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Ten years after the end of the Maverick War, X—unarmed, unarmored, disabled, and retired from the Maverick Hunters—takes on a missing person case in what used to be downtown Abel City, until it was destroyed and walled off from the rest of the world. It should have been a simple enough task, but nothing has ever been simple for X. He soon finds himself drawn into a conflict between two groups of Mavericks living in the Abel City quarantine zone, making friends he desperately needs but isn't so sure he wants, pretending to be a version of himself he doesn't hate, and confronting the fact that he has spent so long sacrificing all of himself for a world that gives him nothing in return that he doesn't even know who he is anymore or what he wants out of life.
A nap, mostly, but that missing human isn't going to find himself.
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- Part 1 of Every End A Beginning
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- English
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On screen, a human rotorcraft chases after a canid with a gun, and Starscream scoffs at this as well—quietly, not to be heard. That’s the thing about Screamer: His best efforts to hide things only ever serve to spotlight the fact he wants to hide them in the first place. Since the reconstruction of Cybertron began, there’s a phrase Knock Out’s heard those Autobot-aligned humans use—‘like an open book.’ Like an unencrypted datapad.
Knock Out’s always had an affinity for the open, which is to say, he finds Starscream so transparent that he can’t resist.
“Thinking you could catch up, are you?” he says, poking fun as the human on screen fires at the light-footed animal.
“I would never chase an Earth beast to begin with,” Starscream retorts with a careful cross of his arms, so gracefully the metal doesn’t even creak.
“But if you did, you would catch it.”
“I wouldn’t miss.”
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Knock Out takes Starscream to the drive-in theatre.
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- English
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