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[brandwhorestarscream]

Unicronia? Can you tell us more?

I am so, so glad you asked

So, this takes place in the Unicron Reborn AU, which is a side-story what-if of Hindsight's Timeline 5. If you're not familiar with it, uh. Check the tag cuz I'm not retyping all of that XD under the cut cuz this bitch is long

Switchover, Unicron's reincarnation, has just had the double bomb dropped on him: 'oh my god, I'm literally the devil' along with 'oh my god, my children are a bunch of dark gods'. He's just become a brand new carrier to a small litter of 4, and each of his newsparks radiates a dark, ominous power. His first time seeing his own blood was in the delivery room, deep purple and very much not blue. His carrier quietly explains to him the truth, and he's completely shocked.

He and his sparklings are incredibly dangerous. The youngest, who he names Requiem, literally holds death in their hands. A tiny newborn God of Death, capable of snuffing a spark with a single touch. That pushes Switchover to make a realistic difficult decision: to leave home, forever.

He's never even been outside of his family's home in the temple before, let alone off the planet. He has no idea what to expect, all he knows is that he needs to get away, now. His babies are dangerous, but he loves them too much to ever think about abandoning them. They can't be safe here, and they're a threat to everyone around them. For everyone's safety, they must all leave.

So he takes his 4 newborns–Paucity, Pandemic, Artillery, and Requiem–and runs away from home in the middle of the night. He secretly bought a single room on a large freighter ship leaving Cybertron that night, gathered up any baby stuff and memorabilia he could carry, and silently slipped out of the house without saying goodbye. He makes it to the ship, called the Lost Light, just in time for boarding.

Now, I don't wanna go suuuper in depth with all the nitty gritty details because this post would be like 8 pages long, but long story short: Rodimus ends up dead because of Switchover and his bitties. Because he has contact with the anti-spark, he was barred entry to the Allspark; his soul was left wandering aimlessly, nowhere to go and rest, homeless.

At this point Switchover has taken his sparklings to an uninhabited planet where the five of them will be safe and not be a threat to anyone; suddenly Roddy's soul appears before him. It tears him apart to think that this poor mech died for the sole crime of helping him escape, and so deigns to help him. Using his newfound godly power (that he still doesn't really know how to control), sculpts Rodimus a new body and gently transplants his spark into it, filling the form with his own dark energon. Roddy rises again, no longer a prime, but as Rodimus Unicronus (sans the ugly mustache). He can't ever return to Cybertron, but Switchover offers to let him stay; he gratefully accepts. The so-called "evil god" just saved his life and asked for nothing in return… maybe he's not actually all that bad?

For awhile they're happy; this uninhabited planet gives them shelter and Switchover feeds them with his own energon. The bitties grow well and their godly powers start to blossom: they're about 3-4 when shit hits the fan.

Cybertron attacks them, an entire fleet sent to wipe out Unicron, The Spawn, and the Avatar of Chaos. Long story short, one of the children, Requiem, gets mortally wounded; if they weren't an immortal godling, they would have died. Seeing them cradled in Rodimus's arms, bleeding and plating torn up, gasping short, shallow little vents, Switchover just sees red. For the first time in his life, in this life, destructive rage completely overtakes his body. He tells Rodimus to get back, to get his sparklings to safety, because he's about to lose control of himself.

Switchover reverts to what we're calling his primal form; the original Unicron stands before the fleet, incomprehensibly massive, and completely lays waste to every single ship, every single bot on them. He kills thousands in his rampage, roaring at them, "HOW DARE YOU?! HOW DARE YOU HURT MY REQUIEM?! DIE, DIE, DIE, ALL OF YOU WILL DIE!" His bellows create such intense soundwaves it shatters their audials and breaks the glass of their ships, he's that powerful.

Once the fleet has been reduced to little more than scrap metal and dust, Switchover-Unicron grabs Rodimus and his sparklings, and flees into deep space. They travel to unexplored depths of the universe, further than cybertronians have ever gone. They travel for weeks… months… years, being sustained by the great god's body. Once they've traveled millions of lightyears away, Unicron starts slowing down, and gently releases the five of them from his grasp. In a move mimicking his twin brother, his giant body start folding down, transforming and rounding out, becoming a planet suitable for them to live on. Rodimus dubs it Unicronia, as he is the first of the Unicronians.

Unicronia develops over time, thousands of years. Switchover's mortal form emerges from the planet's core, the great antispark, and the sparklings are overjoyed to at last see their carrier at a size wherein he can snuggle and hold and kiss them. Switchover thanks Rodimus for taking such good care of his sparklings while he was in his primal form, and the six of them start settling in. Building a proper home to live in, but there's even more to do!

One day, near the Pit of Anti-Sparks, they find a brand new protoform just… sitting there. Peering down the edge of the Pit, looking so lost and alone. Think like the terrans, but instead of white protometal with blue, they're black with purple. The first truly born Unicronian, and even more follow. Rodimus takes on the responsibility of looking after the newcomers, seeing as Switchover is still very busy with his relatively young, needy sparklings, but the newsparks from the Pit are naturally drawn to him. He is the giver of their lives, after all.

Unicronia slowly over time turns into a mirror planet to Cybertron–all of their citizens are birthed from the anti-spark, they worship Unicron and the Spawn as their gods rather than Primus and the Primes. Cybertron is ofc still searching for Unicron, but they're looking specifically for his godly form, and have no idea which corner of the universe he's in. When/if they do find Unicronia, it's already become a prospering planet with multiple city-states, their own technology, culture, religion, etc, and they're at a complete loss for what to do.