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He woke to system errors and the acrid feel of smoke filling his intakes. Everything hurt. He forced his aching frame to stand despite its protests, battle systems hastily onlining as his memory core supplied his last few moments of consciousness, but a quick scan showed he was alone. Fire surrounded him and licked at his plates, and he quickly pat himself down to kill any stowaway embers seeking to ignite.
A massive fireball erupted from where the flames were thickest, the shockwave throwing him aft over helm and into a quick reboot. Flying debris pelted him, adding to his already impressive collection of dents. He tucked into a defensive ball and rolled to a stop, unfurling only when no more explosions seemed forthcoming.
The center of the flames, when his optics managed to focus on the bright spot, was the melted carcass of a spaceship.
The spaceship that he had been riding in not too long ago.
Sunstreaker looked over the burning wreckage and cussed.