#Megatron's strategy to kill Optimus

[antenanotaic3]

Nobody:

That one Energon episode where Megatron (sorry Galvatron) spent his time babysitting a guy to make sure he doesn't kill Optimus, even at the expense of fighting and killing him himself.

Sixshot: Sir, I found OP, this is our chance to kill him!

Galvatron: NoW wHat Do yOoU thInK yOu'Re dOInG??!?

[unicornblossom13]

For those who have seen DCAU’s Justice League Unlimited, you may remember the episode, Grudge Match. In that, there is the iconic fight where a brainwashed Wonder Woman fought and beat up her fellow League women.

If you haven’t, here is a video of it:

Now my big smart brain was inspired by this scene to imagine one where Optimus gets placed under mind control by an enemy (Quintessons, most likely) and is made to fight his team and the Elite Guard. And when they realize what’s about to happen, they’re like; Oh, Primus.

“Anybot got a plan?” Jazz asked as they all backed away from Optimus.

“Yeah, try to stay alive.” Ratchet answered.

“Does anybot have a good plan?” Prowl questioned, preparing to fight.

As much as they tried to overwhelm the Prime, things were not looking good for the Autobots.

“We’re getting our afts creamed out here.” Bumblebee remarked as Optimus slammed the combined Jettwins into the ground.

“We need a new strategy.” Ratchet said. “Sentinel! Keep him busy.”

“What now?” the Prime blinked before he was shoved forward. Next thing he knew, a fist landed right against his face.

With Optimus distracted, the others decided they needed to call in reinforcements. Decepticon reinforcements, to be exact. When they finally get there, Starscream just scoffs, thinking that it’s no big deal.

“I mean, how hard can it be to take down one little-“

And then his head is kicked off from behind.

Blitzwing and Lugnut give it a shot, but they don’t fare much better against Optimus. Their only hope now is Megatron, who can, thankfully, keep up with the brainwashed Prime.

During the course of the fight, the Decepticon warlord is high key turned on by the possibility of the Autobot actually killing him. The others notice and are all; “Are you for real?”.

Eventually, Megatron is able to incapacitate Optimus long enough for the rest to free him from his mind control, defeat the Quintessons, and the day is saved. Optimus feels guilty about the whole thing, but the other Autobots assure him it’s not his fault. Megatron, however, says if he wants to make it up to him, that can be arranged in private. Optimus, though not surprised, isn’t particularly against the idea.

No one sees them again for the rest of the day, or the next morning.

Oh, and no one bothered to retrieve Starscream’s head and put it back on his body. So he’s just been laying there the whole time.

(I might make a fic of this one day. Until then, this is just a fun little prompt I thought of)

[revelboo]

man dude u are an absolute GOD with how much writing you keep pumping out THANK YOU FOR FEEDING USSSSSSSSSSS

I’m just having fun

Everything Is Alright Pt 122

IDW Starscream x Reader, Soundwave x Reader, Megatron x Reader

• Optics on the ceiling overhead, on anything but you and your two mates fussing over you, Megatron swallows a growl. That all too familiar feeling of alienation that he remembers from the mines lifting through him. Thought that he'd gotten past this. That it could no longer hurt him, but it's as bitter now as it was back then. Being right there and ignored. Not belonging. And he hates it with a passion. "You two realize this changes everything," he says to Soundwave and Starscream and the Seeker's optics immediately narrow.

• "What exactly does this change?" Starscream growls, hand cupping the back of your head when you finally lay your cheek on his chassis. “I can tend to my mate. I don’t need either of you.” And you stiffen against him. Because as much as he despises the pair of them, you’d chosen them. Wants so much to resent you for that. For forcing him into this mess. They’re not his trine. Not brothers. They’re enemies. Wings drooping slightly then flaring when Soundwave immediately tries to comfort you, he growls. “But my mate does. For some reason.”

• Fighting a smile because that’s probably as civil as Starscream can be given the circumstances, you reach back a hand and Soundwave laces his servos with your fingers. And you’re painfully aware of how messed up whatever this is between the four of you is. That none of them are exactly happy. “Can we just try to start over?” Know you’re asking a lot of them. That this is all your fault anyway. “But you’re so tired of the fighting and scheming.

• “I’m not going to suddenly forget how many times your traitorous little Seeker has stabbed me in the back,” Megatron growls, but he sounds more tired than truly angry. That alone helps Soundwave relax some. Wants to pull you away from Starscream, separate you from him so he can just focus on your emotions. Wanting to try and figure out why you’d fully bonded Megatron after shunning him. It’s what he’d been working towards, but it still hurts that you’d chosen the warlord over him. How many times had he put Megatron ahead of himself, though? Should be used to it. Doing the hard things for the greater good. Even if it hurts. Always loyal. Obedient. Not allowed to want anything for himself, but he does want you even if you don’t want him.

• “Because you’re running the cause into the ground,” Starscream snarls wings lifting and the warlord’s head turns to stare at him. And he’s never been free to speak his mind without fear of pain or retribution, but he can say whatever the pit he wants right now and he’s untouchable because they’re both fully bonded to you. It’s like a dam falling in his processor. All the frustration, hate, and anger pouring out. “Do you have any idea how many stupid decisions you make? How many actions are driven by your desire to kill Optimus, not actual strategy? But what the frag do you know about strategy anyway? A miner and a gladiator. You have so many advisors and you don’t listen to any of us, too busy acting out your little vendetta while the cause suffers. I believed in you.”

• “You only believe in power,” Megatron counters, rolling and propping himself up on an arm. And your skin prickles, not really liking being so small and between them while they argue. Feel Soundwave hook an arm around your middle and pull you to him and away from Starscream like he’s concerned too. “You lie and scheme and paint yourself as a worthy leader, but you’re a coward scrabbling for any power or control you can get your servos on.” Yeah, you don’t want to be anywhere near them if they’re about to brawl. Both tensed like they’re seconds from launching at each other and then slowly relaxing to make you realize you were holding your breath. And Megatron glances at you, vents noisily and resumes staring at the ceiling. “You’re brave with our little pet to protect you.”

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Slowly remembering how to do this/accidentally stabbing myself with the needle so many times. I’m much rustier at this than I thought, though 🫠 looks more like Wheeljack’s illegitimate love child than Starscream at this point. Just a few more pins to finish my bag now

[startheskelaton]

I have a question

How would Megstron, Soundwave, Shockwave, and Starscream react about Sparkplug, Nightflyer, and Soundblaster being together?

In my opinion, Soundwave would be chill about it like:

Others, however...... well..... it be like

Megatron:

Shockwave:

and Starscream:

Yeah that’s pretty accurate.

Soundwave isn’t one to get on Sparkplug about a relationship unless senses that there’s an imbalance of effort. Seeing that all three genuinely care about one another in a deep way then just “I wanna be in a relationship” is good. So he’s chill.

Megatron is very protective as we’ve seen. He also still has an underlying dislike of Starscream, mostly just out of spite (dispute being the reason Starscream is the way he is now). He would definitely not like Nightflyer for multiple reasons, be it he’s not honest, or that his real personality is too annoying or just that he’s related to Starscream in any way. However he can’t help but see a bit of Optimus in him, specifically, the old Orion pax that he used to know. With Soundblaster he’s a little less judgmental, mostly because he sees it as Sparkplug having her equivalent of a Soundwave (a dedicated right hand man). Though he’s still kinda freaked out by him, so he keeps an eye out for the bot.

Shockwave was more pissed over the fact that Megatron’s daughter took away his son’s loyalty to him, basically reenacting when Meg’s and Soundwave left together. He’s more mad about it in a symbolic way rather than a “I care about my son” way. With Nightflyer he’s not worried, because he can count on Nightflyer choosing his family no matter what. So as long as he’s got Starscream under his thumb, Nightflyer isn’t going anywhere.

Starscream is conflicted, because during the war, despite being on different sides of the war, Optimus prime always treated him with respect and dignity. Something that he would remember and weigh heavy on him as he would accidentally kill him, he regrets it dearly too this day. However, Megatron was not only just a leader that led through pure emotion (strategy be damned) but he also pushed Starscream to become the vindictive, shifty and plotting monster he is today. So when seeing Sparkplug… he has to constantly remind himself that she’s part Megatron so he won’t feel sympathy towards her. The same can be said for Soundblaster, the son of the bot that’s using Star as a puppet to control Cybertron? There’s no way this boy isn’t just a way to get more control over Starscream’s family. But yet again, he knows what it’s like to be ignored by your caretaker. So yeah… conflicted

[0wldn0]

Oof I can't imagine Megs exactly being proud of the whole situation with the stunticons. Especially in hindsight. Like at the time it was just another military strategy against the autobots. One that seemed to fail in the long term.

Afterwards though, after switching sides and reforming, he may look back and realize how epically screwed up all that was.

Bonus points if this only really hits him when the stunticons arrive on earth.

YES YES YES!! You get it!! 💥

After the Stunticons' biggest and last failure, Megatron loses all care for them, and doesn't even realise it when they disperse as a team and go on their own ways. He doesn't see them for a LONG time. So I think, after becoming an Autobot, he would be surprised to see Breakdown on Earth. Breakdown's presence would make him question what even happened to the Stunticons, and then would make him remember everything he put them through. It would become another thing that weighs on his mind so much. ((Thinking that maybe he even visited Breakdown in the GHOST cells after BD was caught? Oohh I didn't think of that before! That would be such an interesting interaction! Would probably just end with BD telling him to screw off though.))

When the Stunticons all arrive on Earth, Megatron would be very troubled about it. He does have a feeling that, even though they're probably here for Breakdown mainly, he won't be ignored by them either. But honestly, he really can't blame them. He hopes that they will agree to just talk with him. ((Even though he also knows that this is a completely false hope.))

When the Stunticons, as Menasor, finally start their attack on the Autobots on Earth, it is a huge battle that causes a lot of destruction. I imagine that it ends when Megatron comes to the conclusion that he should accept what the Stunticons want to do to him. He thinks that it's what he deserves and needs to do to really make amends. Despite all the orders from Optimus to move, he stands still, and kneels down. ((Perfectly mirroring the time Motormaster apologised to the Stunticons.)) He waits for Menasor to finish him off.

But it doesn't. It just stands there and stares at Megatron. Motormaster is absolutely baffled because this feels so wrong. This isn't the Megatron she remembers, and she feels like even if she kills him now, she will not feel the satisfaction that she thought she would feel all this time.

[lord-squiggletits]

i know i’m late to the conversation—i just watched the movie this month—but i feel compelled to say this because i was genuinely shocked (still am) to see that the overwhelming takeaway for many viewers was the "d-16/megatron was right" bs. while it’s understandable to sympathize with his anger and grief, justifying his actions in the end or framing them as entirely right feels so deeply misguided. what surprised me even more was the tendency to shift the blame on orion/optimus, as though he was solely responsible for d-16’s downfall. it’s disheartening to see orion/optimus being villainized so much. his efforts to reason with d-16 came from a place of desperation and hope, as he tried to prevent the escalation of violence. at that point, d-16 had already begun to spiral into his unchecked rage, disregarding the safety of those around him. to see that nuance overlooked, with orion being faulted for a situation that was far beyond his control (the whole "don't be like sentinel" thing is often used to shit on op lol), is genuinely baffling.

while i love that the movie showed the tragedy of d-16’s arc and even empathize with his situation, painting his actions as justified—and vilifying orion/optimus in the process—feels like a misreading of the movie’s core message. sorry but i was so happy to see your post about the movie, it was tiring to see so many 'megatron was right about this and that' comments.

Oh man if you're new to this fandom, you really ought to know that this place is full of people who glorify terrorism and war in the name of "justified revolution" and it doesn't really matter what Dee/Megatron does or how horrible/over-the-top it is, he's oppressed or he's mentally ill or he's just plain upset which means that everything he does is justified and questioning him makes you evil.

It's so funny because I hoped for sure that a continuity where both OP and Megatron were working class individuals before the war would reduce this kind of shit take (compare to something like archivist/librarian OP and gladiator Megs in TFP or CBV, or cop OP and miner Megs in IDW1), but unfortunately this fandom literally still found a way to blame Orion for everything even though he suffered the exact same things Dee did..... and furthermore Orion literally was the rebel challenging the system compared to Dee who wanted to keep his head low and not cause trouble so honestly at this point I just think the fandom (and somehow new fans whose first exposure to TF is this movie) purely sides with Megatron on everything as either a knee-jerk reaction or some misguided attempt at being counterculture and intelligent.

People get sooooo mad when you tell them that unbridled rage and killing everyone who disagrees with you isn't a good social/political strategy, but then again this is a problem that is universal to humanity and not just the Transformers fandom. It's just a shame that so many people looked at a movie that blatantly spells out what the moral of the story is, and has all of the protagonists be working class oppressed people fighting against a tyrannical system, and their takeaway from it is still basically "fascism is okay if you're mad enough about it and if your friends try to stop you it's a sign that they're centrist liberals who think punching Nazis makes you as bad as a Nazi." It's childish black-and-white thinking masquerading as critical literary analysis.

And at this point people pretty much just don't give a shit about Orion/Optimus and will find a way to make him the villain no matter what the context is, no matter if he also has feelings or if he also deserves to be respected/listened to/validated as Megatron's long-time (possibly lifelong) friend. If ppl look at the way Dee treated Orion and their other friends and DON'T see what was concerning about that then there's really no saving them until they deradicalize a little and learn what usually happens when "kill all the bad people until society is a utopia" is implemented as a governing party's primary strategy.

[ooc-your-local-tyrant]

Hello! I just saw your last post and I also checked the replies. Do you have a story for Optimus in your AU Megatron? I can try to roleplay him! I'm no artist, but I'd search for Op pics, both in the show and the comics. :3

The main story pretty much follows the comics for how they met, but if you haven't read them I'll give a discription below the cut. I'll also post a few comic panels of their interactions to help you get a feel for him.

As for what you need to know about au optimus,

They weren't friends in the past and never met eachother until armada attacked the city.

Optimus does not know about armadas past or where he came from

He has the star saber and kept armadas horn as a trophy. Sometimes he reminds him about it

Optimus was once in the autobot academy and became a leader after megatron attacked

His personality is a mix between the show and comics

And I believe that's everything!

My rp blog doesn't follow a specific timeline, I sorta jump around events, so don't worry if you get something wrong! We can do past and present rps!

when megs was raiding minicon cities, one of them managed to send a distress signal to an autobot city called cyber city. the autobots received this message and went to check it out but when they got there the city was completely raided and empty. Rumors started going around about the decepticons but many had never seen one so they claimed the decepticons to be myths.

The decepticons continued to raid minicon cities and every time they did the autobots would always be too late because megs was one step ahead of them. After all the cities were raided and 99% of the minicons captured, megatron decided to wage war. His men and army of clones would move out and they'd soon arrive at the very city megatron had lived in for so long, the very city that caused a majority of his suffering. Cyber city.

Megatron announced his new rule and his demands and the autobots showed up to intercept his attack. However, with the power of the minicons the decepticons were able to defeat them and the city was taken. The autobots fled the city but regrouped and tried to reinforce any neighboring cities. Whike the autobots were occupied with that, Megatron rebuilt cyber city in his image and set up his cloning facility and a training arena, making the city a decepticon haven.

With his numbers doubling by the hour due to the cloning facility, it wasn't long before he began attacking the other cities as well. With his decepticons boosted by minicon power, they were practically unstoppable and the autobots had to resort to guerilla tactics to even have a chance.

The minicons did escape eventually, but not all of them, the decepticons still had their unfortunate minicons at hand and they continued to use them. The war went on for 4 million years until the minicons suddenly resurfaced and the battle was moved to earth.

(Everything beyond this point happens over the span of 10 years on earth)

Unlike the show, the decepticons and autobots both have bases on earth with the decepticons being in silver ridge Nebraska and the autobots being in the usual location by the city. The minicons, interestingly enough, were the ones on the moon and they turned their ship into a well fortified fortress to protect themselves from megatron.

Both sides did not know about the minicons on the moon until they sent a ship down to earth to collect the others. This action caught the attention of the autobots and decepticons, but due to their flight advantage, the decepticons were the only ones who could go there.

Megatron got too excited to obtain all these minicons, so they charged in without thinking. They got fired apoun and had to regroup making megatron realize that he needed a different strategy. He found a driller and used it to dig underneath the base and infiltrate it, bypassing it's defenses. Leader 1 led megs into a trap and tried to kill him while the other minickns escaped to earth, leaving the decepticons on the moon.

They salvaged what they could and headed back to earth where the search continued.

And that's pretty much the story! Here's some interactions to enjoy

[cybertron-after-dark]

More questionable tfa headcanons

-Bumblebee and Bulkhead do impressions of Optimus behind his back. Bulkhead actually feels kinda bad about it but that does not stop him. Prowl is not immune to joining in. OP still hasn't caught them.

-Optimus really wants to adopt a dog once he's positive he could adequately take care of one. He loves the idea of keeping a big grey one and naming him Silverbolt, after Silverbolt Major from the great war. It just feels right.

-Starscream will never admit to listening to the dumb sound patterns humans call music, but in private he's a swiftie, and he WILL sing shake it off if nobody's watching.

-Lugnut bakes in his off time, and he keeps trying to spoil Megatron with little treats, as his grand and glorious master deserves little gifts and tributes whenever Lugnut can give them. Sadly, Megatron doesn't actually have much of a sweet tooth so most of Lugnut's edible gifts get passed off to someone else.

-you know that bit in the Allspark almanac where Lugnut is bitching about earth sports and the Tigatron stadium? He has such strong feelings because Blitzwing loves that shit and keeps trying to rope Lugnut into playing. For Blitzwing, it reminds him of his gladiator days, it's a way to have fun and reminisce without killing someone. For Lugnut, it can't compare, it's kinda just a watered down, wussified version of real gladiatorial combat.

-upon discovering ytps, both bumblebee and bulkhead trained their voice synthesizers to be able to mimic the edited sounds. Sometimes they'll use it in the middle of a fight as a sort of secret code so the cons can't pick up on what they're planning to counter it. Optimus has mixed feelings. He doesn't understand what the hell they're saying like 90% of the time, and he recognizes this isn't proper military strategy, but he can't argue with the results. At least they're sort of taking the fights seriously?

-Blitzwing and Blackarachnia fucking hate each other but Megatron frowns upon infighting, so instead of constant violence, they've sort of settled on an escalating cold war of inconveniences and irritants. Neither of them can throw a punch, or set anything up that would result in actual injury, but immobilizing via ice or webs is fine, provided it doesn't affect tactical matters. Blitzwing constantly freezes the locks on BA's door, BA spikes Blitzwing's energon with cyber venom, pretty much anything that could qualify as day ruining. The worst was when Blitzwing covered BA with electronic paint and turned her into a walking rainbow all day.

-prowl wants to volunteer at animal shelters but he's a bit too big to fit in most of the buildings

-both shockwave and starscream are horrible liars but Megatron is terrible at picking up when someone's lying, so starscream's scheming went unnoticed for years and shockwave was sent in as a spy with full confidence that he wouldn't blow his cover.

-ratchet and optimus have been teaching Sari bits of cybertronian. Optimus teaches her the more formal aspects of the language, given there's a high chance she'll be interacting with Ultra Magnus, the guilds domesticus, and other high ranking autobots that warrant a more formal address. Ratchet (Mr "don't call me sir, I work for a living") teaches her more day to day, informal cybertronian. And swears. He teaches her pretty much all the swears.

-when Sari moved in, Optimus learned to cook so she wouldn't have to live off fast food from the burger bot. Which was hell for the big guy because why in primus's name is human fuel so complicated? He used to think sugar was pretty much an energon equivalent, cut and dry. He was wrong. He was so wrong. OP usually has Sari help him out because he cant exactly taste it to make sure it's, you know, actually edible.

-Prowl loves animals and the natural parts of earth with all his spark, but man are some parts of it brutal. When he learned what a parasitoid wasp was he couldn't sleep for days.

-bulkhead actually wants to go to a human art college once the war's over. Maybe not full time but he definitely wants to pick up some classes and learn what he can. Once he gets good enough, he wants to bring that knowledge back to Cybertron and see what other bots do with it.

-Optimus has a collection of skeezy romance novels. The equivalent on Cybertron is kind of an obscure rarity, only really sold in the seediest of places, so he couldn't really believe how easy it was to find smut like that on Earth. The intrinsic human fleshiness of the book characters always weirds him out just a bit, but not enough to ruin it for him. It's not really the pornographic aspect he's interested in, after all, it's the romantic aspect. He keeps his digital stash double encrypted in his datatrax, because he knows if anyone found it (cough cough bumblebee cough) he'd never hear the end of it.

-giving Blitzwing internet access was a mistake. Now he knows what memes are and random has been making that every other decepticon's problem since he found out. Megatron has to constantly guess whether what would normally be a standard Blitzwing non sequitur is actually a setup for Megatron to get laughed at by the entire human internet. He's fallen for updog, he's fallen for Ligma, he will NOT be caught slipping again.

-while he was undercover, once a week, shockwave would call Megatron and complain over a few barrels of oil about what kind of stupid slag his pompous idiot crankshaft coworkers would pull. One of the few autobot names Megatron could remember was Sentinel Prime, solely from the long list of transgressions Shockwave has drunkenly recounted.

-Soundwave hates most humans but he's decided that a few specific bands whose music he likes will be spared when the revolution comes, inferior as they may be.

-Prowl sends jazz earth music sometimes. It's pretty much blown Jazz's mind because most of the music on Cybertron is propaganda songs. He's not really used to songs about things other than war heroes, or even songs with no words at all. Just music for its own sake.

-Sentinel Prime's only friend is Cliffjumper and Cliffjumper only hangs out with him for brown nosing sycophantic reasons, not because he actually likes the guy.

-Ultra Magnus knows he's a corrupt bastard. He doesn't lose sleep over it, as long as his public image is good.

[lara-prism-light]

If my Transformers AU was a Moba game (like LoL): Optimus Prime

Dialogues:

Start of Match: "Autobots, transform and roll out!"

Common dialogue: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” "We will not give up until peace is restored." "For Cybertron! For Earth!"

Tunt: "That was Prime... Okay that was terrible."

Joke: "Can you say that I am... more than meets the eye?"

Interactions: 

To Bumblebee: “You didn't need to join this war, But I admire your bravery". "Your voice will be heard again." "Cliffjumper just cares about you, don't blame him."

To Elita-One: "When we were looking for peace, that's not what we wanted, is it?" "I miss your songs." "I trust your judgement, but you should be stricter with me." "I'm your leader, but that doesn't change anything between us."

To Prowl: "Your sense of justice is admirable, but I would like to say the same about your morality." "Everyone has potential beyond their initial function." "You and that beastformer... you know what, I'm not even going to ask." "Jezz says you have a temper, I don't think he knows what a temper looks like." "We're clergy, but that doesn't mean I'll tolerate bad treatment among my own."

To Ratchet: "You always think of others before yourself, maybe a change would be good?" "Your support will always be welcome."

To Arcee: "You have a lot of spirit for a small bot." "Your curiosity will kill you one day, and I would love for it not to happen." "What was it like to be an explorer?" "Be careful not to get hurt!" "Pay attention to your surroundings."

To Ultra Magnus: "It's an honor to fight alongside you." "I hope Rod isn't too much trouble for you." "I wish I could have met you before the war, I believe we would have become good friends."

To WheelJack: "Let's find them, all of them." "Your inventions always surprise me. Usually in a negative way." "Can you not blow things up for five minutes?" "Now I understand why Ratchet tells me not to take my eye off you."

To Hot Rod: "This is not a game, Hot Rod, focus on the mission!" "You're worried about Bee, aren't you? Yeah, me too." "Ultra Magnus talked about you. We need to talk..."

To Jazz: "Jazz... never change." "Your trust in Prowl is admirable, but you don't need to defend his every decision." "You have a good spark, too big even for you."

To Ironhide: "You blame them too much, old friend." "I understand your anger, but don't let it dominate you." "I've seen firsthand what anger can do to a person..."

Against Decepticons:

To Megatron: "What happened to our dreams?" "I know there is still good in you." "I never chose to carry the Matrix." "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings... And that includes you." "We were brothers once, what changed?"

To Starscream: "It's hard to trust you, but it's also hard not to sympathize." "Your desire for power will be your destruction." "Actions have consequences, learn from them.", "I wish I could help, but I question whether I should.". "Your pain is not deserved, but much less is the pain you impose on others." "I'm sorry for what he did to you..." "You still have someone by your side, don't make the same mistake I did, don't turn your back on them."

To Barricade: "Prowl trusted you." "His violence always disturbed me..." "You can't impose your twisted vision of justice on others!" "It's ironic how much you hated criminals..."

To Any of the Seeker: "Are you satisfied with what you do?" "I always heard that Seekers were a hive mind. And I preferred to believe otherwise." "Individuality is what you all deserve."

To Soundwave: "I've heard a lot about you, but never much from you." "You were the one who started the cause, weren't you?" "Megatron trusts you more than anyone else, you must feel honored, right?" "You're a quiet type, aren't you?"

To Shockwave: "You were a brilliant scientist... What did they do to you..?". "Wheeljack trusted you... and you betrayed him."

To Breakdown: "Your strength is brute, but you lack strategy." "You could do a lot more, but you waste it on competitions."

To Tarantulas: "You've been here longer." "You and Prowl seem to have a history." "Your experiments are as terrible as Shockwave's!"

Don't take this too seriously, I did it just for fun lol. But I will say, there are some clues to the story here.👀

[nsokolow]

Transformers One: Charoite

Chapter Fourteen

Charoite was grateful her walk with B wasn’t too…eventful. A few long stares, some angry, some surprised, but no confrontations or chases. Now she was just happy to lay low with B in a nearly empty arts and crafts store.

“You know, I’ve been considering getting a Micronus Prime decal for my room.” B stared at the yellow and silver decal that hung in a line of identical ones. “I’ve only decorated a little so far, since I haven’t been there too long either. I also have his cog! Did I mention that?”

“What?” Charoite exclaimed as she nearly dropped her Megatronus Prime decal. “How?”

“Well, when you were stranded on the surface, we actually were, too! Well, specifically, me, Optimus, Elita, and Megatron. We found a cave, looked around, and we found the thirteen Primes! It turned out Alpha Trion was still alive, but was unconscious, and he told us the whole ‘Sentinel killing the Primes and taking our cogs’ story. He gave us the cogs of some of the Primes, and I got Micronus’ cog.”

“Wow! That’s amazing!” Charoite’s face dropped. “Well, the ‘getting the cogs’ part of the story is. Can I see it?”

“Sure!” B opened his chest plate.

Charoite stared into his chest. She didn’t care that the cog looked just the same as anyone else’s. It belonged to a Prime and was given to him by another Prime! How lucky he was!”

“Let me guess, he was a miner?” A bot chuckled and walked away.

Charoite straightened her back. She realized how weird she must have looked, bent over and staring into B’s chest plate.

“So, you gonna get any more decorations?” B closed his chest plate.

“Uh, I think I’m good for now.” Charoite picked up her basket, which had a large Megatronus decal, and a decal roll patterned with vibrant blue swirls and diamonds.

Her mission. Charoite remembered she needed to get information.

“So, B…” Charoite began, “…have any battles coming up? Maybe I could be of help to the Autobots?”

B looked like he was almost going to laugh. “Uh, battles coming up? I mean, we don’t schedule battles. Megatron and his bots only attacked about three times, and there doesn’t seem to be a scheduled pattern…”

Charoite let out a high-pitched chuckle. “Okay, it was kinda dumb to ask if battles were coming up. Any strategies that you guys use that helped you win?”

Charoite felt some relief when B seemed to struggle to think about it. Maybe there were no secrets or special strategies, and she could just have nothing to report to Megatron and it wouldn’t be anyone’s fault! No longer would she have to feel conflicted!

“Oh!” B raised a finger. “I’ve got one!”

Aw scrap.

“The tunnels! We’ve never had to use them yet, but we’ve talked about how they would be good for sneaking up on Decepticons in case they broke into our place.”

Charoite nodded. “Huh. Guess they would be good for that.”

Okay, so not the most helpful secret, but it was something. The thought of the tunnels being used that way never occurred to her. Before, she had only thought of them as places she could hide if bots were chasing her. Maybe the Decepticons could sneak in through the tunnels….if they knew where the tunnels were!

“So, that’s it?” Charoite asked.

“Yeah. Us Autobots don’t really have any other secrets. Maybe we’ll get more secrets when we’ve been around longer! Exciting, huh?”

“Totally!” Charoite held up her thumb.

Yes! Something to tell Megatron! Charoite was thrilled! Not to mention, the Autobots having this one secret made her job easier. She however had a nagging feeling. Something telling her not to tell Megatron.

“Well, you wanna go to checkout?” Charoite glanced at the checkout area. “There’s only one customer there right now.”

“Okay, good!” B headed towards the checkout area. “I mean, not as many bots to talk to, or watch buy things that show us what their lives are like, but at least we’ll check out faster!”

“So, were you planning to go anywhere else?” B asked as they stood outside the store with their bags.

“Well…I wasn’t planning to, but…” Charoite wanted to stall on her call with Megatron as much as possible. She dreaded it more and more. She didn’t know if Megatron wanted her to call today, since he already called her, but she didn’t want to chance him getting upset if he didn’t get a call he expected. B was so kind and funny and fun to be around, and so willing to protect her—clearly not just because of a sense of duty.

“I know!” B began, “There’s a race going on soon. It’s provided by Maccadam’s Lounge. I’ve been thinking about going; a lot of the contestants are aspiring Iacon 5000 racers, so maybe we could—”

“—Yeah!” Charoite nearly spilled her bag as she threw her arms in the air. “Do they let anyone sign up at the last minute? I’ve been dreaming of racing in the Iacon 5000 since forever, and I was gonna be in it this year, but…yeah.”

“Well, I don’t know all the details, and I’ve only been to Maccadam’s race once. Maybe you could!”

Charoite’s spark sunk. “If they let anyone sign up last minute, do you think they’d even let me? You know…because of the Sentinel thing?” She also wondered how many bots would even be cheering for her. When Sentinel introduced her to Iacon, she heard so many cheers. Now at least half of those bots probably hated her now.

B’s face dropped. “Oh. Well, I’ll push for you if they try to not let you race.”

Charoite smiled. “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome.” B flung his arm back around Charoite. “Let’s go!

Charoite laughed at B’s bag hitting her arm.

“Two tickets, please!” B slid his money towards a bot in a booth.

The burly, stone-faced bot widened his eyes at the sight of B. His eyes slightly narrowed when he looked past him at Charoite. He printed two tickets and slid them over the counter without a word.

“Thank you! Have a great day, sir!” B grabbed Charoite’s hand and walked away. He stopped short. “Oh! Wait!”

Charoite nearly encouraged B to keep walking. B was clearly about to ask the bot about joining the race last-minute, and she feared what the bot would say.

“My friend here was wondering if anyone’s allowed to join the race like, anytime? Like, now? She’s dreamt of being in the Iacon 5000, and almost did, until—”

“Thank you!” Charoite’s voice wavered as she held a hand up.

The bot rolled his eyes. “Well, the maximum racer capacity is thirty, and we have twenty-eight racers, so if you want to see about joining, ask the ref. He’s probably sitting at one of the front seats.”

“Twenty-eight racers?” Charoite asked. She turned to B. “Maybe you could join?”

“Oh yeah! That’s perfect! Two spots, and two of us! We could be a team, but competing against each other!”

A bot behind them transformed into a car and honked. She transformed back. “Hey, some of us are waiting for tickets, here!”

“Oh, right. Come on!” B grabbed Charoite’s hand and ran through the gates.

“You two want to sign up?”

A red bot, his name tag reading A-150, crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes. Charoite and B were able to tell he was the referee, since he wore a “Maccadam’s Race” decal across his chest plate, and he spoke to the racers who stood on the track.

“You’re B-127, am I right?” A-150 pointed at B.

“Yes!” B pointed with both hands. “Glad to meet a fan!”

Charoite missed being able to say that. She hoped an unfair controversy wouldn’t someday hit B.

A-150 gave an unenthusiastic chuckle. “Yeah, well, okay. I’ll let you race, but I’m afraid your friend here can’t.”

“What?” Charoite and B exclaimed in unison.

Charoite didn’t know why she was surprised.

“I know who you are, Chariot.” A-150’s bitter look turned into a full-on frown. “I can’t have this noble race’s reputation tarnished by having a traitor like yourself fly.” His demeanor softened as he turned back to B. “So, if you’ll follow me to the registration screen.”

“Charoite.” Charoite sneered.

“No way.” B crossed his arms. “Either we both race, or I don’t.”

A-150 shrugged. “Eh, suit yourself.”

A-150 walked away and struck up a conversation with the race’s energon-provider.

“Look, B, if you want to race…”

“No,” B replied, the same amount of conviction in his voice. “I don’t wanna race when my friend can’t race.”

Charoite’s spark warmed at “friend.”

“Come on, Charoite. I see some empty seats in the front.”

Charoite didn’t follow him. A spark of excitement was ignited.

“Charoite?”

Charoite looked back at him with a devious grin. “I believe our red friend said there was a registration screen?”

[blueikeproductions]

A new CyberWorld character file dropped, and it’s Bumblebee this time.

Seems they’re trying to get the core popular ones out of the way first. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got Megatron and Starscream next, but I hope not so we see what we get with Elita and Mirage first.

So now that we have three of these, why don’t we see what we have here.

These are functionally the modern equivalent to old Tech Specs the toys used to come with, that give you a bio and general stats for how powerful each Bot is.

While Tech Specs have been phased out in the modern era, probably some hog wash about kids not wanting to read, they do occasionally crop up again in reissue collector toys.

As for these, the CyberWorld stats are divided as such:

Defense

Speed

Strength

Attack

Brains

Targeting/Shooting

Rank

All of these are in approximation with the old tech specs of yore, and they give us a general idea of what the three Autobots are like.

Optimus is the, well, optimized one being balanced in near all areas with speed not being his immediate strong suit.

Bumblebee is high speed that excels in shooting, with low strength.

Grimlock is a tank, but is speed is skrud and his targeting is so so, so perhaps that’s why this version can Combine with others to enhance is targeting and firepower.

In the past, the tech specs didn’t factor much into the stories, but with the new show looking to have video game challenges, such stats make more sense in an era more meticulous about Pokémon and Smash Bros strategy.

Also noteworthy is this.

Bumblebee is actually using the gun accessory his toy comes with.

Actually selling certain gimmicks has always been a bit of a a coin flip, with the anime series usually being better at marketing yhr gimmicks like Mini-Cons.

Prime pretty infamously did not incorporate the Predacons and weaponized well, only focusing on Predaking, and killing off the other generic Predacons as soon as possible.

RiD and Rescue Bots implemented its toy gimmicks better but it wasn’t quite there either.

Cyberverse was pry the worst offender, with the toy line loaded with weaponry and clip on armor that the show ultimately didn’t use, mostly due to budget and the staff admitting on social media they had no idea what to do with it. Oh I dunno, how about playing with your toys for ideas to get kids invested instead of writing bad stereotypical Twit-Tum fan fiction on social media.

Fiddling with the toys is how we got ideas like this.

So I’m hoping there’s some effort being put into this to make the toys look cool to play with.

Lest we get this in the toys again…

but a crappy space ship mode and Tron suits in the show, divorced from the toy line.

[istherewifiinhell]

while im here, lets get this out the door. this one... is weird

[ID: An artificial life form that its in the shape of a large golden women's head declares herself. "...I am Auntie!" END]

tfuk arc Raiders of the Last Arc! getit? huh?? issues 18-21 early summer 1985.

Script: Simon Furman Art: Mike Collins and Jeff Anderson Colours: Gina Hart Letters: Richard Starkings (18,20,21) John Aldrich (19) Editor: Sheila Cranna Original Series Edits by Shelia Cranna and Ian Rimmer, Editorial notes and assistance by James Roberts, Collection Edits by Justin Eisinger and Alonzo Simon, Collection Design by Shawn Lee

my eyes may be skimming the preambles at this point but i caught glimpse of something like "weird they never reprinted this one" bud. ill tell u why. its not very good. its not, horrid. its pretty much just. oh yeah. this is a marvel tf comic...

which, if you trying to make the argument that all tfuk are unique and sophisticated and BETTER than the US ones, or just tryna make a dollar on the iconic stories.... you skip this one!!!

but in this house, we support preservation and revisiting of ANY art. including if it flops. and today that means you'll get a few black and white panels. huh? isnt that neat. you excited???

we'll get to it all. But first. Lets check out the funny pages.

[ID: The back part of a panel with crudely drawn Autobots and Decepticons floating about, being restrained. Its charmingly goofy. END]

[ID: Jazz firing off his flamethrower and saying "Let's see if Jazz can make things hot for you Soundwave!" Soundwave, a little singed but unbothered replying "Very impressive,but my armour's more than a match for your weapon…a pity the same cannot be said of yours..!" END]

are you two... flirting?

anyway, ill bite. who's autie...

As her troops fell, the computerised brain of the Ark swung into operation… Auntie, as she had been nicknamed, evaluated internal defences, calculated probabilities and finally arrived at the only logical course of action…

oh...

[ID: Optimus looking towards an Ark security camera thinking "It would be another matter if the ark's defences were active, but Auntie controlled those directly…" He opens the door to a dark room, declaring to himself "Auntie! Of course! Until now, we've merely used the basic computer functions of the ark, but Auntie was far more than that… She was the Ark! If I can get her to even a fraction of her operational capacity… END]

oh. the space ship is a woman. right

[ID: Caption box: And if Windcharger could have seen the tableau unfolding in the nerve centre of the Ark, he might have felt his fears justified. Auntie, who in scale is at least twice the height of Optimus or Megatron, using an unseen force to hold them captive. Optimus pleads reason: You must believe me Auntie, you brought us here from Cybertron and you were damaged in the battle with those murderous Decepticons... Megatron lying: No! That isn't what happened. As I've already told you, we were on a mercy mission. The traitorous Autobots sabotaged it - Forced you to crash. END]

correction. the spaceship is now a crazy women who might kill them all. awesome. lol. THANKS TF <3 what i always wanted >_>... (even if i do like the chance to see my guy's rhetoric strategies)

anyway pause all that we have a buddy cop adventure (no 20)

[ID: Splash page that includes the arc title and creative credits. Windcharger and Ravage walking the halls of the arc, arguing. Caption boxes: Alone, Ravage And Windcharger Are unaffected by Auntie's magnetic force… They eye each other suspiciously, each suspecting treachery, each distrusting the other they are sworn enemies these two… But today they are Allies! Ravage: This goes against my every instinct! I dislike working with others at the best of times... But to have to fight alongside a puny Autobot..! Windcharger: Silence, you aggravating creature! I'm as unhappy with the situation as you… but for now it's unavoidable. Just keep those sensors of yours alert for… END]

they really like ravage in these comics lmao.

[ID: Ravage gloating, with destroyed machinery flaming and smoking in his mouth, one paw raised to hold it. He looks over his shoulder to Windcharger saying "There, impressed?" Windcharger looks aggravated. END]

SMUG BEAST. are YOU flirting.

[ID: B&W panel. Both reacting to something unseen, Ravage in a ready stance, possible aggressive or alarmed. Windcharger, slightly behind him looking scared/startled. END]

he said NO PICKLES!

okay back to the hostage situation

ID: B&W panels. Optimus and Megatron still surround by a field of energy restraining them. Optimus his eyes glowing, says "You fool, Megatron! Do you think for a moment that she'll let one of us just walk away? She's playing with us. Unless we break free she'll slaughter us all!" Megatron has a brow raised: Oh… I see. Yes, you could be right. Well, in that case… I may be able to set us free! END]

ACTUALLY. hysterical. sorry i see any extremely funny megs moments and im like. how beast wars of him. i like other meg's too but. fgsdj. well...

btw he has a connection to a black hole? always has?? its from the toy box or smth idk

[ID: In colour again. Caption boxes: Optimus Prime and Megatron await the judgement of Auntie. But, while she considers her verdict, Megatron concentrates... A strange, unearthly energy flows around him, threatening to engulf him... But he is Megatron, and he will make the power serve him! In full body, Megatron is tensed in effort, teeth grit. A dark and sparkling energy wreaths around him.

ENTER: his dark magical girl era....

[ID: Caption box: Megatron lands well, Optimus Prime does not! Smaller drawings, Megatron lands daintily on the point of one foot, his arms raised above his head, somewhat like a dancer. Optimus plummets like a heap, landing on his side, thigh and forearm slamming into the ground. END]

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. lol

[ID: Tiny drawing. Megatron hands still raised, gracefully. One hand wreathed in glowing energy, being directed near Prime, still on the ground. END]

hes a beauty, hes a grace, he wants... to melt your face.

oh yeah anyway ravage gets auntie

[ID: Caption box: But Ravage is faster... Ravage leaping passed or perhaps INTO Auntie's open mouth as she screams "Nooooo" Ravage tearing into whatever golden mechanical workings make up her physical being. Caption box: And Auntie 'dies' for a second time. END]

cool. i love what we did here today. really valuable addition to the lore. and a win for feminism

and then windcharger launched megatron out of the arc thru the volcano and into space. no yeah. he can do that i guess.

its dumb, tho also funny. it hates women. its comics. GOODBYE.

[ID: Tiny drawing of Ravage pouncing. END]

[steelthroat]

🏷👻💌

? :>

Oh hello helloooo and thanks for the ask :333

Sooooo

🏷-is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics?

Hmmmm, I've started doing so recently because I was looking for political/arranged marriage megop fics... (there's scarcity, oh my god) but other than that nope.

💌- mh... good question. I don't really know how to answer, I haven't really found a style or a trope that I would say is my favorite to write... mh does crack treated seriously count? It's not a trope tho... uh- the stuck together/unfortunate coincidences made them do it(?) trope maybe????? Ajshhdhfhfh

👻- wildest headcanons:

Actually I don't think I have many...

Megatron and his Thing for electricity

Optimus is able to give anyone parental issues just by talking to them

Megatron's opinions about the Italian authors I'm studying (it's my newfound strategy to study and remember more things. Also because for some things I can make parallelisms, "rosso malpelo" I'm looking at you)

Rung is actually a terrible therapist but atm he's the only one left so they're going to him while the others finish their training (HE IS A HORRIBLE THERAPIST LOOK AT THE COMICS COME ONNNNNN)

Soundwave taught Megatron how to dance and they are the best Decepticons on the dance floor

To run a bar, you gotta have a degree in chemistry first because you could inadvertently kill someone because of a chemical reaction you didn't know would happen mixing [x] with [y]

[startheskelaton]

Just a thought: one spark au but all there are gods, goddesses, deities, heroes and various monsters like in ancient Greek mythology

You… have no IDEA… how obsessed with Mythology I am. AAAAUUYGGHHHHHG!!!! ITS SO HARD TO PUT TOGETHER WHAT CHARACTER WOULD BE WHAT GOD BECAUSE ALL OF THEM HAVE SO MUCH SYMBOLOGY AND LORE!! AAAAHUUHYHGGHHHHH!!!

Like for example!!! Megatron and Elita would be perfect as Ares and Athena. Both are two sides of the same war. The brutal violence and senseless killings of war… vs the cold blooded strategy and noble honor of it. You may say “Wouldn’t Optimus prime be Athena since he’s Megatron’s other half…”…. No… he’d be Hestia, god of home, hearth and family, being he’s the glue that keeps the Autobots good.

However dynamics wise, Megatron and Sparkplug would be perfect as Demeter and Persephone. Forget everything you’ve learned from feminist retelling of Persephone, Demeter was not in the wrong for crashing out after her daughter was stolen behind her back okay? Have you seen most of the gods? She had a reason to be overprotective!! However at the same time, it’s been theorized that Persephone is a MUCH older goddess then we believe, existing as a concept before even Hades!! This would be perfect to depict Sparkplug’s strong ass connections to the old primes.

However I do have a really good idea for who some characters could be!!

Nightflyer is a perfect Dionysus. Not only is Dionysus a very old god (to the point he’s just always there), a perfect connection to how Nightflyer was supposed to be a predicon. His whole deal is that he dies and is reborn, the grapes he is associated with rot and becomes the wine that’s his trademark (also perfectly showing how Nightflyer dies and is reborn as a predicon). Both also live to well… live, exist as they are and take part in the joys of raw nature and life.

Soundblaster is a perfect Hephaestus. Both born out of spite and were supposed to be beautiful and perfect. And they were both scored for being ugly, and constantly being overshadowed by the beauty of another , Hephaestus with Ares and Soundblaster with Nightflyer. He is also desperately trying to gain the affection of his arranged wife who’s much more interested in his “brother”. However Sparkplug actually really dose like both Nightflyer and Soundblaster

I really have to work on my webtoon so I’ll cut it off here. I’m just in love with mythology of all kinds (although Greek mythology was the first one I learned about) so I jumped on this question. I’ll probably do more to be honest because I am a yapper . Might do some connections with other mythology’s

[saltysaltdog]

Here's stuff from the junk drawer.

This was originally what I was going to do for megop prompt Marriage before I lost steam for it and swapped to vampires.

It's a vaguely medieval au.

(And unfinished, obviously)

They had met as opponents first. The Fearrous dynasty had released their slaves onto the battlefield as cannon fodder. Megatronus even then had never and would never be canon fodder. He was crafty and managed to obtain one of his soldiers' weapons: Optimus had been a Knight at the time and had command of a whole fleet. 

Orion had been in agony for the past five years. He'd been regularly exchanging letters with Megatronus, the renowned gladiator, though he hadn't always been.

He escaped that battle, then the next. They clashed over and over, soon finding themselves fighting on the battlefields fighting one on one.

He was unskilled then however, which was the only reason he was captured. 

Even kneeling he was a ferocious looking creature, silvery grey like a walking corpse, with optics that burned like meteor strikes, omens of disaster that aimed directly at you as if to claim your life next.

He didn't speak neocyprex, the language of Iacon and other allied territories, but that didn't matter. He was clever. He settled the matter with a single word.

"Slave."

"I beg your pardon?!" The guardsman had sputtered, so Megatron repeated it. 

"Slave Thorn, Slave wynn, Slave Yogh."

He gestured his head to members behind him and tilted his head in challenge.

They had done nothing wrong. The first fight had been more akin to a slaughter than anything. Everyone there knew it. Every clash against the fleeing group had also been started by the knights. It would be a sin to harm any of them further.

Plus, as Megatronus had them cheekily translate, hadn't he already been so kind as to lead them to every secret fortress in the sands? 

He was taken in as a prisoner of war, then was forced into gladiatorial combat. At least, that had been Optimus's understanding. Megatron told it differently, that he had chosen his fate. 

He surmounted impossible odds. Killed exotic beasts spectacularly. Any other gladiator could have paid their fees a hundred times over to be free from debt and live a simple existence. 

He had taken on the name Megatronus then, and Optimus had written to him, expressing his want to help… Megatronus had written back the most condescending letter he had ever received. He wrote back, and got much the same. 

It was an experience, and when Optimus saw an opportunity to make a recommendation he did, pulling some strings to have an offer made. Destroy the Fearrous dynasty and become a free man: become a soldier.

Somehow instead Megatronus was a mercenary, hired out to the Iacon kingdoms. When they met on the battlefield it was as Newly appointed Prime and subordinate. 

Speaking in person was slow to adjust to, but when back to back, against insurmountable odds he wouldn't have anyone else by his side. Megatron was just as infuriating, but smoothed tongued as well, charming, compelling. They spoke politics, strategy, and occasionally fine literature and philosophy. 

When Optimus was pulled away from the battlefield Megatron continued alone. Where he went bots laid down their arms, some just upon the very sight of him. They knew him, they shouted his name. 

He conquered. 

Iacon granted him a title and the Land of Kaon– As Megatron, since he couldn't have the name Megatronus. Through skirmishes he took over the rest of the southern hemisphere, if in spirit and not paper. The southern Warlord. 

And then he got married.

Orion let his head hit the desk. 

Or almost married to be precise. The other bot had run off before the wedding could take place. 

Megatron had built up the most terrifying reputation imaginable. Invincible gladiator, extremely cunning, likely to continue his craving for more bloodshed by turning his sight on Iacon next. 

It wasn't hearing him laugh like they were the only two people in the world. It wasn't seeing the grace of how he held a sword. It wasn't his stray attitude even with a blade to his neck, never flustered. It wasn't feeling the heat of his body at his back, trusty and stable in battle. 

And somehow Optimus had been complacent with the idea that no-one would even consider the idea of marriage with him. They had never been… to be honest at the time Optimus had been too overwhelmed to spare him much more than a glance from across the room. But with time and the sudden shock, suddenly letters didn't seem like enough. Letters weren't arguing until daybreak and shooting increasingly irritated glances at an increasing number of wry jokes and asides, only some of which at his expense of being so tired. 

Over the years their letters had softened, and there was something, the potential for something there, and it was killing him that someone else might see what he looked like sleeping, might feel if he ran warm outside of battle, received those rare compliments that made a bot feel like he was the only one in the world. 

And then it had been called off. 

He'd sent his condolences of course, but Megatron had only called it  "of no concern." Simply a minor hiccup he had to bear with to continue his later plans.

Optimus had been elated! He wanted to laugh at whoever was stupid enough to run off. He could have him! 

Optimus set about making it so he could get married in the first place. He'd taken vows, he had the matrix for Solus's sake. Matrix bearers couldn't get married, especially ones who had been Prime for a half decade. 

Alpha trion had been against it, and delayed it, forcing Optimus many late nights of postponing his letters. Then Megatron got engaged again.

It had only been a year! How?! 

Slightly revived, he took ink to quill only to find Megatron had already sent him a letter in advance, informing him that these things were to be expected, given his reputation and the sheltered nature of the waif-like creatures sent to him. That he was not damaged by this in any way, and sent his utmost assurance that he was alright, and that Optimus needn't pull himself away from his duties to write a hurried letter at the news. 

He completely gave up on the world for the two months it took for the prospective spouse to run away again. 

Megatron had said he'd laughed at that, and Optimus had felt himself melt at those words more than he ever had before. Megatron had gone on to write however, that "Regrettably," If Optimus tried to visit he would only find an empty estate. And that Megatron had left once again to go south. 

Optimus could only really send him back a letter stating he knew him too well, but not well enough if he didn't expect a letter to be sent out at once and that Optimus would be forcing a visit to his estate to check on him.

It seemed they never got to meet anymore. The only times seemed to be snippets of when all those with titles were expected to make their appearance in the northern territories right beside Iacon right after the ion storms had dissipated. 

Optimus was usually busy with religious obligations around that time, and though Megatron did come to try and get a glimpse of him all aspects of religion seemed disagreeable to him and he rarely stayed for too long. 

It was only natural for Megatron to be gone before the harvest season began, and then winter prevented much travel on the northern territories altogether. 

So all Optimus could really stem himself on was "Regrettably". 

Surely Megatron missed him as much as he did. He braved religion for him, (though that was part of a duty to maintain hold of his title), and he knew him enough to know that if Megatron showed up to the cathedral it was mainly for him than anything else. 

If only he had some excuse to head south himself, perhaps to escape the icy chill of the land, but as if in anticipation of this he was swamped with more work than ever, the rare social calls from older friends travelling down from the North, and by the time he was set to go a freak blizzard had blocked all routes down, which meant of course his letters were partially delayed too.

When the post finally came through however there were a few increasingly worried letters, which had escalated in Megatron sending out inquiries to each town along the pass to ensure Optimus hadn't been caught in the crossfire. 

"Dearest." It was enough to buoy Optimus through the rougher eccentricities of trying to escape his binds, which he had never fully considered before, but even escaping a few of them had already given him an exciting amount of freedom. He hadn't realised how nice having things of his own was. Most of what he used was tied up in community ownership with religious institutions. They had to be handled a certain way and returned as soon as he was done using them. Now however he wasn't on a time limit for anything. If he wanted to read at a snail's pace, he could. He could take all year if he liked. He could write on it. He could spill crumbs on it. He could fall asleep reading or drool on it. He could stack it. And if for whatever reason the contents displeased him too much he could throw it into a smelter and be done with it. 

The pass was only able to be opened again partially due to the fervour in which Megatron had worked, and while Optimus hadn't wanted to take it too personally Megatron had stated it was an effort he would expend for none except those he held dearest to him.

His enthusiasm about it had disturbed most of his fellows, and annoyed a fair amount of his friends. Even so he gushed about it to Megatron. If Megatron did get annoyed it would simply be another time Optimus had done so.

Owning things was nice. And once he had that realisation it was over; No bidding from Alpha Trion would get him to stop: He wanted to try everything.

Megatron however wasn't annoyed, and was incredibly supportive. He did ask what prompted it of course, but it was one line buried amongst many more enticing threads. One of which being Megatron speaking of his own experiences on the topic. The first object he'd ever bought for himself was his own vessel for energon. It was apparently one of his most treasured possessions, not for any monetary value, of course, but just that it was the one he'd most liked at the time, out of the small shop he'd purchased it from, and it meant he never had to share or end up with the "worst" cup during mealtimes. 

Finally when Megatron made the trip back up they had time. Optimus wasn't free yet, but they spent hours talking, and he'd gotten to try his first sip of Kaonite energex. A mistake as it turned out, as he'd over indulged maybe a little, and woken up in the middle of the night in his own rooms with a terrible hangover, only vaguely aware that he'd bawled his optics into malfunction over something.

That is, until just before winter yet again.

There hadn't been enough privacy to speak about it, and it felt embarrassing to bring up when Megatron seemed to have forgotten about it entirely in his letters. 

I'm getting engaged, though I do not expect this one to fare any better than the others."

"Dear Optimus, do you perhaps remember our conversation over fine energex? I feel as if it's unlikely, but on the off chance you haven't I am writing to you as I have promised.

Engaged.

Again.

Thankfully however, Megatron's pessimism seemed well suited, for no sooner than it was officially announced than the very next day revealed that once the carriage had arrived that the prospective spouse had shuttled their belongings into their lover's carriage and fled. 

Optimus was close to just about throwing everything off his desk. He scrambled instead to find out everything about Megatron's betrothed and didn't care for what he found. Firstly they seemed to have no real status, or money, or firm wants outside of frivolities and neglecting the bare minimum expected of one of their class.

He seethed. How could they have met? Why was this an option for Megatron? It was outrageous, and yet when Optimus brought it up it was as if people thought the opposite way around! Truly maddening.

"You certainly know how to pick them," Optimus had told him, and Megatron had laughed.

Megatron had already scared off a forth by the time Optimus had started preparations to return the Matrix. Then by the time he had, skirmishes had broken out by the border and he didn't get to see Megatron for an entire year.

That was the least of his concerns however. Returning the Matrix had come with consequences, one of which being the changes to his frame. Secondly that as now he was out of both military and religious circles he had to change from his official name in the registrar, which had slashed his social connections as when they looked up his address they found "Orion Pax" and with no idea who that was, destroyed the letters without reading them. Some of his friends had apologised for that, but not all of them had yet, and with the squirmishes there was no time to contact them directly.

It seemed his derision of Megatron's choices were misplaced, as now he found himself in that exact same position. As Prime and as a religious figure he hadn't exactly needed his own assets, and estates took financing. Yet even with that he should have been fine, if it wasn't also institutions having trouble with his name change. The bank was trying to sort it but in the meantime there were debts to be paid, mainly in how many societies didn't know he had already paid them and did not need to again.

Not that he'd exactly be able to.

Some places seemed to think of him as his own ward, rather than the same bot, which did not make matters easier, and already someone had attempted to kidnap him to place for random. 

It didn't help that he hadn't had the forsight to get an automatic carriage and had to drive himself, which was a lot easier when his frame was built for long distances.

And unless he wanted to jump back into the institutes he'd just left…

He sighed.

The rumours he'd been hearing were… concerning to say the least. He'd never known Megatronus's reputation to be so low.

But the biggest thing causing Orion all this agony was that it was about time for Megatron to make another marriage attempt but if Optimus could have he would have recommended against it.

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Gotta be honest I love the idea that its mostly just Motormaster whose out for blood against Megatron while the others would really just rather just walk away and have him outta their lives but stick around mainly because theyre a UNIT and Motormaster really wants this.

I gotta ask how that goes. I imagine having Menasor whole again and loose on Earth is not a great comfort to the Autobots and Terrans. Especially since they cant rely on any of the old strategies that worked on them during the war.

Tho as a side benefit the fact that they are only here to get Breakdown back and gun after Megatron means that they're not, like, actively destroying cities and stuff.

I mean, they might destory a city but only if Megs is in it. Probably.

YES YES YES!! I love your thoughts!! You ask wonderful things!! And you hit the nail on the head too!!! 💥

The Autobots are definitely NOT happy when they pick up an alien spaceship entering the Earth's atmosphere and then realising that it belongs to the Stunticons. I imagine Bee especially would want to make contact with Breakdown immediately after this news but Breakdown really is not stopping to talk with anyone after he sees the ship. His family is back for him!! I don't think the end of the world could stop him now!

As for the Malto family, they would be confused as to who these guys even are. I like to imagine that Megatron is the one who explains what the Stunticons are to the Maltos. During this explanation, he is visibly upset, and he does admit that he has mistreated the Stunticons, quite badly. Megatron says that the Stunticons are probably here to get back Breakdown, and then get back AT him. Of course, Maltos being the precious angels that they are, they would be like oh no!! They won't be hurting you!! We'll protect you together!! But unfortunately the situation isn't as simple as they think, and Menasor should not be taken lightly.

Like you said, the Stunticons are not looking to cause mayhem just for the hell of it. They have no interest in wrecking stuff and destroying cities. Their only goal is to find Megatron. Any other Autobot, especially Optimus, is considered an enemy too, but they will not actively go after them unless they get between the Stunticons and Megatron. The same would go for the Terrans as well. Not actively going after them but also would not hesitate to fight them if they get in the way. Though, I imagine the key difference would be that, they wouldn't hesitate to kill the Autobots if any of them interfere, but they wouldn't want to kill the Terrans in the same situation. Won't hesitate to damage the Terrans if needed, but won't destroy completely. ((Of course I imagine Bee to also be an exception, but that only goes so far))