#cybertronia obscura

[klematista]

starting new year with rare character

Mainframe!

I couldn't find any references to his TFA altmode and back so I made my own

[elfdragon12]

Another in the series of individual Astro Squad members with human OC, Ettie! Inspired by @cybertronia-obscura prompt "recoil".

Ettie, as a medic for Cybertronians (not qualified to do more than first aid on humans), didn't have much experience with energy/laser firearms. Resident combat enthusiast, Barrage, decides to help her out.

[cybertronia-obscura]

January Prompt List

Math

Duo

Compatibility

Hack

Memories

Supercomputer

Target

Goodies

Cold Construct

Assistance

[legofanguy1999]

A Transformers fanfiction using @cybertronia-obscura January prompt Cold Construct, which feature the others Seekers and introduces a Transformers oc of mine named Skykite.

On their rare off time, the Seekers are off at a bar, drinking and talking about their duties on Cybertron while moaning fallen members. A dark blue female Seeker is sitting by herself with a drink of Energon when a blue and white Seeker come by and said, “Whose is the amazing Seeker that almost got a pair of Autobots? This gal.” Skykite look at the male Seeker and said, “Nacelle. I don’t want to talk about it. There were seven of us, with even Skywarp and Thundercracker there, and yet two Autobot spies managed to get pass us, and through a ring of fire that Hotlink uses. We will never be famous as that jerk Starscream.” and Nacelle said to Skykite, “True. All Seekers are cold construct, but we are basically a family loyal to the Decepticons’ cause. While we can fail, we can stand together as one.” which made Skykite feel better just as the voice of Soundwave call out, “Decepticon Seekers, board the Nemesis. We will leave Cybertron for new source of energy.” and everyone were stunned at first before they drop almost everything and head to the Nemesis as ordered.

[legofanguy]

A Transformers fanfiction for @cybertronia-obscura January prompt hack featuring Bitstream.

With Enemy drawing the Autobots away, the seeker Bitstream and his partner, whose look like a black recolor of Soundwave, reach Teletraan I, the center computer of the Ark, and Bitstream said as he get out his tools, “Alright, time to hack the most powerful Autobot computer.” and he start his work. As Bitstream send information on some of Earth nations to his partner, the seeker got curious about Earth since he spend most of his life on Cybertron and start looking up different things around the world which his partner ask, “What are you doing?” just as Prowl and Jetfire walk in to the two decepticons, whose quickly make a run for it, with the Autobots firing on the seeker and his partner to stop them.

[wowtalesofadventurers]

A Transformers Armada fanfiction for @cybertronia-obscura January prompt duo featuring Demolishor and Cyclonus.

The two Decepticons Demolishor and Cyclonus are in search for mini-cons, with Cyclonus flying in the sky while Demolishor groans since he is on the ground, “Why are you the lucky one to fly, Cyclonus?” which Cyclonus said, “Sorry, Demolishor. You just going to do with it buddy.”

[heartsandsparksshipweek]

Thank you for another round of Hearts and Sparks Ship Week!

I will be keeping an eye on the tag and for any @ notifications for the next week for any who caught on late! If not, this is a twice a year celebration of these ships and the next round will be the last week of February!

And, for a shameless plug, consider checking out @cybertronia-obscura, a blog dedicated to characters who don't get much love at all. There's a new feature character and list of 10 prompts every month!

[elfdragon12]

Hey, did you know that the tfwiki page for Flip Sides mentions that she manages remote-controlled drones and hey! Wouldn't you know it! "Drone" is one of the prompts for @cybertronia-obscura! What a perfect fit! We all need more Flip Sides in the world!

[elfdragon12]

For the @cybertronia-obscura prompt "assistance"!

Missile Master is insecure about his leadership abilities and can get real down when he feels like others are doing better than he is, so Moonrock gives him a little comfort.

Also, I had to get a new (refurbished) laptop, so I got the most recent version of Sketchbook and decided to see how some of the other tools looked. I like the textured pencils.

[elfdragon12]

Another piece for @cybertronia-obscura! This time, it's Twirl, originally a minicon from Unicron Trilogy comics with the prompt "performance"! She's super adorable and, apparently, her personality was based on Elle Woods from Legally Blonde and I love her! She loves to dance!

[elfdragon12]

Come Together

A short story of the Astro Squad with my human OC, Ettie. Some backstory building and some practice writing their interpersonal dynamics.

Inspired by the "team" prompt from @cybertronia-obscura.

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In the far off year of 2004...

If he was honest with himself, Missile Master wasn't sure on how grateful he was that the medic that Ultra Magnus had chosen to assign to his squad was a human. As he and 3 other members of his squad were classed as minibots and only two standard sized bots, the smaller dexterous human hands were more beneficial than other bot medics. However, humans were notorious for following their own rules and those little fuel pumps in their chests called "hearts".

At least this little human seemed to be keeping with his pace at the moment as they walked through the halls of Autobot City. He was only twice her height, so she wouldn't have had to run as if he were the Prime's height.

"This way," he said as he turned to the right. "The rest of the team is waiting in room AA125 to meet you."

"Yes, sir," she replied. Her voice sounded on the lower side for human females. Good that she could respond to a commanding officer right.

Soon enough, they reached the meeting room.

His team had been relaxing in their various ways when the two entered. Barrage had once again convinced Blast Master to a game of reflex with a ball; Missile Master was pretty sure it was called a "basketball". Heave was sitting at one of the computers hooked up to Metroplex's systems. Phaser was going through their projected ship manifest on a data pad. Moonrock was gazing out a window.

"Attention!" Missile Master called out. "Time to meet the new member of the team!"

Blast Master got pelted in the helm with the ball in his rush to turn around, but the others turned without incident. The ball pinged off his helm harmlessly before bouncing around the ground.

"Team, this will be our new medic, Loretta Caruso. Ultra Magnus thought we might benefit from a human medic on our upcoming expedition."

"Oh!" Phaser turned down to the manifest before back to the human. "This would explain why I was forwarded a human supply list! I was about to send a comm to Hoist about a mistake."

The leader nodded. "Correct. Medic Caruso, this would be my second in commander, Phaser. He is completely reliable and, anything you need, he has probably already has it on the list. Before we leave, I suggest the two of you go through the manifest to double-check as we will be away from Earth for quite some time." He gestured to the other standard-sized bot who waved enthusiastically. "That is his partner, Blast Master. While we travel through space, these two will be our ship and, thus, only available through communication." He looked back to their new medic. His optics narrowed behind his visor. "How much has our squad been explained to you?"

The human blinked up at him. "Oh! Some basic stuff. You're a team dedicated to deep space travel, mapping out new areas and general exploration," she said, "First Aid did explain that you guys were a team of two bot combiners? And he tutored me on the special treatments combiners tend to need."

"Good. We don't need as strict maintenance as he and the other Protectobots might, but we do require more care than single bots do. As I said, Phaser and Blast Master are partners."

"We are the only two who are same size and all!" Blast Master interrupted, a big grin on his face.

"Yes. Do not interrupt me," Missile Master corrected. "My own partner is Moonrock." This received a wave from said bot. "Barrage and Heave are the final pair. Barrage is our combat specialist while Heave handles our intergalactic communications." Barrage gave a short nod as Heave sat up to attention.

The little human nodded, her hair bun giving a little bounce. "Got it! So, as he said, my name is Loretta, but you can call me Ettie since we've going to be together for a while! I went through training here in Autobot City. I did classes with Sparkplug Witwicky and Raoul Delgado Herrara and then advanced classes with First Aid, Hoist, and Ratchet! I'll be able to take care of you without a problem!"

"Hello, Ettie," Heave said. Even with the face plate, his smile was audible. He always seemed to be more put-out than the others that the squad didn't get to spend as much time on Earth as other bots. Getting to work alongside a human was likely an excellent runner-up for him. "I'm sure we have lots of questions for each other."

"Speaking of," the human's voice trailed for a moment, "mind if I ask about the combining thing? From what I've been able to tell, some combiners seem like they've always been together while others act like that was something they chose later. What is it with you guys?"

Heave nodded. "Barrage and I have been together for only a short time, at least when it comes to us. You humans would think we've been together for ages! Phaser and Blast Master have been together the longest." He paused just long enough for the two to confirm. "I'm from the Burthov city-state, doing most of my studies there, and went to the Altihex research facilities later on. That's where I met Phaser and Blast Master. I didn't meet Barrage until after we started our first expedition together. I originally transformed into an individual rover vehicle."

"Full shuttle class bots are not as common as we'd like," Phaser explained, "so I volunteered for a combination program. We were partnered by the program director. It was thought that our personalities would balance each other's out."

"If it wasn't for me, Phaser would spend so long double-checking things, he'd never get off the ground!"

The flattening of Phaser's optics were enough to tell how he felt about that description. "And, if it weren't for me, Blast Master would have rushed off into space somewhere and gotten hopelessly lost."

Medic Loretta Caruso laughed. It was a nice sound. She looked back to Heave. "So how did you and Barrage meet?"

"I," Barrage finally spoke up, "got separated from my original crew. There was a planetary evacuation order--there was some sort of civil war and the captain didn't feel authorized to get involved--and I was too busy helping out some innocent civilians and missed the launch."

"Either way," Heave continued, "we picked him up when we came across the planet ourselves. We couldn't leave a comrade behind, after all. As for how we became partners, ah, well-"

Leaning forward, Barrage grinned. "Turns out he's something of a trouble magnet, so I decided to stick with him. Get him out of the trouble he gets into."

Heave mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like "now it's worse".

However, Missile Master had no time to get into that when their little medic looked up to him with interesting brown color humans have. "So what about you and Moonrock," she asked, "I've barely met you and I can tell you're pretty different."

Moonrock, in an unusual show of forwardness, gave a low chuckle. "While we were studying in Altihex, I would allow him to lead on all our shared projects and I've been his favorite partner ever since," he said.

Missile Master's face plate warmed up. "Our dynamic is beneficial to both of us," he said to rephrase the unflattering explanation. "As our expeditions tend to take us into deep space where we rarely have access to timely back-up, we agreed to undergo the reformatting process to combine into a larger and more powerful vehicle." He cleared his vocals and turned to look down. "Any further questions or shall we get to our final preparations underway?"

"Seems like we've got plenty more time to know each other on the way, so let's get this show on the road!"

"We'll be in deep space, Medic Caruso, it's unlikely we'll get many shows on the road."

"We'll do a crash course on human expressions too."

[elfdragon12]

A piece for @cybertronia-obscura using the "weather" prompt! Moonrock of the Astro Squad with my human OC, Ettie! I think (non-acid) rain may be one of Moonrock's favorite weather patterns. He find it meditative.

[elfdragon12]

Finally got all single pieces of the Astro Squad and Ettie! This time, inspired by the @cybertronia-obscura prompt "navigator"!

Missile Master enjoys when Ettie asks him questions because it helps him feel like a better leader.

[cybertronia-obscura]

Feature Character of January

Mainframe the Autobot Action Master!

Toy bio:

"A program is only as good as its programmer." A walking, talking computer terminal. Would rather attack fourth order differential equasions than Decepticons. Totally committed to his work. Views the galactic conflict as an inconvenience he must tolerate rather than a struggle in which he must participate. Is often compelled to flex his intellectual muscle, when needed. Equipped with 200,000 mega-byte capacity. His pugnatious partner, Push-Button, prefers converting to self-propelled proton rifle mode and disintegrating Decepticons over his assigned task of debugging Mainframe's various programs.

Mainframe was introduced to the franchise in 1990! When he was introduced, he was a non-transforming toy with his smaller robot partner, Push-Button. His modern toy transforms into a large computer similar to Teletraan-1, complete with the Sky Spy.

His first was in Transformers Animated where he is a member of the Autobot Ministry of Science and he shows up in a few episodes, most notably working with Highbrow on the memory-wiped Arcee. His largest role was in the 2005 IDW story, More Than Meets the Eye, where he occasionally shows up and says some lines. He also pops up in the 2006 IDW Beast Wars comics, the Classics comics, the Of Masters and Mayhem, and the 2019 IDW continuity! His name is mentioned in a Transtech story and in Rescue Bots.

[elfdragon12]

I made a Scrounge piece for the @cybertronia-obscura July prompt "sneaky"! He's just too sneaky with his very special arm like no other! (...)

[elfdragon12]

Across The Universe

A short story featuring the Astro Squad and my human OC, Ettie, getting into more personal interactions. This is inspired by the "loud" prompt from @cybertronia-obscura

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Heave was going to check on their new human companion, but, to his excitement, she came to him first.

"Hey, your name is Heave, right?" Loretta, she said they could call her 'Ettie', asked. "You do the communications stuff?"

The mech adjusted his seat to face her more fully. "That's correct, Ettie! I make sure that we're able to keep connection with at least one Autobot outpost or, at the very least, be aware where the closest one is to our location. I also make sure to send off data packets of our reports at regular intervals," he explained.

Ettie stood up on her tiptoes, a cute organic trait he thought, to look at all of the screens, dials, and buttons. "What about incoming? Could we possibly get broadcasts from Earth?"

His engine hummed as he thought it over. As he turned back to the instruments, his chair squeaked. Quick calculations ticked in his mind. "Possibly," he finally said, "I doubt we could get a consistent signal, but we might get it sometimes, depending on the source." His head tilted towards Ettie. "Is there someone you want to hear from back at your home?"

"I wouldn't mind," she replied, "but I was hoping we'd be able to get Blaster's radio show out here." Her face brightened as she kept talking. "I really like it and that was the main thing I was going to miss on the expedition."

"Oh!" Heave's tone picked up. "Getting broadcasts from Autobot City will be much easier. Our instruments already have those frequencies preset! Would you like me to set up timers so we can try to tune in?"

The grin seemed way too large for her little face, but it was pleasant to see. "Really? Thank you so much!" Ettie held her hand out to him, palm up.

Taking a guess, Heave held his own hand out in a similar fashion. It had to have been the right choice be she jumped and slapped their hands together. His spark whirled in his chassis. "Happy to help, Ettie." He leaned his elbows on his knees. "Anything else I can help you with?"

"Oh yeah, so Phaser said to ho to the cockpit to talk to him if I need to while we're traveling, but what about Blast?"

Heave opened his mouth to speak when a voice boomed over it.

"Just call my name!" Blast Master announced. "You were talking about me, right? I don't mind if you call me Blast, by the way. My full designation can give the wrong impression about me, I think."

Ettie giggled. "Good to know."

"As you might guess," Heave said, his tone leaking deadpan, "there's not much privacy on this ship. Be mindful when talking to Blast Master as he can throw us off course if he gets too caught up in conversation."

"It doesn't happen that often!"

"Once is enough," Heave replied.

A laugh from their human cut the argument short. "I'll keep that in mind! But yeah, thanks, Heave!" She patted the closest wall. "Thanks, Blast, I won't let you get too distracted when I want to chat."

"Good luck with that," Heave muttered.

"I heard that!"