Communication

Cyclonus could only see the battlefield in the brief moments in his rotation when he was facing it with his three still-functional visual sensors, and his damaged comlink caught only snatches of the chatter of the battle. But he had opened the way for them. “See y’all on the other side!” Ironhide shouted, a last ferocious roar that broke through the general clamor. Cyclonus was spinning far distant by then; the transmission reached him on a five-minute delay. Even as he heard it, a blooming pillar of flame was erupting from Cybertron’s surface, and he knew that Ironhide was already dead.