We need more moments both where Deadlock acts more driftlike and Drift acts more deadlocklike, and of all the little moments where he can't help but act how he would pre-war too, just to cement he's truly ultimately the same person under the hard identity switch
Hey, sooo could you do buddy as drifts sibling/sparkling (which ever you want) and knew him when he was deadlock with him leaving them on accident with them running into each other again with buddy still being a con would drift try to have them join the lost light?
We are going with the twin route because not even I'm ready for an abandoned sparkling one. Also added some extra things, hope that was okay!
Personally, I don't think he would ever willingly abandon his sparkling or twin under any circumstance
Hope you enjoy!
Drift's twin the Con who was left behind on accident
Buddy had been by Drift/Deadlock side since the beginning.
From the overdose.
Meeting Ratchet and Orion Pax.
Meeting Megatron and joining the ranks.
Being one of the best snipers compared to their twin.
“I bet you 50 shanix you can’t hit the bot over there.”--Deadlock
“The one behind the rocks with that horrendous color scheme? Please, I’d do it for free, but since your offering…”--Buddy
Buddy closes their optics and fires the round hitting the bot on the shoulder.
“Non-lethal. Doesn’t count.”--Deadlock
Buddy holds a digit in the air.
The bot suddenly explodes.
Deadlock smirks.
“Compression rounds?”--Deadlock
“You know me Deadlock, I have to make my presence known one way or another. What better way with an explosion.”--Buddy
Deadlock reading his rounds.
“Always one for the grand entrances.”--Deadlock
Buddy smirks back.
“Always.”--Buddy
Drift/Deadlock was their entire world and vice versa.
Buddy was his light in this dark world.
The only rocks in the world they had were each other.
Through the fun times and worst times, they stayed loyal to each other’s side.
But then the accident came.
It was the two of them and a small group of Cons on a stake out.
No one knew about the bombing raids.
Drift remembered the screaming and grabbing Buddy’s servo trying to get to safety.
He remembered the feeling of violently getting flunked into the air and blacking out.
He remembered waking up to nothing but scraps of metal and holes in the ground.
He remembered screaming and yelling for Buddy, realizing they weren’t holding his servo or anywhere in sight.
He remembered clawing the dirt around him trying to find them, hoping that they had been partially buried and safe.
He found nothing and went back to the base empty handed and empty hearted.
Buddy’s death was one of the turning points for Drift when he thought about his purpose with the cons and eventually joining the Autobots.
He would later tell the life of his beloved twin to his closest allies on the Lost Light.
Not a day goes by when he doesn’t say a little prayer to Buddy. It was a way of coping with the loss for so long.
Obviously, Buddy isn’t dead.
As it turned out the explosion took them much farther than everyone else.
Their signal had gotten jammed with the surrounding fauna and injuries didn’t help.
They remembered blackout out for a while before a group of Decepticon’s stumbled across their stasis frame. After an accidental reactivation Buddy was brought back to their ship for repairs.
A group they called the Scavengers.
Krok, the unofficial leader welcomed them to their group.
Buddy ended up joining the group as they added more members slowly as they tried to get back in contact with everyone.
The Scavenger couldn’t count the number of times they found Buddy try and contact Deadlock.
They tried to get in touch with Deadlock, but soon it became clear to Buddy that there was no possible way to communicate with him or anyone without the specific equipment for it.
It was now hope that fueled Buddy to one day see their twin again.
It was never a dull moment with the Scavengers and Buddy liked it.
The addition of Fulcrum and Grimlock just added to the fire.
The war may have been a loss… but it wasn’t a loss for everyone.
Krok looking at Buddy who had fallen asleep at the main console again.
He sighed before going over and gently picking them up.
Buddy stirred a bit in their sleep but didn’t wake up.
“They fell asleep at the console again?”--Spinister
Krok just nods as he moves to get Buddy to their habsuite.
“How many times has it been this week?”--Misfire
“Its none of our concern Misfire… They’re just tired.”
“Maybe they should start actually recharging at a decent hour.”--Fulcrum
“Maybe…”--Krok
“They need to let loose a bit you know. Maybe, I don’t know, take them out?”--Misfire
Krok stops in front of the door.
He feels his face plate warmer than usual.
“They won’t be interested.”--Krok
“You could always shoot them.”--Spinister
“No!—I mean—Spinister we don’t shoot team mates.”--Krok
“Krok I think we all know you and Buddy are a little pass the ‘Team mates’ phase.”--Fulcrum
“What makes you say that?”--Krok
Crankcase points at him.
“You carried them to bed and actively tucking them in.”--Crankcase
Krok paused for a moment before walking to the doorway.
“Listen, they are just another valuable member of the team. Anyways—”--Krok
“Krok.”--Crankcase
“Who in their right mind would want to go out on a date me?”--Krok
“Krok.”--Spinister
“They’re smarter, they’ll find some one else to settle down with.”--Krok
“Krok.”--Fulcrum
“Even if they do want to settle—"--Krok
“Krok.”--Misfire
“What?!”--Krok
The four Scavengers point behind him.
He turns and is face to face with Buddy.
“GAH!”--Krok
Krok trips backwards but Buddy grabs him and pulls him flush to their chassis.
Krok feels warmer than usual.
“Buddy… I thought you were asleep?”--Krok
“When your one of the best sniper of the Decepticon army and Deadlock’s your twin, you learn how to sleep lightly and play robot-opposum.”--Buddy
Krok chuckles nervously.
Buddy smirks at him.
“You know… there’s a planet that’s Cybertronain friendly coming up. We could go do some site seeing, what do you say?”--Buddy
Krok tries to speak but he just dumbly nods.
All the Scavengers behind him face palm at the interaction.
Buddy’s smirk turns to a genuine smile.
“All right then, see you in a couple hours then Krok.”--Buddy
They wink and close the door.
Krok just stares at the door.
“What did we just witness?”--Misfire
“That Buddy clearly has more game than Krok?”--Spinister
It was no surprise that Krok had feelings for Buddy.
But when Buddy reciprocated them, that took them all by surprise.
They worked perfectly with each other like a well-oiled machine.
They worked together determined to stick with each other through thick and thin.
“Krok, you’re doing it again.”--Buddy
“Doing what?”--Krok
“The clicking…”--Buddy
Krok looks down at the clicker and slowly sets it down.
Buddy comes to his side and slips their servo into his giving a loving squeeze.
Krok just rest his helm on their shoulder sighing.
“Do you want to talk about it now?”--Buddy
Krok shakes his helm.
Buddy moves their servo and pulls him into a side hug.
“Is this okay?”--Buddy
Krok vents and nods.
They stay on the couch for a bit.
“Buddy?”--Krok
“Hmm?”--Buddy
“Thanks… Thanks…”--Krok
Buddy reaches and hugs him properly.
He responds immediately.
“No, thank you Krok…”--Buddy
The pair end up cuddling in Krok’s room for the rest of the night.
The pair had often danced around being Conjunxes, but both were too shy to bring that up.
The rest of the crew has their own romantic drama to watch now, and they don’t even need a TV for it.
One night the WAP’s engine broke down.
They sent out an emergency pin for repairs.
They received one back.
From the Lost Light.
The ships captain had offered a temporary stay on the ship while their ship was being repaired on the condition that they would be on their best behavior.
The team agreed.
Now The Scavengers were walking to the entrance port as the giant ship had latched onto it.
“Hey Misfire, who did you say the captain was again?”--Fulcrum
“Rodium? Rod? Hang on its on the tip—”--Misfire
The doors open.
“Guess we’ll find out.”--Krok
Buddy takes the lead.
Krok gives them a questioning look.
They walk in and nearly have a spark attack when they see the Co- captains, Ultra Magnus and a familiar felicon.
“Buddy? Your online?”—Megatron and Ravage
Buddy walks forward to the big grey mech.
They stick their servo out.
“Megatron. Its… been a while.”--Buddy
Megatron wordlessly takes the servo.
“It has…”--Megatron
“That’s Buddy? I thought they offlined a while back.”--Rodimus
“Well, they’re not.”--Grimlock
“Grimlock!?”—Rodimus and Ultra Magnus
“This day is just full of surprises isn’t it.”—Ravage
Upon remembering Buddy’s infamously and realizing that the ship was practically crawling with Autobot bot, the Scavengers formed a protective circle around Buddy as they continued to walk with the three other bots.
Ravage took this chance to leave the group.
He knew there was someone that needed to see this.
The group made it to Swerve’s and Buddy instinctively went on guard.
They were honestly glad they brought Grimlock as he gently pushed them forward when they wanted to stop.
Buddy felt uncomfortable knowing full well that many bots had recognized them, ye they weren’t doing anything.
As the group sat down in one of the larger booths, Buddy reached under the table and grasped Krok’s servo.
He sent out loving squeezes trying to soothe them a bit.
“How are you feeling about all… of this?”--Krok
“…Could be better honestly…”--Buddy
“At least Misfire and Grimlock seem to be having fun.”--Krok
Buddy looked over to see Misfire and Grimlock happily chatting with the red minibot bartender.
“Good for them—”--Spinister
BANG!
Buddy immediately moves in front of Krok upon hearing the noise.
There at the entrance of the bar was a white and red mech.
Behind him another white and orange mech panting behind.
“Drift… I swear if you ever do that again…”--Ratchet
Drifts optics frantically searched the bar until they found Buddy.
Buddy felt their spark stop for a second.
Their frame slightly trembled.
“Buddy?”--Drift
Buddy quickly moved across the bar and tackled the mech down in a hug.
Ratchet quickly moved out of the way of the tender reunion.
There was a lot of catching up between the twins as they left to a more private place on the ship.
Drift really owed ravage this one.
Throughout the next few days Drift and Buddy hardly left each other’s side. It soon was made official that The Scavenger’s would be a part of the Lost Light, the twins were overjoyed.
“Drift! I haven’t properly introduced my team.”--Buddy
Drift smiled at them.
It was almost hard to believe that this mech was once one of the most feared mechs in the Decepticon armada.
“You’re the ones who saved Buddy?”--Drift
“Yes.”--Krok
Drift shook their servos.
“Thank you doesn’t even cover it.”--Drift
Buddy slides next to Krok and holds his servo.
Drift looks at this interaction and gives Buddy a smirk.
Buddy looks at Ratchet behind him yelling at a poor bot that decided to play with his equipment.
They mirror his smirk.
“Who would have thought you fell for the one mech that saved your sorry behind all those years ago.”--Buddy
“You aren’t one to talk. At least he’s my Conjunx, is he yours yet?”--Drift
“Not yet—KROK!”--Buddy
Krok fainted in Buddy’s arms.
“DANG IT NOT AGAIN! SOMEONE CALL A MEDIC! OR GET SPINISTER HERE!”--Buddy
I actually love transformers artists when it comes to drawing deadlock/drift. Like it’s rather they absolutely despise drawing him and would rather eat their own organs, or they actually adore and cherish the feeling of drawing him and would choose to draw him over literally any other character. It’s the best
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Horribly lonely, Rodimus falls into the arms of the deadliest gunslinger the Decepticons had ever produced. Stupid, right?
The relationship starts off mutually beneficial, but throw feelings and an accidental bundle of joy into the mix and things are sure to get messy.
