TRANSFORMERS | Death of a Hero

XVII

Sky Garry took a punch to the jaw. It rattled the metal plating keeping it intact, but it kept in place against the reverberation. Straxus bellowed to the Heavens in outrage that an Autobot lesser than him was subduing him to death. He was the almighty Lord High Governor Straxus, head of the Decepticon governing body, mutilator of all Autobots, the incarnation of fear...

Straxus' looked down in fury to the Cyber-Ninja who was still pushing the both of them towards the inside of the top of the spire. Outside there was a lavender-golden dawn completely contradicting the chaos of war. His left optic had flickered out due to exhaustion and damage. His right optic began to flicker just the same, his sight was limited, but what he saw only enraged him.

Yet that rage only carried him so far, and now it would not carry him at all,

"Look at me Autobot." The governor growled,

Sky Garry looked up, his stained-optics met Straxus' flickering one,

"When I perish, I shall become the martyr that inspires all Decepticons to fight with the ferocity to send you Autobots to extinction." The governor snarled,

Garry kept his optics on the ledge that he would push Straxus over, it was nearing with every shove. Each move was fragmented, the opposite of fluid, clunky. But the two were making ground,

"And you. You will be a shadow on the wall of this broken citadel; nothing more, nothing less; your sacrifice is irrelevant." Straxus bellowed,

"And what of every Autobot that falls today, will they not be martyrs as well?" Garry asked,

"Merely complementary shadows they shall be. Nothing more, nothing less." Straxus answered coldly, "Your compatriots are abstruse, miniscule dots among a bland army; no one will remember them thus they cannot be martyrs!" Straxus growled,

He delivered another dilapidated punch to Garry's jaw which knocked loose red plating keeping his jaw intact. Energon droplets flew freely in a blissful descent staining the walkway to the ledge,

"For such a high intellect governor, you seem to not know what a martyr truly is." Garry snickered,

The governor growled in rage and started bombarding Garry with flimsy attacks with his one undamaged hand, it still left Garry with an opportunity to speak out in proudness of what he believed in,

"A martyr is someone who suffers because they won't let the oppression of dictators rule their beliefs; they stand true and pure and fight because of the honor they possess. Martyrs die with honor, they are gallant heroes who suffer for the cause and represent a symbol of hope to inspire the confused-at-heart to keep fighting. To keep persevering. To stay firm. To stay true. That is what a martyr is." Garry yelled,

Straxus was aghast at what he was hearing,

"And let me tell you something high Governor..." Garry growled as the two neared the edge of the walkway that veered off. Below was the core of the city excited by electric fury, its particles emitting nuclear energy that would give way to nuclear detonation. Catastrophic destruction was inevitable,

"You and your disgraceful Decepticons lack honor." Garry yelled as they were on top of the edge.

"You fight to kill, and you kill because your sick minds are twisted to believe slaughtering innocence is the right causality." Garry dug his fingers into Straxus' head plate, it began to dent inwards,

Sky Garry took note of the protrusion that had skewered his torso and was now currently skewered through Straxus, this next move would take lots of force,