#that something was Heatwave waking up from stasis

[lunasdestiny]

Hi! Wow, you answered that ask faster than I thought you would XD (I am gift headcanon anon for clarity). And yeah, I probably should have sent an ask before with the headcanon I had that the rescue bots suffer varied levels of survivors guilt before I sent that other one for context, whoops. (Spoilers: long rant ahead, (and also may get a little dark?) I don't know where boundaries lie, I'm sorry) I know Rescue Bots is a kids show and can't really go in depth with the war like in Prime, but I really wished they had little snippets with the bots having 'reality checks' every once in a while that cybertron was gone and struggled with that fact. Blades feels it the most because he is an anxious mess that lets his thoughts get away from him. So the fact that they went into stasis only to wake up and find everything/everyone they known and loved was gone for millions of years…that would mess anyone up real bad. And the fact it was all gone because of a long, brutal war they completely missed by sheer luck?! That's not something you just brush off.

I can imagine in the beginning Blades remembering friends/family he'd love to talk to about earth and his new mission only to get slammed by the reality that those bots he talked to a few days ago are long since gone and he can't talk to them ever again! PLUS the fact that Decepticons hit Rescue Bots first thing in the war and Sigma 17 were the only rescue bots to survive the bullet! The last four of their kind. I refuse to believe Blades didn't immerse himself in human movies and internet so he wouldn't spiral. He knows deep down he's not responsible for what happened, nor could he control anything afterwards, but after seeing new cybertron it's really hard not to think about the people he knew that don't get to enjoy this new peaceful world. And he feels he can't confide to Bee because how do you tell a war veteran with serious trauma that you feel guilty because you took a nap for millions of years only to wake up and play hero with humans while he and his team battled horrors beyond your belief just to survive everyday of a brutal war that killed your whole planet and everyone on it?! You do not dump 'Sorry I wasn't there to watch all of these terrible things you experienced, but I kinda sort of wish I did so I can feel I deserve to be here and enjoy this without my spark eating itself alive from thinking about how many suffered while I got off scott free'. Nope, nu-uh, not saying anything, hey look at that new thing! That looks like fun hahaha!!!

(I am so sorry this got so long (and got a little too dark?). I honestly love Blades to bits but sometimes I do wish they were more in the Prime continuity so we can get more backstory/inner thoughts/growth from their characters.)

OHhhhhh mANNNNN 😭😭😭😭😭

Dw I have the same wishes for any show I watch but I guess that's left for us to interpret!

Tho I imagine Blades does have a boiling point. Kinda a follow-up on the last ask you sent as well, but Blades and Bee are staying at a place during their time in Cybertron. Bee returns to the room only to see Blades with his back turned and making little sounds. He asks if he's okay only for Blades to turn around and he's just crying big Ghibli tears

Of course seeing Blades cry makes his whole world stop so he goes up to immediately hold him. Blades of course tries to make a joke but it just makes him look more pathetic.

"H-Heatwave said we couldn't cry. He's such a liar! I've done it before a-and I'm doing it now!" But he can't hold it in anymore and his voice breaks with a sob "I'm sorry!' "What are you sorry for?" "I'm supposed to be enjoying this trip and I'm ruining it!" "You're not ruining anything. You're upset...Blades you can talk to me...you dont have to but you can."

That's when it all spills out.

"I just can't stop thinking about everything from before! I miss my family! I miss my friends! I miss the rink! Everything I remembered from home is different or gone! I could have seen them off but I missed it all because of a stupid energon eater! And while I was in stasis all of that got destroyed! I should be grateful that I didn't experience the war but I feel like I'm being tortured! I know it's not true, but for some reason it feels like my fault! AND NOW IM RUINING THIS TRIP BY BEING SAD ABOUT IT!"

Bee just holds him tighter. He knows he can't exactly relate, but he wants to comfort Blades as much as he can. So, while holding him, he lets Blades have a good cry.

"What can I do to help you feel better?" *sniff* "I like this actually..." "Good. You've been holding in a lot, haven't you?" "Mmm..." "I can't say I relate completely. But know I'm here for you if you need anything. Even if it's just for this." "Thank you...Heh. It's funny. I remember getting teased a lot for being a crybaby back when I was younger. It got to the point I tried my best to hide somewhere whenever I did." "Sad that we weren't friends then. You could have cried around me if you wanted. Knowing how I was, I probably would have tried to make you laugh by doing something stupid." "Hehe...It would have probably worked. I was easily amused." "...Tell me more." "About what?" "What were you like back then. Maybe other stuff...If you want to, of course." "...Sure."

They end up falling into recharge in each other's arms.

[a5cl3pius]

@presidentofthelipglossclub Inspired by your repost

Heatwave was the last to wake from stasis. When he awoke the Sigma was empty. It racked its brain trying to remember what had happened.

Ah yes, the energon eater. On a subconscious level those creatures terrified Heatwave, and all Cybertronians alike. They fed on flowing energon, somehow being able to sense it, and well, enegon flows through a cybertonians veins.

It shook its head. He was here now, that ment they had survived the energon eater. And for a moment he assumed "here" was Cybertron. All thought of that vanished when it stepped outside of the ship.

"Where are we?" Heatwave could hear Chase ask. Good, the younglings were okay.

"Who cares? It's not Cybertron. I wanna go home!" Blades whined.

"Home? Why would you want to go home? Don't you understand? This is an organic planet! There is much to understand!" Boulder was quite animated.

Heatwave walked onto solid ground. He observed the area around him. Boulder was quite right, it was an organic world. Although, most worlds not in Cybertrons corner of the galaxy were organic so it couldn't pinpoint which one.

"Boulder, you take interest in Organic worlds, can you tell which one we are on? The ships navigation system was damaged during the fight with the energon eater." Heatwave hummed.

Boulder looked dumbfounded. It was at least worth a try, he surmised.

"You're on earth. I am Optimus Prime," came a strangely familiar voice.

Heatwave would have immediately gone for his weapons if that voice wasn't so damn familiar. His head shot up go where the voice came from, its optics narrowing. The mech the voice belonged to walked out of the shadows, the three younglings began to ask questions but Heatwave wasn't paying too much attention. That Mech looked familiar as well...

It hit the fire bot like a fucking fright train running down those tracks at full speed. It's optics widened, but he kept his thoughts in his spark. Orion Pax, or rather Optimus Prime, surveyed the group, optics landing on Heatwave. Heatwave knew that the Prime came to a similar conclusion when the Mechs optics widened.

"We need to get your ship covered, please assist me in pushing it into this warehouse." Optimus finally said.

The four quickly followed instructions and pushed the ship into the building.

"What do you mean Cybertron is no longer our home?" Chase asked.

Amazing, something Hearwave was too zoned out to hear originally. Optimus looked between them all.

"You may want to sit down."

If it was being honest, he suspected something would happen with the caste system for quite a long time, although it hurt to hear that his home for so long had been destroyed. After a while of processing Heatwave stood up and made its way across the room to where Optimus was standing.

"Now, who in the scrap decided to make you a Prime? Mr. Breaking into the archives. I swear D-16 and I had to bail you out several times."

Optimus sheepishly smiled, "Well, Primus has their reasons."

Heatwave nodded and the two lapsed into silence.

"We cannot send those three into a war. I refuse it," Heatwave finally spoke up, spectating the group of the three bots.

"That is where we agree, old friend. They are both young and unprepared for war. There is a human I could call... he could find a place for them to be what they were created to be, Rescue bots."

Heatwave nodded, his optics traveled back to Optimus, "Now, tell me the story of how a trouble maker like Orion Pax, became a prime.

[sturthepotofmadness]

I have more ideas for my Unicron Redemption AU. :)

First post (general timeline and what started this) here: https://sturthepotofmadness.tumblr.com/post/698121264982786048/i-just-thought-of-a-crazy-transformers-au-that

Second post (Skyquake & Insecticons) here: https://sturthepotofmadness.tumblr.com/post/700220416473645056/i-wanted-to-add-more-to-my-accidental-unicron

LONG POST AHEAD

I forgot the relics existed in the first post (: I have to address them now

Also the Rescue Bots... why didn’t I cover the Rescue Bots in the Skyquake post?

(fuck, what would happen first, uh--)

We’re doing the Rescue Bots first.

Rescue Bots:

As per canon, they crash land off the coast of Maine and near Griffin Rock. As not with canon, Skyquake is the first one to make it to the crashed ship

Some humans join him and some of the largest drones help get the ship out of the water and onto the shores of Griffin Rock.

Unicron decides to force-ghost his way to see what’s up as Skyquake and the humans explore the ship

Skyquake and Unicron are the ones to find the current in-stasis Chase, Heatwave, Boulder, and Blades first. Skyquake attempts to get them out of stasis, but that fails.

The humans finally rejoin them as Unicron attempts. He wants to only do one, just in case, but he accidentally wakes up all of them so they now have to deal with these four, relatively young (they were in stasis for like four million years) bots freaking out because what the hell did they wake up to and HOW???

They get an explanation from Skyquake, since the humans are too busy vibrating with excitement and Unicron doesn’t want to scare them again.

The RBs are mainly told how Unicron cares for these organics, Unicron is an actual good mech to these tiny organics, they have no clue how to recreate blue Energon, the war hasn’t even touched this planet yet, and that the RBs are free to leave Earth if they so wish (once their ship is repaired).

The RBs ask to talk alone, that is granted and Skyquake goes help Unicron with calming down the hyper little guys that followed them.

In the end, the RBs agree to stay on Earth and join Skyquake as general Cybertronian inhabitants that kind of follow Unicron and these tiny organics.

No, I’m not explaining the Unicron part.

Oh, and they work all across the planet and later all across the colony planets thing, so no Burns family. Maybe they’re there, but they aren’t important.

Anyways, RELIC TIME--

I’m only including the eleven that are in the Iacon relics category on TFWiki and one (technically two) other thing randomly on Earth. I’m just gonna go down the list.

Apex Armor: 

It was found in Greenland roughly a month before Unicron’s body was first entered and humans had zero idea on how to use it, so kept in storage for the longest time. 

When Unicron finally began to like these strange organics that called his body home, the humans went “oh yea, that thing we found” and showed it to Unicron. He did not understand either.

Then Skyquake woke up and, after gaining his trust, showed him the collapsed armor. He identified it as the Apex Armor and they promptly gave it to the seeker.

Skyquake was flustered. Unicron laughed.

Force Field Generator (now on Blue Shield):

Like in canon, it was found in a random cave system.

The humans showed Unicron the Blue Shield, he did not understand. (Expect that for all the non-Thirteen Prime relics)

Skyquake was shown next. He grabbed it, attempted to use it, then accidentally activated its force field function.

The humans immediately began backwards engineering the Blue Shield with scans and Dark Energon. That’s what helped make the force field to help Unicron free himself.

Forge of Solus Prime:

Some scanning drones found the weapon buried on some plateau and immediately alerted the humans to something being weird.

It takes, like, three months, but the humans and some digging/mining drones manage to get the relic out of the Earth.

Skyquake has zero clue on what the relic is, but Unicron sure does recognize it.

After learning that it’s just a big hammer and completely useless to them, they put the Forge in some vault and forget about it.

Liquefier:

The relic is found off the coast of Griffin Rock by some diving drones and, like always, the humans are alerted to the weirdness.

While retrieving the relic, it accidentally activates and Unicron freaks out because I CAN.

The Liquefier is promptly shut off by some sort of spark pulse burst thing directed straight at it by Unicron. It also caused a small earthquake, but the humans (and the RBs) managed to deal with the aftermath.

The humans put the Liquefier in some sort of stasis chamber and seal it away.

Omega Key One: Egypt:

(yes, I’m giving the keys code names)

Using an altered scanner that’s like the scanner they used to find out that Unicron’s arm was hollow, they manage to find this strange reading in a pharaoh’s tomb, use some drones to open it, and find the first Omega Key.

They humans show Unicron, Skyquake, and the RBs the Egyptian Omega Key, all of them do not know what the Omega Keys are so are unable to recognize it. The best thing they got is Skyquake suggesting that it was some machine made that only works with some other machine they don’t have.

It gets shoved away in some vault.

Omega Key Two: Lake Erie:

I’m aware the lake is unnamed in canon, let me name it, ok?

The key is found by some lake/beach goers who decided to go to Lake Erie and promptly found the second Omega Key.

Some scientist/engineer people take the key, comment on the fact there’s two of the weird keys, and promptly put it with the first one.

What else are they going to do with it?

Omega Key Three: Olympic National Forest:

Guess what the scanner drones found weird?

Like with the Forge, they take a long while to actually dig out the key.

Someone comments on how there’s now three things that are exactly identical and promptly shove it with the other two.

We’ll come back to Smokescreen...

Phase Shifter:

Oh yea, this thing is under fucking Manhattan.

Guess what the drones found? At least they only had to dig into the wall and it only takes the same time as canon.

The humans show Unicron, Skyquake, and the RBs the Phase Shifter and Chase is the one to recognize what it is.

The Phase Shifter is shoved/gifted to Chase. Chase is confused, Unicron laughed, the other RBs take a moment to process...

Skyquake: You too, huh?

Polarity Gauntlets:

Guess what the drones found?

They dig up the gauntlets and promptly ask the local Cybertronians about it.

Skyquake recognizes it as a design made during the war, but he has no clue how it got to Earth. Boulder makes an off hand comment on how it could be useful in rescues and the gauntlets were promptly given to Boulder.

He’s embarrassed, the others think it’s kind of funny.

Resonance Blaster:

Guess what the drones found? That’s right, this is another underground relic... joy.

They show the Resonance Blaster to the Cybertronians, Skyquake once again identifies it, and makes sure the humans know that it is a weapon.

The Resonance Blaster is promptly locked away and forgotten.

Spark Extractor:

Guess what the drones found? It took a bit to dig up.

They showed the Cybertronians, all of them sans Unicron promptly freaked, and they destroyed it.

The Spark Extractor is better off ruined, anyways.

Seismic-Shock Warhead:

Flamesnort... exists. And I don’t like that name. Because RiD2015 can go fuck itself, we’re calling her Ignis.

The Rescue Bots, using their ship’s scanner, notice there’s a bot in stasis and decide to go there to see if they can find this in stasis bot. They inform Skyquake before they leave, but he doesn’t join them.

The RBs get to the island off of England and, after a bit of searching, find the in-stasis Ignis and the warhead. They take one look at the bomb and decide to... request Skyquake to come over.

He does so and identifies the warhead and that it’s, well, a weapon. They get the humans involved and they promptly take the weapon.

The moment any of them touch the weapon, Ignis suddenly wakes up and turns to face them. She sees the ruined Decepticon mark on Skyquake and the not-so-ruined RB marks on the RBs and asks what happened.

Skyquake explains to Ignis the situation as the humans and maybe Boulder take the weapon out of the cavern to put into the vault and forgotten about.

Ignis is... kinda forced to join them, because where else is there to go? She ends up sticking around with the Rescue Bots mostly, helping them with rescues and what not. 

Star Saber:

The humans find this weird, indestructible rock with a sword stuck in it and ask the Cybertronians about it.

Skyquake, Ignis, and the RBs don’t recognize it.

Unicron immediately recognizes the blade as the Star Saber and now he has a choice to make.

After some thought, he tells the humans that it’s a weapon from when he and his brother were in conflict.

The humans hear the word weapon and promptly stuff it in the same vault with the other weapons.

Unicron does not like the fact that the Star Saber is so close to him, but he can’t really do anything about that so...

Omega Key Four: Smokescreen:

Yea, time for this idiot.

Like with the RBs, he crash lands on Earth, but no one knows how the fuck he got so close to Earth. Unicron didn’t sense him, the Rescue Bots’s ship didn’t detect him or a SpaceBridge, the humans didn’t notice anything wrong... now blame Alpha Trion.

(Not that they can blame him, they don’t even know it’s his fault. Plus, Alpha Trion thought the Autobots and Decepticons would be on Earth by this time, apparently not, as he is now learning.)

Skyquake, Blades, and some large transport drones are sent to retrieve Smokescreen and the pod he landed with.

They get him out and Smokescreen is so confused.

Smokescreen gets a rundown of the situation as they go back to wherever the Rescue Bots are stationed.

Like with Ignis, there’s no where for him to go, so just ends up staying with the Rescue Bots and Skyquake, though he mostly follows Skyquake around.

Tox-En Volcano Edition:

Some drones encountered this weird capsule while collecting obsidian/hardened lava and alerted the humans.

The drones and some humans managed to get the Tox-En capsule out of the ground, opened it, and asked the Cybertronians about it. All of them sans Unicron freak out and the humans promptly punt the Tox-En into the lava.

Tox-En Ireland Edition:

Yea, there’s two Tox-En locations on Earth. Thanks, RBA.

This is also the technical thirteenth “relic” on Earth.

Anyways, heavily altered “X Marks the Bot” follows and when they get to the Tox-En, they take it and promptly yeet it into a volcano.

This post is already long as fuck, so sadly I’m not getting to the interactions the Autobots and Decepticons have with Unicron, the humans, and the Cybertronians that stick with the humans/Unicron. Next time, though, that’ll be the interaction post!

[annabelle-creart]

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Ladies and gentlepeople:

Beautiful💖

And yeah, I give Soundwave a redisigne because I wanted him look more like Heatwave, but I liked too much the Prime disigne to leave it

And of course, Sune is an edgy boy

He needed both his mask and tentacles anskjssk

And now: lore

“The day 3 waves come into the world, the sun will burn everything, the electric storm will replace the bright days and the only sound will be the suffering of the fallen”

A old man with really firmly believings thought the best would be kill them, but instead, they were separated. It was normal to separate twins sparks because they saw them as one and not as a whole, probably that’s why they never get how connected two or more sparks can get to the point of the shared feelings, you know Bulkhead and Boulder could, but Heatwave, Shockwave and Soundwave were a different whole thing

Soundwave since a sparkling was shy, couldn’t get the rest, except cats and animals, all his life he had been in love with animals, an introvert who prefered pass the day reading or petting a pet rather than playing with Heatwave or Shockwave, they were the active ones, but Shockwave and Soundwave were the clever ones

Shockwave was active, sociable, kind and loving, with high hopes and great dreams, always getting in trouble and wondering for the future, he loved reading but he prefered action and experimentation, which wasn't good all the time

And Heatwave was aggresive, weird, a clown with the skin of a soldier, always searching problem and rescuing his brother from their own experiments

But one day they couldn't stand anymore see them together, and with "they" I refer to the people in general, the triplet were about to have Sissi's age and nobody wanted them in any part, Primus knows why

And then Shockwave was called

He could live the life he always wanted, but couldn't see his brothers anymore, he only told Heatwave and he kept his promise to not to tell to Soundwave and of course, to never leave alone the other...

The eones passed but the feeling remained, they were so connected that sometimes they could talk by their minds, thing that they lost with the time, Shockwave was named senator and called Soundwave to help him, but Heatwave was raised in the mines and end up as a rescuer, search him was hard and trying to bring him was harder

This part you know it already, Megatron was called on congress and both Shockwave and Soundwave were there, Heatwave saw it through tv, and while Heatwave felt bretrayed by Megatrons speech, Soundwave and Shockwave were obssesed with it.

Shockwave was seen as a problem, so they replace his head

And nobody

In all Cybertron history

Felt how much it hurted not to have feelings as much as the Wave Triplet

Because it wasn't just not to have feelings, it was a rage, a burn of rage inside their chests, but only Heatwave and Soundwave could sense it, Shockwave never did

You also know this part, the Sigma-17 were into an exploration and get lost in space

And when both Soundwave and Shockwave couldn't feel Heatwave's spark they get so angry they almost destroy and entire autobot army by themselves...

The war was still raging and Megatron killed Shockwave to stop his madness and became an autobot, just before escaping Cybertron with destiny to Earth, Soundwave knew this too late and almost get killed by Megatron too, like Starscream. Whatever, Soundwave got lost only with the twins, Rumble and Frenzy, just kids who needed him, and Ravage the cat and Laserbeak the bird, now his spark wasn't so alone going on Earth... but 30 years later he felt something again...

[And as a fun fact: Heatwave couldn't tell Soundwave and Shockwave about Boulder, but his spark was too noisy for Boulder to not to figured out before, so, yes, in Earth was the first time Boulder and Soundwave met]

[Edit: Soundwave's favorite activity was to make jokes to Heatwave with Shockwave, but they were really bad at it, Heatwave was a better joker than them but they never understand o get the jokes without crying so Heatwave decided to be their joke bottle to protect their feelings... the problem is that Soundwave found a better joke friend now that Shockwave is gone: Kade]