Fic Upload: Point Last Known
It's time! My 2025 TF Big Bang TexAid survival horror homage to Alien and the monster movie genre is here. This year, I partnered with artist @in-your-spoon to create something that I really hope this small and dedicated reader community really enjoys.
First Aid calls up the location from the distress beacon's metadata and enters the vector, fingers flying over the controls. His shuttle is off its programmed course by a three hundred thousand kliks, a microscopic distance in the vastness of space. That alone isn't unusual; the autopilot's logs indicate it rerouted around a potential debris hazard. The signal's origin point isn't far from his current location, but it's so weak it's at the functional edge of his shuttle's sensor suite. If he hadn't been pushed off course, he might have never caught the distress signal. He freezes over the console when he notes the attached timestamp. The nav computer spits out a cheerful time estimate: only twenty minutes at full speed until he's within full scanning range, then eleven more until rendezvous. To a ship that apparently went missing only a few weeks before the war.
After the war, routine has taken hold of First Aid's life: repairing damaged mechs, reconstruction of medical facilities, and an unwelcome involvement in politics. First Aid's function periodically takes him away from Cybertron to deliver medical supplies and training to Cybertronian colonies.
A chance encounter en route to Cybertron will change First Aid's life forever.
Read the rest of the fic here. As always, mind the warnings.
@in-your-spoon's art is embedded in the fic for you to enjoy, but the art masterpost can be found here if you want a sneak peek and check out Allie's other work!
Clocking in at just over 54,000 words, this represents an enormous amount of writing and editing effort over the last 10 months. If you decide to stop by and take a look at it, I'd absolutely love to hear if you enjoy it!