Title: We Will Be Remembered
Rating: T
Continuity: Crazily AU
Characters: Megatron, Optimus Prime
Disclaimer: Don't own.
Prompt: 2. A heroic last stand, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the universe
A/N: "Isengard Unleashed" from the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack is a great song to listen to while reading this... ^.^
February 16, 2013
He had always believed in what he was fighting for. He had always stood for it; people deserved freedom. They deserved a chance to become more than they had been born into. Deserved a chance to rise. The Council had made that impossible. They hadn't listened to his first, peaceful attempts at getting mechs more rights, so he had d resorted to more violent means.
He had aimed to make a fuss. Aimed to make a deal.
The Council had sent their armies. Had beaten the newly named Decepticons back and back, until the only city they had left was Kaon.
This would be their final stand. Megatron knew that. He knew they wouldn't survive unless Primus granted them a miracle.
He joined his troops on the battlefield, as per his usual. His soldiers loved him for it. The Autobot generals and commanders always hid behind their soldiers. He fought with his.
"Decepticons!" he called across comms and out loud, deep voice echoing, as they stood, waiting, on the field of battle. "I cannot promise victory! I cannot promise that you will see your bondmates and creations again! I can only promise one thing! You have stood with me, and for that I am grateful! You have stood against tyranny and the cruel rule of the corrupt Council! You have stood for freedom and the rights of those born into poverty!
"You have stood! And for that you will be remembered! Even if we all die today, even if our city is wiped off the face of the planet, we will be remembered. The Council can wipe us from the records, can erase what we stood for, but mechs will remember! They will tell our story!
"'Remember,' they will say! 'Remember the mechs who stood for us! Who believed enough to give their sparks! Who cared enough to pay the ultimate price!'That is us, my Decepticons! We are mechs, beaten and bent, but not broken! We stand for our freedoms, our beliefs!
"This is our last stand! Our last march! I do not know if I will survive, but should I die today, let it be a death worth remembering! This is our chance to leave our mark on history! Our story will be told through the ages, and our legacy will live on forever! The universe will know, forever, that we were the mechs who stood where others would not!
"I cannot promise you life, but I can promise that this is a death worth dying! This is a cause worth fighting for! Fight now! Fight for freedom! For our creations and loved ones! For the future of our race and our planet!"
The Decepticons around him roared, shaking guns and swords. He roared with them, snarling, weapons charged and systems humming.
Two orns later, the city was silent. The Decepticons had been defeated and destroyed.
But Megatron had spoken true, and even though the Council erased them from records, their story was told in the shadows, and their names were remembered.
Until, at last, an age later, another mech took up the call. A mech named Optimus Prime shouldered the mantle of Megatron, becoming the Leader of the Decepticons, and led the downtrodden of Cybertron to war, and, eventually, victory.