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A Mere Shadow by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
05 May 2023
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Optimus wants nothing more to be the mech he knew he once was... but he can't. No matter how hard he tries, he always falls short. He isn't that mech anymore, but Primus, he wishes more than anything he was. He can't stand being pitied, especially when he knows he should be better than this.
He knows he should be better, stronger, faster, wiser... and yet all he can do is helplessly flail.
In short: Optimus was brought back wrong by the Primes in RID 2015 and suffers for it before the primes get their act together and fix the damage done.
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- Part 1 of Oneshots & Au's
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Newsparks by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
30 May 2023
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It is not a well known fact, but the Matrix can produce Newsparks, and who better to gestate and raise those Newsparks than the chosen Prime?
Simply put: The five times Optimus has a brood and suffers for it and the one time things actually go right.
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- Part 2 of Oneshots & Au's
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Hunger Pains by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
29 Dec 2022
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The five times Optimus Prime was willing to do whatever it took to keep his family fueled and the one time they returned the favor.
There are two endings to this story if you didn't see the tags. One is good and the other is arguably not.
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- Part 3 of Oneshots & Au's
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Immersant by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
30 May 2023
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Optimus is tired. He has lived long and seen much, everything from the destruction and reconstruction of Cybertron to the entire lifetime of his sparkling.
He wants to rest. He wants peace. And after great consideration he makes the first truly selfish decision of his entire functioning.
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- Part 4 of Oneshots & Au's
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Immortals by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
08 Oct 2023
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Cybertronians are ancient beings, but even they age. Their frames deteriorate, and if that isn't what puts them in the grave, then eventually their sparks grow weary and fade. It is the way of things, and with time, every Cybertronian reaches the end of their road. All accepted this reality, but with the passage of time, a few mecha have found that they simply do not suffer as the rest.
Megatron most of all.
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- Part 5 of Oneshots & Au's
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Farewell Little Hero by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
11 Dec 2023
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Humans do not live long, this is common knowledge. And so years after Cybertron's restoration, Arcee returns to Earth to talk with her old ward one more time.
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- Part 6 of Oneshots & Au's
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Broken Record by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
07 Dec 2023
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It all started that first loop, when Smokescreen was branded. Now he is stuck in a loop and absolutely determined to make sure Optimus Prime survives. The only problem? It seems that Primus himself has other plans.
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- Part 7 of Oneshots & Au's
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Action! by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
30 Oct 2025
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Having just graduated from Iacon's acting academy, Orion Pax is beyond excited to begin hunting for his first big role. And after vorns of doing nothing but playing extras, a position has finally opened to play a part in not just any media, but his favorite novel of all things. He's going to play the role of Optimus Prime! A tyrannical ruler in a fantasy novel that he lived and breathed during his studies.
Unbeknownst to Orion Pax, he isn't going to be part of a high quality production. Instead, everything he is going to experience will be one hundred percent real.
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- Part 8 of Oneshots & Au's
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The Grim Dark Archives by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
20 Nov 2025
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Why is it that Cybertronians behave so much like humans despite being of another world? The answer is far darker than one would expect. These beings from beyond the stars have their own agendas, and they are nothing like the humans they work so hard to blend in amongst. Agent Witwicky, assigned the mission of understanding these aliens, will quickly come to realize that both Autobots and Decepticons are threats that should not be underestimated.
In essence: What if Cybertronians were written to be more alien? Less cartoonishly heroic? How would things change?
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- Part 9 of Oneshots & Au's
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Forbidden Sight by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
30 Apr 2024
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With the threat of the Fallen forcing Bumblebee to act and Megatron long since out of the picture, he is left with no choice but to seek out the aid of the divine. Unfortunately, meeting the divine is not all it is cracked up to be, and sometimes the price is not worth the sacrifice.
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- Part 10 of Oneshots & Au's
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Unicron and Earth by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
17 Oct 2024
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Unicron is known to be slumbering beneath Earth surface, serving as the planet's core. But what if he wasn't the only lurking Titan? The god of death was not expecting to collect a small posse of Titans, but they are amusing enough to keep around.
Earth, a Titan born of Unicron. Moon, a disgraced Titan of Cybertron. Mars, a Titan who lost everything. Pluto, a Titan on a mission to protect his world.
Whether they like it or not, their stories are bound together because Unicron can't take a chill pill.
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- Part 11 of Oneshots & Au's
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Hail to the King by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
11 Aug 2024
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Smokescreen didn't manage to make it off the Nemesis with the omega key in time. Megatron decided to make the most of the situation and capitalize on one of Optimus Prime's worst fears.
Worship. Optimus Prime fears being worshipped. So why not make his life miserable by giving him the most devoted soldier to have ever been created?
(In short: Smokescreen is reprogrammed because Megatron likes watching his rival squirm.)
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- Part 12 of Oneshots & Au's
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Emergency Protocols by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
08 Mar 2025
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Cybertronians cannot be alone. To be alone is a death sentence. There is a reason they travel in groups, and with the war in its last gasp, their numbers are dangerously low on both sides.
Faced with a fate far worse than mere death, things are tense. Unfortunately, both sides are forced to endure a rude and horrific wakeup call when the first of many falls victim to the process they had all hoped to escape.
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- Part 13 of Oneshots & Au's
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Pursued by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
01 Nov 2024
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It's Halloween night, and Rafael is more than ready to settle in for the night at base with his friends. Unfortunately, he is not so lucky as to rest peacefully. Instead, something darker has plans for him.
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- Part 14 of Oneshots & Au's
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Echoes of Eternity by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
14 Nov 2024
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Smokescreen never wanted to be Prime. And yet, in one fell swoop he not only lost his Prime, but also a friend, a brother in all but blood.
And now the memories haunt him.
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- Part 15 of Oneshots & Au's
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Sometimes Apologizing Is Enough by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers One (2024)
24 Jan 2025
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With his consciousness sent back in time, Optimus Prime is tasked with ending Megatron before he can even become a problem.
If only D-16 weren't so kind.
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- Part 16 of Oneshots & Au's
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Aversion at its Finest by deal_at_the_crossroads, spreadward
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies), Transformers: Prime, Transformers Generation One, Transformers: Cyberverse, Transformers One (2024)
23 Feb 2025
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Primus has never been pleased with the fact that his creations always go to war with each other. Thus, in an attempt to keep the Cybertronian civil war from occurring, he has chosen to periodically rebuild reality and try again with the help of his chosen. Unfortunately for Optimus, Primus is learning the ropes just as much as he is, and until they both get it right, neither can rest.
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- Part 17 of Oneshots & Au's
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The Matrix's Guide To Choosing (And Raising) A Prime by Lets_try_some_writing
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
27 Jun 2025
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Having grown increasingly frustrated with the continual failure of its Primes, the Matrix has had enough of being passed around. Determined to pick its own Prime for once, the Matrix has set off to select its chosen.
Well, it would be off doing that a lot more if it didn't have one young Orion Pax to take care of.
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- Part 18 of Oneshots & Au's
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Another Morning, Another Argument by Lets_try_some_writing for nalivaa
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers One (2024)
13 Aug 2025
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Optimus does his best to make good decisions, or even basic ones for that matter. But when one has a peanut gallery of deceased demi-gods observing at all hours of the day, operating can be difficult.
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- Part 19 of Oneshots & Au's
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The war is over, and everyone is moving on. Poor Optimus however, has been suffering from a severe case of being an empty nester now that he doesn't have anyone to look after. Luckily for him, one slightly overenthusiastic and drunken order to the Sparkling Protection Agency has solved that problem.
Now he has five tiny winged terrors to handle.
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- Part 20 of Oneshots & Au's