TF-AN Megatron Origins (p1, D-16, aka the Miner Arc)
hello my lovely guys and gals and every other pals, im finally done with p1 of this lore stuff. Now before you start reading I must give a PSA: There's implied SA, nothing graphic but I thought it'd mention in for y'all. Under a cut like this: -------
Hope y'all like angst, and hope I wrote it well enough to make you cry /lh
Once, many millenia before the rise of Megatron and his Decepticons, he was known by many different names.
Once, he was known as Ironheart. A small sparkling, unusually so for his age. With optics the colour of a bright sun. Matching neither of his nurturers*, Sparkfire and Overdrive, who both had blue optics. Though he was different, he was loved.
Unfortunately for Ironheart, his happiness and blissful living would be cut short.
His nurturers were known supporters of The Equalizers, a group that protested against the Senate and demanded the Caste System be eradicated. Because of this, they were a problem for most of the Senate, as they wanted all of their citizens to stay compliant and under their control.
So. Senator Ratbat decided the best course of action would be to gradually get rid of the problematic revolutionary group. Starting with their biggest supporters.
One night while Ironheart and his nurturers recharged*, Ratbat's finest assassins broke into their habsuite*. Killing Sparkfire and Overdrive in a discrete way and making it seem like a suicide. First they shut down their systems with a controlled EMP burst. Then forced poisoned energon down their intake.
The assassins figured their work was done, and went to leave. Then came the cry of little Ironheart.
No one knew he existed. He was never entered into the system.
Unsure what to do with him, and reluctant to kill a bitlet*, the assassins took him with them. And dropped him off at the nearest Energon Mine.
In the morning, the Kaonian Energon Mine supervisor and workers woke, finding little Ironheart in a box at the entrance of the mine. The supervisor tried to identify him, but couldn't. There was nothing she could do with him but keep him. She did not know his name, so he was given the designation "D-16".
After informing the miners of this, only one volunteered to look after him. Terminus. One of the oldest workers in the mines, and thankfully the most capable of raising a bitlet.
So Terminus raised little D-16, showing him the ropes and teaching him the rules. Treating him as though he was his own. And they were happy.
Many solarcycles* passed, and D-16 was a young mech, with a particular interest in poetry. Terminus had taught him as much as he could on how to read and write, and D-16 took advantage of it. Writing poetry whenever he had time, and reading the old datapads* Terminus kept in his locker.
D-16 had a few friends in the mines, including his close friend Impactor, and newbie Trailbreaker.
Him and Trailbreaker were a duo of chaos (harmless chaos), playing pranks and making jokes that even the stern mine supervisor couldn't stop herself from laughing at.
And D-16 and Impactor were a calm, efficient duo. D would tell him about poetry, and Impactor would listen.
And everything was good. Until.. the mine supervisor got sick with cosmic rust. A fatal disease that takes over the body, turning the metal into liquid.
Due to this, there was a need for a new supervisor. And in comes Darkwing.
The last supervisor was harsh at times.
Never giving them breaks, forcing them to work until they collapsed. And if they didn't, he'd beat them with an electric prod.
He'd force them to work in unsafe conditions. This caused the death of Terminus, after they had been forced to continue mining in an unstable part of the mines. It collapsed, burying Terminus.
Darkwing would take most of their Energon rations for himself, and make them starve. Causing some of the already limited miners to die.
D-16 would not let this go unnoticed. So he organized the miners into doing strikes, sealing off parts of the mines. But this didn't work as well as they thought it would. In fact, it made it worse. The law believed Darkwing over them as he was higher in the caste system, demanded they stop the strikes, and let Darkwing continue his duties.
After this stunt, D-16 and his fellow miners were punished severely. D-16 more than the others.
..Thrown into a dark storage room.
Weak and unable to fight back as Darkwing came into the room after a few cycles*.
The walls of the mines were thick.
And anyone who did hear the cries only turned off their audio receptors.
..Unable to do anything else.
*Nurturer(s): The Cybertronian equivalent of parent(s). Usually consists of a Carrier and a Sire.
*Recharge(d): Cybertronian equivalent of sleep.
*Habsuite: A house/apartment/living quarters.
*Bitlet: Child. Older than a Sparkling.
*Solarcycle(s): A Cybertronian year.
*Datapad(s): A way of storing information. Used like a book or tablet.
*Cycle(s): A Cybertronian day.
