloom on two branches, each telling its own story.

Let us say that after Sam learned of the Decepticon attack, he hurriedly grabbed the object suspected to be the 【Matrix of Leadership】 from the cave where the six Primes were buried, then pulled his girlfriend Mikaela and ran quickly toward the outside.

Chromia discovered the Decepticon attack, and Ironhide made a prompt decision, ordering the three Autobots—Chromia, Bumblebee, and Ratchet—to protect Sam and Mikaela as they evacuated with the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

In the emergency, no one questioned Ironhide's order; Bumblebee quickly transformed into a sports car, loaded Sam and his girlfriend Mikaela, and under the protection of Chromia and Ratchet, prepared to evacuate first and rush back to the Autobot Base located within Soli to revive the Leader, Optimus Prime.

There was no man-made road for cars to drive on near the Nameless Temple; before, after Ironhide and the others entered the mountains, they had chosen to walk up the mountain to search.

Now, in the hurried evacuation, it was thanks to Bumblebee and the others being Autobots; otherwise, maintaining a speed of over eighty miles on the bumpy mountain road, even for an off-road vehicle, would have only one outcome: the car would be destroyed and the people would die.

However, Sam and Mikaela were not Autobots; as soon as the convoy hit the road, the faces of the two high school students turned pale instantly.

"Bang!"

Although he was wearing a seatbelt, Sam still hit his head on the car frame next to the driver's seat when Bumblebee turned suddenly.

"Bumblebee..." he endured the churning in his stomach, "drive a little steadier!"

Mikaela beside him was no better off; just by looking at her heaving chest and throat, one could tell she was about to throw up.

"Sam... Mikaela, please bear with it for a moment..."

Bumblebee explained, "It's not safe here; we must leave as soon as possible!"

Sam and Mikaela certainly knew this, but the bumps from driving fast on the mountain road had already exceeded the limit of what humans could endure.

The Nameless Temple was located in the hinterland of the Petra Mountains; although this low, rocky mountain range could not be counted as famous mountains or great rivers, even if one traveled in a straight line, it would still take thirty or forty kilometers to drive out of the mountain area.

Just as Sam and the others were suppressing the urge to vomit, their faces gradually turning from white to green and looking worse and worse.

Suddenly, Chromia's voice rang out: "Bumblebee, watch out..."

Bumblebee narrowly avoided a low mountain rock nearby, carving a circular arc in the mountains.

The tires of the sports car he had transformed into emitted thick white smoke due to this violent movement.

At this, Sam and Mikaela in the car could no longer hold it in.

"Bumblebee..." Sam's face was flushed red from holding it in, "open the door, I'm going to throw up!"

He pounded hard on the door of the sports car Bumblebee had transformed into, feeling the churning in his stomach reaching his throat.

As for Mikaela beside him, she was even worse off than Sam; her mouth was puffing up as if it were being inflated.

Bumblebee's door swung open with a 'swish', and Sam and Mikaela quickly rushed out of the car and began to vomit on the side.

As for Bumblebee, he really wasn't letting Sam and Mikaela out because he was afraid of them dirtying his chassis.

"Bang..."

The sound of an explosion rang out immediately; the three Autobots—Bumblebee, Chromia, and Ratchet—simultaneously completed their transformations and began firing wildly at a Giant Decepticon that had suddenly descended from the sky.

"... Descendants of the Primes... how dare you raise your hands against me..."

The Giant Decepticon who had descended from the sky and stopped Bumblebee and the others' retreat was none other than The Fallen.

With a mocking smile on his face, The Fallen looked down at the three Autobots before him, his fingers tapping leisurely on his Bone Staff.

He sensed the hidden, special energy fluctuations of the 【Matrix of Leadership】; after all, having tricked it away from his brothers back in the day, The Fallen had held this holy relic for a period of time and knew it quite well.

The only Autobot Leader who might have posed a threat to him had already been dealt with by Starscream and the others not long ago.

Because of this, The Fallen was in no hurry to take action against Bumblebee and the others.

"Offer the 【Matrix of Leadership】 to me..."

The Fallen seemed to completely ignore Bumblebee and the others gripping their weapons in vigilance, "I shall pardon your crimes and allow you to join the Decepticons!"

Catching a communication signal transmitted from Chromia, The Fallen turned his face to look at her, his figure suddenly moved, and the next moment he appeared before her, then slapped her.

"Bang!"

Chromia had no time to react at all before her body was swiped away, crashing heavily more than twenty meters away.

"Chromia!"

Bumblebee raised his laser cannon and fired three consecutive Energy Bullets at The Fallen.

"You give me a very familiar feeling..."

The Fallen's figure swayed slightly, easily dodging the Energy Bullets he had fired.

He looked at Bumblebee with interest, one hand rubbing his chin as if he were deep in thought.

Soon, as if The Fallen had thought of something, he inadvertently raised his hand to catch the bullets Ratchet fired at him, while saying in a tone of sudden realization: "So that's it, a shadow of Sentinel Prime..."

He was referring to Prowl, but he had inadvertently exposed the intelligence that The Fallen had appeared on the planet Cybertron during the era of the Council of Ancients.

Bumblebee was cautiously on guard against him; just then, a roaring sound of rotating rotor blades came from the sky.

At the same time, in the mountain forest not far away, a silver-white sports car also appeared in Bumblebee's field of vision.

"Drift... Sideswipe..."

Several Autobots were overjoyed; Drift had already locked onto The Fallen, and Rockets and Missiles were aimed wildly at him.

"... Troublesome vermin..."

The smile on The Fallen's face vanished; as one of the thirteen original Primes of the planet Cybertron, the most ancient and noble existence.

Even though he had fallen now, The Fallen's arrogance made it impossible for him to accept that anyone would dare to be disrespectful to him.

Rows of cracks immediately appeared on the rocky ground beneath his feet, and his figure appeared in the sky as if he were teleporting.

The Bone Staff in his hand swung down violently, smashing toward Drift.

"Bang..."

Drift's years of combat experience allowed him to instinctively take evasive action; the Bone Staff, which should have hit the fuselage directly, ended up smashing into his rear rotor blades.

The armed helicopter he had transformed into immediately lost its balance and spun as it fell from the sky.

At the critical moment, Drift quickly transformed into combat mode; with an extra leg, he stumbled and crashed heavily onto the ground, nearly hitting Sideswipe who had just arrived.

Sideswipe let out a cold snort and quickly transformed into combat mode, holding his Triangular Blade, and charged toward the ferocious-looking The Fallen.

A fierce battle was inevitable.

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PS:

I am sorry, I did not expect to be this late, please forgive me.

Vertex