Transformers.2007 Now

“You’ve got forty-eight hours and one hell of an air support,” Lennox replied. He looked at Sam. “You’re not going.”

“You did well, Samuel,” Optimus rumbled, his voice a tectonic plate shifting. He held the AllSpark, now reduced to a cube the size of a basketball, cupped in his massive hands. It pulsed with a light that seemed to hum under the skin, a silent frequency of creation.

Lennox straightened his uniform. “Then we buy you a window. How long do you need?” transformers.2007

And then they were gone.

Lennox’s ears were still ringing from the battle of Mission City. The acrid smell of melted asphalt and burnt ozone clung to everything. In the center of the devastation, Optimus Prime—the towering, red-and-blue leader of the Autobots—knelt on one knee. His optics, usually blazing with the warmth of a campfire, were dimmed to a soft, weary glow. “You’ve got forty-eight hours and one hell of

“A vault built into the core of Cybertron’s moon. Designed to hold artifacts of catastrophic power. The AllSpark’s opposite. A place of absolute silence where no spark lives, no signal transmits. It would be… dead space. The Cube would sleep forever.”

“If we do this,” Sam said, his voice cracking but growing stronger, “can you fix him? Can you bring Bumblebee back?” He held the AllSpark, now reduced to a

“Is dead,” Optimus said, the words heavy, not triumphant. “But his ambition is a poison that spreads. The AllSpark cannot remain on this planet. It will call to every Decepticon in the galaxy. It will turn your machines, your phones, your very toasters into enemies.”

Lennox felt a strange pang in his chest. Hours ago, he was hunting these things as weapons of mass destruction. Now, he was standing guard while one of them mourned. He looked at Captain Sharp, who was coordinating human casualties. The man gave a curt nod. The military’s job was containment. Lennox’s job had just become… diplomacy.