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Chapter 4 outbreak
Optimus woke up in the middle of the night with an unbearable pain in his shoulder. With a heavy sigh, he snuck outside and gazed at the stars. "When I get my hands on it, that hydra is dead." he grumbled. Suddenly Optimus heard a bot draw their blades behind him. He turned around and saw ratchet. "Who are y- Optimus? What are you doing out here? Why do you look so, beast-y?" ratchet said with a quiver in his voice.
Optimus looked down at his hands, which had a more claw like appearance. "Optimus, whats going on? While you were in power down you kept saying onyx over and over. Is there something you would like to tell me?" ratchet huffed, crossing his arms. "Uh, I somehow was talking to onyx prime, and, he said the matrix and the venom could have, side effects..." Optimus mumbled. Ratchet looked irritated. "What do you mean by side effects? And why do you sound so growly?" "I don't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone." Optimus growled. The The prime felt a wave of uncontrollable rage take over. prime felt a wave of uncontrollable rage take over. "Optimus?" ratchet quaked. Then he snapped. The primes optics turned a deep purple as he lunged at ratchet with a loud roar. "ILL KILL YOU!" he thundered
"I need backup! Quickly!" ratchet yelled. Almost as soon as the words escaped his vocalizer, the whole team came running outside. As soon as Optimus saw them, his optics turned a deep shade of blue before going purple again. Then the worst happened, he transformed into a dragon! With a loud shriek he spun around hitting bumblebee with his tail, knocking him into wheeljack. He then turned to arcee with a menacing growl. Then with a sudden blow from bulkheads hammer, he was knocked to the ground.
"You mind to explain what the scrap that was?" arcee snapped. "I-I'm not sure, he just, snapped." ratchet stuttered. the prime stood. He was huge! Smokescreen ran to Optimus, yelling. "Optimus! Calm down! It's us! It's me, smokescreen!" the prime growled as his optics shifted colors again. "smo-smokescreen?" he mumbled. Then his optics turned full blue before he transformed and collapsed to the ground. "wh-where am I? What happened?" he grunted. He tried to stand but fell. Ultra magnus looked at ratchet before walking up to Optimus and sticking a tranquilizer dart in his neck while saying, "sorry Optimus, we can't risk this happening again until we find out how to help you." Optimus glared at ultra magnus as his optics flashed purple saying, "ill scrap all of you..." then everything went black.