With Sentinel's crimes exposed to all of Iacon, D 16 was dead set on executing him on the spot, but Orion stopped him and outright pled with him not to go down that path. Orion then got shot trying to stop him. While initially horrified at his actions, D 16 ultimately let Orion fall into Cybertron's core before killing Sentinel and taking Megatronus's cog. D 16 then rechristened himself as "Megatron" and rallied the High Guard into destroying Iacon, without caring about the lives he...