Of Beauty and Rage

by Prime627

Ficlets based off of songs from Red's album "Of Beauty and Rage". I've always wanted to do something like this, and now I've made it a reality. Enjoy. Please note that the fics will be from different universes, and can be either of the following but not limited to: Exodus, Exiles, Transformers Prime, Bayverse.

8. Chapter 8

The Forest

It rained, leaves shaking down the rain and scattering it in different parts of the forest. Rain came off of Optimus and created mist from the impact. Deer and other forest animals tucked themselves into warm areas and fell asleep, but his audios picked up restless sounds of new fawns.

As he walked, rabbits bolted out of their hiding place, several baby bunnies running after them. He knelt to watch the little things turn into wet creatures after their fluff was drenched in water. He did his best to shelter them from the rain, and a tiny bunny stopped to turn black eyes on him. It was the littlest one, and Optimus reached down to pat it along, but before he could move, it was gone, whisked away by its mother and into a safer place away from him. He got to his peds and kept moving.

He tilted his helm back and smiled up at the clouds still unloading the water. Thunder rolled and lightning ripped across the sky, illuminating the blackened clouds, but it didn't frighten him as it frightened the fawns, who cried out and, Optimus imagined, hid themselves in their mothers. Instead, his smile grew and he closed his optics in a long blink.

He kept walking, gently picking through the forest life until the GroundBridge opened and he stepped through into his own safe place away from the storm.