We finally finished the first five out of fifteen chapters of this thing, had to because it's always on our mind when we're not thinking or doing something else (we loved the movie that much and it unintentionally collided with so much of what we write and adore about transformers), major spoilers for Transformers One of course. Summary under the cut, major characters so far are in the tags:
Before his overthrow was spearheaded by Optimus Prime, Elita One, Bumblebee, and Megatron, Sentinel Prime's colonial client state regime over Iacon and it's mines faced multiple challenges from the very beginning and throughout its fifty years following the end of the overt thousands-year long conflict between Transformer society and that of the Quintesson empire. This is a story of how those challenges were resolved, how no matter how it played out, one way or another Sentinel's regime would fall under it's own oppressive weight, the intercession of his overlords, or from the liberation of revolution- and it is also the story of the first batches of miners at the heart of that, of Solus Prime's gambit against possible betrayal, the story of how Arcee, Moonracer, and their pals pushed back, while Sentinel desperately looked for a way to legitimize his rule by having a co-conspirator to blame- a reactionary much worse than himself. To stop him from destroying the parts of the legacy of the Thirteen and the old alliances of Cybertron, the transformative nexus at the foundation of the eldest ways of autonomy known to their species, that Sentinel still thought he cared for. The end will navigate how, decades later, Arcee and some of her pals managed to survive, and the part they play beyond what the film showed. This is a story about the might of love, and it's currently out on Ao3
