Optimus turned at the thwack sound, onlining his blasters.
It felt like everything unfolded in slow motion.
Celia collapsed to the floor with an earth rattling thud as Tyler stood behind her, a bloodied metal baseball bat clenched in his hand.
Nothing sane live in Tyler's optics.
"The war ends here," the human smirked as he stepped over Celia, his optics locked on Megatron.
Prowl open fired, the pellets from his gun striking the haft of the bat, just above where Tyler held it.
The Autobots followed with their volleys.
Only they did nothing on the approaching enemy, except for the metal on the bat to slowly melt.
"Decepticons attack!" Megatron ordered, pulling out a bolo like weapon for his subspace, whirling it.
The seekers fired into the Tyler's face, making him howl.
Push pins dotted his face as he swung out at Skywarp.
Skywarp blipped out of the space before the bat collided with the jet.
The bat hit the wall, then broke where Prowl's pellets had done their work.
Bolos flew and wrapped around Tyler's legs, making him stumble back.
Over Celia.
He landed on his back, snarling.
Tearing the bolo off, he rolled to stand, took a step forward, only to leap back, hopping on one foot.
A yellow brick fell from his pede.
More bricks littered the floor as the Decepticons continued their volleys.
"Your weapons are useless, Prime," Megatron threw another bolo, catching Tyler in the face.
"Celia!"
Optimus knew that tone very well.
It was the tone of a femme about to tear a mech to bits.
Annie appeared, whirling a chain.
She drove Tyler backwards, the metal striking flesh when he attempted to charge her.
The other femmes clustered around Celia, trying to wake her.
Large Ravage made a pitiful meow as she head-bumped Celia.
Tyler laughed, "Got your chain, bitch."
Annie retreated to Celia, pulling another length of chain free of her belt, "Plenty more to tie you up, fragger."
"Starscream, now!" Megatron ordered.
Instead of the seeker going for Tyler, he shoved Wheeljack away from the device, changed a dial, flipped a switch then pressed the button.
Optimus leapt at the seeker, attempting to stop whatever he was doing.
Only for the terrible falling sensation to overcome him as light blinded him.
He connected with a surface, his systems screaming with errors.
Jerking upward, he worried Tyler was about to attack them again.
He had to stand and defend his Autobots.
First Aid's voice calmed him, a gentle force making him lay back down, "Optimus Prime, please sit still. Your balance gyros will reset faster if you lay there."
Bluestreak's voice ramped up, "We are back. It was so odd being so tiny. I get how humans feel to us now. Only our positions were reversed. Tiny Cybertronians vs huge humans. Do you think Celia's okay?"
Optimus' spark lurked as his optics onlined.
He slowly sat up, then looked across the battlefield.
Megatron locked gazes with him.
The two sides seemed to hold their vents as Megatron and Optimus both stood.
Ultra Magnus, Springer and Kup stepped up to his side, as Shockwave joined Megatron along with all the mechs who made up Devastator.
Megatron smirked, "The Decepticons have won this round Optimus. Your ally turned out to be as treacherous as any Decepticon. How does it feel to know there are Autobots who don't hold to your vaunted and lofty goals? To know they will kill with as little mercy as us?" His chuckle drove the dagger deeper, "We are not so different after all."
Soundwave moved up to Megatron's side, looked at him.
"We have what we needed. Decepticons, follow me."
Optimus watched the Decepticons take to the air and fly away.
Ultra Magnus asked with a grim tone, "What does he mean? What ally betrayed our rules and ideals?"
Optimus lowered his helm, then jerked it up at Ratchet's yell.
"What do you mean the humans could have come through?"
Wheeljack calmly commented, "Starscream extended the range right before triggering the device. The femmes were inside the range."
Ratchet snapped, "Internals only! They'll die you waste of bolts."
Prowl ordered, "Sweep for humans. They may be missing their skin, or more."
The gathered Autobots shivered as they moved to find the humans.