Image of Grief

As Colonel Lennox gazed upon the misfit group of troops around him, he could not help but offer a small, sad smile. They all deserved medals, some should even get the Medal of Honor, but that would be for a later date, once they had all recovered, and collected themselves up. He patted a soldier named Zimmerman on the shoulder, the first to volunteer for the mission.

It was then Lennox turned his attention to the other members that made this mission a go. The Autobots, what remained of them. The smile faded as he watched Optimus Prime waver before being forced to sit down by Ratchet, who tended to the larger mech long enough to seal his injuries before turning to the others. Optimus drew up one leg to rest his left arm on, and put his forehead against it. As the Colonel watched on, he realized that Optimus was doing the closest thing his kind could do to crying.

"Lennox, why?" Epps asked in a soft voice, recognizing it as well. Having been out of the loop since his retirement, he knew little of recent events.

"From what I've gathered from the short time I've known Sentinel, Optimus looked up to him like a father." Lennox replied, "Sentinel taught Optimus most of what he knows about the idioms of being a Prime."

"So Sentinel was a good guy?"

"He was a traitor." Lennox replied, "made a deal behind everyone's back to find a slave force to rebuild Cybertron, which now is probably completely destroyed." Lennox gazed back at Optimus. "I can't imagine what he's going through, having to kill the one he considered a father."

"It's time to break the barriers of duty and be friends." Ratchet spoke, and the two age old friends of the Autobots gazed up at the medic. "Without Ironhide, Optimus is going to be alone, and with Cybertron as you say, possibly destroyed, it's time to try and forget about war and rebuild." the medic knelt down to their level. "I'm not about to repair Optimus here, we need transport to a base where I can tend to all of them."

"I'll see what I can manage." Lennox replied before gazing back at Optimus.

The Prime was broken. Not Physically, but mentally, emotionally. Lennox almost wanted to have a snapshot of the image of grief that hung around the Prime, if only to show the world that their alien allies were more then machines.

Just to show that, even though they are physically and technologically different, they were as human as the fleshlings who inhabited Earth.


Just a little something that's been sitting in my head after watching DOTM twice. One can tell Optimus did not want to do what he did by the disgusted sound he made after killing Sentinel.

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