Rating: T
Continuity: G1?
Characters: Optimus Prime
Disclaimer: Don't own
Prompt: 4. Unforgivable sin.
Murder was forbidden by Primus. All sparks, every single one of them, were precious. Optimus Prime knew that now more than he ever had. Every single spark, whether they be sparked mechs, hatched mechs, Sigma-sparked, or preprogrammed.
Not all of Cybertron saw it that way. Many thought Sigma-sparked and preprograms were inferior to sparked and hatched mechs, but every Prime knew different.
And now... Now, here he was, the Supreme Ruler of Cybertron, the Speaker for Primus, the Prime, with an energon-soaked sword in his hand, energon spattered over his armor, energon soaking the ground...
And a spark in front of him, flickering out, the purple sigil that had once been bright on his chassis gone, the armor torn and rent.
It was unforgivable, what he had just done. Taken a spark... That was not his job. That was the anathema of his duty! The polar opposite. He was the Prime! He was supposed to welcome new sparks, he was supposed to be the herald of life and living!
Yet he was reduced to war, to killing, because his Lord High Protector, his Brother, had turned away from his duty and had brought war to Cybertron, instead of keeping it away.