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soundcrusher · 2 years

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Of mothers and birds

Part six of my little story featuring my Phoenix and the sentient SG/Lost Light fom @cuppajj

So far, this is the longest part I have written. And I'm saying sorry if it gets a little bit confusing. Like with the last parts, I let my mind create whatever it came up with.

Enjoy!

Trigger warning: Manipulation and a small mention of death

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Today was another day. Another day of doing the same thing Phoenix has been doing for the past… the past… How long has he been on the ship? It’s hard telling the time when there is no outside indication and your only way of orientation is the one you see as a parental figure. Parental figure… Phoenix still hasn’t asked Lightlost if he is his parent, if he likes him as much as his mother.

His mother… He misses his mother. It doesn’t matter to him if she would want him back or not. Knowing her, she would probably open her arms as soon as he would turn up in front of her little shop and hug him as tightly as she could. Telling him everything was okay and that nothing could hurt him now that he was back. And then he would tell her about everything he’s seen and that he lived on board a ship together with Rodimus Prime and Lightlost. Maybe he could even take them to see his mother. They surely would like her, even if she was a Decepticon and they’re Autobots. Right? He was sure that at least Lightlost would like his mother.

“Little bird, what are you doing here?” Phoenix raised his head from the data-pad he was reading to look at Lightlost, before averting his gaze to the rest of Swerve’s Bar. It’s fuller than before, or better said, he has made it fuller with four more corpses he’s found laying inside a workshop. The one mech, who looked like he could turn into a microscope and the small one, who seemingly had a camera in his helmet, were easier to drag in here than the big one with the weird mouthguard and a suitcase chained to his servo and the one with the big wheels on his shoulders. At least they looked like wheels. Either way, Phoenix was rather proud of how he placed them. With the camera bot and the one with the wheels sitting together at a table, while mister microscope and suitcase bot sitting at the bar. Well, they were more like leaning against the bar than sitting, but who would judge him for trying?

“I… like it here…” Muttered the youngling, before looking back down at his data-pad. Phoenix didn’t know why he liked it here, at first he thought it was because of the purple bunny and his little friend, but then he started to carry his energon and data-pads here to read and refuel, and, well, it became a routine. One he would hate to break, if he was honest. “And I don’t even know why I like it here. It’s just… Maybe it reminds me of my mother’s shop. I used to be there all the time. Helping out with anything I could, while mother always worried about me hurting myself.” Phoenix chuckled as a specific memory came to mind of him accidentally falling into a pot of oil cake batter he has been stirring. But at least he didn’t hurt himself, not like when he accidentally touched an active hotplate. Phoenix could still remember how much that hurt and how his mother was quick to scoop him up and rush to a medic.

“Is that so?” Asked Lightlost, as they sat down across from Phoenix. “I can see why you would like this place, even if it doesn’t remind you of something. The crew liked to come here for refueling, or just to have a good time. There hardly was a day when Swerve didn’t have his bar up and running. But then the… incident happened and everyone tried to hide somewhere and…” Lightlost let out a sigh. Sometimes, they missed the busy bustling of the mechs and femmes that used to roam their halls. But then again, if they wouldn’t have done what they did, all of them would have left them. Be it because they died, decided to stay wherever they explored or for another reason. At least, like this, they could stay with them until the end.

It was quiet for a moment. Neither of them spoke, as Phoenix continued reading while Lightlost stared at the young spark. It was still strange to them how someone could bear a likeness to his captain without having any connections. Doesn't mean they weren’t happy about having discovered his little bird.

At first, the likeness was the only reason why they decided to make the deal with Phoenix's captain. Having a bot who looked like Rodimus running around the halls was refreshing, dare they even say nostalgic. But after spending some time with Phoenix, they came to care for the young spark even more. After all, how long has it been since they had met a life so young. Sparklings, even after the war had ended, were rare. And yet, here Phoenix was. A young spark, who could still be considered a sparkling, sitting in front of them.

“Your carrier and sire must be proud to have you as their youngling.” Said Lightlost, which caused Phoenix to look up in confusion. “My what? Are you talking about my mother and father?” He asked, which caused Lightlost to be the one confused now. “I am talking about your creators.”

There was another silence between them, before Phoenix broke it by laughing wholeheartedly. “Mother and father mean carrier and sire. It’s what humans call their creators.” He chuckled while shaking his head. “... Is that why you have been saying, what was it, mother when talking about your carrier?” For the first time in their long life, Lightlost was confused. Mostly because, while they have heard some of their crew talk in this human language, they could never understand it. Although, that also made them wonder how Phoenix could know some. “And where did you learn it?”

“My mother, ehm… my carrier taught me how humans speak and write. She was stationed there during the war and had made friends who taught her. Granted, most of the people were military folk and some didn’t get along well with her, but the others teached her.” Phoenix smiled, before closing the story he was reading on his data-pad and opening the option to scribble down notes. Then he wrote his name onto the pad like humans would write it. “See? Humans write differently than us Cybetronians. Most of the things carrier writes look like this, because she says it’s easier for her to take notes like this. Also, humans, depending on where you are on their planet, speak different languages too! Mother learned the English language, because most people she met spoke it.” He explained.

Lightlost nodded. Not in understanding, but because they could see that it meant a lot to Phoenix. “And what about your sire? Where is he?”

“He left her as soon as I came into the picture…” Muttered Phoenix quietly. Talking about his father was always a difficult topic. Not because it hurt thinking about it, or because his mother was still bitter about him leaving. No, it was mostly because he didn’t know a lot about him. “ I… you would have to ask her, if you want the full story, but I know that they met after the war ended. Carrier was a tank, who tried to find a place in society that didn’t involve fighting, and he was a flier. They got together and were happy, until…” Phoenix let out a sigh, while his stabilizing wings lowered and his shoulders sagged down. Causing his wounds from when he got his main wings ribbed off to sting a little bit. “He took one look at me and had a fight with my carrier. Telling her how they could not raise something like me, but she refused to give me away. So, he left. That’s all I know.” He said, which was followed by a sad chuckle. “I guess, you could say that was the first instance of others avoiding me because of my resemblance to Rodimus.”

Lostlight shook their head while standing up. “He’s a fool for leaving such a wonderful youngling behind then.” They said with the same kind of edge when Phoenix asked about leaving, or when he was not happy with something. At least the youngling thought he could hear that edge. Also, the glint in Lightlost's optics didn't go unnoticed by Phoenix either.

After their conversation, Phoenix finished his energon and took his data-pad back to the captain’s and his room. Carefully laying it down on his bed before taking his place next to the captain’s chair. Leaning against it and staring into Rodimus’ red optics. Funny how he was always hiding his own optics for having the same color, and yet, here he was not shamed for not wearing his visor. Although, it was kind of strange to have such a good look at the captain’s eyes when his head was usually facing forward. “Did you move your head?” Asked the youngling curiously. After all, ever since he noticed Rodimus tapping his finger, Phoenix could notice other small things too. Like a small twitch of the optic or a very light frown whenever Lightlost would enter the room. It made him think that the captain didn’t like the other. Something he couldn’t understand, but his mother and experience taught him that not every Cybertronian had to like each other.

“Why is it that you don’t like Lightlost?” Sighed Phoenix quietly, before he started to tell Rodimus about his day. Noting that the captain’s mimic would always slightly change whenever the occasion called for it. A smile, when he said something funny, a frown when Lightlost was mentioned, a scowl when he talked about his father and why he left and a curious twinkle in the optic when Phoenix was talking about his mother.

“Maybe you have even seen her once. You can’t really overlook her. Especially with her paint job. I got that one from her, you know?” Phoenix’s remaining wings fluttered proudly, as he puffed out his chest plate. “I also learned a lot of things from my mother. It might not be an amazing talent, but thanks to her I can make the best oil cakes in the whole galaxy! Maybe one day I will make one for you too Roddy. Once you start moving more, that is.” He said, before chuckling. “I can’t wait to walk around with you. I bet I can run faster than you. But… you probably would have to learn to walk again… But don’t worry! I will help you! I’m good at helping after all.”

Rodimus couldn’t fight the soft smile forming on his lips, as he listened to the young spark. He was glad that Phoenix, despite the situation months ago, didn’t lose that part of his innocence. During the war, too many young sparks had to grow up too fast. Bumblebee was a good example, or a bad one. It really depended on how you were looking at it. Primus and Unicron together, Rodimus was sure that he was used as a chilling example for something at least once or twice. Maybe they even made him into a scary sparklings tale too. He wouldn’t blame the Decepticons for that. Honestly, now that he had time to reflect on his wrong doings and mistakes, he would feel honored to be used as a bad example. Maybe then more death and tragedies could be prevented.

Speaking of preventing, he just heard Phoenix say that Lightlost didn’t know human tongue. That was… perfect! Well, this knowledge isn't useful now, with him still not being able to use his voice, but once he regained enough strength, he could speak with Phoenix using the organics language. Maybe that could give him an advantage over the Lost Light. Even if it was just a small one. Then again, there was still the issue of him not being able to talk with Phoenix now. And he needed to at least warn him now, to make sure that the kid wouldn’t fall even deeper into the Lost Light’s clutches. But he couldn’t do much. All he was able to do were the small movements of his fingers and hands.

He was thinking about morse code, but he didn’t think that the youngspark would know what that was. Maybe Phoenix knew how to understand it from his mother, but Rodimus couldn’t be sure of that. At least, he didn’t get a reaction when he morsed SOS repeatedly while the kid was staring at his servos… His servos… The need to talk… Rodimus wished he could move his arms, because he had the urge for a facepalm right now.

Chirolinguistics!

Drift, before dying, taught him how to speak with his hands. Why, by Primus and Unicron together, didn’t he think of that before? Granted, there was again the fifty-fifty chance that Phoenix wouldn’t know what that is, but it’s worth a shot. And if it didn’t work, he would just have to work harder on regaining his voice.

So, when Phoenix started to clean him again, Rodimus set his plan into motion. Waiting for when the youngling was cleaning his hands to quickly grab them. Looking at him, as Phoenix stared down in confusion and bewilderment.

[Can you hear me?]

Rodimus waited for a response. And when he was ready to give up, he got it.

[Yes]

#sentient sg/lost light au #sentient sg/lost light #phoenix #cuppajj #only Phoenix is my character #also #rodimus wanting to facepalm but not being able to is a mood #also also #it's still a long road until we get to the end #or at least the first escape attempt where the two boys work together #can I just say that I like the trope of a bad guy adopting someone as their family #tw manipulation #tw mention of death #I shouldn't write this story in the evening #but nighttime gets my brain working and creativity flowing

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megapwnus · 2 years

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I’m on a cross-country road trip atm with my sister @horrorcon and my dog and today I had very long conversations (kind of. me ranting mostly, I think, lol) about chromedome and his relationship with prowl and with rewind and with everyone on the lost light that he trusted (excepting rewind) poised to take advantage of him the moment he was weak (when rewind was nearly killed in the bomb explosion): rodimus, drift, BRAINSTORM*, prowl behind it all... and at the same time only BEING on the LL on paper for RW to help with decoding the matrix map etc but REALLY to look for his conjunx’s ex-conjunx with the expectation that if they did find Dominus that CD would be left in the dust. because those idiots never properly talked about the “after” of finding Dom.

so actually RW is simultaneously holding CD to such high expectations of bettering himself/overcoming his addiction to injecting (when its the one thing he does that makes him feel useful and that the others See and Know him for and how he can contribute uniquely to their cause/needs... just look how confident and poised he was when talking to Overlord before it all went to shit) while simultaneously selfishly making him be surrounded by the temptation to do so/ people who expect him to inject**. oh my god i’m emo.

and yes I know that despite RW being selfish here, CD could stand up for himself, he could face that conversation about their relationship after finding Dominus head-on without assuming things, but he literally does not have the self-worth to even consider that there could even BE an “after” for him with RW once RW finds Dominus. He said as much when Tailgate was questioning him about it.

So CD is on the LL, estranged, manipulated by those he is meant to be able to trust and who are meant to support him (his captain, the nominal-third-in-command, his purported best friend), struggling to make friends on his own without RW† (Tailgate tries to be his friend but ends up poking at one of his deepest miseries in the most ham-fisted way, cyclonus raided kimia so CD’s not ready to be chummy w him it seems, etc etc... idk it just seems that CD is NEVER socializing without RW, and even stays behind when RW is out socializing a lot of the time (e.g., some(?) movie nights, Hedonia)), is devastated he cannot jump-start RW’s spark himself because he’s not medically/physiologically sound enough to do so (with the implication that it is from injecting, right? I dont think Ratchet says it outright but it seems to be what CD takes away from the conversation, anyway, fueling his self-loathing), (and AGAIN CD is only there on the LL in the first place to find the person he thinks he is a stand-in for in RW’s life....), takes the life-line he thinks Drift is offering him to feel useful and capable and worthy– when in actuality Drift is orchestrating a multi-player, carefully-articulated and long-in-play PLOT to manipulate CD into doing mnemosurgery on Overlord for Prowl’s dumb project, and then RW DIES and it is definitely partially CD’s very own fault, especially for interfacing with Overlord without supervision. And CD watches RW die knowing that RW “will never be able to forgive [him] for this.”

I’m not even coherent in this post but I am just thinking thinking thinking about how this all plays out like a horrible Shakespearean tragedy and it’s not even the surface-level plot, really. CD’s life is probably one of the most compellingly tragic stories in the entirety of MTME/LL. And thank fuck it doesn’t end there.

*Ofc, Brainstorm (in my eyes at least) does redeem himself and take more care in/of their friendship in Elegant Chaos arc, focusing on CD, his depression, and his achievement of not erasing his memories of RW and breaking that awful cycle. Brainstorm devotes a lot to CD in this section of the story. HOWEVER, that does not change the fact that he played a direct hand in manipulating his best friend, which led to his best friend’s conjunx endura getting killed (among others on the ship!)!!! Idk, I LOVE BS but I do think that a lot of the fanon I’ve seen glosses over the fact that BS was complicit in the Overlord plot. And I find his involvement extra-inexcusable considering his more-informed stance on all of CD’s issues, his history with mnemosurgery, etc.

**And Rodimus literally PREYS on this, whether that is conscious on his part or not. He knows CD wants to be useful, wants to be helpful, and above all wants to do GOOD because he feels he has not done enough good in this world/feels so guilty about his past re: shadowplay. It’s like the perfect storm. Canonically it is noted several times that although Rodimus plays the fool, he is incredibly astute and perspicacious when it comes to reading those around him, particularly in regard to how he can subtly manipulate them into playing into his schemes (see: using incorrect grammatical constructions in order to distract Minimus/Ultra Magnus during key decision-making moments in which he thinks Magnus will protest his decisions). Actually this also evokes how Roddy uses Drift and his insecurities and eagerness to please to absolve himself of his Decepticon past in the eyes of his now-fellow Autobots.... hmmmm Rodimus. Girl.

† We see him hanging out one-on-one with Skids, and they get along very well and seem to care for each other, but their relationship becomes about Chromedome’s ability to help Skids recover from his amnesia, and, unfortunately, from that moment onward, Mnemosurgery becomes the focal point of their relationship. And, in the end, it ultimately leads to... well. the end of it. :(

#cdrw #really emo #im processing........................#insert anime crazy eyes emoji #insert gif of girl talking to herself pacing circles in her room #rodimus #chromedome #rewind #skids #brainstorm #drift #ultra magnus #minimus ambus #james roberts youve bewitched me body and soul and mind and emotions and creative juices #tf #tf idw #tf mtmte #mtmte #megapwnus musings

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overlordraax · 1 year

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rodimus | Rodimus Prime/Thunderclash, hinted Rodimus | Rodimus Prime/Thunderclash, Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers), background skyfire/starscream Characters: Rodimus | Rodimus Prime, Thunderclash (Transformers), Galvatron (Transformers), Arcee (Transformers), Springer (Transformers), Cyclonus (Transformers), Jetfire | Skyfire (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers) Additional Tags: Were-Creatures, transformers were au, Fluff, Lunch, First Meetings, Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - Werecreatures Series: Part 2 of Transformers werecreature au Summary:

Rodimus hears a car pull up to the house, a car that he hasn't heard before. Probably another lost hiker.

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I wrote a chapter of the Were!AU I’ve been writing with @ultracreativelywritten continuing on the Rodiclash story she started.

#Transformers #Were creatures au #Were au #Rodimus #Thunderclash #Rodiclash #my writings #Megatron #Optimus Prime #Galvatron #Creatively Written

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archie-sunshine · 5 months

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Another unhinged fic concept: driftrod DRIFT FUCKS UP edition

alright fellas I need y'all to stick with me on this one again. Also i've already finished writing this fic, and it turned out way longer than I thought it would be

SO! The topical datapatch from c.5 of Survey Says-! stuck in my brain and didn't leave and I thought! what other creative ways can i use this to bully rodimus?

Just for safety, here's your final warning before i start explaining this fic concept. (TW: DUBIOUS CONSENT, but in like? a comedy of errors sort of way)

(let us all pray that this post doesn't get penis blasted for suggestive material)

Not to sound like a broken record but i think rodimus should get punished for being a bad captain who sucks at his job as much as physically possible.

The concept is- Drift has a topical patch that's supposed to reward for good behaviour and punish bad behaviour. He codes it so that it rewards when rodimus does his job right and it punishes him when he fucks up or is mean

THE CATCH IS! DRIFT DID NOT THINK THE PATCH WAS SEXUAL IN NATURE. Hence why he was comfortable sticking it on his amica/throuple partner without telling him.

ANTICS ENSUE

Rodimus on the other hand, starts feeling bursts of pleasure and shocks for no reason, that only started when drift showed up, and immediately assumes that it's his doing, and its a fun kink thing that Drift decided to try without telling him. Rodimus is stupid and also a whore so thats fine with him.

He immediately, very expectedly, figures out the way to get pleasure from the chip, and devolves into the mindset of a lab rat pushing the treat button in an experiment like a million times.

He gets a little bit carried away.

Other stuff happens and rodimus gets reduced to a puddle, drift regrets his decisions and tries to help him, etc etc

But yeah! thats the fic!! Id love to know if u guys want me to post this one, bc it just needs to be edited and junk.

I'll also take this post to quickly mention that my inbox is still open, i love receiving asks and fic ideas and headcanons for various stuff! I'm planning on writing a post at some point about my elaborate blanket lost light jump ending au and headcanons, so u can look forward to that, but for now, i just love hearing peoples elaborate thoughts and headcanons on the mtmte characters SOSOSO much, the more schnasty and out of pocket the better, i always get a kick out of how feral this fandom gets over robots.

#my art #mtmte #transformers #my fic #valveplug #/nsfw #/nsft #rodimus #driftrod #drift

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novafire-is-thinking · 1 year

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Cybertronian Color Psychology

I wasn’t planning to write an essay on Cybertronians and color psychology just yet, but here I am doing just that, thanks to a recent discussion with @onewingedsparrow.

Basically, my thinking revolves around what kinds of meanings Cybertronians might have assigned to certain colors and how they differ from human color associations. We already know that colors can mean entirely different things to different human cultures (e.g. black and white can both be associated with death depending on where you come from).

My best speculative example for Cybertronians is purple. Before I continue, keep in mind that I’m ignoring the fact that purple is a common color used for villains in fiction because that’s boring and doesn’t leave much room for deeper implications.

Megatron’s Favorite Color

When looking at human color psychology, purple is often associated with things like Imagination, Mystery, Royalty, and Spirituality. Darker shades are closely tied to different emotions and traits than are lighter shades, but as a general rule, purple is more “mystical” and abstract than a color such as green, which is more grounded and earthy.

Now, I point to the trend of Megatron and his Decepticons choosing to adorn themselves and/or their spaces with purple.

I agree 100%, Megatron.

Despite Megatron’s reputation of ruthlessness and using force and power of will to make progress, he’s often also portrayed as a charismatic individual with an affinity for wielding words in beautiful ways that capture and hold a listener’s attention—a poet in his own way. Megatron may be loud and threatening, but he’s also strategically minded; words and actions carry weight and intentionality.

What does this have to do with color? Well, I like to think that Megatron chose purple as the chief color of the Decepticon cause for a reason. I’ll present two likely possibilities.

Possibility #1:

Perhaps he chose purple because on Cybertron, or at least in his region of origin, purple was/is associated with things like Vision, Change, Power, and Rebirth—things the Decepticon movement was originally meant to embody. Both he and Soundwave—his most loyal ally and companion—have been shown to bear the color purple in multiple continuities, even if only on the Decepticon insignia.

Possibility #2:

Purple could have been a color often associated with the highest castes (similar to it’s association with earth royalty). This would mean that Megatron’s choice of color was more an act of defiance, knowing that those in Cybertron’s higher castes would be livid, or at least shocked at the sight of him and his “lowly” Decepticon dissenters flaunting the color so boldly. Of course, by the end of the war, Megatron would have effectively changed Cybertron’s deeply rooted cultural perception of the color purple forever. But even if this were the case, the color would still end up associated with Vision, Change, Power, and Rebirth.

Other Possible Cybertronian Color Associations:

(and several bots who don the colors and happen to embody some or all of the characteristics—all of which are positive since I don’t have the patience to identify and list the negative ones even though they absolutely would exist)

Red: Grandeur, Swiftness of mind and/or body, Discovery, Fearlessness

Optimus (multiple continuities)

Starscream (multiple continuities)

Rodimus/Hot Rod (IDW & Cyberverse)

Drift (IDW)

Perceptor (IDW)

Windblade (IDW & RiD 2015)

Knockout (TFP)

Blue: Knowledge/Intellect, Wisdom, Sacrifice, Honor, Creativity

Optimus (multiple continuities)

Dreadwing (TFP)

Arcee (TFP)

Ultra Magnus (TFP & IDW)

Kup (IDW)

Skids (IDW)

Brainstorm (IDW)

Green: Endurance, Steadfastness, Brotherhood, Youthfulness

Bulkhead (TFP & TFA)

Skyquake (TFP)

Boulder (Rescue Bots)

Springer (IDW*)

Hoist (IDW*)

Cosmos (IDW* & Cyberverse)

Constructicons (multiple continuities)

*I haven’t read all of IDW 1 yet and have only seen these characters a handful of times, so these correlations may be off.

Of course, not all Cybertronians of a certain color fit the listed traits or would even bother to wear a color because of any cultural associations. I’m just looking at overarching patterns and generalizing.

TL;DR It’s reasonable to believe that Cybertronian color psychology differs at least somewhat from human color psychology. Also, Decepticon purple is a thing, most likely due to Megatron and his not-so-secret poetic side.

[EDIT] Still thinking about this 4+ hours later, and I JUST realized that I totally forgot about Spectralism:

I beg thy forgiveness, Drift. I promise Spectralism holds a special place in my inner archive of beautiful and intriguing ideas to ponder. My tired brain just had a memory lapse.

^ [context: Rodimus chose purple and blue as his new colors.] Yes, Megatron is a warlord with a long history of violence. No, he’s not and never has been a Spectralist. These meanings are most likely coincidental. However, it would definitely be extra interesting if Megatron were a practicing Spectralist.

Drift’s explanation above is an excellent example of color association in a religious context, separate from mainstream culture’s assigned meanings.

My knowledge of world religions and the significance each places on certain colors is limited, but those details are secondary to the main point—that color associations vary widely between earth cultures and religions and the same is certainly true for Cybertron, as Drift’s revelation implies.

I would love to see a future TF writer expand upon Spectralism in canon for a future comic or other media. Fanart would be taken to a whole new level. ✨ Colors always have had and always will have meaning, people. And I’m over here going nuts over the potential implications those diverse and multi-layered associations could have for a species with colors embedded in their very bodies.

Now I’m chuckling at myself because I’m realizing how much I sound like Drift with this entire post. Speculating about color—yeah, Drift and I would get along just fine. *wistful sigh* I think I need to sleep.

#the fact that I share a favorite color with Megatron of all bots has been on my mind a lot recently #so naturally I began building a whole theory around the color and Cybertronian color psychology as a whole #transformers #tf analysis #transformers prime #tfp analysis #idw transformers #tf idw #tf idw analysis #maccadam #cybertronian culture #what if: cross continuity edition #nova’s nerding out again #long post

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uselessmicrowave · 9 months

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Angst idea: Karaoke night at Swerves bar, reader is peer presurred by friends into singing (even though they are too anxious to sing in front of crowds) and breaks down in tears on the stage and runs away crying. Whatever bots of your choice handling the situation and going after them to apologize or to soothe if they weren't involved... personally I'd love to see Brainstorm, Chromedome and Rewind, Whirl and Rodimus but be creative and choose who you'd like :> thank you for awesome writing

brainstorm

He’s passing by Swerve’s in the hallway when you run out the door with teary optics.

He holds you by the shoulders and begins to ask questions, which may or may not be helpful. “Are you okay? What’s wrong? Who’s chasing you?”

After you calm down enough to answer questions from him, he’ll pull you into a hug and he’ll hold you there for as long as you need.

whirl

He gives whoever was pressuring you a death glare before running after you. Even if he was minding his own business, he’ll still chase after you.

After he captures you in a hug, he tries to remember what Rung had told him about comforting people.

He gently rubs your back and is quiet for a bit before offering to buy you a drink if you go back with him. If you do, you’ll sit quietly in a corner with him and enjoy your drink.

Depending on how he feels about it, Whirl may hold your servo.

rodimus

He doesn’t really realize he’s fragged up until he sees you trying to blink away coolant before you run off stage.

He doesn’t mean to corner you in a hallway or scare you while trying to catch up, but he probably does. Rodimus tries to make himself look small and talk in a softer tone while he apologizes.

After he soothes you, he gives you a hug, a kiss on the forehead and asks you what you want to do next.

#mtmte #mtmte x reader #mtmte brainstorm #brainstorm #brainstorm x reader #mtmte brainstorm x reader #whirl #mtmte whirl #mtmte whirl x reader #whirl x reader #rodimus #mtmte rodimus #rodimus x reader #mtmte rodimus x reader

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heliossecretdeskdrawer · 3 months

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Workflow Interruption

Continuity: IDW1

Rating: Explicit

Relationship: Rodimus/Megatron

Characters: Megatron & Rodimus

Warnings: Sticky sexual content, cock warming, blowjobs, masturbation, fingering, not beta read

Summary: In which Megatron tries to discreetly enjoy himself while helping Rodimus with paperwork.

Crossposting: AO3 | Dreamwidth

Fic under cut. See AO3 for complete notes.

It wasn’t that Rodimus didn’t do any work on the Lost Light, no. It was more that the amount of administrative burden was… ridiculous. Often to the point where it could easily become overwhelming. While great strides had been made over the years in reducing the burden through various means—expanding the command staff, delegating some approvals to other, more appropriate units, taking a hands-off stance to some menial procedures, setting a daily messaging limit for Minimus, and otherwise streamlining workflows—there were often still mountains of things to review and approve. Never mind coming up with executive action plans.

Unfortunately, some things required Rodimus’s approval only, due to separation of duties on the ship.

Megatron, therefore, had to get creative to assist him in actually hacking away at the pile of things that couldn’t otherwise be delegated. He couldn’t remove some of the work, but he could remove some of the stress associated with it, making the task hopefully more bearable. Rodimus would even get a reward out of the whole thing.

It had taken some careful maneuvering and minor mass shifting to fit under the desk, but he’d done it, now wedged in the limited space available. These desks were not made with the intent that large mechs climbed under them.

“And you’re sure this is going to work?”

Rodimus’s chair was already pushed all the way in, his legs jammed against Megatron’s body. There was no way for him to see what would be going on under the desk, but he wouldn’t need to. If anything allowing him to see would pose more of a distraction.

“No,” Megatron said, keeping his hands on Rodimus’s knees, lest they slam shut on his head. Again. “That’s why this is a test.”

“I mean, sure, a test but even if it works, that doesn’t mean it’s going to pass an ethics audit.”

“Perhaps not, but you are working and I’m not on the clock, so we’re not wasting salary hours.”

And the backlog would, at any rate, be smaller if Rodimus managed to finish even one thing in that stack.

“There is, you realize, one crucial thing you need to do for this to work.”

Rodimus made a confused noise quickly followed by “oh.”

A panel retracted and a flaccid spike emerged from the housing. Not immediately useful but a problem. Still a step in the right direction.

Rodimus must have been nervous. A work situation wasn’t the usual time for this sort of activity, so perhaps it would take a little goading to get the plan in motion.

Then again, the goal was to relieve some of the stress of an overwhelming pile of paperwork by making Rodimus more comfortable, not necessarily actively pleasing him. A stiff spike would be convenient, but not necessarily required. Besides, it would react on its own before long.

With an easy lean forward, he took the head into his mouth. The taste was familiar, but clean. Thankfully someone had decided to take hygiene into account before showing up to the office today. There was even the faint, pleasant fragrance of mid-grade polish wafting from the thighs.

Already the internal pressure was rising, but for now he just held the spike this way. There was no need to rush and he was fulfilling his end of the agreement.

All he had to do was keep the spike warm until Rodimus either gave up or made headway in the stack on his desk. Anything else he chose to do was extra.

Strictly, he wasn’t even obligated to give Rodimus release at the end if he didn’t feel like it.

Rodimus shifted, leaning back in the chair and sighing.

If he wanted to get too comfortable there and do nothing, that was his business, but Megatron wouldn’t move. He could stay here, unmoving, with the head of a spike in his mouth for as long as necessary.

The spike continued to stiffen, pushing more into his mouth. Megatron simply leaned back to keep it at the same depth. For the moment, he ignored the tension building behind his own paneling.

There was a whine, followed by a clattering of datapads above him as Rodimus clearly remembered what was supposed to be happening.

He could hear the scrabbling of a light-pen across the surface of the forms. The pace was slow, like Rodimus was already leaning against his elbow, frowning at the poorly formatted blocks of text. The way the paperwork was organized was not always easy or comfortable to parse, especially under time pressure.

Megatron lightly flicked his tongue over the newly dripping slit in the head of the spike as encouragement. Just to ease the tension, not enough to be an additional distraction… ideally. If Rodimus was less stressed, his work would hopefully be less arduous.

Another sigh and more scrabbling.

Was this even helpful?

Hard to say.

He let the spike sink deeper into his mouth, about halfway. It slipped easily along his tongue before being allowed to rest squarely in the middle, a comfortable weight.

The warm pulsing between his own legs grew, a new distraction as he was tempted to simply let the spike reach all the way to his throat. Denying himself that was an act of discipline.

Unfortunately, with his mouth understandably full, Megatron was unable to ask Rodimus for feedback. Instead, he gave the spike a quick, gentle suck, as though that counted as posing a general question.

Rodimus groaned, but whether it was from frustration or pleasure or both was unclear without being able to see his face.

“Are you teasing me or helping me?”

At this point, probably a bit of both.

But, so be it.

If Rodimus didn’t want him to move, then he wouldn’t. There were other ways to keep busy while he waited for Rodimus to either give up or complete his tasks.

Megatron himself wasn’t on duty and the tension in his own array could have stood to be dissipated.

He let one of his hands leave Rodimus’s knees, sliding it down to where his own legs joined his trunk.

A panel clicked open beneath his finger and he pressed the tip against the swollen, rubbery node. It wasn’t lubricated yet—though he would shortly remedy this—but he allowed himself to poke and press gently, not quite circling it while still ensuring it was ready for more robust personal attention.

Inconsistent little blooms of weak pleasure popped across his circuits as he brushed against the dry node.

Rodimus probably hadn’t even heard his panel open over the mad writing spree on the desk above. The clattering of datapads and frustrated grumbles dominated the soundscape.

If Megatron were careful, there wouldn’t be any noise at all to catch Rodimus’s attention while he sought his own relief. Not that it would matter if Rodimus noticed or not—No, on second thought, that would probably be a greater distraction to his ability to focus than anything else.

Best to be discreet.

Keeping his head still, he let a finger slip backward between his legs, towards his valve to steal some of the escaping lubrication. He coated his finger in just enough to allow the tip an easy glide over his node. This, with the smaller motions and more localized fluid spatter, would be a far less disruptive avenue than what using his own spike would be.

For now, he just circled the node in slow, lazy motions. He had all the time in the world for this while Rodimus scrambled to get work done.

The spike in his mouth twitched, leaking a tiny volume of saline prefluid onto his tongue. He didn’t care for that particular flavor but it a tolerable necessity, easily overcome by everything else.

On instinct, he gave the spike another light suck, only for Rodimus’s legs to shake.

Megatron still wasn’t sure if this was actually helping Rodimus accomplish anything or if the chosen method of stress relief was actually getting in the way of the goal. The writing and complaining were the only tells that anything was happening up there. Would the reports being reviewed even be looked at critically or would they need another eye?

Of course, given the situation, he said nothing, as his frame relaxed, coaxed by the idle rub of his slick finger against his node.

No need to rush. Rodimus’s spike wouldn’t be going anywhere for some time, even as it wobbled and dripped in want.

Rodimus surely had no idea that he was the only one suffering, unable to hear even the small, soft noises of the lubricant’s surface tension occasionally breaking as the finger moved.

A calm pace was the key to remaining undetected. Being unhurried also allowed him to thoroughly massage every side of his node, including the small places that generally went overlooked when only seeking overload, like the almost hidden shaft under the hood. No part would be ignored while he let the charge gradually build.

His empty valve began to tense as the prickling tingle of charge grew in his node; it wouldn’t be long now. It was almost a shame that he couldn’t have warmed the spike in there instead but the positioning would never have worked… and Rodimus would have undoubtedly begun to notice by now what he was doing. For now, he just let the weight of the spike rest comfortably on his tongue.

Every now and then, Rodimus even canted his hips forward like he was trying to get relief, but Megatron just matched the motion to keep the friction minimal.

The only real stimulation for Rodimus probably came from the flexing of Megatron’s cheeks when he had to occasionally swallow down the build up of prefluid in his mouth.

Even the slightest slide of the interlocking metal plates across the sensors in his mouth sent charge straight south, adding to what was generated by the easy motion of his fingertip.

Lubricant, cooling as it met the brisk office air, flowed away slowly down the sides of his legs.

No, not long now at all.

There would be no way to hide what he had been doing after he and Rodimus were done here, but that would be alright. The worst that would happen would probably be Rodimus accusing him, rightfully so this time, of being selfish. And then Megatron would make it up to him, perhaps in private quarters and—

He tensed, trying, somewhat in vain, to prevent the spasms of overload from obviously shuddering his body under the desk. His legs shook, but he managed to keep his upper body steady. It took all of his will to not force the spike further back towards his throat and swallow hard.

The most damning evidence if Rodimus was paying attention was the soft gasp that escaped his mouth, muffled by the spike, as his finger‘s rubbing of his node slowed to a stop.

For several seconds after the wave of overload ebbed, his valve continued to clench in time to the weak, twitching pulses of the oversensitive node pressed under his finger.

Rodimus said nothing, the continued clattering of the datapads implying that perhaps he hadn’t noticed. He hadn’t even attempted to thrust into Megatron’s mouth in response.

Megatron almost wondered if he was actually getting anything done up there or if he was just making noises to sound like something was being accomplished.

For now, he continued to wait for a few minutes. He knelt in place as the lubricant on his thighs and the outside of his valve began to congeal, turning sticky while he allowed his node to recuperate.

As soon as the pressure from his fingertip no longer caused his node to twitch almost painfully away, he resumed circling it slowly. The old lubricant was still sticky, less useful for its original purpose after being allowed to dry out but fresher lubricant would soon replace it. Charge began to build again and Megatron dipped his fingertip just into his valve to replenish his stock.

His valve twitched again at the touch, a reminder that it too wanted attention.

Later, he reasoned, returning his finger to its smooth, steady pace over his thrumming node.

Rodimus thrust forward in frustration again, his range limited by his posture.

After another few minutes elapsed, with Rodimus’s behavior above him not changing, ideas for how to make this a little more interesting popped into Megatron’s processor alongside the simmering charge in his circuits.

While, of course, he could continue to overload as much as he wanted from discreetly massaging his node until Rodimus was finished with his paperwork, surely that wasn’t all he could do.

Emboldened by his earlier victory, he tilted his head forward, gradually sliding Rodimus’s spike further towards the back of his mouth, nestling the rounded tip against the membrane leading to his throat.

Rodimus whined, but didn’t say anything else.

Tempting fate, Megatron let his hand leave his node, instead slipping two fingers downward until the tips pressed against the rim of his valve.

Just how much could he get away with before Rodimus caught on?

Another soft gasp left his lips as he leisurely pressed those fingers inside. If he went slowly, surely it wouldn’t make a sound.

Once fully inside, Megatron rested there a moment, enjoying the pressure as he let his valve clench around the small intrusion. A spike would be preferable, reaching more deeply and spreading more widely, but fingers, inserted up to the furthest knuckle, would do nicely in a pinch. He even brushed the thumb of that hand against his node.

Everything from here on out would have to be perfect. The slightest misstep in motion could make an unmistakable sound, giving the game away.

He flexed his hand, carefully testing how much he could easily move before slowly withdrawing it, a tingle of pleasure of the clenching valve walls in the fingers’ wake.

Without thinking, he thrust them back in as the spike threatened to slip past the membrane in his throat.

The resulting loud squelch was audible from under the desk.

The clattering stopped and Megatron froze, fingers buried deep in his valve as he was caught in the act.

“I knew it!”

#fic #one shot #valveplug #megatron #rodimus #megarod

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What au has been running around your brain the most lately?

GLAD YOU ASKED YOURE GONNA REGRET IT.

I call it The au that I made up but have no creativity to make anything with it: subjecting soundwave to the horrors of the Lost Light; a coswave au

So basically I’m insane right? So what if I put Soundwave (and co) along with cosmos on the lost light (against their will) and force them to endure the tortures of captain rodimus prime and co-captain megatron absolutely fucking shit up in the universe (also ravage is still alive bc fuck you IDW give her back).

Soundwave and Cosmos get stuck on the Lost Light during a stop at the Sanctuary Station and now Rodimus and crew have to figure out how to get them back home (weird-science-dimension-hopping-probably-brainstorms-fault-shit idk just go with it). Soundwave hates this very much bc 1) he didn’t ask to be on this torture bus to hell, 2) now his station is left sorta unattended (hold down fort sky-byte!), and most importantly, 3) that bitch megatron >:((.

It’s not all THAT bad tho bc cosmos is here and he gets to be reunited with Ravage again (he misses ravage. So much). But still. Let me out let me OOUTTT

ANYWAYS. So thus the adventure begins—Cosmos is handling this like a champ bc he’s been on the LL before so he knows the drill. Cosmos and Soundwave get to share a hab, Cosmos actually get to meet Ravage in person (gets called an idiot multiple times), and Soundwave gets to learn how to socialize with other mechs properly (it goes just as well as you’d expect). Cosmos and Tailgate bond very fast bc they’re very similar and minibots gotta stick together ykno? while Soundwave is struggling bc everyone here is weird and loud and so… friendly (it’s actually Cyclonus who manages to break down Soundwave’s very carefully put up barriers first. Antisocial losers stick together 4ever).

Megatron is also struggling bc he feels guilty for how he left things with Soundwave, but Soundwave is very adamant on hating his stupid guts.

Gradually, our favorite fellas learn about Cosmos and Soundwave yearning for eachother but being stupidly oblivious to the other’s feelings, and are now determined to get them together (led by yours truly, the minibot gang).

Shenanigans ensue, Soundwave figures out how to express himself and his feelings, Cosmos learns to dance, Megatron gets engex thrown at his face, and Ravage is so exasperated she might start scruffing these idiots like newsparks since they wanna act immature.

I’m actually super insane about this patchwork au I came up with I think about it near constantly. THANK YOU FOR THE ASK HEHEEHEEE I LOVE RAMBLING ABOUT MY HALF BAKED THOUGHTS EEHEEHEH❤️❤️🛸🛸🛸🛸

#soundwave and cyclonus bond over sitting in silence and hating galvatron (and megatron)#they get along quite well you wouldn’t believe #and ofc cosmos and tailgate are having the times of their lives #I just like the idea of cygate helping coswave figure themselves out ykno #I’m sick I’m sick #also ravage reunite with soundwave is very emotional bc soundwave misses his cassette so much #ravage cuddles up with soundwave the very first night and Soundwave gets a little emotional #bc he missed feeling the purr of her engine against his plating #and cosmos comes in after soundwave falls asleep and he almost screams cause ravage scared the piss outta him #GOD. GOD. IM INSANE #okay anyways #coswave #mtmte #idw transformers #soundwave #cosmos #transformers

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@rcxdirectrix I was already thinking about a human holo for the Lost Light to have but your idea of them having a cybertronian holo to represent themself among the crew is such a cool idea!!

They'd be a little taller than Rodimus and Drift. Since they're adopting a whole persona that the captain and higherups would play into, they'd call themself Lightlost (clever and creative), an autobot cartographer and navigator. Despite looking like a personified version of the ship to many of the crew, it's a good and functional enough disguise for them not to question. Maybe they're just a... fanatic? A cosplayer? Also where did they come from exactly??

#transformers #lost light #should probably give this a name...#sentient lost light au? titan lost light au?#can't be lost light titan au because the initial LLTAU is already taken by my tyrest one lmao #maccadam #mtmte #rodimus #drift #cjj arts #sentient lost light au

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More than Meets the Eye Retrospective: Dark Cybertron Part 1

Hello all you happy autobots and welcome back to my long look at Transformers More Than Meets The Eye. When we last left I looked at the sister comic, Robots in Disguise.

But a necessary one for Today's review: Dark Cybertron, a crossover between both books.

Dark Cybertron is the cumilation of a plot that had been slowly building in the background of Robots in Disguise while Bumblebee dithered, Prowl tried to install a dictatorship long before he got a bug in his brain telling him to keep going with that, and Starscream was awesome. Shockwave has been up to SOMETHING over the issues, working with his mentor Jhiaxus.

Chasing Jhiaxus in the best part of RiD was Optimus Prime, redubbing himself Orion Pax out of disgust with the legacy of the primes, alongside his friends Hardhead, Wheelie and Garnak, who soon found themselves chasing Jhiaxus. Mr J eventually lured them to a dead planet, where he and Waspinator, yes the boy himself, ignited a titan and made tracks for cybertron while leaving our heroes to their deaths as Shockwave held back Soundwave and his decepticons , igniting his final plan.

It's here that mystery plan comes to fruition as the lost lighters split up gang to help save the unvierse, while Bumblebee and his Cavlcade of Fuckups, and also Arcee try to stop the apocalypse and Starscream gets a new paint job as he tries to hold on for dear life to his throne with a big ole event.

This crossover's notable for a few reasons: it's the first proper event comic for the transfomers: While there had been previous event style arcs with All Hail Megatron and Chaos and crossovers with the IDW wide Infestation and the marvel crossover Transformers/New Avengers, which also means the new avengers and likely all of marvel exisit in this unvierse.

But this is the first crossover between books within the line, something that would become a tradition as IDW liked money and Hasbro liked free advertising for whatever they were doing in the toys at the time, either threading in designs from their current lines or in the case of combiner wars and titans return, just straight up having IDW model their events to match the toyline. . This lead to the ambitious and failed Hasbro Universe with Revolution, and the universe even ends on one with Unicron.

Ironically though.. this is the ONLY one to loop in more than meets the eye. And thank Primus for that. Look i'm not anti-event comic, sometimes an event can be a total banger. For a recent example see Marvel's Judgement Day. But the big two tend to do events and crossovers EVERY damn year, not giving books a chance to rest or status quos to breathe for a bit. So having More than Meets the Eye sit that shit out is a fucking relief.

It's also from a practical standpoint as this crossover shows both creative teams had trouble meshing the two together: the narrative splits into four plot threads, one in the dead universe with Optimus, Rodimus and CO, one with the rest of the lost light , one with the cavlcade of fuckups and one with god emperor starscream. the latter two evnetually intersect and the two casts DO interact towards the end of the crossover.. but in the six issues i'm covering today the only ones to interact with the lost lighters are Starscream in a brief video call and Optimus in one of the main plots. It's clear that while the two writers liked each other.. they may not of known entirely how to make the two casts function together, and thus kept them to their corners.

The result isn't a bad story but a fractured one. I will say upfront I won't be able to judge the story as a whole till next time, but I needed to do it in two parts as it's a big boy and there's a lot to go over. So join me under the cut as darkness falls over cybertron, titans rise, and rodimus gets a new toy so stupid it will bite him in the ass for the rest of the comic. IT's Dark Cybertron and it's under the cut.

We open with Nova Prime's crew. Nova Prime was a prime who was seen as a great one.. but in reality was an supremacist piece of scrap who wanted to conquer all other forms of life. He will not be missed. Among him are our boy Cyclonus and Jhiaxus, who tells Shockwave to FINISH MY WORK.

In the present.. Shockwave almost has, having seeded ores aroudn the galaxy and experimenting on a titan, both the same one that declared Starscream chosen one and then vanished.. and that Waspinator just brought home. It starts screaming in terror and bleeding out it's eyes

Elsewhere on Cybertron, Starscream woke up from a nap to find a few hours ago the sun rose.. and hasn't gone down. He also has a new all red everything paintjob, a familiar one

As i've been told and found out.. this is Starscream's look from Transformers Armada, which I did watch when it was coming out but entirely forgot this is what Starscream looked like because my memory is quicksand and only few things escape it like X-men trivia.

It's.. not my faviorite. It's almost ENTIRELY red and whlie it does look better in later shots, it's just not as fun to look at as his classic look and while he'll keep this look for the windblade mini series, i'ts telling the artists reverted to his old standby as soon as they could. The Armada look isn't bad and looking at stills from teh anime it loks GREAT there.. but it's a bit too one note for the page, at least these pages.

Starscream decides to call the autobots for help.. not the ones he exiled, an I told you so from prowl is death in it's purest form, no OUR autobots.

For now though we cut back to Optimus. Since we last left him he and his crew are trying to escape.. and luckily run into some old friends

I love this so much. Unsuprisingly Swerve made it his ring tone. Naturally Rodimus dove in anyway to save his old friend/boss/dad.

Rodimus shows his dad around, which really feels like a teenager accidently exposing his dad to all the stuff his dumbass friends do while trying to be respectible. The wind's taken out of his sails by Ultra Magnus who asks if Optimus is taking command with all the tact and grace he's known for.

Optimus isn't, he's only here for the guest spot , he's got his own leading roll to play in the other books, but he is happy to get the tour. .until Starscream calls. Screamer of course can't help but passively agressively brag about how he was elected in by popular demand after bumblbee fucked up hard

Then asks Cyclonus for help since he knows the dead universe better than anyone. The Dead Universe is a parasite, a universe that should fucntion right but is instead both sentient and EVILLLL. And it's hungies.

Back on Cybertron, Team Fuckup is starring in horror and the Dinobots want to punch the fuck out of the sun. Bumblbee tells them to wait for it... and granted he's telling them not to punch a bright light on the horizon, something even prowl can tell is stupid which tells you something, but honestly after the last two years worth of comics, the bar for Bumlebee's competence is low.

He ends up being right as the necrotitan lands. Meanwhile Shockwave goes into a whole rant about hwo this is all ineveitible that has a bunch of vauge images and two optimus primes about ot throw hands for some reason. none of this is relevant to the rest of the crossover, it's a clear misdirect and it sure does exist. The real point is who he's talking to: Nova Prime and Galvatron, who somehow returned. Also Galvatron and Megatron are two seperate people in this continuity, happens a lot, moving on.

Onto chapter 2 and Team Fuckup's strategy is now suns out guns out.. though Bumblebee's redemption arc continues as when the Autobots want to punch the giant, Bumlebee tells them no and tells them to either get in line or fuck righ toff, which actually gets them to listen. Seems Bee got a spine with his new form and I like it. After 20 some issues of him listening to whoever yelled the loudest while ignoring the people he's supposed to be serving, this is nice. It's clear field command fits him better.

He does have a bit of an exestial crisis wondering if this is the titan that choose starscream and I THINk it is. I'm not sure. But either way it's here and i'ts big.

Back with Team Rodimus, Brainstorm tells Optimus the dead unvierse is alive and that's why going into the dead universe is tricky: it'll kill anything it senses shouldn't be there. Luckily he has a plan.. and a weird creepy parsite in a jar. It's also so fun seeing the straightlaced optimus interact with the lost lighters. So dang good seeing Chromedome resisit the urge to condescend to Optimus.

Back with Starscream he's doing what any sensible cybertronian would do in this situation: GET HIS GUN. Or a lot of them hidden in a closet Rattrap is telling him to come out of. Please everyone knows Starscream as pansexual as fuck. Rattrap urges caution.. which is like saying it's tuesday but still when Starscream is whiffing it you know it's .. also tuesday but also probably an issue.

Back on the lost light we get a great scene as Rodimus, Magnus and Optimus hit swerves. Magnus is curious if they should be having command discussions in a bar but Rodimus for once isn't snippy, which tells us deep shit is a comin: he simply wants to be by his men.. granted he regrets that when he finds Swerve taking photos but for once Swerve is also not as flip: it's three of the greatest autobots of all time, on the preciipce of SOMETHING happening, something they call feel.. that shared feeling of dread. Something's coming and it ain't good.

The trio get a text from brainstorm: He's ready. This being brainstorm the most he has is a palm thing that keeps the dead universe from killing you using the venom of a monster from there he keeps in a jar. Granted this is only because it's short notice.

So our heroes come up with a plan: split up. Rodimus, Optimus, Hardhead and Cyclonus (Since he has experince) will go into the dead universe to plug whatever stygian hole is leaking. Wheelie and Garnak will stay by in Optimus' ship to pick them up after. Meanwhile the Lost LIght will head after Jhiaxus. Magnus is doubtful he can lead.. but Rodimus perks him up, assuring him he can do this: he may of been thorugh a lot.. but this is his comfort zone: "You're chasing a war criminal and i'm leaping into the unknown"

Back on cybertron Starscream talks with Scoops, a cybertronian ratrap framed for him and who belivies in screamer's prophecy. And as it turns out Screamer REALLY shoudl've payed attention to what that prophecy was or asked or.. anything other than accept it as face value as it turns out he's pegged as a "false leader" one who will bring on the coming darkness... "The stars shall scream and the symbol of the uncreator shall become clear" and said symbol is.. not encouraging to screamer or us

Anyways back to Shockwave: he's talking to Nova, and reveals the space bridge in the Necrotitan isn't working.. but luckily he has a backup plan: megatron.

We end the issue with two more cut tos: in the dead unvierse, Team Rodtimus fight some parasites hoping to snack on them since the signal their using reads "FOOD' to them and while they get away from them fine.. someone else notices. more on him soon. Back with Team Fuckup, the Calvary arrives: SOUNDWAVE BABY.

Part 3 begins with Starscream, whose assuring his adoring public.. only for a meteor to apparnetly land near the titan.

Speaking of shooting the Autobots wage a war to destroy the not so evil forces of Soundwave, only for the metor thing ot distract them too.

Before our next plot point let's talk about this series pacing as you might of noticed the last paragraph or two was just "this plot point, now this". And that's because the series likes to jump around, jump around, get up get up and get down. It has FOUR plots it's juggling and rarely do the issues just.. focus on one or two, especially early on. So each issue is bouncing around several subplots often for just two pages at a time. I don't mind a big story having to move around, but you have to let things settle for a minute. Let a plot point marinate a bit. I shouldn't feel rushed in a 12 issue crossover. 12 issues is a LOT for a story, again why this is a two parter. We do get some good character stuff like Bee growing a spine, a lot of it feels like a reahash. For instance did we need the starscrema going to get his gun scene? no we coudl've had rattrap suggest talking to scoops earlier. None of this is bad and some of the character stuff is necessary: Rodimus showing optimus around both moves the plot along with starscream's call and is objectively hilaroius. But a lot of it feels like thumb twiddling to get to the next plot point. We probably coudl've compacted most of team fuckups scenes into half an issue, if that. It feels like their cutting to each plot to make it seem important instead of carring how a story should progress. It feels like the writers took turns with scenes instead of truly colaberating on the crossover an das a result we just jump jump jump.

So we jump! Jump for the plot to our next point: the lost light where their being pushed off course... turns out Metroplex's thumb what got embedded in the ship after the annual is alive again.. and Getaway knows why: Tyrest, for all his madness, once said you can find a titan with a titan.. and figures Metroplex is trying to reunite with itself.

At the Necrotitan, Team Fuckup sadly gets back to buisness as usual.. arguing with each other. Fortuantely this time, Bumblebee.. is still a compitent leader. He's still on "wait for it" mode.. because they really CAN'T do anything and attacking a giant statue is a death warrant, and he's taken Team Soundwave's help as while they aren't on great terms, they have the same goal: Stop Shockwave. Prowl takes this with the grace, dignity and cool he's known for

God it's good to hear ANYONE, especially Bumblebee, tell Prowl to "shut up for once". And Bee's not wrong. While wait and hope things go well was a TERRIBLE strategy when Bee was running the planet and all it did was get starscream on the throne and all of them exiled, in this case.. their facing a giant cybertronian with weird glowing eyes who they can't really understand. As we'll learn shortly titans function SORT'VE like regular transformers, but are so giant, massive and ancient their hard to parse. A small band of semi-reformed fuckups, an asshole, and a bunch of casette tapes and their player/dad isn't REMOTELY enough to stop that thing and interacting with it might just piss it off.

And sure enough Starscream seemingly prooves that hypothesis as he tries to manipulate it by talking to it.. only for it to explode into 2 or 3 pages of purple light. And This.. I like> it lets the MAGNITUDE of this thing's power play out, it's sudden, and it's shocking, and the effects afterwords aren't good as Arcee is out, the death wave having taken down their forces. once again Prowl won't shut the fuck up, wanting them to attack... and bee brushes him off essentially asking

He points out the death wave, his words not mine, is heading towards the city and despite Starscream's efforts.. it goes off. Shooting the titan would've eithe rdone nothing or set this off SOONER. There is NOTHING they can do and that.. works for me. As douchey as Prowl's being which, par for the course and all that aside, you understand his want to do SOMETHIGN.. but their in a situation where all they can do is just sit, wait, and HOPE they can figure something out. Shockwave said it best as Starscream tried talking to the titan. "We were all too late from the beginning". Unlike the bulk of the comic thus far sitting and reacting is all they have. .because they don't know the full scope of what's going on here. WE as an audience don't know what the hell the necrotitan just did: I only have it's name thanks to the wiki.

The wave not only hurt the living.. but wakes the dead as Metalhawk is back, on the bad guy's side now.. and pisssssseeed. Starscream to his credit reacts more with "Oh goody another cherry on the shit sundae that is today." but he still gets stabbed and Metalhawk is taking Megatron, bye. While Scoops goes to help people, the citzens surround starscream, his star falling.

On the lost light thei rleft with a decision: follow Jhiaxus.. or follow the severed thumb. Ratchet dosen't wanna as he feels their back in the "autobots mainstream" again... but Brainstorm disagrees.. and Perciptor shockingly AGREES: an ancient god has asked them to come find him, and given the end of days is going on back at home, an ancient god could REALLY come in handy right now. Magnus agrees and they head to a planet full of blood red water. At least I hope it's water. THey go deep into planet danzig, and find a horde of microbots ready to tear them apart. These are the amonites from the 25th issue adn they aren't happy.

Closing out the issue Shockwave prepares to make Megatron into a spacebridge. It's very impressive and not at all healthy.

Chapter 4 begins back with the lost light and with good art for those portions again! Yeah while i've glossed over it because this is a LOT of comics to go over and i'm already behind, the art for the lost light sections of parts 2 and 3 is once again by James Raiz, who has a very sketcyhy lifeldian style.. and not bein ga fan of those styles in general, I like it even lest on the quippy, weird lost light. It dosen't fit at all and the lack of expresssion dosen't really work with characters who thrive on expression even when they got no mouths.

It also works as we get bits like Brainstorm trying to hop onto Perciptor's exposition and Magnus announcing himself as "duly apointed enforcer of the tyrest accord" before remembering "Oh yeah the horrifying events of the last arc right. Just an autobot now". I'ts a bit funny but also very sad. All it gets is the super combinining amonites blowing up their window.

Back on cybertron the mob turns on starscream, with Scoops rightfully calling him out for dooming them and pointing out the black mark on him as a sign.. whne really he just tried to schmooze an elder god of a robot, but semantics. poitn is time is running out for our faviorite boy.

Back on planet Danzig, Skids remembers the amonites and wonders why their pissed.. forgetting they you know, ended their forever war and one of them tried to kill thunderclash, something the lost light prevented. Take your pick.

With the Lost Light too big a target the crew decides to split up: they have a few water vechiles and half of the aquabots, so they should be fine, but they still need more... so Magnus gets an idea: they'll take the rodpod. Like the audience Getaway wonders "what the fuck is that" before we gaze on it in all ti's glory.. or as glorious as it is as for some reason we're suddenly back to raiz art.

Yes the rodpod, which Magnus was worried about as naturally Rodimus loves this stupid fucking thing as mucha s I do. But Skids is banking on Rodimus' short attention span.

The important thing here, besides this very hilariously stupid thing happened in a major crossover and that's awesome, is Getaway's reaction. His disguist, his sheer confusion.. for now it just comes off as most people's reaction to this ego piece who aren't used to Rodimus shit by now. But true to roberts.. this bit is one of the MAIN REASONS why we still had to cover this crossover. It's not the only one but this one small character moment.. ends up changing the entire course of this entire comic and our heroes lives forever. Yes the RODPOD is so rediculous and breaks a man's brain so bad, it has deep lasting conseqeunces that will last to the finale of this comic. I love that more than words.

Our heroes take the rodpod out for a spin, and while Rung kills a guy, and it's awesome, our heroes blow up a giant super combined amonite as they apparently have no upper limit but no upper limit dosen't mean "can't blow up real good"

Back to the dead Universe where Optimus deals with some squabbling from the kids

See this.. really shows the contrast between the two styles: the bickering over with Team Fuckup is annoying at times, bette rin this series but still annoying. The banter between the lost light on the other hand feels both more genuine and funnier. And I get the quippy style isn't for everyone: The MCU has gotten some fatigue fo rthat.. but I like a bit of back and forth. it shoudln't be the whole thing, and MTMTE succeeds largley because the characters are deeply made as well as deeply hilaroius, but a little humor helps. It breaks up the dark exesntial terror of everything to occasoinally have things like Rodimus' stupid headship he built for his own amusment or Optimus being about 5 mintues from turning this dead universe around so help me god.

Yet the questions he brings up .. arne't unfair as his next cuts deep: if Optimus had asked him to stay, would he have? And the answer.. is yes. Yet what cuts deeper.. is optimus response: He has the utmost faith in Rodimus and the progress he's made.. and it's clear form his silence he both regrets he's hardly made any and the choices he HAS made. He saved the world, something he rightfully rubbe din Hardhead's face as he was one of the many who nearly died thanks to Tyrest's attmepted genocide, but it's clear the thigns he's done weigh on rodimus: Would staying have helped? Could he have made a bette cybertron?

And the hard answer is.... no. Him staying wouldn't of been a good thing: he didn't want to be there, none of the bots who left really had ideas for a new better cybertron and MORE autobots wasn't going to fix a situation where autobots being there at all was causing tension with the nails. The sad truth is Bumblebee failed not because Rodimus left, but because he didn't have any plan other than "We want to retain power" , and with a throng of people crying for a better government and something NEW that was never going to happen.

The ironic thing is while Rodimus is on a quest for the old... his going out, exploring, doing daring due war or no war.. IS something new. He's letting his bots be who they are, having down time, movie nights, open bars. Sure he's also shoved some of them into very bad situations, the whole overlord mess was a waking nightmare and should never have happened and swerve shooting rung is ENTIRELY his fault. Rodimus, like Bee, often tries to lead like this is war time instead of a shaky peace. Yet despite also operating from that style.. he's casual enough and caring enough deep down that his bots.. get to have lives. Be who they want to be. He's not yelling tat them for daring to want to not shoot people or trying to create infastructure, he's just like "when I need you, do your fucking job bro". He may be embarassed around optimus.. but his letting his crew be people instead of weapons is better than Bee trying to lead like this is a war of attrition and not "what comes after" or Prowl acting like the war neve rended and a shiny new police state is better and not what caused the war in the first place.

OUr heroes soo seen Cyclonus is bleeding.. and soon have bigger issues as Nightbeat has arrived.

Back on cybertron Prowl sucks suprising no one wanting AGAIN to attack the giant robot that just wiped out hal fof them despite having no plan other than "shoot it REAL hard" Bee once again calls him out

He brused Prowl's ego enough to actually get him to pause.. well huff like a child but Prowl does have soundwave scan the city, which picks up something bad: Megatron SCREAMING as Shockwave both turn shim into a bridge and tries to get him to join. He naturallyr efuses ESPECAILLY since the primes are involved, so instead of joining in the new world order.. he gets prime coming out of his chest.

We end the issue on Team Magnus as they find Metroplex.. and end up in his eye socket.. which is hollowed out. Which is impressive but horrifying. And also not very healthy.

Onto part 5, and Shockwave is helping his pawns out of a screaming megatron's chest

When Team Fuckup arrives... Bumblebee has no idea what Shockwav'es doing but it end snow.

It dosen't though because Metalhawk is here, and Bumblbee's attempts to pull an "I know your in there somewhere fight", failed as Metalhawk is consumed by vengance and purple stuff. Skywarp attempts to just free megatron but his teleporting fails.

Prowl questions WHY Shockwave is helping nova.. not getting that maybe, just maybe the One Eyed Two Horned Grounded Purple Plotter whose already manuvered you all like chess pieces.. is using them as pawns for something much worse. Either way he gives Nova time to escape and his best buddy Waspinator time to bring him the staff Waspinator used to awaken the titan and summons it as if it were one of his x-men.. and has it crush them as if it were his juggernaught.

Back to the dead universe, let's talk about Nightbeat: Nightbeat is an autobot detective. During Nova Prime's previous plot, he had a thing installed in Nightbeat's head to turn the poor guy into his sleeper agent. Unfortunately for him he again picked a detective and one of the best at that so while he coudln't do much, Beat at least figured out he was being brainwashed and after shooting Hardhead had enough will to beg heardhead to shoot him.

So naturally his sudden return is a lot for everyone to process. As for how the shore he died on WAS connected to the dead unvierse, Optimus correctly guesses he got swept in with the tide. We get a sense of Nightbeat's personality too, as doing a simple look at Cyclonus tells him about Tailgate's near injury: he has facial scars, they were self inflicted, and they were patched recently. Cyclonus responds to this invasion of privacy mixed with genuine sympathy by trying to choke a bitch.

Back with team fuckup they TRY to count up their wounded.. but they hav ebigger issues: Megatron is craddling Ironhide crisis on infinite earth's style, before Galvatron rips him the fuck in half, starting his streak at one and declaring WHOS NEXT.. and somehow that's not their biggest issue as the titan is still active and shockwave is now in control.

Back in the dead universe, we find out how Nightbeat survivied: he was dead going through the portal and sense dead equals alive in this universe, he's spared. Sorta like how a healing spell usually hurts a zombie in an rpg just reversed.

At any rate he has some bad news for cyclonus: his hand generator thingy broke nad the Dead Universe has reclaimed him.. and he also has time to ominously say "your all home now" before triggering a giant force field around them. Turns out his death didn't undo his sleeper agent brain thing and Nova has come for them.

Before we move on to our final chapter for this batch, let's look at this cover. Which I rarely do for tim's sake but this one well

It looks like Nova Prime is playing with his dolls again.

At any rate we're back with what's left of Team Fuckup: bumblbee' smissing while what's left is running from the titan. The Dinobots plan to lead it away.. but it was already going this way they just were running away from it and are only pulling a prometheus because their genuinely not fast enough to get out the side, especially with some of them carrying wounded.

Back with Team Magnus, they notice Metroplex is decaying... partly due to age as getting spare parts is hard for titans and partly due to the weird blood water all around Planet Danzig. Theya lso find that Metro's BRAIN is missing: he's still alive but without that he's clearly dying. Getaway notices something in the water and calls Swerve for help but h'es a bit busy getting his groove on

They do however find a place to drydock. Back in the dead universe, Hardhead tells his friend he's going to rekill him while Optimus fakes a fight with rodimus to tell him there's a hidden barrier. While Hardhead tries to reach him Nova arrives.

Back on cybertron Starscream's no good horrible very bad day continues as he finds not only is his mark of shame spreading, but he's not the only one dying. After getting yelled at by his second tankor today he finds the titan heading right for him and the wounded

Back on Planet Danzig, our heroes find some arrows in the dry dock.. but it takes them around in circles.. then an Amonite blows up the ship, leaving them stranded.

We end this issue and the first half of dark cybertron with Nova Prime megomanically gloating... Hardhead escapes to shut him up.. only for it not to go well> Turns out PRime is not only crazy strong, but he CRUSHES Hardheads fist in his hands and then watches the poor guy desintgrate. He has plans for those left though: he's taking them to see a new friend he's made: bumlbee whose the shiny new space bridge.

So that's where we end it? Can Team Fuckup somehow save cybertron? Did any of team magnus survivie? Can Optimus shut this dude the fuck up. Find out in april folks! Thanks for reading

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