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>war is in full swing
>Decepticons planning to “sink” the Autobot Fortress City of Tyger Pax into the Silver Sea
>Autobots destroy the mining laser digging into the caverns below
>damage is done
>Optimus sounds the evacuation
>a group of protoforms, only recently emerged from the planet.
>Autobots loading them into Sky Lynx
>Optimus hears a teacher cry out that one is missing
>bad news, Lugnut made it past the AA guns and he’s got a nasty bomb
>Optimus scans the facility, finds the kid
>kid wanted to save his pet turbofox
>Prime runs, in tells the others to pick them up on the rooftop
>finds kid and his “pet”
>bomb goes off
>floor gives out, Optimus holds the kid and his pet close.
>as they fall into the depths of Cybertron a familiar blue light surges from the matrix
>Optimus hits the ground hard
>Optimus wakes up, comforts kid
>only way out is deeper
>kid looks different, has more defined features. Looks like he’s got a crest
>two talk, Optimus does his trademark “space dad” bit for the first time
>it’s rusty
>have an adventure
>bond
>fight Insecticons, trans-organics and along the way the kid “changes”
>Optimus realizes who the kid is starting to look like
>eventually reach surface
>kid is sent to a school in Iacon, gives Optimus a hug before running off to his teacher.
>Optimus upon return to his private quarters creates a dossier and messages the teacher requesting status updates.
>kid messages Optimus
>messages stop one day, Optimus figured the kid forgot about him
>for the best
>kid enlists after his maturation and education is complete
>before the Ark launch Optimus reassigns the kid to Alpha Trion’s security detail, hopefully the old man can be the mentor the kid will need
>long-ass time
>when contact is remade with Cybertron Optimus looks up the kid, now named “Hot Rod”
>record of a turbo-revvin punk
>damn
>after a whole bottle of engex Optimus reassigns the kid to Earth
>what’s the worst that can happen?
