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He walked back to Outpost Theta-9 alone.

After forty minutes, he found her.

He reached out and took her hand—the one that still worked. His plating was cold. Hers was colder. autobot-7712

He walked to his bunk. He did not recharge. He sat in the dark and thought about what it meant to be a number. To be 7712. To be Zero. He walked back to Outpost Theta-9 alone

Her optics flickered once, twice. “I want someone to remember that I was not always a soldier.” autobot-7712

And then the light went out.