After the cleanup of Station Square, Optimus gave his bots some R&R. Bumblebee and Cliffjumper were playing a game where you catch many different creatures and use them to fight other players. This game was from the old Earth era. One of Bumblebee\u2019s creatures had lost at the hands of a wild creature. \u201cStupid thing fragging killed me!!\u201d snapped Bumblebee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow\u2019d your Torracat die by a paralyzed Cottonee?!\u201d protested Cliffjumper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot gonna let this thing beat me!\u201d snarled Bumblebee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBro, let me ask you something,\u201d called Cliffjumper. \u201cHow\u2019d your Torracat get killed by a\u2026it\u2019s paralyzed and it\u2019s a fracking cotton puff! It\u2019s a grass type Pok\u00e9mon! How did a fire type die at a grass type\u2019s hands?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?\u201d asked Optimus as he walked into the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re playing Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> Sun<\/em> right now,\u201d explained Bumblebee, \u201cand my Torracat just died at the hands of a paralyzed Cottonee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWha\u2026?!\u201d stammered Optimus, who was a beginner Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> player, \u201cHow\u2026well, you did use it against my newly evolved Brionne, which was a bad idea anyway\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrime, don\u2019t embarrass me,\u201d muttered Bumblebee as he threw a Pok\u00e8 Ball at the Cottonee. \u201cThere, caught it! Fragging stubborn piece of scrap.\u201d His character walked through the flowers to find another Pok\u00e9mon. It was a yellow-green bird with pom-poms on the wings. \u201cOh, Primus, it\u2019s an Oricorio!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh, it\u2019s a Pomwing!\u201d cheered Optimus. The only one laughing at his deliberate misnaming was Optimus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrime,\u201d remarked an unknown voice, \u201cdo you remember the episode where Ash caught a Pomwing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDude,\u201d chuckled Optimus before he was interrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNO!\u201d roared the voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOw!\u201d laughed Optimus. \u201cDude, that was in my audiooooOOOOOHH!\u201d He came face to face with a strange bot in the base. He was big, heavyset, mainly gray with a yellow chest unit emblazoned with the Autobot symbol, had half of a T-Rex\u2019s head and neck on his shoulders, the sides and arms of a T-rex acting as non-functional wings on his back, talons for fingers, and a big sword and gun attached to each side of his waist. Cliffjumper and Bumblebee activated their weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWho are you?! How did you get in here?!\u201d squawked Bumblebee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe \u2018who\u2019 and \u2018how\u2019 are unimportant,\u201d dismissed the intruder. \u201cIt\u2019s the \u2018why\u2019 that needs to be asked. To answer it in advance, I heard Optimus had magic weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEr\u2026yeah. Why do you ask?\u201d gulped Optimus. The intruder drew his gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m taking them,\u201d he replied as if it was a fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhoa! Whoa!\u201d yelped Optimus. \u201cOkay! See, here\u2019s my gun.\u201d He then fired over then intruder\u2019s head, making him duck. He then got behind cover with Bumblebee and Cliffjumper spreading out and taking cover somewhere else in the room. \u201cHold fire until he fires back!\u201d ordered Optimus. \u201cStun blasts only!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTypical Autobot behavior,\u201d scoffed the intruder. He let a couple of shots loose at their cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFIRE AT WILL!\u201d shouted Optimus. Laser blasts started flying towards the intruder, but there wasn\u2019t even a scratch on the bot. Meanwhile, the intruder looked at the points where his shots hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot a single scorch mark,\u201d he thought. \u201cWhat\u2019s this base made of?\u201d He shook his head. \u201cGive up!\u201d he shouted. \u201cYou can\u2019t stop me! Eventually, your reserves will be drained! You\u2019ll be defenseless soon! I\u2019ll just keep coming! Even hand to hand combat won\u2019t take me down!\u201d Optimus rolled his optics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTime for a test then,\u201d he thought. He drew his Cyber key and flicked it into the air. \u201cCYBER KEY POWER!\u201d This time, the key turned an access port in his back. His forearm armor split and released two halves of a glove on each hand that turned the fingers into talons. He got into a stance that had his left foot forward, his right arm at his optic level in a claw fashion, and his left arm level with his torso unit in a claw fashion. This was the ready stance of Circuit-Su. The intruder arched an eyebrow and smirked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA practitioner of Circuit-Su?\u201d he asked. Optimus\u2019 optics widened. \u201cYep, one of Yoketron\u2019s favored styles. Nice bot, truth be told. I would\u2019ve just stuck with a gun otherwise. Come on, young Prime,\u201d he got into the same stance as Optimus as he tossed away his gun and sword, \u201clet\u2019s see what you\u2019ve got!\u201d He stamped his left foot forward a few times, an intimidation tactic that usually rattles the opponent into making a sloppy strike if it didn\u2019t know that martial art. Optimus held his ground. It served to irritate the bot into making a quick punch. Optimus caught it, then stamped on the intruder\u2019s foot, making him yelp. It served as a distraction to let Optimus throw him completely off balance. He then raked his new talons across the intruders back. This startled the intruder a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m sick of this!\u201d snarled Optimus. He turned the intruder over and slashed across his face. The intruder then covered his face as it started to drip Energon. \u201cI am flat out TIRED of jackholes like YOU coming around and picking a FIGHT with ME!\u201d He then decked the intruder. \u201cYou think I give a scrap about your backstory?! You think I care about your endgame?! You think I\u2019m afraid of you?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSlash!\u201d shouted the intruder into his comms unit. \u201cBeam me out of here!\u201d The intruder vanished without a trace in a flash of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have fought mad scientists, a hive mind, and a tech hating wizard,\u201d proclaimed Optimus, \u201cand I have always been victorious! There is NOTHING that can stop me! NOTHING!\u201d That, my friends, is one of the dumbest things anyone can say. The instant the last syllable left his lips, Optimus felt himself shrink down a bit. He blinked and rubbed his head. It was then that he realized that his fingers were rounded, not pointed like usual. He looked himself over and realized that he wasn\u2019t exactly a\u2026er\u2026 \u201cPrime\u201d example of a Cybertronian. \u201cMirror,\u201d he gulped. Cliffjumper pressed a button on the console near him and a full-length mirror popped out of the floor. The reflection was\u2026different, to say the least. It showed a red, white, and blue bot with a helmet sporting two fins on the front, rounded shoulders with metallic, ridged wheels on the back, a transparent metal panel on either side of his chest unit, and stumpy legs with two wheels on each side. This was Optimus\u2019 form from before he inherited the Matrix. This was Orion Pax. 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