Do you have any ideas for your save file au? (I love your writing by the way)
OH SO MANY OH SO MUCH(in reference to this AU I goofed about)
You had woken up in the desert with no memory of how you got there. At first you panicked, looking around, distraught and wondering so frantically why the Lost Light would abandon you wherever you were. Your brain then caught up with itself, lagging behind from zipping through time and space and consciousness. You’d opened a new file and were exploring a new universe.
Your hike through the desert led you to a mountain, where you leaned against it for shade. As if by some miracle, the side of it opened up as loud cars approached from the distance. You ducked down as they drove inside and before the passage could close, you dove inside. What compelled you to do that? Who knows, but it sent you bumping right into the leg of a white and red cybertronian, with several others and a few humans staring right at you.
“Ratchet?”
The mech spuutered.“How did you know m-” He looked at the others in disbelief. “Who are you!?”“Right. You don’t me. I-” You looked at him. “Sorry, you just... look so different. I’m (y/n). You don’t know me but... in another universe we’re friends.”
It was as good as an introduction as you were going for this time around. Next time around, you might see what happens when you don’t let anyone in on your status as a universal constant.
You ended up telling them about each of themselves in the alternate reality. They all sat around you as you drew their alternative selves and talked about their lives.
“Bumblebee. Well, right now you’re dead. But like, not really dead. Starscream can still see you, but everyone thinks he’s just lost his mind. You two are friends, relax relax. He was also temporarily the ruler of Cybertron and didn’t actually do the worst job. No yeah, he’s probably exactly like the Starscream you’re thinking of. Starscreams tend to come in only a few flavors. But anyways, you got Megatron to bite the bullet and end the war. You still might in this life. No I won’t elaborate.”
“Bulkhead, I don’t actually know too much about you in that universe, I’ll be honest. You’re a lot younger and a wrecker. You’re actually teammates with someone Bumblebee will meet much later in this life. In another world though, you were an artist, a kind soul, very friendly. I think you’re kind of the ‘main’ Bulkhead, though. Yeha, multiverses are confusing, I know.”
As you get to Arcee it becomes less of just repeating what you’d heard to something more personal. You’d actually known the Arcee from your universe.
“Arcee... You’re old. You’re really old, like you were a gladiator when The 13 were alive. You used to go by a male identity much like your twin brother, Galvatron, but transitioned with what you thought would be the help of a scientist named Jhiaxus. He took advantage of you being in his care to do some awful things. You spent a long, long time a war machine, hellbent on razing your way through cities and mechs just to kill Jhiaxus. You eventually find a team, friends, and a lover named Aileron. You teach history at a school for young cybertronians and humans on earth.”
Arcee, though she was having a hell of a time processing it, stopped you.“Is-” She asked gravely. “What heppens to Cliffjumper? Or... Or Tailgate?”You smiled knowingly.“Cliffjumper he... Well, for him in particular I don’t know. You don’t really know him either, and you certainly don’t know Tailgate but. He’s happy. He’s been though a lot, but he’s alive and he’s happy. Him and his conjunx, Cyclonus.”
When you got to Ratchet, you gave yourself a moment.
“You were a doctor in the Dead End of Polyhex. When the war started, you quickly became the chief medical officer, and a legendary medic. You had a... thing, with a colleague, and he’d go on to obsess over you for millions of years. You were one of the first autobots on earth, and one of the first to befriend humans. After the war, you joined a ship, and when your body began to fail, you met someone named Drift. Only, it hadn’t been the first time you’d met. He was an ex-con who’s life you’d saved before the war. You two ended up spending a long life together. On that ship together with your friends you survived the decepticon justice division, time travel, your serial killer ex boyfriend, alternate timelines, fake afterlives, exile, a coup, a massacre, er- two, and you even became a close friend and colleague to Primus himself.”
There was a twinkle in your eye and you smiled to his shocked face.
