Aligned
By SMYGO4EVA

They were soldiers in the past, and never did Ratchet think they might be once again.

Pride had always meant little to Optimus; by the time Ratchet learned this, Cybertron was a lifeless husk of a planet.

Weapons only bred defiance and destruction, yet they still had them.

They came from off world, telling what the Decepticons have done, what they – the Autobots – had sought to do.

Ratchet remembers pride and anger, Optimus remembers how far the war had gone and fought for eons, and the time to end it was nigh. Deities would soon crumble into becoming decoys, and taint what was pure.

And infinite life would be reclaimed; the shell of a home planet shattering what was left.