Coalescence

He shivered. This was a mistake.
No, it could not be. At least not one of his own making. How would that be possible? He
was practically a god, one of the Thirteen…He played back the moments prior: he had
the most vile Decepticons at his command, a galaxy at his mercy, and his hands were
all but clasped on unlimited power… But then there it was, the one thing that could stop
him.
He shivered again.
Broken, defeated, he found a fold, a seam in reality at the same moment the spear had
torn through his skull and ripped through the workings underneath. It was a desperate
escape… or as close to desperate as he had ever become. In his haste and weakened
state, he had made a… Miscalculation. He had passed through the fold and tumbled far
farther than he had ever intended. He was farther from the core than he had ever traveled.
He could feel the essence of energy and existence changing around him. Polarities darted
and twitched. It tickled.
Static filled every sensation. His ultimate destination screamed into realization.
His whole being shivered.
Two years later…
“Did you really think you’d get away?”
Sephie Beller’s voice echoed down from the rooftop above the New Energy Resource
Research and Development Laboratory campus.
Emulator, she mentally corrected herself. If she was going to make this whole superhero
thing work, she had to start thinking of herself as one. She had certainly given enough of
Sephie up to become Emulator, so why keep using her ordinary human name?
Below, two thieves balanced a large piece of machinery between them. It still had loose
wires snaking out at one end from where they had cut it from the wall. Even with her
background as the ingenious Dr. Arkeville’s student teacher, she had no idea what the
device was meant to do.
Her blue and gold costume shimmered and glistened. Costume. That’s what it appeared
to be to anyone who catch a glimpse of her in action. However the metal plating could
now be considered part of her own body after the deal that she had worked out with the
factionless Cybertronian, Jetstorm. She tried to shove aside her sudden thought of how
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