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[spireofdeceit]

They're so silly to me

[tinydefector]

Marine Centre 3- merformers AU

Warnings: talking about mating, loss of babies. Arguments

Word count: 2.1k

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Here's some information on how the Pods kinda work in this fic. If you want more details on the pods let me know.

Here are the Five Pods that reside at the Yawk-yawk Marine Rehabilitation centre. Mind you, there are other pods, but they don't reside at the centre but will make appearances in this fic later on.

Pod 1 - Autobots

Optimus

Ratchet

Bumblebee

Jazz

Prowl

Beachcomber

Ironhide

Pod 2 - Decepticons

Megatron

Starscream

Thundercracker

Skywarp

Soundwave

Shockwave

Pod 3 - Young Autobots (off branch Pod/ Young of other members)

Rodimus

Sunstreaker

Sideswipe

Bluestreak

Smokescreen

Mirage

Pod 4 - mixed members

Windblade

Drift

Pharma

Chromedome

Rewind

Whirl

Arcee

Pod 5 - Combaticons

Swindle

Vortex

Onslaught

Brawl

Blast Off

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Little thrills and chirps come from the cove as a tiny blur of yellow and black zips through the water, Chasing the human who walks along the shore line. The little pup eagerly calls out with little noises trying to catch their attention. A chorus of soft crooning rises among the mingled pods at the greeting of the tiny pup.

"Hello Babybee!" The human calls out softly to the baby mer. many of the other oceanides kept looking out over the pup, but they were already aware that the human wouldn't hurt the little one.

The little mer thrills delightedly while trying to drag himself onto the sand closer to them. "No, no, no baby you can't come onto the sand." They call while trying to usher the little yellow and black pup back into the water.

A pout forms on the little one's face, tiny fins flapping in dismay. But just as swiftly Dancer is there in an instant, gracefully scooping the youth back into the safety of the pool.

It's only the deep rumble of Big Blue which makes Bee turn around quickly and call out loudly to his Sire. But he doesn't move. "You haven't been annoying your papa while he's been healing have you?" They inquire only for more little thrills and chirps to leave the pup. Big blue emerges then from the depths, red and cobalt scales gleaming serenely as ever in the midday light.

Bee pouts but subsides against his sire's side, tiny purrs and trills of disappointed longing leave the pup as he clings to the larger mer.

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Windblade is first to respond to the little pup, drifting nearer with grace. "Bumblebee, there you are! You know better than to crawl on the sand" she Coos softly to the stripped pup.

Starscream scoffs, though his fins lay flat in disinterest. But ever-playful Skywarp spins gleeful loops around Windblade and pup. "Aww, lookit the little bitlet! You're getting so big, your colours are looking bright" he hums while gently looking over the pup.

"Now now, little one, you know the rules. The beach side is for walking friends, not us, can't have you getting yourself beached." She soothes, calming his upset with the practised ease of a carrier well versed in youthful disobedience. "Aww let him have his fun, Blades! We were all curious pups once."

It's only the deep rumble of Optimus which makes them all go quiet. Bumblebee turns around quickly and calls out loudly to his Sire. But he doesn't move from Windblade’s hold. Optimus slowly takes his pup from her hold cradling the little one close.

"Bumblebee," he rumbles gently, "you know the rules, little one. No going on the sand, you are too young." Gently yet firmly he lifts the pup into loving arms, cerulean eyes glowing with warmth at his little one.

Bumblebee pouts but subsides against his sire's powerful arms, still emitting little Trills of disappointed longing. Optimus meets the caretaker's eyes, they both watch each other for a moment as he continues to cradle his pup.

A mournful stillness falls over the mingled pods as they watch Optimus with Bumblebee.

"last season was a difficult one. But I'm glad to see your little one out and about" Her field pulses faint sadness, she had lost her own too early, taking quickly to Bumblebee as many of the pod did.

“As am I, I'm forever grateful for all the humans have done for Bee, I doubt he would have survived without their help” he rumbles softly. Windblade continues to wiggle her claws at the little one who giggles and grabs them.

"We can't keep losing generation after generation like this. Something's thinning the gene pool and we're not breeding fast enough to replace what's lost." Ironhide calls out while swimming closer. “Hey pup” he hums, giving the little one a head rub.

Starscream hisses uneasily. "There are fewer pods venturing near each cycle. It's those land crawlers doing, mark my words they are the reason for it!” He huffs out.

"I'm aware of the drop in our numbers but as it is, the only help we have received with our young is from the humans, had I not taken Bee to them when I did we would have no surviving pups." His words give them pause. they all knew Optimus was right, Bumblebee was very sick and without the marine centre's help he would have perished.

Optimus to turn to Starscream. “How is Megatron?, I haven't seen him since out fight”

"Megatron's wounds mend, though slowly." Starscream's fins flick in agitation. "The stress is getting to him, he wonders why Primus forbids him his own spawn. But spared yours”

Skywarp chitters nervously. "It's never been this bad before, not for long cycles. Even Megatron knows something bigger's going on, making it hard for the little ones to survive.”

"Maybe the softskins are right and it's more than just bad luck or genes. Something's changing in the deep, and we're on the losing side regardless of the cause." Ironhide shoots back

But Windblade flashes her finned guardians a quelling look. " What matters now is caring for Bumblebee and hope that we are granted a change with the next season."

Windblade continues stroking the youth gently. "Bumblebee would not be here if not for the humans' care. It seems...our song may rely on theirs, if it is to have any hope of continuing in the seas."

Her words are met with uneasy hesitation never before have the Oceanides relied upon outsiders, but Optimus had. Drift speaks up as he Drift's beside Rodimus "Our numbers fall while theirs climb ever higher. If we do not accept assistance, soon there may be no pods left at all."

Starscream hisses uneasily. "Dolphins grow ever more bold and numerous, harassing us when we feed where once they gave a wide berth. The orcas too have tasted our energon and now we have to be wary of them."

Ratchet croons in concern. "The humpback and grey kin have fallen silent, their great pods have moved on. No allies remain in which we can seek refuge when predator numbers swell, our best option is to stay here till they return to these waters."

"The great sharks now prowl only the farthest blue edges, driven from their feeding grounds by the loud noise and flashing lights of human undersea vessels. We have no kin but our own, our safety is the shorelines unless we are in number but with a youngling we can not take to deep waters yet."

Bumblebee chirps again, wiggling in his sires' hold until he escapes, disappearing from Optimus' side and swimming back to the human on the sandy shore again. It earns a laugh from the human as they scoot forward a little. Gently brushing the little frills of his head. It makes Optimus' spark ache.

Starscream vents quietly. "Few among us have known the happiness of sparking and rearing young. I doubt the other pods are having the same issues as us, perhaps we need new mingling when they come to the sands again"

“ It could be an option, considering our five Pods seem to not be having the best of luck” Sunstreaker mutters softly.

“ I'd like to see Chromia again, Hopefully Elita’s pod returns ” Windblade murmurs to herself, she could only hope that Chromia had better luck with a pup. But she did miss her bonded.

“You know the landers don't seem to have much issues with offspring, maybe they'd be willing to help us out” Rodimus blurts out, he wasn't exactly paying full attention to what was being said.

Windblade's fins flare in startled protest. Turning towards the bright orange and Red Oceanide. "Mating with outsiders goes against the sacred bonds of pod and kin!"

"Mating season nears and our numbers dwindle," Rodimus insists. "I'm not saying we have to do anything, it was just a thought!." He huffs out but lounges back against the rocks, his eyes watching the human now playing with Bumblebee in the shallows. But it does make many of the others stop to think. Humans seemed to have much better luck with their young than the Pod. But even that there was no promise of young or if a coupling of that sort would be viable.

Skywarp speaks up next. "If it means pups, what does it matter who their carrier is?"

Ironhide rumbles grim concerns. "Involving outsiders in matters of our Pods could alter both species in ways none foresee."

The younger mers pulse with surging field and logic as Rodimus presses his point. Bluestreak begins voicing his opinion. "Look how the caretaker cares for Bumblebee. Is that so different from how one would care for our young? And see how the little one beams at their touch, as content as any podling among kin!"

"He's got a point - the softskins aren't so strange. And if it brings pups, what's to lose?" Vortex states while watching the other pods continue to argue over the subject.

"Frag the fleshies, if it means more bitlets! Who cares? if it saves our pods I'd say it's worth it” Onslaught remarks only for other mers to hiss at his crash words.

But steely Jazz croons, despite his love for their little caretaker and the other human's of the centre he didn't trust that other humans wouldn't use it to their advantage. "Breedin' another species ain't no simple thing, mech. what's to stop the softskins wantin' somethin' back we ain't willin' to give?"

“We mate freely when the tide flows, so why not them? On land or sea,” Swindle shrugs, it was true, some mers had multiple mades others single, but due to the times they had taken to mating with multiple in hopes for young.

Rodimus refuses to relent under Elders stinging reprimand. "Do you think I propose this out of boredom or mere lust?" he retorts hotly. "Since my own youth, our numbers have halved - and how many more fading cycles must pass before no pups remain at all?, this season we have one surviving, one Pup between Five pods"

"The landers recognize as we do that something ails us. If natural means no longer can restore our numbers, then must we not embrace other paths, however unorthodox, hey im all for if we find another way, but what happens when next season we have no pups"

Rodimus spins to pin each dissenting elder with a fiery piercing glare. "Or would you have us fade to nothing instead, condemning future generations to exist only in memory?" His impassioned defence strikes silence from many.

Optimus' gaze turns to watches with quiet intensity as the human and pup interact, observing how they handle the bitlet with such care.

Long has he guided his pod, but he too knew something was amiss. The broods he once bore long since ventured into the deeps few remained. Yet...if agreement could be found, built, why not try. “If by this season we have no young It will be something the human will know. They are intelligent. If they are willing to assist, we will gladly take their offer” Optimus rumbles, it's the end of discussion as he slowly moves away from the others towards his bitlet.

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"Yes, yes hello sweet baby, you know I'll get in trouble if I'm around you too much, vets said you need to be around your pod, can't have you getting too attached to me" they hum mainly to themself knowing full well the little pup didn't understand.

Bumblebee thrills piteously, tiny claws outstretched and straining toward them, flexing futilely. "No test today baby, you look so healthy now!" They chimed but sigh as the little one drags themself into their lap. Slowly scooting down the sand they sit in the water so Bee doesn't dry out too much. Their eyes watch the larger Oceanides talk amongst themselves. It almost sounds like a melody with the sweet sounds they made.

“Are the adults boring you baby?” They tease softly only for the little yellow and black pup to snuggle Into their side purring contently. “Gonna get me in big trouble with Quin Beebee.

It's a long while before the older mers finish what seemed like an intense conversation.

Gracefully Big blue nudges nearer, slowly beaching himself close to them, trying his best not to startle either of them. gently but firmly he lifts the pup away, cerulean eye meeting their own with gratitude beyond words. They smile and laugh softly as it earns a grumble from the little one who didn't want to be disturbed.

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[in1-nutshell]

Fearless has one fear...

SFW, Platonic, Mention of injury, slightly detailed, Mention of blood, WARNING! Pediophobia, ANGST, Human reader

MTMTE

“Why is Jenna heading to the bathroom now?!”

“She knows his in there, right?”

“Shhh!”

“Don’t shh me! I have a point!”

Thanks to careful planning, and many favors pulled, the bar was hosting Halloween Movie nights until the holiday came. Of course, this caught the attention of plenty of bots on the ship. Now whether they were actually interested in the holiday or just looking for an excuse to get snacks, they didn’t care. It was nice to have company.

Fearless and Swerve supplied the watch party with plenty of the old timey classics, even slipping in older movies with the fakest looking blood and weapons ever. Those movies somehow managed to scare some of the more ‘jaded’ bots.

Tonight, it was a small group of bots who joined in, even Megatron had made an appearance. Fearless had to pull the ‘puppy dog eyes’ for a full minute to get Megatron to finally join.

They were sitting in the center of his servos, eating a bucket filled with popcorn and a fuzzy blanket wrapped around their shoulders. A gift from Rodimus after their last planetary trip to Earth.

“Is any of this scaring you?”

Fearless looked up at their father figures red optics. They lessen their grip on the blanket. The human had felt him flinch a bit at some of the cheap jump scares a couple of minutes ago. How knew the Ex-warlord hated fake guts that were clearly made of spaghetti.

“Psh, it takes a bit more than a low budget serial killer movie to scare me, Meg’s.”

The helpless woman on screen screamed as she tripped over nothing.

Several bots groaned at this. Some of frustration and others of anxiousness.

“You think her balance is off? Maybe that’s why she keeps falling.” First Aid mused as his vizor was glued to the screen.

Swerve laughed.

“Nah. That’s usually how a lot of humans in these films are.”

Tailgate poked his helm from Cyclonus hug. The larger purple mech had the minibot in his lap with his arms secured around him as he trembled.

“Do all human’s do this when they’re afraid?”

Fearless looked over at the shaking minibot. He wasn’t used to scary movies yet like the others.

“Yeah, some humans do kinda act on instinct when they are really scared. Logic goes out the window when we get into some scary situations. We’re more concern on staying alive and getting the Pits away from the danger.”

Fearless saw Whirl winking at them, at least an attempt with his only optic. He was sitting next to Cyclonus and Tailgate, his claw buried in a bucket of energon goodies as were most of the other bots in the room.

“Not all humans apparently, since you’ve been on this ship, not ONCE have we seen you pull that.” Whirl gestured the woman once again tripping over thin air.

Fearless just smirked in response.

“I like to think that some of my braincells stick with me Whirl.”

Rewind looked over at the seemingly relaxed human in the Ex-warlord’s servos. He was seated next to Chromedome on a nearby table nursing a small cube of engex.

“Aren’t you afraid of anything? Surely there’s something?”

Fearless huffed in response, readjusting themselves in Megatron’s servo.

“Of course I get scared Rewind, its only natural.”

“I do not recall seeing you being that afraid since you have been on this ship.” Cyclonus said as he readjusted his hold on Tailgate, making a motion to the movie.

Fearless looked over at the minibot still quite anxious for the movie to be over. They felt a pang of guilt for dragging him and Cyclonus to the watch party. Tailgate deserved better…

… maybe telling wouldn’t be too bad…

“Dolls. Hate—”

Brainstorm screeching cut them off. The scientist jumped up, knocking his bucket on an unsuspecting Pipes and Riptide who were sitting nearby.

“OH, SWEET PRIMUS! HE FOUND HER! RUN JENNA! RUN LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!”

Suddenly everyone’s focus was back on the screen, yelling and trying to warn the woman to run for her life.

Fearless let out a sigh of relief.

There was no way anyone was going to remember that.

They looked up at Megatron who was watching the screen like everyone else. His digits slightly curled seeing the human in distress. Fearless just patted his digits a bit before going back to watching the movie.

Halloween came sooner than they expected. Fearless was finishing their rounds while thinking about what the memo Swerve had sent them.

The bar was going to be having a small celebration for Halloween after hours. It would have been the bar’s theme, but Magnus deemed some of the décor to be a ‘safety hazard’ and wanted to review all the movies beforehand. There wouldn’t be anything he could do after hours after Rodimus gave him a seal of approval.

All they had to do was wait another 2 hours before the party would start.

“Hey Fearless!”

A group of drunk mechs stood in front of them.

“Yes? You need something?”

Some of the bots giggled drunkenly while their ‘leader’ shushed them.

“Th-there’s a special package for you in here.”

The bot pointed to the ‘small’ broom closet.

They raised an eyebrow at them.

“This isn’t some sort of prank, right?”

The mech’s giggled.

“Nope!” Popping the ‘p’.

Fearless sighed tiredly. They really wanted to head to the bar, but by the looks of these mech’s they weren’t going to let them through without looking in that closet.

“Fine.”

They would regret going in.

As soon as they were inside, the mech’s had closed and locked the door.

“Lets see how fearless you really are!”

Fearless yelled and banged on the door to let them out. All they could hear was laughing and retreating pedesteps.

Great.

All they had to do was try and reach the number pad a few feet above them, or radio Meg’s if things got a bit too frustrated. They were going to need to talk to Rodimus or Magnus about installing more human friendly—

CCCRRRREEEEEAAAAKKKKKK!

“Hello Friend!”

They froze in place.

Someone was in there with them.

Fearless silently cursed themselves for leaving their blaster with Brainstorm for repairs. They took out their phone flashlight and tried to look for the thing.

“You’re my best friend!”

The voice cracked a bit at the end. It sent a shiver down Fearless spine.

Creepy.

Another creak sounded just as they shown their light on them.

They dropped the phone.

Their heart suddenly started pounding hard, their breathing was harsh and shallow, a scream was lodged in their throat and their hands started trembling.

But the worse part was that they felt like they couldn’t move.

Illuminated by the little light in the room stood several life-sized porcelain dolls with their arms reached out.

“Let’s be friends forever!”

Fearless turned to the locked door and started pounding on it like their life depended on it.

“SOMEONE GET ME OUT! SOMEONE HELP! WHIRL! RODIMUS! MEGATRON! DAD! DAD HELP!”

The shadows only seemed to loom over them. It looked like they were moving closer.

Panicking, the human started beating and clawing at the door for any way of escape as tears started falling.

“PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP! ANYONE! HELP! PLEASE!”

There was a sudden and violent lurch from the ship, sending Fearless to the ground and the dolls flying straight at them.

Fearless screamed bloody murder as they came crashing down, the porcelain cutting into their face as they continued to scream and claw their bloodied hands at the door. They heard several cracks, but they didn’t care. They just needed to get out.

“MEGATRON! DAD! DAD HELP ME! DAD!”

They could only see the broken faces and limbs start crawling and grabbing their body.

They were going to die here.

“DAD!”

The door was suddenly opened and Fearless took off running.

They didn’t see the bots around the room, they didn’t seem to care that they nearly got stepped on and ran over.

The human yelped as they were suddenly scooped up.

Everything was too bright, too blurry, too fast.

They could hear voices but couldn’t make out who was who.

Something poked their side and they let out a sharp scream, curling up into a fetal position, cramming their bloodied (and probably broken) hands in their head.

Their head felt light and heavy. Everything was hurting and felt as if it were on fire. They were wet, though if by the blood or tears they didn’t know, maybe both.

The human felt a gentle breeze pass through before falling  into the darkness that had been edging their vision.

…

Fearless woke up and first noticed the familiar smell of the med bay. They slowly opened their eyes as everything started coming into focus. They were in fact in the medbay. Looking down, or as down as they could, laid their bandaged body. Most of their arms and hands were wrapped up. Their right leg had a cast, and they now noticed that part of their head was wrapped up too.

They turned to one side and saw someone staring at them.

“Fearless?”

“D-da- dad?”

Megatron’s spark broke as Fearless started to cry out in relief.

He gently strokes the side of their head that wasn’t bandaged.

“Shhh… I’m here… I’m here…”

Fearless continued to sob into Megatron’s digits, wincing a bit as they managed to try and cling to him.

He was here. Here with them.

“I… I…”

The words died before they could come out. How were they going to explain this? Who knows how many bots had heard or even seen them. The sounds of incoming pedesteps made them look up to see Ratchet. The older bot gave them a warm smile. It was one of those smiles that made you feel like everything was going to be okay.

“Here.”

The doctor passed Megatron some water for them to drink. Fearless’s throat never felt so dry until the liquid started trickling down their throat.

“Your vocal cords are raw right now. Best not to talk until they heal a bit more.”

They opened their mouth to speak put Ratchet held out his servo and gave them a bit of a stern look. Megatron mirrored it.

“You can get back to talking when they are better Fearless. There is no rush right now.”

Fearless squinted their eyes at Megatron before huffing out a puff of air as they slowly slumped back into the bed.

“The events that happened… we saw the footage from the security cameras and a bit of an investigation on what was inside the room.”

The bots could see the injured human tense up at hearing about the room.

Megatron cleared his throat.

“All of the… remnants in the room have been cleaned and incinerated. The bots have been taken into the brig and are now being talked to by Ultra Magnus, but I think it is safe to say that they will not be going anywhere near you anymore.”

The human slightly relaxed after hearing that. They leaned a bit on his digits sighing.

They didn’t need to know the beating they took when Whirl and some of the other crew found out.

The three of them jumped hearing a loud BANG!

“I know their awake First Aid! Let me in!”

“Ratchet is checking up on them Whirl, just be patient—”

“Do you know who you’re talking to right? I will not—HEY! Hornhead put me down!”

Megatron heard a strain chuckle come from Fearless as they tried to crane their head to the door.

Ratchet sighed tiredly.

“You have some visitors. I’ll get them updated on your condition before they plow through my staff.”

Megatron and Fearless tense a bit as Ratchet walked to the door grabbing several wrenches in his servos. The unmistakable ‘CLUNK!’ and ‘OW!’ sounds were heard.

The Ex-warlord looked down and smiled softly at his child.

There was no need to tell them how his spark stopped when he saw them tumbling out of the room after Tailgate had ripped the door off its hinged.

There was no need to tell how he shouted at everyone to stop moving so they couldn’t get trampled.

There was no need to tell how fast he retracted his servo from them when they screamed and went limp in Ratchet’s servos.

There was no need to tell them how he barreled down the hall when he heard their blood curling screams.

There was no need.

Not, now at least.

Whirl, disappearing the moment he finds out who put his Amica in the medbay.

[blueikeproductions]

The Matrix of Leadership is pry one of the most important aspects of Transformers, that it was pivotal in TFONE…

Buuut as usual these things don’t have a straight path.

The Matrix didn’t appear in the cartoon until the original animated movie, with its purpose largely being to destroy Unicron. Naturally the movie never really explained why we never saw the Matrix before or what it truly is. The succeeding third season would establish it as a very ancient relic with surprisingly mystical qualities that conflicts somewhat with the mechanical characters we follow.

Most of what we know is all past Autobot leaders had carried it up until Rodimus Prime, and that it’s potent enough to kill Unicron. Why it affected Unicron is never explained, but the Primacron episode would show the Matrix escaping the dead body of Primacron’s ape-bot assistant.

Which is confusing as the story suggests this wasn’t supposed to BE the Matrix, but a separate entity that would later summon Grimlock and the other Beast Mode Transformers to fight Unicron’s successor, Tornedron.

The Matrix’s final feat in the original cartoon was to vanquish the Hate Plague as its eons long accumulated wisdom was more than enough to cancel out the rage affecting the galaxy.

The funny thing is the Matrix wasn’t even part of the original scripts for the 80’s movie, which instead had Optimus’ “Life Spark” be the object passed down, upgrading Magnus to Ultra Magnus and ultimately be unleashed inside Unicron to kill him.

Megatron’s Life Spark was also a plot point originally, in that it was supposed to be entombed in the Decepticon crypt on Cybertron, but Megatron’s Spark and the Sparks of other dead Decepticons would be released accidentally, where these ethereal beings would come across Unicron who would instead encase them in new bodies as Galvatron and company.

The Matrix originally was featured in Marvel G1, a “Primal Program” housed in the current leader of the Autobots that allows them to bestow life on new Transformers. This was to explain how the Transformers reproduce in the absence of doing it the human way as the race (originally) wasn’t intended to have female characters.

Eventually the comics would retcon it that the Creation Matrix had a physical form similar to the cartoon, with the Matrix described as being the life force of Primus itself passed down to his creations.

This version of the Matrix would be transferred into Buster Witwicky’s brain by Optimus in an attempt to keep it away from Shockwave, which would temporarily give Buster Lawnmower Man like mastery over other machines, to the point he was able to disassemble (a non living) Decepticon Jetfire with his mind.

Buster, after Shockwave was defeated, was able to return the Matrix back to Optimus, with this concept loosely adapted in RotF years later when Sam Witwicky would be given the power of the Allspark in his brain by accident. Later the Matrix would need to be found once more, as the Autobots sent Optimus’ dead body to space, not realizing the Matrix still physically existed in him evidently, kick starting the Matrix Quest. The Matrix would be tainted by Thunderwing, creating the Dark Matrix Creature that served as the final antagonist of Re: Generation One, but the Matrix otherwise would be purified by Optimus and used to destroy Unicron.

G2 would see the Matrix restored, and later abused by Starscream briefly, while ReGen One would ignore this, instead having the Matrix completely gone…. Until Hot Rod was able to get an intact copy from another universe and evolve to Rodimus Prime. Yea it’s convoluted but this is Transformers, it’s always kinda convoluted.

After this the Matrix stopped having a major influenced for awhile, though the Japanese Beast Wars era would introduce the Energon Matrix, a personalized Matrix unique to different Maximal leaders from Optimus Primal, Lio Convoy, Big Convoy and Fire Convoy.

Other series like the Unicron Trilogy would include the Matrix, but it was just kind of there, mostly included just because G1 included it. The Matrix would instead become more of a religious concept during Beast Wars, and later become Transformers heaven in Beast Machines, and while it didn’t exist in Animated, the Allspark would later be contained in a container resembling the G1 Matrix.

Because of the life giving Allspark introduced in the Bay films, the Matrix, along with Vector Sigma, became somewhat redundant, with this being a problem Hasbro and other creatives haven’t been able to properly adapt. The Allspark became a sort of catch all for wisdom and life baring abilities the other two relics were known for, though modern media, albeit not successfully, has tried to make each relic distinct. Vector Sigma in Prime would be a repository of wisdom, while the Matrix was merely the symbol of leadership passed down by Primus to various leaders. Confusingly the Matrix would still display some holy power filled with wisdom, as using it shut down Unicron, but reset Optimus back to Orion. Vector Sigma’s back up data was necessary to reboot Orion into Optimus again… Cyberverse would see Vector Sigma and the Allspark used in conjunction in creating life, while the Matrix was a repository of wisdom from the past Primes as before, but its power could also be used by Megatron and Megatron X, showing the writers’ favoritism towards the Decepticons when they shouldn’t be able to be use it otherwise.

IDW would bring back the Matrix more prominently, but rapidly downplay its mystical nature to the point it was practically described as an advanced light up toy, and could easily be replaced with a fake or have multiple versions be created by Rung’s gizmo mode.

It still held religious significance and was thought to be part of Solomus, the god of Wisdom.

Tyrest would be revealed to be Solomus, so uh… take that as you will.

It’s not clear if Tyrest ever held the Matrix, but in his civilian life, he did work with it, being tasked with extracting life energy from it to make new Sparks after the life giving Hot Spots on Cybertron began to fade. This started the Constructed Cold Transformers, robots whose Sparks were housed in pre-built bodies rather than emerging from the metal of Cybertron naturally. Tyrest would later come to believe the Cold born Transformers were evil and try to kill them all, yeah wisdom my actuator.

After various trials and tribulations, the original IDW Matrix would be split in half, one half claimed by Rodimus the other Optimus, with each one being destroyed in order to fix a problem of the hour. Optimus’ half survived longer, being used as a means to sway the religious colony worlds into Optimus’ goals to have a Council of Worlds, Earth among them.

Despite downplaying the mystical nature, sometimes it would crop up to somewhat demean Optimus, implying he wasn’t worthy of it. Optimus would complain having the Matrix hurt him, while Rodimus instead felt like he just harmed the power of the Chaos Emeralds. The Matrix also temporarily was held by Thunderclash, and had to be surgically removed from his chest because apparently the Matrix didn’t want to leave Thunderclash.

SkyBound seems to meet in the middle, having some general rules with its Matrix, but not being embarrassed by its mystical nature like IDW was.

This Matrix seems to be more of an advanced machinery that has a finite power source, and while it can heal, it can’t reactivate the dead. It is tied to the barer’s life force, and exerting too much energy can kill the barer. Optimus’ selflessness saw him wanting to use what power was left to revive all the Autobots, but when talked out of it, he instead used the power to reactivate the Decepticon damaged hospital Spike was recovering in. Later when Sparkplug merged with the Matrix by unexplained means, the Matrix was re-energized, but also caused Optimus to be given flashes of Sparkplug’s memories and trauma, often seeing a memory of Spike as a baby, one that became increasingly distorted (a fan theory as of typing connected it as a side effect of wearing Megatron’s arm) when Optimus was pushed to his limit and killed Shockwave, and later, possibly due to Sparkplug’s PTSD from his own war, accidentally blew up a tank when the Autobots tried to respond to a Decepticon attack on another city.

Who originally bore the Matrix differs from series to series… Japanese media would try to expand on it in modern manga borrowing ideas from the 80’s cartoon and Beast Wars where appropriate.

The Matrix was originally owned by a survivor of the Big Bang, Primacron, who sealed his master Primus within to use his godly power to bestow life to his robots, eventually creating Unicron. The Matrix would escape and later bestow organic life to a barren planet, but early Quintessons would discover this planet and reformat it into Cybertron. The Quintesson leader of the era was the first leader to bare the Matrix, the being the 80’s cartoon would only describe as “It”.

Netflix War of Cybertron would state Alpha Trion was the first recorded barer of the Matrix, contradicting modern lore which states Prima, who originated from Marvel G1, was the first inheritor of the Matrix.

The modern lore with Prima was contradicted again in One, where Zeta Prime originally held the Matrix.

Who holds the Matrix before Optimus isn’t really nailed down as much as Hasbro wants it to be, as their intended idea is that the Matrix was originally part of the Star Saber, adorning its hilt, but the cartoons and comics tend to be a bit more resistant to this, preferring to to their own direction. Other leaders post Rodimus tend to not have the Matrix either, with Star Saber, Fortress Maximus, Ginrai, Dai Atlas, and RiD15 Bumblebee not using it.

Other Matrix variants are shown to exist here and there, most unusual is a Sharkticon Matrix briefly held by Megatron in Aligned media, and a Mini-Con Matrix held by Over-Run in the Dreamwave Armada comics. A Decepticon Matrix was said to exist in the G1 cartoon, but while it was a fib by the Quintessons to trick Galvatron into their servitude, an actual Decepticon Matrix probably DOES exist somewhere given all the variants I haven’t mentioned for simplicity.

Who can wield the Matrix varies, but for the most part it’s a heroic paragon of justice, hope, and goodness like Optimus who is considered worthy to use it. Hot Rod would also be shown to possess these qualities as would Optimus Primal, all being able to open up and use the Matrix. Ultra Magnus was unable to open it, with him even having to adjust the relic to better fit into his chest. Decepticons, according to the old cartoon, can’t use it. Galvatron tried to both open it and install it as a power source for his cannon and was unable to do so. Scourge and Starscream experienced mutations that did make them powerful when they installed the relic… but had side effects. Scourge was in inconstant pain (possibly, but never confirmed, to be the ancient Autobots retaliating when the Matrix wasn’t returned to Rodimus), while Starscream was instead slowly turning good by the Matrix’s divine power, something the jet was repulsed enough by to surrender the relic, as he loved being a dick.

The Cyberverse Matrix seemed more open minded to Megatron and Megatron X for some reason, despite their own atrocities, with the show implying Optimus wasn’t worthy. Remember kids, villain worship to this extent is unhealthy. Megatron being able to use the Matrix misses the point, something TFONE fixes. When the greedy Sentinel made a grab for the Matrix, it evaporated in front of him, only later reforming when Orion proved worthy of it. This version also attempts to be both a symbol of leadership and a life giving relic, as it controls the flow of Energon on Cybertron. What this means when Optimus goes to Earth has yet, if ever, to be explored…

The long and short of it is the Matrix typically is just an ancient ball that’s a symbol of leadership that occasionally can grant life depending on the demands of a particular story. The only object that’s similar in reverence is the Animated exclusive Magnus Hammer, with it able to generate intense storms and tremors by its user, but is carried around like Thor’s Hammer (never been shown if they need to swing throw it to fly with it tho’).

[devilart2199-aibi]

On my quest of consuming all Transformers media... or most lol. I have binged "Transformers: The Headmasters"! It's a great continuation of the original show. I enjoyed how they focused on a core cast for this one, but still hopped around sometimes.

I had forgotten that Fortress Maximus and Scorponok were rivals/equals! It's so interesting considering how Max is in IDW compared to Scorponok. Gives me lots to think about when doing my design of him 🤔 How will Cerebros mix in? I dunno haha.

Speaking of Cerebros! I really liked him!!! He was actually a good leader and tried to figure things out or stop things and was actually concerned for others. I was so shook when they said "you're the leader of the Autobots now" and Rodimus flew into space never to be seen again 🤣 Classic G1 Rodimus (outside the OG movie)

Also!!! Poor Chromedome 😭 this bot cannot escape his loved ones being killed off by a phase sixer 💀 Sixshot is so capable lmao. Magnus was done dirty OTL

Besides that, Chromedome is great! He gives me Hotrod vibes, kinda brash, has something to prove, young bot. He always wants to protect everyone and it's so cute 🥺

As for the other Headmasters, Hardhead is so fun and so is Highbrow!! He's a little enabler to Daniel haha. Brainstorm was probably my least fav out of them, but i just think I'm just so used to mtmte him. He was the mature one here.

The Trainbots are cool, wish we got to know them more 😔 also love the Decepticon Headmasters, they are so dorky 💜

Anyway, it was a fun watch and after reading quite a bit of the comics it was cool being like "Ah! That's where you're from!" Or "I know that guy!" Haha.

I just started "Transformers Super-God Masterforce" in hopes of seeing Overlord's first appearance 👍 much more anime vibes in this one.

Also! If you have a TF comic or show recommendation or one that's obscure! Pls share! :3

[callsign-relic]

(Not a request dw)

Okokokokokok. So. I've been thinking about a liminal space exploration/visual novel type of game that revolves around exploring (and potentially solving puzzles inside of) Titan! Megs' city, getting to know him (as much as possible), and potentially convincing him to let you leave. (Or otherwise escaping. Though the details of how that might be possible yet elude me.)

Like, there'd be these panels that appear here and there that you'd find and communicate with Megs through. (He uses these to talk to you, and he has a microphone of sorts attached to it so he can hear you, bc you're teeny.) Which alongside talking to the Cityspeakers will be what constitutes the visual novel sections of the game. lol.

The ending you get will depend on the friendship levels you've built up with Megatron, and your Cityspeaker of choice. And will also be based on whether or not you've convinced Megs to let you leave. (And the Cityspeaker as well, but that occurs alongside you endearing yourself to them.)

Megatron can only be convinced to let the player go if both the player, and the chosen Cityspeaker work together to try, and talk Megs out of keeping you in his city.

Ultra Magnus is the best at convincing Megatron to let you go, but he starts out being skeptical of your desire/need to leave. (You have everything you need readily supplied to you, and you aren't alone. It'll take some convincing for him to completely understand why you need to go back to Earth.) (Slowest to befriend/Best at negotiating)

Optimus starts out somewhere in the middle for both aspects. He's incredibly compassionate towards your plight, but he also understands Megs' desire to take proper care of one as small as you. Humans are quite delicate, after all. (Middle of the road overall, and is probably the easy mode choice. you know, as if this game was ever gonna need/have difficulty levels.)

Rodimus starts out almost completely on your side about needing to get out of here, but has a rough time negotiating your departure from Megs' city in a civilized manner. You need to make some delicate, and timely decisions about how you and Rodimus will go about communicating your need to go home. He's not the best at it, and he's probably gonna start out thinking that it's Megs' fault that you're stuck here. (Even though Megs doesn't know how you got here either. Probably have to workshop the real reason you wound up in Megs' city to begin with.) (Fastest to befriend/The worst at negotiating with Megs)

There's gonna be a good handful of endings regarding a few key things to consider: Your friendship level with Megs, your friendship level with the Cityspeaker, and whether or not you two succeeded in convincing Megs to let you go.

Higher friendship levels with Megs leads to him opening up to you a little and wanting to keep you within himself more, but will also lead to him being far more amenable to hearing you out about leaving.

Low friendship Megs still cares enough about your wellbeing, but not a whole about you in particular. The reason he still stubbornly clings to you is more about what you represent to him more than anything. After all, what is a city without those who would come to live in it? Low friendship with him leads to him also deciding to try, and keep the Cityspeaker here, as well. He'll be fine with letting you go if you and the Cityspeaker convince him to but this ending is just kinda sad.

High Cityspeaker friendship aids in how well you can convince the Cityspeaker to help you escape, and in how well you guys can collaborate in your escape plan. (Which pretty much just involves talking Megs into allowing you to leave. Outside of a secret escape route type of thingy that you and the Cityspeaker could potentially use to escape. It's less likely to work unless certain things are put into place at certain times, but you know.)

(This also depends on which Cityspeaker you've chosen in the first place.)

Low Cityspeaker friendship means that they might just wind up leaving you here, and are thus more easily convinced into doing so by Megs. You won't be able to talk Megs into letting you go if you don't get the Cityspeaker on your side. So Low Cityspeaker friendship isn't something you really want.

I'll pull together an outline of what those hypothetical endings would look like later, bc there's a lot to consider, but you know.

To be continued...

-Not a Request Anon

Wow!!! This is so much!!!! It’s crazy how much you through about this omg……. This is amazing!

I like the sort of friendship systems you have to maintain with both the cityspeaker and Megs! It’s a difficult balance and you’re definitely not going to get the ending you want the first few times…

For some reason I imagine it looking like the exploration parts in Danganronpa HAHAHA, a 3d environment that you explore in first person, and maybe the city speakers appear in 2D! Or maybe they have basic 3d models and their talk sprites are 2D! Or they just talk to you with their models… there’s a lot of routes it can go in terms of art direction!!! It’s fun to think about!

I think the most fun part is knowing like, the place you’re exploring isn’t just a place, it’s a person. You don’t know when he’s watching, when he’s listening… EEHHEHE

[rayofmisfortune]

Hey so, I know literally nothing of how Rodimus gets the matrix or even if he does. But- I've read a few fics where he gets the matrix during the functionist (?) era and idk, something about how the writers make the story and progression flow rubs me the wrong way. So ofc I have to ramble about my own ideas

I don't know that much about how the political jargon works in idw or whatever the fics I've read use as a basis. Guessing it's idw. But one of these fics went about Rodimus stumbling upon the Matrix in like a weird ahh liminal space kinda way? I worded it wrong lmao but anyway after he got the Matrix he immediately goes to the senate. I- that part just.. I dunno, not vibing with that. Idk. but how I'd go about it is the Matrix appearing to him (vaguely, lmao idk how, the liminal space thing is kinda cool lmao) but the idea of the matrix just randomly spawning in his berthroom is higher on my list of matrix acquisition. It would be funnyyyyy. Also- I would be a lil fuck and make it huuuuurt, angst brain yada yada, screw me yea, anyway. Yea what would I make hurt? The whole "transforming into a prime" dealio. (People describe the process as "beautiful" and "amazing" and yea changing frame types doesn't appear to be painful but I'm me and I love putting characters in pain /aff) Rodimus gets to pass out as a treat 🫶 and have vivid hallucinations of the Primes. Would he believe anything that he's been told in said vivid hallucinations telling him he's the new Prime? Half n half lmao well at least until he woke up sprawled on the floor of his berthroom for some reason. (Does Rodimus get taller after getting the Matrix? Cuz, idk mates I'm not that knowledgeable kekw but if he did it would be hilarious to have him get up on too long limbs and have one of those "everything was moved slightly to the left" moments except everything is a little smaller/shorter than when he stumbled his way to berth last cycle)

... also I just like the idea of Rodimus hiding his newfound Primeness. Not going straight for the leadership, but realizing that something is very very wrong, why did the matrix come to him? What happened to the last Prime (Nominus???? I dunno who dat is, but peeps used his name as the last Prime in the fics I've read, weh). Coming to the realization "Oh frag, the senators murdered him." after being subjected to visions from the last Primes in his recharge. ... y'all this is just me trying to validate a Prime working from the shadows to overthrow the government. All the authors stressed that Rodimus was a lowercaste bot so- a Prime who was originally lowercaste would know how the system treated bots like him, right?

Or maybe going straight for the big man spot is something Rodimus would do and I just don't have that much of a grasp of his character. But honestly I don't see him as someone who enjoys any leader positions where he needs to be the responsible one. Hiding away and keeping a low profile, working from the shadows. I feel like becoming a Prime is more of a burden than a blessing for someone like Rodimus. Running from his problems 👍 Fake it till you make it as they say.

Also- like... The Senators introducing a new (fake) Prime on live broadcast across cybertron. The guy having this whole speech about how the Matrix had chosen them and how sorry they are for the fate of their predecessor and how grateful they are for this chance to make cybertron better. While Rodimus watches it on a billboard or hologram or whatever along with a few other bots and thinks "yea right, this guy's full of slag." Yea he ain't gonna be going to the Senators any time soon.

[transingsomeformers]

something thats been eating at my mind to write/draw but if my boy hotrod/rodimus guest appeared in rescue bots this is whats been swimming around in my brain a while rambles down below

he wouldnt be like the main main focus hed be a guest star ofc

a new bot shows up on the island in vehicle form at first, but thats not really subtle cause hes a racecar and everybody is like "whats a racecar doing by this lake?" one that nobody super recognizes at first glance except fr salvage and blurr.

and blurr starts getting ecstatic when the bot transforms and its hot rod! (studio applause) and while blurr is going a lil nuts with excitement salvage fills them in that hes an old racer from velocitron and blurr is all like

"dude, hes not just 'an old racer' hes one of the greatest racers velocitron has ever seen!!!" and he starts infodumping abt him and in the back of his mind heatwave is like "greaaat another bot who doesnt think before he acts we gotta deal with" so they all go and approach him to find out what hes doing there

and blurr is really excited cause he thinks hot rod is so freaking cool and they can race and he can show hot rod his moves but hes not there on any kind of autobot business or even for racing much to everyones surprise.

hes only there to go fishing.

hes on vacation and been really excited for his fishing trip that hes been planning especially on a bot friendly island and by god hes looking to catch himself a real prize to brag about to the boys back home.

chief burns perks up at this, and its about time for the burn's annual fishing trip so they kinda end up combining the two trips. hot rods down for any good spots, and the others (mainly heatwave) wanna keep an eye on him

so the next day they all get ready and they go on the burn's trip first and are out to sea.

Salvage wants to try out something hes been working on around their spot and he stays on shore

Blurr is disappointed that hotrod isnt there to race but hes not passing up an opportunity to hang out with hot rod so he offers to go out with them on the water even tho he couldnt care less about fish. and maybe he can talk him into a small match later. Salvage kinda warns him not to get his hopes up, and that maybe he should take time to talk about other things with him. (blurr kind of blows him off tho which ruuuuuude!!! be nice!!!)

They get out on the water and everyone else is rlly casual and hit it off with hotrod p well. the burns family exchange stories with him, he talks about the states hes visited with some friends of his on earth. and ofc the conversation circles back around to the different fish hes caught chase questions if he has the proper liscenses for that. to which hotrod pulls up copies of some fr the different states he been in (all of them have the last name witwicky on them ;) ) all in all everyone is having a good time

everyone but blurr. he was hoping that maybe he could get some tips on racing, or anything to do with racing at all while theyre out there but hot rod's just really passionate about this trout he caught out in oregon and its driving him nuts. he ends up moping about it and just goes back to shore with blades cause he forgot his little hat and its just not the same without it.

They get back to the shore and salvage asks how its going and blades is like "Oh its great! turns out he speaks a bit of pirate too!" and stuff and blurr is sarchastically like "yeah its greaaaat" and they both kinda give him a look.

salvage is like "i take it hes not quite what you thought hed be like huh" and blurr is just "HE ONLY CARES ABOUT FISH. im never gonna be friends with him at this rate, hotrod is nothing like i thought he would be. im just gonna go back to hq"

and blades nd salvage just kind of look at each other and blades blades laughs a lil bit and blurrs a little peeved hes laughing but then they all get to talking a bit cause this reminds blades of when he was first getting to know bumblebee after their first meeting and he tells blurr a bit about it cause it was a bit awkward fr a while

blades had some ideas fr how exactly it was gonna be with bee and bee while he was enjoying hanging out just kinda asked him

"Do you want to be friends with me, or just the idea of me?"

and it made him stop and reevaluate things a little. ultimatley fr the better cause that kinda helped blades to take bee off the pedestal he had him on and just start really connecting with him just as he was.

and blades asks blurr if he was actually looking to be friends with hotrod or just the idea of how theyd be in his head and blurr kinda sits on that fr a bit without really saying anything

and salvage talks abt the time he and blurr first met a long lonnnng time ago and that the first impressions they had of each other weren't the best admittently and that salvage thought he really didnt have much in common with blurr but one day after they got to talking and racing came up in the convo and salvage saw a lot of the passion he had about it and it reminded him about a lot of his own passion for creating/inventing, he tells him that maybe you just need to give it some time and ask him about his other interests as well. really engage with him on it.

blades finally remembers he was there to grab his hat so he does and hes about to head back to the boat and blurrs like "wait, let me come back with you" and he gives it another chance

and it ends up working out. he asks him some more about his previous travels and they all start fishing again and the competitiveness rlly comes out in hotrod cause hes determined to catch the most and the biggest fish out of everyone on the trip now and blurrs trying to beat him and shenannigeans and hijinks ensue but they end up really connecting after that.

soon they get back to shore and everyone goes back to hq and theyre having fun and chatting late into the night hot rod decides he wants to take a quick ride around the island and he gets the ok and he asks blurr if he wants to join him!!!

blurrs really excited cause this is what he orignally wanted and was waiting for...but...

he turns him down, theyre hanging out again tommorrow anyway gotta make sure hes ready and all that and htos rods like "cant argue with that see ya tommorrow" and heads out

blurr goes down to where salvage is and just kinda watches as hes working on his projects and blurrs like "so uh... that thing you were workin on today... I didnt get the chance to see it in action..." and salvage glances over at him fr a second and then he smiles and they get to really chatting and talking abt it

and the first moral of this story is don't put people on a pedestal, take time to get to know them for who they are

but the second and most important moral is that there should be rodimus fishing memes

thats all i got rn

and reading this back this feels more like a bad my little pony plotline but yknow what that is ok.

friendship IS magic and the fish ARE biting

[doomface]

Sharing my silly TF One AU idea from twitter on here + some additions (tf one spoilers-ish below the cut)

[ALT text: A screenshot of a twitter thread by @ d00mface on September 27th with the following content:

"tfone spoilers ?

au idea where after everything optimus finds out that sentinel had a mentee he had secretly taken under his wing and was preparing to have him take over on any duties he didn't want to perform or w/e and that mentee… is hot rod/rodimus"

"hot rod starts out kinda cocky but charismatic and probably really admired sentinel since that was the only bot he was close to (maybe even starts with a blue and yellow color scheme?) but after optimus adopts him as his mentee he gradually becomes less of a dick"

"eventually he swaps out his blue paint for red to honor optimus instead of sentinel after learning what a dick his former mentor was and even if ppl are distrustful of him at first given his sentinel connection he proves he's a good boy with good intentions, op raises him right"

"anyway im just a sucker for the trope of good guy adopting the enemy's kid and raises them to be good 😭" End ALT text.]

my addition here is that since i made these posts i realized that "hotrod" appears in the iacon 5000 BUT HEAR ME OUT here's how it can still work... hotrod is just this kid's nickname or smth he uses to enter the race without sentinel knowing it's him sneaking out or smth

what if the original name sentinel gives him is something different? like say... Rodion? It's a city name in IDW but I always felt like it could always suit well as an 'Orion' equivalent for Rodimus.

Anyway i'm rambling and this au is very silly but does anyone see the vision with the next prime (Rodimus) having almost the exact opposite origin as the previous (Optimus)?? Having to learn to be humble and also getting a chance for some good influences in his life??

[brandwhorestarscream]

Reincarnation au

doing this ask having only Tfa Rod as Rodimus' sparkling (give the mech a rest)

The official welcome party for baby Rod was the least noisy one thrown by Swerve, but it was also the only one where everyone obeyed Ultra Magnus almost religiously.

Ultra Magnus was also one of the first to meet the new crew member, having gone to meet him as Minimus because "it's safer"

On Megatron's turn, tfa Rod faced him and began to stretch as if he wanted to appear larger, to everyone's amusement (and increasing the bets that Megatron was the sire)

This is so sweet 🥺 Swerve's a great party planner and somehow manages to decorate the entire bar with cute pastels so well that it's damn near unrecognizable. Every drink st the party is a virgin, and music is gentle for little ears 💖 even Whirl was on his best behavior--even psychocopter doesn't wanna hurt the frail innocent newspark

Minimus comes to visit Rodimus after bitty has been discharged, wanting to get their registration paperwork and official ids set up, totally not because he wants to see the cute baby, no no, not at all 🤭 he'd never admit it and he'd probably never try for sny of his own, but methinks the Magnus secretly has a soft spot for little sparklings

And Megatron? To literally everyone's surprise he's actually an old pro when it comes to babies. Whether it's because he's had some of his own (he's lived awhile, after all), or because growing up in the slums of Cybertron meant no contraception -> someone always has a baby in the vicinity, he's very experienced with newsparks. Baby Roddy stretches out and he just kinda gives this fond smirk, reaching down to crook his littlest finger under bitty's chin. Sparkling reacts with the biggest, silliest smile and starts giggling, kicking his little legs. The Megarod allegations are definitely ramping up in intensity after this 🤭

[dimorphodon-x]

Seeker Speak?

Chirp!

Rodimus shifted, turning his head to nuzzle further into Thunderclash’s side.

Chirp! Chirp!

Croooooo…

The red and yellow speedster frowned. What was that?

Chirrrp!

Cooo… crooooo.

Alright, what was that? Rodimus cracked one eye open and peered into the darkness surrounding his sleeping trine. The chirps and coos were very clear, as if right next to him. He lifted his head enough to look over at the sleeping jet on the other side of Thunder’s chest. He appeared to be sound asleep, an arm curled around a precious little bundle.

Chirrr-eep!

Rodimus spotted a pair of tiny hands reach up from the blanket Hawk was using as both a pillow and nest and grab his pointed nose. Another small chirp sounded from the little sparkling in his arm.

Coo…

Starhawk’s stabilizers fluttered and his lips twitched. He sleepily nudged his nose against Gracequake’s little hands as he purred out a few coos and trills, the sounds deep enough to be felt lightly rumbling across Thunderclash’s plating and into Rodimus’ own.

Ah, so the sounds were coming from those two. Interesting.

:Is Gracequake making those chirps?: Rodimus almost jumped when he received a private comm from Thunderclash. He looked up at the large bot’s golden face, seeing a sliver of red under hooded eyelids.

:Yeah, looks like she is.:

:Interesting…: Thunder’s chest slowly rose and fell with a sigh :I’m almost certain that’s seeker speak. Some form of it anyway, doesn’t sound Vosian.:

:Yeah?: Rodimus watched as Grace pawed at Starhawk’s silver face, chirping and trilling some more. His spark fluttered fondly as he noted the small smile on the resting flier’s face.

:Well, Gracequake is a grounder, not a flier.:

Ahh, that was kinda strange. Though come to think of it, Novabird didn’t chirp like a seeker when he was a bitty, and he was the only one of their three kids who could fly. Perhaps Gracequake just so happened to have inherited that special something? Who knows, it probably didn’t matter either. It was cute to listen and watch as she blindly explored the face of one of her parents with her soft little hands.

It looked like it was making Starhawk happy too, which was nice. These days his temper was quick to flare at even minor inconveniences. Despite all the movie nights, salty and sour energon candies, fancy polishes, slow dances in the privacy of their shared quarters, and even a couple of shiny objects as appeasement gifts, it was often difficult for Rodimus and Thunderclash to keep him content.

:But we’re not as tiny and adorable as Gracequake is,: Thunderclash reasoned. Rodimus gave the larger mech’s side a harsh yet playful prod.

:Whaaaat? I’m plenty cute!:

Thunders couldn’t help the chuckle that rattled his chest. Starhawk’s stabilizers waggled as he lifted his head to face the other two, one eye stubbornly sealed shut with sleep, “what’re you talkin’ ‘bout?”

“Nothing much,” Rodimus shrugged a shoulder before reaching an arm across Thunderclash’s chest, holding a finger out for Gracequake to grab onto. She had a pretty solid grip for something so small and delicate, “just how cute little Gracie is.”

Hawk’s stabilizers again waggled as he purred an agreement. He struggled to keep his eye open as he watched Rodimus wiggle his captured finger, getting the little sparkling to giggle and tighten her grip.

Starhawk let out a half-sparked huff when Thunderclash pushed his crest down over his eyes, silently telling him it was time to sleep. The jet didn’t have the energy to object as he shifted to get more comfortable and was softly snoring within seconds.

[mychlapci]

A marine research facility with a section that's open to the public was not prepared for how horny the mermaids would be. Dear Primus are they horny

Mer dratchrod are constantly banging in front of visitors in every which way... possibly as a territorial display, says one befuddled researcher. Like, they aren't being kept in the visitor's section, they can swim to the private pools, and yet, they choose not to

-v3nth

ahahaha well that's definitely not the kind of display the facility was trying to put on. First time someone calls for staff, worried the mers are hurting each other the poor researcher has to explain that they appear to be displaying mating behaviour without actually attempting to fertilize each other- and they know they're not trying to actually have babies because the transfluid immediately leaks out, dissolving in the water, so clearly they're just doing this for fun. It's their most clinical way of explaining that "these mermaids are having wild animal sex and we can't get them to stop"

I think it's a bit of a spite thing, as well a territorial display. I mean, how would you feel if someone installed a room into your house where people came to gawk at you? And perhaps it's a bit of a kink thing, too. Rodimus doesn't exactly hate the attention, and when he and Drift start regularly going at it in front of visitors he finds that he really enjoys looking over and seeing their voyeurs whispering to themselves. The thought of the two of them being some kinda lewd spectacle just makes the overloads that much more intense.

Ratchet probably thinks it's stupid and doesn't get involved at first, shying away from prying optics in said private pools, some visitors might even be confused as to why the datapads list three merformers in the tank when they've only seen two. But seeing how much fun his mates are having, Ratchet ends up caving and coming along, putting on a great show when his valve is fucked right into the glass of the display, tail thudding against the window while visitors flinch away with each rough thrust... Mermaid sex is probably a little jarring to cybertronians, seeing Drift grab Ratchet and ram his tail into him looks more like a struggle than the throes of passion, honestly... or whenever Rodimus manages to lure his mates into the tank and they both circle around him like they're planning something, getting closer and closer and pushier and pushier and it looks like Rodimus is trying to escape, when he's suddenly grabbed and fucked well with his head pushed into the sand padding the floor of the tank. The staff keeps asking them to please stop making it look like they're forcing themselves on poor Rodimus, every single time they get a bunch of visitors sending in complaints and it's become tedious to explain that their merformers are just playing a game and no one is actually in distress. (They keep doing it)

[in1-nutshell]

Oh my primus! Same Anon who requested the Nightlight's exes. You just confirmed one my headcanons of Nightlight and Optimus having a past. I have always imagined if not with Ratchet, Nightlight will be beside Optimus because of your previous works mentioning the loyalty she had for this two bots. I kinda HC that Nightlight came later on the Lost light because *cough* fake *cough* death (the usual batfam stuff) but she is just chilling somewhere in a mission (with Optimus or one of her exes). Ratchet believing Nightlight has gone offline got conjux with Drift and then some crisis happened then boom Nightlight came to clutch and save the day. Ratchet will for sure choke her to death if he could hahaha.

Hi Anon!

while I'm still trying to figure out how to place Nightlight on the Lost Light, I do like your idea of her appearing when everyone needs her.

She was probably in Optimus's shuttle before the Launch and ended up following a trail that would help with her case on where Skids went to.

Cue Nightlight knocking on Rodimus's door and the poor Prime nearly having a spark attack seeing her.

Ratchet nearly goes into cardiac arrest when she shows up unannounced and casually asking for a bandaid.

[ihatebrainstorm]

Ok I got a bunch of work I need to finish but also just need to spitball some long winded Half Life/Portal universe Transformer crossover thoughts:

(Will contain Half Life 1 & 2, Portal 1 & 2, Aperture Desk Job, and ofc TF IDW spoilers btw)

Perceptor fitting as more of a Gordon Freeman role in Half Life's Black Mesa Institute bc he matches the more gritty atmosphere and serious tone of the Half Life games + Both Gordon and Perceptor taking on similar "scientists by trade, but still a competent as hell fighter when the situation calls for it" roles... Their appearances even kinda give similar vibes? But that could just be me

Brainstorm's fascination with the Dead Universe in IDW working well with Black Mesa's dubious research into Xen and all the alien life there- I can see him being incredibly interested in headcrab parasites? But he also sorta matches more with the eccentric type of experiments ran by Aperture Science.. Turrets and portal gun technology seem right up his alley,, (Also not to mention the mantis society human DNA stuff has weird Brainstorm type experimentation written all over it)

Percy working at Black Mesa while BS is in Aperture bc they're rival companies etc. etc. u get the gist hopefully

I need to look at Portal's lore again bc it's been a long while and I don't remember what his story was, but whenever I look at that one photo of Doug Rattman, he reminds me of BS sdkfs

Shockwave and Glados. I know technically Glados and Caroline are separate, but the parallels behind Caroline/Glados and Shockwave's backstories are still there ksdkfsd- What if Glados and Shockwave swapped places actually, and Shockwave were to run Aperture..... hm

Domestication and their parallels to the procedure done by the Combine to create stalkers.....

Whirl having a pet headcrab? Like Lamaar? Maybe?? Similar to his scraplets I dunno

Brainstorm would have so much fun with potato Glados and all the personality cores I think

Rodimus meeting and yelling at the G-man because I think it'd be funny

Brainstorm jokingly speculating that the G-man's briefcase is a plagiarized version of his time-case bc of how he's always carrying it around, able to blip in and out of random portals, as well as control time-

[sparklesdogs]

Hello hello 👋😊

Thank you for answering my asks! :))

I really love your au so much it literally scratches that spider optimus itch and that tfa itch that has been bothering me when i read the scrapped season four plans and realized that hasbro are cowards and should have renewed the show for more seasons.

But I have a question what happened to the Dinobots? Are they still kicking or they all got scrapped? And is wasp or anyone else going to get turned into an Predacon?

After the events of the Archa Seven accident did both Sentinel and Elita get demoted or did they have to return back to the academy due to the higher ups realizing that they aren���t ready yet.

And I’m sorry if I’m over sending too many asks and questions your fanfic is literally in my brain rent free

(I can’t wait for the next chapter, but please take your time to write and answer) :33

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Hey hey!

I'm glad to hear that it scratches your spider Optimus itch! It was an AU that I thought about a lot when I was first getting into the TFA fandom- even before Arachnus Prime was revealed to the public lol. I wrote Those Abandoned and honestly didn't think I was going to make a sequel. But I got the sudden inspiration one day and wrote like.. 4 chapters in one go and thought "hey, why not?"

I was so upset when I saw that there was a planned season 4 that was never released too! Shattered Glass?? Role swap?? A TF fan's best dreams were destroyed with that season not getting made. Although, to be fair, they stopped it from getting made so that Prime could come out. I wouldn't have minded both shows co-existing though..

For the Dinobots, yes, they're still kicking. They're over on Dinobot island. I'm not sure how much I'll go into depth about their origin 'cause it's basically the same from the show. It just happened before Orion's group arrived. I will say one thing: It was First Aid who helped them escape ;).

For Predacons, I'm probably not going to include them. In the show, they're made by Blackarachnia. Since she doesn't exist here and it's Orion instead.. I'm not. Maybe if he was more scientifically-inclined like Blackarachnia was in the show, but since he isn't and is more of a general or a commander and actually has a crew, he doesn't feel the need to make "more like him".

The incident on Archa Seven definitely went a lot different. In the show, Optimus is very much a push-over when it comes to taking responsibility (Sentinel shoves him under the bus on MULTIPLE occasions and he still doesn't say anything). In my AU, it was Sentinel and Elita who were brought forth to answer what happened. Elita is more bull-headed and stubborn than Optimus and I doubt she'd let Sentinel throw her under the bus. So, they were both punished since neither would admit to being at fault. Plus, I think, out of the 3, Ultra Magnus could recognize that Optimus and Elita were the better candidates for Magnus rather than Sentinel. So, he gave Sentinel and Elita an equal punishment to seem like he is fair, but in reality, it's so that Elita kinda still has a back door into getting back in.

But then Rodimus appeared and I think he is now the best candidate, so that's why he takes Rodimus everywhere and gives him valuable experiences. You may have noticed that Rodimus, unlike Sentinel, is actually fairly diplomatic. Ultra Magnus recognized that Rodimus would be willing to learn and has done so well. Rodimus is definitely still immature off to the side (because I love his LL and MTMTE self), but he's serious when he needs to be.

Don't worry about sending too many asks! Like I said, I love answering questions about this AU!

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

I did make some transformers animated aus that I might focus on in the future, some not so much and definitely won't even touch

It's nothing much, though some are pretty dark, a lot of it involves Bumblebee

So here are some of the Aus I made:

1. Tfa X Hollow Knight au

To anyone who's familiar with this game, it's nothing much

2. Held au

An au where it took place in that season 4 point where Bumblebee becomes a prime. But he got his head popped off, coincidentally Rodimus Prime lost his body (I don't know how) and they popped that bad boy (or should I say good boy?) onto BP's body and it worked and it didn't. They both struggle to co-operate.

3. Gestalt au

Same with the Held au, only Bumblebee lost his limbs, his head, and his teammates (well it's composed of bots with the 65356-9292-346 body-type). Medics popped in what's left of the team and hope Bumblebee doesn't die, and he didn't and he's suffering. His teammates become his intrusive thoughts.

4. Hollow Angel au

If you ever watch or read houseki no kuni. That's probably it... And you probably know who's Phos in this...

5. Träumen au (Signalis au)

Dear God! If you ever play or learn about this game, things are crazy in this. And Bee is Ariane... But for some reason Ironhide is Elster? I'm not sure why...

6. Tfa X Signalis X Infinity Train au

Huh?! When did I ever make this?!

7. Owl house au

Okay... Why did it finally shift to something normal? But anyone familiar, it's obvious

8. Restaurant from another world au

Aw now it's really wholesome☺️

9. High Demand au

It's just Bumblebee as Steven universe pearls the au, this au is scrapped

But there is an au that branched out from this au⬇️

10. Psychopomp/ Todesbringer au

It's basically Madoka Magica. Bee is specifically made to hunt down these "Kaputte" or broken ones from this au, though still very different from each other. Being trapped on earth, he goes kinda crazy for not hunting them down, but now they suddenly appear on earth mysteriously...

11. Dungeons and dragons au

Hell yeah!!!!!

12. Best Friend au

Inspired by kinito pet, yes, it is Bumblebee

Whelp that's all I got!