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“Hunting for Sport”
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Jumplead slid his fingers across the open wound on his stomach, winced, and initiated a core systems diagnostic.
+++ Energon channels at 98% dilation. +++ Opticwash discharging above recommended parameters. +++ Ansidoc reaction time fluctuating between 12 and 25 microseconds. +++ Burnup disposal malfunction. +++ Fuel pumps on overdrive. +++ Lubricant/coolant blockage in microsystem 3342. +++ Neurosystems functioning at 0.001% efficiency…
(Equivalent human emotion: Blind panic.)
The pack of “animals”—Jumplead wondered what else to call the beasts—closed in on his position, slowly padding forwards, snarling with feral anger. Despite the depixelation of his optical receptors, Jumplead could make out seven of the creatures. They paused for a second. If he wasn’t so scared for his own life he might have wondered if they were communicating with each other on some level he couldn’t detect or even comprehend.
What Jumplead could comprehend, however, was the fact that Chameleon had taken a hasty leave of the facility several breems ago. Coward.
The animals made their move.
Before he could react, the wound on Jumplead’s stomach yawned wide. The attacker shook a chunk of Jumplead’s armour from his serrated claws. A mass of burning circuitry ejected itself from the wound and crashed down onto the steel floor. A band of thick black oil seeped from Jumplead’s stomach onto his eviscerated components. The Autobot staggered back, clutching at his wound, vainly hoping that by covering it with his shaking hands that no more of his hardware would escape.
A second beast leapt up at Jumplead’s head, clamping its jaw over his neck and sinking its teeth into his skin. Jumplead’s vocaliser erupted into a minute explosion. The creature felt the burning on its snout and momentarily retreated.
Jumplead fell to his knees. His broken body initiated stasis lock and his optics faded to black. The animals pounced on the twitching husk that used to be an Autobot and proceeded to rip it to shreds.
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