Introduction: Posted this last year but taken down for hesitation. Posted again for having watched Transformers 4 and felt like doing some justice. This is a rather BIG project, though.
Inspired mainly by the IDW G1 series, this is a completely AU setting that I've made up. It's better if you follow the original inspiration so you can catch the references. I like characters a lot so expect randoness! It's going to be mostly my OCs but I will switch POVs quite often.
I love feedback, positive or negative! So don't hesitate and I hope you enjoy the story!
Disclaimer: I only own the narrator of this story, the OC. I do want to own Transformers but no.
Why, hello! It's nice to see someone other than us Decepticons at base.
You know what, let me give you a tour around! Hehe, we must be careful. The grown-bots are all grumpy and ugly when they see anyone else. We'll be sneaky so sssshhhhh-!
Oh, do you know what ship we are on? It's called something funny, I'll tell you later the name 'cause I kinda forgot. But this is a proud spacecraft with me on it!
..Well, actually the most important Cybertronian is Shockwave. He's the big purple mech with only one optic and he's the smartest Cybertronian ever! ...Except this Autobot called Perceptor. I mean, that guy is also a genius. It's actually ridiculous how smart they both are, pffff. Shocky told me that this was his personal vessel which he was assigned to do his research for Megs.
..You do know who Megs is? Wait, do you even know who Decepticons and Autobots are?
Well, it all started when our home planet Cybertron was being stupid. The government forced things that bots didn't like. And they're supposed to be nice. So Megatron, or as I call him Megs...Don't judge him like that! He's the most powerful mech to have ever lived! He's still online so don't worry, you can see him in real life.
Moving on, Mr. Powerful stood up to free everyone from the ridiculous system! He had so many supporters! He was awesome, telling bots that he would bring in a world where inequality didn't exist or something like that.
..What? Don't look at me like that! It isn't my fault that Shockwave shoves the data pads in front of me to study with Swindle!
Let's continue...So basically Megatron stood up against the whole planet! Only technically, because he was the sole leader but it counts. He named his fraction 'Decepticons', to end all the deception the council of old bots would make and break free of them.
Awesome, right?
But then the rusty bots got angry because they lost power over the workers, the bots who followed Megs. The council called them lots of mean things that I'm not really supposed to say and when the Decepticons threw them a comeback by getting Kaon, the first Decepticon city, they panicked.
Pfff, it's ridiculous. They got so scared that they made a random bot Prime! Can you believe it? PRIME! I mean, I wouldn't give anyone the title of the Leader of Cybertron? I'm not THAT stupid.
The new Prime is called Optimus Prime, ok? Let's call him Opssy because I call Lord Megatron 'Megs'. Opssy gathered the remaining bots and made another fraction to call themselves Autobots. Yes, that is the truth of the dumb Autobots...Opssy copied Megs! What a meanie, right? That's one reason I don't like him. It's not right, no, no, no.
Ever since then, we've been fighting to get back our freedom and now we're going beyond Cybertron to make sure the Autobots don't get them! You got that all of that, fella? Ssshh-!
...OK, that's Vortex. He's one of the grumpiest ones! He's always pouting, what is he? A sparkling? Oh yeah, forgot about our ship. Captain Shockwave's going around for research of energon. It's because Cybertron got tired so it doesn't produce energon like before. I wasn't born by then so I'm ok but I do want our planet to be like that again. I never get enough energon, hmm!
The Combaticons are onboard because Shocky's giving them a ride to where we are going now. Apparently some planet with some Decepticons need reinforcement. Onslaught called them pathetic for even requesting such thing but I call that exaggeration. They must have been bored to death if they wanted the Combaticons. Oh yeah, Brawl told me there's a guy called Thunderwing there obsessed with organics. He told me to stay away from him in case we have to land on it.
Awww, that's sweet of you! But don't worry! I'm going to stick with Shocky. I mean, how will he survive without his assistant?
Ah, let's meet the crew, shall we?
That bot grumbling about his energon is Vortex, like I said he's grumpy and rarely smiles. He's the one that teaches me about anatomy. One solar cycle, he told me that cutting one's head off wouldn't offline a Cybertronian! And after you do that and shut the self-repair systems off, the bot would feel the pain over and over again like Shockwave's scolding. How horrible, right?
Oh! There's Onslaught!
He's the leader of Combaticons and he teaches me battle strategies. Look, he's going over data pads about things like that. Last lesson was how to act when being caught as prisoner. Autobots take prisoners as much as possible he says. He also told me that they would definitely make me feel like a guest, so I should take advantage of that. I'll at least make sure I eat all of their energon sweets!
...I guess I'll have to go to the battlefield one day since they are teaching me all of these things.
Oh! Blast Off's my third favorite! The reddish bot over there, checking the control panel drones, see? He turns into a space shuttle! Isn't that awesome? I learn star maps with him in case I get lost and stuff. That's not all, I'm soon going to learn how to pilot. He says that if I get to be skilled enough, I could help him drive this ship around! Onslaught says that he's gonna make me do all the work so he can slack off. ..But that would mean that Blast has complete confidence in me!
Brawl, the bot there talking to the other one, knows a lot of vehicles so he makes me learn which ones are vulnerable and strong against what. Like tanks have more firepower but are definitely slower. So I have to take notes on his loooong lectures. He tends to track off to stories of when he blew things up but I never complain about that. They're actually cool!
The other one's Swindle, the nicest bot of them and he gives me energon sweets if I get his quizzes right! And to tell the truth, they aren't that hard. Either that he's the best teacher ever or my processor is best compatible with long texts of history data. Too bad he's mostly busy working. Swindle has visitors a lot so he can continue his business of whatever he does.
..What?
I do have all the necessary data installed and stored in my processor but that doesn't mean I understand all of them. That's the whole point of the Combaticons telling me things.
It was really random how they got to travel with us and that's a lot from me.
Before they got into the ship with us, we were just docking at Cybertron for a rest. We went to Tarn because it's Shockwave's favorite. Shock went to talk with Megs since we used most of the energon in our trip. I was shoved to Barricade who grumbled at me – like always. But hey! We actually started a conversation that lasted a breem this time!
Weeellll it was over when Rossum smacked him for saying bad words in front of me. Too bad because I only got the one he always says. Then Shock commed me to get ready for takeoff. So I waited for him in front of the ship when he appeared with five bots! Imagine how surprised I was. They were in a bad mood and there aren't many things that can be as dangerous as moody Decepticons, trust me.
That's why I hid in the deck.
Onslaught was listing off his rules when Shockwave just cut him off saying that the ship was his and he had a higher status than him, that the Combaticons had to listen to his commands. I would have snickered if Blast Off hadn't picked me up from my hiding spot. He has the better sensors but I could have still gone away with it if he wasn't bored. He was going to throw me outside when Shockwave told him to put me down.
Oh, you should have seen their faces when Shocky later told them to teach me. Here, I took an image from my memory banks.
Hahaha! Isn't it hilarious?! So here we ar-
"Who are you talking to, kid?"
The familiar smooth voice with the opening of the door tole me another bot being just outside. I remembered the only bad word Barricade managed to slip when he was in charge of me.
Slag.
"Who are you talking to, kid?"
Swindle's purple optics smiled when they caught sight of a small figure, frozen and rigid at his voice. The femmeling could make the amusing reactions when she was caught off-guard.
"Nothing."
Another fun factor was that she was the best lying child he had ever met.
Maybe it was her calmness that she managed to summon even at the most deadliest moments (like talking back to Vortex with his 'tools' out) or her control over her emotions. It was very clear that Shockwave was her caretaker. Thought it was still impossible to picture him with a youngling. Swindle shook his head to remind himself what he had been smirking at.
"Oh, really? And what did I hear about those comments about me and the others?"
The youngling turned around in rounded optics of the gentlest red you could find in a Decepticon. Her light purple frames were still covering whatever she was hiding with hidden desperation.
"Nothing!" Her squeakier voice betrayed her intentions as she slapped her mouth plate. Her round, plain helm shook, hinting a serious (for a youngling) battle of choices going on her processor.
Swindle raised a brow with a slight grin as he watched her failure of deception. He crouched, elbows glued to knees, legs still supporting the separation of his frame from the metal floors of the rec room. He stared intently into the innocent optics, enjoying the panic attack he was mentally giving to the immature being. "Kid, you don't lie to full grown mechs."
"Grr…" The low pitched, unthreatening growl was all the capitalist needed. The youngling of the lily mundane plating shrieked as her secret got out.
"Ray…" He slowly began with optics darting with confusion. "You were talking to a turbofox?"
"Did someone say TURBOFOX?!"
Brawl's voice boomed from afar as signs of his crashing footsteps got nearer. His enthusiastic amber optic visor glowed when his enormous figure reached the door. His right servo immediately shifted, revealing a long rifle. A Path Blaster.
"Good, I was getting bored." His quiet tone was what made Radio the youngling bolt out of the room with a yelping creature of metal.
"Ray, get back here with that doomed scrap metal!" The loud and annoyed con followed her lastly seen direction, announcing the start of his hunt. Swindle felt forgotten but he shrugged the disappointment off as he commed the caretaker.
[Shockwave,] he smirked at the thought of Brawl having to look through the entire ship of for one little turbofox, [the kid found a new pet.]
[…If it manages to survive your fellow bot from what I have heard,] Shockwave's ever flat voice replied unamused, [I'll consider its usefulness.] The business bot sighed at the boring reply.
He still had absolutely no idea of how the mad scientist ended up with the kid.
Author's Notes: And that's the introduction. So we have a ship heading somewhere with Shockwave and the Combaticons and a youngling. What could possibly go wrong?
-So my OC is Ray, femmeling of the most basic frame ever. No abilities, no weapons, nada. Color is lily but the others will call it pink all the time. She's no canon character's daughter, this I promise.
-Barricade get all the crappy work. He isn't an important Decepticon, poor him.
-Rossum is the Decepticon scientist from the latest issue of More Than Meets The Eye. I also read Robots in Disguise so you should read that too!
