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The Universe had decided it would start over.
Which of course meant the current one was kaput.
No one know understood why they knew this, but it was the truth nonetheless. No cop-outs or last minutes saves this time.
Skyfire held out his servo to Starscream.
Starscream looked around, bit his lip, hesitated, but then took his servo.
They found themselves suddenly remembering a thousand different memories:
Skyfire always remembering that Starscream loved the ruby/sapphire mix energon bon-bons and never once trying to subsitute garnet energon bon-bons for them (ruby/sapphire blend was NOT the same flavor as garnet, no matter what anyone else said)
Skyfires love of snacking on the medium size shards of Rose Quartz (the flavor really came through when the shards were medium size, Skyfire thought)
The time they both came to the lab and discovered that Wheeljack had spent the night with his glossa accidently glued to the work bench (shortly after this incindent, he started wearing a face shield full time)
Babysitting Skyfire's neglected twin cousins, Jetfire and Jetstorm.
Kissing in front of Starscream's bigoted, estranged siblings.
Genvo taking them out for a night bar-hopping that had resulted in the semi-legal use of fireworks before their doomed mission to Earth.
"I wish I could have had the courage to offer you my servo when we still had time..." Coolant was generously leaking out of Skyfire's optics.
"Don't be a fool Skyfire, we both know I wouldn't have brave enough to have taken it." Some of Skyfire's coolant must have landed on Starscream's face, for it was suddenly very wet.
I want another chance to make it work was the last wish of this universe as a bright white light consumed it.