#(besides Nightshade and Hashtag)

[bitter-goodbyes]

“What a wonderful word for a wonderful experience”

I genuinely started tearing up omg

[cyberapid]

Earthspark Bumblebee x Cybertronian Reader

reader isn't gendered, brief description of a Terran bleeding

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The yard of the Malto family is quiet, besides the gentle clanking of Bumblebees stray movements as he holds himself upright on one arm and the occasional sounds of the animals that live there.

“I wish to do a full bio-mechanic and diagnostic scan as soon as possible, Conjunx. Your file has shown that its been more than a year since your last, this dissatisfies me,”

His optics squint open just enough to allow you to see shining blue before they close again with a short huff, optical ridges pinching together and dermas shifting into a place to show his annoyance. “It's not that big of a deal. I run like a dream, but if it'll satisfy you– sure.”

A small whirl of excitement leaves you before you can think of suppressing the excitement coursing from your chassis to your vents, a noise that if you were looking at the yellow bot you��d see brought a small smile to his face plate.

You both fall quickly back to a comfortable silence enjoying the ‘weekend’ that the older Maltos children claimed needed to be without lessons where instead you relax or play in the case of the children, just as quick your calmness was suddenly interrupted by the barn door being slammed open by the twins, Hashtag, and Robby all looking panicked and quickly speaking over one another— Their rambling is cut short by Bumblebee slamming to the ground with a thud so loud it has Robby leave the ground for a moment.

“Slow down! Slow down. What happened?” Your Sparkmate’s quick to push himself back to his pedes as the small horde of the Maltos children nearly surround him— he tries desperately to calm their jumbled panic into something understandable for the pair of you as they drag the two of you towards the entrance of the barn.

A quick scan with your optics covers them in a blue hue, that comes up with no external or internal injuries on them. But the heartbeat of the small human holding your servo to drag you towards the barn is both faster and far more erratic than usual, showing his panic, although you can already tell that from his actions alone.

“It's Nightshade! It was an accident, we only wanted them to come play. Honest!” Robby is quick to give in explanation, seeming to be the calmest child in this situation even with his heightened state.

The two of you are rushed into the barn and then under where you're met with Mo and Jawbreaker fretting over Nightshade, who's clutching their lower tibulen in panic. A scan isn't necessary to see the main issue as Nightshades servos are covered in the familiar blue hue of energon leaks down their pede and is covering their servos.

Nevertheless you quickly scan the young bot, where its registered that one of their fuel lines have been sliced, thankfully not deadly and nothing notably serious,

“Would you remove your servos, Nightshade. I will be repositioning you,” the Maltos children move aside, tense, as you raise and place Nightshade with ease onto a tall workstation. Unlike the children who give you space to work— Bumblebee doesn't care much for the personal space of the young Terran or yourself as he leans forward inspecting your quick work to find the fuel line in question with a silent panic. “An easy fix but this will hurt, sparkling. I will be quick,” without much explanation after you begin work with pinching the affected line, which causes a yelp of pain from the young Terran whose servos snap to grab Bumblebees. The procedure is small and finished with a practiced ease and quickness as the afflicted line is wrapped in a sturdy tape– not new but better.

Twitch is the first to react with a strangled yell before wrapping her arms around her sibling, resting their helms against one another's, “I'm so sorry! We’ll never sneak up on you again, promise!” her affection is returned by her much taller sibling whose hug nearly engulfs her.

“You should cleanse your servos before- okay,” your suggestion is heard by none of the Maltos children as their excited chatter fills the once tense air but you're just as quickly distracted as you feel your Conjunx's servos creep around your mid-plating from behind before fully wrapping his arms around, sending your spark into a dizzying flutter, “i also have to cleanse mine– so don't, bumblebee,” blue stained servos are held just out of reach of his own wandering ones as a soft rumble from his vents sends vibrations down your back chest plate.

“I think I'll survive,” being behind you hides the cheeky grin he sports but not the warm air from his vents breathing on the back of your helm. “You did great,”

“It's something I've done countless times. I’d be worried if not- the energon, enough Bumblebee.”

[tinydefector]

Was wondering if you could do some earth spark Megatron x reader, there isn't alot of them and I'd love to see what you could come up with.

The Malto's Neighbour

Megatron x human

Warning: none.

Wordcount: 1.6k

Megatron masterlist

Really hope you guys like this, and woo first piece for earthspark since I've started watching the series. Hope you guys enjoy the chaos which is to come.

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The Malto's property is a busy one, Twitch yelling at the others as they practise. "Keep up slow poke Twitch's madly zips between the hay bales strewn across the yard, chassis buzzing with energy. "Gotta be faster than that, Jawbreaker!" She shouted gleefully, panels flared and fans roaring. 

Hashtag revved her engine competitively, darting around the yard in tight circles as she sought an opening to knock Thrust off his pedes laughter echoing from all of them. Nearby, Nightshade sculpted away as they planned out new projects. 

Dot smiles as she watches her kids run around the yard, and back and forth from the barn. "Play nice you lot!" She calls out while finishing her coffee. The sound of  propellers alerts her to Megatron's arrival. She looks out the other side of the widow with a smile as Megatron touches down. "Megs wasn't expecting to see you today" she calls out while walking out to meet him.

His optics scans the surrounding farmland, ensuring all remains secure within guarded borders, before his powerful lip components peel back in a fierce yet weary grin. "And risk missing the sparklings?" he retorts, striding over rust coloured soil towards the porch Dorothy stood on. 

His field pulses warmth upon seeing his friend, soaking in her calming company. “It is good to see you Dorothy” A gruff hum rumbles his massive frame, relaxing further.

"so optimus, has you playing babysitter today?" She asked with a smirk, trying to ruffle his plating. A scoffing snort bellows from Megatron's vents at the insinuation of playing nursemaid.

Twitch's laughter makes Megatron look up to watch as she flies around with Mo before their eyes and optics land on the ex-warlord. "Hi Mr Megatron!" A collection of voices call out, Dot laughs at her kids. "Believe it or not they seem to enjoy having you around, think they like you better than OP '' she states smugly. A rare soft chuckle rumbles from Megatron's frame. "Well if the Prime cannot appease youthful tastes, it seems his title means less than once assumed," he replies loftily, it earns him a small slap to his plating from Dorothy. 

Beside him, her own amusement rings sweet as Terran continues with their Shenanigans. Megatron's optics glint fondly. He didn't know how to voice his appreciation to the soldier turned ranger, she trusted him so willingly with her family and he would forever be thankful for that.  

Dot walks towards her work vehicle. "You gonna be alright dealing with all of them by yourself?. Alex shouldn't be far away" she replies while getting into the driver's seat and ready to head off to work. 

"Twitch Not fair only you and Nightshade can fly!" Hashtag calls out.

 

"Too bad bozo should have picked a better alt mode instead of a Ghost Van '' Twitch calls back as she takes off with their basketball before throwing in through the hoop.

This handful of newsparks posed no threat whatsoever, and he'd make sure they were protected while she was away.

"Worry not, I shall keep them entertained and out of trouble until your return" he rumbles, His massive frame shifts casually aside as Dot's vehicle rumbles past, optics following until taillights fade into rural tree line. Massive peds crunch soil as Megatron straightens, surveying once more. 

It's only once the kids mother has left do they go about doing their own things. 

Nightshade and Hashtag with little projects together. “Can you give me a tutorial on renovating?” Nightshade ask Hashtag as the two work away 

Jawbreaker finds himself sitting beside Megatron with Mo sitting in his lap. “But I never thought you had a grounded alt” Jawbreaker states while watching the ex Decepticon. “Much has changed since my time on cybertron and even while here on earth.” He starts. “I was once a miner, my Alt was that of a Mining Drill, it's only as of recently I've taken an alt mode of a flying type” he replies, a sad smile on his lips as he remembers. He's broken out of his memory when Twitch flies back in a panic. 

"There is someone on the property!, they didn't see me but i didn't stick around to get seen" She states and it makes all the young ones tense up. 

"You don't think it's GHOST again?" 

"It could be the neighbour!" Robbie states trying to calm everyone.

"Show me," he rumbles curtly to Twitch, striding toward the perimeter of the woodlands. His engine rumbles a warning growl. "Remain here. Stay out of sight, Little bird stay in drone mode in case it is GHOST."  The young terrans all retreat back into the barn watching. The wind whispers against his armour as he and Twitch move through the woods, Twitch stays close to Megatron's side hovering as they slowly scan the area. 

A loud whistle leaves a human as they move throughout the woodlands. "Bluey!" They call out while looking through the woods. "Blue! Come on!" They call before their eyes catch movements, they huff to themself moving closer hoping to find their dog. 

As they turn down another track they freeze when Scarlet optics linger on them, their body goes into fight or flight mode but instead of either they sand frozen to the spot hoping they hadn't been seen. Megatron freezes as well, optics narrowing to analyse the stranger before him. No weapon was drawn, but their presence alone was alarming. A low menacing growl rumbles leaves his intake, Twitch hovers over his shoulder plate quick to hide behind his back as she transformers, ember optics watching the human from behind Megatron as she clings to the large Mech. 

"Explain your business here, human," he demands. "You trespass" Twitch's faint glow flickers beside him, awaiting the answer that could mean swift action, depending on what the human said would decide how quickly she would fly back to the barn.

They fall to the ground moving backwards quickly. "BLUE!!" They shout loudly. The sound of heavy footsteps crunching against branches, leaf litter and rocks follow before a large cybernetic Dog stands in front of the human growling at Megatron. Its ears are pinned back as it barks loudly at the large Mech, guarding their human. 

Twitch's optics widen in shock. “No way you have a Robodog!” she squeals out in delight only for Megatron to make sure she stays behind him. 

 Megatron's optics narrow as he watches the Metal dog and vice versa. Bright blue optics watch his every move, the creature looked like a merge of cybertronian tech yet at the same time his scans said it was something different.

"Explain," he rumbles again, optics narrowing upon the trespassers. Loyalty to one's charge he respected, if nothing else. But his main concern was his charges and their safety. More footfall alerts Megatron to one of the children running towards them. Robbie pants as he catches up to Megatron, his eyes going wide when he sees his neighbour. “DON'T BLAST OUT NEIGHBOUR!" He yells loudly.

 

"You know them?" he asked Robbie who nodded. "Yea they leave across the woods, their another one of my Parents friend's!" He states only to flinch as the cyberdog sniffs him. its ears perk up and whines at the young man waiting for a pat. "Robbie?" The other human calls out in shock.

“Um Hey!, sorry about him” Robbie says sheepishly while patting the dog's face. "Um... when did you get a robot dog?" He asked his neighbour, they let out a groan as they continued laying on the ground. Crimson optics scan the pair, A rumbling purr vibrates his massive chassis, posture shifting from confrontational to watchful. "You seem acquainted. Explain yourselves further - why have these 'neighbours' not been introduced before now?" He asked Robbie. 

The young man turns back to Megatron. "Because the terrans are hiding from GHOST, Megatron," He states, but the shock of reality finally kicks in after he says those words. "We are all gonna be in deep shit when mom gets home," he says in a panic. Twitch perks up. "Ohhhhh, Robbie said a bad word! I'm telling mom!!" She shouts while flying out from behind Megatron's shoulder.

"Troubles abound it seems," he finally replies, his tone modulated into something approaching conciliatory. "Explanations are due. But not here, it isn't safe out here." Crimson optics scan the forest shadows. 

That's how they end up sitting in the Kitchen of the Malto's house with both Robbie and Mo, along with the Terrans watching them from windows and Megatron sitting on the ground beside the house watching. They slowly sip on their drink as the kids look at them with worry. "You're not going to tell anyone about the bots right?" Mo asked.

"What!, no, no! That would put Blue in more danger, I'm out here hiding him for the Government" they state. It makes all the terrans relax before questions fly about themself and their cyberdog. 

Megatron scans Blue appraisingly where the cyber-hound lies on the Doorstep near his Pede. He had never seen anything like this creature. He had his run in with turbofoxs and other creatures like on cybertron, but this one almost reminded him of Ravage in how protective they were of their human.

A sigh vents softly from Megatron's frame, he reaches out slowly running a servos over the dog's back which makes the mutt huff, before it rolls over in delight, soft chafing noises leave them. 

It's only when Alex returns that he realises something is up. "Kids... what's going on?" He asked his children. The older of the collect waves. "Um Hey Alex, you might wanna sit down" they call out to him. He nearly drops his shopping bags when he sees the Metallic Dog.

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[enigmatist17]

Absolutely feral over Hashtag and Starscream, like wtf why is this the cutest thing I've ever seen

It's probably something to do with the fact I was up at 3am watching this show for some of the best Starscream content since Prime/Armada

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"Starscream is observing us. Again." Nightshade hummed as they headed up and out of the barn, face buried in the latest novel Dad had given them.

"Wasn't he here, like, yesterday?" Jawbreaker asked, Thrash and Twitch practicing their sparing while he watched from the sidelines, more than content to focus on the miniature painting he was working on. Whatever answer Nightshade could have given was drowned out by the noise of someone transforming, Hashtag speeding up and into the woods behind the Malto homestead, everyone stopping in place to watch her leave.

"She does know I did not tell her where he's currently residing, yes?" The scientist looked at the tracks left behind, more amused than anything else.

"She'll figure it out." Thrash shrugged before tackling Twitch, earning a squeak of indignation from his sister.

They didn't need to worry, Hashtag had figured out where Starscream liked to observe her homestead after his first visit, but just hadn't had the nerve to approach him. Sure, it was a bit of a silly thing to feel, but Hashtag didn't want to push her...friend? Ally?, too hard, but it had been two months, and enough was enough! The jet seemed to be focused on the horizon when she made the trek uphill, the large rocks serving as an adequate chair for the massive Transformer. They sat silently for a while, Hashtag remaining in her alt form as the various wildlife and rush of a distant stream filled the conversation neither seemed to want to start.

"Soooooo, where have you been?" Patience was not Hashtag's strong suit, and the short venting of air from the seeker beside her almost sounded amused.

"I have been...around." Starscream finally moved for the first time since she'd arrived, glancing down at her alt mode. The radar dish on the top of her vehicle faced up toward Starscream, and she transformed a moment later when he tipped his head, sitting cross-legged on the ground with a grin. "You've improved your blaster accuracy."

"I have!" Hashtag looked quite pleased, tapping her servos against her plating with a grin. "Bumblebee said I just need to keep at it, but I really like it when Arcee drops by, she gives me all sorts of tips. Wait, how did you know? Nightshade only mentioned you a few times, and we train mostly during the day?" Starscream seemed a bit stunned at the torrent of words sent his way, memory packets he'd forgotten about flashing fuzzy images of sparklings that were long dead for a moment before he shoved them back and into deep stasis. He'd never truly been comfortable around children, and even less so after the War began, yet here he was, listening to the young mech beside him ramble on about something called barbeque like it was just another solar-cycle.

" -scream? You listening?" Shuttering his optics, Starscream noted she had moved to stand before him, one hand hovering just above making contact with his knee with her optics staring at his wings. "Hellooo?"

"I...apologize, my mind wandered. What are you staring at?"

"Sorry, it's probably super rude to stare, but I've not really had a chance to look at wings like yours like, ever? Fights happen so fast you know, and the rare videos I find before G.H.O.S.T wipes 'em don't really give me a look either." Once again, it's another torrent of words, and the Decepticon can feel his wings rising slightly in discomfort. "Sorry, did I upset you?"

"N-No, you've done nothing wrong." When was the last time someone asked how he was feeling?

"Oh, okay!" Primus bless her, the little one's eyes lit up as she clasped her servos together. "Sooo, were you always able to fly, or did you have a ground alt once upon a time?"

"No, I have always been a Seeker." Starscream motioned for the smaller bot to sit beside him, shifting to the side so she had plenty of space. "My frame was initially suited for deep-space exploration rather than combat, but that changed quickly enough when the War began. I don't think I could ever enjoy being away from the sky, it is as much a part of me as every inch of my frame."

"Nightshade has said that too. Ever since they took their alt form, they have talked about flying like I do when I hack or manipulate things. There's just no other feeling like it." The Seeker nodded, and Hashtag was relieved to see his wings lower slightly, adding one mental tally mark to her "Operation Get Starscream To Relax" board.

"It is a feeling unlike any other, for every type of Cybertronian. I have seen those who command oceans as if they were assembled by it, others who use the strength of beasts long dead as if they'd been one their entire creation. Had it not been for so many things, you too might have seen the wonders that were our people."

"Well, I wouldn't mind listening to you talk about them." Hashtag hugged her legs to her chassis with a smile, ever the eager youngling waiting for a tale.

"If you're going to talk, you might as well bring this party to the house." The sudden voice behind them made both mechs jump, Starscream pointing his null ray at whatever the threat was as he tucked Hashtag behind him, only to find...Lieutenant Malto.

Ah...frag

"Hi Mom!" Hashtag stood up so she could see from behind Starscream's wings, waving as the null ray was powered back down. "How'd you know where to find us?"

"A mother knows, sweetie." The smile on the human's face was a little forced, which the Decepticon had to give was justified. "You doing alright?"

"Yep! Starscream has been answering some of the questions I've wanted to ask, and we've just been sitting up here and enjoying the view." She fully moved from behind the older mech as she spoke, standing beside the comically shorter woman who refused to break eye contact with Starscream, who just stared right back. "Are you serious about letting him come to the house?"

"Maybe, maybe not. If we're going to have guests, we should be prepared, right? Why don't you go and get some of the nice energon ready, and let your Dad know I'll be down soon."

"Okay! Oh I can't wait to show you around!" With a wave, Hashtag transformed and booked it down the mountain road her mother had used, leaving the two to stare silently at each other.

"What do you want with my daughter?" Ah, there it is.

"Nothing, I was merely...observing." As much as it loathed his inner demons, Starscream knelt down so they were more or less at an even height, both soldiers coiled for a fight that may or may not happen. "I was unaware she knew I've been here."

"I knew they'd catch on sooner or later, you didn't exactly pick the most hidden spot." Starscream rolled his optics, noting the other had relaxed slightly. "What have you been doing, since the big escape?"

"Hiding, mostly. I've no desire to be tortured again." It took her past as a fighter for Dot not to flinch at the angry hissing coming from the mech, face impassive when Starscream had to shake his helm for a moment. "Nor do I wish to see...him."

"...we're getting close to exposing G.H.O.S.T, for what it's worth. All of us are, and I'm sorry you had to suffer at their hands."

"Are you? I'm a Decepticon, surely this must be thrilling to hear, after all we've done?" There's no venom in those words; all Dot can hear is what isn't there as his wings hike up his back, and servos curl into fists. "Getting what we truly deserve, no?"

"All I see before me, is a mech who is tired. A mech who is exhausted, yet took the time to sit with my daughter, protect her from a perceived threat, and stare down her mother despite knowing I could take you down." The hissing is back, a slight red filter sweeping across blue optics before fading just as quick, but Dot holds her ground without batting an eye. "All I see is a Seeker without a trine, and while we may not be one, a little company can't hurt you, can it?" Starscream just....stares, and Dot wishes the bots breathed like humans did, just to offset how unsettling it was when mechs could watch without a single movement. That was one of the things that really got under her skin, and she was grateful that her kids hadn't learned that particular skill yet, full of too much energy and life to sit still like a waiting snare.

"You dare speak of my trine." The sentence nearly made her jump, the tall mech leaning closer with a blank look. "You understand nothing."

"No, I don't." It's a simple response, but it's all she can give. "Now, let's not keep the kids waiting." For the first time, Dot turns her back to Starscream to get into her truck. The Seeker is fully onto his pedes by the time she has the car on, his gaze focused on the home he can see just down the hill. "Don't break the fence, or you'll be the one fixing it."

"As you wish."

So this is how a Decepticon finds himself drinking the first pure energon in too many cycles to count, surrounded by mech younglings and cautious humans as the first mech to believe him waved her servos around, grinning as she told the tale of their first meeting. It is not...entirely how he thought the evening would go, but every time Hashtag smiled at the Seeker, something seemed to unfurl in his Spark, something that should have died off long ago.

So when she asks him to stay, even if it's for one night, Starscream does without hesitation.

[hellcatshark]

The Predacon Sparkling.

Story Summary: The Terrans attempt to hide a sparkling they had found out in the woods near their home.

Takes place after season 1 of Earthspark with canon divergence.

Trigger Warning: None.

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“We need to keep her hidden!” Hashtag whisper shouted as her siblings were setting up a small area for the tiny sparkling she was holding.

The sparkling was black and gold with small accents of teal here and there. Even her optics were teal colored.

“I truly hope we won’t get in trouble for this.” Nightshade says worriedly as they made a small nest for the sparkling.

Jawbreaker moved a couple more things around with Thrash’s help while Twitch watched the entrance to the hidden area of the Dugout cautiously.

“I’m sure we won’t. Besides,” Hashtag says, “when has anyone ever seen a sparkling before?”

Upon finding the sparkling earlier, she hacked into the Autobots’ files along with the Decepticons and learned a few things about sparklings through that.

The others shrug as Hashtag lays the sparkling down onto the nest of blankets and soft cushions Nightshade made.

The sparkling kicked her little legs before peering around as best she could.

They crowded around her as she peers around.

“Think Optimus was this tiny?” Jawbreaker blurts out as he held out a digit towards the sparkling. The tiny femme grips his digit with a chirping noise.

“No! No way!” Thrash said.

“No way what?” Bumblebee says as he entered the Dugout with Tarantulas.

The Terrans whipped around and hid the small area as best they could with their frames.

“No way Twitch would win in a race against Starscream!” Thrash quickly covered with a nervous smile.

The two older mechs eyed the Terrans quietly.

“What are you children hiding behind your backs?” Tarantulas asks slowly.

“Definitely not something that nobody has seen in a while!” Jawbreaker blurts out before clapping a servo over his intake.

Nightshade elbowed his side with a fake cough.

Bumblebee narrowed his optics while Tarantulas crossed his arms over his chassis.

“What are you kids hiding?” Bee asks skeptically.

Before anyone could respond, the sparkling began to whine. She then went into full blow crying.

Hashtag quickly turns to try and soothe her.

“Hashtag found her outside and brought her here because we didn’t know what to do!” Twitch admits quickly as both adult mechs rushed over.

“Primus…” Bumblebee breathed out as Tarantulas took the small femme from Hashtag. He immediately began to soothe her by holding her close to his chassis as he spoke softly.

“Shh. Stop your crying small one.” He says gently, patiently.

“Was there anyone else? Any signs of anyone?” Bumblebee asks Hashtag.

“No sir. She was just lying near a fallen tree and I couldn’t just leave her there.” Hashtag replied softly.

“Good thing you found her. Sparklings are rare nowadays thanks to the war. She appears healthy. Nightshade, be a dear and hand me a scanner.” Tarantulas says. Nightshade nods and went over to where they all kept their medical supplies.

They grabbed a scanner and came back over. Tarantulas took it and did a slow scan.

“She is in good health. Needs some energon however.” He says.

“Here.” Thrash says and grabbed a small cube from nearby.

Tarantulas takes it and held it to the sparkling’s intake. The small femme immediately began to drink from it.

“I’m calling Optimus. He’d want to see this.” Bumblebee says as Twitch flew to hover near Tarantulas.

“She’s really hungry!” She says.

“And tiny!” Jawbreaker adds.

Tarantulas nods.

“Indeed. All Cybertronian sparklings are born this small. Some can be smaller. This one is only an earth month old.” He informed.

The Terrans all blinked and Bumblebee stepped away to call Optimus.

After a bit, the Prime showed up quickly along with Megatron.

Dorothy had been notified by Megatron and was there with Alex, Robby, and Mo.

“You merely found her alone?” Optimus asks again. Megatron was too fascinated as he let the small femme play with his digits as she lay in the bedding Nightshade made.

Hashtag nods.

“Yes sir.” She says.

Optimus hums at this and turns to look at the sparkling as she giggled.

“How unfortunate.” Tarantulas says as he was fixing some sparkling grade energon for her.

“I can’t remember when I’ve seen one so small.” Megatron murmured gently.

The sparkling chirped and tried to babble.

“I wonder if the mother tried to hide her to protect her. I would do the same a thousand times if I was trying to protect my kids.” Dorothy says.

“Maybe. I’m just glad she was found.” Alex added.

“I’m going to do another scan to determine whether or not she is of Autobot or Decepticon origin.” Tarantulas says and comes back over.

He used two of his appendages to gently grip her little servos as he does a scan.

He then stiffened when the readings came back.

“Well that may be an issue.”

Everyone gives him a look.

“What? Is she a baby Decepticon?” Thrash asks.

“Predacon.” Tarantulas replied immediately.

The Terrans and humans were confused but the adult Cybertronians had shocked looks.

“What’s a Predacon?” Mo asks nervously.

“Basically our ancestors who have been extinct until Shockwave thought it’d be a great idea to try and bring them back. Is she full Predacon?” Bumblebee asks.

Tarantulas was quiet.

“The scans read 100% matching Predacon CNA with no alterations. She was born from an actual living Predacon.” He says in amazement.

Megatron scooped up the tiny sparkling and held her close.

“I will monitor her carefully. Optimus, can you get in contact with Shockwave and ask him subtly about sharing his Predacon blueprints for any clues as to if he is connected somehow?” He asks. Optimus nods.

“Can we see her? I want to see what baby Cybertronians look like!” Alex says.

Megatron nods and knelt down. He carefully sits the small sparkling on the ground and held her up.

Dorothy awed and Alex had to fight himself from rushing over.

“She’s really cute! What are we going to call her?” Mo asks.

“How about Dragon?” Robby asks.

“We are not calling her that. Maybe Amethyst?” Tarantulas spoke up.

“You said she is a creature who should be extinct. How about Echo since she is an echo to her ancestors?” Nightshade says.

Everyone was quiet and Megatron decided to test it.

“Echo.” He says. The sparkling lifts her helm and stared up at him.

Megatron felt a smile form on his face.

“It is settle then. Little Echo.” Optimus said fondly.

*Time Skip plus a bonus scene.*

Several months go by and everyone loved Echo. Even the Chaos Terrans.

Currently, Echo was playing with a wrench Wheeljack left lying around.

“Echo, can you hand me the wrench?” Wheeljack asks as he knelt down.

Shockwave was standing nearby watching when the wrench suddenly went flying. It smacks right into his optic.

“SHE HIT ME IN THE EYE!”

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Hope you all enjoy!

Echo is a OC I have and I just kinda throw her into different universes. I haven’t decided where to exactly put her.

[yayasvalveplay]

You know as much as I love tfes s1 on paramount I think hasbro adult did a really good job with their alternate story line of all the terrans being es megs bitties with different batches of sires for example I really like how they wrote twitch and thrash as the classic megop sparklings, I also thinks its super interesting they wrote the relationship between grimlock, starscream and tarantulas being hashtags, jawbreaker and nightshades sires, I know it gets a lot of bad rep but when megs went into a seemingly kinda early heat cycle in s2 that felt kinda forced for show pacing and elita and skywarp found him panting with his milfy tits out and valve panel open in the middle of a forest and they just couldn't resist fucking him and that's how the chaos terrans were born and their behavioral issues come from the fact that meg's coding got a little fragged up because of the early heat

I also think it proposes a nice new family dynamic of housewife megs bringing his kids over for a playdate at his human amicas house because their basically cousins, besides, megatron is retired, who cares if he just doesn't want to fight anymore and just wants to cook and clean for his husbands that are such dutiful sires and gossip with his bestie over some tea (with a teacup that his sweetheart of a daughter and son twitch and jawbreaker made in a pottery class for him) while he rubs his already slightly bumped stomach, happy as he can be.

(I'm so horny right now)

I'm crying that is acually adorable. Yes all of them just being megatrons sparklings with different sires. Megatron collecting conjunx's like pokemon cards is such a funny concept.

Listen hes an old man, just let him have his sparklings in piece GHOST.

Dot is such a good aunt, cooing at the sparklings. Telling Megs how good he's been raising them, and giving the sires hell to step up their game. Even though they all do, she just likes seeing them struggle a bit.

But also the kiddos playing with their cousins Robby and Mo, making sure to play nice since they are squishier then they are. While the moms drink tea outside gossiping.

[cityzenshark]

Family | Chapter 24 - Hearts and Sparks

Homepage | Book One: Family | Book Two: Unity | Book Three: Belonging

Synopsis: The townspeople of Witwicky help the Maltos in return for saving their town.

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Robby is transferred to the ICU as his conditions worsens. The doctor finds his symptoms to be a combination of sepsis and something that seems to be energon poisoning but isn’t. After he leaves, Robby tearfully confesses to Dot how terrible he had been since moving to their new home and apologizes for putting the Terrans in danger and for lashing out at her. Dorothy hugs her son, crying herself, and forgives him. Robby wishes the cybersleeve to come off. Later, his old friends come to visit him, including Stevie. What Robby said to Stevie still hurts but Stevie hates to see him deathly ill even more. Robby apologizes to him, and the two old friends made up.

       At the town’s capitol building, Alex and Mo is invited by the town Elders to discuss if the town’s old legends are related to the Core, the Emberstone, and the cybersleeves so they might be able to help solve the family’s issues. Mo hesitates to tell, then the shaman reassures her by telling her about Witwicky’s Mountain Spirit and Her stonemen offspring. If the ‘stonemen’ had been previous Terrans, they are records of something similar to cybersleeves on their ancestors who had lived with them. Later, Alex and Mo exit the capitol building to find Mo’s friends and their families waiting for them with charity they had collected for the Malto’s.

“It’s the least we can do after you saved us from Grimlock. Besides, it’s not like we haven’t seen the Terrans before that evening.”

“...You’ve seen them before?”

“Yep! Since your first day of school here, actually.”

“What... Why didn’t any of you say anything?”

“You seem scared for them, Mo. We didn’t want to stress you out, so we decided to wait for you, Robby or Mr and Mrs Malto to say something.”

“The revelation could’ve been better...”

“Hey, Mo, it’s over and done. You and your family saved this town and now it’s time for us to help you.”

       Back home, the Terrans have separated counselling sessions with therapists.

Hashtag has hers by the waterfall. She talks about her trauma and worries how humanity would welcome after what she did in Philly city because – mind controlled or not — she’s still responsible for the damages. Nightshade has theirs at the edge of the cow paddock. They express how ashamed they feel from their lack of understanding to their siblings’ feelings even when the cyberlink was still intact yet hates it so much. Jawbreaker has his at Mrs Belle’s silo. He feels embarrassed to be afraid of his older Terran siblings and shares his guilt for triggering Grimlock’s PTSD. Thrash has his in the bunker. He expresses the burden he feels for not just being the big brother but also being the first of his kind in a world hurt by the senior Transformers-kind; how he wishes the Terrans to never be involved in fixing the Cybertronians’ mistakes.

Meanwhile Twitch has hers in the woods where she and Robby went Wak-Wak hunting. Twitch refuses to admit her wrongs as she tries to convince her therapist how her actions were right, while the latter is wrong and bad for disagreeing her. Her therapist shares his personal story where he let his anger get the better of him. His actions got an innocent bystander killed. While he was in the right that time, the bystander is a victim, and he will forever be responsible for their death. Twitch’s decision to help Bumblebee and Brawl herself was indeed right, but the price was not worth the city’s destruction or it being the world’s first impression on the Terrans. Worst, Hashtag’s innocence is now unbelievable for an unforeseeable future.

Realisation finally dawned on Twitch, followed by immense regret. She wails loudly. Alarmed by her cries, her Terran siblings rush to her. Twitch hugs Hashtag by her neck and sob “I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry, little sister!!” Though confused, Hashtag hugs her back and their brothers join in. The therapists give them some privacy, feeling relieved and glad for them.

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[cutekittenlady]

Trains, Planes, and Autobots

Summary Fic Part 7

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Everyone is gathered outside the Maltos residence just as the sun is starting to go down.

Bumblebee complains about the late start, but Alex calms him as he loads the last of the groups equipment into Bee's trunk. He points out that while while Cybertronias may not need to sleep in the same way humans do, Breakdown will inevitably have to stop to re-energize and hunt for Energon eventually.

Thrash points out that on the other hand Alex has to eat and sleep and so they'll be stopping just as much.

However Hashtag cuts in on both of them and tells them that Breakdown won't have the benefit of Hashtags wi-fi abilities. Telling the group that she already knows which highway exit Breakdown, Swindle, and Hardtop have taken due to "Cons not believing in red lights". (Red light cameras took pictures of them). She directs Bee and the others what direction to start in, but warns she'll only be able to track them via that method.

Schloder gives Alex an energon reader and recommends he try and use it to track the three.

Thrash questions how hard its actually going to be to track down a racecar, an armored buggy, and a jeep all driving together.

Dot says it may be harder than he thinks and takes the opportunity to remind Thrash to use the holographic tech he'd been given.

Thrash goes into his alt mode and tries the projection out; producing the illusion of his motorcycle having a human rider. Nightshade acknowledges that it may be difficult for them to remain out of sight, but Optimus tells them to just fly high enough to be out of sight during the day. Their owl like alt modes ability to fly silently and even see at night will be vital in helping Bumblebee stay on top of things as they try and track Breakdown.

Nightshade promises to do their best.

With that the group says their goodbyes, and Bumblebee, Alex, Thrash, and Nightshade all hit the road.

Ratchet quietly asks Optimus if he thinks the Terrans can handle the recon mission to which Optimus proudly tells him that they've handled big things already and have come out on top. Besides the remaining autobots on Earth remain scattered across the globe and mobilizing them together would take time they dont have. He also reveals that he had included the Terrans on their channels. So if the group ends up in trouble they know they can contact them for aid.

Ratchet isn't entirely convinced but opts to accept Optimus' judgement.

Dorothy directs everyone back into the dugout for one final review of things before they (she and the kids) turn in to rest for the night before beginning fresh in the morning.

In the dugout, Schloder stands in front of a white board with various pictures placed on it with magnets. Some of them clearly hand drawn.

He marches back and forth in front of the board with Dottie standing to one side and says that they must review the "subjects of interest thus far."

He starts with Subject #1; Breakdown. A decepticon scout. Known to be one of the components of the combiner Menasor, being the combiners right leg. After the war he became a fugitive along with the rest of Decepticons and, evidently, took to participating in races all over the globe under false identities. Most recently he has accessed the database they brought back from the old GHOST headquarters for "unknown purposes". Was previously thought to suffer from a "paranoid disposition" but seems to have dropped it in recent years.

Twitch irritably says they already know about Breakdown.

Schloder just says they have to start somewhere. And besides it'd be good to keep him in mind as any information they get about him could help with the rest. Adding that Breakdown, as far as he knows, had an affinity for taking on race cars as alt modes.

Megatron elaborates that Breakdown, at one time, was able to produce a vibration that shut down non-sentient machines. Which is where he earned his name. However, he lost the ability after suffering grievous bodily harm during the war.

He pauses and tells them that in spite of his association with the stunticons he tended to be fairly reliable and competent, and Megatron had trusted him with vital positions more than once.

Optimus points out that they're not talking about Breakdowns qualifications at the moment which Megatron just frowns at.

Schloder moves on to Subject #2; Dragstrip. A yellow bot known to take on a dragster, rather than a regular car, as her alt mode. She is dangerously competitive and will do anything, absolutely anything, to squeeze out whatever she perceives as a victory for herself. Her constant attempts to slip into races and cause mayhem resulted in routine energon checks being enforced in drag races all over America. She makes up Menasors right arm.

Megatron dourly says Dragstrip once tried to challenge the Seekers to a race and tried to tear off one of NovaStorms wings to make it "fair".

Subject #3; Dead End. Yet another vehicular bot. He formed Menasors left arm. Is thought to largely be the Stunticons strategic center.

Megatron says he always had trouble finding bots willing to go on patrol with Dead End. His dour nihilism tended to get on the other decepticons nerves. It got so bad that only the other stunticons were willing to go on missions with him.

Noting Dead Ends red alt mode, Optimus asks Jawbreaker if Dead End is the bot he saw Breakdown looking up. It's possibly he may have simply looked up Dead End twice.

Jawbreaker looks at Dead Ends picture and says that hes not. It was someone else.

Subject #4; Wildrider. DO NOT APPROACH ALONE. He is dangerous and known to deliberately cause destruction wherever he goes. Some of the biggest road accidents recorded in the past forty years had Wildrider identified as the central cause. He was Menasors left leg.

Megatron admits he doesnt have much to add. Mostly they just pointed Wildrider in whatever direction the enemy was and hoped for the best.

Subject $5; MotorMaster. The leader of the stunticons. He makes up the central component of Menasor. Was known to use his alt mode, a large truck, to barrel through obstacles to make a path for the other stunticons to move in. Notably he had a tendency to gun for Optimus.

Optimus quietly mutters that he still doesnt understand what MotorMasters problem with him was.

Megatron says that he thinks it was a "truck thing" and asks Optimus not to take it too personally. Though he grows serious when he admits that MotorMasters bullheaded violence caused Megatron to be forced to put him in stasis before he left the decepticons.

Twitch asks why he had to do that.

Megatron explained that when Motormaster learned the Stunticons were being disbanded he became so violent that Megatron had to subdue him. He very nearly killed their CMO in the rampage.

He still has no idea if MotorMaster is still in stasis or not. He hadn't seen him on the battlefield after he'd defected leading him to assume Shockwave and the others had left him there.

Schloder clears his throat and admits he actually kinda sorta might have some news about that?

With everyone looking at him Schloder admits that after Mandroids defeat he found some, ah, abandoned messages from another GHOST facility elsewhere in the country. They had, evidently, found Motormasters stasis pod and had awakened him. They'd managed to keep him imprisoned, but a month or two before the mandroid incident he'd someone managed to escape.

Dorothy quickly asks where all the others are.

Schloder tells her that Wildrider and Dragstrip had been imprisoned too. Keyword had.

"You're telling me that right now there's a group of Decepticon road hogs driving around free who can come together to turn into a giant lunatic?!" Dorothy asks.

Schloder stops. Thinks. And confirms that, yes, that is the case.

Ratchet says that this is dire. If Breakdown was working at Motormasters direction, he may have just gotten a lead on the locations of all the other stunticons. If the group comes back together, Menasor will likely make a return.

Jawbreaker nervously says that that cant be all bad, right? After all the autobots presumably defeated him during the war, right? right?!

Optimus confirms that the autbots did indeed have their own combiner teams that helped to combat forces like Menasor.

Jawbreaker sighs in relief.

BUT, optimus finishes, not only are some of the autobots in question scattered across the globe, but many of the team members were left behind on cybertron when the space bridge was destroyed.

Essentially, if their theory about the stunticons coming back together to form Menasor is correct, there is no one readily available to beat him.

Twitch asks if Menasor is as terrible as all that, but is met with silence. She says that if thats the case then they HAVE to stop it.

Dorothy calms Twitch telling her they don't know for certain that thats what Breakdowns aim was.

Shloder adds that regardless, he'll try to scramble what few former GHOST personnel remain to try and dig through information to try and get the last known locations of all the stunticons, or at bare minimum, a hint as to where they each might be located.

Besides that they still have to discuss where Subject #6; "The red guy" fits into all this. As the last search Breakdown did, and the only one he attempted to do in secret, "the red guy" might just be key to figuring out what they're planning. They don't know what connection "the red guy" might have to Breakdown, what alt mode they might have, or even whether they're an autobot or decepticon. However they lucked out as Jawbreaker got a look at the file and can, therefore, potentially identify the person he saw.

Hashtag hypes Jawbreaker up and talks about how they'll have to organize a lineup of "perps" for him to identify. Jawbreaker is not enthusiastic only managing a small "yay".

Optimus says this might be a much more dire situation than they thought. He asks Schloder to provide information on the stunticons last known locations so that he, Megatron, Dorothy, and Twitch can find them and find out what they know and neutralize them if they have to. Meanwhile Ratchet will remain behind to help hashtag, Mo, and Robbie help Jawbreaker try and identify which bot Breakdown looked up using the collected database they got from the GHOST base.

He also asks that Agent Schloder to stay on hand to help with identification.

With that they've done all they can and have to will wait until dawn to get started.

Out on the road, Bumblebees group travels mostly in silence. The silence is broken by Alex who asks if anyone would be interested in listening to his travel playlist.

[blueikeproductions]

So I’ve been thinking of the EarthSpark children’s books again.

Besides the Guidebook, these two seem to be the only ones out atm that are original stories and not recaps/adaptions of episodes of the cartoon. I personally prefer original stories set roughly during the cartoon’s universe, and to no one’s surprise I’m naturally a big fan of the RiD15 books being all original stories.

However, my nitpick with the EarthSpark books is they’re too short and … safe. There’s no real conflict or if there is one, like Racetrack Recon, it’s resolved instantly…

Now kids books or not, I think most of us want some kind villain for the Autobots to fight, which the RiD books excelled in. My favorites being Scuzzard from above, Liege Maximo starting trouble because he was bored and needed a cheap thrill, and Drift meeting up with his old Decepticon crew. So what can the EarthSpark books do?

Well for starters:

Use Swindle. He’s perfect for low scale conflict, and you can get a lot of mileage out of him starting trouble with a guest star that the Terrans have to stop. Obviously you could experiment with other villains besides him, but still.

Book idea 1: Items have been going missing from Witwicky. The culprits are Swindle and Chop Shop.

Besides trying to make a quick buck, they also seek to steal important GHOST tech to benefit the Decepticons still roaming the Earth. Dot and Optimus have to keep Croft and Schloder distracted so the Terrans can put a stop to Chop Shop’s kleptomania.

Book Idea 2: The Decepticons need energy if they plan to still take over Earth and stick it to Megatron and GHOST. Swindle, seeing an opportunity to make some moolah, gets Octane and RatBat to join him on a fuel syphoning scheme.

I feel like it’d be a Jawbreaker and Grimlock story as a gag on fossil fuel.

Book Idea 3: Revision of Recon where Swindle fixes the race using the RiD15 originated Stunticons. I already talked about this one.

Book Idea 4: Tarantulas runs afoul of an old lab partner, the insane Autobot scientist Flame.

(For a potential toy, I feel Flame would be a hybrid design of these two, taking more from the one on the right for ease of toy design.) Flame, fed up with the humans treatment of Transformers, decides to release a Cyber-Virus bio weapon Tarantulas developed during the Great War, and use it to Cyber Form Earth into something more palatable. Tarantulas needs Nightshade, Wheeljack and Hashtag’s help in a race against the clock to defeat Flame’s mad ambitions. Akin to RiD15 Grimlock with Simacore, Nightshade gets their first arch rival in Flame.

Book Idea 5: Nightshade and Sam team up to take down crime in Philadelphia, playing up a bit of the superhero side to the owl. Playful parody of 60’s Batman, using Animated supervillains like Angry Archer and Nanosec.

The supervillains are part of a larger scheme by the Decepticon Malignus.

Of which Nightshade and Sam need to call in the rest of the “Teen Terrans” and Bumblebee to help deal with.

Book Idea 6: Optimus Prime’s trailer/Combat Deck starts malfunctioning and causing a rampage around town, causing a headache for GHOST and the Autobots.

It’s discovered the jailhouse Decepticons implanted a computer virus into the trailer via Bombshell’s Cerebro Shells to spite the Autobots. Twitch, Robbie and Hashtag have to jack in and defeat the computer virus within, Kremzeek, in a video game showdown while Jawbreaker, Mo, Thrash, Nightshade and Megatron try to contain the Combat Deck on the outside. There’s a fun visual of Roller effortlessly pulling the trailer around town in its rampage.

Book Idea 7: GHOST develop their own Navi program in TORQ III from studying Cybertronian technology and Teletraan 1.

A hybrid of the G1 episode, Marvel UK’s Raiders of the Last Ark, and TFP’s Flying Mind, TORQ finds GHOST inefficient and seeks to apprehend every remaining Decepticon on the planet with his own methods, regardless of the consequences to the Autobots, and humans like the Maltos. Optimus, Elita and Megatron have to stop TORQ and his mind controlled Decepticons from starting a new Machine War.

Book Idea 8: The elusive Mirage, based on the RotB version with his body being closer to RiD01 Mirage, returns and pays a visit to the Malto household to see what all the hubbub is.

Mirage, Robbie and Thrash become fast friends, and team up to put a stop to the latest scheme of Swindle’s. Battletrap, Transit and Scorponok are present as part of further RotB synergy.

[bitter-goodbyes]

TAHT FINALE MY GOD

[stylishpagani]

This has been rusting in my drafts so have the part 4 😭😭

Part 4 of BREAKBEE BREAKBEE BREAKBEE BREAKBEE

PLEASE READ PREVIOUS PARTS BEFORE READING THIS ONE, I don't know how to link posts on tumblr 😭. But the previous parts are on my blog :)

One evening as bumblebee was teaching the kids, he got a comm from Optimus. Bumblebee excuses him self and god to the side. "Bumblebee, I want to send you on a mission, if you're ok with that." Asked Optimus over the comm Bumblebee thought for a second. "Yeah I'm fine with that but how long am I going to be gone for." Bumblebee questioned. "Three weeks, are you sure you're fine with that.". "yeah no problem" reassured Bumblebee.

He went back to the terrans. Announced that he was going on a mission. Immediately Twitch insisted on coming with him but before she could even finish her sentence. BB said "and No you can't come" BD emerges from the barn "can i-" he was cut off by BB "No" BD deflated at the response.

BB continues teaching for a few more minutes before letting the kids go. BD came and sat next to BB and asked "how long are you gonna be gone for?". "for three weeks" BB responded. BD gave a horrified expression. "Who's gonna teach the kids?! " he screeched. "You are" calmly replied BB. "But I don't know how to teach!!" BD exclaimed.

"don't worry you'll make it through" responded BB with a soft chuckle. "And besides it's only a few weeks I'll make a schedule for you. Everything will be okay" he turned to BD and pressed a comforting and soft kiss on BD's cheek which gave him a warm fuzzy feeling.

He rested his head on BD's shoulder and started planning the schedule. BD wrapped his arm around BB's waist. "So when are you leaving" BD questioned. "Tomorrow" answered BB "right" said BD. After a few minutes the schedule was all done. It had also started to get dark BD got up and started to leave but before he could he asked "you coming?". "I'll be there in a minute" said BB with a smile.

BB left a comm for Optimus "may I ask what this mission is about?" He instantly got a reply "I would prefer to discuss this matter with you in person" BB decided not to reply and went inside to the others.

Once Hashtag saw him she suggested that they all watch a movie together. Since BB had nothing to do anyways he agreed and dragged BD along with him. Hashtag set up the projector while Nightshade and BB set up the projector screen. Once it was set they started to discuss what movie they should watch the couple let the kids decide. To BD's surprise they chose a horror movie and BD wasn't a fan but decided to go with it. He sat down in front of the projector screen. BB came and sat right next to him. BD held BB's hand and kissed it. BB widely smiled as a response. Hashtag played the movie and they all settled down.

A few minutes into the movie BB held BD's hand. Whenever there was a jumpscare BD would tighten his grip on BB's hand. It was obvious that BD was scared "what you scared? " said BB whispered teasingly. "No I'm not!" quickly replied BD.

The movie ended and BB got up to leave he went to their now shared bedroom and threw himself on their bed and fell asleep. He woke up in the middle of the night to find BD snuggled up next to him. He couldn't help but smile. He wrapped his arms around BD and gave him a kiss on his forehead and again fell asleep.

BD woke up to BB doing yoga once he registered his surroundings he focused on BB and chuckled. BB got startled and fell. To which the still in bed BD laughed. BB glared at BD and got up. He walked over to BD "Good morning sleepy head" said BB with a warm smile. "Well good morning to you too" replied BD with a sly smile. BD stood up and BB gave him a loose hug. Then BD pulled BB in for a morning kiss. BB smiled and pressed back against him and they pulled away. "I was looking forward to that" happily said BB. "I know you were" responded BD with a chuckle.

BB walked out of their room and to his surprise, the terrans were awake. Twitch was warming up for the day, thrash and hashtag were reading Transformers comics while Jawbreaker sat next to a tree and watched his siblings from afar, Nightshade, however is in the dugout, working on his newest invention, The Humanizer 1000, a portal gun looking device that can turn any cybertronian into a human.

Bumblebee walks into the dugout to prepare for his mission and his meeting with Optimus.

"Good morning, Nightshade" Bumblebee says in a soft tone as he prepares his weapons and everything else required for the mission. "Good morning, Bumblebee!" Nightshade exclaims and waves at bumblebee with a big ear to ear grin. Bumblebee softly smiles and waves back at Nightshade. Bumblebee gathers his supplies and equipment like, energon and a few handheld weapons.

Bumblebee packs his supplies into his chassis and walks out of the dugout. Before leaving Bumblebee goes to Breakdown to say goodbye. "Hey, Breaks..." Says Bumblebee and walks up to Breakdown and wraps his arms around his neck. "Hey, darling" Breakdown says with his usual smug and carefree attitude. Bumblebee kissee Breakdown's cheek and Breakdown wraps his arms around Bumblebee's waist, Bumblebee's doorwings shudder and Bumblebee hands Breakdown a datapad. "Here's your schedule, Breakdown" says Bumblebee and Breakdown takes the data pad and skims over it with an anxious look. "Bee, I don't know of im gonna be able to go through with this..." Breakdown says with a small Frown and a worrisome look. "Breakdown as i said, don't worry. It's only for a few weeks" Bumblebee says and chuckles. Breakdown sighs and says ''maybe you're right, thanks" Breakdown cups Bumblebee's chin and pulls him in for a soft and tender kiss. Bumblebee reciprocates and kisses him back with equal tenderness....

{To be continued....}

[mgarmagedon]

Okay today I'm giving my honest opinion about Earth Spark season 2 part 1 :D and I still think it's shit :DDD

Before anything, there are gonna be spoilers, so please don't read it if you want to have opinion on your own or just have fun of watching :D

You may ask then, "why tf are you watching it then you stupid hoe", oh silly because I like make my opinion on something, and how could I shit about it if I didn't watch it???

And I will not repeat myself here about things I already complain about it, like graphics (but sometimes I had a feeling like I was watching cutscene from the fucking game on nintendo XDD), texture, this fucking stupid bitch hashtag, etc. but yk have it in mind

But to not being rude I will say something nice first! I like sometimes jokes, like I cringed while them much much more less than last season which is good thing, because few of them were somehow decent like this one with Breakdown and Aftermath which was really lovely to me XD (still hate those bitches as a characters but ykkkk)

Or when Splitfire is calling Megatron, Optimus and Elita old farts, she is fine when she is just sassy

Also as always Jawbreaker was cute, but's just Jawbreaker uwu

Okay it's time to go back on judging this shit >:D

So writing, I think it's kinda random sometimes, and I still don't feel like what are they actually say nobody irl would do. Like they are making so much corny text about how they love each other and always saying something about family, and I'm like bruh, I never EVER heard any siblings even the most loving one say such a things.

I also think Robby became the most useless character there rn, like he didn't nothing important, and don't even let me start talking about episode fucking 8 because it's cringefest, and I needed to stop it every few seconds to take deep breath and continue

And why this stupid hoe Hashtag is managing his dating up, as we know he has complected relation with Elita which means they divorced, but never told anyone besides the closest ppl to them, stop her from doing that PLEASE, he is barely using internet

And I think everyone got stupider, because nobody expected that he will kill Aftermath and Splitfire for crystals and like Twitch didn't expected that chaos terran will fucking be a problem, when they literally call CHAOS TERRANS

But the most got it Soundwave and Shockwave pretty much, because they should be intimidating, and they are just fucking stupid to me

Besides how they build and found resources for such a high advance base and HOW American government didn't make a war with cybertronians after destroying G.H.O.S.T. there is no fucking logic to it.

Besides i feel quite lack of characters, because Nightshade was just background character, Shlouder didn't even talk with was just XD, Megatron was almost not there neither Elita, neither Grimlock, like I'm happy that Wheeljack became bigger part of this fr, but yyyeeeee

And Cosmo, like he was just for a little moment, where everyone had their dedicated episodes :CC

And the most is hard for me is lack of Twitch and Megatron relation, besides of this one moment

Because I'm like watching this show and torturing myself, mostly for them and I hope until the season 2 end we will get it more, because after they cancelled it, we will not get any more ep.

And to stop my bickering, over all for me this one small part had more good things than whole first season, but has lack of things that I'm watching this show for and Hashatag. . . this stupid-

I gave first season 3/10, so I thing fair would be gave it too 3/10, because of what I have said

(IT'S MY HONEST OPINION NOT THE ACTUAL PROFESIONAL REVIEW)

Besides about the show cancellation, I think Hasbro doesn't know what is doing like rn they CANCELLED also transformers reactivate, and I hope it's just weird as rebrand not deleting almost finished game 🤡🤡🤡

Because it's looking like they are cancelling whole transformers franchise to me, and Ik they are rumors of making new cartoon and new things, but then what? They will cancel it again, again and again?

So In my opinion, if new transformers movie won't be a massive success, I'm not seeing bright future for transformers.

[sonicasura]

Frenzy managed to get Soundwave to let her and Laserbeak spend with the half-organic newsparks. Both of them had been treated better outside of captivity than their non-mini caretaker and Ravage had. A slight consequence to being allowed to routinely visit was that they had to transport themselves. It was starting to get really tedious because Laserbeak could fly, but she trekked her way across the organic forest. Maybe one of the flying Terrans would find her so she didn’t have to walk the rest of the way…

The minicon slowed down when she saw Laserbeak perched tense in a tree nearby. They had been routinely flying ahead to make sure neither of them ran into humans. But them stopping meant something was off. Their screech brought her out of trying to stay silent—she let out a Sonic wave behind her.

Which pissed off something kinda big as it knocked her off her pedes with its tail. Her flyer sibling was similarly swatted out of the air…Both prepared for another attack, only to see no sign of the thing besides some retreating clicking.

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Switching species on technically whim so often taught them how to adjust to a form with vastly different biology. But, there were times that Dart could do the opposite and ignore certain biological features. They were very much aware of how big their scorpion form was. Always mindful of the tail, especially considering how deceptively deadly the stinger’s ability was. Otherwise? The human teen vehemently tried not to register what their form looked like.

Dart didn’t hate this form—they merely offput by it being part of their base form. Though it made this all far more tedious, they stuck to “draining” small things like fish. A few species were actually invasive for this small slice of Pennsylvania so they felt far less guilty.

…They couldn’t eat raw meat like this.

For all the quirk’s of the biological mechanism—which included eating through apple cores—raw meat was somehow out of the realm of possibility for their diet. A bittersweet clicking laugh came from them as they ignored the way their bisected jaw made talking very hard.

The barest edge of their injuries abated yet they knew they would need more things to drain… If anywhere were to see them, then they would see the biggest “scorpion” leaning behind a veritable pile of clearly dead fish.

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Nightshade and Hashtag should be in stasis.

Keyword should.

But the nonbinary Terran found themself more nocturnally inclined than their siblings. Hashtag tended to stay up far too late watching the videos she adored. Both of them had gotten used to each other’s quiet time when the rest of their siblings were long asleep.

One of Nightshade’s sensors had been tripped by something big—except the footage was far too corrupted to show what. Hashtag had dipped into the tech cause their programs were supposed to be pretty foolproof now. There had to be something the camera saw… The technology-inclined Terran “saw” some of the Omnitrix’s influence within the tech. Which was weird because it was supposed to be on standby mode and therefore unable to process.

Nightshade had taken off with a portable sensor so Hashtag could watch remotely and make sure the big thing didn’t try to sneak back in while they were out. The Omnitrix’s barely online processor kept messing with them both.

‘Sssss—sssss….orry.’

‘If you’re really sorry, why’re you doing this?’ Hashtag couldn’t help the slightest bit of frustration leaking into her out of body presence. The alien watch was kinda tripping her up in what was supposed to be her domain, her thing! It was even doing this while barely having enough processing power to project itself into the web space.

‘[U—se…r’s] ****sAAAAAke.‘

‘[User]?’

—ROB’d Anon.

Note. [User] flip flops between introducing themself by their actual name or nickname depending on the universe. So sometimes slight misunderstandings crop up like this.

At least Frenzy and Laserbeak merely got a tail slap instead of seeing a very monstrous scorpion. Two Terran triplets are about to get traumatized because the Omnitrix said User than Dart. Meanwhile the scorpion in question is having trouble with their hunt for suitable prey.

[dynared]

To start off, thanks for answering my overlong asks.

You almost make it sound like it’s if the Star Wars franchise got handed over to the bozos who hate the Jedi and consider them the cause of all evil for some batshit reason. Even as someone who doesn’t care about Star Wars those people annoy the heck out of me and there seem to be versions in every fandom. Or maybe just people who think nuanced characterization is making everyone an asshole.

I would like more Twitch and Hashtag, I’ve grown quite fond of them. I hope Nightshade doesn’t disappear, they may not be a favourite but their dreamy and slightly loopy demeanour reminds me a lot of me as a kid and I’ve grown attached for that. I’m also happy in general that kid’s shows are becoming more inclusive and I really like their design. Think they could slot into a kooky hermit role well.

That’s an interesting point about humans in Transformers stuff, something to think about. And I don’t want to sound like I hate the very concept of humans in these stories, I don’t.

The Skybound comics are really fun so far, and the art and action scenes are gorgeous. Pleasantly surprised I’m enjoying the human drama and very pleased with how rock solid Optimus Prime and Starscream’s characterizations have been. If it keeps up they may wind up my favourite renditions. Mostly I’m worried it will turn into a series where someone dies every couple issues and I stop being able to care about anyone altogether. I’m fine with it for a first arc but that kind of thing tends to kill my interest fast. Also hope they don’t try and make the Decepticon cause more sympathetic later on. I appreciate the odd twist but I’d like it to not become the standard. Still, that’s partly personal taste and we’ll have to wait and see.

The late 2000s/early 2010s were getting away from “everyone is gritty and grim” to another equally disliked archetype - “everyone wants to be the snarky one”, or as I’ve called it in the past - “Whedonesque” since it was mostly people trying to imitate the tone of professional creep Josh Whedon and how his characters COULD. NOT. STOP. QUIPPING. This resulted in a lot of asshole characters and character assassinations, a Prime who went beyond stoic to outright cold, Star Saber being reduced to that fanfic villain because teenage edgelord James Roberts didn’t like the idea of a Gundam being cooler than his Decepticons, etc. There are always versions of that archetype in fandom, the problem was in IDW they were writing the books, and as a result hardly anyone was reading the damned things.

Twitch I happen to like a lot, but she really is in pursuit of a better show. The reason I often compare her to Suletta Mercury (besides the red in their designs) is that same sort of naive exuberance and energy, as well as the ability to actually make connections with the rest of the cast. Hashtag I think would be more likable if she stopped trying so hard, but I think that actually makes her better for a rewrite, where she’s around characters who will be able to interact off of her desire to be cool in a different way than her siblings. Nightshade, if they are used again, probably will lean into the science aspect of their personality, a contrast with either the older Wheeljack or the more stoic Perceptor. It would be interesting to see if they went back to the original show bible’s pitch, that Nightshade identified as a machine, rather than an organic, and didn’t find gender a part of that dynamic, before I presume Mae Catt made them about gender almost exclusively. Either way they’re still non-binary, but the focus is different.

The Skybound comics, as much as I adore them, are still early on in their production. While I’ve often said that a dream production would be giving all of them (Void Rivals, Transformers, and the various Codename: GI Joe books like Duke and Cobra Commander) to Studio Trigger to make a full on anime, we are realistically years from having enough comics to have that be feasible. I understand what you mean about killing off too many of the cast, but I could also argue that if you focus on certain cast members by killing off more popular characters, you create openings for other characters to get the spotlight. Cliffjumper hasn’t had this level of characterization in decades, since he’s often seen as the sacrificial hero and the bot in Bumblebee’s shadow. No Bumblebee meant Cliffjumper could be in a role that he normally doesn’t get.

My optimism continues to be cautious, both that the Skybound comics will continue to be good, and that the Terrans will stick around this franchise, hopefully with some better material to work with. Whether that involves Twitch learning swordsmanship from Star Saber or Drift, or Hashtag interacting with Blaster, we’ll just have to see.

[minniethemoocherda]

After All is Said and Done

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EARTHSPARK!

Summery: "Please tell me I wasn't this bad when I was a sparkling." Bumblebee sighed. "No. You were a lot worse." Optimus teased.

ao3

Bumblebee was exhausted by the time they got back to the Malto farm. And it wasn't all due to the battle with Mandroid.

On the way he'd had to stop Jawbreaker from adopting the raccoon that seemed to follow them everywhere, Hashtag from fighting an inflatable wavy arm man and Nightshade from trying to chat up the non-sentient speed train. And now, despite the dark of dusk creeping over the horizon, the new young Terrans were in no rush to get some recharge, having started a game of hot cube with Twitch and Thrash, whilst using the human children as hot cubes.

Bumblebee collapsed onto the bed of hay, keeping one optic on the Terrans through the open barn doors. He felt the warm chuckle of Optimus' baritone as the Prime sat on the haystacks besides him.

"Please tell me I wasn't this bad when I was a sparkling." Bumblebee sighed.

"No. You were a lot worse." Optimus teased. His gaze was also on the choas outside but Bumblebee didn't think that it was the Malto children that his former mentor was seeing. "Do you remember when you trapped yourself in our rust stick cabinet? I worried that the Deceptions had kidnapped you."

Bumblebee groaned at the memory. He'd barely been a vorn old and had wanted more of the treats Ratchet had given him when Optimus had first brought him to the Arc. He'd managed to break open the supply cabinet in Rachet's medbay, only for door to lock itself when it swung shut behind him. Not wanting to face Optimus disappointment he'd stayed hidden for the next few jors until Ratchet eventually opened the cabinet again. Elita later called it his first scouting adventure. Although the stomache ache from surviving off rust sticks for jors hadn't been worth it. Neither had the guilt when he had grown old enough to understand the consequences of eating their ration supplies.

Bumblebee was glad at least that the new Terrans wouldn't have to worry about rations. At the dimming of Optimus' optics, Bumblebee guessed that the Prime had probably had a similar train of thought.

"Stop." Bumblebee told him.

"I'm not doing anything." Optimus replied in that polite mask he used when talking to politicians.

"No but you're thinking it so don't. It's not your fault I was born in a warzone. You did the best you could. So don't appologise for it because I will only ever be grateful."

"It is because of me that there was a war for you to be born into." Optimus sighed, but Bumblebee wasn't going to let him drown himself in unneeded guilt again. He tugged at the big bots arm, forcing Optimus to look at him.

"Hey, it's thanks to you that the Terrans weren't. Besides it was Megatron who striked first. You were the one who fought back. And no matter how long we debate over who started the war, everyone knows that you were the one who ended it."

The light returned to Optimus optics as he gazed down at him.

"How did you grow to he so wise?" Optimus asked.

Bumblebee shrugged, letting go of Optimus' arm.

"Well, I did learn from the best."

"Don't forget, after a battle like that it important to recharge. Rest, I will watch over the Terrans." Optimus said, wrapping an arm around Bumblebee and tucked him against his side.

At the sight of Optimus' smile Bumblebee couldn't hide back his own grin. It had been a long time since he had seen Optimus smile like that. It warmed his spark to be the one to cause it. Even if the moment was slightly ruined by his sudden yawn.

Although for some reason it seemed to make Optimus' smile grow even larger.

And for the first time since he was a sparking, Bumblebee let the beat of his mentor's spark lull himself to sleep.

[aknolan]

Gotta say I really really love what Earthspark did with Nightshade.

I love that there's no confusion (besides Optimus not knowing their pronouns), that this is as natural to them as she/her is to hashtag and he/him is to jawbreaker.

Most of the transformers just sort of know their pronouns, I'm glad it's no different when a bot uses they/them pronouns. This is just as normal and just as non-negotiable as any other option.

I think it would be nice to see bots that have yet to figure out their identities, too, but I really really appreciate how Nightshade establishes that this is just...normal. That this doesn't have to be something to "figure out" any more than the others have to figure out preferring she/her or he/him.