Letting you go is my last act of love
Have some more angst that I thought of out of nowhere:
The battle started out as brutal as ever. Optimus was off to join the main battle until he was ambushed by Megatron. It began with the usual goading and bloody fists, energon spilled on both sides.
Megatron continues to mock Optimus, waiting on him to start one of his speeches, fully prepared to downplay any attempts of asking him to surrender. All the while laughing at his continued misery.
Until, Optimus just stops. He turns to look at him, and opens his mask. In all the time they’ve spent together, before and during the war, he has never looked so tired
“You will always be one of the greatest things to ever happen to me. But now there’s a crippling shadow in the light where you used to be. You will always be a part of me, but… I’m done saving you”
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*someone who knows how to write please fix this (っ´ཀ`)っ
Idk I kind of just want Megatron to be slapped in the face with the realization that Optimus was always the one trying to reach out to him. That it was always him reaching out his hand in the dark waiting for him to reach back. Even after saying the events above, he still hopes. He won’t be chasing anymore, but that doesn’t mean he stopped waiting (Megs probably has like an epiphany about this, but of course FEELINGS is not his strong suit)
The atmosphere in the battlefield takes an obvious shift. Sure they don’t attack if the opponent can’t fight back or surrenders to eagerly join the other faction’s cause, but Optimus is more silent now. If they thought he was more stoic when wearing the mask, he’s so much more colder now. He still engages with the other autobots, but they can tell that something happened. The smile he puts on for them looks like it carried the weight of the world. And in his case, it did.
Then something happens that they needed to join forces for (imagine unicron or quintesson level threats). And they begrudgingly try and work together. Needless to say it was awkward for both parties (especially since the decepticon leader can’t seem to take his eyes off the Prime who is sternly avoiding eye contact as much as possible)
















