I wonder how would different versions of prowl’s relationship be like in different continuities or how would chainbreaker be in them, like you did with Jazz on how would he be with his conjunction in other continuities or soundwave’s son mayhem traveling to different realities to see his dad?
To be sincere, the whole situation Mayhem ended up was very stressful and traumatic, he just kept falling into the many wholes and connections from one reality to another, not all realities had a “Mayhem” so he was kicked out of them to prevent a worse collapse in reality, the possibility was there in some which he fell into, but not in the others (like the main and real IDW).
There are factors as to why this worked out in some universes and why it didn't in others, first, you need the creators to have these new sparks, terraformers in my AU are new sparks who scanned human DNA and cybertronian CNA, given that humans also have electromagnetic fields (EMF) that can connect with the EMF of a cybertronian spark, and the main reason is simple, in these realities the planet Earth is, in reality, Unicron.
Yeah, I really loved the first time when they threw this in the media, Earth being Unicron in disguise was just so surreal that I loved it, so with that in mind, let's go with our poster boy and his many more traumas about to come because of his daddy issues.
Chainbreaker, you have to understand, is a terraformer with a praxian frame (I like to think all praxians have the same frame, this is mainly because in IDW Prowl was cold constructed, maybe he was meant to have another frame, like Star, but we will never know), as such, he is an almost exact copy of Prowl when we talk from the point of looks.
Yet, much to some disbelief, Chainbreaker is very caring, be it to a person, another mech, or the bug he found on the floor, and to make matters “worse” he is an outlier, he is capable of creating semi-organic life forms with limited understanding of their existence that he can produce from his carbon fiber components, this only added more oddness to this weird praxian new spark that somehow has the processor and main drive of a medic unit caregiver.
So why didn't Chainbreaker go and make himself a caregiver instead of trying to become an officer? The answer is simple: Prowl.
Prowl had an undiagnosed and severe case of Male Postpartum Depression, as many things that had happened to Prowl along his life no one noticed, his conjunx and the constructicons did, but did he accept that something was wrong with him? No, he fought and withdrew every time the idea or suggestion of going to see a medic unit popped up, Prowl didn't have any confidence in anyone touching him out of this group on that point of his life, he had been rewired against his will, taken and shaped, he didn't want a psychiatrist trying to pry open things that were supposed to be only his.
Yet, he had to admit to having problems when he was still referring to Chainbreaker like a “it” in place of “he”, even when the sparkling was old enough to be taking military-grade classes, this constant pushing made Chainbreaker want to be closer to his father even when Prow wanted to be away from him, he loved Chainbreaker, Prowl was sure of it, but he wasn't sure if he loved him because he had to or because “it” was really his, and his misdirected love ends up showing in control, he has a set path for his sparkling, to prevent anything that can take him away yet give him a powerful stance to never be seized away.
Prowl was there when his own “son” was “born”, Prowl was there when Chainbreaker almost killed you stopping your heart when he emerged, Prowl was there to hold the sparkling in his first few hours of existence while you were hooked up to machines that helped you be alive, Prowl was there, on a cold chair, looking at you need a ventilator to still be alive while he could feel your shared bond hang from a fine line while the “thing” that almost killed you was taking shape in his arms because of course it still needed warmth to not decay away. You thought his constant refusal to take Chainbreaker back on his arms was due to the stress of the whole situation; no one would have known that an organic “problem” could affect a Cybertronian.
That's the main point of Chainbreaker having serious daddy issues, and now we can begin with the Prowl verse.
Let's be clear with it, while Mayhem took the whole deal quite badly I could see CB still trying to be optimistic, even if he has fallen into the worst facets of his father, he has experienced worse in his life.
G1! Prowl is the one to put him on the edge most of the time, his father fussing over him by a dent made when he came, not even knowing CB is his? Searching for any more and promising to get him patched up soon? It's so weird that Chainbreaker has a hard time believing this is really his father, a version of him, yet his father all the same, he is still strict for the time he is there, telling him about curfews and so on, but gentle in a way that feels foreign, it is nice, to feel so close to this version of his dad, so when he clips out to another reality, he wants to see this version someday again.
He will never know that G1! Prowl died still asking himself why he felt so close to that young mech that appeared as fast as he came.
Now, maybe RID2001! Prowl is the one that makes him feel less homesick, in a way, at least, he sure is less hard than his father, but he still has a lot of rules and so on, yet it is familiar, and after so long away in missions, Chainbreaker can't stop himself from hugging RID2001! Prowl, surprised by how this one only stiffens before patting a servo over the new spark’s pauldron, one arm trying to hold him the best that he can, maybe bewildered by this strange display of human affection coming from a cybertronian, softening his vox as he asks if he is okay with real concern, he doesn't feel the pull, the familiar sense so similar to him, his brothers, for another part, you bet that they do.
What baffles him is the existence of X-Brawn and Side Burn, who know that Chainbreaker feels like a human and another thing that is way too familiar, and then they look at Prowl, and he smells and feels the same under all those things he uses to appear professional, X-Brawn blue screens, and Side Burn screams, because what do you mean Prowl of all mechs had some before him?!
Chainbreaker tries never to say who his other creator is, no matter how many times Side Burn asks or how RID2001! Prowl denies ever looking at a human like that, they are to be protected! Not to… to that!
While their younger brother keeps pestering the one in the middle, X-Brawn, ever the gentlemech of few words, sincerely comes to Chainbreaker and asks if his tanks are full with a servo holding a cube of energon, he doesn't care if he is one of his little brothers’ secret affair child or not, he is a new spark, even younger than Side Burn, and he has raised two brothers already, he knows when a new spark is starving.
It hurts a little, when they all notice Chainbreaker is just gone, “So unfair!”, Side Burn kicks the soil, not knowing that CB just clipped out to another reality, “Look, I don't care if you want to keep your business or the missus out of the public, but you can't just hide my nephew away from us! He is so grown already! I missed very important moments of his development!”
Prowl, still trying to figure out who Chainbreaker was, screams right back, “I have never seen that mech before in my life!”
Side Burn didn't let it go, “I’m destined to be the cool uncle! YOU TOOK THAT AWAY FROM ME!”
When you happen to come by them with news from Optimus, Prowl has little time to stop his door wings from jumping up in the same way his spark does when he sees you, he can't even utter a word when Side Burn fumes rubber to get to you first, “You will wanna hear this! Prowl has a secret child!”, You stop, dead cold, not moving, Prowl screams in absolute silence and horror, spark plummeting, X-Brawn can't believe Side Burn had the bearings to say it out loud to you of all people.
“WAT” the wording is wrong, your brain can't understand, Prowl wants to die.
“You heard me right!”, Side Burn nods to himself, pointing at his brother who is minutes away from collapsing, “kept him away from us and everything, acting like mister perfect with a secret lover and secret child!”, you look at Prowl, he looks at you, his battle mask retracts, his dermas are trembling just like his wings, at a total loss of words, “a total two-faced liar, am I right?”
X-Brawn can see you blink a lot, fast, thinking, and just bailing on them, giving your back, and think “oh frag…” because he knows Prowl has a thing for you, a very massive and too real and too pure for this world kind of thing, he has found too many indications around and acts like he knows nothing for his brother’s sanity, Side has no idea, if he did he would have never done what he just did: Put his brother like a married mech with a whole secret family, making you run away from him as he is a taken man; in reality you want to figure out in silence how come cybertronians reproduce, because somehow you were confirmed that they can?? Side Burn asks himself if he pushed too much (he did), not knowing that in reality, you were wondering how that worked, was it like humans? Like how the factories made cars?? And who says you can't ask Optimus about it??? X-Brawn watches RID2001! Prowl fall to his knees, arms outstretched to you, “it's not-!”, RID2001! Prowl doesn't even know what to say, how can it be, it doesn't make sense! But he swears! he has never-! He never-! with no one! You’re all he can think about! Truly! “I-!”
You are gone, with a thousand possibilities in mind, too focused on the supposed idea of chubby, tiny baby cybertronians as RID2001! Prowl covers his faceplate with both servos, door wings fallen, trembling on his knees on the floor, Side Burn returns to his brothers, sheepishly asking if Prowl is okay, X-Brawn sighs from the spark, watching their younger brother fuss over a silently crying Prowl because it is all over for him before he even asked you out on a date.
EarthSpark! Prowl is very much surprised when he comes in contact with Chainbreaker, he doesn't know what to say, or even what to think, and like Mo said: “he said nope” completed with a peace sign.
Who is in charge of him? It is Optimus once he notices that Bumblebee has his servos full with the terrans and the human kids, which doesn't make things better, the older mechs try to understand him, why he is here or how, Chainbreaker can't say much, only what is on the surface, he is a new spark, he produces life, he produces oxygen, that's just what he is, Optimus understands what he can, trying to keep him calm when Megatron tried to see him too, CB was startled, he knew what and who Megatron was in his reality, and seeing him here makes him react badly, his father told him again and again how dangerous he was, that wouldn't change here, even when the old mech looked sad upon him.
“Worry not”, Optimus said, “he won't hurt you, he only wanted to ask if you came from Cybertron”.
CB does, but not their Cybertron.
When he simply goes away ES! Prowl returned, Optimus didn't even say much, “he wanted to talk to you”, is all, while he just collected the things he gave the new spark, ES! Prowl looks at the used berth, he can still feel the pull of recognition, and he puts it away quickly.
He is a mech with a mission, he can't entertain himself with these, he can't.
For when Chainbreaker falls into the Animated reality, well, it is hard, he falls on Cybertron and not many give a double check when they notice his autobot frame even when he is surprised by his new motorcycle alt mode.
He is surprised to learn that Animated! Prowl is long gone, just to then be curious, who was he, did he love someone, did he lose too much when he became part of the allspark? Chainbreaker may never meet Animated! Prowl, but until he clips out of this reality, he somehow can feel someone hugging him for all the time he is there, and it is very warm.
Maybe SG! Prowl makes him slightly doubt whether this is really his father as this version takes hold of him, servo pressing his faceplate from one side to the other, checking just to be sure, and yes, they are almost exact copies, which makes SG! Prowl is both excited by this mystery and disturbed at the same time once he pushes his way into knowing after taking by force some samples from this supposed new spark of his. A human partner, who would have believed? Just now he had worries about how to increase the number of his followers and it turns out he could use the humans for it? Chainbreaker is, for the first time in his life, scared of his father, this version of him, as his real father would rather kill himself than create a new life with you, so Chainbreaker, believing that if this mech is somehow a version of his father, then he would never push you through it if such an ordeal meant to lose you.
Foolish as he is, because if there's something Chainbreaker never doubts about his father is that he loves you, he loved you so much that sometimes it feels like there was no place for anyone else, all his life he has seen it, lived through it, and he is sure that when SG! Prowl knows who you are in this reality he may love you too.
“One human for only one of you? Well, guess it’s worth the try”.
For once, a version of Prowl chooses Chainbreaker over you, SG! Prowl decides that an outlier that could mass-produce an army without a mind is far more valuable than a human, for once, Chainbreaker finally sees this version of his father for what it really is, a bastard that can't care, and even ponders right in front of him that once your body has served his purpose he will discard you and find another human, because humans can produce outliers? It is worth trying as Chainbreaker is taken back harshly into a lot of light, away from that nightmare.
Chainbreaker has little time to understand, he hears vents, fast and heavy, and then he sees green, noticing a helm he knows all too well, “Brother?”
Springer holds him for a long time, his spark is fussing with a lot of fear and shame and so much relief by getting there just in time, “You’re okay!”, Springer coughs out, “Primus, you’re okay”.
SG! Prowl can't understand what just happened, was that another reality traveler? Weird, he may delve into that later, now, as he looks at the report, he may have to change his plans, as you seem to be registered as deceased after many of Prime’s outbursts on your planet, well, he will just have to make do with the rest of your dying race.
Springer doesn't let go of Chainbreaker for a long while, but he has to do so, as he guides him out, and he catches the youngling see at a corridor that leads to you and Prowl, “they’re gone”, he mourns, “those aren't them”, he explains again to his little brother, and Chainbreaker can only say “I know” before following him to the waiting arms of the constructicons that cry all over him and a tiny spider keeps in the shadows but also sobs in relief.
He still has them, he has them, and that's everything for him.
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