Chapter 620: Battle Against The Fallen Again (Part 1) Please Subscribe

Opening his eyes once more, Optimus Prime felt the energy within his body, which was far more abundant than before.

He had a feeling that he was somewhat different, yet he could not put his finger on exactly what had changed.

Discovering that he was lying on the ground, Optimus Prime slowly braced himself up; an anomaly at his chest made him involuntarily look down.

Subsequently, the blue light in his eyes suddenly stalled.

"Matrix of Leadership?!"

A peculiar energy body, exactly the same as the one he had just seen in his dream, was currently embedded in Optimus Prime's Spark.

Regardless of whether it was for the Decepticons or the Autobots, the Spark was one of the most important parts of their bodies; once damaged, it usually meant a severe injury.

Yet at this moment, Optimus Prime not only felt no loss of status due to the foreign object in his Spark.

On the contrary, it was as if an endless stream of power was continuously surging from the 【Matrix of Leadership】, constantly remodeling his Spark and even his chassis.

"Leader!"

"Leader, you have awakened..."

All around, the Autobots, who had become excited and agitated by his awakening, quickly roused Optimus Prime from his thoughts and his perception of his own chassis.

Looking at his clansmen around him, almost all of whom were wounded and in an extremely sorry state.

Many familiar faces were missing, and on the faces of some Autobots, excitement was mingled with sorrow.

This mild-mannered Autobot Leader thought of many things in almost an instant, and even the excitement of his own resurrection dissipated.

"I have returned!"

Optimus Prime looked at Ironhide and the others with a heavy expression and slowly stood up from the ground.

His tall chassis brought an unprecedented sense of security to all the Autobots present—something they had lost, feared for, and even fantasized about over the past few days.

Seeing Ironhide about to speak, Optimus Prime raised a hand to interrupt him, "Whatever the matter is, we shall discuss it later. For now, let me heal the wounds on your bodies first!"

Reaching out, he pulled the 【Matrix of Leadership】 from his Spark without hesitation and looked first at Ironhide; his lieutenant and old friend was covered in scars, and it was evident he had just experienced a fierce battle not long ago.

"Come here, Ironhide... do not be afraid..."

Walking to Ironhide's side, he picked up the 【Matrix of Leadership】 and placed it above Ironhide's head.

Just now in his 'dream,' the six beings suspected to be the thirteen Primes from the legends of the planet Cybertron had left a great deal of information in Optimus Prime's mind.

Although he had not yet had time to fully digest it, he had browsed through it generally, and among it happened to be the method to activate and control the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

Optimus Prime controlled the 【Matrix of Leadership】, letting it hover above Ironhide's head.

After he input some control commands into the 【Matrix of Leadership】, azure electric arcs, just like those that had awakened Optimus Prime, leaped and shot out from the 【Matrix of Leadership】, quickly enveloping the Ironhide below completely.

"A very marvelous feeling!"

Ironhide could not help but say; he felt a terrifying power full of vitality continuously surging into his body, stimulating his Spark to beat violently and activating his chassis's repair system, causing Ironhide's wounds to recover at a speed ten million times faster than normal.

The entire healing process lasted less than a minute, and as the electric arcs vanished, the 【Matrix of Leadership】 flew back into Optimus Prime's hand.

As all the Autobots present looked at Ironhide again, where was the sorry state from before? From top to bottom, inside and out, he seemed as if he had been completely renewed.

"I feel just like what William and the others used to say about taking a sauna..."

Ironhide excitedly clenched his fists; this unprecedentedly good state even gave him the illusion that he could face The Fallen directly and fight him to the death.

"The Matrix of Leadership is truly incredible!"

Arcee spoke up from the side; this clever female Autobot had already seen many things from the previous performance of her sister Elita One and Ironhide, and her other sister, Lia, had perhaps already sacrificed herself on the journey to find the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

Blue light flickered in Optimus Prime's eyes, but in the end, he said nothing.

The 【Matrix of Leadership】 was indeed magical, but it was by no means an infinite source of energy.

It was a holy relic that had appeared on the planet Cybertron since time immemorial, once used by the thirteen Primes for many years, later falling into the hands of the Prime Dynasty, and even briefly mastered by the great nobles during the era of the Council of Ancients.

Just now, while healing Ironhide, Optimus Prime clearly felt that the energy within the 【Matrix of Leadership】 had been consumed a little more.

One day in the future, the energy in the 【Matrix of Leadership】 would also be completely exhausted.

By then, whether its magic would still remain was an unknown.

The Autobots had encountered successive fierce battles not long ago; the Autobots who had escorted Optimus Prime's remains here were almost all wounded, and many were even severely injured.

Otherwise, Ironhide would not have let them return to the Base to rest and recuperate instead of taking them along on the journey to find the 【Matrix of Leadership】.

After healing Ironhide, Optimus Prime called over the other Autobots one by one and quickly healed them.

After experiencing the magic of the 【Matrix of Leadership】, even Ironhide's mood improved.

"Leader, we have many comrades who died at the hands of the Decepticons and The Fallen in the previous fierce battles... I request that you use the Matrix of Leadership to resurrect them..."

Among the Autobots were many nobles and conservatives from the era of the Council of Ancients who, having sworn allegiance to the Prime—Sentinel Prime—had managed to avoid being purged during the revolution.

After Sentinel Prime joined forces with Megatron to completely overthrow the corrupt Council of Ancients through a revolution, before he could fully purge these fellows, Megatron tore up his agreement with him and joined forces with Shockwave to transform a large number of soldiers into Decepticons, sparking the civil war between the Autobots and the Decepticons.

Precisely because of this historical background, a portion of the nobles and conservatives from the era of the Council of Ancients remained within the upper echelons of the Autobots.

As the Autobots retreated steadily in the civil war, their influence gradually permeated the Autobot camp, and even more so after Sentinel Prime went missing, they used the excuse that Optimus Prime was too young and kept bringing up his loss of the second civil war.

In the end, they succeeded in re-establishing the Autobot Council within the Autobots, siphoning off a large amount of power and prestige that should have belonged to Optimus Prime.

And the discussion regarding resurrection had always been a sensitive issue in the Autobot Council.

Many old nobles, out of worship for their ancestral spirits, forbade the desecration of the remains of deceased Autobots and were firmly opposed to using technology to re-awaken dead Autobots.

Facing this issue, which would likely lead to him being criticized again or even impeached if the Council found out.

Optimus Prime's answer was very firm; looking around at the Autobot Warriors who had regained their morale and were all looking at him with expectation, his voice was sonorous and powerful.

"The sacrifice of a warrior will never be in vain... Besides, facing The Fallen and the Decepticon Legion, we also need more warriors!"

The implication was that he agreed to use the 【Matrix of Leadership】 to resurrect all the Autobots who had died in battle.

PS:

The plot of the second big movie is coming to an end soon. The main plot of the third is too simple, and strictly speaking, the subsequent two films have no main plot. Moreover, there is a gap of several years between the third film and the second film's plot, which I moved up by a few years, and many Autobots are missing in between.

So I have been adding side plots recently, and while I'm at it, I'm filling in some old plot holes from previous chapters. Plus, I have to watch the animated series and the animated movie to find inspiration while writing, so the recent update times might not be as precise as the 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM as before.

In any case, I will try my best; please forgive me if I am late.