"The Fallen?"
After hearing the news from Starscream, Kariel felt that she had finally found the right approach!
Sure enough, this world ran far deeper than expected!
One of the most ancient Transformers, one of the Thirteen Original Primes, the leader of the Decepticons, Megatron's teacher!
He had lived for an unknown number of years.
Everything pointed to one conclusion: The Fallen was inevitably connected to those ancient Transformers in some way!
Because they now truly knew that the so-called Unicron was one of the two most ancient gods. The other was Cybertron's Creator God, who had created the Thirteen Original Primes.
A secret!
A world-shaking secret!
"What? The Fallen?"
Meanwhile, after finding Skyfire and persuading him to defect to the Autobots, the Reincarnator Alliance of the three great financial conglomerates learned roughly the same secret from Skyfire alongside Optimus Prime.
"You're in trouble."
Leaning on a cane, parts occasionally fell off Skyfire's body. Behind him was even the parachute that had popped out when he farted earlier.
At his peak, Skyfire had been powerful enough to rival a leader. He was unquestionably one of the Decepticons' old guard.
Unfortunately, time had taken too much from him.
Had Optimus Prime's Leadership Module not activated, he might have continued sleeping until he was eventually scrapped...
"Indeed."
Bao Bell spoke solemnly. Yet while his expression remained grave, he was secretly discussing the matter intensely with his teammates in the Team channel.
"After searching everywhere in vain, we found it without any effort!"
"Who would have thought that after losing the Seed of Fire, we'd instead find a lead!"
"We've begun touching upon the true forces behind this world—the Thirteen Original Primes, the Creator God, Unicron!"
"What lofty titles."
"In that case, those eight support units appearing so casually makes perfect sense."