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"You were a soldier," Kael said. "Now you’re a filter. That’s the deal."

Then he transformed back, parked beside the colony’s water tanks, and hummed quietly—a Decepticon’s lullaby for a world that would never know his name.

MODE_3: FLIGHT (UNLOCKED). DURATION: 30 SECONDS PER DAY.

That’s where Kael worked.

When the Ganymede colonists came to pick up their new purifier, Kael handed them a sleek, silver tanker truck with a faint red glow in its headlights.

Kael hesitated. Most Tformer Designers worked with completely dead frames. But Stormfall wasn’t dead. He was trapped —aware, but powerless, forced to become a machine.

"What’s that extra button on the dashboard?" the colonist asked. tformer designer

Kael stepped back. This didn’t happen. Dead sparks didn’t speak.

He didn’t finish the neural erase. Instead, he modified the transformation pattern. He grafted a single thruster back onto Stormfall’s spine, hidden inside the tanker mode’s chassis. He rewrote the final line of code:

"Emergency release valve," Kael lied.

The voice was a grinding whisper. "I was a soldier."

"Sorry, buddy," Kael whispered, running a scanner over the Seeker’s dormant chassis. "You were built to conquer. Now you filter rust."

Stormfall’s lone optic glowed red.