Soundrod - The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glenn AU
“So you got yourself into a fine pickle, young Prince. A bet to steal the treasure of the great Knight Tarn.”
“Just tell me if you will help us or not!”
“I will. If the price is right.”
WHOOO my first Soundrod Fairytale AU on this blog! Took me long enough given it’s one of my favourite TF ships.
Like for Jazzprowl I apologise for using a more unknown fairytale for this AU, but none of the well known ones (aka the ones Disney turned into movies let’s be real) seemed to fit them/I had already used them.
This AU is based on the Irish Tale “The Black Knight and the Thief of the Glenn”
But obviously there will be some changes so it’s not a 1:1 adaptation of the fairytale.
Roles:
Hot Rod as the eldest brother
Cheetor as the middle brother
Bumblebee as the youngest brother
Soundwave as the black thief
Tarn as the Knight of the Glenn
Megatron as the King
Starscream as the king’s advisor.
The story begins when, after the death of his conjunx Optimus, Megatron sends his sons (Hot Rod, Cheetor and Bumblebee) away to live hidden away on an island on a lake, as he feared for their safety if they remained at the court, believing his conjunx’ illness was caused by poison.
So the three princes grow up hidden from the world on a lonely island until one day their father’s advisor (and the one behind Optimus’ death) finally found out where they are.
Starscream travels to the brothers’ island and challenges them to a card game for a geasa (a type of vow).
The two younger brothers lose the card game and Starscream sets his geasa: The brothers must steal the treasure of Tarn - The Knight of the Glenn. But Hot Rod wins the card game and sets his own geasa: He will accompany his brothers and Starscream must leave Cybertron and never return if they manage to steal the treasure.
The brothers thus go on a journey to the Glenn. But on their way they get ambushed by a thief named Soundwave. The brothers do manage to overpower the thief but do notice just how incredibly strong he is. So the oldest brother, Hot Rod, offers the thief a deal: We will pay you if you accompany us to the knight of the Glenn and help us steal his treasure.
Soundwave agrees and the trio turned Quattro journeys for days to reach the Glenn. During that time Hot Rod and Soundwave start to grow mutual respect for each other (after starting out hating eachother’s guts with Soundwave assuming Hot Rod is just a whiney useless princeling and Hot Rod viewing Soundwave as unnecessarily rude and stuck up) and eventually developing feelings for each other.
On the night before they are to reach the Glenn, Soundwave and Hot Rod are huddled around the camp fire (Bee and Cheetor already fast asleep) and Soundwave and Hot Rod opening up to one another. Hot Rod reveals to Soundwave that he is scared about possibly confronting the Knight of the Glenn. What if he kills him? He can’t die yet! He has to look after his two little brothers. They’d be helpless without him. And Soundwave says he understands Hot Rod, the he is in the same boat. He cannot die at the hands of the knight under any circumstances. He has a bunch of sparklings to feed and look out for. If he died, who’d take care of his children? He also explains how he took this job on only because the brothers’ pay was good. With their money he would be able to keep his sparklings fed for at least a month.
Hot Rod is surprised, he did not expect for the rude thief to actually be a family man with a soft heart for his children. But Hot Rod tells the thief that if they all make it out alive he will put in a good word for him with his father the king and get Soundwave some actual stable work at the palace.
The day of confronting the Knight of the Glenn comes and the group sneaks into the knight’s castle to steal his treasure but despite their efforts they all get caught by Tarn.
Now in the fairytale the knight says he will kill them all one by one (going from the youngest to the oldest prince and the thief). But the thief manages to convince the knight to let them go by telling him 4 stories from his adventures to proof he had been in bigger danger before.
Now the thief in the fairytale is obviously a bit more of a trickster and it is left ambiguous in some versions if the stories he tells are real or not. But I don’t personally see Soundwave as a trickster and I imagine the scene being closer to that one scene in Princess Bride where Whestley tells Prince Humperdinck how he would “deal with him” before escaping with Buttercup.
So yeah Soundwave will either convince Tarn to let him and the princes go by telling tarn in INTENSE detail how he once skinned a mech 4 times is own size alive or he will keep Tarn occupied with his stories while Hot Rod and his brothers free themselves and grab the treasure before Soundwave takes Tarn out by pulling the stunt he did in the final episode of Cyberverse without the whole dying in the process thing (or maybe he does die if you prefer it that way I am not your boss).
But the group happily returns to their homeland with the treasure, Starscream is banished (or killed by Megatron cuz knowing Starscream he probably blurts out on accident that he was the one who killed Optimus) and they all live happily ever after the end
As always: If you have thoughts or ideas for this AU let me know. Or heck you can post your own version (and if you do please tag me in it, I would love to see more Transformers Fairy Tale AUs)
