Soldier's Wait

By Starath

Author's Note: I don't own Transformers, but I own whoever this guy is. I'll know when he tells me. This is just something to keep the creativity running, might be continued, might not. Enjoy!

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We've been here for years.

No one knows it. We live in absolute secrecy because the boss says so. We can't even have our faction symbol visible. It's too risky. They know about us.

And yet they don't.

We watched the movie that came out this summer. Most of us have seen the various television portrayals of our never-ending struggle against the enemy. The ideas have gotten fantastic, the forms and modifications beyond even what we could imagine. But the core is true: We are at war, in disguise, on your world.

But you never knew that for sure until now, did you?

If one wanted to compare, the series fans call "Generation One" would be closest to what we are. But some of the things I have seen are not within human comprehension and would leave fragile minds writhing in terror. A more accurate description of us would be some combination of your recent movie with Generation One. Although, my colleague with far too much time on his hands has said that your comics are more precise.

To be honest, I don't care. I'm wasting my time trying to describe this to you. If not for you, we could face the enemy and be done with kicking their tailpipes back into space. But no, we have to play it safe, and stay in disguise, like Prime says so.

I tire of listening to him.

The Decepticons are here too. We just never know where. Like us they can't have their symbol either, and like us they blend perfectly on this post-Industrial Revolution world.

Too perfectly.

Yet that's the point. It just makes hunting them down a real bitch. I could be driving along side one and I'd never know it. Presumably, he wouldn't either.

Becoming paranoid is easy.

It's war, but a silent one. Right now, as it has been for years, a stagnant one. All we know is that they're here. And it's here too.

If only we could find the damn thing.

It would make things much easier if we could stop hiding. It really grinds my gears. We would have been done with this decades ago. But the last time we tried that it blew our cover.

First the toys came. And then the TV show. Mount St. Helens. The Ark. The Nemesis. The search for energon. All because that bastard they caught spilled his tanks. Suddenly you all knew. We had to dig in further. Hide. Disappear.

We hoped, at first, that it would be a passing fancy like tie-dye shirts and disco music. Almost thirty years later, you people are STILL clamoring for us, and we have to dodge the bullet and run like scared drones when there is even a SLIGHT possibility of being found out. Sometimes it's so tempting, while sitting at the stoplight when I see some kid with a Transformers binder crossing the street, to reveal myself and squash him FLAT.

Maybe that's why Prime doesn't want me on missions by myself anymore. I've shown "aggressive tendencies".

We can't leave. Not while it's still here. Not while the Decepticons are here. It's a silent, stagnant war.

You all want to see us so badly, don't you?

Be careful. Someday you might get your wish.