Optimus didn't know how the mission failed this badly. But he remembered fighting the Decepticons with his axe in his hand, getting some good blows up close. Until well he could feel a sort of impaled feeling that went through him. He had completely paused when he didn't need to and all he could see was that large smile on Firestorm's face, it seemed almost forced in a strange way. But he could tell it had sadistic and malicious intention behind as he felt the pain in his stomach increase. His optics looked seeing how many Decepticons he was fighting, it was 8 in total. He suddenly felt very aware that he was outnumbered in this one as he backed off slightly, his mind trying to figure out a solution. All of a sudden he could feel his optics closing as he struggled to stay awake. He went offline and the last thing he felt was getting dragged.
He opened his optics realizing he was in some sort of dark, inky room as he wasn't on the battlefield anymore. Feeling the cool air around him as his sensors adjusted. All of a sudden he felt something unusually sweet behind his mask and his body felt weird. He wiped the sides of his mask noticing small white cubes. Immediately his optics widened as he noticed those were sugar cubes in face "Wait... This is sugar right? And the human type?" He looked in shock as he felt like throwing up as he turned around and opened his battlemask, throwing up a white sugary liquid. He coughed wiping his mouth before putting it back on his battlemask. Of course, Sugar was notoriously known for making Cybertronain's thoughts blurred and some side effects were nausea, mood swings and decreased appetite. Optimus groaned feeling his stomach churn.
Optimus got up from his seat as he swore he never felt this sick before but he decided to attempt to get out. He grabbed his ion blaster but his intoxicated mind was making his shots stiff yet awkward as he opened the door. Immediately it alarmed two of the soldiers who turned around and immediately one of them had the gun to their face. Brawl was shot as he fell the floor with a dark green hole on his face, making Vortex alarmed as he ran off. Optimus who wasn't really aware that he killed the Combaticon and only thought that he was unconscious. He soon started to walk as his legs slowly stepped on the floor. His HUD had a blurry white filter over it, making him not see things around the corner and people's shape look more distorted than ever. He arrived at the main doorway peeking curiously.
There were Decepticons passing by and running to get to their tasks as quickly as they could. Optimus tried to get out as he heard a laugh behind him. He turned around seeing red optics which look eerily similar to Starscream's optics before they disappeared. Optimus wondered if his vision was messing things up for himself. But he didn't feel like his body was fully under his control anymore as he stumbled to the mirror in a small open room. He noticed his bright red optics become a reddish-white, his colours significantly darkened, the sides of his mask still had sugar on there, his fingers were more curled and there seemed to be flashes of glitching in one of his optics. He looked towards the side as he noticed the closet door being open. He opened it, seeing nothing but a couple of pictures.
He took them out seeing each of them seem to be different types of Cybertronains from different factions but what caught his interest was three pictures of unknown Cybertronains. They had some sort of strange symbol on them that was a green sun with stars. But they look to be neutrals in a sense or maybe another faction? Optimus wasn't sure But there looked to be a blue and gold male Cybertronain with blue visor. A female green Cybertronain and a male slim Cybertronain although thanks to his hazy vision, it was a little hard to tell the shape of them. Optimus decided to examine the rest of the pictures, he found himself, Bumblebee, Wheeljack and Ratchet with the main four Decepticons. He pocketed them afterwards as he began to move away from the closet and left trying to go through the Decepticon base "Well looks like this is much harder than I thought it would be. How did the mission mess up so easily?"
"I wonder..." He paused as he heard someone yell "Optimus has escaped!" Which set him over the edge. Looks like Vortex told the others he escaped from that room. Immediately he heard footsteps running over and he grabbed his gun as quickly as he could. He saw Thrust fly over and with an arrogant smirk began to shoot at Optimus who used his axe to block off most of the shots. Dirge ran over to help his buddy as he began to use his special bullet ability. "Looks like those Decepticons have tricks up their sleeves!" Optimus soon fought back as he ran knocking down Dirge before Thrust kicked down Prime. Prime got up feeling dizzy before giving an involuntary slash which slashed Thrust's pedes. He got up before running and nearby a large hallway, there were some windows nearby and with the risk involved, Optimus jumped outside as glass had broken and his metallic armour got scratched in the process. He closed his optics bracing from the impact as he fell 10 kilometres from the sky.
The Decepticons look confused as they talk about what exactly just happened. "What was that!?" Thrust yelled at Dirge who just looked annoyed. "We were trying to get him, yeah?" Thrust nodded "Yes I know! But it looks like he just threw himself out of the window." Dirge noticed the glass remaining on the ledge as he looked at Thrust again saying "And he just jumped off like that." Thrust sighed before Vortex came towards them "What happened to the Autobot leader?" Vortex asked while Thrust roughly answered with "Oh he just decided for some reason to throw himself out of the window after he attacked us." Vortex looked surprised at his answer before thinking for a small moment.
"Uh... We only sedated him, correct?" Vortex questioned as Thrust and Dirge nodded. "Yeah what does that have to do with anything?" Thrust's voice was harsh as usual before Vortex replied "Then what caused him to act like this!? He killed Brawl, then he decided to jump out like that!" Dirge looked alarmed at what he said and Thrust looked interested "He killed... Who?" Vortex slowed down as he stated simply "Brawl. My Combaticon teammate." That was worrisome and Vortex could feel it off Dirge. Optimus never really killed anyone for whatsoever reason unless it's a absolute last resort. So what made him do that?
"How many teammates of ours were killed so far?" Dirge asked Thrust had lost count as he said "More than 11. Skywraith and Brawl being added to the list." Oh that was not good. They knew how much Decepticons valued their own numbers and whoever decided that murdering them was the best option was clearly trying to lower their numbers.