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Echoes over Shadows: Stolen Peace by Coolcat1701
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers Animated (2007), Transformers One (2024)
16 May 2026
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The War for Cybertron was never born out of conquest. It was born out of loss.
What began as a revolt became a long shadow stretching to Earth, a blue planet that never asked to become the latest stage for a conflict seemingly without end.
Autobots fighting to protect. Decepticons fighting for power. Every alliance provisional, every ceasefire a question mark. Soldiers, medics, spies, and civilians collide within that narrow margin between duty and mercy.
But between raids and rescues, between orders followed and ignored, the lines between "us" and "them" begin to blur.
A refuge becomes a front. A mission becomes a reconing. Between warring factions and silent depts, secrets change hands and old names gather new meanings.
Some truths hide in plain sight. Some wounds look like loyalty. And some sparks, once kindled, refuse to be snuffed out.
This is a story about the things we keep and the things we can't. This is a story about memory, about trust, and the stories they tell themselves to sleep. This is a story about the battles one chooses to fight, and the price of calling it peace.
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- Part 1 of Echoes Over Shadows
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Just another Transformers Self-Insert by Yuzar
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers One (2024), The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon), Transformers (IDW 2019)
12 May 2026
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Let’s be realistic for a moment!
Dying sucks, and being reborn as a nameless side character in a fictional universe does not exactly help…
Especially if you consider the evil backstabbing tyrant, Sentinel not so Prime, and the mess that this divorce-to-be is going to be!10/10, would not recommend!
Now…
Can somebot spare a click to tell me what in the actual frag happened in this universe?.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ﾟ+..｡*.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+
Warning: Chapter one and two were merged because chapter 8 was split into two and 10 is a nice number!
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- Part 1 of ONE Realistic Expanded Universe
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Two very different groups of mechs are setting off to film two documentaries.
Jazz and Chromedome are visiting a dangerous icy planet that only recently had a long-standing travel ban lifted. The two of them are filming a nature documentary about the planet's technorganic ocean life. The longer Jazz and Chromedome stay on the planet, the more they learn about why the travel ban was put in place.
Then the crew of technorganic Mer, Prowl and Rewind, who are documenting the two visiting mechs to keep their people up to date on what life on modern Cybertron is like. And to keep the two off-world mechs from falling into the depths of their planet's harsh ocean.
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None of this was real. It was so easy to accept when he didn't feel anyting about it.
Shockwave has his feelings back and has to reconcile with what he has concluded while they were gone. -
Fine. Now I'm The Bad Guy. by Almighty_Hat for Cloud_Hater
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
04 May 2026
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Shockwave died in his original, peaceful world, and woke up in a favorite dramatic novel, taking the place of the character who shares his name.
The evil senator, doomed to suffer empurata and shadowplay and die trying to destroy the world, who happens to share his name.
Shockwave felt nothing.
It was difficult to consider his situation, given how his actions and thoughts, lately, had so deeply revolved around his emotions.
He can't try to change his role, his place in the story, or he'll undo this whole second chance at life, so he just has to play along and try to ignore how he feels about the main character Orion Pax.
But this isn't all of that.
This is the aftermath of shadowplay.
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- Part 18 of Keferon-Related Transformers Fics
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empurata by Vintage (KyberHearts)
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
27 Apr 2026
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The Headless Visitor by jane2001673
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
27 Apr 2026
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A story of the headless ghost of Senator Shockwave visiting every Day of the Dead and Optimus waiting to welcome him.
A tale of memory, identity, and the lingering shadows of Orion Pax and the Senator. -
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Shockwave discovers that Soundwave is an outlier because of his telepathic abilities and decides to take drastic scientific actions to learn more about these abilities.
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- Part 8 of Transformers One-Shots
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This Place is Made for Fools (and I'm Seeking Solace) by mrcandle
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
20 Apr 2026
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The one thing Rodimus wants more than anything else is to make his crew happy aboard the Lost Light. Actually, that's the second thing he wants. The first is his co-captain. Professionally, of course.
Megatron isn't much better. His spark tells him to make Rodimus the happiest mech who's ever lived and his frame says to just be satisfied with what he's got. His processor says to bash his helm in until he doesn't think about it anymore.Both mechs are hopelessly awful at addressing what's between them and make it everyone's problem until a poorly timed asteroid and even poorer decisions force them to do something about it
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Heart of A Million Pulses (From Cybertron With Love) by SoulSacrifice
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Victory, Transformers One (2024), Transformers: Prime
20 Apr 2026
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Dictator Zeta Prime and his ruthless Functionist Party has Cybertron on a death grip, countered by Decepticon leader Megatron's unstable alliance with Autobot General Star Saber. Meanwhile, the legacy of fallen emperor Liege Maximo looms over Cybertron when idealistic police officer Orion Pax accidentally gets his T-cog. In a desperate attempt to re-ignite Cybertron's dying core, Senator Shockwave's scientific discovery threatens the Functionist doctrine as well as the very fabric of the multiverse.
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Till Death do us Part by salburst
Fandoms: Transformers Generation One, Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One), The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
12 Apr 2026
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"Regarding that!" The Seeker exclaimed from his position on the floor. "I've found a solution that need not involve you." He gets up with shaky legs. "The other option, is for you to meet an incredibly timely demise!"
"Till death do us Part." Megatron said unamused.
"Exactly."
Faster than he could register, Starscream pulled the trigger on his null ray, hitting an unprepared Megatron squarely in the middle of his chassis.
Somehow, Starscream and Megatron have managed to complete the conjunx rite without either of their knowledge.
Upon figuring it out, both mechs hold the firm belief the other tricked them into this situation, and after some shenanigans lead to Megatron contracting cosmic rust, Starscream is ecstatic.
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Whe Orion wake up. He never though that his valve was so empty.
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Rearview Mirrors by tothefiniteyou
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: War for Cybertron (Video Games)
31 Mar 2026
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There’s nothing—nothing at all. There’s nothing when there should be something—right? Vaguely, in the murky ink that his mind—is it his mind? Is he anything at all?—down below and in the farthest corner where he thinks he exists, he has the sense that he’s missing something. But he can’t hold onto the thought, the feeling always slipping through his fingers.
He’s bobbing to-and-fro, swimming in the Nothing, but always going under with a crash of Something. The Something that tells him that something isn’t right. Try as he might, however, he can’t tell where the Nothing starts and ends. His mind—it's melded itself to the walls of this lonesome state of nonbeing, making it difficult to think, to wake up. At least, he thinks—no, he’s pretty certain this isn’t how things used to be. It wouldn’t be nagging at him so badly if so, he thinks.---------------------------------------
Alone, with no memories and no name, a mech wakes up to discover himself a puppet of war.
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- Part 1 of Just Out of View
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It was the final bank holiday weekend before Hogwarts started again, and Lyra Black found herself in quite the pickle:
1. Her best friend Harry was coming to stay with her for the whole weekend in Danielle's empty flat.
2. She couldn't stop fantasising about him fucking her face and she was afraid she was going to do something about it.
[think of this as existing outside of time and plot — it’s like a smutty AU episode 1!]
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- Part 2 of The Black Lightning Series
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Sudden Departures by Elita_Celestria
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
16 Mar 2026
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“Little” fan fic I’ve been writing. It’s just about how a human makes their way to Cybertron through unfortunate kidnapping and experimentation via Decepticons.
Longer summery: long ass fan fic I’ve been writing that tells the story of how Decepticons wanted to give human reproduction as a way of building up their numbers one last try so they kidnap a human and while they are waiting to see if their experiment works the human becomes a medic and gains a family. Will they escape? I have no idea I haven’t written that far yet. Or am I just not telling you?
Kinda taken things I like from different transformers media so expect a bit of franchise crossover as well as my own head cannons.
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- Part 5 of Paradox Continuity
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Coupe and Sonar try to convince Robin Robinson to not cut them, not knowing that Robin has already talked to Blazer about keeping them both
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- Part 7 of Dispatch Sapphics
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After vorns spent in Iacon, Shockwave relocates to the seething city of Kaon to do what any recipient of shadowplay and empurata would do: keep his helm down and plan his next move. While they expect to be met with some difficulties, they do not expect to meet the undefeated champion of the Pits of Kaon, Soundwave, nor the gladiator's growing interest in him and his less than legal operations.
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Shockwave and Optimus: After the Return of Emotion and the End of the War by jane2001673
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
02 Feb 2026
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After the war, the Shadowplay is lifted, and the weight of millions of years of atrocities falls squarely on Shockwave’s shoulders. Under heavy surveillance and waiting for a judgment that never seems to come, he spends his days on a bench he once fixed for a simple police officer. Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—finds him there, proving that while they both died a thousand deaths during the war, something of their old selves remains in the wreckage.
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Pharmaceutica joins the Institute.
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- Part 3 of Insoluble
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Self-Indulgent (II) by lucilliant
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
10 Jan 2026
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- Part 2 of Self-Indulgent