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Alignment by Simon Furman Book 1 What they needed, Grimlock decided, was a Unicron. This was not a sudden conclusion. In common with most all of the Dinobot commander’s somew hat rare insights, this undertaking had involved long hours, days, we eks even of p ainstaking delib eration. Grimlo ck w as not stupid, and not slow, Indeed, in battle h is speed, judgm ent and reflexes were sec ond to none. But he w as sometim es pedestrian when it cam e to deep thinking. The problem that had started Grimlock lumberin g off down this particular cognitive path stemmed from their current mission. They were now into day 78 of a deep space odyssey to the outer fringes of the Hadean system. Their Autobot Hyperwave skimmer wa s already beyond existing star ch arts, far into the wilderzones, where no other Transformer - or indeed know n sp ecies - had ventured. And so far nada, zip, nothing. All they’d found was a big, empty hunk of space and Grimlock was bored beyond belief. Day 78 had d awned - if indeed such term inology was applicable without so much as a single star within seventy billion light years - much like the pr evious seventy- seven. As the m ission ’s Flight L eader, Grimlo ck w as expecte d to officially relieve the ‘night ’ watch helmsman and hand over to the ‘day’ shift. What had actually happened was that Grimlock had crashed so loudly onto the forward bridge, he’d woken Blaster, who had let his systems idle when the mono tony had finally, totally overwhelmed him. Both had reacted with surprise. Grimlock because h e’d s