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1. Until You Return by needs_sleep_and_food

   Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Bay Movies)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Megatron/Optimus Prime
   • Shane Dyson/Tessa Yeager
   • Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet
   • Bumblebee & Optimus Prime
   • Optimus Prime & Others
   • Megatron (Transformers)
   • Optimus Prime
   • Ratchet (Transformers)
   • Crosshairs (Transformers)
   • Hound (Transformers)
   • Bumblebee (Transformers)
   • Drift | Deadlock
   • Lockdown (Transformers)
   • Cade Yeager
   • Tessa Yeager
   • Shane Dyson
   • Lucas Flannery
   • James Savoy
   • Joshua Joyce
   • Heavy Angst
   • Conjunx Endurae (Transformers)
   • Alternate Universe
   • Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
   • Author's rewrite of Age of Extinction
   • Married Megatron/Optimus Prime
   • Established Relationship
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Found Family
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • I added angst until my ancestors told me to stop (spoiler they never did)
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • slow burn reunion
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Trauma
   • Medical Trauma
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Loss
   • Hope
   • Healing
   • Friendship
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Torture
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Major Character Injury
   • Kidnapping
   • Bumblebee being feral
   • Lucas deserved better
   • Optimus Prime Needs A Hug
   • and a break
   • Megatron Needs A Hug (Transformers)
   • Everyone Needs a Hug
   • and therapy
   • Cade is trying
   • Lockdown deserves to die in every timeline known to man
   • Crying
   • Character development walked in and stole my keyboard
   • Lucas and his emotional support WD-40 can
   • By the way....this fic hits the ground and sprints with the plot
   • so just....buckle up after the prologue
   • no this is not beta read
   • We die like Ratchet (I'm so sorry)

   Summary

   A new era has begun. And the age of the Transformers...is over.

   One false distress signal.

   One ruthless bounty hunter.

   That's all it takes.

   When a false distress signal lures Optimus Prime into Lockdown's trap, he and Megatron are torn apart, each later believing the other was killed. While Megatron wages a war between grief, loss, and the ever persistent Lockdown and army of humans out for him, Optimus is rescued by Cade and his family that get swept up in the run from Lockdown and humans.

   Admist the gunshots, screams, explosions, and fear, Optimus and Megatron never stop fighting until they find one another once more.

   (I suck at summaries, I'm not even lying)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,168

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

   16

   Kudos:

   30

   Bookmarks:

   7

   Hits:

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