“But what if it is you? If I killed the real you, I couldn’t live with myself. I won’t allow myself to make that risk.”
“I can’t even be sure that this is the real me. I may stab you when you turn your back to me, as you would do to me if I turned mine.”
“Don’t be ridicules. You would know what weather or not you where an illusion. Listen, I trust you, and I’m hurt. Badly. I can’t kill you, even if I wanted to.”
“That what he wants me to think.”
“Direwolf. Look at me. I’m leaking badly. There’s no way I can hurt you.”
“Lies.”
“Direwolf, please. I’m not an illusion.”
She struggles to stand up.
“I’m real. I’m the Axis you met, all that time ago. The one you love. The one who loves you. I don’t think there’s anything I can say that will convince you, but I need you to trust me. We’ve found each other. Now we need to find the others.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“I don’t expect you to. But just pretend… for a moment… that I’m real. Please, what are we going to do?”
“Fine, humor me.”
“Well, we’ve found each other. So it would be a good idea to find the others. Maximus, Scourge, Gronius, and Wildsong. Seeing what Unicron has done to you, I don’t want to know what he’s done to them…”
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“Uh huh.”
“So, what should we do? We have our objective, now we need to decide what to do about it. Anyone you think we should look for first?”
“No.”
“So be it. Then they shall all perish, and you will be forced to watch.”
-Unicron
“Whatever we do, we should probably get moving. I don’t think standing in one place is much of a good idea…”
Axis started walking. She had a bad limp, and her energon was dripping on the ground.
“If you’re still worried about me stabbing you in the back, I’ll be in front. No way I can attack you if you’re behind me right?”
She said, holding her arm. Her hand wrapped around a particularly bad gash.
“Yeah. Sure.”
“You may not believe me now, but I assure that everything you love shall burn, and you will be the one to bare witness.”
“OK.”
Meanwhile, a lare wall near Gronius collapsed, and he could see Maximus in the distance.
“Oh, no! I don’t want to attack him!”