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Continuity: 2007 Movie-verse, influenced by prequel comics and novelization.
Characters: Blackout, Scorponok, Starscream, Barricade, Frenzy, Brawl ("Devastator"), Bonecrusher
Warnings: Some violence
Author's Note: Criticism encouraged, technical points preferable.
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There was a sense of comfort, of soothing familiarity, in this strange devotion between them. It was not love; no, such a naïve, crude notion could not begin to illuminate the twisted lines of loyalty and subjection. Some would call it grotesque, a sick perversion of a bond – between lovers, some speculated, though they were not to be defined by such a primitive and vulgar term. Yet, neither were they simply friends, nor family, nor mere servant and master… this was something more, singular and extraordinary in its very distortion.
It was a thing built upon dependability, upon the intimacy of sharing the very core of oneself, one's very thoughts with another – yet mindless and raw as only wild things were.
A single entity, possessing two distinctly separate minds and bodies – mingling their lives, bound inextricably to the other. Parasite and host. Dominant and submissive. The lines blurred as to which fulfilled which role, at times. Such was the nature of symbiosis.
One was not complete without the other.
Gone.
In the bleak, solemn darkness, broken and battered within a world it did not understand, the isolated survivor reached out, and knew what it was to be alone.