15 Works in Dead Optimus Prime
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Flickers of light by Vector_Sigma
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers: Prime
09 Oct 2025
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Cat AU: Random shorts set in the Aligned continuity featuring Heatwave and Bumblebee as the adopted sons of Optimus Prime and Arcee.
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- Part 10 of Flickers of Light
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My Kingdom of Nothing by PuzzlePeace
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
06 Oct 2025
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After the events of Transformers: Prime, Starscream is beaten to near-death by Predaking, leaving him completely blind. When a ground bridge suddenly opens in front of him, Starscream takes the chance at rescue and crawls through, only to find himself on the Nemesis with the remaining Autobots. Supplies are limited, and Starscream is forced to live without optics until a suitable replacement set is discovered or built from scratch. Alone, blind, without a leader to serve (or overthrow), or even a war to fight anymore, Starscream is left completely powerless for the first time, having no choice but to submit to the Autobots or take his chances on the ruins of Cybertron. Optimus Prime is dead, but the Autobots honor his spark by giving the seeker one final chance to change his ways, as they know he would have. Starscream, stripped of all of his power, is forced to face what is left, finding nothing but a husk of the mech he was before the war. Is it truly possible to change after losing so much? Or is he doomed to repeat his past mistakes?
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Light by Vector_Sigma
Fandoms: Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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"No…no, that’s not right," Heatwave began quietly. "There’s always a choice, that’s what you’ve constantly told me. The choice to do the right thing, to decide your own destiny...there’s always more than one path... [...] You just have to find the courage to take it."
Cat AU: Destiny arrives for Heatwave.
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- Part 9 of Flickers of Light
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AllSpark Day by Vector_Sigma
Fandoms: Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (Cartoon), Transformers - All Media Types
18 Jun 2025
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Cat AU: Heatwave could handle AllSpark Day in general—the exchange of stories, the crowds, the Parade of Metals, the pointed stares, even the Festival of Primes—but he could not handle the Gathering of Sparks. He could cope with hearing everyone else hail Optimus Prime’s name during the Festival of Primes as the savior of the Great War and everything he had sacrificed to restore Cybertron. But he couldn’t bear to see his guardian's—his sire’s—spirit. Just the thought of it sent a wave of despair through his entire frame.
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- Part 8 of Flickers of Light
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After Optimus Sacrifice himself for the allspark he asked the autobot to check on the Rescue bots and tell them what had occurred… this time it was Ultra Magnus turn… and little did he know what would occur
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After the war ended, Ratchet was left behind.
Cybertron rebuilt itself without him. Team Prime drifted into the past. He tried to keep contact. He tried to schedule get togethers. But they were too busy. Too far away, excuses upon excuses piled up.So Ratchet stopped calling. Stopped messaging. Stopped hoping.
Stopped living.
After nearly 10 years by himself, he gets a call that drags him back into a world he barely recognizes. A reunion of old friends, promises of change, whispers of hope.
But scars run deeper than metal, and some cycles aren’t broken easily.
Healing is slow. Trust is fragile. And even now, Cybertron teeters between freedom and the same chains most bots spent their lives fighting to break.
He isn’t sure he belongs anymore.
Maybe he never did.
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Meeting old friends by D3llyW3lly
Fandoms: Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015), Transformers: Prime
09 Apr 2025
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BumbleBee goes on a trip to Jasper, Nevada. His team realises this and begs to come along. During this and all the history lessons on the war(Thanks for that, Bee), they meet some new faces. Well, not to Bee. He knows them all too well...
Decepticons come in later!
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Breathe Again by eerian_sadow
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One
31 Jan 2025
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The battle for Autobot City changed everything, possibly more than Unicron had. Many Autobots had died and others were left clinging to tenuous traces of life. That, of course, just encouraged outside forces to decide that both Earth and Cybertron were ripe for conquest.
Or, re-conquest, if the Quintessons are to be believed.
The Autobots and the Decepticons have formed an uneasy alliance, but with some of their best tactical minds down for the count, it may not be enough.
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the first time it happened, the pale and flickering image of optimus glanced at him with something too close to empathy.
“it hurts,” optimus said, his voice phantom-like and soft. he stared at the tightly crushed petals in megatron’s hand, and when he smiled, it was twisted with a sadness that megatron couldn’t stand. “doesn’t it?”
megatron grinded his teeth, called optimus an idiot, and tossed away the flowers.
energon dribbled from his lips anyway.
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how do you cure a disease when the cause of it is already dead?
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I don’t know what to do haunted by the ghost of you by cosmosarchives69
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
22 Oct 2024
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Megatron cannot accept that Optimus Prime is no more.
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- Part 1 of Love and Hate (TFP!AU)
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The fury within them was smoldering like a flame by Vector_Sigma
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers - All Media Types
09 Oct 2024
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...he and Arcee were alike, sometimes they spat out things they never meant when the fire grew too hot inside their sparks.
Cat AU: As much as Heatwave argued with Optimus Prime during his youth, he and Arcee had equally spirited arguments. They were alike in that manner.
A series of drabbles from the Cybertronian war to post-season four of Rescue Bots.
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- Part 7 of Flickers of Light
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Transformers: Return to Light by Aaleayha
Fandoms: Transformers (Bay Movies), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Fandom, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
10 Feb 2024
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In a world where Optimus Prime died to Megatron's sword, the Decepticons won, and Earth was left to defend itself against Unicron, humanity failed. People died. Everything started dying.
15 years later, Madison is the last known living human struggling to survive the infinite night alone. That is until the human's failed attempt at a space bridge opens back up, and she takes a leap of faith.
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You Should See Me In A Crown by OfficialRodimus for starvonnie
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
17 Apr 2019
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Rodimus was just as stubborn as Starscream, neither of them willing to bend. Thus, when the two had come together - work together - it would answer an age-old question.
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
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It's post war. Starscream is High Councilman. He has once again been put in the crosshairs of Astatine, the jealous offspring of Halogen. He should be resting, but there's too much to do...and then Vector speaks: "You are thinking again," Vector observed. "Would you like to go for a vacation?"
The destination is set. Polyhex in the Golden Age. What can go wrong?
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How They Rise Up by Kemmasandi for microraptoria
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime, Transformers - All Media Types
25 Nov 2013
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Optimus is dead and Ratchet can't figure out who he blames most for that.