Archive of Our Own ^beta

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Sam Pov

You know since the end of the world I've seen a lot of strange things, like fish with legs, a deer that I'm pretty sure was at 8 ft tall, Some crazy dude who called himself a doctor and looked like he crawled out of the Victorian era and told me the timeline was fucked and that was on my own now, then he crawled into British police box like the ones you used to see on TV and vanished, okay that might have been just a bad trip from A pack of gummies I stole that turned out to be edibles.

Anyway, getting back on track, getting kidnapped by a 20 ft tall alien that keeps shushing me like a toddler whenever I start screaming, it has to take the cake for the weirdest thing that's ever had to happen to me, still hoping that this is just another bad trip from expired food.

However to get a full feel for the story we have to go way back, like way way back to the day I was —, okay maybe not that far back, Around 10 years ago would probably be the best place to start, it was normal like any other day then it happened, the end of the world or whatever else you call it, I just call it when humanity decided to collectively reset evolution with a nuclear war. I was around 7 when it happened no one knows who fired the first shot we just know once they started people in power wouldn't stop. By the end, when they ran out of bombs, people pulled french revolution and collectively killed off whatever leaders were left standing.

The first few years weren't so bad. I had my Mom and Dad, even our chihuahua Mojo was still kicking it, then the illness started hitting. Nobody really knows what the illness is, you kind of just wake up one day with this burning feeling in your chest. You feel hungry constantly no matter what you eat, It doesn't stop. Back when science was still considered an honorable thing to do, they tried to figure out what was going on but that wasn't really working out for them, all they could really find was that it wasn't contagious or genetic.

Mom got the illness when I turned 12 it broke my dad, Mom ate through everything we had stored up in the household. Soon dad was going out only to find more things for her to eat, started bartering away anything we had, my toys and his power tools were the first thing to go, then it went on to mom's jewelry, our clothes, furniture, one day I came back home after going around with all the kids outside and found Mojo gone, he traded him to get a month's worth of food and even then mom went through it in a week.

Mom died 3 days later, dad followed, never really found out what killed him though, never found his body either, just left a letter saying that he was going to go see Mom.

Anyway things got better after that you know how it goes, You sell the house and everything you have to take the bare minimum amount of food. You know everything a child dreams of doing when they run away, made it about 2 weeks I think before I collapsed and was breaking down. Then Lennox found me took me in and we ran around the world for a bit, more accurately whatever part of the US we were in.

Soon our duo grew into a trio, we found Charlie at an old bus station crying. Apparently her family just up and left her, she told us it was all her step dads fault whispering in her mom's ear about how they “already had enough mouths to feed while feeding an ungrateful one.”

She came along with us and we didn't see any reason to let her stay behind. We ran into my two, now best friends, next while looting what looked to be an abandoned house. Michaela was a Spitfire she looked like she was going to fight us it's the second we walk through that door, but at the same time she looks like she was on the bridge of tears and about to have a breakdown of the fact that we were about to enter the room, Noah on the other hand and stared at us just like a raccoon caught in the act of stealing from a trash can.

After conversing they came along with us. We found Spike In a pile of trash and that's not a metaphorical and that's not me joking, we genuinely found him and while we were walking past the trash pile apparently he was looking for something called a fuse orb, he says all this technical jargon and none of us had a fucking clue what he was talking about, still don't, but Lennox took one look at him and threw him over the shoulder and he hasn't gotten off since basically

A few months passed after that and we met the trouble Trio Miko, Raf, Jack. Miko's parents were apparently some like Japanese peace treaty talkers, negotiators? Nobody really knows what they were, we just know they got killed like a few days after she was born, and Miko’s got crazy ADHD too, but sadly adderall is a thing of the past. Raf’s family apparently joined a cult? Never quite figured that one out either, they were killed by a cult or they were a cult. Jack had his mom with him for about 4 years maybe, apparently she was like an actual doctor and not like some dude who just knows how to cut off a limb without killing you which enough itself is pretty impressive but an actual doctor, apparently she got killed off by the like a gang when she refused to exclusively treat them.

Miko, Raf, and Jack are what we call Fallout babies, people born after the big boom and all the bombs were long gone, Michaela was born I think the year before the war started, I was born a few years before, I think Lennox was in his late teens early twenties he's when it happened, whatever age is just a social construct.

Lenox has a pretty dark past from what we could get about him apparently he was a military man probably pretty high ranked from what we can understand. Had himself a wife and kid, kids name was Annabelle only time we really hear about is when he's blackout drunk He talks to himself sometimes, creeped me out when I was younger now that I'm older I understand, that hey we all got our own methods for coping.

Years passed and we built ourselves our own little Safe Haven, there's a little stretch of woods separating two settlements, inside that forest we found a small cave with a little pond that was fed by a small waterfall next to it. Using sticks, tarps, a door we stole off an apartment complex, we fixed up the cave into our own little home. We grew some various vegetables we managed to scrounge up. We also have a few chickens that we got when Miko ran off for 2 days and came back covered in mud and chucked them at us, we still have not managed to get her to tell us where she found them. So yeah back then it was good, well about as good as the end of the world is but then as all good things come to an end when it started happening.

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Ratchet Pov

“How is your mission going,” ratchet couldn't help but wonder where Optimus was getting in all his wisdom, because sure the Matrix was an option, but it sure as hell didn't grant him the wisdom needed for him to understand I was unhappy with the mission I was on.

Ratchet sighed and spoke in a tone that could only be attained from a millennia of screaming at Bots who didn't listen and spiking his morning Energon with high grade “It is the same as it's always been Optimus, find the sparkling trail follow it for three miles then my device malfunctions and suddenly tells me it's going everywhere all at once.”

Optimus Frowned at that,I can already tell what he was thinking and from that looking his eyes “what do you mean it's malfunctioning, we recently sent you a new scanner after the last one malfunctioned?”

“Besides the recurring problem with the sparkling scanner, how has your mission been going my old friend,” Optimus spoke in such a kind tone with his soft optics, I almost wanted to forgive him for sending me on this mission, but I was the one that had to deal with Bumblebee sparkling optics for vorns he wasn't going to throw me off that easily.

“Optimus, finding these sparklings out here is harder than trying to find a datapad in the old Iacon libraries without the help of an archivist,” while saying this I close my optics knowing for the fact that I don't want to see primes smug little smile so it only comes out when we talk about the archives and how he was the only bot in the building besides Alpha Trion that knew where everything was, when that happens I truly do see a bit of Orion in him.

I could hear Optimus holding back laughter to anybody else he would just look tense but I know I know underneath that smug little battle mask of his is he is holding back laughter, fragging Primes and their stoic expressions.

“You know Optimus this would have been a pit of a lot easier if knockout hadn't been a fragging idiot and grabed the first sparkling he saw,” now one would think this would not be a problem, however sparklings have a unique defense mechanism that only primus himself knows how it works exactly, but if a sparkling gets scared or gets harmed somewhere, the area surrounding them immediately becomes a danger zone for any sparkling that enters the area after them, instinctively telling them to evacuate the area

I grabbed my glass of high grade I poured before the call started and thought back to how this all started, The war ended roughly a vorn ago it was truly one of the oddist ends to a war ever heard of. The war basically ended because Megatron and Optimus locked themselves in a room. Came out of the room a few groons later disheveled and covered in dents and bite marks, with the war ever over everyone went back to the way life used to be, with some improvements.

For one every bot had the right to have any job that they wanted, the ability to vote for council members, that and we had to scrap the entire old law book and rewrite it to make sure there were no functionalist rules left behind, Prowl, Ultra Magnus, and Redalert had a field day with that one. It took prowl crashing to get them to take a break, and they still tried to continue the second prowl woke up, I swear the whole lot of them are gliched.

Closing my optics for a second I couldn't help but think back to how I ended up here in this run-down scrap heap of a base. After the War had ended, what was left of the two factions got together to search for the allspark that was lost in the war, with the help of Wheeljack, Shockwave and prayers to Primus. We found that it had landed on a small organic planet by the name of Earth. Early scouting of earth revealed that it was much like cybertron was after the first few vorns of War, Only a few small points were habitable groups forming and fighting over resources, thousands dead and many more dying.

It was Knockout who made the break through when he went to the planet, his original job was to catch a human run a few scans on it so we can figure out their biology so we could best help the planet and its people, only for him to run a spark scan and find that the allspark being on earth had left some side effects. It was similar to how a cybertronians reproduced, in the sense that when a child was born it obtained a spark, however since it was not vital for a human to need a spark it was a random chance on whether or not a human would get it, sure some of them had a higher chance such as if one of their parents had a spark but other than that It was all randomized.

Then Knockout had to be the glitch-brained aft head he always is and basically stole the sparkling and rushed back to Cybertron and transferred the spark to a sparkling frame, now because of his Idiocracy any sparkling in the area avoids the major settlement he grabbed it from. the only settlement in area we could get to without alerting the humans of our existence, it is also where I am stationed now, fragging glitch.

I tuned back into what Optimus is saying “Ratchet I forgot to mention this earlier but Wheeljack has recently produced some new… inventions to assist you in finding future sparklings after the last time you called us,” I couldn't hide my small smile at the thought of my conjunxs working so hard for our future, as I will most definitely be claim one of the sparklings I catch for us.

Once it was revealed that human sparklings existed, many mechs wanted to just go out there and grab one for themselves, despite the risk it posed to both the sparkling and the bot. Optimist put a stop to that real quick and declared it a law that only conjunxed couples had the right to obtain and raise a converted sparkling and their was a limet to one human sparkling per couple, of course Knockout and Breakdown got to keep theirs, think they named him Wildbreak, real spitfire the little one is.

I snapped back to focus “So Optimus what did one of my conjunxs cook up in his lab, It better not be a bomb,” I swear to primus if Wheeljack sends me a bomb and his care package I will weld his helm to his aft—

"It’s not a bomb ratchet, it's a few different items including a package of paralyzing smoke bombs, a net launcher that shoots a padded, weighted net, a few sparkling containment containers that will magnetize to the wall of your ship, a sparkling fuel feeder along with some sparkling grade fuel, some intake and servo covers to keep the sparklings from harming themselves or each other, and last but not least he made a new updated sparkling tracker that runs off a satellite that he plans to deploy while the care package is being dropped off.’

“Primus that's a lot, how long has he been in his lab?” I couldn't help but wonder how long he had been working on all that equipment because it did not get done in a day, and I had only called around seven cycle ago, when was the last time he recharged, refueled, what if he crashed from the stress of building all these—

"He's fine ratchet I can see the gears turning in your processor, he started working on them around a stellar cycle before the last time you called that your scanner was malfunctioning, Drift made sure he didn't overwork himself,” the way Optimus spoke me made me realize as he was trying to keep me from panicking and overworking my processor over problems that didn't exist.

Looking at the camera I see a small light flashing in the corner telling me the Optimus was getting another call, “ looks like I'm going to be busy for a while, it was a pleasure calling you old friend, Your supplies should arrive in the next deca-cycle.”

I exchange a quick goodbye with Optimus before turning off the monitor, I stand up and stretch for what feels like the first time I'm joors, I wonder if I have any high grade left.

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