No one else left to blame

left to blame

"EEEEEEEELITA!" Optimus screams.

Optimus and Sentinel look down in horror at their falling friend.

"OOOOOOPTIMUS!" Elita screams.

Elita's servo is held out for him as she screams his name then he does the unthinkable, he yanks his grappler out, he falls after Elita over the scream of Sentinel watching them fall. He watches Optimus collide against Elita's figure quickly as though he bore no weight. Optimus catches the femme into his grasp, aims his arm at the wall above them. Optimus fires his grapplers at the lower half of the ceiling above them. Sentinel's optics are on them as he is perched over the hole that looms over the crashed Decepticon ship.

The grappler never reaches the target. Sentinel's gaze is fixated on the grappler watching it fall back toward Optimus and Elita. He watches them fall further out of his view as his faceplate faltered. Sentinel watches the duo fall into the dark clouds and noise of chaos that is raging below. He is frozen where he is perched, his joints refusing to move, his entire world shaking around him, his memory banks coming to a abrupt halt as he saw only a blue screen that acted as a cloud if only briefly. The blue screen faded as did the numbers, the coding, every bit of his programm---

"Sentinel, get out of here!" Optimus's voice grounds him down into the moment. "Save yourself!"

"You're not my boss-bot---" Sentinel began to complain.

"Sentinel, that is a order!" Elita taps on the side of her comn as she looks up toward Sentinel's direction. "From me." Sentinel can see her through the smoke. "Elita One out."

Sentinel shook his head then started to protest as Elita ended the comn as the smoke cloaked the duo.

"Listen to the real leader of the group." Optimus advised. "Optimus out."

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Sentinel stares down the hole then looks around searching for other bots that could be in hiding in the scenery. With no back up in sight, Sentinel runs away from the hole fast as he can feeling the ground beneath him were ready to give out unexpectedly unlike the manner that he had entered this never ending nightmare that he couldn't wake up from. Most nightmares could be seen to the end and escaped from with everything all right from the outside and the contents of the nightmare not mattering to the foreseeable future.

Abruptly, Sentinel pauses in his tracks as the ground shakes beneath him then turns around toward the hole. Sentinel's optics are locked on the hole as he starts to run back toward it. He transforms into his cybertronian vehicle mode then flung over the edge of the hole and falls with a high pitched girly shriek toward the chaos. Sentinel crashed into one of the spiders that acted as a pillow then transformed back into his robot mode

"Think I would leave the two of you to the action?" Sentinel slides Optimus out from under the spider that Elita killed with her improvised weapon.

"Sentinel---" Optimus starts.

"Your six!" Elita called.

Optimus ducks, Sentinel extracts his lance then goes on to stabbing the spider directly into the face.

"Take that, you blimey rotten spider!" Sentinel exclaimed.

Elita chops off the front legs to the spiders with her weapon then smiles looking off toward Sentinel being brave, if only for a moment, then resumes the combat with the giant spiders. They cover each other's back when it comes to the spiders surrounding them as explosions ring off around them. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. Destruction is waged all around them just as it were portrayed in the elite guard ads regarding fighting against Decepticons. But this is so much better than that. Fighting as Autobots, no wings, with only a team against a common enemy destroying their hide out. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!