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

Chapter 65 Real and Fake Pillars? Real and Fake Knights? Knight! Foolish-faced Knight! (Playing arou

(I know what you're thinking, the book is full of jokes and references, and the authors are also a mixed bag.)

"He's back by now." After checking the location on the screen a few times, the ambulance driver saw that Optimus Prime's location was almost overlapping with the base.

Shortly after, the roar of trucks echoed from the passageway leading outside the base. The moment Optimus Prime returned to the base's main hall and transformed, everyone stared at him...

"What happened?" Optimus Prime asked as he returned to find everyone around him looking at him with a wary expression.

“We were attacked by something that looks a lot like you,” Arcee said first. They trusted Rosa more, after all, her abilities were undeniable.

"An attack?" Optimus Prime asked, puzzled, but then became serious. Agent Fuller added, "I was attacked tonight. That guy who looks a lot like you tried to knock me off a cliff, and he also ambushed Arcee!"

Optimus Prime frowned upon hearing this. He had just gone to an energy vein, which was outside the communication range, and he hadn't expected such a big thing to happen.

"Beep beep..." Agent Fuller's phone received a call from his superior, who informed him that a military base was under attack.

Attacked by Optimus Prime.

“What! That’s impossible! I swear on the Stars and Stripes on my underwear! That’s definitely not Optimus Prime!” Agent Fuller said, turning back to look at the Optimus Prime standing properly in the base.

Optimus Prime is definitely here; the one outside is an imposter. After the other person said something and hung up, Agent Fuller put away his phone and explained what had happened.

"Oden Military Base has been attacked, reportedly by Optimus Prime again."

"Is it a truck?" Jack asked, assuming the other party was just in truck form, not... "The real Optimus Prime." Agent Fuller's words drew everyone's attention to Optimus Prime.

Rosa’s eye displayed a solver symbol; in her eyes, the other’s brain was a code of right and wrong, an unhackable state, unrecognizable.

“This is the real Optimus Prime.” Rosa finished speaking and the partition closed. “Then the one outside can only be—”

"Let's go." The ambulance was positioned inside the Oden military base. "Let's take a look." He said, pulling down the land bridge control lever.

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As soon as Rosa stepped off the land bridge, she saw the other 'Optimus Prime' that was so conspicuous, but the land bridge was positioned quite far from the fake pillar.

Before it could even invade, the fake pillar ran away the moment it saw Rosa and the other Autobots.

Then, government helicopters arrived. They only saw the Autobots and assumed that the real Optimus Prime was the culprit who attacked the military base.

What a convenient excuse! Anyway, after giving the order not to harm them, Optimus Prime left from the land bridge.

“No! General Byss! Optimus Prime didn’t attack us, because we were together when the alarm was received.” Agent Fuller continued speaking to his superior on the phone.

"Yes, the Autobots did go to your base, but that was after the attack!" Fuller, still trying to salvage the situation, didn't know what was said on the phone, probably an order or something.

“But sir… yes, sir… I understand.” Fuller sighed and told them the result.

All military forces have received orders to kill any Autobots they encounter. However, the Autobots are not actually worried about that. What they are worried about is whether the Mech Party, which built a knock-off Optimus Prime, will use the technology they have acquired for other purposes.

The good news is that the Mechanics can only build knock-off versions of Optimus Prime, and they might even be remote-controlled. They also lack land bridge technology, so their area of ​​operation is definitely limited to that region.

However, because the Autobots are wanted by the authorities, they can only explore that area at night.

That night, the Autobots came out from the land bridge and scouted the designated areas. Rosa projected herself to hide and then went into the air to scout.

Shortly after, Bumblebee reported through the intercom that he had discovered an abandoned factory. Optimus Prime told him not to act rashly and to gather everyone and head there.

When everyone arrived, they discovered that Bumblebee was in trouble because they couldn't contact him.

"Let's split up and search," Arcee said. The other Autobots activated their weapons, while Rosa used her projection to hide herself again. After thinking for a moment, she created another projection of herself in front of her.

There has to be some bait to lure the other side out, right?

"Watch out for anything that looks like me," Optimus Prime said, leading the way into the abandoned factory with his gun raised.

When Rosa went in, she also turned off all the surveillance cameras that were visible, and made the cameras repeat the footage of no one before she left or entered the camera's field of view.

She stood under the camera, wondering if she should try to locate the position where the camera was connected to the screen, and also wondering if the monitoring room was connected to the control room.

After all, she could first confirm that humans at this stage could not create life with independent consciousness; they could only be controlled by someone. But to be honest, to determine the location of the monitoring room, she still had to hack into the fake Optimus Prime.

Just as Rosa was pondering this, Optimus Prime suddenly rushed out from beside her and headed straight for the projection in front of her.

The guy who looked exactly like Optimus Prime tried to crash into his own (projection), and then found himself passing through it. After passing through, the Optimus Prime looked around in confusion, and then suddenly realized something and turned his head sharply to look at himself.

But it was too late. The solver symbol appeared in the optical mirror under the armor, and the intruder obtained the remote control signal, as well as the location where the remote control signal was sent.

She immediately blocked the other party's signal and sent the coordinates she found over the intercom.

Strangely, only Optimus Prime and Ratchet responded; where were the others?

Well, okay, they were all tricked, right? Rosa looked at the fake Optimus Prime in front of her, who was now completely under her control, and curiously leaned forward to take a look.

At this moment, the mechanical party on the other side could still see the image transmitted by the optical mirror, but they could not control the machine and were almost frantic. However, when they saw that Rosa's projection just waved in front of the fake pillar and left, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the Mech Party looked at the screen and realized they could control Optimus Prime again, but Rosa was nowhere to be found.

Ha, what a joke! Do you think Rosa is someone they can control? Give them some simulated graphics and let them play a single-player game; they'll think they're playing online.

If there are no problems with omnidirectional, seamless simulated projections in reality, what problems could there be with directly hacking into and transmitting simulated images?

Rosa also hacked into the cameras again, accessing the terminal and attempting to switch to other camera views (a behavior reminiscent of Cyberpunk 2077).

They then successfully located the cameraman filming Silas sitting on the console playing with a remote control—oh wait, it's now a video game.

Rosa looked at Optimus Prime still standing in front of her and suddenly had a crazy idea: she wanted Optimus Prime to jump into Elysium.

Um, never mind, that's a bit too much of an image-damaging move, but it would be nice to have him jump around on the roof of the building where the Mechanic controls the robots for a while (what?).

In short, Rosa was already playing with her remote-controlled toy, controlling 'Optimus Prime' to climb to the top of the Mech Party's control center. After thinking for a while, she looked back and saw that Optimus Prime was indeed not there.

Let Optimus Prime jump right on top of the Mech Party, shall we? But there are some things to do before that.

In the 'video game' Silas was playing, she simulated the enemy escaping, luring Silas over until he climbed onto the rooftop where they were.

Rosa then let the fake Optimus Prime start jumping around, knowing full well that it was stupid and probably pointless.

But isn't it ironic that they let their own creations be controlled by the enemy, and then the enemy controls their proud 'toys' to bounce around on their heads?

After a while, Rosa heard a noise behind her again. Just when she thought it was the Mech Party, she saw the real Optimus Prime climb up as well, peeking out with his cat-like head.

Then he saw Rosa, and another rooftop where 'himself' was bouncing around, and slowly pulled his head back.

Optimus Prime pulled his head back in, let go of the edge of the roof, and landed steadily.

He had just come here following the coordinates Rosa had given him, and then he saw a figure on the rooftop that looked like Rosa.

He was still a little confused about how Rosa got up there, so he climbed up and immediately pulled his head back when he saw the 'dark version of Optimus Prime', because he was convinced that he must have seen it wrong.

When you get back, you need to have an ambulance take you to get your glasses checked to see if there's anything wrong with them.

"Hey, Optimus Prime, don't go!" Rosa's voice rang out from above, and Optimus Prime saw Rosa also sticking her head out.

"I'd like to ask you for a favor."