#dorothy maltos

[cutekittenlady]

Trains, Planes, and Autobots

Summary Fic Part 10

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(decided to stop stringing you guys along. So have the confrontation with DeadEnd. As a treat.)

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Megatron comes down and Dorothy disembarks. Atlantic City is just visible in the distance. Optimus pulls up not too far from their landing spot and Twitch, with much relief and stretching emerges from his trailer.

Dorothy looks speculatively up at the gates of a scrapyard and wonders why a robot would take up residence where machines are destroyed. Megatron simply replied that it's the sort of place Deadend would go as he "has a lot of thoughts about life and the universe and places like this prove him right".

Dorothy mutters that he's not painting a pretty picture.

Optimus tells the group they'll likely have to split up to canvas the scrapyard and find Deadend. He tells them to leave their comms open and remain in communication as they search.

They split into two groups; Dorothy and Megatron, and Twtich and Optimus, and head into opposite directions.

Dorothy asks Megatron for more information about DeadEnd. Megatron asks her to be more specific and she says she just wants to know if hes going to have any "nasty surprises" for them like shooting lasers from his eyes or something.

Megatron laughs at the idea, but quickly recovers and tells her that no. Deadend is just a regular cybertronian. Unless he has had some sort of special upgrades and he can't imagine Deadend bothering with that without being convinced.

However he does tell her not to let down her guard. Deadend might not have any special powers to speak of, but he could be clever. And while he had a nihilistic defeatist mindset, once properly motivated he could be fierce and clever.

Meanwhile Twitch is hovering around the junkyard and trying to spot cybertronians but is quickly becoming frustrated. She points out that the junkyard has a TON of cars that Deadend could be hiding out as. She asks Optimus if he has a energon detector. He answers negatively, and is about to talk out a strategy when he quickly hushes her. Twitch lowers her voice and asks what it is. Optimus tells her to listen.

After a moment, Twitch realizes she can hear a voice.

They peek around a trash pile and quickly realize that their caution might be misplaced.

Deadend is leaning on a junk pile that hes fashioned into a sorta chair watching a car crusher do its work. He's surrounded by odd junk sculptures and is currently trying to vocally write some cheesy edgy poetry. Said poetry is terrible. Oh and theres music playing.

((I can't decide what sorta music Deadend would listen to. Screamo or classical music. Note in the replies what sorta music you think Deadend would listen to while making junk scultures, writing bad poetry, and watching cars get crushed.))

Twitch asks if thats Deadend and once Optimus confirms she decides to fly over and try and "read him his rights" or whatever her idea of that is. Optimus tries to stop her, but its too late.

Deadend doesn't really react to Twitch's voice as his music is so loud. Twitch tries to raise her voice above the noise, but can't manage it. She eventually get frustrated and shoots an EMP at the device playing the music FINALLY getting Deadends attention.

However Deadend isn't really intimidated by Twitch. Literally snatching her out of the air and wondering what she is. At first he thinks shes an autobot drone until she transforms back into robot mode.

He winds up dropping her on the ground hard in surprise and vocally wonders if shes an autobot only to fail to see an autobot insignia on her.

Twitch is about ready to launch at him only for Deadend to pull a gun on her. He conversationally asks what shes doing there.

Twitch hesitantly tries to answer with something that wont get her shot only for Deadend to cut her off and say that it doesnt matter anyway. Obviously shes either an autobot spy there to arrest him, a decepticon thats come looking to collect on some kind of bounty or else trying to take over "his" junkyard, or else an unaffilated bot tryin to do one of the former. Regardless he should probably just shoot her and-

Thats when Optimus is on the scene and successfully manages to get the jump on Deadend kicking off a fight that attracts Megatron and Dorothys attention.

Deadend largely plays evasion as he moves to retrieve his firearm (which he dropped when Optimus attacked before) and focuses on firing at Optimus from a distance. Twitch manages to get his attention and draw his fire while Optimus transforms into truck mode and nearly rams into Deadend who just barely manages to transform himself and speeds off.

Megatron and Dorothy appear overhead tracking after Deadend from overhead. Dorothy radios Optimus telling him they have their sights on the Con. Optimus radios back that he and Twitch are in pursuit on the ground.

Dorothy watches Deadend racing along the road and consults her GPS. She tells Optimus that he seems to be heading for the interstate. Megatron tells OP to cut him off before he can reach the interstate.

Twitch wonders why. If he tries to hit the interstate the traffic would slow him down wouldn't it?

Megatron darkly says that he doubts Deadend intends to drive responsibly.

Hes proven correct when they fail to cut Deadend off from the interstate and he very deliberately enters the opposite exit and barrels down the interstate in the wrong direction. Cars swerving out of his way, endangering the drivers.

Optimus growls that he'll need to leave pursuing Deadend to the others as his truck mode giving chase will likely only endanger more lives. So he directs Twitch to follow after Megatron while he follows on foot trying to keep an eye out for any crashed cars.

Megs and the others follow his direction and chase after Deadend, who swerves expertly between oncoming cars. Occassionally coming dangerously close to some of the cars.

((Won't lie I struggle to come up with how this chase ends or how they catch up with Deadend. What I DO have is that they eventually catch up to Deadend and manage to capture him.))

Deadend doesnt really argue against his capture. He ran, they chased, they caught up, he was captured. It was inevitable.

This irritates Twitch who demands to know why, if he thought getting captured was 'inevitable', he drove through the freeway and endangered all those people.

Deadend can only give the incredibly unsatisfactory answer of, "I dunno. Instinct?"

His callous attitude irritates Dorothy and Megatron as well with Megatron arguing that its just this careless attitude that has given their people such a hard time on the planet.

Deadend, once again, just shrugs and treats the concept of humans hating cybertronians like some inevitability.

However, Deadend tells them to relax as hes not intending to run anymore. He's tired of hiding out anyway. Pessimistically he wonders is Megatron will leave him to rot in prison or put him into stasis like he did with Motormaster.

Megatron takes the opportunity to say that they'd actually come to talk to Deadend about the stunticons. Asking him when he last saw the members.

Deadend asks why Megatron wants to know something like that, but doesnt wait for an answer before deciding its not worth asking. He then says that he hasn't seen any of the others since the end of the world. He himself has largely been waiting for GHOST and the autobots to come find him. Moving from scrapyard to scrapyard, stealing energy from gas stations and power plants, listening to music, making his statues, and watching "the inevitable fate of all cybertronians" which he describes as "a useless pile of junk only good for crushing and smelting down".

Strangely enough this behavior actually kept him largely under the radar. Something that Megatron doesn't miss. Internally speculating if Deadend would have continued wandering quietly if they hadn't shown up.

Optimus then shows up carrying his trailer behind him. Clearly out of breath, and tells the group that, thankfully, none of the drivers on the interstate were harmed.

To this news Deadend just shrugs.

Optimus ignores him for his own sanity, and asks Megatron if he's learned anything new from Deadend to which Megatron responds negatively.

The sudden interest in the stunticons peaking his interest, Deadend asks why they're asking him about the others. Twtich tells him that they're looking for the others before Dorothy can shush her.

Deadend suddenly becomes VERY interested and asks if any of the other stunticons have escaped from jail.

Megatron sighs and tells him they believe Motormaster may be reforming the group.

This clearly seems to shock Deadend and he begins to mutter to himself. Asking himself if he should run. Then wondering if its possible to hide. Finally he says "its all pointless" and "he" will find him no matter what.

With that he willingly walks into Optimus' trailer and asks them to "get it over with".

After closing the doors Dorothy wonders if they should be concerned with how easy that was after that chase.

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[ultimatefartwizard]

Nightshade found a trailcam and wanted to say hello!

As for Alex, well... he got a bit startled LMAO

(might adjust some hues in the upper image for fun or later edits)

[pollopom]

I know Dorothy was probably already married to Alex given the timeline, but I want to believe Megatron got to attend her wedding and they got him a big ass bowtie to wear and took pictures with him PLEASE I NEED THIS

[deskraven]

Nightshade and Hashtag watched Arcane.

[ratsoupee]

Earthspark is so banger actually

[treppi]

um happy new year everyone!... oh, and also happy megatron monday :)

[kairukitsuneo]

"Optimus...!?" Bumblebee gasped.

──────────⋆⋅☆⋅⋆────────── As you all long waited and behold! I'm proud to announce my piece I did for @tf-bigbang project, collaborated with DiamondBreaking as my writer! ☺️💓! Be sure to check out the fic (will link soon)! EDIT: THE FIC IS HERE NOWWWWWW (AO3 link) : https://archiveofourown.org/works/57339247

[sentinelprimeslowerhalf]

...I apologize in advance for this, but do you know that meme that shows a couple in bed with the caption, "Ah yes. Me. My girlfriend. And her 500 dollar four foot tall mareep." ...Could I request you sketch that meme but it's Dot and Alex and Alex is holding a giant Bumblebee plushie or something? XD

[the-sheep]

Twitch's fusion canon part 2

the first part

[discourteouscuttlefish]

Blorbos from my showsssss

I love a lot of megatrons but he might be my fave

Here he is alone

Without text lol

[nedo21god]

meetings with teachers will be fun

[bombdiggity666]

Some drawings of Dotty and Megatron. 

I always hated the idea of Megatron befriending a human. Even with Autobot Megatron in MTMTE, I always thought It would ruin his character. 

Except Dotty is the best possible character match for him, so I adore their relationship! Seeing him have a genuine, badass girl boss friend is actually beautiful. 

My two cents.

[transsimmonss]

i have other drawings in the works, but for now have old shittily drawn earthspark memes from 2023 when i first started the show

(+ a sneakpeak at my current wip)

[pollopom]

te amo reina

[deskraven]

Finally someone commissioned me to draw Earthspark related content ;v;

[enigmatist17]

Dot was not expecting to come home to an ambulance in her driveway during a quick break mid-shift, the car tucked just out of view of the main road. The ranger hopped out of her truck and approached it, clearing her throat while crossing her arms over her chest.

"I have about twenty minutes before I need to return to work, so talk to me now or wait for me to return." There was a moment, before the familiar sound of a Transformer shifting to its root mode filled the air, the ambulance standing a fair height above the human. "Welcome."

"Apologies, wasn't expectin' to get in so early." The mech had a gruff voice as they knelt down, extending a servo. "Name's Ratchet, don't think we had the pleasure of meetin' on the field."

"Dot Malto, I've heard of you." The ranger relaxed a little as she rested a hand on his palm in greeting. "Heavens know how many stories I've heard from Wheeljack and Bumblebee."

"Wheeljack is here?" Ratchet seemed a little surprised as he pulled his limb back, standing with a slight grunt. "That is...nice to hear. Haven't seen much of anyone these days, not with G.H.O.S.T tryin' to hunt us down, or had been anyways."

"Trust me, that's not something you need to worry about anymore." Dot sighed, glancing up at him. "I'm assuming you're here about what happened a few weeks ago?"

"Among other things." His optics dimmed for a moment at the memory of dying so suddenly, only to be revived with the knowledge that something had ripped his Spark from him for just shy of fifteen minutes. It hadn't taken him long to wrangle coordinates from Bumblebee once the initial panic had subsided, knowing Prime wouldn't be too far from the scout, and would hold the answer about what the frag had happened.

Ratchet wasn't scared of many things, but that had rattled his processor to the core.

"Well, I can start by introducing you to the kids, they're going to love meeting one of the "super ultra famous" Autobots." Dot smiled sympathetically, pointing toward a barn further into the premises.

"Strange, most humans don't let their sparklings live outside their home." Ratchet raised an optic ridge, motioning for her to step forward and trailing behind the ranger.

"Oh, my kids do live in the house; these are where my other kids live, the ones who don't quite fit." This had the medic further intrigued, Dot opening the door and whistling down the open large grate in a far corner. "Hey kids, why don't you come on up and say hello to someone!"

Ratchet felt his Spark nearly stop again when he was suddenly bombarded with five wide-open EMF fields, brimming with emotions so openly it almost made him fall to his knees.

No, no, this can't be what he thinks it is.

The first mech to come up from the underground area was so small Ratchet nearly thought they were a Minicon, the little femme zipping up into the air with an excited sqeual.

"Ohmigosh omigosh it's Ratchet!" The medic barely had time to register what she was saying before a blue and white mech ran up into view, his eyes wide.

"Mom, how come you didn't tell us he was coming!" Ratchet looked down helplessly at Dot, who just smiled and shrugged as three more sets of pedes hurried up from the underground area.

"I didn't know, sweetheart." Ratchet remained silent as what looked like a Dinobot, a lanky bot with glowing eyes reminiscent of an owl, and the tallest of the set, sporting a grin and thrumming with a particularly powerful EMF, gathered around him with overlapping questions.

Sparklings....honest to Primus sparklings were around him, a sight Ratchet never thought would come to pass.

"W-When were you all created?" The question nearly gets lost in the din, but Dot silences the bots by merely crossing her arms.

"A few months ago, when Mo and Robbie found the Emberstone and helped make us!" The petite femme smiled, hovering within his sight. as Ratchet stared.

"I see." Ratchet smiled as he knelt down, reaching into his subspace to pull out some tools, along with five glowing purple sticks. "Well, I'm going to assume you've never had a proper medic give you an exam, so I'd like to start with that."

"Do we have to?" The tall femme whined, eyeing Ratchet in slight discomfort. "Robbie and Mo hate the doctor, they say it's kinda scary sometimes."

"I assure you this won't hurt a bit, I've been doing this a very long time." Ratchet held out the sticks to the children. "Why don't you give me your names, and we'll go one at a time. Lieutenant Malto, you're more than welcome to observe."

"Just call me Dot, and I might do that for the first kiddo before I get back to work." Nodding, the medic finally pulled out a scanner before motioning for the bot closest to him. "You're up, come on."

"I'm Jawbreaker." Ratchet scanned him with what he hoped was a gentle smile, the young bot nervous yet curious.

"It's nice to meet you, Jawbreaker; like you heard, I'm Ratchet." The older bot frowned at the readings on his scanner before his optics went wide in alarm. Jawbreaker smiled nervously when Ratchet leaned forward with his scanner again, the readings the same as the first scan. "How are you operating?! I've never seen energon levels this low!"

"Oh that's 'cause we don't need energon, w-we drink magic cave water?" The small dinobot smiled, Ratchet just staring at the youngling before a trilling noise escaped him, unable to vocalize any response as he merely pressed one of the purple sticks into Jawbreaker's servos.

"Off you go." Dot looked amused and concerned at Ratchet's silence, Nightshade moved forward to take Jawbreaker's spot. He's just finishing up with Twitch when there's the familiar roar of Bumblebee's engine, the bot transforming the second he was close enough to the house, whistling a tune as he headed for the barn.

"Oh kids, I brought a surpi- Ratchet?!" The scout froze before throwing himself to the side, narrowly missing the wrench thrown at him.

"You SLAGGING PIT SPAWN!" The medic nailed him right to the face with a second wrench, stomping over to the stunned bot with a hiss. "You have been with SPARKLINGS and didn't think to CALL ME?!"

"W-Wait, I thought you knew!" Bumblebee winced as Ratchet stood over him, optics flashing in irritation. "I've been uncover with them, a-and Optimus would have told you, right?"

"Oh ho ho don't you dare try and distract me, although he will answer me later." The medic sneered, before letting out a long vent and offering a servo. "It's good to see you, kid."

"...it's great to see you too, I didn't know you were even on Earth." Ratchet easily pulled Bumblebee up onto his pedes, grumbling lightly when he was yanked into a hug. "I have missed you, though I didn't miss your wrench sharpshooting skills..."

"Comes with the package." The older bot smirked, the five younglings watching the two from their spot by the barn with wide optics. "They're in good health, despite not being properly checked over by a professional."

"I tried my best?" Bumblebee grinned, doorwings fluttering in delight at the backhanded praise. "Ratchet, why are you here?"

"I want to know what happened a few mega-cycles ago."

"Oh...right." The scout glanced toward the younger bots, offering a servo when Twitch rubbed one of her arms with a guilty look. "Who wants a hug?"

"We do!" Ratchet stepped back to allow the five young- terrans all but tackle Bumblebee with a group hug, his spark practically melting at the sight.

"Can we hug you too, Mr. Ratchet?" Hashtag asked, the older bot chuckling as he placed his data pad in his subspace.

"I suppose I could agree to that." It was Bumblebee's turn to laugh when one of his mentors was suddenly besieged by five eager terrans, sending him to the ground with an amused look, reminding the younger bot of times long past. Ratchet would find himself agreeing to spend the night later on in the day, unable to say no to the puppy-eyed optics that Thrash and Hashtag wielded with deadly accuracy, as well as Bumblebee's not-so-silent pleas for adult interaction of the Cybertronian kind. Spending an entire evening catching up and talking about just about every topic either bot could bring up was...nice, and Ratchet decides the moment when the scout drifts off to recharge that it might be a good idea to stick around for a little while.

Optimus was going to get one hell of a lecture first, however.