Also try v2: He LOST all hope that Bee is alive, he believes he's dead but has no regret of joining the Cons side.
Also try v3: He gaslighted himself into thinking Bee's dead, he wants to move on but it's rlly hard for him to do after the Cons "officially" lost. Especially in the Autobots Boot Camp, everything reminds him of what could've been and what it currently is))
I realized I haven't shared here my thoughts (which I plan to make):
Basically, Alpha Trion's powers works this tiny bit differently and so rather than showing Team Prime the retrospection of Sentinel's wrongdoings they're sent into the past to experience it on their own
There's timeline shenanigans (that makes Dee and Elita question if fixing anything in the past worthy of doing anything at all) because of course there is, I love this tomfuckery with all my heart š«
Bee would suffer his own part in said past and will be just, fuckinnnnnnnn. He won't enjoy what I've got in store for him lol /lh
Also this AU is a pathetic excuse for me to write (because I'm writing a FANFIC about this, already spent too much fucking time THINKING and BUILDING UP this shit's lore āØ) Megatronus and Dee's interaction and just give them time to bond. Dee will meet his hero and fangirl about it absolutely, meanwhile Megatronus would be like: Who is this sassy lost child, can I adopt him?
ALSO, ALSO- Absolute obliteration of Starscream's peace, he's now put on a babysitter duty and there ain't a way to not throw into this mix other bots from the guard (he's NOT suffering taking care of four hyperactive bots alone!!!)
Gods, you can already tell I'm having a blast jsksjks
Short summary: Megatron [D-16] got Onyx Prime's T-cog and I was left thinking: But who then got his T-cog? After my friend also pointed it out I decided to let it all free and complete the story I've been building up in my head. Welcome to a world where Wheeljack will get Megatron's T-cog and it'll have its consequences, bigger than anyone would've expected.
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āHello, please tell me your serial number.āĀ
"WāE550, itāsāā
āYouāre here to ask if your T-cog has been found, correct?ā The optics of a mech before him finally raised, looking into his own orange ones making his intake instantly dry.Ā
āIā Yes, precisely.ā A few datapads upon colliding made a clank sound on the desk. Something clicked and was shortly followed by another set of clicks, this time softer.Ā
It took exactly seven cycles before the mech with slightly scratched paint spoke to him again.Ā
āIām sorry to inform you about it, but your T-cog still hasnāt been found.ā Wheeljack gulped, his glossa suddenly having an unpleasant texture. He let it wander over his denta for a bit before replying.Ā
āMaybeā Maybe try looking again?ā He tried, moving his arm closer to the window that was separating the two bots. āItās WāE550, mistakes happen all the time, I get it, so if you couldāā
āSir, Iāll be honest with you, youāve been here already at least ten times.ā He stopped, letting the silence drag.Ā
Nervousness got the better of him, making him look frantically around. A long line of other bots waiting for their chance to approach a window was behind him, making the doors at his back unwillingly flutter.Ā
He slowly turned back to the mech.Ā
āCan⦠Can you still check?ā He adjusted his hands, something feeling simply wrong in the way they were lying on the cold metal surface.Ā
ā...Sir,ā
āPleaseā¦?āĀ
Nothing for a moment. Some bot that mustāve been even further away from him coughed gathering the attention of many, their interest quickly being lost.Ā
A deep vent was heard in front of him before another set of clicking began. He waited another ten cycles in deafening silence to be informed that there wasnāt any Tācog registered with a serial number such as his.Ā
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āHard day, huh?āĀ
Wheeljack whipped his helm around, disorientation flowing through his processor. The fact that said words were addressed to him seemed to be received only when the mech sitting next to him smiled knowingly.Ā
āComing back from the pit's gates, arenāt you?āĀ
It took him a while to register the meaning behind words. Only spoken jokingly and heard by pure chance between other workers in the mines. The mess left by Sentinel⦠Prime having its consequences backfire on them, civilians.Ā
āYes,ā His arms wandered to finally put the pressure on his tibulens, the pressure and position being oddly comforting. āYes.ā He finished, lacking any other words to say.Ā
The other bot mustāve found his reaction funny, although Wheeljack couldnāt bring himself to find joy in it. He didnāt think there was supposed to be any in the first place.Ā
āCheer up, Iāve heard it takes months to get even the tiniest thing done in this place.āĀ
ā...Month?ā He let his body startle, posture filled with uncertainty and a tint of building-up dread.Ā
āMonth s ! You forgot about the s!ā Another laugh.Ā
Wheeljack couldnāt see any reason for such an emotion taking its place.Ā
His pede bounced nervously, letting the hollow sound of metal hitting metal echo in the mostly busy train.Ā
āMy T-cog got demolished, yāknow.ā
āWhat?ā He turned abruptly.Ā
His newfound interlocutor didnāt call out the rudity of his reaction. The other bots that also were sitting there with them were few and far from them to hear anything. Wheeljack being left with an unknown who just told him his life could as well be treated as wasted.Ā
āYeah! I was like you, standing in the line with a smile on my face, by the way, these people who work there need some kind of positivity in their lives, canāt imagine sitting all day behind a desk and only clicking! And you know, Iām not an impolite mech, quite the opposite actually. So when they asked me for my serial number and after cycles and cycles replied with āOh, weāre sorry! Your T-cog was actually the one that got demolished!ā I said thank you and left, ha!ā The energy with which the mech was telling his story didnāt match the message it carried.Ā
It flew over Wheeljackās processor a few times, the words still feeling alien to him the more he repeated it.Ā
The following silence was horrendous like every other he had to endure during the past few solar cycles.Ā
āYouāre still waiting, right?āĀ
āWaiting?ā In his distress, he turned his helm around while inside his spark ached for the conversation to end.Ā
āFor any kind of information about your T-cog, are you?āĀ
His fingers proved to be a good distraction from the situation he was put in. Them hitting on his knuckles while he silently counted the numbers, solving some equations to busy himself with something.Ā
āYeah, sure.ā He finally replied, licking afterward his dry lower derma.Ā
āThereās still hope then!ā This time he didnāt look up to face the other.Ā
āDonāt be so down, Iām telling the truth!ā An irk was born which he successfully suppressed. Nervous tapping being followed by it increased together with the numbers he started to add.Ā
āNo, Iām serious!ā The bot sitting beside him moved, getting closer but not enough to invade his personal space. āThey take much shorter to sort through the T-cogs that were dismantled, the femme that was serving me said so herself!āĀ
Wheeljack raised an unbelieving optical ridge, hoping the other would get the message he wasnāt any more interested in the conversation. He wasnāt in the first place but it was improper to voice that thought out loud.Ā
āShe said sheāll write my number on the waiting list, so thereās still a chance Iāll maybe get my dream of riding on the streets.ā A short laugh, different from the others that were heard during all this one-sided conversation.Ā
āAnd if notāāĀ
āAnd if not then what?āĀ
āHuh?ā The mech let out a stifled surprise at Wheeljackās sudden interest.Ā
āYouā And if not then what?āĀ
The response wasnāt given immediately. Both miners on the cushions that never were pleasant to sit on. The voice of an unnaturally speaking mech spoken through the speaker before the doors closed. Everyone who wanted to leave the train left, leaving only them two waiting for the train to arrive at the last two stations.Ā
āI suppose Iāll have to move around like I usually did, on my pedes.ā The other bot hummed as if giving such an answer was a justification for why he was delaying saying it.Ā
āAnd your dreams? You said so yourself, what about them?ā Any kind of personal culture was left somewhere in the middle of their encounter. āWhat about riding, what aboutā Following the flow of the streets, are you going to just let it all go?āĀ
āYouāre really poetical when you finally talk, has anyone ever said that to you?ā The lack of response was everything the stranger had to know. Either way, he still let out a small snort.Ā
āI suppose,ā The botās right servo moved around in the air for a bit before he spoke. āIāll have to see.āĀ
āThe fragās here to see?ā It went unsaid how Wheeljackās vent was heard heavily ventilating.Ā
āWell, Sentinelās not in command anymore. And this Optimus guy was apparently a miner himself,ā The slight stop in Wheeljackās movement was left unnoticed. āWord goes by that heās trying to find a method of developing a functional T-cog laboratory,ā He put one of his pedes on the seat they were taking. āSo itās not like I have much of a choice in this matter, Iāll just have to wait and see whatās going to happen next. Itās better than sitting and fuming over something thatās out of our new Primeās control.ā The bot gave him a slight smile, finishing his sentence.Ā
Wheeljack didnāt have a reply to that, not even willing to engage any further.Ā
He was left alone, soft humming of the other, putting his busy engines to a stop when a certain note was hit that made his processor follow it internally. He stopped it immediately after catching onto his actions, coming back with his thoughts to the more important matter.Ā
āItās unfair.ā He said.Ā
The stranger hummed.Ā
āWe were treated unfairly,ā A gulp, a stop for it to be soon continued. āSentinel Prime made out of us his unconditional believers.āĀ
Wheeljack agreed with him but couldnāt bring himself to voice it out. Hearing it hurt as much as it did the first time. He dared to be the one to say it ached stronger and stronger the more it was repeated.Ā
āI donāt think I can bring myself to care about it, you know?āĀ
The robotic voice spoke again, informing them they were closer to their next station.Ā
āI mean, yeah! I am mad, man, furious even! But itās not like I donāt have more important matters to worry about.ā The bot let out a deep vent, changing for the nth time the position he was sitting in. His chin now resting on the inner side of his servo. āFirst thereās the matter of free time, Iāve never got so much of it and honestly I donāt know what to do with myself! Iām trying to pick up a few hobbies to keep myself busy but working previously for twenty mega-cycles without a break does things to your processor.ā An ugly snort was let out, a humorless laugh at the absurdity of the conditions they were not so long ago forced to work in. Wheeljack doesnāt think they would bat an optic on them though if it wasnāt for the new Prime to tell them the ugly truth Sentinel was hiding.Ā
He closed his servos tighter, the digits digging in and giving the unnervingly comforting feeling of being present.Ā
āThen thereās myā Our job. They gave us an actual pay for that, can you imagine? Not just a few shanix, an actual pay! I donāt even know what to do with so much money and Iām sure Iām not the only one!ā The joyous smile was speaking volumes, the mechās next word following such a pattern. āThereās so much more Iām not bringing up right now because, to be honest, I forgot about it.āĀ
āBut thereās just so much to think of I can do since we started being treated equally.ā The mech faced him, nothing that was shown on his faceplates was forced.Ā
It felt surreal for Wheeljack to not think of what Sentinel did to them though.Ā
They were slaves in the shackles they wore willingly, foolishly believing in every word spoken through these golden lips of Sentinelās. They were spewing lies.
But then all of them believed such lies to be the light of hope that could reunite them and bring them back to the surface. A utopian place where their predecessors lived.Ā
Where other Primes ruled before a betrayal left them reduced to memory and dust.Ā
āItās unfair,ā Wheeljack repeated.Ā
None of them declined his words, his persistence being the only one who screamed they were treated unfairly. They didnāt deserve it, none of it.Ā
None of the stress so many were going through, searching for this one part thatāll make them whole.Ā
āIām Smokescreen, by the way.ā Was what broke the silence.
Wheeljack didnāt respond. He didnāt nod, just sat there.Ā
His pedeās stopping at some point its movement, the tapping being less consistent.Ā
āWheeljack.ā He acknowledged the newly known Smokescreen at the last minute when the other was leaving the train.Ā
He ignored the baffled look pretending not to notice it, watching after the doors how they closed. Through the glass, an enthusiastic wave was sent his way.Ā
This he also ignored.Ā
āTomorrowās thereās also a day,ā He muttered while hearing that they arrived at the final station. āAnd the day after,ā Softly, he pushed the button that opened the trainās door and took a step outside.Ā
The air was cold, his quarter he shared with many to be seen in the distance.Ā
āAnd Iāll wait.ā And see. There was no other possibility, his T-cog must be somewhere out there.Ā
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Author's notice: It's not strictly my AU related but I was craving to write it and decided... Might as well share it in a place where I have dedicated to Transformers. To the few who read it, I hope you enjoyed it! Any kind of feedback is dearly appreciated, hope you're having an amazing day to everyone who got so far!
Shockwave's not THAT interested in the race but at the same time seeing the enthusiasm of his brother friend is also hyping him up a bit. Also count in the fact he wants this free energon that was promised fr
Have also some random sketches lol :sparkles:
I also wanted to practice a bit the two designs of Bee I'll be switching between so yeah djdkdjksjkssj
The scene takes place pre-show where Bee was together with Shockwave attending (then) Cybertronian Boot Camp. They're coming back from a(n cough cough ILLEGAL cough-) race they were watching together!
Shockwave joined Bee ONLY because he was promised free energon, otherwise I'm pretty sure he wouldn't come lmfao
Optimus is scolding someone for saying curse words in front of children, Bee thinks the (When he finally catches on what OP is saying) children he's talking about is Sari
Optimus has Bee in mind while saying these words LMAO
Also ik the proportions did macarena but its my first time drawing OP in this style plz have mercy š«¶