Foreword (Aka that thing your English teacher would always assign you to read and you skipped anyways because it doesn't actually have anything to do with the story.) Edit: But uh... Ahem. I didn't think this needed to be said, but I just checked my view graph and saw that half of the people who saw this skipped the prologue, so uh... Prologues are part of the story. Just uh... Just throwin' that out there.
Uissu! Kanon de~~~su!
(Fun fact: that is actually how Starscream introduces himself sometimes in the Japanese dub of TFP.)
Anyway, the few of you who know me are probably wondering what this fic is doing here instead of an update of one of my own fics. Those of you who know this fic are probably wondering what it's doing on my account. To those of you utterly new to both me and this fic, welcome. You are in for a treat, and you might as well just skip this and get right to it. Bye bye! Have fun!
To the rest of you, explanations: Of Flesh and Metal is a fic originally written by FFnet user the-spoon-of-doom, who now mostly hangs around on Archive of Our Own as Spoon888. She started it many, many years ago (I don't know how many myself, but since it apparently picks up shortly after the end of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and that came out in 2009...) and never finished it. I discovered it about... six weeks ago? Something like that? fell in love with almost everything to do with it, and told her so in a review.
Before I knew it, the project had somehow been handed over to me in one messy, squirmy bundle of whiny Decepticon joy. WHHHAAAAAATT? I mean, I asked for it, but I really didn't expect her to say yes! I am intensely honored that she has allowed me to have at it with this.
Fans of the original fic are probably hoping that I will be starting right where Spoon left off so that they can get the ending sooner, to which I am afraid I must confess that this will not be the case. One main reason that Spoon never finished it in the first place is because she was dissatisfied with much of the earlier part of the story, and I am doing my best to remedy much of that. The ending won't work as well without it.
While Spoon-sempai has too much else on her plate to take part in this project, I want to keep things as close as I can to things she might have done with it in her own rewrites. As such, I am going to do my best not to take out any plot elements or scenes that she put in the original. Rather than that, I will mostly be... embellishing things; adding in extra scenes and helping the character progression on a bit as well as fixing up any awkward writing. You might not notice any major differences for the first little bit.
The biggest change will probably be that there is an entire new subplot I'm working into the Patna section of the story that I hope everyone will enjoy. Also, because I'm adding so much, I may end up splitting it into two separate fics, like a sequel. And of course, I will be writing an ending. Based on Spoon-sempai's notes as much as possible.
To fans of the original version, I am pretty sure that Spoon-sempai is keeping it up on her account, so you can still read it there. To new readers, you're welcome to read it there and compare the versions, but be aware that you will miss massive chunks of the story if you try to cheat and just get all the spoilers by reading that one. [insert mischievous winky face here]
So, without further ado, please enjoy this hot mess of flesh and metal.
Tee hee.