Transformers: Leader's Proof - Fragile, but Hard to Kill

Chapter 93 Terrifying Granny... (crossed out) Terrifying Rosa

In the Nemesis, Starscream had just managed to explain to Shockwave why he had left him alone on Cybertron.

The monster's punch accelerated the explosion of the space bridge, but she wasn't the only one near it.

After Rosa, disguised as a soldier, ran inside, everyone else saw the Space Bridge was about to explode and ran away. Shockwave was getting closer and was eventually caught in the blast wave. Starscream ignored him and simply left him in the ruins of Cybertron.

In the end, Starscream managed to confuse Shockwave with a few logical statements. As for why they chose to stay on the warship instead of Dark Peak, even though it was already built... who knows?

The group continued discussing how to capture the monster from the fortress when, just then, a sound wave reported that a squad of six enemy soldiers had been attacked.

Finally, four cameras remained, but he believed the surveillance footage was unreliable and could only determine the exact cause of death by listening to the audio. In the end, he carefully analyzed the audio and found four clicks.

Since only two are alive, there's no need for that. Soundwave originally planned to eliminate all four, whoever they were, to prevent further trouble.

But then, news of the entire fortress crashing began to emerge.

The sound waves randomly selected recordings of several events and found that in each case, a few people were left alive, a few were killed, and then the recordings were put together.

Is that monster trying to muddy the waters?

He immediately considered countermeasures and discovered that this phenomenon started on the floor where Rosa escaped and has now gradually spread to the floors above and below.

He couldn't let the murky water pollute the clear water; he couldn't let the situation spiral out of his control. After reporting to Megatron, he immediately ordered the surrounding floors sealed off, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

All Decepticons still inside will be considered "dead".

Panic spread as they worried that the monster might escape... In fact, their fears were justified.

Rosa discovered the elevator shaft from the control panel in the corridor, and there were many ventilation openings or maintenance access points around the elevator shaft.

She can easily enter any floor from the elevator shaft, but some higher-floor elevators are separate. She'll ignore that for now and hack into the elevators starting from the first floor.

However... there are some problems as well. For example, the switch from the maintenance access to the elevator shaft is currently closed. Apart from the headquarters, only the security room has it.

The ventilation ducts also connect to the security room...

Since she's currently in an extended physical state, it's difficult for her to teleport out. She can only try to fix the machine in the security room first.

Ah, I just remembered a classic game, how about we give it a try?

Rosa's eyes were brimming with excitement. She was waiting, waiting for everyone to rest at night, to do this when it was quiet and still.

Oh, the security room has a power switch? Maybe you can switch it on tonight? I wonder which genius designed this, putting the main communications system for this floor here. You won't be using it tonight.

No... it can't be tonight, tomorrow night. Let them relax and lower their guard tonight and tomorrow.

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00:00AM

After a peaceful day, the soldier relaxed a little that night, seemingly believing that the monster was trapped on those floors.

Although I'm still a little scared working the night shift, at least it's safe...

Safe, right?

"Beep—" The moment he sat down, the power in the security room was turned off, but the good news was that the security room had a backup power supply.

Bad news, battery is low. The janitor was cursing who turned off the power in the security room. I was just about to turn on the intercom to complain and ask the guys patrolling outside to turn it on.

Suddenly, they realized something was wrong, because no matter how they tried to send messages, they couldn't get them to go through the internal communication.

The communications were cut off? The soldier had a vague feeling that something was wrong, and soon he saw something even more strange, because it looked like something was crawling on the ceiling, like... tentacles?

The soldier immediately pressed the button to close the door. It's unclear which genius designed it, but closing the door actually consumes energy.

Moreover, the surveillance here is separate from that at the headquarters, and communications have been cut off, which makes things even worse.

The soldier could only pray that someone would come to his rescue, but it was no use. The tentacles' attacks were becoming increasingly fierce, so he had no choice but to open the door whenever he had a spare moment to reduce the rate of energy consumption, but even so, he was still too busy.

With only 1% of the energy remaining, enough to last at most two more minutes, a song suddenly filled the corridor. It was a Black Death nursery rhyme, monotonous yet slightly eerie, echoing through the hallway...

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Ring a ring a roses

A pocket full of posies

Atishoo tishoo

We all fall down

—Hmm, haha~

As the eerie song ended, it was followed by an even more eerie, drawn-out laugh that sent chills down TF's spine.

(A family heirloom laugh. Not really)

He took a step back in fear and leaned against the wall, trembling.

As if timed precisely, after that final burst of laughter, the entire security room ran out of energy and plunged into darkness.

"Click, click..." The crisp sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, then the footsteps gradually quickened, and the sound gradually turned into running.

"Clang, clang, click-clack! Click-clack!" With the sound of footsteps, it was clear that they were getting closer and closer. Just as they were about to reach him, the henchman finally couldn't take it anymore.

In his fear, he grabbed a chair and threw it at Rosa. The moment the chair was thrown, a purple symbol flashed, causing the chair to bounce away.

Then a mouth bared its sharp teeth and lunged straight at his face.

"Gaaaaaaah"

Rosa let out a slightly shrill sound, bit off the other's neck, and began to savor her meal.

-

Rosa found the button to control the maintenance passage and elevator shaft. To make sure there was no problem, and so that she could keep going in and out of the elevator shaft, she made sure to eat the soldier whole.

A large hole was bitten into the back of his neck, and a tentacle extended out of his body and pressed against the inside, controlling the soldier to stand up shakily.

And so, the "puppet" was completed. Rosa Anxin continued walking towards the elevator shaft.

Now—this "virus" is about to spread throughout the entire Decepticon fortress.

Oh, wait, I forgot something.

There's still a lot of food left in the layers that the sound waves helped seal off. To ensure that more bodies can be extended, she needs to first implement the "Clean Plate Campaign".

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While Megatron was racking his brains trying to figure out how to deal with Rosa, Shockwave came up with a solution. He had a research project about cloning the ancient behemoth, the Great Serpent.

This research was actually completed; Shockwave traveled via the space bridge to his laboratory in Cybertron to retrieve the Predacon.

Megatron was initially taken aback by the enormous size of the giant monster. Perhaps because he had witnessed the transformation of inorganic matter into organic matter, he now readily accepted other things.

(P.S.: By the way, I originally wanted to use Freddie Mercury's blackout anthem here, but I felt it was difficult to express the melody in words, so I changed it to a Black Death nursery rhyme.)