Pregnancy Is Holy On Cybertron Which Is Why Bots Have To Cover Their Pregnant Bellies Up. That's Not

@yayasvalveplay

MORE FERAL BROODMARE OP AU

BUT

Let's start off with how Optimus would be like in this universe alright

Cause I'm building this shit up instead of going for it tbh😭 so mb if you were expecting valveplug😔 imma probably do it in the next Feral OP post

So what I was thinking was that in this universe, the Primes were known as the broodmares right? Yea, let's tie that into them also being cryptids in order to protect their sparklings and sires

Yes, it's mainly the LHP's job to care and protect them BUT the matrix won't allow them to just be broodmares. They need to also be WEAPONS

SO what I was thinking that they would be larger than the sires by maybe a couple feet or so, they have larger teeth to defend themselves, they have thicker bodies to sustain any damage and to carry many sparklings/eggs, they have claws, etc.

That was Optimus.

Now, let's focus on Orion Pax.

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Okay, now imagine this (imma combine all sorts of ideas, so stay with me now): imma say that OP, in this universe, used to be a dock worker, alright? Dock workers were BIG. They all had some sort of upgrades in order to fit the qualifications of their job. BUT they also had these upgrades because the docks were so fucking dangerous that you would need to have all sorts of weapons and training just to survive the day.

Energon rations were scarce here, yes, so they had to fight for that, too. They had to fight for everything, basically. OP, who desperately didn't want to fight anymore but couldn't because he can't go the pacifist route in this line of work, killed a lot of mechs. He felt guilty because they never chose to fight to survive. They couldn't help that the caste system doesn't benefit them; it only serves to beat them down until they're nothing, used till they're deactivated from either turf wars or some other cause.

Orion Pax figures that if he can't go for pacifist, then he should try to lessen the amount of casualties by striking deals with some of the other gangs. Does it work? Not always but at least the number has gone down. When a mech deactivates, he sends them off to the Allspark with sorrowful prayers. When a mech is injured, he tries his best to repair them before carrying them to Ratchet, with some ending up dying.

The deaths, fighting, protests against the caste system, secret meetings, mechs getting tortured and executed-- all of these were getting to him. He doesn't have any means to save them from starvation, from the frigid winters and scorching summers, from the enforcers, from each other, from themselves.

And the only happy things going in his life are his found family and his sparklings, Mirage and Bumblebee, whom he carried.

His pregnancies were brutal, to say the least, no matter how much his Amicas tried their hardest to give him what he needs. No matter how many energon rations they gave him. No matter how much they tried to keep him from stressing or in any danger. No matter how much shanix they tried to spare/save to buy items for the sparklings. No matter how much blackmail and bribes they had on others / made just to keep OP safe and keep the dock workers afloat.

And the birth. Oh, Primus below, the birth. He couldn't even describe the pain he felt other than excruciating. He was in labor for almost a full cycle. And afterwards, he was so exhausted that he was too weak to try to hold his sparkling. Too tired to even keep his optics online.

Mirage--his firstborn, whom he was forced to give him up after the overseers discovered him. He knew that Mirage wasn't made for this life as he was only so young. He knew (even though he didn't want to admit it) that he couldn't keep him, not for long. He knew that he couldn't raise him here, not in a constant state of war.

Then, he had his little Bumblebee. He doesn't believe that Bee should live in a war-like environment either. But he doesn't want to give him up. No, not entirely. So he sends Bee to live with Ratchet and his conjunx, Deadlock, this time round.

Does Bee know that OP is his carrier? Yes. Does he know why he couldn't live with his mama? No. And he'll never know why for the next couple of vorns. Does he know what they all did to make sure that he had a good life? No.

Does Mirage know about him, that he's his carrier? No. Does he know anything about his past and the family he could have gotten? No. And he wouldn't meet them until later on, when the war broke out.

(This going down the angsty route was not what I intended but whatever)

Skip forward to when Orion Pax meets Gladiator Megatronus via fighting in the Pits.

How did he get there, you may ask?

Well, he got caught fighting some enforcers who were physically assaulting one of his Amicas, and he just snapped. And, in the end, he killed 2 of them while severely injuring the rest. He was then charged without a trial and immediately sent to the Pits since they saw it as going against the system.

The Pits were a lot like the Docks, he found out. Yes, you may have to fight to the death but wasn't that what they were practically doing anyway? Yes, you have to fight to earn medical care, energon rations (those were more than what they ever got in the Dockyard), frame upgrades, more training, etc. (At least there were most benefits. He hasn't felt this good since he onlined). Yes, you have to fight with mechs who you were close to. Yes, you have even have to kill them just to survive another cycle.

Anyway, he goes against everyone in the Pits, makes a name for himself and earns quite a reputation. He then goes against Megatronus. Everymech is expecting that he would put up a fight but not win. Every single one of them placed their bets on Megatronus.

They were proved wrong when Orion Pax manages to incapacitate him

Megatronus, who has never lost a match in several vorns, was suddenly beat by a mech who He was astounded. Yes, the mech is several feet taller and larger than him, but he had won matches against larger opponents than him! He should have won!

Mind you, he wasn't angry when he woke up. No, he was just in shock because, logically, he should have won. But this got him interested.

Who was the mech? Where did he come from? How did he beat him? All of these questions ran through his mind and no answer. Because of this, he has Soundwave look into it.

What he finds is almost nothing. There's a name, when he onlined, record of his working at the Docks and being a supervisor there, but nothing else. That has him intrigued.

Mind you, the Decepticons were just starting out by the time OP got put into the Pits. Meaning, he saw and quietly listened to the mech behind the speeches; the lyrical poetry coming from the spark; the way the crowd quiets when he speaks, eager to hear from the one that will lead them to victory; to see Megatronus and the way he offers comfort to those who need it; the way everymech is comfortable around him.

Megatronus, surprisingly, offers him a place in the cause. A position that would grant him the ability to oversee the operations of the cause. One that he would have to share with Soundwave (not that he minded. In fact, he was thrilled but he never let it show either in his face nor his EM field.)

(And when Megatronus leaves him gifts and spoiling him rotten as best as he could? Megs would only that they are just friends.)

(And during this time, Bumblebee began to ask questions. Why couldn't he visit mama anymore? Did he do something wrong? Did he do anything to upset mama, to make mama not allow him to visit him?

"No, little honeybee, you didn't. In fact, he wants you there, but we can't visit him anymore, alright?"

"But why?"

"Oh, you'll understand when you're older. You'll understand why mama wants to protect you."

He never did.)

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Bumblebee finally gets to visit his carrier for the first time in 2 vorns! Sure, he got to exchange datapads filled with writings and little charms with it; he got to taste candies he got sent straight from Kaon; he received numerous gifts over that time; he got voice recordings from him; he even got shanix from him to spend! ("Don't spend it all, little bitlet. You have to save some for later on." "I know, mama.")

And when he got there with Ratchet and Deadlock, he already has several mechs cooing over him.

"Oh, how adorable that bitlet is!"

"Such a precious thing, ain't he?"

"Would you like this rust stick, little one? Or an entire bag, perhaps?"

"Maybe he'll like this trinket?"

When they finally manage to get to the location, Bee's already squirming out of Deadlock's hold.

"Hold on, bitlet! We need to find your carrier first!"

"Please? I'll be right here! I can be good!"

Ratchet sighs out of amusement. "Fine. You can let him go."

As soon as he's let go, he immediately sprints from them with the both of them shouting after him. He needs to find him!!

After a while of running, he slows to a walk, admiring everything around him. He snaps out of it after a few kliks.

He's using his EM field to find him because Ratty told him that he could find his mama this way!

By this point, every mech walking by turns to look at him, sensing the little EM field that was saying 'Mama! Mama! Where are youuuuuu!'. Bee is oblivious to it all.

Then, suddenly, he's being picked up by a pair of strong arms. He's squirming uncontrollably and in a mini fit of rage. He wants to find his carrier! Who is this mech!

The mech turns him around and it's Ratchet with Deadlock trailing behind him.

"Oh!" Bumblebee looks at them sheepishly.

"Oh, is right, bitlet. Now, don't go running off, trying to find your carrier, ya?"

"Okay..." Bumblebee pouts.

After a few breems of searching, Bee manages to find his carrier among the crowd of mechs surrounding the vicinity. He loudly chirps at him, startling everyone.

Said mechs turn around and look directly at him, causing him to hide his face in Ratchet's neck.

Orion Pax, who was talking to Megatronus and Soundwave, snaps his head at Bee, optics widening. Bee is here? He thought that he wouldn't see him for another few joors!

"Oh, sweetspark!" Orion is already moving towards them, oblivious to the stares he's getting.

He takes Bumblebee from Ratchet's arms and spins the both of them around. Bumblebee giggles in delight at finally being able to see his carrier!

When they settle down, Orion Pax turns and tells them that he won't be with them for the next couple of cycles.

He turns to Ratchet and they both leave, leaving Megatronus and the rest in confusion.

(And maybe Megatronus does find Orion attractive because of this. I mean, who wouldn't? Especially once you find out that they're a carrier. And maybe he does think about getting him sparked up with his babies this time round.)

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Not my best work but I was kinda running out of ideas sooooo yea😭

THIS IS SO SJJDISJDJDMS

@beautyconsumer OH MY GOD????

I HAVE AN INTERVIEW TOMORROW FOR A JOB 🥳

(I took too long to make the call so I'm anxious as hell😭)

I need Starscream to get Optimus pregnant so badly. Especially in Animated.

oughhhhh yeah, i'm right there with you anon

especially when you consider the size difference. starscream is giant in tfa, so imagine him getting optimus pregnant with a whole trine... optimus won't be able to hide his pregnancy for very long

and carrier optimus would be such a diva, let's be real. he's bratty, he's stubborn, and he's got his decepticon conjunx wrapped all the way around his digit. starscream wants the future heirs of his decepticon rule to be properly cared for, so he's gonna spoil optimus rotten. if optimus wants something, all he has to do is pout with those pretty lips and rub his pregnant belly, and starscream folds like origami.

(and if being cute doesn't work, optimus can still threaten to chop his head off. him being a carrier doesn't mean he can't still use his axe.)

YESSS AND HE GETS THE BREAK THAT HE DESERVES!!

like he has the entirety of Cybertron on his shoulders and maybe someone says that he should look for someone to frag.

He blushes at the bluntness of the statement, but he thinks it over. It sounds very tempting but the question is: who would he frag?

But the answer is obvious! Especially since everybody wants a piece of him. He probably picks either Elita or Blurr first.

He assumes that he would be the one to spike them since the Prime is supposed to be the one in charge of their pleasure, right? WRONG!! Elita or Blurr rubs his panels to make him show his valve. And as soon as they get to it, they shove their digits inside and start finger-banging him to overload. He didn't even have time to warn them with the way he whines and whimpers for them to keep going, that he---

Then, he screams and overloads hard. In fact, he squirts.

They are shocked, of course. But he just kept going. He's begging for them to continue. And they do.

They pull their spike out and prep him more. Then, they shove their spike into his valve and ohhhhhhh this is best he has ever felt.

Cue some marathon sex.

They go for the entire night and by the end of it, they're panting and tired.

Few days later, he is already charged. Again?? After a one night stand, he is wanting to go at it again?? He picks someone else: Jazz. They go at it like rabbits. They're not stopping for anything! In fact, they went at it for almost an entire day because it just felt sooooo good.

And some time later, maybe days or even weeks. He suddenly feels sick. His behavior is changing. He is getting more temperamental, aggressive even, to the others. He's eating more His body starts filling out better: his thighs get thicker, his hips widen, and his chest starts feeling uncomfortable and feels that something to pressing against his windows. (It makes everybody blush, seeing the way his body is now so curvy. It's makes them want to frag him to the berth but they have to wait until he gets to them since it looks like he's not stopping anytime soon.)

He finally goes to Ratchet after weeks and Ratchet scans him, saying that he's sparked. Sparked??

Logically, it makes sense. The symptoms lead to it; his body is preparing for the gestation period, for his sparkling. But he can't believe it! In the middle of war? How careless could he be?!

He's given the option to terminate but he doesn't want to. He wants to carry them to term.

He announces it to everyone. They're happy too!!

But now several precautions are in place.

He still has to go to the battlefield but now he has an entire group of bots to protect him!! If he's in the base, they are giving him more energon. The workload lessens to a fraction of what it was. Etc. Etc.

The Decepticons know something is going on and want to investigate but between optimus tearing their sparks/limbs out and every bot becoming more hostile and aggressive towards them every chance they get, they can't do anything!!

When they're off, optimus is getting fucked silly and his tits sucked on by ALL of them. Prowl and his inner circle can keep the army together while he can relax!! He can't stress the sparkling out when he's being pampered to hell and back. They give him everything he wants.

Meanwhile optimus himself can feel that his higher-functioning is slowly turning off to focus on the sparkling. He's going to base coding.

He converts his berth into one huge nest. It's filled with the softest materials ever but also has weapons and energon stored just in case. He snarls anytime some bot approaches him without his consent.

On the other side of the field, the Decepticons are getting irritated. They are losing!! And they don't know why!! Scratch that, they do.

The Autobots, who everybody assumes to be entirely made up of pacifists, are getting to the point where even one small interaction with them is getting a Decepticon killed.

And so, they make a plan. Megatron and Soundwave will infiltrate the base, try to find Optimus, and kidnap him. Is this a death wish? Most likely but they don't really have a choice here.

They do it one day. The base is empty, void of mechs. Its perfect. It takes some time for them to find it. They hear a noise of.. smacking?? They dismiss it, thinking that it wasn't of importance. They go into the room and they see... Optimus is getting his back struts blown out and Blurr's fondling his breasts. Optimus has a full belly, one that brushes against the ground from his position. They see sparklings in a different nest, all having varying designs, paint colors; all of them sleeping, oblivious to their surroundings.

Optimus looks over and suddenly snarls at them, 2 rows of teeth on full display. Blurr stops and looks over too, spike sliding out. Both of their armor is flaring in and out, showing that they will pounce if Soundwave and Megatron step any closer.

They. Are. Shocked.

What else are they supposed to think?

This was the reason why the Autobots were all acting that way. They were protecting their broodmare

The both of them are flung back into reality and their coding is telling them to sink down to their knees and they do.

OP and the other pause. What? They don't understand. What are they doing?

Well, OP knows. They are showing their submission to him!! They are respecting his boundaries! He purrs when he realizes this. They would make good sires too.

At his approval of them, they go in, their coding taking over.

Everybody comes home and immediately they're on high alert. They sense that somethings wrong. It feels off.

Who was here?

Who was here while.. OP...

Oh.

Oh no.

OP, their Prime, the carrier of their sparklings they're protecting??

They frantically get to the room just to see that he's fine. But then they see that Megatron and Soundwave themselves are here.

What the fuck??

They look closer and see that they are fragging Optimus. His valve is split open on Megs' spike, mouth wide open to make room for Soundwave, and the Bot is fondling OP's chest.

OH.

...At least their lover is enjoying himself, gaining new donors in the process. Although they may have to make sure that the place is more secure next time.

After the 'incident', a treaty was put in place to secure the safety of Cybertron, and to, well, get OP pregnant.

Though some stupid mechs do not respect the treaty. They don't want to see the Prime live. They want to put him through hell.

And that is their first mistake.

They plan it like this: a couple of mechs will get into the place, alright? They will navigate it until they could find OP himself (sounds very familiar) and then kill him and anyone else thats with him.

It's in action a day later.

After they steer through this place and knocked out some of the guards that were supposed to be outside the room, they go in.

They expect to fight him. They expect for their to be bloodshed. They expect to win.

Obviously.

But when they go into the room, they are met with OP, who heard them, hissing and snarling.

Oh?

They don't think much of it, despite how odd it was for the Prime to do that.

What they didn't know was that his sparklings are there with him. They didn't know what they came face to face with a fierce carrier, who would do anything to protect them.

They didn't know that the moment they got into the base, they were dead.

When they get closer to his nest, OP pounces.

Their screams and wails echo through the halls.

By now both the Autobots and Decepticons will sense that something is amiss. They hurry to the base because this time it feels so very wrong.

When they get to OP, they are met with a crime scene. They see energon coating the walls leading to the room. They see detached servos and claw marks. They see limbs poking out from the door.

But none of them are his paints.

They go inside, only to see OP is eating them. He's eating the inside of their chassis, their fuel lines/tanks, their arms....

OP is covered in energon, which should've been terrifying and disgusting. But to them, it only served to make him more beautiful. Beautiful in the way that this proved he is a good carrier. Beautiful in the way that he reacted on instinct to protect his sparklings.

They reward him by fragging him while he's still coated in energon til he's pregnant again.

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OOOOO DAMN this is so long for me.😭 I haven't written anything like this before so sorry if it isn't good but I wanted to get my thoughts out there.

In two days too😭

@yayasvalveplay here!!!! I'm kinda happy how this turns out but idk if it's any good. But imma keep fueling this urge to write feral broodmare op

OOOOOO WAIT DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON FERAL BROODMARE ORION/OPTIMUS

PLESE PLEASE. I WOULD LOVE THEM TO BE A BROODMARE.

Getting fucked so silly and popping out kids. Dee/Megatron being the stud that he always get paired with most of the time, though sometimes he had others. Jazz, Elita, Prowl, Blurr. But it is mostly Dee/Mgatron.

They would be so protctive over their kids. their tits are swollen with sparkling energon. they love being breed

Omfg why why why

Nvm I did this to myself😭

I am unsure why, but this reminded me of my mother. I wonder how she has been.

https://www.tumblr.com/yayasvalveplay/779372647967539200/why-dont-we-get-soft-prowl-any-more-guys-g1-is?source=share

...I'm sorry, the first place my mind went was either 'Prowlswap' or 'meeting of the Prowls'.

Let's swap IDW with G1 and see how Megatron fairs with IDW Prowl as second in command XD.

G1 is going to be so out of place and the sad part I think a lot of bots would like G1 better than their own Prowl.

I've been seeing so many works about Optimuses gathered together across the universe, and yeah, there's the general consensus that the Optimi would side-eye Bayverse and his (violent) downward spiral, but c'mon!

Where's the side-eye towards TFP? I don't mean with the bromance between him and Megatron, I'm talking about TFP being his unintentional feral, awkward self.

Unlike his other counterparts, TFP had come from the boonies of nowhere and straight-up wilds, and then got his education from a recluse that's in so many political pies and skills from a multitude of people from a variety of backgrounds.

Like there are Things that TFP's friends, coworkers, close advisors, and teammates just... accept because it's Orion Pax/Optimus Prime.

He may have assumed responsibility over his collection of teens, but he isn't really close to them, so they don't see the shit that the others do. Even Smokescreen has moments where his thoughts are like, "Is this a Prime-thing? It must be a Prime-thing!"

Like give me the Optimus that will literally go into an in-depth discussion on the unique culture of each city-state can be stemmed by the Primes they either patroned or championed, but will straight up eat raw Energon crystal because there's a line at the convertor. 10/10 would lick a cave wall to determine its composition. (In fact, this is how Megatronus met Orion. This guy straight up took a bite of someone's art project/stupid dare because he couldn't understand egging pranksters and didn't drop from the inedibles of dark arts.) He likes long drives (makes sense, he's a convoy), free style rock-climbing off of cliffs (what), and can parkour off a ridiculous building (WHAT)

He's the equivalent of the human would eat the plastic imitation fruit and either politely say it's not his thing or finish it off if it was scented. The buff nerd that's weirdly quiet and would have the knowledge to homebrew pyrotechnics and utilize them if necessary. You would never expect this guy to be outdoorsy, he is. Very. Can tell people which wild plants or animals will cause vivid hallucinations or sleep paralysis in an offhand manner. Do not get this guy shit-faced: everything will become surreal.

Megatron who get pulled back from the dark side by someone else than Optimus (Rodimus, Dot Malto...)

And Optimus... has enough.

He passed millions of years trying to save his friend, giving him chances again and again, hurting himself by both the Decepticon's actions and his own despair, before - maybe - making peace that Megatron can't be fix. He's irredeemable.

Except he's not. Someone Megatron knows since less time than Optimus, who didn't have the quarter of the relationship they had, who didn't put a fraction of the time and effort and suffering of Optimus, manages to do what Optimus was incapable of doing.

Optimus doesn't want to do anything with Megatron. He doesn't want to talk to him or to see him ever again. He will not hurt him, but he can't forgive him for this betrayal.

Basically,

https://www.tumblr.com/luxafers-triak/780094543226863616/ykw-archivist-orion-pax-is-not-gonna-be?source=share

I went ahead of myself

Back to what I was saying before megpax happened

Orion Pax would know so many things about Cybertron itself and its inhabitants that not even Soundwave nor any of the spies themselves know about.

But also I believe that he would be forced to monitor some of the 'sessions' that went on there. That he would told that he was needed to film some things for the Senate only to find himself in the middle of a crime scene (and sometimes having to participate under the threat of whatever)

He would document history as it plays out and has to release the rather heavily censored versions of those events to the Iacon Hall of Records.

I also like to imagine that he would be so much older in this universe. I'm talking alive since the beginning of the Quintesson age of Cybertron, like he was there for the rise of the Quintessons and the end of it (he was part of the regime that killed them and had garnered quite a reputation there).

During that age, he was able to freely document what the Quintessons were doing and are going to do. He was also able to get into meetings where he would translate, make notes, transcribe their conversations, draft treaties, organize events and parties, record certain things, etc. etc.

He was both a highly-valued soldier and Archivist for them. Because of this, he would also be sent on stealth missions, honey trap his victims, do surveillance, basically all of those black/special ops slag.

However, the problem lay in what the Quintessons were doing to some of the other species, specifically Cybertronians. They would treat them like they were worth nothing, starve them if they disobeyed, use them for their own selfish desires, and drain them of their energon just to give them a fraction of the amount the Quintessons received.

Some of the Cybertronians (the Primes and others), however, didn't care enough of the consequences and chose to lead a rebellion against them.

Now, this is where Orion Pax noticed and did not notify the Quintessons of what they were doing. He believed that they were actually doing the right thing to stand up for themselves.

He gave them weapons, more energon, notes of what they were doing in the meetings, and provided healer training (it was rough since he had little to work with, but he gave them the basics whenever they had common injuries. If he could, then he would also provide them with the proper materials for medical supplies).

When the Quintessons eventually found out, he was close to being executed on the spot when the leader of the entire colony approached the scene and commanded that they don't kill OP because they should break him first.

After that, they kept their promise and tried everything they could to do so. They tore his armor apart from his protoform, deprived him of energon and of any form of sensory, used him, basically torturing him until he almost couldn't take it anymore.

But when they suddenly left him alone one cycle because of a meeting being held, he took that chance to escape from where he was being held (in the chambers). It was eventually found out a couple joors later, and they searched every crevice for any sign of him. But, it was too late, and OP was already halfway there to Iacon.

The Primes, while on patrol, found him in the middle of a clearing, stumbling and in a state of constant agony.

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With the help of Orion Pax, who proved to be a competent soldier, they won countless battles.

Originally, after recovering enough to fight, Orion had to go through training and ranks all over again. He quickly rose up the ranks and became one of the leading generals (though this didn't really mean much when they were still in the early stages of the war).

He had all of the soldiers trained in Quintesson combat as he was the only one who knew how to. He himself modified almost of them so that they were able to have very powerful weapons to use against them. He trained the rest of them as medics, mediators, translators, etc.

(A few vorns later because I don't know what else to say in this part, okay)

Even though they didn't really have a chance in the beginning, they ended up winning the war.

In the final battle, they were close to giving up because the Quintessons were overwhelming them when Orion Pax came into the scene.

Orion, who wanted revenge for what they did to him, stormed in with powerful machine guns and blades. It was brutality and bloodlust at its finest.

He absolutely decimated every last Quintesson until they were nothing but a field of hollow corpses. After that, he had left on a spaceship for a couple of chords before returning back.

When he came back and Cybertronian society began to rebuild itself, he was there through all of it.

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Somewhere down the line, some of the Primes turned away from their beliefs and everything else happened.

The caste system was put in place, and everything went to hell afterwards.

The cycle of them turning into oppressors began, and everymech suffered as a result.

The Pits, which was originally friendly sparring, turned into a bloodsport. Iacon, which was a place of fighting and violence, turned into the main source of the oppressive high-caste mechs and architecture. Kaon, once a place of the arts, became too dangerous for once to go alone unless you were born in it. Tarn, known for its beautiful architecture and wildlife, became the source of Cybertron's minerals and had abandoned buildings. Other cities had not yet formed until several vorns down the line.

Orion Pax, who had dreams of living a peaceful life and not surviving yet another horrific cycle on the battlefield, realized that it was all for nothing, now that they were destroying themselves from the inside.

He only wishes for this to end peacefully (in the back of his mind, he only knows that this is wishful thinking).

He meets Megatronus and Soundwave, helps with their cause while also trying not to give anything away from his past (he slips up a couple of times, and it messes with his mind that he can't tell them, no matter how much they insist), and everything else goes almost exactly how it did in canon.