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[supreme_leader]

[Have a shot of a smirking, haughty Malcolm, sitting in a throne that's not the temporary one from Tentawave's tower. This one looks far more permanent and a bit more ornate as it has to accommodate his rotors, with a Decepticon Sigil painted on the wall behind him.

Someone may have a new base. Finally.]

Have any of you fools realized that clearly I

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[not_your_gun]

....what qualifications do you have, again?

[supreme_leader]

Over nine million years fighting the war and leading my Decepticons to victory on Cybertron. [Don't mind that he leaves out they then had to abandon it to look for energon.] And I've killed that foolish Prime and have defeated him numerous times. [Sort of. He actually killed Orion Pax who became Prime, but it still counts.]

I was built to lead! Programmed to bring victory and glory to the Decepticons!

[not_your_gun]

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[That's a good list.]

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[There's just one thing he doesn't get.]

You have...killed Optimus Prime multiple times?

[supreme_leader]

I only off-lined him once, at the very start of the war. [Growl. He's not particularly happy about this.] And have come close to doing so again multiple times.

Unfortunately, he keeps finding ways to thwart me.

[not_your_gun]

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Then we are not so unalike.

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You do realize we would have better luck working together, don't you?

[supreme_leader]

You seem to have mistaken me for an Autobot. I answer to no one. True Decepticons work alone. You're a naive fool if you think otherwise.

[Scowl]

Prime will fall by my hand.

[not_your_gun]

...Decepticons work alone?

I was under the impression we were an army. That...doesn't go so well, one on one.

[supreme_leader]

There can hardly be two leaders in an army. Starscream has learned that particular lesson repeatedly.

[Did he mention that his army is also rather disposable? His main goal is the death of Prime and that he can do himself.]

Soliders are simply pawns, easily used and discarded. Where the true power lays is in their Leader.

[not_your_gun]

And...how many soldiers do you have in your army again?

[supreme_leader]

[Not enough, but then, it's never really enough is it? Not for what he wants to accomplish.]

Numbers are of little consequence, it's what you do with them that is important.

[not_your_gun]

Well said.

I'll be cheering from the sidelines.

[supreme_leader]

And you can watch as I offline that foolish Prime of yours.

[not_your_gun]

[His optics suddenly flash.]

You will not lay one servo on my Optimus.

[That was his Prime to kill.]

[supreme_leader]

You think he'll sit idly by while you watch me claim this city?

[Dark laugh.]

You have done nothing. I will defeat him and do what you haven't.

[not_your_gun]

You could not kill your Prime--you will not take mine.

If you move against him I will counter you.

[supreme_leader]

I will not hesitate if he stands against me. A Prime is a Prime and I will offline him when given the chance.

I'll leave you the half-Prime. Perhaps you'll have more success with him.