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Optimus Prime's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Cycle by Hoard_of_hyperfixations
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
03 Jun 2026
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Optimus has watched Starscream, decepticon air commander and loyal (ish) second to the ruthless Megatron, die, approximately twenty times.
It's disturbing.
He doesn't like Starscream. Nobody likes Starscream. But Optimus doesn't enjoy seeing anyone pass away; it's the thing that constantly makes him hesitate to continue the war. If he were fighting for a lesser cause, he would have surrendered to end it and, in the process, end the continuous loss of life the fight cost.
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Or, the one where Optimus gets stuck in a time loop that resets every time Starscream dies. A mech who remembers every time he's failed to save someone, and a seeker who is not only doomed to die, but is utterly insufferable.
What could possibly go wrong?
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- Part 17 of Arson's Transformers Fics
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Project: Seeker by boxkoi
Fandoms: Transformers Animated (2007), Transformers - All Media Types
07 Aug 2026
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Bumblebee couldn't understand why his door wings suddenly propped open one day. But on the day he and his team were being celebrated by the people of Detroit for their heroic efforts, everything suddenly went against him after a locked file found in his system was unlocked.
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The Villainous Conjunx Just Wants a Quiet Second Life by OtomeGirl4Ever
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers One (2024), Transformers (IDW 2019)
01 Sep 2026
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Starscream remembers the guillotine.
He remembers marrying General Ultra Magnus, being ignored by his Conjunx, despised by the servants, resented by Magnus's grown son and heir, Smokescreen—and wasting his miserable marriage on jewels, extravagance, and countless lovers. Worst of all, he remembers how one lover used his shannix to finance a revolution against Cybertron's royal family, leaving Starscream branded a traitor and executed.
Then Starscream opens his optics.
It is the morning of his Conjunx Endurae ceremony.
Given an impossible second chance, Starscream wants only one thing: to keep his head attached to his neck.
No lovers. No expensive jewelry. No fighting with servants. No interfering with Smokescreen. No demanding affection from Ultra Magnus. He will become the perfect invisible spouse, quietly occupying some forgotten corner of the estate until old age claims him naturally.
Unfortunately, the moment Starscream stops demanding everyone's attention…
everyone starts paying attention to him.
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- Part 3 of Otome Games/Villains/Regression
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The Echo Garden by AltraViolet
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
04 Feb 2024
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Soundwave's banishment to the shadowzone has been bleak, uneventful and unending. He hasn't been able to contact Megatron or the Nemesis. He's low on fuel. If it weren't for the emotion-suppressing protocols he implemented before the war, he would be miserable.
And then one day a dimension-hopping Rodimus falls into the shadowzone and offers him a way out.
“You'll like the Lost Light,” said Rodimus. “Everyone gets a second chance, there. You wanna stay here forever?”
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Counterplay by GhostHost
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers Generation One
09 Nov 2025
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Wheeljack opens Brainstorms confiscated briefcase, thinking it's an old experiment of his own. Instead, he gets tossed back in time, right before Starscream is placed on a very public trial for the murder of his scientific exploration partner, Skyfire.
His past self sympathized but stayed out of it. That Wheeljack was on the fast track to becoming one of Sentinel’s top scientists, closely watched, and quietly warned that a single misstep could jeopardize his future.
The Wheeljack that spent the majority of his life as the Autobot's chief of engineering, and knows Starscream’s sentencing plays a huge part in igniting the war?
He’s interfering.