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An unassuming Irken soldier attains his lifelong dream of being an Elite, and finally his life is complete. But what are these visions in his head, these strange but familiar voices? If his memories aren't his anymore, whose are they? Perhaps a Vortian girl can help answer that. An AU with original characters!
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Zim comes to the realization that some previous acquaintances were right about his role on Earth.
Ready to prove them wrong, he digs deep within his PAK to find the source of his problems.
Now in late high school, instead of mere hiccups he finds multiple malfunctions within his PAK's code. One being his stunted growth and... feelings?
Fixing the problems gives him way more than he originally anticipated.Honestly, what was he if not an invader?
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Terry and Korvo go through a learning experience together through space and on Earth. They get to know each other and start growing closer.
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It was time for Viola to retire as head of the Morningstar.
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- Part 13 of Rowvember 2020
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Where do the lines blue between being a defective disgrace to your Empire, and perfection? Where is the line of normalcy and genetic mishaps that can jump either way on the scale?
Maybe he spends too much time thinking about it, or maybe not enough. All he does is exist and work to keep that existence going.
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Found in the middle of a war he didn't believe in, drawn to Hermione Granger, Undesirable Number Two, Thorfinn Rowle does what he has to in order to survive until he can't do it anymore.
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- Part 131 of Drabbles and OneShots
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In which Five Pebbles was discarded the moment he was created.
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What We Are, and What We Could Be by Heroic_Nonsense
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
20 Sep 2025
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As the war’s final battles wage on Earth, a call goes out to Decepticons scattered across the galaxy to come join the fight. Deadlock, ever loyal, is eager to finish off what remains of the Autobot forces. Unfortunately, things never go quite as smoothly as he hopes.
Or: I wanted Deadlock to be in TFP so there he is. Blend of IDW, Prime, and headcannon. RiD 2015 aggressively ignored. Dratchet/Ratchlock slooooooowwwwww burn.
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23 Jul 2025
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TFP. Deadlock returns to the nemesis only to find things wrong when he’s returned and a half crazed Megatron. Deadlock eventually angers him enough to be half beaten to death and rescued by the autobots. During his imprisonment he learns self reflection and reignites his relationship with ratchet
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One Plus Two Is by CrocoMom
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One)
27 Jul 2025
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After being ignored by his trine and no longer able to ignore the dishonorable ways of the Decepticons, Thundercracker defects to the Autobots. His trine takes this very well.
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Recomend reading this prompt/prologue that inspired the story: Req 11
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26 Jul 2025
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G1. Thundcracler defects
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Shooting star by rooniper
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
30 Apr 2022
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The thing is, he's pretty sure Bluestreak didn't even mean to hit him.
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27 Jul 2025
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G1. Skyfire yearns for his lab partner. When a fight broke out on a stormy day Skyfire spots Starscream being down by a sniper. Skyfire arrives by his side to assess his well being
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Bluestreak's (Totally-Not-Decepticon) PenPal by Mertisal
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
29 Jun 2025
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Bluestreak is lonely. It's hard, being one of the only Praxians left. His adoptive creators try their best to be with him, but Jazz and Prowl are busy running the war, and the Decepticons aren't making it any easier.
But then, while recovering from some injuries, he gets a strange--and wonderful--message that another Praxian wants to exchange data-letters with him! Finally, he can have a steady friend and someone that will understand what it's like to have lost you entire home.
And his new penpal totally isn't Thundercracker, who isn't also painfully lonely and feeling particularly doubtful about the Decepticon cause. No, no, it's not Thundercracker, because that would be ridiculous. Right?
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- Part 1 of Bluestreak's Penpal
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Thundercracker has reservations for the decepticon cause. So he ends up becoming secret penpals with Bluestreak. Unfortunately he’s found out for his traitor behavior but the autobots swoop in for the save. :)
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Starscream gets hit by a spare ion cannon blast and ends up an egg through nefarious spark shenanigans. Skyfire scoops him up now the whole autobot faction is roped into babysitting a baby Scream.
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14 Aug 2025
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G1. Starscream dies and is reverted into a sparkling like state. Skyfire takes care of him only for him to be snatched by his trine and reverted back to his original self but things go awry. Starscream and his trine defect and join the autobots
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Dentae | Spark | Energon by qnon
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
13 Sep 2025
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Deadlock had every intention of leaving the Decepticons, but absolutely none of that meant becoming a good person. As fate would have it, the cons made sure he’d be something much, much worse.
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When one of Deadlock's newer punishments for insubordination makes him a monster even more gruesome than he'd already become, he goes to the Autobots' infamous recluse of a medic for help. Although it seems Ratchet has problems of his own.
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A sparkeater!Deadlock ratchlock fic, with bonus simpatico on the side.
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25 Aug 2025
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IDW. Deadlock gets turned into a sparkeater by decepticon scientist but he escapes and enlists the help of a retired ratchet to solve this predicament
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Three +1 Sparks, One Sky by OtomeGirl4Ever
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, Transformers One (2024), The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon)
03 Aug 2025
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Long before the war, long before the wings marked them as Decepticons, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp were just three orphaned sparklets scraping by on the cold, cruel streets of Cybertron. What began as a desperate alliance turned into something stronger—a harmony between their sparks forged in hunger, fear, and fierce loyalty. Now feared as the Elite Trine, their bond remains unbroken.
After all, no one suspects that the deadliest fliers in the war once huddled together for warmth in the alleys of Kaon.
And no one needs to know one more secret that they hid...
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29 Aug 2025
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G1. Starscream is sparked by his trine. They escape the decepticons into hiding but get found by the autobots and taken in and cared for in a way they have never experienced. Meanwhile Megatron gets video feed on starscream and in his seething rage he loses the respect of his decepticons for his inhuman orders. A coup led by soundwave leads to the end of the decepticons
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It has been 50 years since Shockwave was separated from his sparkling Bumblebee. A heart grows fonder with distance yet desperation grows as well. He just needs to make everything be perfect, then nothing will tear them apart again.
Bumblebee is finding his dad is acting very differently from what he remembers but it's fine... right?
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Shockdad the sequel now dealing with the events of canon and Shockwave is being Very Normal about it.Series
- Part 2 of Pretending to care is a fool's folly
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13 Sep 2025
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TFA. Shockwave adopts bumblebee as a sparkling and as a result betrays the decepticons. My happy little fix it au
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I Got Soul, But I'm Not A Soldier by AvidFaceless
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, Transformers: Prime
06 Oct 2025
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Reunited with Skyfire, Starscream joins the Autobots to live a better life. Starscream now has to prove to the Autobots that he truly wants to be better, but neither the Autobots or Decepticons are going to make it easy for him.
Follow-up to 'Thawing Out the Past'
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- Part 2 of Breaking the Ice
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08 Oct 2025
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Starscream runs from the decepticons after one too many beatings with the newly thawed out Skyfire he attempts a life as an autobot. With Megatrons madness growing and soundwave sparked he escapes mid battle to the autobots while things have fallen into disarray for the decepticons.
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Prowl brushed himself off. And then, in an instant (as if it was nothing), he pulled out a gun and shot Jazz in the shoulder. Ow??
“What the fuck, mech!” Jazz cursed, turning his helm to look at the injury. His servo hovered over it, clenching and releasing in an effort not to touch it and possibly dirty the wound. It hurt, a lot, but it had actually only just barely grazed protoform. Either Prowl was an incredible shot, or he missed. Turning back to glare at Prowl – who was standing innocently as if he hadn't just shot Jazz – he hissed air through his vents. “Why'd you shoot me!”
Prowl stayed silent for a moment. “Revenge?” he said eventually, sounding somehow more stunned than Jazz, who, again, had just been shot out of nowhere.
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11 Oct 2025
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Idw. Decepticon prowl au and jazz cray cray. Love u boo