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You're my Man of War by Bite_me__lover_boy
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
17 Sep 2025
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“The Council has made its decision.” The Senator roared out. Orion’s tanks flipped, the stress and anticipation coming back tenfold. “Megatronus of Tarn. Your request to be added as Cybertron’s next Prime has been rejected!”
Orion was about to purge. Directly on the Council floor.
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The Good Old-Fashioned School of Lover Bots; or, How To Win Friends and Influence People in the Outlier Academy by mitochondrial_exosymbiont
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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Damus is dealing with the trials of being a young bot at outlier school: crushes, mastering his powers, dealing with the crushing weight of isolation and rejection by a cruel and heartless world. Y'know, the usual.
Soundwave is dealing with the trials of being Soundwave at outlier school: classrooms are too loud, the dining hall is also too loud, and he keeps accidentally calling his classmates by the names of strangers who live halfway across the planet. Y'know, the usual (for him).
When the two each come to the realization that the other is a neat person, they become practically unstoppable through the power of friendship. Unless you put a concrete block or a very loud speaker or something in their way. Then they're extremely stoppable.
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Chances of Survival by accursedelf
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
12 Sep 2025
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Since Luna-1, no one knows what to do about Pharma. The rogue doctor awaits his pending fate in a makeshift cell on the Lost Light, with his wings bound and alt-mode restricted. After the apocalyptic events of Dark Cybertron, Pharma doesn’t expect he’ll survive to trial. Even Megatron’s fate has been put on hold until Prime and the Autobots salvage some kind of legal system. In the interim, the Lost Light remains grounded. Injured and infirm bots overrun the med bay team. Since Rodimus won’t depart Cybertron until their ship, crew, and allies are up and running, Ratchet suggests they put their captive surgeon to work. First Aid is less than pleased.
For his part, Pharma never thought he’d join a quest. He knows he won’t last long once his past–and the D.J.D.–catches up with him. It’s only a matter of time.
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Addendum (an IDW1 Arcee novel fanfic) by Pluralsword
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
12 Sep 2025
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7 million years ago, the latest blow to gender on Cybertron is dealt by the rising Functionist tide, stirring an Arcee struggling with loneliness and aesthetic dysphoria into enraged action to help bots in the Hadean System across the aesthetic spectrum save their transformative glory and stories… in the process, she finds aid from the scientist Jhiaxus, who also offers xem a new reformatting surgery to let her spark do shaping with CNA editing help. Thus begins a new chapter in her life as a founding member of the expansion of what would later be called the Anti-Vocation League alongside her beloved partner and fellow old person Codexa, while grappling with her own growing pile of pains and traumas. As the millennia carry on and she heads to space, xey eventually meets Anode and Lug in the stars, and some dear moments near the present all the way through to events after Transformers: Optimus Prime #25: Post… where she helps some gender expansive bots, and with help from Aileron and xeir pals she finally gets some answers and closure to xeir own self, and has a reckoning with forces pitted against her for millions of years. The years after are not what she expected during most of her life prior, and xey is glad for them…
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- Part 2 of Addendum Nexuses
- Part 7 of Autosignet Cycle
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The Phantom Hitchhiker by Agentsquirrel
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Danny Phantom
11 Sep 2025
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Optimus often comes across people that society has forgotten. Addicts, homeless people, runaways. But it's not often he comes across a runaway with glowing green eyes.
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- Part 7 of Danny phantom shorts
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In my dreams, Through white crystalline snow, A day passed and then two (A day passed then two) by Katerine_Portu
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
10 Sep 2025
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Cuando Thundercracker es atacado por Skywarp después de ayudar a evitar la destrucción de una ciudad humana, las cosas se salen un poco de control: en lugar de caer en Nueva York, termina en Delphi.
Por otro lado, Pharma ya tiene suficientes problemas lidiando con mineros heridos y personal impertinente, así que ver a First Aid llegar con un buscador Decepticon herido al puesto médico, con la intención de ayudarlo a recuperarse, casi basta para hacerlo perder la compostura y renunciar en el acto.
Pero, una vez más, Pharma no es más que resiliencia envuelta en un paquete francamente atractivo, así que, maldiciendo la ampliamente conocida compasión Autobot, acepta el desafío de cuidar a un mech al borde de la desactivación, que ha perdido las ganas de vivir tras descubrir que los ideales de su facción ya no son tan honorables como creía.
De alguna manera, la parte más difícil de todo el proceso es dejar de lado sus prejuicios y el profundo rechazo que siente por los Decepticons.
Y, para sorpresa de todos en el puesto médico, una frágil amistad florece entre ambos, que eventualmente se transforma en un romance capaz de alterar por completo el curso de la guerra.
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- Español
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- 2,698
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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This is the road to ruin (but we started at the end!) by Lumicrystalline
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, Transformers Generation One
09 Sep 2025
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Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are some of the first decepticons on Cybertron. Starscream's not in it for all the right reasons, but he is in it, and a new world order would suit him just fine if he could rise to the top of it. His lofty plans are for nothing. Starscream and his trine never come back from a mission and are assumed dead, hunted down by the autobot council.
It is a surprise, then, to find them frozen in stasis three million years later, after the explosion of the great war and the fall of Cybertron. The decepticon cause has changed around them, and so have Megatronus and Orion Pax.
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The area was swarming with autobots-- where was he?-- and Starscream, hiding, searched desperately for a familiar face. He tugged on the trine bond, but no one tugged back. The connection felt dead.
There! In the distance, Starscream spotted a familiar boxy frame, the red and blue paintjob shining bright against dull, faded glacier.
Primus, that's Megatronus's mech! Starscream thought. Orion Pax was little else-- he wasn't even a decepticon, only some wishy-washy affiliate, and he couldn't fight because he didn't believe in harming so much as a scraplet. What is he doing here?
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We're all walking somewhere by attic_cat
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers
09 Sep 2025
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Good versus Evil, Autobots versus Decepticons.
She knows it is not that simple. Nothing has ever been that simple. Nothing has ever been so black and white. She will stay silent for now, but damn her if she ever stops questioning.
(Or, let's talk about morality, and what it means to be good, what it means to be evil.)
(Let's talk about loss, and how it affects us all.)
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[the rewritten version.]
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[Podfic] Excessively Clever by Elaizel
Fandoms: Transformers Generation One, Transformers - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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“Don’t let this become one of the occasions you get excessively clever, Swindle," Megatron said.
"My patience for the current situation is highly limited.”Series
- Part 1 of Podfics of astolat's Transformers works
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Origin Stories: Knock Out by LovelyLadyCon
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers (IDW 2019), Transformers: Prime
06 Sep 2025
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Excerpt from the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy:
"The Companion (High Class) or Pleasurebot (Low Class) shall be identified by the collar affixed to the neck, the width and material of said collar indicative of the Cybertronian's assigned Class. The engraved inscription found on the collar is said to be a testament to the devotion of these Cybertronians to their function and craft — 'To comfort, to please, to satisfy your circuitry, to stimulate and electrify, I am yours for eternity'. Note that any Companion or Pleasurebot encountered on the planet that is missing this inscription should be considered fraudulent and should be reported to the local authorities immediately for Impersonation of a Function Unbecoming of Form." -
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Cybertron has been under the rule of the Primes since time-immemorial. The position has always been passed from creator to creation, ensuring a continuous semi-divine lineage. Until the day that Orion Pax is chosen by the Matrix of Leadership to be its next bearer. From one cycle to the next, a new dynasty is declared to be ruling Cybertron, and Optimus Prime is hailed as their new supreme ruler.
Orion has never been blind to how their society's caste system can often cause more harm than good. He'd hoped to be able to change things with his newfound power, but quickly realizes that the Senate and the priests hold much more sway over his life than he'd expected. There's also whatever is happening with his consorts, who act like their new life is anything but wanted.
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Primes traditionally have harems composed of bots from the high-castes of various city states, called their consorts. Allegedly, this is a very desirable position - a cushy life with no worries, their only duty continuing the Prime's lineage. What the people of Cybertron don't know is that the position of consort is more akin to that of a hostage than a real partner. Optimus Prime is also unaware. His consorts are not.
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For every bot, a place in Cybertronian society. For every gear, a place in a well-oiled machine. For a million years, this has been the promise offered by the Functionist Council.
For millennia, I chose to accept this, to be another gear, idly ticking along down in the mines, all because of a bad shake of the cosmic dice. For all I may chafe and groan under the heel of functionist rule, I am but an ember, flickering in the wind of an age long dead. But all it takes is one idle moment, one gust of fortune, for an ember to spark a fire.
Mine will spark a revolution.
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Realizing I Loved You Was My Final Act of Violence (it's just painful Megop poems) by Poetnix
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers One (2024), Transformers: Prime, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon), Transformers: Shattered Glass
26 Aug 2025
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Megop (Megatron/Optimus Prime) poems written by yours truly, Poetnix.
All poems posted here are originally posted on my Tumblr account (@poetnix29).
(I do not own any of the characters mentioned within this work coming from the Transformers franchise.)
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Pharmaceutica attends a funeral.
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- Part 3 of Insoluble
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Bumblebee's Story: At Another's Expense by I_identify_as_a_bitch
Fandoms: Transformers Animated (2007), Transformers - All Media Types
23 Aug 2025
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Bumblebee has been through a lot since he was a sparkling: the final vestiges of the Great War’s end, cruelty, anger, and much more. He was told, alongside his batch mates, that they were the start of something grand, revolutionary in a way that others weren’t; they were special. The stellar cycles have gone by, some feeling like a crawl and others like a black hole had sucked them up entirely, and Bumblebee wished he wasn’t special.
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- Part 5 of Their Stories
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Close your eyes, I'm gonna be your favorite vice by B1NGB0NGB0MP
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
21 Aug 2025
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Bing bong, fleshbag. Sit down and hold on tight, you're going on a ride. You just got the isekai treatment and woke up as a rusty old clanker with a processor malfunction. In short, you have amnesia.
Do I know where any of this is going? No. PLSPKSOSM ARUGH hey gang this is purely so I can get the AO3 curse..
Updates...when I feel like it!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 718
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 6
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Champion by Ilovewhitebread
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
15 Aug 2025
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"MEGATRON!" Was the last thing he heard before he felt the impact. He couldn't vent, but he also couldn't find the strength to do anything about it.
Megatron had been about to stricke the Prime down, end this war once and for all. A victory for the Decepticons.
Now the blade of the Star Saber was plunged right through his spark. He tried striking the yellow scout, glaring up at him. He was talking but Megatron couldn't hear him over the energon roaring through his audio receptors. His own Dark Star Saber slipped though his digits, a weakness overtaking him just as he was about to strike back. Megatron fell to one knee, cradeling the blade of the Star Saber with his servos.
Starscream was screeching something, but it didn't matter. A floaty feeling overtook Megatron as his optics shuttered offline. He might've been falling. Distantly he realised he had lost.He snapped back to conciousness abruptly. Around him the arena audience cheered and hollored.
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Praxus is a cesspit. Everyone who lives there knows it, everyone who works there knows it. To almost every other City-State it is a model, a paragon, a height of unparalleled beauty and values. The crystal garden help, so does the corruption on every level.
Jazz wants to fix his home, in the best way he knows. Prowl just wants to survive, and leave this City better than it was when he got here. Except Praxus isn’t a safe place for honest mecha, and this may be harder than either of them thought it was.
Every action has a consequence.
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- Part 1 of Trust Fall
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Buckethead by benediccia
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
05 Aug 2025
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This is a short poem inspired by the nickname for Megatron "buckethead" that gets thrown around occasionally. I noticed that this nickname is primarily used by Autobots and is used only in a derogatory manner. I think that it could have a classist connotation to it because they are specifically making fun of a trait related to Megatron's pre-ordained function. I also find this especially interesting because Megatron's helmet is the only vestige of his body's original design that remains across his many different reframes. So, I thought "what if it's a derogatory term for miners and/or other manual class Cybertronians?"
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 58
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
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A Court of Gladiators and Archivists by Agentsquirrel
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
04 Aug 2025
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After a raging house party, Megatron wasn't exactly in the state of mind to think past his hangover.
Fortunately for him, Ravage has his back, and after a positive pregnancy test (and the return of a few drunken memories), the night catches up to him.
Meanwhile, the Pax family is without an heir, and, bastard or not, Alpha Trion is not one to let an opportunity go to waste.
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The road to hell is paved with noble intentions, but maybe, just maybe, love could pull Megatron and Optimus off that path