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ivycorp · 2 years

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The battlefield shifted since Megatron stopped showing up.

The Autobots had to admit that they had encountered a very odd dilemma - on one hand, they were glad for the reduced tensions, as the most obvious source of contention had been removed. On another, the Decepticons were way more difficult to handle without the warlord’s presence; he usually was a good indication of the general state of their side of the struggle.

If he fought on, they usually did too - and when he stopped, they most often followed suit.

Now, without him, the fights became more unpredictable, and the Autobots were at the disadvantage once more. The Nemesis was maintaining communication blackout, which mostly irritated Agent Fowler, who has grown attached to the regular updates from the ship’s crew chat and had to learn how to deal with getting a rush of notifications at random intervals instead, as the Vehicons went outside of the jamming range, making him miss out on important details.

They were faced again with the nagging sense of being left out of the loop - they were learning about operations being carried out days after they have already been completed, which reminded them of the silent years before Megatron returned from space to unleash on them the Dark Energon madness.

This meant that Starscream was back in the driving seat of the Decepticon forces, but not yet as the actual leader - all of them knew they would have heard from the seeker had the silver mech actually meet his demise. There would most likely be some sort of an elaborate ceremony to keep up appearances before the jet would take control over the faction into an iron grip; this time most likely without Soundwave’s opposition, since he must have initiated and kept the communication jam for a reason.

All of this, combined with a gradually worsening mood of their Prime, made the prior status quo appear slightly appealing - even with the horrible embarrassment that came with seeing their leader engage the enemy in a more intimate way than they all preferred.

At least it was familiar.

Optimus was growing steadily more incensed in a frightening way to the rest of the Autobots, obviously affected by the prolonged separation. Initially the quiet was not causing any outward impact on the mech, but a few days later, when they would normally expect to see Decepticon movement, there was nothing.

It continued to stay silent for another week.

Then another one after that.

They only realized there had been a change of management when Fowler mentioned that there had been an accident at one of the mining operations - which should have attracted their attention. The fact that it didn't meant it has been kept very well under wraps - and that was not Megatron's usual concern.

They scrambled to try and gain insight into any Decepticon-related activity - and kept on drawing blanks. While the locations they already knew about were unguarded and thus easily accessible, providing opportunities for raiding, there were not enough traces to see where the enemy actually was.

There were odd signs of other involved parties, but no concrete details - so instead of gaining insights, they were met with even more questions.

Finally, after nearly a month, they managed to pinpoint a minor Decepticon operation in progress by luck alone - Bumblebee was out on patrol and managed to spot a familiar alt form of the seeker in the sky. Following the jet with caution proved fruitful, as the scout pinged the base with coordinates of the active site, asking for backup.

Moments later, part of the Autobot crew came out from the portal, peering over the distance in hopes of scoping the field before engagement. A couple of Vehicons, lots of Energon and Starscream - risky, but manageable.

Arcee pointedly ignored the way Optimus curled his fists at the prominent lack of the warlord on site.

Finally motioning them to approach closer, they tried to keep out of sight, hoping to maintain an element of surprise. Unfortunately, there wasn't much cover available; with a sound of alarm, one of the Vehicons pointed towards their position right as they tried to surround the Decepticon SIC.

Optimus lunged at the seeker, leaving the rest of the enemies to be handled by his team, as he had his servos full with trying to not get his optics scratched out.

"Starscream, what happened to Megatron?" he asked with a hint of worry, keeping the jet at a distance that prevented the effect of intimidation he intended for.

Starscream looked at him and blurted out:

"Fell into a coma after bad Energon he got as a gift from Tarn, it was way past expiry date."

Optimus leveled him with a look that clearly said 'I don't believe you', and was about to say the same, when a shot to his side started him. One of the Vehicons got away from the fray, risking gaining Prime's attention to rescue the flight commander.

Starscream took the opportunity at once, squirming away and calling out to the Nemesis under the cover fire from now three Vehicons.

"Soundwave, open the bridge, we have company!" snapped the seeker, and then, with a look of pleasant surprise on the faceplates, grinned.

"Well, if you think so, then I won't be a nay-sayer," was the clue for the bigger mech that instead of an escape, he would be now faced with an additional enemy, as swirling lights appeared with additional Vehicons…

And Soundwave.

The Decepticon TIC was carrying something in a container, but he set it down on the ground the moment the bridge blinked out, as he chose to stand tall, the entirety of the bot screaming 'challenge'.

This made matters significantly worse in Prime's opinion, but he had the best chance of surviving the encounter out of all of his team, which was fighting with more enemies than before - they would not be able to help out anyway. Optimus turned away from the seeker, expecting to be engaged by the blue mech and bracing for it.

A swipe of claws came out of nowhere and nearly connected with his side, right when the data cables raised to strike. His optics widened in aperture, as he realized his mistake - he would not be fighting the TIC.

He was going to be attacked by both Starscream and Soundwave at once.

He swore internally, as the fight began in earnest, as he tried to ignore the whispers of memory with regards to the Pits - and how Megatronus found the blue mech an impressive opponent of formidable skill.

If he listened to them, he would panic - and then for sure he would slip up and most likely die, if the angry field of the mech was any indication. The fact that Soundwave allowed those emotions to show was a warning he knew not to ignore; the intent to kill was present in every motion and he could not allow any of these to reach his spark or helm.

The data cables were trying to either trip him or trap him, with the way they kept on curling around his pedes, as he tried to cover his vitals from a combined strikes from his opponents. Prime was not used to the lethal skill of these two, as they were way faster and smaller than Megatron, making it harder to counter in time.

They worked well together, to his horror - whenever Starscream retreated to find a better angle of approach, the TIC would slide in, allowing not even a moment of rest. Optimus's processor was working overtime trying to keep up with the unfamiliar setting, frame growing warmer with the exhaustion; it was doing its best to survive the onslaught.

There was no time to think about winning, truly, as the combination was deadly: what the seeker lacked in strength, the communication officer would supply in spades; when Soundwave would lose the upper hand, Starscream interrupted with a vicious exploration of vulnerability, whatever it might have been.

Optimus was suddenly very grateful for having his usual enemy in Megatron, who was ruthless, but usually engaged him alone.

If these two tried to gang up on him before - or worse, had they managed to cooperate with Megatron as a third power - he would have been dead ages ago.

When Soundwave's servo nearly stabbed him through the chest armor, he finally caved in and sent out a distress call to the base. The most recent additions to his team, including the three SICs that were getting used to the odd dynamic on Earth, were all responding affirmative.

He was relieved when he noticed the portal shimmering into existence, while he strained against the cable that threatened to cut off his arm if he allowed it even a bit of leeway. The claws of the seeker already left gauges in his plating, but his major Energon lines were not compromised for now - he only hoped it would remain true long enough for the others to reach his position.

A familiar voice of Jazz reached his audials, and the seeker withdrew hissing in pain, as a shot caught his wing. Soundwave did not let go, but Prime noticed the calculating pause, as the Decepticon turned his visor to check the battlefield. The Vehicons were losing ground with unfamiliar enemies, and Optimus had taken the opportunity to free himself of the data cable, throwing it away to the side, creating distance between them; his vents were working overtime to cool him down, now that he had a moment of respite.

Starscream snarled in anger, but motioned to the TIC to fall back, and as a portal to Nemesis opened, he shot out a quick command to the rest of the army to withdraw. Cover fire allowed Vehicons to get back to safety, keeping Autobots at bay.

Soundwave pointed towards the box he carried over, and the seeker smiled with malice, gesturing to it as well.

"A farewell gift, Prime - or rather, a return to the owner in this case," Decepticon SIC gloated, laughing as they both disappeared into the portal.

There was a silence across the battlefield, as the Autobots turned to eye the container critically.

"So… everyone else is also in favor of burning this to the ground from a safe distance?" Elita asked, taking aim.

"No, I will check it out - do not approach it now, though" disagreed Optimus, stopping her with a raised servo. Her face twisted, but in the end she lowered her blaster, watching critically as their leader approached the container.

"If it explodes, I am going to tell him off for a week," she muttered to Jazz, who was watching the mech with concern.

"I will join you in that," he replied quietly, as Prime's digits brushed the top of the box.

He lifted it open and peered inside - and froze.

"What is it?" Arcee asked, taking a tentative step closer, but as the optics of Optimus met hers, she stopped as well.

Prime was pissed off.

"It's nothing of concern," he answered, taking another pained look at the contents of the box, letting it close shut. He took a glance at the sky, in-venting loudly, and consciously relaxed his frame, signaling an all-clear.

The Autobots approached him, and Bulkhead risked a look inside the container. He saw the ruined remains of another box in there, charred beyond any chance of salvaging.

Whatever was in the box was burned down too, leaving only traces of pieces that looked suspiciously like…

Bulkhead decided it was better to stop thinking about it. Jazz, who sneaked a peek also reached this conclusion, and they both shut the outer container with more force than necessary.

"Prime, I swear, if this was what I think it was…" he started, just as their leader was finishing his comm to Prowl at the base to open a bridge back for them. He shot out a quick request to Elita to blow the container up, which she gladly followed through on, sensing it was a more personal issue than he tried to make it look like.

"It doesn't matter any longer," countered Optimus, not looking at anyone in particular.

Mostly avoiding the direction where the container exploded into smithereens.

"It matters, if you are pulling the same slag again," argued Jazz, but his complaints fell onto deaf audials.

Prime already crossed over to the base.

When they arrived, the mech was glued to the console, pouring over the data at a rate faster than they could keep up with. Prowl was looking at him with worry, unsure how to deal with sudden takeover from where he spent the last few days compiling reports up to his own standards.

"Optimus, please, stop, talk to us," Elita asked, placing her hand on one of his shoulders, only to have it shaken off with a displeased sound.

"I have something to take care of, please, let me do it, Elita," he managed to reply in a more civil tone, optics fixed onto the screen as his fingers flew across the buttons.

"Just this once, you hear me? When you calm down, I expect us to have a long talk, are we clear?" she warned, deciding to let him work his frustration out with whatever mission he set himself on. She would take care of the rest in the meantime.

"Crystal," Prime promised slightly distractedly, as his processor turned the energy priority away from his senses and more towards the data. She sighed, and waved at the others to join her to go to the medbay, where both resident medics were waiting for them.

Optimus stood at the console, lost to the world aside from an occasional refueling for over eighty hours - with a breakthrough in his search occurring when others were recharging.

His joints creaked from lack of use, as he moved towards the ground bridge controls. Hastily typing in the coordinates, he set it for a quick turn on and shut off. After consideration, he put a tracker on himself, and prepared an emergency message on a timer; he would need to hurry, and retrieval would be necessary.

He doubted his team would let him do this again - or anything at all - when he returned, so he needed to make this count.

The bridge onto Nemesis opened, and Optimus crossed the threshold.

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Inspired by @paraxodicalundressing post, continued on this and this, follow up to the consequences of this.

#tfp au #transformers #maccadam #its what 2 am and i could not let this go #Riot this AU will be my undoing #the 2 v 1 image was... plaguing me and i needed to try to get this written down #and i needed to give soundwave his revenge in optimus #also yay! the elite trine makes an entrance! optimus will get his aft kicked when he returns with the news #gods i need some sleep i have work in the morning #as if i wont be thinking about megs side of things again #of course i will be #our medical case of a century #tfp_AU_writing

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beastfury5580 · 2 years

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Donkey Kong Z Episode 9

Dragon Ball Z Opening - Rock the Dragon/Donkey Kong Z - Rock the Monke (Long)

Next Episode/Last Episode - The Saga Continues (Alternate Variation) - [Faulconer Productions]

Narrator: Last time on Donkey Kong Z! The villains made it to planet fichina just before the heroes did and it already became a bloodbath! Fox and Andross duked it out in the caverns and fox managed to take the star fruit gem and rush back to the others, meanwhile, DK's explosive fight with kaliga proved to be uncanny, to say the least. Everyone managed to stop the doomsday device and Spyro comes back to the others with the invulnerability gem after taking a fatal blow from ember herself. Now the heroes are making their way to planet Aquas to find the two fruit gems. What's in store for the heroes now? There's only one way to find out!

Episode 9: An Underwater Mission (Neo Cortex used an underwater submarine to enter Planet Aquas to find the Orange and Honeydew melon fruit gems. DK, Diddy, Crash, Spyro, Fox, Falco, and Slippy went into their underwater suits to dive in and defeat neo cortex's submarine mech and its underwater lab assistants, only to find only the orange fruit gem but not the honeydew melon fruit gem which was taken by dingodile.)

*Days earlier after leaving fichina. The great fox arrives at the massive space station called Astropolis as the ship lands in the parking area*

Sora: So what's this place? Fox: Astropolis. It was once controlled by Andross but ever since then, it's become a second home aside from corneria as well as a tourist attraction. The buffet is said to be three blocks down. DK: *Hoots as my stomach grumble* I so can't wait to try them out! Diddy: Me too. Never been this hungry before. Falco: I'm just going to have soup.. watching them eat will make my stomach upset. Krystal: *Giggles*

Astropolis City - Final Fantasy X-2 Music - Calm Lands

Fox: Here it is. The Bistro. Has a variety of food from all over the galaxy especially planet earth.

*DK and Diddy eyes glitter with excitement as they look around*

Peppy: Seats first then we can get food. Koriju: Well said young hare. *Went to get us a table* And to make sure we keep a table, one of us has to sit and wait while some of us get the food. Slippy: I wouldn't mind. Fox: *Noticed DK and Diddy already getting their foods* Let's get going before they eat it out. *chuckles* Krystal: Will that be flies and caviar for you slippy? Slippy: You know it! Thanks Krystal. ^_^ Krystal: Anytime. *Walks off*

*DK and Diddy came back with their plates filled with a tower of food and sat down at the table and started eating*

Slippy: Whoa hang on, you sure you two can eat all that?! Diddy: Just watch and see. No one could beat DK in a food eating contest especially when it comes to bananas. DK: *Started eating everything on my plate fast* Slippy: O_O Spyro: *Walks back with my plate with Crash next to me and noticed DK having a big belly* Whoa what happened to you? Slippy: He had a tower of food and ate it in under a minute. DK: Man all that food was so good...think I'll have some more. ^_^

*Everyone face faulted to the floor comedically*

Slippy: Uh donkey kong, you think that's enough food for one day? ^^; DK: Yeah, I should probably save some room for dessert.

*Everyone face faulted again*

Diddy: *Chuckles* Me too! >BRRUUUUUUOOOOOOOP!< Scuse me. ^_^ Falco: So glad I only took soup.. Koriju: Itadakimasu. *Bows with both palms together then took out my metal chopsticks and started eating* Yoshi: You keep chopsticks with you? Koriju: *Swallows* Let's just say spoons and forks are uncivilized where I come from. So does eating while talking. Krystal: It is best we respect each other's culture. Roxas: *Eats pork fried rice* Sora: These food are strange to me.. how are you even eating? Roxas: When you're starving you'll know how. Koriju: <BUUUUUUUUOOOOP!!> Ooo! O////O....Sumimasen! *Laughs* ^^ Fox: *Chuckles* Nice one.

*DK and Diddy got up holding their bellies and wobbled off to get desserts*

Koriju's Theme - Naruto OST 2 - Sasuke's Theme

Falco: You know what I don't get? If you're bowser's brother, how come you're not living the rich life like he is. Koriju: I have no need for such things. Rich tends to do selfish and inconsiderate things to innocent hard-working people. Not to mention greed takes over, the more greedy you are, the less satisfied you are with what you have. That is why I choose to be a master of bushido, my samurai virtue is what keeps me from being possessed with desire and power. None of those things matter to me at all. What I do, is for the good of others, including my home island, my family, and my comrade in arms, Mario, and Luigi. Selflessness, enlightenment, and wisdom, are the only things that matter to me in this world, this plane of existence that I still walk on if you will. Focusing on what I need is more important, not what I want. THAT is what makes me different from my brother and I. *Resumes eating* Falco: O_O...Woah. Slippy: Mind blown right? Falco: Yeah. Krystal: You are but a gentle soul. Aren't you? Koriju: Hai. Daisuke: *Stands on my hind legs to try and grab the food with my tongue but got hit by Koriju's chopsticks as I yelp* Koriju: Īe! No paws on the table! You know better than that. Eat the food that I gave you.

*Daisuke whimpers then got off and ate from the bowl*

Peppy: It's nice to have this relaxation. Krystal: Yes. After all we do deserve it. *Gave Slippy his plate* Slippy: Yay! *Eats caviar and flies from my plate* Peppy: And the carrot juice ain't bad here either. *Drinks my carrot juice* Link: I admire your samurai virtue Koriju and the fact that you're intelligent as well...you're not like bowser at all. Koriju: *Blushes embarrassed* Um...Arigatōgozaimashita. ^////^

*DK and Diddy came back with another tower of desserts to eat*

Koriju: *Saw a fly buzzing at me as I immediately grabbed it with my chopsticks and ate it* Fox: How'd you do that? Koriju: *Swallows before I talk* Technique and reflexes. Slippy: I can do that too. After all I am a toad. Krystal: Yes you are. *Rub Slippy head* Slippy: *Giggles* ^_^ Fox: Slippy about that laser sword, how did you make it? Slippy: Oh I got it off of a space anime. It's like samurai jack but no time travel stuff, just action. Fox: As it turns out, Andross has one too.

Cold Tension / Feeling of Fear - Dark Samus Approaching Metroid Prime 2 Echoes Music Extended HD

Falco: He does? Krystal: K Rool certainly must have thought of everything ahead of time. Fox: I know, and that's what worries me. K Rool had the advantage all because of supreme commander kaliga, now we've evenly matched thanks to DK and diddy. But from what I can tell, he has serious intent[right][/right] on growing stronger just to beat all of us. Russ: That's not gonna happen. Dillon: *Shakes my head no then kept eating* Kazooie: He really stopped messing around that's for sure. Banjo: I know right? Conker wouldn't even stand a chance against him. Koriju: The enemy may seem strong but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a weakness. Right now he has no army left, just the villains, if all comes down to it, desperation will take over and he'll have a much stronger army to use against all of us. We must stay cautious if that's the case. Fox: Oh we will. Thanks to Peppy and Slippy our weapons are upgraded. We also have more members on our team and we're one step ahead. Yoshi: I thought this K Rool guy was nothing like bowser. But he's just pushing it into being his copycat. *Chuckles* Link: He'll never match Ganondorf's standards that's for sure. Yoshi: I'm still hungry...I wanna get more. *Got up and walked off* Falco: DO NOT eat all the food with your tongue, Yoshi! Yoshi: I wasn't planning to! *Grumbles to myself* Fox: If that's the case I do hope they don't think about bringing Ganondorf here. Link: As I said, all Ganondorf cares about is the triforce of power and killing off Zelda. He knows who k rool is and really, he doesn't take him seriously enough to join his cause nor does he care. Now bowser on the other hand... Koriju: Not if I have a say in the matter he won't. Krystal: Besides I heard he turn good. Koriju: He did thanks to my help. Russ: I still find that hard to believe. After all these years and he decided to change? Koriju: As skeptical as that is, I got through to him, to see reason in all his undoings. I'm the only sibling that he has. I never even knew I had a nephew either. Spyro: I guess every hero had a rough childhood. Except for Crash I suppose. Crash: *Ate a large turkey leg whole* Koriju: On the contrary, my childhood was most blissful. I've spent my entire childhood with my human father on planet earth Tokyo japan. Fox: You were born in the mushroom kingdom but raised on earth? Koriju: Hai. It's like when I came back to my birthplace everything made no sense until I managed years later. DK and Diddy: <BUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!!!!!!> Falco: Seriously, have some manners! All: *Laughs* DK: *Laid back rubbing my belly* I feel so much better. ^_^ Falco: Tch. -_-* Koriju: A nice belch and a good fart means you are satisfied with the meal. *Speaking Japanese* Falco: English... Koriju: What goes in must come out. Spyro: Yea well I best hold mine in till we go outside. Russ: We're good on that^^; Dillon: *Nods*

*After which, everyone finished eating and drinking as krystal paid for the food and walked out of the bistro restaurant*

DK: Man I don't think I can eat anymore after this... Diddy: Me either... Crash: *Burps first then farts afterwords and laughs* ^^ Falco: Of course... Krystal: *Rub Falco back*^_^ Falco: ?! >BRRUUUOOOOOOOOOOOP!!< *covered my beak* Krystal! Krystal: *Giggles* You're welcome. Spyro: HMM!! <PRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>

*Spyro's loud and trembling fart caused the entire space station an earthquake*

All: O_O Spyro: *Sighs* NOW I feel better. ^^ DK: Now that was awesome! *Laughs* Slippy: Sure was^^ Fox: Okay I think that's enough fun for today. Let's get back to work. Peppy: <BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!!!> Oh! I can still taste the carrot juice. *Chuckles*

*Two days after*

Leisure Activity - Bomberman Hero Music - Redial Extended

*While ROB64 was controlling the ship, everyone else did what they wanted to do until they reached planet Aquas*

Slippy and Yoshi: *Groans as they lift Koriju by his feet* Koriju: Aiya! What do you call that?! Yoshi: Dude! How are you this heavy?! It can't just be your shell right? Falco: I hesitate to even ask... Slippy: We're trying to see if we can lift Koriju up but he's so heavy. Falco: Again, hesitate. Yoshi: So far only DK can lift Koriju up but we wanna try it and see. Guntz: So far all they're doing is struggling.

*Slippy and Yoshi tried to lift Koriju up from under him then Koriju simply sat on both of them*

Koriju: *Fold my arms* You're lifting technique is sloppy. Slippy: Nooo! *Laughs* Get off! Yoshi: Help, my bones are being crushed by a giant turtle! >_< Peppy: That part must stink doesn't it? *Laughs* Slippy: Not funny peppy! Falco: So where's everyone else? Peppy: Fox and Krystal are having their alone time. Link is training with Dillon and I'm pretty sure Klonoa and crash are with DK and diddy. They're having a stink-off. Falco: Wonderful... Koriju: Still won't give up? Slippy and Yoshi: No! Koriju: I admire your dedication.

DK Vs. Crash: Stink Off - Crash Twinsanity Soundtrack: N.Sanity Island

Klonoa: *Used the wind ring to make bubbly sodas for crash and DK to drink and gives it to them* Okay guys here's the rules of the stink-off. Who's blech or flatulence is the strongest, wins the stink off. Diddy: It'll be DK, crash has no chance. Aku Aku: I wouldn't bet on it. Crash is pruned to be disgusting and doesn't care what others think. Crash: *Opened the bubbly drink and chugs it down* DK: *Opens my bubbly drink and chugs it down as well*

*Both crash and DK finished their drinks and throw it away as a glass breaking sound effect came*

DK: Okay here we go.

*They both stared at each other for a moment while klonoa, aku aku and diddy kong are waiting for something to happen.

Crash: *Closed my eyes as my stomach rumbles and let's out a big long belch towards DK* >BBRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPP!!!!!!!!!!~< DK: *Stood my ground and dust off my shoulder* Is that the best you got? Cause I can do better! *Rips out a big long burp in crash's face* <BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!> *Sighs* ^_^ Spyro: Wow! Crash: *Blinks a couple of times then shook off my fur clean* DK: I win. That was fun. I thought it was gonna be challenging for a moment there. Aku Aku: Wait for it... Crash: *Stomach gurgle some more* Hm? *Released a loud gassy fart storm from behind* Klonoa: *Claps my hands* ^_^ Diddy: Oh wow! Woo! *hold my nose* Crash: *Finally stopped farting and sighs* Hehe. ^^ DK: *Raised an eyebrow* Oh so that's how you wanna play it? Okay then. Crash: ?! DK: Come on, you think something like that is gonna make me pass out? *Stomach gurgles some more* Well now you're in trouble. Diddy: Oh boy... *quickly puts a gas mask on* DK: <PRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!> <BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP!!!!!> <PWAAAAAAAAAP!!!!> <FAAAAART~FAAAAART~PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!>

*DK just kept farting as the air started to fill in with yellow gas clouds*

Aku Aku: Oh goodness, that's just horrible! Klonoa: Oh no! I can't breathe. I need some fresh air! *Ran straight outside* Crash: *Started to feel the sting in my nose and my eyes water as I try to hold myself together* DK: Hey quick pull my finger. Uh oh, too late! <BAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!> I'm not stopping till all your fur falls off!

*As DK kept farting, crash slowly runs out of breath as he put his palm on his fingers to issue a time out, then falco comes in and felt the rush of yellow gas flowing into his face*

DK: *Rips out one last long fart before turning around, noticing falco as his large fart turned into a squeaker as he stopped* Oh! Falco! We were just... Falco: @_@......*instantly passed out as he fell down to the floor* Klonoa: Wooow! *Ran out of the kitchen as I cough while trying to breathe* Whoooo! *Fans the air* Crash: *Coughing as I ran out too then fall face down to the floor* DK: Huh? Where did the others go? Diddy? Did I win the match? Diddy: Yep...you definitely won alright. DK: Cool! Hey, where should I put falco? Roxas: *Is using a shield to block the smell* I presume to put him in his room. Though I'll do it for you so you don't track your gas into the ship. DK: Awe, it doesn't smell that bad. ^^ Diddy: YES IT DOES!!! DK: Hmm?

*Moments later the kitchen is locked to keep the gas in*

Peppy: Well, the kitchen's under quarantine, it'll probably take weeks to get the smell out. Krystal: There goes all the food we just bought. Sora: Roxas and I can make you food while we're in our shields. Lucario: "Thank you boys so much for this" Roxas: We've been through this, this is practically nothing. Diddy: No it's not! Go in there and take a whiff and you'll see how bad it is! Sora: No thanks. ^^ Diddy: Spoiled sport... Yoshi: Okay we wanna try something else. Koriju: Very well. Try and hit me then. Slippy: Oh I will! *Punched Koriju's stomach then jumped up and waves my hands* YEOW!!! Ow ow ow ow! Yoshi: It's like we can't even touch you! Koriju: *Pat my belly* Iron gut. And also frosted scales, makes it feel like real ice. Diddy: Just what are they doing? Peppy: Slippy and Yoshi were trying to lift him up but it didn't work. So now they've tried punching him and even that didn't work. It's all for silliness and what now. ROB64: Estimating approach to planet Aquas in ten minutes. Fox: Thank you rob. Russ: Everyone is ready in case something bad happens? Klonoa: I am. Diddy: More than ready. Fox: How about you D-

*A spot to where DK was started blinking then stopped when fox looked over*

Fox: DK? DK: *In the bathroom taking a huge nasty shit from farting so much* Haaaaaaaa.... Diddy: It'll take a while.. Spyro: Well hopefully he's done before we land. Falco: *Walks in furious* Alright that's it! No more stink-offs! Because thanks to those two, mainly DK, the damn kitchen is locked until one of us go in there with a gas mask on! Fox: Falco, you're being uptight again. Falco: And you let them tear it up!! Fox: ... Yoshi: Someone's being a Karen this morning. Falco: *Points my blaster at Yoshi* Peppy: Whoa, hey! Falco: Call me Karen again. Yoshi: Make me. Falco: What?! Sora: What's a Karen? Roxas: Dude, please keep up... Krystal: Falco enough. Your temper isn't going to help us get through the mission, so could you please restrain yourself? Falco: Tch. *Puts my blaster away* How can all of you act like nothing's wrong? Must have nerves of steel or something... Krystal: *Rub Falco's head and gives him a bag of birdseed* You're too edgy. Have some bird seeds, I know they're your favorite. Falco: *Wag my tail* Thanks.. *Sat down with the bag of seeds and eats* Fox: *Shakes my head* Okay prepare for landing. This will be a rough one. ROB64: Affirmative.

*The great fox flew into planet aquas and landed onto the water*

Planet Aquas - ty the tasmainain tiger 2 bush rescue music: beach

Russ: Hey what gives? There's nothing but water everywhere. Fox: That's why it's called planet aquas. Okay, so while I'll go into the blue marine, DK, Diddy, Crash, Spyro, Fox, Falco and Slippy will go underwater into their wet suits to find the orange and honeydew melon fruit gems. We're ahead of K Rool this time so let's make this count. Slippy: I'll get the wet suits! *Ran off* Fox: And I'll be in the blue marine, everyone else, stay with the ship. *Walks off* DK: *Rips out a loud erupting toliet blast that echoed outside of the bathroom* <FRRRRT~FRRRRT~PUUWWWAAAAAAAAAPPPPP!!!!!!> Whoo! Haha. ^^ Diddy: *Knocking on the door* DK we're here. You done in there? DK: Almost done! <PUUUUUUUURRRRRRT~BRRRRRRP!!!!!!> Diddy: Might want to hurry up. Everyone else is leaving. DK: I'm trying bud. But this one is stuck.. Diddy: TMI dude... DK: ...What's TMI? Diddy: Nevermind... DK: To make instruments? Diddy: Wrong again DK. *Walks off* I guess the bistro finally kicked in.

*Something invisible flew passed the great fox and moved far away from it*

Peppy: You guys remember when we last came here we had to destroy the bio-weapon? Falco: Yeah I remember. Bacoon wasn't it? Peppy: Yep. That thing was tough. Krystal: I had no idea. Peppy: That was before you came into the mix. Krystal: Interesting. Falco: I'll still take the sky any day.

*A loud toilet flush was heard in the bathroom as donkey kong walked out*

DK: Ahhhh, I feel much better now. ^_^ Diddy: Good, but did you remember to wash your hands? DK: Wash my hands?

*Everyone immediately stepped away from DK*

DK: I'm joking! Of course, I washed my hands! *Thinks* "Sheesh guys, chill out..." Slippy: I got the wet suits! *Ran back to give everyone else one* DK: Wet suit? Aren't those the ones that- Diddy: It's not that kind of wet suit DK! So please don't do it in the water! DK: No promises. ^_^ Guntz: You're intellect really astounds me sometimes... Koriju: I can breathe underwater. I'll be just fine. *Walks off* Spyro: So can I. Crash: *Grabbed the wet suit and puts it on* Falco: Okay people, let's get a move on. *Walks off* Koriju: Daisuke, stay with kota. Daisuke: *Whines* Koriju: Oh no no no, don't you start that. I'll be back. *Took my clothes off and walks off* Daisuke: *Lays down* Sora: *Petting daisuke*

*The blue marine flew out of the ship's garage while everyone else went on top of the great fox and one of them jumped and dive into the water*

DK: GERONIMO! *Dives straight into the water* Koriju: BONZAI!! *Backflips over the great fox and dives into the water* Falco: Show off...

*After diving and jumping into the water, everyone followed the blue marine fox is driving while swimming*

Underwater - Underwater City - Jak and Daxter OST

Fox: I got locked onto the fruit gems straight ahead. We should be arriving there in about an hour or two. Slippy: We probably should have moved the great fox closer to it... Diddy: Where's the fun in that? Peppy: Good to hear that the waterproof headset mic is working correctly. Krystal: Watch out for your surroundings everyone and keep close to fox at all times. All: RIGHT!!

*Without everyone's awareness. Bubbles came out of donkey kong's butt as he continues swimming*

DK: ^_^ Spyro: *Dived down and looks around for the fruit gems* Roxas: This would take forever. Sora: Luckily the water is clear so it'll be easy to spot it. Falco: All we have to do is go straight. Easy enough. DK: Does anyone else feel a tight wedgie or is it just me? Diddy: It's just you diddy... DK: Oh yeah.

*Inside the Shadow Alliance Warship*

Kaliga: Are you in position? Neo Cortex: Yes I am. The submarine mech is fully operational. Kaliga: When you see them, don't hesitate to destroy them. Neo Cortex: You got it. K Rool: You know in terms of genetics, I'm pretty glad you don't have one red eye as I do. I wouldn't want that of you. Kaliga: As I'm sure. K Rool: Kaliga, if something happens to me- Kaliga: You don't have to say anything. K Rool: No. Just hear me out. If something happens to me, my entire kremling empire will be yours. You'll be its new king. Kaliga: .... K Rool: I know you won't fail me. Let's end this. Kaliga: *Nods and look out into the water*

>>>>>

Fox: I can see both of them. Falco: Where? Fox: In between the seaweed and dirt. Diddy: I'll get it.

*Diddy flew towards the fruit gems then a laser shot blasted the dirt as two fruit gems flew separately as diddy covered his eyes*

Neo Cortex: I don't think you'll be taking anything from me. Spyro: Looks like cortex decided to take a dip into the water for a change. Crash: *Nods fast*

*When no one noticed slippy grabbed the orange fruit gem and hid it so cortex wouldn't see it*

Battle in the Water - Precursor Basin - Jak and Daxter OST

Neo Cortex: The fruit gems are mine! Fox: *Fires the lasers in my blue marine to destroy the submarine mech arms* Not if I can help it!

*The lab assistance came out of camouflage and started attacking everyone else*

Spyro: Crash stick with fox! I'll handle the rest! *Swam down and fought against their minions* Crash: Haha! *Thumbs up* Kaliga: *Growls* Doesn't he know when it is time to throw in the towel? *Pressed the missile button*

*A Kong Seeking Missile flew out of the shadow alliance warship as it flew straight towards DK*

Slippy: YEOW!!! What is that?! Fox: It's a torpedo! Diddy: That's no torpedo! That's a kong seeker missile! DK: Uh oh! *Swam away* Diddy: Fox! It's gone after DK! Get rid of the missile! Falco: I got it! *Flew down towards the water and shot fire at the missiles from the front then flew up and shot towards the villains* Gnasty Gnorc: Uh they're heading straight for us! Kaliga: No they're not. *Pressed the button*

*The entire warship teleported into the air and became invisible*

Sora: Where'd they go?! Falco: I dunno! Roxas: Well they're not on the radar! Kaliga: Let's see if you can survive this! *Pressed the kong seeker missile button*

*Six missiles flew down into the water and went for DK and diddy again*

Diddy: SIX?!? Okay now that's just not fair! DK: Diddy I have an idea! *Swam away* Diddy: Wait! What's the idea?! DK: Just trust me! Diddy: Ugh! *Follows DK*

*The six missiles followed both donkey kong and diddy right on their tails until DK backfliped onto one of the missiles and started surfing then diddy did the same thing and went missile surfing with DK then they both flew out of the water*

Missile Surfing - Rocket Barrel 1 | Donkey Kong Country Returns Music HD

DK: WOOHOOO!! *Laughs* Diddy: So what's this plan of yours again!? DK: You'll see! ROB64: Missile detected! Missile detected! Krystal: Say wha- AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! DK: Hi guys!!

*Both Diddy and DK flew around the great fox then dived into the water with four of the missiles still following them*

Falco: What are they doing?! Slippy: I dunno! DK: BEEP BEEP!! Diddy: Coming through!!

*Falco and Slippy dodged the missiles*

Spyro: Fox look out! Fox: Look out for WHAAAAAAAAA!!!! *Drove out of the way* Neo Cortex: o_o.....Oh no....

*DK and Diddy flipped out of the way as the kong seeker missiles hit neo cortex's submarine mech and destroyed it as it exploded. Neo Cortex felt himself drowning as the lab assistants flew to his aid and retreated*

Victory - Bonus Game [Win] - Donkey Kong Country OST

DK: Alright! YEAHA!! Diddy: Oh so that's what the plan was!? DK: Yep, and it worked. ^^ Diddy: ...You were just winging it weren't you? DK: Yeah pretty much. ^^;

>>>>>>

Kaliga: Of all the....argh!! *Smash my fist onto the machine and walked off* Dingodile: It's okay kal, I got one of the fruit gems. *Holds the honeydew melon fruit gem in my hand* Neo Cortex: *Came back inside spitting out the water in my lungs and coughs for air* Ripto: Hey there's no way! How'd you get passed everyone while they were fighting? Dingodile: Well...

*Flashback*

Dingodile's Getaway - Soul Calibur III OST: Tiptoe

Dingodile: *Notice everyone's distracted as I dug for the honeydew melon fruit gem and swam off* Suckerrrrs. *Chuckles then continues swimming off until the flashback ended*

*Flashover*

Dingodile: You all were distracting them so I took the chance to get it. Kaliga: At least SOMETHING went right. Now they have the orange fruit gem in their possassion. K Rool: Not to worry, because we're going to get the last one soon enough. Kaliga: It's not like you to be this calm. K Rool: I know. And I'm trying my best not to be angry right now. Let us continue to the next planet. *Walks off* I'll inform the rest of you on what we need to do next. Ripto: Sure. The Sorceress: Whatever you say. Poker? Ripto: Definitely. Kaliga: *Went into my lab and turned on the lights*

*In the lab there are Kybernetic kremlings all over the place*

Kaliga: If all else fails, then I'll have to rely on technology to defeat the kongs. No matter what it takes.

*Now back to the great fox, everyone got out of their wet suits and put their clothes back on*

Fox: Yep, they took the other fruit gem with them. Diddy: So then the last one being the kiwi gem is all that we need. Falco: We'll need a plan to get the rest from K Rool somehow Diddy: Leave that to me and DK, you guys can handle the rest of the villains when the time comes right? Spyro: That we can do. Crash: *Nods fast* Peppy: Where is DK now? Diddy: Where do you think? *Chuckles*

That beautiful view - Jungle Sunshine (Demo) - Jak and Daxter OST

DK: *On top of the great fox roof as I lay back and relax while watching the beautiful view while the sun is slowly going down* Lucario: *Got on the roof top and walks over to DK* "Sure is beautiful here." DK: Hm. Lucario: "You and diddy surprised us back there. We're all impressed with how far you've gotten." DK: Kicking K Rool's butt is what we do on a regular basis. It was no problem. Well...kaliga was a- Lucario: "We know. We've noticed" DK: Hm. Lucario: "I don't understand you. Kaliga injured you, broke most of your body parts, and had every reason and intent to break your spirit entirely. Even tried to kill diddy just to break you even more. How is it you still yourself after coming out of stasis?" DK: I was taught to not let things get me down so easily. There is always a way out of darkness you just have to fight harder to find it. Lucario: "I always thought that you had this flippant aura that never goes out. But hearing what you just said, now I know for sure. Sora is the same way too. I can tell." DK: Hm. *Yawns and stretch* After that fun I'm sure going to have a good nap. ^_^ Fox: DK. DK: What's up? Fox: You might wanna take a look at this. DK: Hmm?

*Lucario and DK went back inside the great fox as they both saw a barrel with DK lettering on it*

DK: I know that barrel! That came from my island...which means...*went over to the barrel to open it then gasp really long* BANANAS!!! Diddy: *Found a letter and reads it* Dear donkey kong, funky kong invented a teleporter by using your fur as a means of transporting a barrel filled with bananas, enjoying them, all of them are hand-picked off the trees by all of us. Love family. Man, they really came through for us this time. DK: *Squeeze my hand on the banana close to my mouth as they automatically plop into my mouth as I started eating them* Oh bananas, I missed you guys! ^_^ *Eats five more fast* This'll definitely help my digestive system. Diddy: Again, TMI. DK: Still don't know what that means. Diddy: *Facepalm* Krystal: TMI means you're giving out too much personal information that we don't need to know. DK: Ooooo so why didn't you say so? Diddy: Nevermind. -_-

*The great fox flew out of the water and into outer space. Meanwhile back on the shadow alliance warship, a mysterious Gengar Ghaster'hauns with his cubone on his shoulder ossein and he's floating about invisible while ossein is invisible with him. Several kremling and gnorcs walked in front of them as they phase right through them*

K Rool: *In my personal bathroom using the toilet* <PRRRRPUUUUOOOOOOOOOP!!!!> Oh my, that fiber diet is coming out anger...<PRRRLLOOOP!!!> Whew! Ghaster'hauns: Hey watch this. *Float over to the door* K Rool: *Inhales and exhales* Peace and quiet. Now I can finally relaaAAAAAAAA!!! Ghaster'hauns: *Stick my long tongue at K Rool* Naaaah! Naaaah! *Laughs and flew off* K Rool: ...Please tell me that was just my imagination.... Ghaster'hauns: *Flew around to where the honeydew melon fruit gem is and grabbed it* Aha. Ossein: Cu, cubone. Ghaster'hauns: Nah I'll let the others collect the rest. Let's go before we get seen... *Chuckles*

*G'Hauns then vanished, now back to the great fox*

Diddy: *Looking up stuff on my phone* Fox: Everyone's getting ready for bed, I suggest you do the same. Diddy: In a minute I will. Fox: Where's DK? Diddy: In the bathroom, those bananas he ate really worked wonders on his stomach. Fox: But he said he was done when we left. Diddy: He was rushed. Fox: Okay, fair point. Ghaster'hauns: *Came out of invisibility* Sup. Diddy and Fox: AH!! Lucario: "Do not be alarmed. I called him here to retrieve the honeydew melon fruit gem for us." Ghaster'hauns: As a bonus, I had to scare k rool while he was on the can. It was hilarious. The name's Ghaster, but some people call me G'Hauns, though the u is silent. And this is ossein. Say hi little guy. Ossein: Cubone! Ghaster'hauns: He doesn't talk like I can but I try and teach him how. *Gives fox the honeydew melon fruit gem* Fox: *Holds onto it* Thank you for this G'Hans. Ghaster'hauns: Sure, now if you'll excuse me, I gotta catch some Zzz's. Peace. *Vanished* Falco: Say, how come he didn't get the rest for us? Lucario: "Kaliga must have had them and if he tried he would've gotten caught." Falco: Sometimes that kaliga is just full of surprise... Fox: It would seem so.

*A loud toilet flush was heard as donkey kong walked out*

DK: *Sighs* I feel five pounds lighter. ^_^

*Fox, Falco, and Diddy hold their noses immediately*

Falco: There's an air freshener in the bathroom for a reason DK. -_- DK: Oh I did use them and we ran out. Krystal: No worries I got this. *Took out an automatic air freshener and install it into the bathroom* There. Fox: *Yawns and stretches* Well, let's get some sleep, we should be on planet titania tomorrow. DK: Okay, goodnight everyone. ^_^ Fox and Falco: Night.

*Lucario went into his room as did fox and falco*

Krystal: Goodnight donkey. *Kissed DK's cheek and walked off* DK: Come on little buddy, you can sleep with me tonight. Diddy: That would be nice right now.

*An hour later*

In the great fox, everyone's sleeping - Jungle Moonlight (Demo) - Jak and Daxter OST

*Everyone is sleeping in their beds while ROB64 is on auto-pilot the rest of the way to titania, meanwhile in Falco's room*

Playboy - Policenauts (OST) - Girls [Extended]

Falco: *Reading playboy in bed seeing a bunch of women in different sexy outfits* Oooo baby. Hohohoooo. Man, she got some cake on her. *Turns the page and saw another female with huge breasts and moans* Awe man...look at that, whew...*was about to touch myself then broke the fourth wall and noticed the audience is watching* Hey! Can't a bird have some privacy around here?! Sheesh! Go focus on DK!

*The scene turned to DK and Diddy sleeping together as DK snores softly then started having a dream driving the mine cart while diddy is with him while other the kritters followed them*

DK's Dream / Mine Cart Shootout - Fungi Forest (Mine Cart) - Donkey Kong 64

Diddy: DK they're gaining on us! DK: I know, use the weapons!

*DK used his coconut gun and diddy took out his peanut popgun and started firing at the kritters or their mine carts to get'em off the track as some of them fell over into the darkness screaming while some got knocked out by the coconut shells and explosive peanuts as some of their mine carts went out of control and crashed into a huge rock*

DK and Diddy: DUCK! *Both of them duck down to dodge the watermelon seed machine gun fire then both of them came back up and fired the kritter's out of their mine carts*

*Another Kritter soldier came out of nowhere and started bumping into them while grabbing its club and smacking them while both of them dodging. DK fired his coconut gun but the Kritter general ducked down.*

DK: Reloading! Diddy: Cover! *Fired his peanut popgun* DK: Clear! *Came out of cover and fired the coconut shell at the mine cart* Kritter General: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! *Flew out and fell right into the darkness* DK and Diddy: Alright! Yeah! *High-fived each other*

*Both DK and Diddy drove into the exit tunnel as the dream ended*

Midnight Snack - Shenmue Music: FREE 4 (Extended)

DK: *Snorks as I woke up* Huh? *Yawns and stretches* Man what a dream that was...I better get a midnight snack then it's back to bed for me. *Got out of bed slowly to let diddy sleep then went into the kitchen where my farts are still lingering* Still doesn't smell that bad in here. *Went into the fridge to get something to eat* Klonoa: *Practicing some moves in the training room then heard some noises going on* Huh? Must be DK.. *Kept practicing * DK: *Humming to Jungle Hijinx while getting snacks off the cabinet and the frosted iced snacks out the fridge as I eat them* Mmmm man that's good. ^_^ Fox: *Flips out of the dark corners then points my laser blade at DK's throat* DK: Hey hey hey! Whoa, buddy! *hold my hands up* Fox: Oh it's you. *Turned off my laser blade* DK: Whew...*put my hand on my chest* Sheesh fox, you nearly cut my head off with that thing. Fox: So that was you making all those noises. Why are you still up? DK: Sorry, I had an unusual dream that woke me up and I wanted to get a midnight snack. Fox: Oh.. *Put my weapon away* Must have been a nightmare. DK: It was, but Diddy and I beat to it. Fox: ...Now that you reminded me, there's something I must tell you. *Lean against the counter with my arms folded* Ever since you were in stasis, diddy's been having nightmares that made him scared for his life and yours. It really broke diddy's fighting spirit and his courage. I mean he barely slept, had no energy and he couldn't even eat without him shaking or the thought of kaliga hunting him and killing him. But for some reason, you came back up as if it never happened. DK: Yeah, I told Lucario that I was taught to not let things get me down so easily. There is always a way out of the darkness you just have to fight harder to find it. Fox: I wish that were true for me. Who taught you that? DK: My dad, DKJR. Fox: Least you have a father, be grateful for that. DK: *Hoots softly and happily* ^_^ Fox: You make it look so easy. DK: Actually...it's not that easy, sometimes life is never easy for anyone except me. That's probably why cranky often tells me "you'll never be as good as me when I was at my prime." or "you know nothing about 8-bit gaming ya numbskull." *Chuckles and sighs* Fox: You really are homesick aren't you? DK: Yeah...I miss everyone, my island, even candy, we were supposed to have a child together and everything. Fox: We'll take you back to your island when this is over. I promise. DK: Thanks, man... Fox: Kaliga has been proven to be much more dangerous than K Rool. If it comes down to it, you may have to end his life to protect the next. DK: I will. After what he's done to mother he will pay. But it's not out of revenge more of a mission. Fox: ....

*Flashback*

Emperor Andross: Just think of what you can do as general of my army, or perhaps Krystal would be better suited instead? Fox: If you touch her, I will kill you! She and my friends are all I have and I won't let you take that from me like you took my father!! Because I'm not going to hesitate anymore! I just act! *Got out of the blade lock and cuts through Andross' torso* Emperor Andross: RAAAAH! *Stepped back holding my chest* Yes, give in the anger. Raise up your darkside! Fox: *Noticed the star fruit gem was dropped as I picked it up, put it away, and turned off my laser blade* As if I would ever amuse you by killing you unfairly. So how about you go to hell. *Ran off* Emperor Andross: Fox! You fool! The evil side was meant for you! Don't act as if you didn't feel it! I won't hesitate to kill you too!!

*Flashover*

Fox: *Thinks* "Not out of revenge...but on a mission..." Peppy: *Went into the kitchen* You too huh? Fox: Not me. DK, I thought someone snuck in. Peppy: Impossible. Not even star wolf would be stupid enough to sneak inside with the body motion alarm we have. DK: You guys really thought of everything haven't you? Fox: This is what we do to get a goodnight's sleep while traveling through space. Peppy: *Went to get some vanilla cream puffs and eats* Klonoa is also up and about training. Fox: Seriously? It's like no one around here can't sleep when we got work tomorrow. Slippy: Dobi dobi dobi dobi doooooo. *Walks into the kitchen then noticed DK, Peppy and Fox are in already* O_o....Bad day....baaaad bad day....*slowly walked out* DK: I'm going back to sleep after I eat. Wouldn't want Diddy to be worrying. Fox: Me too. *Drinks warm milk* Peppy: You drink warm milk too? Fox: I do. It helps me sleep better. Peppy: So do I. Fox: Here, you'll need it too. *Gives DK warm milk* Careful it's a hot. DK: Milk? Fox: You never had? DK: I think so. *Drank down the milk and sighs* Thanks^-^ Fox: No prob.

*All three of them went back to their rooms including DK*

DK: Oh good he's still asleep. Diddy: *Mumbles as I turn over*

DK Sleeping Peacefully - Brave Fencer Musashi OST : Have a Good Sleep!

DK: *Walks over and climbs back into bed and yawns and went to sleep easily thanks to the warm milk*

Find out what happens next - Dragon Ball Z Episode Ending Theme

Narrator: It is now the calm before the storm as the heroes sleep peacefully but tomorrow will be a different story entirely. Kaliga gets ready for the next evolution of his kremling army and he continues to surpass k rool in everything, maybe even dragon form as well as he continues to train his hardest while also fueling his hatred for both donkey kong and diddy kong. Onward to planet titania is the last fruit gem, one last grab will determine the fate of this very battle that's in store for both the heroes and villains. It's anybody's game now on the next donkey kong Z!

Next Episode/Last Episode - Dragon Ball Z ost - The Saga Continues

Narrator: On the next donkey kong Z! The heroes arrived at planet titania in search of the kiwi fruit gem and it seems that they've fallen into an ambush constructed by kaliga himself. Things are becoming much tenser as kaliga discovers a new transformation that he would use against DK but donkey kong has a few tricks of his own to fight kaliga back with and after achieving the black aura transforms into Super Kong Form Black. Donkey Kong is prepared to have another face-off against kaliga. The battle for the last fruit gem is now on!

ED - Dragon Ball Z Funimation Season 3 Outro (Short)

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Lets B-b-b-break it Down

I got me a cam vid of that NYCC trailer for VLD s8. Wanna tear it apart with me?

Cool.

Major SPOILERS below the cut. Not joking. This is like, all the spoilers. Every single spoiler that currently exists regarding VLD s8 is discussed below the cut.

1. The trailer starts with rainbow colors flying by as if we’re traveling through a tunnel in space. Honerva fades into focus center screen, her eyes are closed and she’s outlined with a purple-pink glowing aura. The colors in the background transition to a starscape. A few scenes transition in and out overlapping with each other and this one in visibility.

2. Honerva/Haggar in a hospital bed - reminiscent of her flashback from s5e2. Two figures stand at the foot of the bed, probably Zarkon and the doctor from the s5 flashback. Kova sits atop her where she is reclined.

3 .The doctor is holding baby Lotor; he is crying. It appears that the doctor is attempting to prompt Haggar to hold her child, but she is turned away, eyes open and unresponsive.

4. Adult Lotor is on his knees, his back to us, watching a planet explode. The view draws back and Haggar and Zarkon can be seen watching him. None of their faces are visible. It seems likely that this is the destruction of the mining colony Lotor told Allura about while they were in Oriande.

5. The screen whites out and we’re in a new scene. A Galra cruiser can be seen in the Patrulian Zone, approaching the White Hole.

6. A crowd of at least 23 Alteans are in Oriande, standing on the walkway in front of the temple, facing it. The walkway is framed by 4 (possibly 6 with 2 partially obscured) visible White Knight mechs.

7. A White mech is crouched, holding its spear vertically, surrounded by a pink glow. It fills the screen.

8. A shot of Honerva from the chest up, her arms out to the sides, face stern and teeth grit in concentration. Pink energy rushes around her, partially obscuring her at times. She flashes through four different faces of herself: her Haggar look from the end of s6, Honerva pre-rift, what is apparently her new look for s8 as the Altean Commander, and one we have yet to see in context. Her unknown look is potentially herself as Empress of Daibazaal; she appears to be wearing a pre-rift empire uniform with a prominent ‘V’ on the chest, and she wears a crown reminiscent of Allura’s with a large, dark, diamond shaped crystal in the center and two extra points in the band above her temples.

9. Allura stands on the deck of the Atlas at a teleduv terminal, back to us. A wormhole sparks into existence out the viewport in front of her. The image fades into one of a different Altean - probably Honerva - standing in the same position in Oriande. They appear to be on the walkway in front of the temple facing away from it. The walkway appears to descend down a set of steps in front of them with a crowd of Alteans at the base of these steps watching on.

10. Two paladins are flying through space into something that is spilling out streams of blue-white light. Their feet are towards us and it is difficult to see them clearly. The one on the left is Hunk, the one on the right is probably Lance but may be Allura. The view zooms into the light. it resembles, but is not identical to, the phenomena encountered by the paladins in s7e6 - that ultimately transported them near to Earth.

11. Honerva in pink light flickering between her forms is briefly on screen again.

12. Voltron is diving downwards through several rings of clouds along the path of a bright pink-white beam. there are floating rocky islands viewed from above going past in the background. The scene is pink tinted. This may be in Oriande.

13. The Green Lion is dodging pink-white laser blasts in the foreground. The landscape is rocky and grey with a large base of some sort taking up most of the background. The base appears to be the same color scheme as the white mechs we have seen. It is white with pink lights reminiscent of the ones found on Empire structures. The base is mostly low-lying with a large double pointed tower in the center. Several large claw-like towers surround it in what looks like a ring, the curve inwards towards the center. At the very end of the clip the Blue Lion can also be seen.

14. A low view below a group of 4 people watching Voltron ascend upwards towards a large glowing pink-purple vortex. The people’s pointed ears mark them as Alteans. The sky is starry behind the clouds. Voltron disappears in a flash of white light.

15. The Robeast Myzax from s1e3 ‘Return of the Gladiator’ appears. Four of the lions, Green, Red, Yellow, and Blue, fly past it from right to left, firing and dodging its attacks. The lions appear partially transparent and phantom-like. The Robeast is solid, but shaded predominantly purple. This looks like it takes place in the astral realm or something akin to it.

16. From inside the Atlas the doors open, showing a figure silhouetted against a landscape far below partially obscured by clouds. The figure is wearing a spacesuit and helmet that look reminiscent of Garrison tech in color scheme. They have something across their back from their right shoulder to lower left side with lights on it. The landscape below them is green when visible and dominated by a base with a white and pink color scheme. It looks like the same base from the clip with Green and Blue; we see the same double pointed tower in the center of a ring with four spokes leading to it. One claw-tower is briefly visible.

17. The Atlas in robot form swings its arm forward and an MFE fighter launches from it. The camera follows the fighter as it flies across space towards the White Hole where it joins several other fighters in combat with a White Knight mech. The mech is firing pink lasers and holding its double ended spear. It appears to be guarding the white hole and a circular glowing pink structure that has been built around it. The circle is firing three continuous beams out into space from equidistant points along its circumference.

18. Voltron is fighting in the pink and purple sky of Oriande bearing double swords. It launches ten missiles, five from each leg.

19. A White mech is crouched, plunging its spear into the ground in a green field full of pink flowers. The field looks like the juniberry one we have seen in projections of Altea and in the Dome Romelle was found in. Pink light glows from the spear’s point of contact with the ground and the edges of the green field grow dark.

20. Eight blue-white object rocked across space trailing light, they converge in a circle where they halt in a circle surrounding a much smaller object too far away to make out. There is a structure of some sort floating in the far background in front of a glowing pink-purple vortex in space.

21. Five of the space pirates from s6e3 ‘The Way Forward’ stand atop a cliff looking cool. The one at the front is Zethrid. Immediately to the left of Zethrid is a cloaked figure dressed differently from the pirates. The figure appears to have a tail. The figure appears to be the bounty hunter that Pidge and Matt fought in s4e2 ‘Reunion’.

22. We see Honerva from behind with her hood up; she’s inside a structure of Empire build, with purple walls and pink lighting. She lowers her hood and turns around; she’s wearing a crown made of dark material with a large diamond shaped yellow crystal in the center. The crown itself is reminiscent of the headgear Zarkon wore in s1 & s2. She is glaring and looks displeased.

23. A pink-white laser beam is impacting a rocky planet causing boulders to float into the air. A person is mostly obscured in the foreground; the brown cloak and longer shaggy light-brown hair suggest that this person is Matt.

24. Two paladins in the middle-distance stand in a grey and dead looking forest, skeletal trees rising around them. The paladins appear to be Pidge and Allura. Pidge sinks to her knees on the ground, leaning forwards with her hands on the Earth.

25. Three aliens of an unknown race kneel on the ground, their eyes are closed and their hands in contact with the earth are glowing. The landscape is rock spires with veins of glowing blue crystal. An enormous blue crystal glows in the background. It looks similar to the scenes we observed on the Balmera back in s1 and s2.

26. The Altean from the end of s7 sits on a hospital bed, knees drawn up to her chest with her arms wrapped around them. Her head is bowed and her gold eyes are open. She is wearing her space suit and has a sheet covering her legs. Wires run from her arms and back going off-screen.

27. A large crowd of mixed garrison and Coalition members is gathered around the table in the conference room at the Garrison. Shiro and Veronica stand at the head of the table. At the side of the table best visible sit, from right to left, Keith, Allura, Hunk, Lance, Coran, Romelle, and Iverson. Behind them stand the MFE pilots; Rizavi, Leifsdottir, Griffin, and Kinkade. Pidge can be seen leaning in on the opposite side of the table, but most of the others on that side are either obscured or have their backs to the viewer. Slav and Bezor are on the near end. Other recognizable characters in the crowd are Krolia, Kolivan, Vrepit Sal, Nyma, Olia, Matt, and Matt’s mysterious masked girlfriend.

28. Voltron is floating in space in front of a wrecked and derelict Galra cruiser. It appears to be a debris field of some kind with something large glowing in the background.

29. Allura and Lotor are somewhere inside a Galra structure with purple walls. Allura is in the foreground, slightly out of focus, facing forward, and only visible from the neck up. She is wearing a Garrison uniform and her expression is shocked/horrified with her eyes wide and her mouth closed. Lotor stands behind her, in focus, he is turned to the side looking towards Allura and down. His expression is resigned and sad. As the shot pans, Allura is more to the right side and Lotor is more central.

30. A section of a transformation sequence of a purple-toned mech we are as yet unfamiliar with.

31. A clawed hand comes to rest on a glowing ball of light secured in something. This looks like it may be part of a control interface.

32. Honerva is in a spacesuit looking determinedly into the camera. Her eyes start closed and when she opens them her irises are glowing yellow-orange like fire.

33. The Black Lion is flying towards an enormous mech that is silhouetted and partially whited out by a blinding light behind it. The mech is really huge, it reaches out a clawed hand to either grab or block Black and the hand is the size of the Lion itself.

34. A panning shot of Shiro looking heroic in a new black and white Garrison-styled uniform. He looks really good. There are at least five people standing behind him but two are obscured, the other three are Coran, Veronica, and Romelle. They are in front of grey-white panels - probably the Atlas.

35. The Atlas in ship form is floating horizontally across the mouth of a cave which people are exiting out of. Our view is from inside this cave which is a dark rock veined with glowing blue crystal. Small full crystals litter the ground. There are at least 23 people in the crowd, and they look to be from an as yet unknown alien race. They all have their backs to the camera.

36. Five Alteans are inside the Atlas around the ship’s crystal, one hand each stretched towards it. The crystal is shooting a beam of light upwards and the Alteans’ eyes are glowing yellow. The Alteans’ hair is blowing back from the force of the energy radiating off the crystal. Two of the Atlas’ crew are also in the shot, braced watching the action. Both are wearing Garrison uniforms but one is human while the other is a Unilu coalition fighter than has been seen but unnamed in prior seasons. The Alteans in the shot are the five in white and green uniforms in the NYCC poster that was given out. This is very interesting, as these five are unambiguously allied with Honerva according to the poster, yet whatever they’re doing in the clip is apparently in accordance with the crew of the Atlas. Seems that at some point these characters are convinced to switch their allegiances.

37. A very brief shot of eight large objects arranged in a circle floating in space. Glowing, sparkling light connects them and a beam is being shot from each towards the center of the circle. It resembles the spokes of a wheel. Whatever is a the center of the formation is glowing too brightly to be seen.

38. Five lights illuminate and flare on the headpiece of a new, previously unseen mech. The shot zooms into the largest, central light before it changes.

39. Several shot in quick succession that look to be happening in an astral realm of some kind. Pidge’s face looking alarmed. Allura swinging her whip to block a laser blast. Hunk holding his bayard weapon as the screen floods with yellow light. Lance firing his gun repeatedly while he screams.

40. Keith in the Black Lion’s cockpit as he’s hit by something. The ship rocks and pink-purple lightning flashes all around him. He recovers and shoves the right hand control arm forward.

41. A pink shield parts and an ominous pitch-black haloed mech extends an arm with massive scythe-like claws. It fires a blast of pink energy from its hand. Sincline is visible partially obscured on the left side of the screen, at the black mech’s right hand side. Something is not right with it, as all of its external lights apart from its eyes appear to be dark. A white diamond shaped structure reminiscent of the architecture in Oriande floats between the two mechs, with a second one just barely visible at the bottom of the screen.

41. Honerva appears in a cloud of black smoke between the feet of a mech. She is wearing a space suit. The scene is painted orange by what looks like a sunset. The mech may be Sincline, as it has a tail, but the design looks slightly different than what we saw in s6 - though it’s possible that time spent in the rift may have altered it. This scene was luckily released as an HQ screencap for promotional purposes!

42. Voltron slashes through two structures orbiting a planet with its double swords. The two structures simultaneously explode. Interestingly, it appears to have both it’s booster wings and the double swords activated. Combinations which have, in-show, required Keith & Lance, and Lance & Pidge respectively to use their bayards. On closer inspection, the ‘swords’ may in fact be a single spear, similar in design to the ones the White mechs have been observed to wield. What combination of paladins this requires has yet to be seen, but if I had to guess I’d say it may be Pidge & Allura - as Allura was shown to have proficiency with a staff in season 2.

And that’s the trailer!

How exciting. Let’s see what we can make of this, shall we?

43 scenes, I’ve numbered them for easy reference.

Some of them are fairly self-explanatory - the Garrison ones are likely first or second episode and connect with the end of s7. Those would be 27 and 34. I’m also going to include 26 in this group, as the surrounding architecture seems to be in the Garrison color; it also makes sense that the Altean would be placed in a hospital-like setting after being freed from her mech.

For the rest, first off, it’s obvious that 8 and 11 are just one scene split in two; they might very well even be the same scene repeated.

But that’s not the only group of clips that might go together; there are actually several that seem to be part of, if not the same scene, then the same episode.

Starting with 19, 7 looks like it could be that same mech seen from the front. And that’s not all. We know from s7e13 that those mechs drain quintessence with their weapons - likely what’s happening here. So what happens when you drain the life from something? Well, it could very well look like the scenery depicted in 24. Which of course shows Pidge and Allura on a mission somewhere. And since VLD doesn’t usually repeat character teams multiple times a season, it’s likely the same mission we see the Green and Blue Lions on in 13; which features the same structure seen in 16.

Here’s the hypothetical sequence: 16, 19, 7, 13, 24. This order is based on both a logical sequence of events and the time of day shown in the image.

It’s also plausible that 10 might belong to this episode as well, probably the paired plotline - since it features Hunk and Lance apparently alone.

Taking the visuals and the characters into question, it looks like the setting for this string of clips is a colony - whether it’s one of Lotor’s or a new base built by Honerva is yet to be seen.

Speaking of Honera, she’s got both new duds and a new ride. I’d bet good money that 30, 31, and 32 are all part of the transformation sequence for the spooky black mech showcased in 41 - we also see its headpiece light up in 38.

Also in 38 is Sincline, apparently retrieved from the rift. But, there’s something not quite right about it. The mech is partially obscured, but from what can be seen it appears that the external lighting that was visible in s6 has all gone dark. The eyes alone appear to still be alight. Whatever it means, it doesn’t bode well for Lotor. Who, by the way, also makes an apparently present-time appearance in the trailer; in 29. I TOLD YOU SO YOU FUCKERS I TOLD-

There has been much speculation as to whether or not Lotor is really there or if the brief clip is part of a flashback. In my own opinion; it’s both. Lotor is not an illusion as he is the character in focus in the clip, but as it is Allura’s reaction that is initially front and center it appears that the scene is equally between the two of them. If anything, I would guess the specific clip we have is transitory in nature; Allura is reacting to something off-screen and Lotor is now about to offer some commentary on the thing in question. Notably though, the architecture this scene happens in is the dark purple of the Empire; and I would argue that if anything this is the part that isn’t real.

While it’s certainly possible that 4 is a part of Honerva’s flashback, I think it much more likely that this is a memory of Lotor’s as the event shown was referenced as having been a formative experience for him. We already have two examples in canon of one person viewing another’s memories ( when Haggar revived Zarkon and when Keith and Krolia traveled through the Qunatum Abyss) so it wouldn’t be a stretch for it to happen again.

Even so, since we do unambiguously see Sincline, debating exactly how ‘real’ 29 is is a moot point: Lotor’s back, baby! All you haters leaving anon messages in my inbox can suck it, who’s delusional now assholes? I doubt we’re off the pain train yet, but vindication station is in sight! don’t count your chickens before they hatch don’t count on anything oh GOD this train could yet derail. Fuck. Fuck! But this looks good. It does. So far this is exactly what I expected, stay calm.

Anyway.

25 and 35 seem to feature the same landscape and new kind of aliens. It looks similar to the Balmera, and might simply be another one and its residents. Or, it could be a different kind of crystal-producing creature altogether.

And it looks like we’re in for some fun times in the astral realm! With both 15 and 39 pretty unambiguously set in the nebulous ‘quintessence vision’ we’ve seen a handful of times throughout the series. It looks like some previously defeated foes have come to visit as well! Only time will tell if they’re constructs of flesh and steel or mere memory.

But we’ve saved potentially the most interesting clips for last. First, 20 and 37 are definitely the same structure, showing respectively the formation and activation of it. Eight objects arranged in a circle around a central point. But what are they? It’s admittedly very difficult to make out, and we probably would deed access to a HD trailer to say for sure, but I’ve got a good guess. What else shoots through space trailing a tail of light but a comet?

Hey! It’s the right color scheme and everything!

Huh. Y’know what else shares that color scheme? That dark rock with thin, green-blue glowing veins?

This place.

Now, I’m not saying they’re all the same thing. But I wouldn’t rule out a connection. Balmeran crystals are what Alteans historically used to power their ships and likely are rich with quintessence, trans reality ore is associated with the rift, which is full of quintessence. There exists a plausible connection.

Also in 20 is a swirling purple vortex-like gate. I call it a gate because we can actually observe Voltron entering a similar looking structure in 14. And, while it’s easy to miss, it actually seems to be what the Black Lion and the huge unknown mecha are in front of - and possibly falling into - in 33.

I’d like to thank @legendofcarl for pointing out in this post that Honerva is actually piloting the temple in Oriande (in 9 here) as opposed to opening a wormhole. Because taking that into consideration, the white pyramidal structures in 41 are not just reminiscent of Oriande, they are Oriande. Specifically, the temple: it’s a ship. And it’s what is floating in front of the purple vortex in 20.

Which would indicate that the fight involving Sincline and the black mech in 41 is probably happening in front of that vortex and the wheel of comets as well. And those Alteans seen in 14? They’re likely on the Temple ship.

Why not tie some more in? The shots of identity-shifting Honerva clearly powering something off-screen in 8 & 11? They’re not the black mech from 41 - we see the inside of that one in 31 and 32. It might be that she’s inside the unknown mech from 33.

And it might be the robot she’s standing in front of in 42, because the more I look at it, the less it looks like Sincline.

For one, the colors are wrong. It’s not possible to tell the true colors because of the orange tone of the image, but Sincline’s legs are grey, its feet blue, and the pointed edges on the feet are bright orange. This mech clearly has the same color feet and legs, and the edging on the feet looks to be a lighter silver-white of some sort. The shape of the ankles and feet is off as well, if this was sincline there should be an extra piece incorporated into the joint at the front where the foot and leg meet. The ankles also look too narrow in proportion to the feet as well. Finally, Sincline’s tail is opaque, and we shouldn’t be able to see the sunset between the segments. The end of the tail, while indistinct in the screen, also looks to be either the wrong shape in general or have one fewer points than it should.

Can mechs fuse? Because if you meshed Sincline and the black mech together this is about what I’d expect. Darker color scheme, familiar yet different designs - and if it’s the same one as in 33, approximately twice the size of Voltron.

There’s a lot of exciting things in this trailer, and much to consider. But after laying this all out? I think this is probably all from the first few episodes. Because when you string it all together, there’s only a very small collection of scenes here. This probably doesn’t even include the mid-season event.

Oh Boy! I’m Excited!

I can’t wait for December 14th!

But I can’t leave you all without a few predictions can I? Just based on what we have here, what would I project for this section of the plot?

Well... The first episode should be spent on Earth, seeing how our paladins lives have been now that they’ve reconnected with their families, getting filled in by Matt and the rest of the coalition fighters on what exactly has been going down in the wider universe. Either the tail end of that or the beginning of the next episode should throw the Altean and whatever info she brings into the mix, and that info should be what prompts the team to return to space.

I’d wager they’ll head for the Altean Colony first thing - at least Allura will. This may be where the shots of Allura and Pidge on a mission will fit in, and on the flip side where Hunk and Lance will once again pair up and tackle something else pressing. That section with the pink and white base is probably the/an Altean Colony.

This is also where we will begin learning the truth about what is actually going on. That will put everything that I and the rest of the Lotor-fans have been theorizing to the test. No idea as of yet what side of this Romelle will shake out on, but here is where it will happen.

Oh, but whatever they find at the colony, it looks like Honerva’s already taken all the Chosen Alteans to Oriande. Oops, Paladins, you’re too late.

Honerva is out to retrieve Lotor from the rift.

She had Sendak attempt to capture the Lions in s7 because she needs a trans-reality comet as well as Altean Alchemy to access the Quintessence Field. Sendak was fine with this because he needed to prove Lotor was dead to enable someone else (himself, yo) to become Emperor, and Lotor has kinda been Shordinger’s Cat in this situation: simultaneously alive and dead because you can’t know for sure until you open the rift.

Honerva was probably watching through Sendak the same way she had been Shiro and Narti; when she saw he’d failed she sent the one mech she had prepared in attempt to catch the paladins while they were still weak from their battle.

But she lost that too.

Now, she’s either got herself some more trans-reality ore, or she’s found a substitute that just might work if you put enough of the stuff together. That’d be that lovely space-wheel we see.

The paladins realize she’s already left Oriande and catch up to her just in time to see Honerva rip open a hole in reality and haul her son back into the plot. That’s why Sincline appears to be powered down in that shot; it’s just been removed from the rift.

We’re missing some major pieces here, but SOMETHING happens during that showdown to split the Alteans’ alignment away from Honerva, change the appearance of her mech, and probably prompt Voltron to follow her through the spooky purple vortex in the sky.

And hey! What’s on the other side of a Hole in the Sky?

Other realities of course.

...

OMG OMG! Lotor is back, guys! He’s back! YEESSSSSSSS!

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First Impressions (Part 1)

Word Count: 1,726

Rated T (Warnings for Swearing, Canon-Typical Violence)

Summary: What if, after receiving that call from Garrus while he was pinned down on Omega, Castis tries to track him down?

"Are you sure it was him?"

"I'm sure." Alec's smile turned mocking, the vitriol directed more towards himself. "I'm no Shadow Broker, but I still have my list of contacts here on the Citadel, even if it's dwindling by the seconds."

"Alec—"

"I don't need your pity, Castis." His smile fell, a subtle frown curling at the edges of his lips. "Besides, I'm doing this as a favor for a friend. Father to father. You know how it is."

"Yeah," Castis Vakarian sighed, "so I do."

It had been quite some time since the elder Vakarian graced the Citadel with his presence, but ever since he received that call...

"You finish up what you have to do there, and then you come on home to Palaven. We have a lot to sort out."

Even now, the echoes of gunfire rang in his ears, but not as much as the resignation in Garrus’s voice.

"Target practice," Garrus had called it.

As if an experienced C-Sec officer with common sense couldn't tell the difference between target practice and an all-out gunfight.

Even now, Castis's chest tightened.

The thought of losing Garrus now, especially when his mother's condition wasn't showing any signs of improvement—

Castis couldn't stand the thought. He couldn't lose both his wife and his son all at once.

When Garrus never reported back, he had to do something. After he spoke with some old friends on the Citadel, Alec Ryder put out some feelers of his own at his friend's request. For a while, there was nothing.

Then, they got a hit.

The Normandy SR-2, arriving to the Citadel from Omega. A ship flagged by Citadel Control's security algorithms for having alleged ties to the pro-human extremist group known only as Cerberus.

It was under the command of no other than Commander Shepard.

Why was Castis not surprised?

Between his and Alec's contacts, they had been able to discern that there were indeed aliens listed as part of the ship’s crew. A surprising move, given the organization's history, but Castis was far from calling them friends. Just because they expanded recruitment beyond their own species did not make them allies.

Add in a Spectre miraculously back from the dead, and the whole situation reeked of trouble.

Alec agreed, so they approached the matter with caution.

Thankfully, Solana understood when Castis had to drop everything and go. All that she asked was that he return home with the knowledge that Garrus was safe. That's it.

Of course, that wasn't enough to satisfy him.

Castis knew that Garrus was alive now, but that wasn't enough.

The next time he and Alec were pinged, they received intel stating that Garrus was spotted poking around the shipping sector of Zakera Ward with Commander Shepard, seeking out a notorious forger. For what? Spirits only knew.

The only other info that they had was that there was a drell and a quarian accompanying them as well.

While they awaited positive IDs on those two, they continued following Garrus’s trail, questioning the loose-lipped volus who was more than happy to give up Fade's position after his lousy bodyguards wandered off for a break.

Eventually, they were led to Harkin's position. It wasn't exactly hard to figure out that Garrus had already been there, what with the trail of bodies and mechs they left in their wake.

Seeing Harkin curled up on the floor, the bastard took one look up at them, then swore under his breath.

"Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me," he spat. "First your son, and now you? Haven't you Vakarians done enough?"

"Heh," Alec chuckled. "We're just getting started, tough guy."

Tapping at his omni-tool, Castis sent out an alert. While he dealt with Harkin, Alec approached the open console nearby, downloading all of its content, including the most recent call to a client.

"Have fun explaining yourself to C-Sec, Harkin, or is it Fade now?" Castis paused, crossing his arms over his chest as he peered down at him. "You can't resist making a fool of yourself for even a second, can you?"

"Hot take, coming from you." Harkin sneered. "You can't even keep that hot-headed son of yours on a leash. Bet C-Sec was glad to finally have his insubordinate ass off the force."

Castis saw red.

He took a step forward, but Alec's hand came down onto his shoulder, stopping him in his path.

"He's not worth it," Alec reminded him gently. As C-Sec swarmed the area, Alec jerked his chin in the direction of the door. "Come on. Let’s go find him before it's too late."

They strolled out together, heads ducked close and voices kept low.

"Did you find anything?" Castis asked.

"More than enough," Alec assured him. "Garrus is looking for a turian by the name of Lantar Sidonis."

"Can't say I've heard of him."

"Hmm..." Alec hummed thoughtfully to himself. "There was a location sent to set up a meeting. Orbital Lounge."

"Good work," Castis said, but Alec shrugged off the praise. "Let's go."

They stopped to make a quick change in a clothing store along the way. They got dressed in casual attire, posing as a couple of friends enjoying the sights.

By the time they made it to the lounge, Castis was already getting antsy. He struggled to maintain his cover, his eyes darting this way and that.

Alec elbowed him in the side.

"Calm down," he warned. He turned towards a random window display to glance over the selection of model ships. "Maintenance walkway above. Over your shoulder and to the right."

Castis snuck a peek as soon as he had the chance to.

He felt all of the blood drain from his face.

Turning quickly back towards the display, he hissed under his breath, "He has a rifle."

Alec shushed him before they could attract too much attention.

"I know, but do we really want to announce that little fact to the entire plaza?!" he whispered frantically.

Right.

Taking a deep breath, Castis composed himself. Usually, he wasn't this bad at remaining undercover, but the stakes were too high —too personal— to ignore.

It was hard to remain calm when your son was about to make the biggest mistake of his life.

Killing in a public place...

What happened to make him fall so far?

"I spotted someone up there with him," Alec said, breaking Castis of his reverie. "Shepard, maybe?"

Looking around at the crowd, Castis shook his head a moment later.

"No, not Shepard. Look. To your left."

Alec followed his line of sight, then ducked his head back down.

"Her, the quarian, and I'm assuming that's Sidonis," Alec said, counting them off one by one. "Which means that might be the drell up top with Garrus. A lookout, perhaps?"

"Hmph."

That was when Castis noticed the spotting laser.

His pupils narrowed into thin slits.

"No."

Alec stopped him again, stepping out in front of him with his hands spread wide.

"Wait, wait, wait," he ordered. "Let's see how this plays out first."

Castis turned on him with a glare.

"My son is about to commit a murder in plain sight, and you want me to wait?" he snapped.

"I want you to think clearly," Alec corrected. "Take another look at who the spotting laser is trained on."

Staring him down, Castis huffed impatiently, but quickly complied. They couldn’t afford to be stuck at an impasse at such a crucial moment.

One look was enough to clear up the image that had been blurred by emotion.

What in the—

"No." Castis shook his head in disbelief, but that didn't change what he was witnessing. "No, Garrus is too fond of the Commander. He wouldn't hurt her."

The conviction with which he spoke surprised even himself, but Garrus's attachment to Shepard was undeniable, as much as he was loath to admit it.

Even then, he couldn’t deny what was right there in front of him. The spotting laser was focused on the back of Commander Shepard’s skull, clear as day.

However, it wasn’t hard to put two and two together.

When Sidonis moved, Garrus followed him, but the Commander was instantly there to block his opening.

There were a few tense moments where words were exchanged, far too quiet to hear from where Alec and Castis were positioned. They went back and forth for a bit, and Castis admittedly feared for the worst when both Shepard and Sidonis started to leave.

The second Garrus had a clear shot at Sidonis, Castis held his breath.

But the shot never came.

"Well," Alec muttered, "that was anticlimactic."

Castis glared and punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow!"

"That's my son, Ryder."

With a grumble, Castis dragged Alec along. Their hunt wasn't over yet.

"You should meet mine. I feel like if Scott would've let him go, then he would have somehow managed to pull the trigger by accident. A real stroke of bad luck, that one."

"Spirits."

Strolling through the crowds, they laid low for as long as they could.

By the time they found Garrus again, he was talking with the others by a skycar terminal, presumably waiting on a cab.

A whole flood of emotions came crashing down on Castis at once, and there was no holding back. Not anymore.

Ignoring Alec's warnings not to do anything rash, Castis stormed off in their direction.

Insane how, after so many years of being friends, the N7 was only choosing now to try to be the voice of reason when Castis wanted to be anything but.

Out of everyone, the drell noticed him first, regarding him with suspicion.

Before he could warn him, Castis called out, "Garrus!"

The other three instantly froze, right before they turned to face him.

Garrus’s eyes widened, his mandibles falling slack as he gaped.

"Dad?"

"'Dad?!'" Shepard and the quarian echoed, shocked by such an unexpected turn of events.

The drell, on the other hand, didn't seem the least bit perturbed.

"Ah, his father," he hummed, nodding in understanding. "Your presence in the lounge makes sense now."

Alec's brow furrowed.

"Hold up, you knew we were there?" he asked skeptically.

"Well, I wouldn't exactly call you two 'subtle.'"

"That doesn't matter!" Castis snapped.

Clenching his jaw, his mandibles were clamped down tight.

Time to get this meeting back on track.

"Garrus, we need to talk."

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Interdimensional Moms pt4

Part 3 here! <-

The tales had be interesting. The tales had even been emotionally gripping, yet all of them so far didn’t seem to register at the moment as Ruby’s teammates looked at her with the same excitement she used to give her own mother during story time. Ruby couldn’t help but give a little smile.

Ruby:I take it you’re ready for my turn? You do know it’s not exactly a sunshine and rainbows story, right?

Weiss:We figured as much, but....

Yang:You’re so different! From the moment you showed up I could just feel it in my gut. You have this...presence about you. Not to mention intsene confidence.

Blake:Yang is right. You said you beat your Salem when your seventeen. That’s...scary if I’m being honest. Such a drastic departure from any of our worlds.

Ruby:*red* Hehehe ummm I guess I’m just awesome? Really I don’t think it’s the most outstanding feat. At least by my worlds standards I suppose. I mean sure, I’m consider cream of the crop there too but there’s talented people and challenges all over that would put me through my paces still. I’m just...me.

Weiss:Sigh...honestly, I suppose that means our own skills must pale in comparison to our counterparts.

Ruby:Mmmm I wouldn’t say that for sure. My Yang would kill me if she heard this but there’s something about the one right here that has spark I dig.

Yang:Really?

Ruby:Uh huh. Can’t put my finger on it but I think you take her if you want it bad enough. As for Weiss....couldn’t tell ya. Haha, I know better than anybody to not underestimate the power of mother, and you pumped twins out.

Weiss:Not sure if those are pity points or real ones but thanks either way.

Blake:You don’t even have to tell me I’d lose. Just gave an entire story about me an my condition.

Ruby:Don’t feel too bad about it. I can’t imagine much reason for you two to fight for any reason. You’re both too reasonable to not reason with yourself.

Blake:Aw I’m touched.

Yang and Weiss:We aren’t....

Ruby:Hahaha I’m just saying! So, I guess I take things from the top like you all? From what I learned from all of you our Beacon experiences really are more or less the same, not counting certain interactions between a bookworm faunus and an adorkable blonde knight. Enrolled early, blew up the entrance, Weiss was rude, Yang ditched me, all the same beats.

Yang:There’s no super badass change like you beating Cinder the night of dance and making our entire lives easier?

Ruby:Ha! I wish I was that legit. No, I was very much the young girl tripping in heels that night. Vytal festival came around and was attacked, then Beacon fell. Pyrrha was lost and so was Penny. Difference being that was my last time seeing her, unlike Weiss’s story apparently.

Weiss:Yeah that...that’s a little bit of shock to be frank. Sorry.

Ruby:No worries. Not like you did anything and it was decades ago for me now. After that day is when I started to get a bit more serious I think. I had always taken being a huntress seriously and never slacked of in trying to live my dream. However, my perspective may have honed in on just how do or die life his when you’re the one choosing to walk into unknown danger. Team RNJR’s first and only mission, save the world!

Yang:Sub mission: Flirt with Jaune Arc.

Ruby:*blushing* We do not choose who we fall in love with it. But yes, that may have been a personal pseudo mission for me. He’s my first friend at Beacon for crying out loud and I you know.....thought he was cute then too.

WBY:Yeah that checks out.

Ruby:What does that mean!?

Weiss:Ruby, even my Ruby admits to finding Jaune attractive and having a crush on him back in the day.

Blake:Same.

Yang:I already went into enough detail on how my little sister feels about Jaune. Your just the reality where you pounced on the opportunity and never let go. Struck when the iron was hot and none of us were around; sly fox.

Ruby:Gee you make it sound underhanded. It isn’t like I intended to actively pursue him. Everyone was really sad and stressed traveling to Anima. There was a tension in the air. One that really strained us. I did my best to keep focus, but a leader is only as put together as team. Ren and Nora confided one another as usual and I tried being there for Jaune because seeing him emotionally shut down was rough; so I did my best to be there for him. Then...he ended up being there for me and I was the one who needed comfort. All the airing out and late nights just...led to....*red*

Blake: “Breaking the tension?”

Ruby:I guess that’s one way of putting it. We were lonely. I hid my feelings best I could under the veil of comfort in the moment. Not that needed to. He made it pretty clear that he wanted me in the same way I wanted him. I just the two of us were too scared to ask for promises we weren’t sure we could keep so we loved in the moments we could, so to speak.

Weiss:If it wasn’t under dire situations, all that sounds oddly romantic.

Ruby:Right!? Looking back at it makes the entire thing seem romantic but I definitely wouldn’t wish a similar experience on anybody! I guess it’s what I wished for when I fantasized huntress life huh? Things obviously got better along the way. Our relationship got a bit more serious right before we got to Haven. Then Tyrian and other crazy stuff happened that threw all of us into panic mode again before slowly getting better again by a lot.

Yang:We showed up?

Ruby:Bingo! You and Weiss, met Oscar, and then eventually Blake came back. Things were on the up and up.

Weiss:Uh, Haven attack?

Ruby:We lived, up and up. Yeah you got stabbed but you know...that’s not new I’m sure.

Weiss:Yeah I have the scar and I’m still little pissed.

Ruby:Valid. Anyways, so my Atlas experience was different as hell. There was no formation of Remnants armies like Weiss spoke of or even between two kingdoms like Blake. Yang, what happened yours again exactly?

Yang:Nonsense. Cinder showed up with lackeies but not Salem’s lackies. Those people showed up separately, then Adam came back from wherever the hell he- a lot! A lot of people showed up for different reasons but also the same reason and to be frank, we all almost got shot by the military for being in bases that quote unquote, “didn’t exist.”

Ruby:Man I wish we traded. That at least sounds crazy enough to be fun. Just a rollercoaster in the dark basically. My experience was probably as hectic, but also way more streamlined. We showed up, and then all hell broke loose. Specially a mass grimm invasion lead by Cinder and her annoying associates. We were there for about three weeks updating General Ironwood and getting our barrings together when it happened. I wanna call it a hit and run tactic but it was clearly planned in advanced. Mechs were hacked again, traitors in the military, grimm lying in wait before hand; it was chaos! All for the relic.

Blake:Who was the maiden?

Ruby:Never met her. By the time we got there, Ironwood was panicking because she had vanished, taken right from under his nose. It was some young girl apparently, really young. The attack on Beacon looked like child’s play to this. Mantle got attacked, grimm were on the chains, they tried dropping Atlas to the ground; all a diversion for a relic. We all should’ve died, and yet, we didn’t. Winter and Weiss weeded out traitors, huntsman and military held the line, Yang bested Hazel with Nora, Qrow and I cut down Tyrian! Ren, Blake and Jaune helped the kingdoms while Ironwood struck down Watts. Nobody was in the mood to die that day. There wasn’t gonna be another Beacon. By all means, we were pissed. Even Raven showed up of all people.

Yang:What!?

Ruby:You can’t attack a kingdom without the world knowing. Especially when traitors leak info. Honestly she came for you though, or she never left to begin with. Couldn’t tell ya. Thanks to Maria I had a bit more handling with my eyes. That helped a lot. Without them and Os-

She stopped herself, choking on the words. The zest and excitement of recalling the heroic feats of her friends dimmed slightly with her smile. Her joyful smile became bittersweet like the memory.

Ruby:Then there was Oscar, the real warrior on that flamed filled night. That battle had to have been three days at least. We were so driven, and so tired. I was tired, but Cinder, Neo, and the others with her at the time weren’t; always showing up at the worst time. I managed to push Cinder back in a fight but grimm and others still swarmed. We were at a point that grimm very well might’ve did us in and the villains didn’t have to push any harder. But Oscar changed that. Hehe, what’s it about country folk that makes people like him and I not hesitate to grit our teeth? That dork looked at me, gave me the biggest smile on the the steps to Atlas, and then he left. His hair went white as he twirled the cane and then he left, forever. Oz came out, and he left nothing to the imagination. “Limited magic” my butt. He obliterated grimm and made a barrier aroma Atlas while everyone else cleared Mantle long enough for the world to send reinforcements. Salem didn’t get the relic, but she got the maiden and thousands of casualties. Oscar being one of them. Also, Whitley....he was in critical condition for a very long time.

Weiss:What do you mean...critical condition?

Ruby:Everything happened so fast Weiss. Panic was high, buildings fell....a piece on him. I wasn’t there but when I eventually found you, you were nearly hysterical and banged up. By some miracle he lived even though we could not reach him and he did not get aid for awhile. We thought him dead. It was only after everything we learned somebody got him. Being rich never paid off more than with medical bills. Thanks to youth and medicine he can still walk, but he can only do so much before being tired. He also left Atlas. The cold hurts.

Weiss:So, I run the company because he can’t?

Ruby:I wouldn’t put it that way, but it was one of dozens of reasons that made that goal stronger for you. Relax though, both of you get plenty of time to be witty siblings like I told you earlier.

Weiss:I know. It’s just, I guess it’s hard imagining Whitley hurt like that. I don’t think I could handle it.

Ruby:You definitely teetered in the moment. Knowing that happened though probably gave you anger and grit to fight the entire battle. You were a beast. Scarier than Winter. Anyways, that hollow victory was a real wake up call for the world. They didn’t know about Salem and we never told society in earnest. Cinder and other conspirators were enough to make Remnant work together to boost defense. Relief went to places that needed it and I, became the face of hope. Haven, Argus, Atlas, even people from Vale got to chattering of a particular group of people who always seemed to answer the call for help. Then the towns in between chattered. Yours truly had been carving a name in the history books and was only gain popularity the moment I stepped into Vacou, alone.

Blake:Alone!?

Weiss:What!?

Yang:Where were we!!!!!?

Ruby looked at surprised faces around the table, smiling tenderly. She looked down her dress and pulled out the cross she wore around her neck. Her thumb traced its edges as her mind began wandering down an old path paved with emotions raw to the core.

Ruby:I’ve always felt different. Not just because of my eyes but that there was just...a certain spark that never stopped going off for as long as I remember. There are plenty of people who can’t bare to watch others suffer, but there are fewer people I believe that truly feel the agony of other people’s pain. Beacon, Haven, Atlas, Argus; there was no place I went that I didn’t see the faces of others lamenting, and I didn’t make me want to grieve. Atlas took so much out of all of you and I just felt so....driven to stop that ache. For everyone’s sake, but mine as well. I wanted the world to finally get to the happy ending. Enough trauma had be sowed for a hundred lifetimes, so I went on ahead of everyone. I never doubted you all would follow but I wanted to get ahead of the curve and take on as much of the suffering I could do others wouldn’t. If the world wouldn’t give me a miracle than I’d be it myself for everyone else.

Yang:That’s suicidal! Salem wanted you specifically!

Ruby:It’s not like I went marching up to her door and said “1v1 bitch, I’m here” no, I just chose to move forward quicker than what we were all doing. Believe me, all of you were upset when you caught up, after I had already saved Vacou. *smiles* I really like that place. I told the people it was the next target and all they did was double down on pushing back. I managed to pin down the Summer maiden before the villains and thanks with the city on alert, there wasn’t a shift in the sand that didn’t go unnoticed. I got the jump on Mercury and Emerald, personally paying them back. Can’t say I didn’t enjoy it. It didn’t take long before they realized how screwed they were with them being outed like this and Cinder having the nerve to retreat before hand. Both of them threw in the total, outing the plan against Vacou. A wipeout of a win. Not to mention they told me the location Salem’s little hiding hole.

Weiss:We missed all of that?

Ruby:That’s what happens when I leave in the dead of night and running on adrenaline. Like I said before, people were tired. As much as all of you wanted to hoof it, other’s were relying on you. Atlas almost dropped for gods sake. Eventually when you all caught up it was at a good time. Soloing was rewarding but difficult. Fortunately Sun, Neptune, Ilia, and a few other familiar faces were close by if I needed an extra set of hands. My little stunt earned the anger of everyone for awhile.

WBY:Yeah no shit...the leader left.

Ruby:Yang was the most upset, followed by Uncle Qrow, and you Weiss. I was ready for the blowback. Jaune and Nora saw me though and bursted into tears. Hehe, wasn’t ready for that. Felt terrible and cried back. To prevent that stunt again, my Yang convinced Raven to link me. A couple days of apologizing and rest smoothed things over. It also gave time for just a few close friends and colleagues to get together for an assault on Salem’s castle. A few were apprehensive about it at first but at the end of the day I was going. That attitude was infectious apparently. You guys, actually everybody, they started getting this hunger to end it all. Maybe it was the high of victory? Regardless, it sent me racing to the end with those that I loved most.

Yang:You’re a real “my way or the highway” kind of Ruby. I don’t get how that explains what made you so...elite.

Ruby:I’m not sure what to say. A fight needed to to fought so I fought it. A cry for help was heard so I ran to it. A grimm needed slaying so I slayed it. People needed me to win so I didn’t dare think of losing. Dying was never option, even when it stared me right into my eyes. I had things I wanted to do and people I wanted see for years to come. I guess...I am strong because of the fact I want things my way. A moment I’m not giving it 110% is a moment wasted. After all, a huntress is all I ever wanted to be.

A single dream she wanted since birth. The never ending desire to be the hero in stories told to her many nights ago. That’s all it ever was. That’s all it’s ever been. Even in meadow of beautiful red roses, one would be the rose that captured the eyes of many, that bloomed stronger than the rest. As simple as it was, that had to be the answer here. Weiss, Yang, and Blake were in front of that flower. The Ruby Rose that simply bloomed stronger than the rest. The one that clung to her dream as if letting go meant dying itself. The devotion was inspiring, yet also overwhelming. If this was Ruby they had lead them that day in the Emerald Forest, could they have kept up? Could she be the leader they followed? No, they couldn’t have. Something deep down inside them gave them that answer. No matter how she looked and how much she loved, this Ruby Rose was cut from a cloth they simply weren’t off. The same as others, but oh so different.

Weiss:You’re....kinda a monster, you know that right?

Yang:Seriously, I’m so...floored. It’s intimidating.

Blake:Not to mention humbling. I used to think I gave it all I had. Now I’m not so sure.

Ruby:Oh don’t be like that you three! You’re all living proof there was more than way to go about life, this war! Everything you gave was enough because you’re done with it! Nobody failed. Besides, I...am far from ideal. The assault was challenging. Getting around hoards of grimm and making it to Salem was hell made real. Neo tried taking another shot at me but Yang held her off with help. Everyone pushed the obstacles in front of me out of the way as I went to Salem herself. Cinder had been abandoned by her and stripped of a lot of her powers. Angry and desperate, she tried killing me again as a way to prove worth. I beat her. However, I let her walk away.

Yang:What!? Why would-

Ruby:Naive, I was...naive okay? She was all spent and though I hated her, I just couldn’t. Not when I looked into her eyes and saw that same hunger I had to claw and scream at my dream until it was in my hands die inside her. We both knew from this point on there was absolutely nothing she could do where this ends her way. All she worked for turned burned to ash. So I gave her the choice to not burn up with it. Cinder swallow her pride and then fled. A part of me couldn’t help but rationalize killing her didn’t solve or justify any of my beliefs or desires. It would’ve done it because I hated her like she hated me. That was the dumb logic of a seventeen year old who never quite learned to take things slow.

Blake:....I don’t think it’s dumb. Naive for sure, but maybe that’s good? Even my Ruby, she never wanted to act on hate. She didn’t. Salem lives.

Weiss:Mine sent her soul to be at piece instead of passing a cruel judgment.

Yang:As a person who’s seen what you looked like with nothing but vengeance inside, I can say it doesn’t fit you. Before that day you had a warmth inside you to even foes that were somewhat admirable. You chose to leave Cinder’s fate up to those who had that hate and Salem was undone by her own doing at the very end. That’s what really makes you special Ruby. That’s why you’re called an honest soul. Good will is your nature.

Ruby:....Hmm, you sure know how to butter me up. *scratches head* I guess that part of me is uni-I mean multiversal. Strangely, that makes me feel better, to a degree.

Weiss:Do we even have to ask what happened to Salem at this point? I doubt the story ends with you loosing and having to retreat.

Ruby:Who’s to say it doesn’t? I could’ve been beaten to death before the gods themselves descended down to revive me with awesome power.

Yang:....Did you?

Ruby:Wh-No! Haha, I made her an immortal statue.

Blake:I-It was that easy?

Ruby:Well I wouldn’t call rushing into hell’s castle easy, or Salem. I lit her up at least a dozen times. My head pounded from each use, I was tossed around a bunch, magic is annoying, and not to mention running out of ammo. I left nothing to the imagination in that fight. If it were easy then I wouldn’t be rooting my horn and my age doing it. I was so tired I blacked out afterwards. I woke days later with a sore body and the title of “Remnant’s Savior.” Apparently beating Salem had weakened the grimm everywhere and all of you made sure who was to be thanked for it. That’s the tale of how I saved the world with my friends. Love, trust, elbow grease, and a lot of bullets. Before the final battle, Ozpin had struck a deal with everyone involved. In return for saving the world, he’d cut ties with us.

Yang:Seriously? What brought that about!?

Ruby:Good or not, he lied and was a schemer. Sure I was gonna try to save the world regardless of his interference but there wasn’t a person alive that didn’t to finally take a step towards the future after all this. All of us finally had time chase dreams and help the world the way we wanted to before all of this. Blake begin mending hate, Weiss took back her company, if Yang wasn’t with Blake then she was seeking more answers to Raven on wild adventures.

Yang:You mean Raven still left after all that!?

Ruby:In her defense, both of you made everything fucking awkward when she was around. It’s like you both wanted to talk about something but knew any subject was a land mine so you all you ever did was...stare, like weirdos. Glad that’s in the past. She just lives with dad now and you two now to hold a conversation. I dare not ask for more. I’d be a granny by the time I did.

Yang:Sigh...I don’t know what I expected. Shit it the fan several times and children were born before mom and I found solidarity and understanding. What did you do afterwards? Your goal was already met.

Ruby:Like hell it was! I started busting my butt traveling around the world, visiting every place to help in anyways I could. Ren and Nora tagged along for awhile before going off to make an orphanage in Anima near Ren’s old village. That left Jaune and I to do our hero thing.

Yang:As well as other things....

Ruby:Hey, what can I say? We were young and going up in the world. By the time I was nineteen, I was now a married to my partner and best friend.

Weiss:Uhhhh-

Ruby:He’s my partner on RNJR and you’re my BFF, gosh did I really need to explain that hehe?

Weiss:I just had to make sure. Crazier twists could happen.

Blake:Wow you married young. Not that there’s a problem but I’m surprised. Then again you also dated earlier than my Ruby. Hehe, weapons were on her brain for a long time.

Weiss:No kidding. When I learned about you crushing on my brother I was shocked to find out you liked anybody in general. Especially a person who isn’t a weapon nut in the slightest.

Ruby:*shrugs* All you’re telling me is I’m clearly the most impatient or impulsive Ruby you all know. Don’t know how that happened. Maybe I was dropped as a baby or had one too many coffees growing up?

Weiss:I’m willing to bet it’s both.

Ruby:Ruuuuude. So yeah, that’s...the story of how I saved the world and married Jaune. We even built a home just outside Vacou, overlooking the kingdom and neighboring town in the distance where Maria grew up. Yeah, that’s me....more or less. All the triumphant parts anyways. Anything later on is......

.......

Blake:R...Ruby? You okay?

Ruby:Nope, not really. *clenches cross*

Yang:......You know, I never really got religion, especially after learning the truth. It just seemed completely hollow when you learn of the real gods, ya know? However, I changed my tune a bit after being a parent and then some more when uncle Qrow died. It was never really about the truth behind if those other gods were real-

Ruby:It’s the piece of mind in believing in a better place for loved ones and having people watch over you. It’s truly based on blind faith in every sense but that’s okay as long as it gives peace of mind, to stay strong. Yeah....that’s why I wear this.

Yang:If that’s the “why” then I guess the unavoidable question is what happened?

The reaper leaned back in his chair, letting out a long sigh. Ruby brushed her hair out of her face while her face went pale. Then, Ruby’s eyes, her teammates watched a pair of stunning silver eyes dim, becoming akin to a clouded mirror.

Ruby:Being a huntress was all I wanted. The plan of having a family and settling down never appealed to me much. I feel, I felt like being in the field was where I was meant to be. It’s where I was most myself in a way. So the day I learned that I was pregnant was more than a little upsetting and terrifying, until dad and time itself filled me with the most genuine joy I may have ever experienced. Dustin Arc Rose, my first born son. He opened a door to a world and life I never knew I wanted to be apart of. Then...that door was shut minutes after, when Cinder and Neo stole him right from my arms. I couldn’t do a single thing about it other than blackout. That single act of good will I showed, it did nothing but kill me inside. The same way I did to her.

WB:.....

Yang:Ru-Ruby....your eyes.

Ruby:Hmm? Are they clouded? Funny, I would’ve thought your Ruby would’ve had a similar change. Maybe that’s a world exclusive thing, or a testament to the will you Ruby has to endure. Clouded eyes on a silver eyed warrior means the person has lost the desire or rather the mindset of persevering life. Be it their own life or wanting to end another’s life out of resentment, strife. My entire world fell apart when I woke up and learned nobody was able to retrieve Dustin. I was in pieces, Jaune was broken, nobody was the same. There wasn’t a soul we didn’t know that hadn’t tried to find a lead, but we never did. He was just...gone; and I couldn’t cope at all.

Weiss:I don’t think any mother could. Ruby, I’m so sorry that happened to you.

Ruby:I’m sorry too. I lashed out in anger, and shut people out. My eyes clouded and I dove into my work for a little over a year doing nothing but searching aimlessly as I took and every job back to back. The more time went by meant the more people eventually had to go back to their own, and it drove me up a wall inside. No one could reach me. I didn’t want anybody to. Not even Jaune. I....*teary eyed* I left him alone in house. There was no part of me that could even attempt to understand his pain because I was drowning in mine. I was told he tried his best to catch them at the hospital. I never hated him for not succeeding but I...he... I just, I can’t. I don’t know what I thought. All o knew was I didn’t even want him to touch me. How cruel is that? *hugging herself* I made him drown in despair in the same way I was. I wasn’t home so often that I never realized he eventually left it abandoned to live with dad. Yang and Blake I didn’t even show up to your wedding. Jaune did that much. Hell, Raven attended. Ruby Rose as a person didn’t exist any more. I was only a wandering huntress looking for answers or the challenge that might’ve ended me.

Blake:What changed?

Ruby:Oz, he did what nobody else dared to do. He fought me. I don’t think he thought twice about it. He was prepared to accept all the anger I kept inside until I eventually broke down into tears like I’m trying not to do right now. Thinking about that time is still, extremely difficult. Oz let me lament, encouraging me afterwards to finally except the fact Dustin was gone and that I needed to process it properly. First I went to you Yang, in order to have a my big sis to lean on. Can you guess how that went?

Yang:With me holding you tighter than I ever had before.

Ruby:*smiles gently* I don’t deserve you. You and Blake then came to patch with me where everyone else waited for me and helped me face Jaune. That may have been the hardest thing I’ve done. Grieving or not, the fact that I left him in such a state. I know what that does to people firsthand and yet I left. For the first time in over a year we embraced and finally grieved together. The next two years were spent trying to heal and cope. During my time away the world had fully acknowledged me. I even got a proper nickname, but it all felt hollow. Imagine that, achieving your dream but not caring? If that’s not salt in a wound then I don’t know what is.

Weiss:What’s your title?

Ruby:I am the person people want to see when evil comes to cut their story short. I am a symbol that their tale still has more to tell. Remnant has named me The Storyteller. Curtsey of Maria, who spread the name around. Healing was slow and most nights I felt a pain in my heart, but then everything changed. One moment made me dare to try again to open that shut door in my life. *looks at Yang* I held your son in my arms. Sweet little Kovu.

Blake:*smiles* Kovu? Now I wonder who named him?

Yang:*red* Huh...how about that? Hehehe, wish I could meet him. I know he isn’t technically mine but I can’t help but feel all warm now. Also I can’t believe I named him that!

Weiss:I can. Veronica’s middle name is Nala.

Yang:Okay, maybe not marrying Blake was a win? Clearly I can’t be trusted to not name my children after other cats.

Blake:The wrong kind of cat too. I’m a panther faunus, not a lion. Even if they’re blonde that’s still false advertising of what they are.

Ruby:Well Yang was the one giving birth so you lost a majority of the option to complain.

Blake:That is fair.

Weiss:You gave birth to Vee, so I think that solves who picked her first name.

Ruby rested her head in her propped up hands that rested on the table. She felt exhausted reliving that chapter of her life mentally. Still she managed to smile, then smile bigger. Her eyes unclouded and a warm feeling filling her again. What Ruby said earlier about what made her different may have reign true, but her friends could since that there was now more to it. Ruby had spiraled into an unimaginable tragedy, yet was able to bounce back thanks to loved ones. To smile as she does, it was truly a strong sight to see. Even if she wasn’t fully aware of that.

Ruby:Carmine Arc Rose, my second born and the first child to call me mommy. Followed many years later by itty bitty Garnet. He’s my little man, five years old while is big sis is seventeen now.

Yang:Damn! That’s a gap. Oh, also congratulations. Almost forgot that part. I’m glad you got to be the super awesome mom that-

Ruby:I am easily C-teir.

Yang:Oh come on! What!?

Ruby:Listen, I know I got on you all for calling yourselves bad parents, but I will hear no debate about me understand!? I flop a lot of times.

Weiss:That doesn’t make you a C-teir. That makes you a new mom, silly.

Ruby:*grumbling* I agree to disagree but thank you. It’s just a lot okay. Too much to dive into honestly.

Blake:Summarize. Give us an abbreviated version.

Ruby:Ummm so Carmine is real special kid. The absolute love I have for her is unbreakable but gods damnit if she isn’t the most... “me” I could be! In a way similar yet different from myself, Carmine has always had this sense of urgency in her and a love for the world around her. She recognizes that it’s a fragile piece we have and just how hard I’ve worked with everyone to make it. I could tell that from her when she was five. I’d sound crazy, but the fact she used her eyes at the age proves I’m not.

Yang:She has silver eyes!? Why didn’t you bring that up?

Ruby:I thought that was obvious. All of my kids were born with then. Unlike her baby brother though, Carmine was a weird little kid. She didn’t socialize well. Still doesn’t, she’s kinda comes off rude and cold because of her bluntness. She doesn’t really express all her feelings or understand others fully. One might call her a little cold but the passion she had to protect life itself is a testament to how much she cares. Carmine is also a genius fighter. To put in perspective, people use the same nickname for her that they used for Pyrrha.

WBY:Oh....

Ruby:Yeah! It’s not hyperbolic to say ever since Carmine is far beyond any skill I was at her age since she turned thirteen. You called me a monster earlier but no, I merely gave birth to a beast. I mean she could pass the huntsman exam at fifteen if I didn’t make her wait. I can’t call her arrogant, she talks with confidence because she has that right by all means. Still, besides her face, that’s where the similarities start separating; besides terrible grades in general stuff. We’ve never been in step completely. To put simply in her own words, “What I am is a hero, while she is a huntress.” That good will and mercy I try to give everyone isn’t how she rolls. It drives a real wedge that has resulted in us not going on missions together.

Blake:Is she...killing?

Ruby:She has before, and it had valid reasons entirely, but I also know for a fact she is more than capable of bringing down people without taking that step. Not all cases are that intense thank goodness. Her overall aggressiveness is the root of the problem. You don’t have to put you back into it when handling thugs. They aren’t Hazel.

Yang:Ooo okay, yeah I’m seeing what you mean now. It’s like that one comic you always read!

Ruby:Sigh...yeah she channels a bit of Batman energy and I need her to not do that all the time. I suppose being an honest soul isn’t particularly hereditary. It always feels like we aren’t enjoying each other’s company these days. I can’t blame her though. So....you know how all of you have had one serious problem that has both destabilized yourself as well as the kids and their relationship to you? *clouded eyes*

Weiss:Wait...you loosing a child wasn’t that?

Ruby:Oh it was. It just so happened that it never ended. It grew day by day. Night by night. Jaune and I were cautious with Carmine. Going as far to give her contacts and giving birth to her off the record and not at a hospital. Just in case Cinder came back. Well, Cinder and Neo came back, with my Dustin.

Nobody said anything. What do you even say to that!? All they did was let out a stifled breath and tried to gauge Ruby’s look of guilt.

Ruby:Yet again we had gotten too comfortable. It happened when Carmine was thirteen. I don’t think Garnet was even one yet. That’s when the cruelest realization hit me. My son had been alive and hearing about how his so called mother being a person who saves everyone, yet she never came for him. She had moved on, letting his eyes become clouded with such seething hate for the world she did save; the children she had after. It’s been four years since the day he attacked Carmine and helped grimm try to invade Vacou. To this day it’s been a life of staying on gaurd, searching for them as they popped up countless places to tear Remna- to tear me down and I can’t decide what part hurts the most. The amount of anger that prevents me from killing Cinder in a blink of an eye, or looking at my daughter who has told me herself that she is going to kill her older brother because I’m too weak to do so. That I’m in no way as good as the world believes me to be. *puts hood up* Like I said, C-teir mom, at best.

Blake:That’s- you can’t- there’s no way for you to reach him? Maybe if you-

Ruby:He looks at me the same way Neo and Cinder do, Blake. They raised him to hate me. Besides, he hurt Carmine. She’s just not gonna let that slide and frankly I shouldn’t either. Carmine acts tough and for the most part is, but gets terrified like everyone else. In many ways she’s still just a young girl that I wish had never chosen to become a huntress. If I had it my way she’d just be a normal girl with normal knees; but her mother’s weakness and inexperience wrapped her up in yet another war. It’s ironic. I barely remember mom and yet I ended up putting my family in very similar situation as if she lead instruction. Happy endings, I’m not sure if I get-

Yang:You’re better than mom....

Ruby:......

Yang:Yeah I said. Look I love Summer Rose but at the end of the day she wasn’t around, not that she didn’t want to be, but it’s the truth. Several years of pleasant childhood memories and a lifetime of grief is what she left me, and all you got were tales you should’ve experienced first hand. Ruby you have spent seventeen years loving your daughter unconditionally and being there for her no matter if it’s for better or worse. Yeah you might not being doing it perfectly and I have no idea how to even fathom your predicament, but at least you are there trying. Take it from me, that’s all a daughter ever wants from their mother. It’s also what makes a pretty kick ass dad. *smiles* Chin up, hero. Your story isn’t over yet after all.

Silence filled the air and Ruby’s throat ran dry. Ruby pulled out her scroll to go to her pictures and displayed one of her favorite photos for everyone to see. It was Carmine’s fifteenth birthday. Ruby didn’t lie about the resemblance. the girl had short blonde hair that stopped halfway down her neck in the back and was longer in the front, reaching shoulders. Like her mother, the tips of her hair transitioned to red. The beautiful young woman tried to her hide her smile but her gleeful silver eyes were practically twinkling with joy as Ruby hugged her tightly from behind and a tall, more solid version of Jaune was smushing one of Carmine’s cheeks with an overly dramatic kiss to it. A tiny child no older than three at most was in his big sister’s arms. Garnet had his mother’s hair and eyes but something about the chubby face definitely showed Jaune’s features. The child had red frosting on his face and was reaching eagerly for more cake somewhere out of frame.

Yang noticed the girl took page from her father and wore some regular cargo shorts, but clearly didn’t lack flair by wearing a red crop top that showed off a fresh tattoo of the Arc crest on her toroso. Knowing her sister, that tattoo was most likely practical. The family looked happy, proud; and the mother of it currently sat across the table crying with her head face down in her hands cwhile Weiss and Blake hugged her from each side. Roses may have thorns, anyone who knew roses knew a simple truth. They’re still fragile flowers.

Yang:(Carmine Arc Rose. For you and your mother’s sake, I hope things go well)

xxxx

Though Carmine seemed cold by nature, people were quick learn the opposite. The most recent learner of this was a scared little girl that held on for dear life. It was nighttime, nothing but the sound of pouring rain and the distant glow of red and the warmth of Carmine holding the girl against her body while she sprinted through a mud ridden forest. The little payed no attention to the pain in her side, but the glow of roses, eyes, and flames through her tear filled eyes.

Beowulves chased frantically but then severed immediately by something the girl couldn’t understand, but it looked like the person carrying her. The dead beasts brought no comfort. Not when more followed close behind.

Girl:I-I’m sc...scared!

Carmine:Don’t look at them sweetie, it’ll be fine. Just keep being a brave little girl.

Girl:M...Mommy was back there.

Carmine:.....I know, she’ll be just fine. Your village, there are plenty of people there that will be just fine! Huff..... You got a name?

Mary:Mary.....

Carmine:Oh that’s a beautiful name, Mary. You know I was almost a Mary? Yeah my grandma was a really amazing person and I almost got named something similar to her. Mary is a very strong name!

Mary:You’re a liar! I’m sad, not strong. I want my mommy! Everything his dark and hurts and I want her!

The girl began painfully crying as Carmine followed her trail of roses to avoid getting lost. Things were getting worse. The storm raged and she could feel this girl burning in her arms. Not to mention the unsettling warmth the mixed with the cold rain against her body and dripped to puddles below. Any grimm near by could only be dealt with by many copies of her nearby, but that would only go so far when fear was out full force. Carmine’s boots felt like cement, but she still ran.

Carmine:Mary, you know what do when I miss my mommy? I sing! Yeah, my mom sings the best lullabies that made me feel super strong when I was little! It’s a magic song that makes everyone strong. How about I sing it you and they can sing it your mommy later okay!? But you have to close your eyes to really focus on the words!

Mary:*sniffling* Okay....

Baby deathstalkers swarmed the path made ahead as small Nevermores dove at her. Out of options, Carmine broke from the path, trying to rely on memory to go towards the safe zone while also singing lyrics to her favorite song.

Dream of anything; I'll make it all come true.

Everything you need is all I'll have for you~

Carmine never wavered. No matter how badly her lungs her or nearly slipped, she kept singing all the way to her destination where several other clones were seen racing towards with more civilians to injured or young to go themselves. An orphanage where Nora and Ren stood outside rushing people in while Jaune was keeping the grimm at bay. The sight brought a little ease.

Don't worry, I've got you; nothing will ever harm you.

I'm close by, I'll stay here; through all things, I will be near~

Carmine finally reached Nora and passed off the girl who’s grip weakened overtime. A few lyrics in and Carmine knew she was singing mainly for herself.

Carmine:Get her medical attention! I’m gonna go and find more! There’s still-

Jaune:Wait, it’s too dangerous!

Carmine:I know! That’s why I have to go! That fire is spreading and there’s stragglers pinned down! Dad.....I’m pinned down!

Jaune tensed up and looked at Carmine. No scraps on her and her clothes only soiled by others. It didn’t take long to realize. The man resisted the urge to run out to the ruined town and stood firmly.

Jaune:Carmine...end it. We’ll worry about the consequences later.

Carmine:....Okay.

Across the woods amongst the flames the real Carmine stood bleeding and bruised in front of two Beringel that charged over the vanishing corpses of their fallen with more grimm, her sword stabbed into the ground supporting her weight. Behind all living people that remained finally managed to flee. All except for a woman trapped by house debris. The woman watched this young huntsman stand proudly again. She wasn’t sure what happened next. All she heard was one sentence.

“Close your eyes...” before everything went white. Next thing she knew, Carmine was lifting debris off her as rain and wind washed away any evidence. A relief she didn’t care about in the slightest. She neither had the strength, or the time too. Much like Carmine, who began to pant and teeter. It was clear to the woman that whatever just happened didn’t come without cost as she watched the girl fall to her knees. Though she tried moving, Carmine was spent.

Carmine:Don’t worry...we’re safe....let’s-

Woman:Go...

Carmine:Huh?

Woman:I...my legs. Everything...I can’t move. Just go. I d-don’t think I’d las-

Carmine:Don’t talk like that! The hard parts over! I can-

Woman:Barely walk. *smiles* It’s okay. I don’t blame you. You fought hard.

Carmine:.....I...I’m sorry. *teary eyed*

Woman:Say, I know that face anywhere. Your Lady Rose’s kid. Funny, I thought your eyes were red? My daughter, Mary, she loves your mother. Makes me kinda jealous hehe, but hey I love her too. *crying* Do you know if Mary made it? She was wearing-

Carmine:A black dress, pink ribbons in her hair...

Woman:Yes! Is she safe? I saw you- one of you carry her off.

Carmine:...She’s just fine.

Woman:Good. That’s all....that.....

The woman never finished her sentence. Carmine’s body fell limp on the ground, facing the rain. Even with the cold downpour she could feel the warmth of her own tears, containing her emotions best she could as she looked through her clones eyes to watch Nora take Mary away from the survivors and out of sight to not stir further panic.

Carmine wasn’t sure how long she layed there, but it was long enough for Jaune to find her. The man didn’t say a word. The town was in shambles. Grimm were still fading and his daughter looked tired, but not in serious condition. Unlike the those who didn’t make it. Jaune put Carmine in his arms, carrying her away to safety.

Carmine:......Does mom ever save them all?

Jaune:No, but that never stops her from trying; or mourning.

She clenched her father’s shirt and let herself be fragile, to be a Rose.

Carmine:Next time. Mom and I, we’ll both get it right next time. A happy ending for all!

Jaune:Yeah, I know you will. Together....

#rwby #rwby au #the void #jaune arc #ruby rose #weiss schnee #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #carmine arc rose #rwby rosebud #rwby lancaster

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my-writings-and-musings · 4 years

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Fort hurts Whirl's human Amica and Lost Light knows nothing but fear for months to come. How Ratchet managed to safe Fort is a miracle and how he avoided Whirl's attacks after the fact is a even bigger miracle and everyones convinced Primus is watching over Ratch

You must love angst anon, and I respect that and love it because this was so fun to write... in between the tears of course but that's what makes it GOOD. I changed the course of the prompt a bit because I'm so overwhelmed with possibilities I don't even know how to choose asdfghjkl...

Being impaled to the floor by a solid length of pipe had left him quite helpless from the start of the ordeal. Maximus had obviously intended as much, having aimed the solid length of pipe to avoid immediate critical damage whilst ensuring that if Whirl so much as struggled he'd risk fatal injuries. For all his self loathing, that was actually not a gamble he'd been willing to take with so many people he liked at risk. Between you and Rung he'd needed to stay alive and keep the big mech talking, because damn it all the two of you had given him a terrible case of the feelings, you especially. So he wasn't about to lose you to a temper tantrum.

Talking had been a strategy he'd made use of in the past, as bots who were in the middle of a conversation were statistically less likely to shoot, provided the topic of choice actually interested them. Luckily enough his past tended to fascinate most in the same way ship crashes did; they were so horrified they couldn't focus on anything else. He'd actually managed to connect with the unstable Autobot after a while though, using their similiar troubles with life to find common ground and keep that gigantic cannon from firing. He'd had the audacity to believe things might be okay after a few hours passed and no one got shot.

The problem was the gun didn't end up being what he should have worried about.

When the big bot finally got enough processor power gathered to realize he was being stalled, all hope of a peaceful resolution blinked out of existence, and so did any effort on his part to be calm. Reality seemed to crack as he watched Maximus grab you off the table. On instinct he'd made an effort to lunge and rescue you, but had succeeded only in straining some important chassis support as he fought against the pipe impaled through him, warping the metal retaining his most vital organs. Rung had tried to calm the situation down one final time, pointing out that Max wanted something that couldn't be given because his true tormentor was dead, but his words had proved useless.

His single optic had a perfect view of the way your little body spasmed when Maximus merely flexed his digits, your eyes growing wide as the almost delicate series of cracks marked far too many bones snapping in succession, something any bot could recognise as unhealthy. Perhaps it was just the spark shattering agony giving him hallucinations, but he could have sworn your eyes flickered to him before closing, a weak wheeze passing your lips before almost inaudible coughs brought up a splash of blood. It had dribbled down your chin, stopping only when your coughing faded to silence. Then you were so still...

He'd been told later that Maximus had looked horrified at your injuries, not that he cared then or ever would how the big bot felt about his actions. Because nothing mattered more than you, and thus nothing had mattered at all as your broken body was laid back down on the table you'd previously been resting on. Seeing you dead to rights in front of him had killed him in every way that did matter, leaving a spark that flickered only in the most basic sense of living, keeping him alive purely out of biological imperative, though there had been one other thing in fact. All that was left in his meaningless husk worth feeling was a kind of anger so intense and pure and molten it made stars seem chilly by comparison. Along with a pipe through his chest that was no longer enough to hold him down.

The armor and glass of his cockpit shredded easy as he fought his way off the floor, heedless to petty physical agony or self preservation as his long limbs worked to get him vertical again. Something strong and stubborn and frustratingly important had resisted fiercely as he tried to pull his body forward, leaving him to thrash like a fish on a hook whilst Rung tried to talk him down with words he didn't care to hear. The guy was a psychiatrist, didn't he know what insanity was, like trying to talk to a bot who was no longer living? A for effort though, he'd think looking back on it.

Finally that important piece of his insides had realized it was beat, snapping with such force his entire chest cavity collapsed in one portion and he came out of impalement sideways. Pink energon had flowed more like a small waterfall than a bleeding wound as countless important bits and pieces dangled from his warped and shredded chest, including the glowing orb of his spark chamber, but he hadn't cared in the slightest. A thankfully still working arm had secured a good grip on the pipe to pull it free as he rose to his pedes, single optic giving you one final glance as he stood to face your killer.

As expected, you were motionless. Why wouldn't you be? He'd been stupid enough to hope, stupid enough to be anything other than angry, and the gigantic target that had painted on him and you had finally attracted the attention of a cruel universe. The only thing he would have said to you was sorry, but being certainly dead meant that would do no good, so thankfully he had other ways of making things better.

Max had apparently lost a great deal of his fire after injuring you, as he offered frantic apologies for his actions and reasurances that he hadn't meant what he'd done. It was a sensible reaction from a bot truly not built to handle harming the innocent.

Seeing it had only made him angrier.

What followed had been a wrathful blur of spilled energon and shrieking metal on metal, with sparks flying and the shrapnel of shattered body parts splattering across the room. There had been pain, extraordinary pain, but none of it had been connected to his physical body. Rather, the spark he needed to repeatedly push back into the mix of battered organs in his destroyed chest felt like it was the epicenter of a kind of emotional supernova. For a mech who had known so much suffering, this was an impossibility made real; a greater level of grief than even he had experienced. It had to be what dying felt like for someone destined for the Pit.

Max had been down one limb by the time the security team had flooded the room, but that number had grown to two by the time any of them had actually attempted restraint. In their defense, they were well trained enough to spot certain suicide, and thus Max had been on his own in the fray far longer than anyone wanted to admit. Energon loss induced amnesia stripped most of what followed from his memory banks.

Ratchet had actually ended the fight, of all bots, a turn of events he'd find bitterly hilarious in hindsight. By shouting out that you were alive, and that he needed to surrender if the medics were going to have any hope of performing the lifesaving aid you needed to stay alive, he'd been granted the chance to hope. Said chance had doused enough of his fire to make him collapse in a mangled heap on the spot. Just knowing you might live had been enough to convince him to stop fighting at that moment, but as his optic had closed the main course of his plan had still been clear; make sure your killer follows suit if your condition changes.

That goal was probably the only reason he'd survived to wake up later.

#transformers #maccadam #mtmte #more than meets the eye #idw #tf #lost light #requests #my writing #my asks #anon #whirl #fortress maximus #fort max #human reader #rung #amica endura #self insert

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needs-to-stop-looking-at-valves · 4 years

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Can I please request cyberverse dead end with a voice kink that's hit HARD by astrotrain, and astrotrain who absolutely knows and pretends he doesn't while teasing dead end because he likes seeing dead end all flustered

Astrotrain takes cash, grass, and ass, and Dead end is all out of grass and cash

Dead end hated. A lot. He hated most autobots, hated Soundwave’s creepy ass, hated doing ANYTHING, hated parades. And he ESPECIALLY hated Astrotrain. He was stuck with the overgrown tin can on some mission, and it was such a long flight. He hated Astrotrain, and it wasn’t just because he was an aft to him. It was because Dead end was tragically, VERY attracted to this hunk of junk. He was just, so huge, so full of attitude, and his voice. Oh his voice. It was so deep and condescending, it sent shivers through him whenever he heard him-

“Dead end?”

“Hmm? What, are you done being useless?”

“Can it, freeloader. I need you to do a quick system reboot, just flick that switch on. Tracking gets a bit screwy here.”

Dead end didn’t want give him anymore dialogue to work with, so he just did as he asked. There was a moment of silence between them, and Dead end was getting squirmy. The seat felt warmer than usual too, and he hated how comfortable he was getting.

“You’re getting restless, aren’t you?”

Oh SHIT that hit a nerve. He crossed one leg over the other, trying to hide the heat between his legs.

“Yeah, I’m bored. I’m bored of these far off missions to Primus knows where.”

“Hey, not my fault you’re so impatient. Don’t think I don’t see how your pouting your lips like that.”

He covered his mouth his hand, and mentally swore. He REALLY hated the fact that he mentioned his lips. Astrotrain let out a bit of a chuckle, and Dead end only stiffened further.

“You wanna take a break? You look like you need to loosen up.”

“You need to stop talking. I have no idea why you’re suddenly so chatty.”

Oh Primus make him stop. Dead end could feel his servo lightly twitch, craving the chance to attend to his downstairs area. There was a scoff, before Astrotrain continued.

“Hey, I do what I like with you, like it or not.”

Dead end felt his shoulder’s stiffen. He liked the way that sounded. REALLY liked the way that sounded. Dead end shuffled in his seat, trying to find some means of handling this. Astrortrain would’ve left him alone, if he was a nice mech. But he really, really wasn’t.

“You’re a little punk, aren’t you, Dead end? You talk such a big game, act like you wanna take me, but let me tell you something, little mech. You can’t handle what I can give you.”

There was a good chunk of silence where Dead end just sat there, steam nearly pouring out of him like a teapot. All he could manage was;

“I hate you. So much.”

#asks #dead end #astrotrain #lemon #idk whats with me tonight #im fucking LOOPY tbh

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Essential Avengers: Avengers #236: “I Want to Be an Avenger!”

October, 1983

Spider-Man -- An Avenger -- ?

Y’know, march of time and all that but this doesn’t seem as surprising as it once did.

Not much to say about this cover. It doesn’t have a lot to say about the issue other than ‘SPIDER-MAN INSIDE’ but boy does it say it.

But, oh, the logo changed and its snazzy! I quite like it!

So recent going-onses for the Avengers. Thor and Iron Man quit the team for personal business. Hawkeye broke his leg and is on medical forced-to-leave. Scarlet Witch and Vision were called in as reservists and Vision immediately got damaged by a crossover and has been in a robot-coma ever since. Starfox joined the team.

But in more positive news, they totally kicked the Wizard’s ass last issue and it cheered everyone up.

So the issue starts on a lazy summer day.

Scarlet Witch is on monitor duty, scanning for any ‘this looks like a job for the Avengers’ type calls. And multi-tasking by also thinking of her tubed husband.

Captain America takes his turn standing watch over the comatose synthezoid.

And for some reason, Cap leaning on the tube like that cracks me up.

Starfox spends his downtime trying to hit on Wasp.

His pickup line is so bad.

Wasp finds it charming in its misapprehension although it could also be the sexy beams Starfox emits from his brain.

And She-Hulk is taking a bath in a large barrel in the Avengers’ rec center, which they have. Maybe its the super hot bath?

She(-Hulk)’s also multi-tasking by looking up apartment listings while she soaks but finds that everything on the NY listings is either too small or too ritzy.

It be like that sometimes.

Jarvis comes into the rec center barrel bath area with iced tea for She-Hulk, trying to politely avert his eyes. But the intruder alarm goes off and she(-Hulk) tells Jarvis to hand her a towel and runs off to his flusterment.

Between Tigra and She-Hulk, I think poor Jarvis is getting overwhelmed with rad ladies on the Avengers.

The Avengers assemble in the main foyer and found that someone just barged in the front door and disabled the security tentacles with some sort of odd, artificial webbing.

Who could it be?

Who could possibly break into Avengers Mansion under the mistaken impression that its actually a cool way to impress them while asking for a job, showing that he’s learned nothing in years?

Could it be the person who expressed interest in joining in the previous issue? And who is also on the cover of this issue??

Yes.

Honestly, though, what an amazing splash page!

Also, spectacular and no-adjective.

Spider-Man knows how to make an impression.

Not a good one, certainly. But the Avengers aren’t going to forget the time he was casually chilling above the dining table.

And Pete isn’t going to forget it either. He’s going to wake up in a cold sweat years later still mortified at himself.

I also love it when the title of the issue is something someone said but since it has to be emphasized to make it clear its the title, they suddenly start yelling in the middle of a conversation.

She-Hulk has no patience for Spider-Man’s nonsense and grabs him off his web hammock to yell at him for barging in.

Spider-Man: “Well, I’m not exactly uninvited! Your buddy Thor asked me to join the club just a few months ago. Sure, I’m a little slow in replying, but I’ve had a busy season!”

And then he snarks about She-Hulk just wearing a towel because Spider-Man loves low hanging fruit.

SURELY, Spidey knows that offers usually expire, right? A few months ago is forever in comic time and Thor himself isn’t even on the Avengers right now.

I guess, in fairness, he has his reasons.

Besides his usual perpetual poverty liking the sound of a thousand bucks a week.

As he later muses to himself, Black Cat has been hospitalized because she tried to help him and he feels obligated to pay for her not-cheap medical bills. And he’s already quit grad school to spend more time earning but his freelance paychecks are nothing compared to an Avengers salary.

He’s being an incredibly presumptuous dick... but for a good cause.

And its just like Spidey that he has a good reason for being a jerk that he’d never mention leaving everyone to think he’s just a rude goofus.

What a shame.

Anyway, back at the present, Spider-Man asks where he enlists but Cap tells them that unfortunately their roster is full up. The sixth spot is being held open for Hawkeye when his leg stops being broken (and you think he was moany about being sidelined while his leg was broken, imagine him learning that he was replaced, eesh).

Cap does suggest that Spider-Man could join Starfox in the trainee program but Spidey throws a fit.

Spider-Man: “Trainee program?!? Hey, I’m Spider-Man, remember? I was sticking to walls when you guys were still looking for a clubhouse. I’m no green rookie!”

Starfox: “Green -- ? I take offense at your tone, Spider-Man!”

She-Hulk: “There’s nothing wrong with being green.”

Pffft.

As an actual rookie who is physically green, She-Hulk doesn’t care for that phrase, maybe.

She-Hulk and Starfox possibly beating up or more likely being embarrassed by Spider “will punk the entire X-Men in the not too distant future” Man is interrupted by a priority alert that goes ARROOOOOOOO

... Is it the Nixon alarm?

Why haven’t the Avengers fought Nixon’s head on a war mech yet??

Spider-Man offers to give them a hand if their priorities are being alerted but with this particular alarm, Wasp decides its best if they stick to the rules.

And then She-Hulk chases Spidey out by throwing a chair at him.

Spider-Man: Well, that was certainly a wash-out! Maybe I shouldn’t have come on as such a wise guy... Maybe I should have come to the door all humble and contrite. Nah, they wouldn’t have believed it was me!

.... Hah.

But he sees the third-floor of Avenger’s mansion opening up to launch the Quinjet and fount of good decision making that he is, he decides to jump onto the Quinjet as it launches.

Spider-Man: Whew! This baby is really starting to pick up speed! I feel like I’m in a wind tunnel. My sticky fingers can hold onto just about anything under normal circumstances... boy, I wish these were normal circumstances! I wonder if this was such a good idea.

No, Pete, it wasn’t.

But your inner monologues do add a bit more joy to this issue so I forgive you.

Inside the Quinjet, She-Hulk notes that the controls handled a bit sluggish right after take-off but eh whatever the problem disappeared after they went supersonic.

Huh. I wonder if Pete is ok.

Anyway, Captain America, She-Hulk, and Starfox are headed towards Project Pegasus.

Since it hasn’t come up in Avengers yet, Project Pegasus is a government research facility that seeks out new types and sources of energy. And Cap helped organize their security force back in Marvel Two-in-One #42.

The priority alert wasn’t the highest priority. Just a code-five, indicating a low-grade emergency. But it didn’t come with any details so Cap is vexed.

Three Avengers should be enough for a code-five but problems at Project Pegasus tend to balloon into worse problems.

You wouldn’t think a research facility would attract so much negative attention but as Cap points out, there’s a lot of people who have a vested interested in making sure energy stays scarce, expensive, and presumably non-renewable.

And considering that the oil companies like Roxxon are EVEN MORE BLATANTLY EVIL in the Marvel U, yeah, uh, bad shit is going to occur.

Also, Project Pegasus doubles as a place to jail supervillains so their powers can be studied.

So, yeah, Pegasus having a priority alert probably means a headache.

So these three Avengers are going in but Wasp and Scarlet Witch are on stand-by just in case.

The visit to the super secure research station goes off to a bad start when guards rush the Quinjet when it lands because a foreign object was detected on the undercarriage.

Of course it’s Spider-Man.

But before he can be arrested for breaking into a secure facility, his spider-sense buzzed.

It’d be a bit confusing if it wasn’t buzzing before though. He has a bunch of rattled guards pointing guns at him right after some unexplained emergency has happened.

That doesn’t set off the Peter Tingle at all??

Anyway, since the buzz is pretty intense, he figures that its warning him of something “a lot more dangerous than the lecture Cap’s going to give me!”

Hah!

He doesn’t manage to warn anyone before a tremor knocks (almost) everyone off their feet with a THROOM

Spider-Man is still standing because he loves Elton John forewarned is forewarned and he can stick to things. And to his surprise, Cap manages to stay on his feet.

Cap: “It’s just a matter of knowing how to react and how to brace yourself, Spider-Man.”

Hah!

That’s So Cap.

Spider-Man asks if he realio trulio can’t give Cap a hand with this situation. Y’know, since his spider-sense probably will come in handy. Cap isn’t sure because of the question of security but Spider-Man has an idea there.

See, he’s been here before!

In Marvel Team-Up Annual #5 he helped save the dang place! They can ask chief of security Wendell Vaughn (who is also known as Quasar but probably not to all the people in this scene?).

Unfortunately, Vaughn quit a couple months back. Oops.

But since Cap vouches for him the guard driving them to the lower levels is like ‘eh whatever.’

The power of a Cap vouch is not to be underestimate and never to be used for evil.

They’re headed to the thermal research dome because its the last known location of new security chief O’Brien. And where he sent the alert from. AND where the recent quake came from.

That’s good multitasking.

They reach the blast doors sealing off the entire level.

Because yes, not only did O’Brien send an alert, he also sealed off the entire level and now something’s jammed the lock.

They have no idea what could be locked behind there but they do have a Spider-Man and Starfox asks him if he’s getting a bad feeling about anything.

Spider-Man isn’t getting any bad vibes, deeming it safe to go inside.

Y’know, this is an amazing way to use Spider-Sense that they could do more with. I always love it when Spidey basically exploits the sense for things other than combat dodging.

Like when trying to figure out how to turn off a device he didn’t understand in Avengers EMH, he just went around almost yanking wires until he found one that didn’t set off the ‘OH MY GOD YOU’LL DEFINITELY EXPLODE IF YOU DO THAT’ buzz.

Anyway, it being probably safe, Cap tells She-Hulk and Starfox to open the door.

Which they do, with gusto.

And a GRU-U-UNNG

Inside the ruins of the thermal research dome, a bunch of semi-conscious technicians lie about in heaps.

Some Project Pegasus security personnel fan out to do administer first aid while the Avengers look for O’Brien.

Makes sense. The nameless extras help the nameless extras so we don’t go ‘hey are the Avengers dicks for only talking to people with names?’

O’Brien is pinned under an arc of steaming rock which Cap starts chipping in half with his shield while She-Hulk, Spider-Man, and Starfox - all people who could lift that rock - just stand and watch.

Or heck, maybe its not supposed to be a random rock arc. Maybe its attached to the floor. Still though, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, and Starfox could probably break it more easily than Cap does.

Teamwork makes the dream work, guys and She-Hulk.

Spider-Man recognizes O’Brien’s green and also green Not-Iron Man armor from newspapers and realizes that he’s the Guardsman.

That just makes O’Brien sad.

Guardsman: “Aye, I am... or I was. The state this armor’s in, no one’ll ever be callin’ himself the Guardsman again! As of now, I’m just plain Michael O’Brien.”

The Michael Formerly Known as Guardsman starts to Explain It All.

He had come down to the thermal dome to watch the thermal dome researchers sink a new magma tap.

But molten rock came shooting up from the tap hole, which is a thing that’s definitely not supposed to happen.

Oh, and some molten men (but not Molten Man) climbed out of the hole and started trashing the joint.

Plain Michael O’Brien realized pretty quickly that he was the only one who could stand up to these hot men so he signaled for help, hit the evacuation alarm, and sealed off the level from the rest of the project so the problem was contained.

And then he got mobbed by the hot men and got his ass kicked. Turns out that his armor was pretty useless against lava men.

Oh, yeah, Cap recognizes them as lava men from his description.

Spider-Man: “Lava men? You have to be kidding, Cap! Lava men? I don’t believe in lava men!”

Cap: “Belay that, mister! I’ve been up against lava men -- and they’re nothing to joke about! You’d better thank your stars that they left -- !”

You might also remember that Cap has been up against lava men allllllll the way back in Avengers #5. Technically the first adventure he had with the Avengers after officially joining them.

It was also the issue where Thor stoically sank into lava without changing his expression from his default vaguely annoyed one.

Anyway, O’Brien tells the Avengers that the lava men battered their way into the maintenance section since they couldn’t escape to the rest of the facility.

It’s a real good news bad news situation because there’s no one for them to hurt in there and also its a straight shot into the nuclear research dome.

And we don’t want any kind of meltdown there.

Cap decides that this looks like a job for AVENGERS to ASSEMBLE towards. And more than the three plus special guest star they already have.

MEANWHILE, over in New Orleans at an important meeting that definitely would be bad to interrupt, Monica Rambeau (secretly the Avenger known as Captain Marvel but not the dead guy version, true believers) is applying for a small business loan.

And then she gets a bzzt on her radio watch for an Avengers emergency.

Oh no, what of her small business loan!

And also: what small business is she starting? I think I heard at one point that she ran a fishing business with her father?

But what of her small business loan!

Well, Monica agrees with her bank guy Mr. Hillbee that its an alarm watch and that its reminding her of another pressing engagement so hey is there a lot more that they have to do here?

Luckily, all that’s left is for her to sign the documents.

Phew, I’m very used to superhero stuff interrupting a superhero’s civilian life and then them angsting about it. It’s actually a relief that Monica was able to finish up at the bank before dashing off to a phone booth to take a radio watch call with Scarlet Witch.

Wanda tells Monica that they just received a call from Cap(tain America) telling them to get to Project Pegasus. Wanda tells Monica that they’re in transit now and asks if she can join them.

And then the line goes dead before Wanda can give coordinates.

Because Monica just followed the radio signal back to the Quinjet.

She apologizes that it took her so long (!!) because she had to stop at home first to pick up her costume.

Wanda marvels captainly “And I thought my brother, Pietro, was fast!”

Ha ha amazing.

I love Captain Monica Marvel’s ridiculous powerset.

She’s even talking right into their radio so she can communicate from outside the Quinjet.

Wasp, Scarlet Witch, and Captain Marvel arrive at Project Pegasus where they’re briefed of the lava men situation by some of the security staff.

Captain Marvel nyooms ahead lightspeed dash style while Wasp and Scarlet Witch lag behind by taking a high-speed railcar.

Dang, Project Pegasus is big.

I just flipped ahead pages to see how long it takes Captain Marvel to join Cap(tain America)’s group and its a bit.

I guess maybe there’s some overlapped time going on though.

Meanwhile, two technicians in research dome D-2 (called the Compound for some dang reason) ignore all the various alarms and such that have been happening because they’re super into their project. And are possibly mad scientists.

They have the intensity.

But they’re working on... Dr. Croit’s stabilizer? And apparently its vibratory pitch was changed by the tremor that happened? Unbeknowst to them, Captain Marvel just nyoomed by outside and the proximity of her energy form activates the device and the silhouette of some guy leaps out proclaiming FREE!!

Back at the Avengers side of the plot, Cap(tain America)’s group has encountered some lava men.

Spider-Man: “Hey, Cap... I take it all back! I do believe in lava men! I really do!”

Hah.

The lava men are between the Avengers and the nuclear dome so Cap starts thinking of ways to flank them so they can keep them away from it.

She-Hulk starts trying to plow a hole through their forces and... uh.... ok. Cap has Starfox just fly around and annoy the lava men because they’ve never seen a flying man before and its just freaking them out.

Really.

Cap asks Spider-Man to use his webbing to throw up some barriers in the lava men’s path.

Spider-Man: “Heck, I can do better than that, Cappy! Just a couple spritzes of webbing, and these little hotheads won’t be going anywhere for hours!”

Cap: “No, you young fool! Don’t you see what you’ve done!”

Throwing web on the lava men makes them panic because it seems like there’s a lot of stuff that they’re not familiar with and all of it alarms them. When they’re alarmed, their body temperature raises and can get up thousands of degrees.

So they just melt loose of the webbing and now they’ve learned not to be afraid of the webbing at all and they can’t use it to corral them.

Spider-Man: “Would it help if I said I’m sorry?”

Cap: “It would help if you’d follow orders! The Avengers is a team! If you want to be part of the team, act like it! Otherwise, stay out of our way!”

Yeahhhhh. I mean, most of the time. You have your fair share of idiots doing their own thing in the Avengers because all of these guys have egos you wouldn’t believe. But generally they can agree to work as a team.

And Spider-Man, of this era, isn’t much of a team player. Not like Wolverine or Batman ‘i work best alone, bub’ type of not a team player where they’re lying about not being good at teamwork because they like being surly and dour because they think it makes them more interesting. But Spider-Man mostly works alone and is used to just doing whatever he thinks the best idea is. And he has the proportionate speed and reflexes of a spider so he can do whatever he thinks the best idea is way before you can tell him its a bad idea.

That’s why Spider-Man makes so many bad decisions, because he can make them faster than good sense can catch up [citation needed].

Anyway, as he is NOW, he’s not a good fit for the Avengers.

Then again, neither was Hawkeye and they let him join. Makes ya think.

Back over at surprise man out of a box lab, the surprise man was Blackout.

He looks like he’d be an electricity themed villain but apparently his element is darkness. Annd he debuted in Nova annnd this is his second appearance?

At the end of his debut story Nova #19, Blackout was apparently sucked into the Darkforce dimension, a fate that Dr. Croit’s stabilizer had been invented to prevent.

So I guesss.... the stabilizer’s settings were altered by an earthquake and then it was powered by ambient energy from Captain Marvel zipping past and it managed to stabilize Blackout, yanking him free of the Darkforce dimension?

I guess??

As far as villain returns go, its not the most ridiculous but it is a bit contrived.

Blackout has no idea where he is and rants about how he’ll level the place if that’s what it takes to find his way out and in a more acceptable contrivance, he happens to be passing Moonstone’s cell when he says this out loud to nobody in particular and she likes the cut of his jib.

Moonstone: “Sounds like you’re a man after my own heart!”

Moonstone tells Blackout that she’s been locked up here so Project Pegasus could study her powers and that they want to use her the way they would have used Blackout but hey what if they join forces and get some comeuppance.

Blackout: I don’t know if I should trust her... But something about her voice is so reassuring.

Yeah, that’s what we call a red flag, you dingus.

Are we back to the days where some dudes will just villain because a lady bats her eyes?

Anyway, the locking mechanism is too complicated to figure out so Blackout just squeezes it until it explodes.

Um. Okay.

-checks wiki-

The wiki says he’s only supposed to have normal human strength but Blackout himself claims that his body is a living generator of black star energies.

Which apparently means he can squeeze an electronic lock to death. I dunno.

Freed from her cell, Moonstone leads Blackout to what they can do next.

Meanwhile, the Avengers are still struggling with the lava men two levels below. And the fracas has reached the corridor to the nuclear dome. Its now or never but the numbers are too overwhelming even for She-Hulk.

Spider-Man manages to leap above the fray and get forgotten in the confusion but doesn’t find that he can do much. He tries webbing the door to the nuclear dome shut but the lava men don’t even bother opening it when they can melt through.

Hmmmmm not a good showing for a guest starring so far...

When the lava men succeed in melting through the door, a blinding light shines through and the lava men kneel down and start bowing to it.

Ohhhhhh, I get it! They’re not trying to cause a meltdown! They just want to worship nuclear light!

... No? I don’t got it? Okay.

The bright light is actually Captain Marvel who took a shortcut to the nuclear dome to reach the Avengers.

And the lava men are really enamored with her, proclaiming her the lady of light foretold in legends.

Captain Marvel just kinda rolls with this and asks them whats the deal with all the rampaging and destroying.

Lava man: “We did but strike back, radiant one! Our village, deep beneath the Earth, knew peace -- until the surface men bored into our midst with their machines. We could not allow this attack to go unanswered. We only used our powers to stop the invasion!”

Wait, isn’t this the plot of the Jetsons movie?

Cap(tain America) smoothly slides in, diplomatically, to announce that then the surface people beg forgiveness and that this has all been an unfortunate misunderstanding that he pledges shall be put right.

And like how Cap’s clout got Spider-Man into this story, Cap borrows Captain Marvel’s clout to back up his diplomacy roll, saying “The Lady-of-Light will tell you that I speak the truth!”

It’s a good thing that Monica wouldn’t go mad with power.

Also, Scarlet Witch and Wasp show up, while Spider-Man snarks that they “missed the end of the movie.”

But since we can’t have pat resolutions given the subplot that was happening while the Avengers were distracted elsewhere, in the Compound, it turns out that Blackout and Moonstone have freed Electro and Rhino. And Moonstone has a Big Evil Plan.

Blackout: “Pay them back? Yes... yes, we must. But how?”

Moonstone: “In the best way possible! We’re going to bring this place to its knees -- by seizing the nuclear research dome!”

But that’s where the Avengers are! Silly villains, you’ve double booked!

Also, I wonder if the universe cosmically influenced Moonstone to get two Spider-villains involved on the one day that Spider-Man was tagging along.

I also wonder what Moonstone is thinking. She’s the ‘know when to fold ‘em’ villain.

Hmmm... Putting Electro and Blackout side by side makes Blackout look like Electro’s grumpy younger brother.

All kinds of good decisions have been made!

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#avengers #lava men #Spider Man #Captain America #She Hulk #Starfox #the Wasp #Scarlet Witch #Captain Marvel #Monica Rambeau #essential avengers #essential marvel liveblogging

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pan0ramy · 3 years

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re8 thought dump because YE

i feel like this was almost inevitable but idk where else to talk about resident evil village so i’m just going to rant about it here!!! i have,,,, a lot of thoughts on this game after being so excited for it for so long

obviously, massive spoilers if you haven’t finished the game. i feel like i have thoughts on pretty much everything so please please please stay clear of this post if you’re trying to stay blind

otherwise, let me just rant about this game for a bit - mainly the story and characters - because i have Thoughts™

(also i feel like it goes without saying but this will be probably be quite long, so. strap in, ig)

okay SO. the whole intro was pretty interesting - even though we’d seen bits of it in trailers, it was still pretty unnerving and felt like it came out of nowhere. but the first thing that really stood out was the first village section with the hordes of lycans; i didn’t expect this game to start freaking me out so quickly but JESUS my blood pressure went up fast.

there’s so many of them coming at you at once, and not only have you just lost half your damn hand, you’re not really used to the gunplay at that point AND you don’t have that many weapons at your disposal. so it’s basically just “hey we’re throwing you into this ring of death, good luck surviving!” which... now that i think about it, that really sums up the whole game lol

but for the most part, the early parts of the game are what we saw in the demos, so there’s nothing too new - it was nice getting to see the scene with all four lords and mother miranda, though. i wasn’t sure how the whole chase scene with the lycans would work - i thought heisenberg��s area was going to be some sort of mine, and that the chase would take place there - but it didn’t, and it was interesting regardless of it being so short.

but the castle. THE CASTLE.

i would be lying through my teeth if i said i wasn’t excited for dimitrescu like everybody else; i’m firmly in the camp of people who both meme about how attractive she is, and then also the people who legitimately find her attractive, soooo i kinda had high expectations going in?

and sure, the castle section is only part of the game, but if there’s anything that makes me nervous most, it’s stalker enemies. resi 2 remake was actually pretty tough for me to get through because of how anxiety-inducing mr x was, and even though i don’t feel like she was as present as mr x was, lady d was still great! there were a good few times where you could hear her walking around and you just knew she was searching for you, which was really damn cool.

also, i know capcom had a lot of hype to live up to with lady dimitrescu, but goddamn they did such a great job with her. she’s so imposing but badass and just... really damn cool? like i honestly found myself being excited for her to show up rather than being scared. i just think she’s neat! I MEAN LOOK AT HER.

(also yes i know the whole internet has talked about how attractive she is, but can we just. appreciate that for a second???? she’s gorgeous and yall can’t tell me otherwise. like. bro ik the pronunciation is wrong but the way she says dimitrescu made me GASP i love this powerful vampire woman)

if anything, though, i... actually felt really bad that her story ended up the way it did. i mean, think about it: you break into her house, kill the three people she’s grown to consider her daughters, rob her shit, and then kill her? she technically goes through the same kind of parental grief that ethan does, in a way, which is a really interesting parallel. grief seems to be a theme that capcom really pushed for this game, and it works.

also, her boss fight design is badass. she’s literally a dragon, how is that not incredible

so the castle was great, where could the game go from here? oh, i don’t know, how about gOOD OLD FASIONED FUCKING TRAUMA.

jesus christ the dollhouse GOT TO ME.

i’m pretty used to horror in general; i love horror games, movies, books, you name it. i’ve gone to horror movies where people have ran out because of fear all while i’ve sat there giggling the whole time. but the dollhouse? that dollhouse is FUCKED. i can’t remember the last time i watched someone play through a horror game and was so... on edge the whole time. the fact that they keep you waiting for so long with nothing happening just... makes the atmosphere incredibly uncomfortable, and then when shit does start going down, it goes down fast. in other words, jesus fucking christ that baby will haunt my nightmares until the end of time

basically capcom managed to make the n*zi baby joke from south park: the stick of truth legitimately terrifying, and i was glad to see donna die. moving on.

moreau’s section is the one i... actually don’t have as many thoughts on. it’s cool, sure, and the whole idea of him turning into a fish when he hits water is neat - it’s definitely a good callback to re4 - but idk, it didn’t really scare me that much. i can see it scaring those with a fear of water or the ocean, for sure, but eh. i thought the designs were cool, but i kinda tuned out a little here.

heisenberg, though, was anything but. the entire time leading up to village’s release, this guy has fascinated me for some reason. i don’t know if it’s because he’s the most normal-looking of the four lords, or the fact that he has telekinesis, or his amazing voice acting (seriously i know some people have shit on his VA but oh my god i adore it) or what, but this guy stood out to me from day one. i even went into the game expecting him not to die tbh. but no, he does, and his fight is pretty damn cool all things considered. only in a resident evil game could you have a mech fight and have it not feel out of place lol

also this line ^^^ legitimately made me laugh so hard i almost choked on my water. THE FACT HE TURNS AROUND AND APOLOGISES SO MEEKLY its fucking hilarious to me

but anyway.

similar to alcina, though, i was left with one big question about heisenberg - what did mother miranda do to him to get him to join her impromptu familly? he said himself to ethan that he didn’t want to join, so what did miranda do that didn’t give him a choice? did he have a family at some point? is he grieving too? what did miranda take from him? i can only hope this gets answered in the dlc, because it’s by far one of my biggest questions surrounding all of this. i may very well have missed it somewhere, and at least we know he has his telekinesis abilities thanks to miranda, but it’s a question that’ll definitely be on my mind going forward.

at this point, though, the story REALLY gets insane. it’s really nice how village decided to just continue on straight from what 7 did, and i’m very glad that everyone’s theories about chris being a werewolf were wrong - it’s a really nice spanner to throw in the works. if anything, the whole revelation of mother miranda disguising herself as mia the whole time since rose’s birth was really cool, and ethan being Mold™ the entire time was pretty neat too - it made a lot of things both in 7 and village make more sense.

what i’m still digesting, though, is the ending.

...man, capcom, you put poor ethan through all of that and then you have the balls to actually kill him? i mean shit, you made us think he was dead for a whole 20 minutes but then nope! he’s alive! but then nope! he’s dead again! i did see someone point out that at least ethan got to go out on his own terms, but dammit i would’ve at least liked for him to get to see mia one last time. i think it would’ve softened the blow a little more. but i guess that ties into the whole grief theming this game has going for it, and like i said, i probably just need some more time to digest it.

i don’t dislike the ending, it’s just a very big culture shock - it’s definitely a ballsy move, and i really respect capcom for going all out the way they did. they really held back on nothing in terms of this game’s story and i absolutely love it. it was so, so worth the wait in that regard.

and tbh that’s kinda how i feel about the whole game in general; it was super super good, very much worth the wait, and i absolutely cannot wait to see where resident evil goes from here. i have a gut feeling this’ll end up being one of my absolute favourites in the series, which i know is very high praise, but i really do love it that much. i wasn’t disappointed with much in this game, if anything at all. it’s just a super fucking good video game man idk what else to say at this point

#resident evil #resident evil 8 #resident evil village #if you read through all of this: first of all i love you. second of all i am so sorry lol

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everdino · 4 years

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Okay, i gonna regret it.

Before it start, i have to say, that i AdORE Eve's blitzbee sparklings, and also love to write. But, there's one thing. Up to this point, I wrote something like fics in my native language. This is my first English text, so there are probably a lot of mistakes. And, also, I probably couldn’t accurately convey the character’s character, but at least I tried. Immediately I apologize for all the mistakes, I hope you enjoy it

Helix belong to @eve-of-halloween i don't own any character, only text itself.

Father support

- I must admit, with your ability to absolutely rash and ridiculous actions you have surpassed your own sire - grumbled the ex-con, dragging on his shoulders his reckless sparkling. Despite a frown and a rare growl due to the weight on his body, in his voice were clearly heard excitement and even fear. Young Prime grinned hoarsely:

- May be. But still, if not for this rashness, neither I nor my siblings would even be born.

There was only silence in response, apparently Blitzwing thought too deeply about his words. - Yes. Here I have to agree. - triplechanger finally answered after a while.

It all began so well. He and his little bug came to visit their son and see their grandson either. However, a small, but very annoying bunch of Decepticons, who lost contact with their own kind, had different plans.

Cons attacked suddenly, taking advantage of the confusion of the bots. For Blitzwing, they were just a toys, that didnt represent anything serious. But even so, they managed to knock out Helix at the last moment and take him as prisoner. Unfortunately for them, the former con noticed this. Making sure, that Bumblebee and sparkling retreated safety, he rushed right behind the Decepticons, for his son. And all because Helix thought it vital thoughtlessly attack the enemy, initially not appreciating the situation, and, as a result, damage his leg. Thinking about it made Blitzwing frown harder. Why was this so familiar to him? Oh, yes. Bumblebee.

Long story short, now they unknown where, with the destroyed small ship of the Decepticons, without the Decepticons themselves nearby (which was very suspicious), without communication and with a damaged leg of Helix. Wonderful.

Not a new situation for the triplechanger, but Bumblebee at least had his stingers.

- How badly is your communicator damaged? - Blitzwing asked, moving far enough away from the scene of the accident. He planted Helix on the ground and crouched next to rest for a little. Just because young Prime is small, doesn't mean he's as light.

- Not as bad as other injuries. Probably, I can configure everything in a couple of hours. If someone don’t find us before - answered Helix.

This was encouraging. Blitzwing once again checked the systems, slightly jerked his cannons. His ability to transform was still in the ranks, unlike Helix, who had not fatal, but very unpleasant wounds on his side. Of course, Blitzwing could take his son in his arms and fly up, but he was afraid that he would attract unwanted attention. Not to mention that he had no idea where they were or where to fly. All the attempts of the elder mech to contact anyone (It’s worth noting that, by “anyone” was meant Bumblebee or Hornet) were unsuccessful. With a sigh of exasperation, the triplechanger leaned against the stone, closing the optics to gather his thoughts. Helix was silent, which was unusual for him, as well as for Bee.

- Are you okay? Does it hurt? - the father inquired anxiously, opening the optics and peering at his son. Young Prime twitched when he realized, that Blitzwing were talking to him and looked up. - huh? oh no no I'm fine. Like...it's certainly not my best condition, but it could have been worse, right?

- You're pretty quiet. - Blitzwing noted rather persistently. - What bothers you?

Helix looked away. - I'm just worry. Do you think Stormy and Vantage got out of there safely? And sire? They were pursued?

Taking a deep breath in order to remain in his "cold" consciousness, triplechanger nodded encouragingly to him - I am sure of that. Your mech friend stepped back with Vantage as soon as the cons appeared. And Bumblebee...- he stumbled. But as for his own conjunx, he was no longer sure. You can't underestimate the small bot, Blitzwing was convinced of this more than once on his own armor, but he could still get into trouble, possessing the same reckless character

- I suppose your sire also handled the remaining bunch of these morons. - he concluded. - They'll be fine, Wing....Helix - mech corrected himself. A warm sensation of pride, mixed with light nostalgia, spread over his spark. His little sparkling, part of him and part of his dear Bee, became something more, than just the petty son of a traitor. Traitor...Blitzwing didn’t give a damn about what others thought him to be, but the realization, that his sparklings could be judged for his crimes forced his cannons to heat up.

No one dared blame HIS sparkling

Meanwhile, Helix smiled at him, in gratitude for his support, and looked away again. His wings and shoulders were down, his knees pressed to his stomach, which made him visually smaller than he was. Something was wrong. Blitzwing felt it and it started to make him angry. He was angry that he could not help him, because he did not understand what exactly was the reason. But despite this, he did not let the hothead appear, forcing himself to be cold-blooded.

- So, we are without communication - Before the former con had time to say something, Helix began to speak first. - We are without communication, without energon, I can’t fly. We don’t know where we are and don’t know if others can find us. -

The young prime took a deep breath and spoke again, hiding his trembling voice. Trying at least:

- I don't know how my conjunx is and how my sparkling is. I just very very stupidly fell, injured a fragging leg. Allowed these bastards to capture myself. And now, not only me but you are in danger!

Blitzwing fluttered his wings, revealing his optics in surprise. - Helix ..- he began, but young mech interrupted again:

- Which damned prime of me is if I framed those who are dear to me? I should have made sure everyone retreated safely. I had to think before doing. I should not have allowed myself to be captured. - he growled. - But I didn't! I'm not just bad prime, I'm a shitty carrier, and just a reckless idiot!

- Helix..- Blitzwing said much louder, wanting to stop this stream of unfair judgments about his dear sparkling, especially since these same judgments come from this very sparkling, but Helix didn't stop.

- Sentinel was right about me...-

- NO. HE. WAS. NOT! - The sound of a loud whirr pierced the air as triplechanger face began to spin.The scarlet visor lights up with a bright red light, from the anger overwhelming him.

- This big-chin cretin was never right about you. Like you right now talking wrong bullshit about yourself! - growled Blitzwing, clenching his hands into fists. However, anger quickly waned when fleeting fear swept through Helix's optics. The face spun again, revealing an icy personality, and the former con spoke darkly and sternly:

- Your judgments about yourself are fundamentally wrong. You cannot be good or bad prime. Trite for the reason that you simply did not have experience. You cannot be a bad or good carrier, Vintage is still very young. Although, even here I have to say that you take good care of him, based on how I or Bee took care of you in due time. - he paused for Helix to process the information and continue: - Yes, you acted very thoughtlessly and stupidly. But everyone makes mistakes. Yes, I agree that this mistake could become fatal, for which I am dissatisfied with you, but even this case does not give you the right to say such shit about yourself. Besides, - his optic softened - Recognizing your mistakes is already the path to success. The next step will be to realize how to fix these mistakes. As for my safety, here you definitely can not worry. I have experienced even worse days, the only danger for me now is to allow any harm to you. Because no matter how high in status you are, you are still my sparkling, and for me, as a creator, the main priority is your safety. Mental including. You understand me? -

Helix nodded silently. To Blitzwing's relief, he looked at him with a certain interest.

- Being prime is probably hard. I don’t know and never will, but I know that you will succeed. You have already done a great job, making me and Bumblebee proud. Do not let anyone judge you for your height - suddenly his face spun - I judged and then a couple of very very unpleasant stingers made me regret - he laughed with his crooked scarlet smile, after the face spun once again: - Also, do not let yourself be judged for your origin. You are not me. And I hope you never will. You are better than me, you will make this world a better place. Like your siblings. You all making this world better.

- I..- Helix hesitated, looking a little embarrassed - do you really think so?

- Yes, i am.

- Thank you. Really...- the young prime perked up noticeably. Something deep inside the triplechanger noted, that his gaze resembled that gaze of his own sire, but he decided to drop such thoughts. Not now.

- I'll try...to be better. - finished Helix.

- Of course, you will.

Then was silence, but there was no awkwardness in it. Helix came to his senses, taking off this unusual manner of self-criticism, new forces appeared in him.

- So, - the young prime spoke up. - How about a little while before my leg stops hurting? Then we will try to contact the big-chin cretin again, maybe some exploring.

- Sounds like a good idea for me. - Whirr - And if you call once Sentinel "big-chin-cretin" make sure he knows what I came up with! - giggled black face

- Ya got it - Helix grinned back - Now wanna hear how me and the boys doing stupid things in your absence?

- Yes Yes, tell me, boy! - Blitzwing nodded his head vigorously, his wings trembled merrily. Soon, he realized how much he hated being in silence as soon as Helix spoke. And he was terribly happy that most of his sparkling took this trait from the little bug.

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Some time has passed since the moment of their conversation (more precisely, the Blitzwing monologue). Helix moved his leg in different directions trying to find out if it hurts or not, while the former con wandered around, in new attempts to contact the others.

- Its sucks, - Young bot concluded, realizing that he still could not get up. Blitzwing wanted to help him, when he heard a quiet sound, which he regarded as a jet engine.

The cannons at the same moment fell into combat mode starting to charge. - Stay close - he growled, trying to determine where, and most importantly, from whom the sound was coming. By the edge of the optics, he noticed how Helix activates the blade on his hand. The probability that this was a con is clearly higher than that it was a bot, since the bots only have three jets and one helicopter. his monocular began to move trying to detect the sound source. When he noticed an approaching jet, he began to doubt its hostility, but he didn’t want to hurry, so that he would be completely convinced of his guesses.

However, these doubts disappeared when Helix jumped in place: - Stormy!! - he shouted. Blitzwing waited a bit, peering into the jett, then raised his cannons, calming down. The blue-yellow jet transformed in the air and literally rushed towards them. - Helix! Are you okay?!

- Nearly! - answered the happy Prime. Young bots collided with each other, hugging tightly. - My leg hurts a little but I'm fine!

- You have no idea how much we were worried. Bumble bot almost went crazy. And I understand him perfectly! - more excited, than judgmental, Jetstorm said

- Is everything okay with Vantage? - Helix asked worriedly.

- Except that he missed you terribly, then he’s okay - Smiled Stormy

Blitzwing stepped aside so as not to interfere with the two bots in love. There was a faint smile on his face when he heard about the Bumblebot. He will hear a long and extremely emotional lecture on why he should not have done this...alone. Bumblebee will obviously be offended, that he could not join the rescue mission. Little caring bug. He turned and saw Helix's happy smile. That smile, like the smile of Bumblebee, Hornet or the twins, was the reason he was still here. To tear the faces of those who dare to take that smile from their faces.

Whatever it takes.

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Ashes of Icarus chapter 8 - Dance With the Devil

Rating: Explicit Warnings: Chose Not to Use Category: Other Fandom: Transformers Characters: Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Megatron, Ratchet Relationships: Megatron/Sunstreaker, Sideswipe & Sunstreaker Additional Tags: Dubcon, Unplanned Pregnancy, Mechpreg, Sticky Words: 4468

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Well, they managed to escape Ironhide’s training for a bit.

Four damn months straight in the brig.

And after that they expected them to be in any mood to follow orders. Jumping off the walls was the only thing they were doing. They’d sparred with each other, with Ironhide, and with some of the other warriors—beating up Cliffjumper in particular had been intensely satisfying—which had burned off some of their restless energy, but nowhere near enough that they would’ve given a single fuck about what they were told to.

Perform this attack, defend then, do that here and that there, and by Primus stop attacking already!

Ratchet had gotten a lot of guests, and had yelled much at everyone and no one in particular. Ironhide received some of that too, and the rumor had it Ratchet had even visited Prowl.

Probably to complain about the stupidity of doing what he had to the twins. They were high energy and temperamental, and that combined very badly with forced inactivity. The end results were… Explosive.

Ratchet knew that. He knew them better than most did, after fixing their frames and rooting around in their heads as much as he had. The medic had always done what he could do to fix and manage the damage their coding had endured and thus mitigated as much as could be mitigated of what their behavioral issues were caused directly by warped programming.

But a lot of it couldn’t be fixed, and a lot of it originated from the spark, not the processors. Even Ratchet could do nothing about that, at which point it became a game of dealing with the external factors that could cause them to flip some unpleasant switches.

Prowl should have known that too, and he probably did, but the methods to get them to obey had always been scarce. They had little respect for rank, a lot of trust in their own ability to do things better, and in general lacked a lot of the motivation to just listen. They didn’t doubt Prowl was one fantastic tactician and could no doubt turn the tides of any fight with his carefully placed orders, but…

Frag, it just chafed to do what they were told. Plus it was boring more often than not.

They were loose cannons, always had been. Point them at the enemy and hope for the best, that was really all you could do most of the time. Prowl had had more success in commanding them than really any of their previous superiors, but even his control was far from perfect.

And it had failed entirely in the last battle. It wasn’t that surprising he’d try some drastic measures—by Autobot standards—to force their cooperation. Keep them from the battlefield if that’s what it took, extort them until they caved and listened just for the chance to get to fight.

How the Autobots intended to manage without them on the field, he didn’t know, but Prowl seemed confident they weren’t necessary. Useful, but not necessary.

Sunstreaker hoped they’d find out that wasn’t the case. They couldn’t be so irrelevant that the Autobots could do well without them.

There had been two battles so far, though, and the word was that those had gone… Well enough.

But he’d seen the amount of injuries the combatants had returned with. Enough to signify a hard battle.

Would it have been easier if the twins were present? He liked to think so.

Even if that was the case, Prowl had clearly come to the conclusion the extra injuries were worth it if it meant forcing the twins into taking heed of the things he told them. Did that mean they were just that much more effective when they played according to Prowl’s plans?

Who the fuck knew.

But Ratchet had given his recommendation, and according to it the twins had gotten sent out on the single longest patrol route to get rid of some of their energy. They were under strict orders to not speed, but everyone knew that for as long as the roads were asphalt, they would speed. The human speed limits were for humans, not for beings in all ways superior to them, complete with reflexes and bodily controls that far surpassed anything the humans could manage.

Of course, the human authorities wouldn’t agree with that, but by the time they were climbing the mountain roads to far quieter areas, they'd run into no police cruisers that could’ve tried to chase them or otherwise signal their disapproval of the speeds they were going.

Sideswipe was blasting music and singing along as they drifted around bends in the road and rocketed the straight spans, the roar of their engines not quite enough to drown out his voice. Very pleasant voice. Sunstreaker didn’t mind listening to it. With the sounds of their frames, they would have never gotten to enjoy those of nature anyways, even if he’d been so inclined.

He could still enjoy the scenery. Well, sans color. But at the speeds they were going, they’d need to stop to kill time at some point anyway, lest they wanted to be done with the patrol route way ahead of schedule and give away that they had definitely broken every single speed limit along the way. He could transform and have a look at the colors then. What would there be, green, green, and more green...

The jam fell upon them fast, all thanks to the speed they were going. The music Sideswipe was streaming cut off as did their access to all external signals, all within the span of seconds.

Why did he feel like they’d been here before?

They both screeched to a stop, reading their scanners, although nothing was showing up on them yet. What had Ratchet said to do if this happened? Back out of the jammed area and report it?

Sideswipe was waiting on him to decide what he wanted to do. On the chance this was due to what they thought it was…

They would continue. Even if it was something else, they could probably handle it without dying.

He could feel Sideswipe’s phantom nod before his brother set back in motion and they drove onward, not quite as fast as before.

Until… Two spark signatures showed up on their scanners.

Excitement surged in Sunstreaker’s spark even as his engine growled. Megatron’s signature was unmistakable, as strong as the mech himself.

And the other one was none other than Soundwave, again. What was he, his leader’s wingman on top of everything else? Must be nice.

Once they made it to a valley between two mountain peaks… The trees were more sparse here, giving room for their kind to maneuver. The two signatures on their scanners stayed put through their approach, until they could make visual contact with the Decepticons.

Sideswipe felt considerably less wary than the last time now that they had different expectations of how this might go down. And Sunstreaker? If he’d anticipated last time, that was nothing compared to the pissed off expectation of this time. Oh, he hadn’t forgotten how Megatron had flat out ignored him the last battle they were allowed to attend.

They transformed a good distance away from the other two mechs. Soundwave was standing off to the side again, but Megatron was blocking the entire road, and they weren’t exactly built for off-roading. Even if they’d wanted to get by, they’d had to have gone through him.

Not that Sunstreaker particularly wanted to get through. “You have some fragging guts,” he hissed at Megatron instead, throwing all caution out the window and stalking towards the tyrant. This time he didn’t bother hiding his field, because the anger in it was very, very real, and worked well to drown out his other emotions. “What, just gonna show up when it suits you?”

Sideswipe hung back, his laughter echoing in their spark. He didn’t bother hiding his field either, and it was full of mirth for all the world to teek.

Yeah yeah, laugh it up, this was so much fun.

Fragger.

“Was I supposed to do something else?” Megatron asked, cocking an optical ridge at him. Sunstreaker snarled and lunged the last few feet, hooking his digits into a gap in Megatron’s armor and wrenching.

Megatron growled right back at him, but Sunstreaker dodged the fist that was flung at him—only to get clawed by Megatron’s other servo.

“I haven’t seen you in battles recently,” the warlord noted, and for the life of him Sunstreaker couldn’t tell if he was annoyed or entertained.

Sunstreaker was annoyed, though. More than, he was fragging furious, and let that sound in his voice when he responded, “Oh I’m fragging surprised you’d even notice.”

Megatron gave him a look, but what the emotion behind it was was no clearer. “Is this about the last battle you attended?”

Yes.

Sunstreaker grunted noncommittally, then from pain when Megatron tore him off his pedes and sent him crashing into the ground. He managed to scramble back on his feet before the tyrant could pin him this time, though, and charged right back at the larger mech like it wasn’t one of the most foolish things any Cybertronian could do.

“You do realize I don’t owe you anything?” Megatron asked next. Sunstreaker glared up at him between one attack and the next, his face twisting into a snarl he’d never manage to make look anything other than pretty. Ah, the curse of being unbelievably attractive.

“You raped me! I think you slagging well owe me.”

Megatron growled at him. “Don’t pretend you weren’t into it.”

“Not the point,” Sunstreaker ground out, landing another dent on Megatron’s armor and barely dodging out of the way of a hit that would’ve given him a significantly larger dent.

“You could have told your side what happened.” This time he didn’t manage to jerk out of the way in time and Megatron’s claws dug into his side. Blood splurted from the wound deep enough to damage larger fuel lines.

Neither of them paid the pink any mind. Megatron stared him down. “Did you?”

He had to already know the answer. Or guess it, anyway, if he didn’t know for sure.

Sunstreaker grit his denta, but confirmed it anyway. “No.”

“And why is that?” Neither Soundwave nor Sideswipe made a single move to interrupt them, verbally or physically. Sunstreaker didn��t know if he was grateful or not when Megatron steadily drove him towards admissions he did not want to give.

Some distraction from this line of discussion would’ve been welcome.

Sunstreaker stayed silent aside from the revving of his engine, and Megatron continued. “You want it.”

He did.

“I do not!”

Megatron snorted.

“Oh slag right off,” Sunstreaker snarled at the lack of belief he was met with, ramming his shoulder into Megatron with enough force to make him take a step back. He couldn’t truly test the tyrant’s balance, though, and had to retreat that instant to deny Megatron the chance to grab him.

“Why have they kept you from battles? You tore through my troops last time, you and your brother.”

Sideswipe puffed up with pride and even Sunstreaker felt a burst of satisfaction. All he did was sneer, though. “So you did notice, huh?” Megatron didn’t say anything to that, only forced Sunstreaker to dance away from another grab that would’ve likely ended the fight right there and then. Injuries were piling on the both of them. Dents, torn plating. The kind that could be explained away with just regular hand to hand combat.

No sword marks that would’ve made very little sense. “It was because we tore through your troops,” Sunstreaker eventually responded, on this side of reluctant, but ultimately seeing no reason to not disclose reason—and offer an explanation for why they were out of the fight for the foreseeable future.

You know, just in case Megatron would think it had something to do with him. He shouldn’t flatter himself like that.

“Did the Prime disapprove of your violence?” Megatron sneered, a touch of genuine displeasure in his field, as was probably the norm when he thought of Optimus. The leaders of the two sides of the war predictably just didn’t get along.

But could it be something more than just that?

“We had our orders,” Sunstreaker grumbled, biting back a groan when Megatron’s fist glanced off of his already injured side. Fragging hurt. “We didn’t listen.”

“The Autobots keep you muzzled and shackled.” There it was, that heat of beliefs the tyrant held tight to. A burst of curiosity ricocheted between him and Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker wasn’t sure which one it had come from.

Did Megatron really give a damn about how the Autobots treated them? His field teeked offense that Sunstreaker didn’t quite understand.

“If you fought for me I would use your full potential.”

...What had he said last time about not letting surprise get the better of him again?

Well, he just failed at that. Sunstreaker stumbled a step, and that was enough of an opening for Megatron to grab him by the upper arm, yanking him flush with the larger mech’s chassis. He snarled and fought against the grip, useless as that was. It was too tight, Megatron was too strong—and completely ignored the digits of his free arm that dug into his side.

And the kick to his shins, for that matter. “I’m not a traitor,” Sunstreaker hissed, staring up at the burning red optics, feeling their heat—and knowing his own frame matched it, his vents panting already, and harder by the moment.

“Oh, but you already are,” Megatron growled at him. “You want my spike, enough that you lie to your leaders. Aren’t relations with the enemy explicitly forbidden in the Autobot code, hmm?”

Damn him, but he wasn’t wrong.

Sunstreaker had no argument to that, but he revved his engine all the same, even as something thick and hot pumped through his lines, setting him aflame.

“You know it as well as I do,” Megatron said in a low rumble before wrapping a servo around his waist and pulling him up off his pedes. Sunstreaker scrambled against his chassis, but then rough lips had already found his. His vents gasped, Megatron pressed him against himself, and if their kiss had been brief and chaste last time, this was nothing like that. Megatron bit his lower lip and when Sunstreaker’s mouth fell open from the sting, the tyrant’s glossa pushed straight in.

Sunstreaker shivered from helm to pede as his mouth was thoroughly plundered, the heat of it traveling down his frame until it settled solidly in his groin. He could feel his valve slicking even further, and Primus, but here he was again, about to get fragged by the enemy and turned the fuck on from it.

He moaned. Slag him to pit and back but he moaned into the kiss and didn’t even try to pull away. He should’ve. He really, really should’ve.

But he didn’t.

Megatron’s servo, the one not holding him about his waist, traveled along his frame until his aft was cupped. Before he could think better of it, Sunstreaker wrapped his legs around the tyrant’s waist, pressing their frames closer together until the heat from their engines mingled, the thrum of Megatron’s frame vibrating into his own.

Megatron ground them together, and pits, but the heat wafting from his cover matched the one coming off of Sunstreaker’s. Sunstreaker took pleasure in knowing Megatron wasn’t unaffected by this either—but then again, if he wasn’t, why would he do any of this?

One day—one day he’d find out why the warlord had taken a sudden interest in him… But in the right now Sunstreaker only wanted one thing, and Megatron had it.

But he wasn’t about to ask for it.

It didn’t matter. Megatron wanted it too, and he had no qualms about taking it, with or without a permission. That worked for Sunstreaker just fine.

Without ever letting up from his mouth—the press of lips against lips—Megatron lowered them to the ground, Sunstreaker’s back hitting it surprisingly softly.

But what wasn’t soft was the way Megatron moved against him. He might’ve removed his glossa from its thrusts into Sunstreaker’s mouth, but it was only to bite his lips instead, sharpened denta more than grazing the mesh of his faceplates. One of the tyrant’s servos slipped between them, brushing against his valve cover before the tips of his claws pressed into the seams again, the demand clear.

Sunstreaker didn’t open. The claws pressed harder—Megatron bit harder. And he didn’t need to say it when it was so clear in his gestures—open, or this comes off entirely.

And that still wasn’t something Sunstreaker wanted to explain to his side.

He relented with that threat, retracting it. Megatron’s digits slipped into the sopping opening, first one, then two, then three, until Sunstreaker was grinding against them, his vents blasting scorching air. He had to strangle his vocalizer to keep his moans from breaking loose, but his engine revved and his field became a viscous thing, bleeding his arousal all over the place.

He wanted it. Everyone on the scene knew he wanted it, and Sideswipe only stood by and let him have it. Soundwave too, for that matter, but then his only reason to be here was likely to keep Sideswipe from interfering.

That was no concern.

Megatron grabbed his aft tighter and lifted his hips after he’d removed his digits from his valve, and there was the snap of another cover retracting before the impossible width of the larger mech nudged against his valve, then pushed in. It split him so fucking wide–

And Sunstreaker wouldn’t have it any other way. He groaned with utter satisfaction as Megatron thrust in all the way, sheathing the entirety of his spike into his body—and there was a lot to take there, both in girth and length. He was full in the best fucking way by the end of it, and Megatron, the slagger, barely gave him time to adjust before he’d already fetched his spike, only to ram it back in.

It was violent, harsh, uncaring, and Sunstreaker loved every second of it, the scrape of the warlord’s spike against the sensors of his valve, over and over again as Megatron chased his pleasure and drove Sunstreaker higher on the side, slam after slam. His engine couldn’t keep up, stuttering and roaring as his arousal built to that point where his mind turned to fragging mush and only the pleasure mattered.

And still Megatron pressed into his frame until his crotch and the backs of his thighs complained with every impact, sure to dent under the assault of Megatron’s thicker, stronger armor.

Sunstreaker closed his optics to the torrent of sensation, but even so he just knew Megatron was watching his every reaction. The fragger’s field had that taste of self-satisfaction to it, the like that a mech got when they knew they were unraveling another despite the victim’s best efforts.

And oh, but Sunstreaker tried to hold back, to deny the pleasure in his systems, to prolong the experience–

But it was a battle he was quickly losing. His valve tightened until Megatron was growling against him–

And Sunstreaker came. A hoarse cry rose from his throat, his frame snapped taut, charge crackled all across his plating, and fucking Primus but it was one of the best overloards of his goddamn life. Megatron kept thrusting through the spasmodic ripples of his valve, drawing it out further and further until Sunstreaker thought he might go mad, the pleasure multiplying to levels that utterly blinded him and fritzed his processors.

He could only focus on that, Megatron’s spike hammering into him… And Sideswipe.

Sideswipe, who was on his knees on the ground, moaning through his own overload, overwhelmed by what Sunstreaker was experiencing.

And then Megatron, finally, lost his restraint and slammed against him one more time before the arcs of miniature lightning shot out from the gaps of his armor and the hot pulse of transfluid joined the mess in Sunstreaker’s already drenched valve.

He was panting, but with Megatron’s frame atop him, there was little he could do to truly cool himself. Sunstreaker’s optics opened and he stared up at the sky, past Megatron’s bulk…

Then he tilted his helm back to have an upside down view of his brother. Sideswipe was staring at the ground, his fans running high, but as unexpected as his reaction had been… He wasn’t opposed to it.

It was pretty fun, actually.

Sunstreaker chuckled, prompting Megatron to look at him, and at the last minute the twin remembered he was supposed to glare.

Which he proceeded to do. The corner of Megatron’s mouth twitched like he was fighting back a smile.

Fucking bastard.

...Who was really good at fucking.

Like, really good.

...He was fragging doomed, wasn’t he?

“Did that feel good?” Megatron rumbled at him, and this time he did smile.

Sunstreaker glared harder. “Go jump in a fucking smelter.”

Megatron had the audacity to laugh at him, but he chose that moment to pull out, thoroughly distracting Sunstreaker from any retort he might’ve had. Instead he shuddered, hating the cold air that invaded his gaping, empty valve, and immediately missing the heat of Megatron’s frame when the tyrant sat back.

Missing that? What the pit was wrong with him…

A lot of things, honestly.

“You were driving along your patrol route–” Megatron spoke up. He’d pulled a cloth from his subspace and was wiping his spike with it. “–Until a few of the Stunticons intercepted you. You fought.”

“We’ll tell that much once we get back to the Ark,” Sideswipe said, drawing everyone’s attention. His brother was inspecting the lubricant leaking from the seams of his panel.

It didn’t look one bit like Sideswipe had fought anything, because he hadn’t, but they could fix that easily enough. “I mean, that’s totally something we’d fail to report right away,” Sideswipe continued, looking up with a wry grin.

“Very well,” Megatron said, his optics shifting back to Sunstreaker and flashing with… What? Lust? Anticipation?

Megatron leaned down, and before Sunstreaker could string two thoughts together, another scorching but chaste kiss was already pressed to his mouth, melting away any thoughts he was even trying entertain.

He was going to hell for this, but Unicron’s tailpipe if he wasn’t enjoying the ride there.

“I look forward to our next encounter,” Megatron growled at him, the tip of his digit resting under his jaw, sharp and dangerous–

And then Megatron pulled away and rose to his pedes, his equipment safely tucked away, but fluids still splattered on his groin and an unholy amount of paint transfers telling the story of their illicit affair.

But it wasn’t like there was anyone to tell Megatron he shouldn’t be doing this. He could go home looking however he wanted to.

Sunstreaker, on the other hand?

He and Sideswipe would need to do some covering up again.

Sunstreaker didn’t even bother sitting up as he watched Megatron walk away. Soundwave transformed onto his servo again, and then the tyrant and his Third were already shooting away from the scene of the crime, just like last time.

Sideswipe came over to him once the Decepticons were gone, a grin on his brother’s face. They’d both had fun, hadn’t they? “Okay, let’s get cracking. Prowl might still send someone to check out this location.”

And Sunstreaker very well couldn’t march into the Ark looking like he did now, yeah.

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It was an appropriately long time later that they arrived back at the Ark, a little worse for wear. They’d banged up Sideswipe too, in keeping with their story of the both of them having fought the Stunticons.

First stop, medbay. Sideswipe commed Prowl on their way there. ::Hi Prowl! Yeah, yeah, it went well. But! We ran into Drag Strip, Dead End, and Wildrider. Didn’t sustain any serious injuries but we’re gonna run by Ratchet. You want our reports afterwards?:: And there it came, the ‘why didn’t you comm. anyone about this?’ ::Weeee didn’t think it was that important?:: Sideswipe offered with just the right amount of hesitation to sound truthful. ::I don’t think they were doing anything more ‘an driving around before they ran into us and decided to start trouble.::

Ah, yeah, they shouldn’t be the judges of that. ::Sorreeeeh. We’ll make the reports extra good to make up for this, deal?::

And they got their permission to do that. Fantastic.

Now, Ratchet. “Raaaaatch!” Sideswipe hollered the moment the medbay doors opened for them, which was perfectly unnecessary because the medic was in the medbay proper and looked up when they entered.

His expression darkened when he saw them. “What the slag did you get up to?!” he asked as he dropped whatever he was doing and marched towards them. “Berth apiece, stat!”

The twins walked over to the nearest two berth and sat on them. Sideswipe grinned. “Fun with some Stunticons~ ‘Least Motormaster wasn’t there, imagine how that would’ve ended.”

Sunstreaker snorted. Yeah, the messes they’d be if the crazed Optimus wannabe had been present…

The messes they should be because Megatron had been present.

Except he hadn’t wanted to fuck them up, just fuck one of them.

“Did you call the Ark?” Ratchet asked, and oh dear but those were promises of bad things in his voice, right there. Sunstreaker had to fight back a grimace.

“Uhhh… No?” Sideswipe was very careful when he said that, but it wasn’t enough to save them. Sideswipe got a hit on the helm first, then it was Sunstreaker’s turn. He growled in affront, rubbing at the new dent on him that blended very well with all the dents Megatron had caused.

They’d fixed the uh, ones around his thighs and crotch, to the best of their ability anyway, but that was it. He was banged up, his plating torn at places, claw marks on him—Sideswipe looked a little better, but not by much after what they’d done to him in the name of their cover story.

“Do you at least feel calmer?” Ratchet growled at him as he began his scans.

Boy, did they. Sunstreaker couldn’t stop his grin. Sideswipe laughed. “Do we ever~ That was good.”

Heh. Yeah.

Ratchet rolled his optics. “Good, I guess. So help me if you do that again, though! What is it with your inability to accept help?”

“Not our fault we can handle shit,” Sunstreaker huffed.

He got banged on the helm again. Ratchet, seriously.

“Stow that attitude. You’re not invincible.”

Yeah, Megatron had proven that well enough.

...These would be very long repairs if he was all Sunstreaker could think about.

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