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Do engines get rewarded for their steam? (6312 words) by Scrimps, Soup_Punk Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Astrotrain/Blitzwing (Transformers) Characters: Astrotrain (Transformers), Blitzwing (Transformers), Megatron (Transformers), Optimus Prime Additional Tags: Situationships, Period Typical Attitudes, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - 1920s, Gangsters, Chicago (City), Execution, Alternate Universe - Human, Smuggling, Slow Build, Immigration & Emigration, Trains, Post-World War I, Graphic Depictions of Illness, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Eventual Smut, Internalized Homophobia, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Issues, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Homophobia, Slurs, only ones the authors can write i promise Summary: When Astrotrain is arrested at 18 and convicted of murder, his life seems pretty grim and the path pretty narrow; there's a noose waiting for him, and he doesn't know when. Laying track until the day he dies, he's surprised to meet both a kind-hearted attorney and a predatory gangster- who are chasing each other's leads. Across the sea, Blitzwing has just been identified as a terrorist and needs a quick way out of Poland before eating firing-squad lead. In a turn neither expected, they both wind up sharing a shack on the rail yard, and life goes on from there. The American dream and second chances happen in Chicago, Illinois, 1922. All characters will have human names, identities, and origins, which can be discerned from them easily- if not, feel free to ask for clarification. Art will be posted about them. Title come's from Johnny Cash's The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer