"Hello, Doc."
Ratchet looked up. "Nightbeat. I'm glad you're back, we could use the help. I see you got some body modifications while chasing your 'mystery'?"
"Yes, that's why I'm here."
"Oh?"
Nightbeat opened his chestplate. Ratchet gaped, then started scanning. For a long moment he studied his readouts.
"Well?"
"According to my scanner... you have... the lost Matrix! I've only read about it before."
"Well, now you've seen it." Nightbeat said wryly.
"Hold on, I'm not sure. Because my scanner also says... you're dead."
Nightbeat closed the panel and smiled grimly. "Yes, that would also be an accurate observation..."
Closing Note: A fanart contest held on the IDW Publishing boards involved making an existing Transformers character into a "Prime" and drawing his Matrix-upgraded form. Although I couldn't actually draw anything myself, the prompt kind of tickled me a bit... and this was one of the ideas I came up with. Just having a little fun with dreaming up possible results of potential future events after Nightbeat's "encounter" with the Dead Universe in IDW's comics...