His Gravitational Vortex Inducer would cause the rocks to plummet downward, smashing the Autobot to scrap metal. The beam shot out. And hit a small piece of reflective metal, probably left behind by some long forgotten miner. The beam refracted back, shooting over Afterburner, and striking the outcropping of rock just above him. Afterburner glanced upwards.
Cybertronian brains make the most powerful supercomputers of Earth seem like broken abacii.
But the processing required for sentience is very demanding. Despite the extraordinary speed of their systems, the average Cybertronian thinks only a few times faster than a human. Fast as the Autobot can drive, I can fly faster, Afterburner thought as he raced through the sky. There's ample time for me to get ahead of him and destroy him. But it's not enough to kill him, not now.