Pax Gaia is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

This fictional work is based from the Transformers franchise, following Michael Bay's live action movies continuity. It takes place after Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

2011-2012

Pax Gaia © B. N. Young

(Image by hideyoshi of deviantART.)

Chapter I

Minicon Society: Pax Gaia

They lived on Earth for only a few centuries, enough to make themselves much like humans. Everyone had said that the Autobots had lived among homo-sapiens, but none of them ever lived with them as the Minicons had.

Though their society was cut from human civilization, they were influenced by these dominating creatures and felt their species were more interconnected than any believed. Humans had even brought back what was lost to Cybertronians for billions of years; music. It was once part of their culture, but somehow forgotten. Of all art that existed still on Cybertron; poetry, drawings, artistry, architecture; music disappeared.

Another influence was formality, or the lack of it. Humans seemed to have a loose and ambiguous form of language. There was hardly any slang on Cybertron and their speech involved words that meant exactly what they were. Words on Earth seemed to have more than one meaning. Now Minicons spoke like humans, except in front of the elders, who refused to change, and the monarchs, for respectable reasons.

Pax Gaia was the large society of Minicons who found themselves stranded on Earth, and they hid within the Grand Canyon using the Constructicons' escaped Minicons to construct the entire network. As artists, they carved the history of their ancestors, according to the oldest individuals, into the walls of a long tunnel at the base of the city. If new data needed to be recorded, they dug deeper and added more. The Tunnel had to be at least ten miles long. New Minicons who were found were usually taken through the Tunnel to update them on recent and past events. On the other side of the Tunnel, parallel to the history was record of the individuals who entered Pax Gaia; their names and their own history and a carving of what they look like, basic information. All other information was to the Minicon and the two leaders.

There were two chiefs who decided what went on in Pax Gaia. They were brothers and acted as opposites. Proton was the younger brother, calm and thoughtful. Electron was the elder, rash and courageous. They usually had different views on everything, especially when it came to central functions such as legislation and judicial matters. When it came to humans, they had mixed ideas. Both knew that there were humans to trust and humans to be wary of. For safety, the law was to never allow humans inside Pax Gaia. Maintenance 'bots checked security once a week to ensure the gate was well hidden and tourists did not accidentally stumble into the entrance. There were few cases where humans entered Pax Gaia. All of them were hit by a high frequency sound wave that wiped the memory. It did not clear the memory of Pax Gaia itself but of the entire life's worth of the human's. The Minicons operating the process could not control what the frequency deleted, so keeping the gate in full check was enforced every day.

But the Minicons did not isolate themselves from humans. Inventors built solid holographs they called "holoforms" that recorded the outward appearance and texture of a living being and projected it onto the surface of another. The Minicons could look like and feel like humans. They used these disguises to experience different lives. Most Minicons could pass as an alias for five years then receive a new one. Others, like the older ones, could last for ten years. This pretending began in the 16th century; about a hundred years after the Minicons came to Earth. During the first years, Minicons hid in places humans could not reach. In the Age of Exploration, this gave them a chance to find a better place to hide and possibly find more Minicons. They entered around southern soon-to-be Canada and started a small group that would start Pax Gaia. More Minicons joined in and soon their numbers were too large to be unnoticed. They ran to the Indian lands, finding as much metal as they could.

There was one Indian who found two of the Minicons. Her name was not recorded to the historic Tunnel of Pax Gaia, but they knew it meant Bird's Love. Bird's Love was still a child, not even old enough to begin her menstrual cycle. She found two Minicons in the woods, Crusader and Vulcan. Crusader was a soldier and hunter of the Minicons. Vulcan was a weapons maker. Both were out looking for metal for Pax Gaia and got into an argument of where they should look. The sun overheated them and they were tired. Bird's Love watched them for a while, not knowing what to do because they spoke in a cryptic, sonic language. Her first thought was they were gods. Even though she had heard about the white men and their technology, she knew they could not be a part of their creations. The worst she had heard about white man's weapons were sticks of thunder and fire.

Crusader was the first to notice Bird's Love. He had seen movement behind a rock and froze. Vulcan was still arguing at him until he hit him on the shoulder and pointed to the rock. Anger flowed through him and he held up a hammer, shouting in English "You better hope you're an animal! Any human who sees us dies!"

Bird's Love squeaked an Indian word and that stopped Vulcan from smashing the rock. She appeared before them with her head bowed and hands clasped, fingers intertwined. She muttered in her native tongue. Crusader approached her, knelt, and grabbed her chin to lift her face and allow her to know they meant no harm. Crusader told his companion it was just an Indian girl, a nature lover. She may not be an animal but she was as close to the earth as one.

As Bird's Love grew up, she visited Pax Gaia in the mountains. She brought metal, taught them art and singing the way she knew it. Then one day her tribe had to move further west and Pax Gaia had never seen her again. She was the only human lucky enough to visit the Minicon community and leave the same way she had come. The Constructicon Minicons offered a portion of the Tunnel to hang her blankets she gave them and laid her pottery on the ground across from where her name was etched to honor her. They do not know if her tribe was killed or if she went to live at a reservation, but for years they had wished her happiness, through life and death.

The European descents found their way to the mountains in the west and the network of Pax Gaia was formed. They drilled into the Canyon and supported the structure with any metal they could find. Elevators were built for the difficult levels and stairs were later made when the electricity had failed in the early 19th century. Not enough metal or energon could be found. Energon served many purposes as ammunition, electric and thermal power, and a food source. Not much of it could be found on Earth, since it harbored organics.

Because of this, the Minicons tried to find alternate ways to gain energy. Electron attempted for the society to try and eat human food. Proton proved that it was impossible for robots to consume it. His brother came back with a holoform in place and ate the food in that way. Eating human food as humans solved the nutrition crisis. As for energy, any energon found was used. When hydroelectric power was introduced, the Minicon took advantage of it. At first, only a little electricity could be found in water. One scientist, Gadget, realized that the two elements of water could be separated and used as energy. For a decade, Pax Gaia used this form of power. The Proton found that by doing this, they were stealing water from humans. Once water was separated, it could not be replaced. They reduced the amount of water used, drastically, and tried all forms of energy at once and turned it all to energon: oil, gas, hydroelectricity, and water decomposition.

They tried not to take more than they needed from humans. Some had even tried to save energon by lighting their homes with candles. Other tried night-vision, despite the strain it put on their bodies.

The other issue was money. Minicons who went outside as humans usually got jobs and earned their money. Others whose holoforms were too young in appearance could not get jobs. The older ones could not work at all. So a system was devised. A Minicon named Pirate proposed that any change found by younger 'bots be turned in to him. From there he would take it to a bank where another Minicon (whose name also escaped from history but was call Pecuniam) would convert it to cash. Those who had jobs would donate thirty percent of their money every month. With this money, those who could not work were given even allowances. This usually resulted to twenty dollars per month. Some Minicons aimed for higher jobs to help. They became engineers, mechanics, some even politicians to prepare humans incase Pax Gaia was discovered and they required representation. Other turned lawyers to help those who were politicians and punish Minicons who disobeyed both Minicon and American law. After working a few nobs during a few human lifetimes, Minicons took up teaching inside of Pax Gaia. Soon Minicons were creating jobs inside the walls and other branch was added to Pirate's proposal. This time, working Minicons gave thirty-five percent (which soon grew to forty), and those employed in Pax Gaia where given twenty-five percent and ten to non-working ones. It sparked ambition to start working in Pax Gaia or work harder in America.

Pax Gaia had become a full-grown community by the mid-20th century.

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So much words! So nothing much to comment on other than how their system's run. This is a fic I've been working on for half a year. I find that writing things out then typing them later makes everything better.

This story will include Dinobots and Insecticons! I've drawn them, they are posted on deviantART. Click my profile, click the dA page, then search around. Shouldn't be too hard to find.