Confrontation with Shockwave didn't pass without consequences, Optimus's spark began to decay, and the Matrix of Leadership decided that his successor will be... Megatron, who wants to finally end the war.
The Lost Light crew is on their way to find...
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The transport turned out to be a large tourist shuttle with wide windows and comfortable seats in two rows along the entire inside, as well as with three entrances, all doors on the right side. Windows with almost imperceptible force fields, absolutely harmless to touch, unlike the prison ones. That is, if you touch this, your fingers will simply rest against a solid barrier, there will be no electric shocks. Still, Megatron had associations with prison shuttles.
A civilian mech in brown-grey armor was also waiting outside the shuttle. Almost the same height as Drift or Rodimus, outwardly nothing special, except for strangely thickened lower limbs with platforms welded to the pedes. A groundling, one of the locals, Megatron noted to himself, no altmode. Local mechs simply don't have them. And they communicate, unlike Cybertronians, exclusively using whistling or humming, but they are quite capable of understanding words, signals of other races. It's all about their vocoder structure.
He nodded, greeting the entire large group and hurried to take the driver's seat in the cockpit. The group quickly settled in the shuttle, Megatron went to the very back of the cabin so as not to attract additional attention to himself. Ultra Magnus settled down next to him, cautiously asking, "You mind?" Megatron shook his helm and stared out the window as Magnus took the seat to his right.
When the group members sat down, all three doors closed simultaneously with a soft hiss, and the shuttle, having risen two meters above the surface, flew along the roadway, moving in the stream with other vehicles. The sun had almost disappeared below the horizon, street lights and bright outdoor signs began to light up in the city. The traffic flow was quite dense, and Megatron didn't particularly pay attention to the visible part of the street, he simply looked out the window, trying not to think about anything painful and not to notice the Ultra Magnus's periodic worried looks at him.
The team reached the place in ten minutes. The whole trip really felt like a tour of sorts, with Windblade and Nautica talking about the city and the buildings the vehicles passed. Probably, this whole performance was played out for the driver, Megatron suggested, and there are also cameras in the cabin for the safety of travelers, at least I saw three. On Cybertron this is normal. Well, yes, they can't cooperate with a local travel company and directly state that all this is not a tour, but a secret mission to search for artifacts that no one has even seen. Yes, and it is known about them only from the Prime's words. They recreated a conditional layout of such a Key from the images sent to him by the Matrix of Leadership. Why pretend to be tourists at all... Well, who would believe such nonsense?
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The hotel they arrived at was a complex of hemispherical glass buildings, one large in the center and six around it, connected by ornate arcs, and at the top of the central structure was a spire with a glittering sphere. A parking place, an organic park, crystal gardens and even decorative pools. According to the guide, Nautica, who, when they were still on their way here, briefly spoke about it, now many hotels on different planets are trying to combine the preferences of organic and mechanical guests. This also applies to the hotels' appearance themselves.
