What's Wrong with a Little Destruction?
The Wreckers

The continuing awesomeness of IDW's top strikeforce!

Note: Some of these are modified actual myths, others are completely made up. And I wonder how many people get the pop culture reference I'm tossing in here.

5. Under Stars Wreckers

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
-Bertrand Russell

Xantium was tucked in a rough mountain ridge, protected from detection by a twisting magnetic boundary that took both Whirl and Broadside's full attention to navigate and too dangerous for a casual fly-by and difficult to scan from inside or out of the field. Having that safety net on them the four ground vehicles felt little concern as they laid out on Xantium's deck, staring up at the night sky and speaking to each other on a tightlink.

"-say that the Milky Way is snow shaken off from a great beast as it walked the Path of the Dead."

Twin Twist looked a little confused at Roadbuster's story. "Why would a dead thing still have snow on it?"

His fellow jumpstarted brought up a hand to knock against his shoulder. "It's a myth. They're not supposed to make sense."

"Yeah, like all those cultures that think things like meteor shows and comets are warning of approaching dangers?" The driller rolled his optics. "Pfft. Like the universe has nothing better to do than worry about one miniscule group of beings."

Scoop craned his head back to look at him. "What, you don't find this kinda stuff interesting?"

"I know lots of stellar mythologies. Some of them are pretty funny, actually."

"Yeah? Like what?"

Twin Twist couldn't help smirking to himself. "There's this one planet that believed their world was swallowed by a god or something and all the stars are the glitter of its bones."

This time Topspin and Roadbuster turned to look at him. "What? You're making that up! What the slag is their sun supposed to be, then?"

He waved a white hand. "Like… the god opening its mouth to feed or something completely off the wall like that. And I'm serious. This is an actual myth- Brawn'll vouch for me!"

They continued to look at him, unconvinced, until understanding lit Roadbuster's optics. "Wait- that was the planet that Prime called all the drilling specialists for, right? The one with the entire underground society?"

Twin Twist nodded smugly. "Yup! The ones that were afraid of living on the surface in case whatever else their god swallowed crashed into their planet. That's how they explained comets, earthquakes, rain and everything else dealing with the sky."

"Crazy."

"As crazy as the myth that the universe was created when a giant beast sneezed?"

All optics turned to Scoop. "When what?"

Grinning widely at the attention, Scoop settled comfortably, looking up at the glinting stars and continued. "There's these creatures with fifty arms or something and they believe the universe was created by a giant's sneeze and believe it'll be wiped out by a sanitary cleansing. Hand to Primus- it's an actual story told on Earth. Wheeljack sent me a short transcription of it!"

Topspin shook his head. "Of course 'Jack would find something that odd." The hover vehicle pointed up to the sky again. "Anyway, anyone else heard of the hunting beast in Sirius?" Silence met his question so the medic continued. "It's got Murzim of to the right, then Muliphen, Wezen, Adhara, Furud and Aludra off to the side, see it?"

Optics squinted and heads turned. "No. How is that a hunting beast?"

"I dunno, organics have vivid imaginations. Anyway, it's supposed to be a great beast that partners with a hunter and they're both set to attack the horned creature right over there."

"Still don't see it." Twin Twist said. "Though I heard that Sirius is actually part of a constellation with a two headed beast. It's at its apex at some civilization's new year and the two heads look in opposite directions- one in the past, the other in the future."

Roadbuster hummed. "I see that even less than I see the hunter." Suddenly, distinctly non-stellar flashes lit up the sky. Roadbuster sat up. "There's our signal." He stood as the other quickly clamored to their feet. "Wreckers, transform and let's makes some bodies."

FloofWolfe: You never know, they might actually work XD

Teh: Yeah, Vortex is... a special case. As most Decepticons are, I think.

Kyarorin: Thank you! Those are pretty much the reactions I'm going for!

VAWitch: A playful love triangle, huh? Haha, that'll take some tangling with, but I think I'm up for it! cracks knuckles