"No!" Megatron roared, reaching out to stop it.
But it was clearly too late. Pulled by the webbing, the AllSpark brushed past him.
With a sharp hiss, the webbing recoiled, and Merlin caught the backpack against his chest.
He unzipped it and glanced inside. A pitch-black cubic energy block came into view.
Stark, who had caught up, gave Merlin a strange look, his gaze lingering on Merlin's chest.
"What are you looking at?" Seemingly sensing the other man's improper stare, Merlin slung the backpack over his shoulder and looked back at him.
"You know exactly what I'm looking at! I never thought Spider-Man, Apple City's friendly neighborhood hero, was you."
"Everyone thought Spider-Man was a heroine, but the truth was... you were a man dressed as a woman... No wonder no one suspected your identity."
"You young people really know how to have fun." Stark pointed at the Web Shooter on Merlin's wrist as he teased him.
"Pfft!" Natasha suddenly failed to hold back a muffled laugh.
Merlin: "..."
His face darkened as he explained, "Come on, how could my body possibly withstand movements that intense?"
"Spider-Man gave this to me. She and I are on pretty good terms."
Merlin did not believe his slight frame could leap off a skyscraper like Gwen, shoot out webbing to steady himself, and keep swinging.
"Now that you mention it..." Stark raised an eyebrow. Still, Merlin was hard to read, so perhaps it was possible.
"Megatron and the others are coming after us! Move!" Bumblebee waved and shouted from the ground. At some point, Starscream, whom he had been fighting, had transformed into an F22 Raptor and flown into the sky.
"The AllSpark is in Arcee's and that human's hands. Catch them!" After tearing the badly wounded Jazz, who had tried to stop