Chapter 707: Prowl

The spaceship that Sentinel Prime crashed in is also located within an impact crater.

As Earth's satellite, the Moon is undoubtedly very competent.

Since ancient times, it has blocked the vast majority of malicious visitors from the universe for Earth, and the price paid for this is the various meteorite impact craters that can be seen almost everywhere on the Moon.

The closer Bumblebee got to the crash site of Sentinel Prime's spaceship, the more familiar he felt.

He recalled while cautiously approaching, and soon Bumblebee understood why he felt familiar.

While still some distance from the impact crater, an American flag suddenly appeared in Bumblebee's field of vision.

Seeing some of the machinery and remnants left behind by the Apollo Moon Landing Program, Bumblebee suddenly realized.

"No wonder it gave me a feeling of familiarity; the crash site of the spaceship is actually near the place where Earthlings first landed on the Moon..."

But soon Bumblebee's expression turned ugly, because after advancing only a few hundred meters, he saw an impact crater that was not very large.

At the bottom of the impact crater, a spaceship that was familiar to all Autobots lay quietly there.

"The Ark... it really is the Ark..."

The Ark was a small transport spaceship designed and built by the Autobots themselves during the Second Civil War!

The protracted war with the Decepticons caused the Autobots to lose blood severely.

By the middle and late stages of the Second Civil War, as more and more controlled territories fell, the Autobots were no longer capable of building spaceships of the Ark class, even though the Ark was only a medium-sized transport spaceship during the Council of Ancients era.

During the civil war, one important reason why the Decepticons were able to defeat the Autobots was the destructive mining of resources within their controlled territories.

At that time, they did not consider at all whether Cybertron would still be habitable after victory; from Megatron to the Decepticon Legion, all Decepticons had only one thought: kill the Autobots first, then consider other things.

Looking at the Autobots, even if they carried out destructive mining of minerals, a large group of opponents would jump out, and this was still under the condition that Sentinel Prime was crazily suppressing dissidents.

If not for his cold-blooded suppression, the Autobots might have been completely defeated by the Decepticons before the end of the First Civil War.

Because there were too many Autobots who opposed destructive mining, the usable resources in the hands of the Autobots were far less than those of the Decepticons.

For this reason, Sentinel Prime had to allocate a batch of resources, letting the Scientist—Wheeljack and others—refer to the Explorer-class medium transport spaceships of the Council of Ancients era to build the Ark and several other medium transport spaceships, transporting resource supplies from several satellites near Cybertron and other colonial planets.

Although the resources obtained in this way were far less than the destructive mining of the planet Cybertron by the Decepticons, and the transportation costs were even higher.

However, there were advantages; for example, the Autobot territory under Sentinel Prime's control did not suffer from destructive mining, and compared to the land under the control of the Decepticon Legion that had been destroyed beyond recognition, it was still very suitable for Cybertronians to live in.

Unfortunately, the scales of victory would not tilt because of the bonus points of the environment; Megatron's unscrupulousness ultimately won him victory after victory.

As the Decepticons' terrifying giant ship—the Nemesis—was built, one Autobot transport spaceship after another was attacked by this terrifying giant ship and destroyed in outer space.

In order to ensure that their resource transportation channels would not be completely blocked by the Decepticons, under the order of Sentinel Prime, the great scientist of the Autobot faction, Wheeljack, took the lead and joined forces with several other technical experts.

These Autobot faction scientists took only a very short time to design and build a small transport spaceship that could only transport about a thousand tons of resources, but it had the advantage of faster speed and low manufacturing costs.

Because the first spaceship was pinned with high hopes by the Autobots, it was named the Ark, so the series of spaceships manufactured subsequently were also called Hope-class small transport spaceships.

When the Second Civil War was about to end, the Decepticon Legion had already captured all territories under Autobot control except for the capital, Iacon.

Before the tragic Battle of Iacon was about to arrive, the former Autobot Leader—Sentinel Prime—announced his abdication and promoted his student—Optimus Prime—to the position of the new Leader.

And he himself took the initiative to undertake an important and dangerous Task, leading several guards to drive the Ark to transport hundreds of Energy Pillars stored in the Iacon energy Warehouse to a satellite.

Those hundreds of Energy Pillars were the final foundation of the Autobots and also their hope for a future counterattack on Cybertron.

At that time, the Autobots had completely lost air superiority due to successive defeats; this transportation plan was not only risky but also very dangerous.

Bumblebee was just an intelligence officer, not a high-level member of the Autobots, so he did not know why the high-level Autobots at that time would agree to this proposal that looked unreliable no matter how one looked at it.

The final result was self-evident: Sentinel Prime and the Ark spaceship loaded with Energy Pillars had just ascended when they were bitten by the Decepticon Aerial Combat Unit, which held absolute air superiority, and finally, accompanied by a violent explosion in the sky, there was no news from then on.

Originally, all Autobots thought that he and the Ark were destroyed by the Decepticon air force, and the big explosion blew Sentinel Prime and the Ark spaceship he was piloting into powder.

As a result, a hundred years later, that spaceship, which all Autobots believed had been destroyed and even exploded, was discovered to have crashed on the distant Moon several light-years away.

"Something is fishy!"

Instantly, as an intelligence officer who had walked on special fronts for many years, Bumblebee realized the problem.

Quickly pulling out his weapon, Bumblebee walked into the impact crater with a more cautious speed while staying alert to his surroundings.

At this moment, his first reaction was that this was very likely a trap designed by Frenzy and those Decepticons.

After all, as an Autobot intelligence officer, it was difficult for him to develop trust in the Decepticons.

In fact, even now, all Autobots, including Optimus Prime, could only manage not to be hostile when dealing with Frenzy.

The Decepticons and Autobots had been opposing and conflicting with each other for millions of years; how could the deep hatred between the two factions be changed by a few words.

While slowly approaching the spaceship bit by bit, although he did not sense any Decepticon electromagnetic spectrum nearby, the special materials used in the crashed spaceship could cancel out part of the detection electromagnetic waves.

So if the other party was hiding inside the crashed spaceship, they could still catch him off guard by surprise.

This impact crater was not large, and although he walked very slowly and carefully, Bumblebee arrived in front of the spaceship before long.

Looking at the crashed spaceship in front of him that was covered in dust and looked like it hadn't been visited by anyone for at least decades, the vigilance in Bumblebee's heart subsided a little.

Retracting his weapon, he leaped onto the hull of the spaceship, just preparing to enter the spaceship from a gap.

Suddenly, a bright blue electric arc flashed, shot out from the spaceship, and hit Bumblebee's body, instantly causing him to twitch and fall to the ground.

At the moment before he lost consciousness, a black and white figure that looked somewhat familiar walked slowly to his side.

Before Bumblebee could see the figure clearly, his vision went black, and he lost all consciousness.

The camera pans, and a mechanical Warrior with a black and white body slowly walked to Bumblebee's side; it was none other than the Autobot who had been missing for more than a month—Prowl.

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