Shifting the Blame

Onslaught truly did not understand Megatron as well as Starscream did!

He did not know where Starscream's confidence came from, but he could hear the confidence in his words.

Since even Starscream was not worried, Onslaught did not continue dwelling on the subject.

"Separate!"

He shouted through the control channel. After the Combaticons combined into Bruticus, the five members retained their individual consciousnesses, but overall control was handled by Onslaught.

With strength and computational abilities infinitely close to those of a leader-class warrior, he was indeed barely qualified for the role.

"Understood!"

The other four Combaticons had no objections to Onslaught's order to separate.

Even if they stood still in Bruticus form, the energy they consumed every minute was comparable to that of a small battle.

Put bluntly, giant combiners were merely a technological shortcut.

Starscream and Shockwave had been inspired by the gigantic creatures that had once existed on Cybertron—the Terrorcons and the Primal Titans—and only then created this technology that combined several Decepticons into a giant warrior.

However, even during the peak of Cybertronian civilization, countless Cybertronian scientists had devoted themselves to studying the most mysterious AllSpark, only gaining a little more understanding of it.

Just as humans could cultivate cells to regenerate a heart but could not make that heart gain blood-producing capabilities, Cybertronians were in much the same situation with their research into the AllSpark.

Whether Starscream, Shockwave, or the Autobots' scientists, none of them had surpassed their predecessors in AllSpark research.

Thus, whether first-generation or second-generation giant combiners, their fatal flaw was insufficient energy supply.

They might possess powerful bodies, but after several different Decepticons combined, their individual AllSparks had to power the enormous combined body. Of course it was exhausting.

Another burst of azure electrical arcs flashed, and the five Combaticons quickly separated, crashing