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"Well, here he is." Said Curbine. "The great betrayer of the human race."
The great betrayer he spoke of was a human teenage boy, sleeping on a mat. Then another, female Autobot entered. "Curbine, the assembly is here. Are you ready?" said Aurae.
"As I'll ever be. Let them in."
The group of Transformers entered the presentation room of Autobot Labs and sat down in preordained seats. The most important Transformers on Cybertron were here, including Ultra Magnus and Starscream- commanders of the Autobots and Decepticons respectively, since one of the old commanders had been captured, the other annihilated, both some time ago. The new leaders had both once desired the position, but now had discovered the strain that comes from leading a race at war. This project, they had heard, was supposed to end this war once and for all- one way or another. Curbine tapped his pointer on his desk to quiet the audience and gain their attention. "Is everybody here and comfortable?" He looked around. "Good. Then let the show begin."
The scientist pressed a button on his desk console, and a screen opened, revealing the human boy to all the audience. "This," started Curbine, "Is a human. Right here, right now." The audience watched the boy wake up, get up and look around- he could see the Transformers watching him. "This young human male," continued Curbine, "Has been in this lab since he was only a few days old. Around seventeen human years ago, an Autobot soldier found him as an infant in the remains of a human settlement. We took him in and raised him- nourished and educated him about Transformer history and society, and the best we could about human society." Most of the data they had was from early information swapping and later intelligence gathering, and interception of human media. "I, and my assistants, have raised this human as one of our own- he has the body and instincts of a human, but the mind and heart of a Transformer."
He paused as the boy casually started to dress himself, in a white armour-like outfit. "Through him, we hope to further our understanding of humans, and through that hopefully find some way to end this war before it destroys us all."
The audience started to talk amongst themselves. A few raised their hands. Curbine raised his arm to quiet them. "Any and all questions will be answered in the lobby momentarily. There's Energon there too, if this is too much for any of you." He then closed the screen and turned the lights back on.
He sat down at his desk and waited until Aurae had directed all of the assembly out of the hall. Then we walked over to the boy's room and opened the screen again. The human was fully dressed and leaning against the wall. "Good speech, Curbine." Said Aurae, as she walked over to him.
"That was nothing." Said Curbine dismissively. "What really matters is what we can do with Sparkheart here."
"So, what am I going to do?" said the human, whom Curbine had named Sparkheart.
"Not sure yet, Sparkheart." Curbine said. "We'll see."
No, Sparkheart is not Kicker, but based on him in some ways. I liked the armour he had, it was the first idea here.
Yes, Megatron is dead, and Optimus captured by the humans… we'll just have to see what's next.
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