The concussion that shook the earth knocked nearly all the humans and several of the Autobots off their feet as well as sending Optimus back to the ground. Supremely confident, an enormous figure now toweredem all. THE FALL HAD ARRIVED. As soon as they had recovered their balance, Ironhide and Sideswipe charged, firing all weapons. Raising a hand, hardly appearing to exert an effort, The Fallen swept them backward. When Optimus tried to rise, a second wave of the enormous hand knocked him down. It was as if The Fallen was figihting an infant. They turned. And bent toward Sam. The voice of The Fallen was even, perfectly controlled-and utterly, utterly malevolent.
"Now, at last, I claimed the energy of your sun."
A finger reached out and the dagger shape was torn from Sam's gHe could no more have held on to it than he could have restrainged a fleeing elephant. In a swirl of energy, The Fallen vanished. Squinting into the distance, the stunned and dazed onlookers saw him reappear kilometers away on the summit of the nearby pyramid. Sam's tone was agonized, and not from the pain that wracked his battered and brused body.
"Somebody-somebody stop him! He's gonna turn on the Machine!"
Raising a hand, Optimus implored his companions. "Autobots-stop him."
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