It's Christmas Eve, 1989. Longtooth's piece of the Creation Matrix has reached Optimus - now he can grant life to one of the many deactivated Autobots. He considers First Aid, as they need a medic - Prowl, for his leadership - one of the Dinobots for their strength... Optimus is suddenly revolted at the idea of playing god, and briefly decides to choose a random person to revive - settling on Seaspray - but cannot go through with such an arbitrary way of deciding who lives.