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Chapters: 7/42 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jazz/Prowl (Transformers), Prowl & Springer (Transformers), Elita One & Prowl (Transformers), Jazz & Optimus Prime Characters: Prowl (Transformers), Jazz (Transformers), Springer (Transformers), Smokescreen (Transformers), Bluestreak (Transformers), Ariel (Transformers), Elita One (Transformers), Orion Pax, Optimus Prime, Ratchet (Transformers), Dion (Transformers), Ultra Magnus (Transformers), Sentinel Prime (Transformers), Proteus (Transformers), Red Alert (Transformers) Additional Tags: Postpartum Depression, Secret Babies, Transformer Sparklings, Mental Health Issues, Indentured Servitude, Pre-Cybertronian Civil War, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Minor Character Death, Minor Elita One/Optimus Prime/Ultra Magnus, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:
Prowl of Petrex has signed himself over to the Primacy as an indentured servant. His contract, however unreasonable, seems worth weathering after the fall of Praxus in exchange for the safety of his only remaining family. He knows he’s likely to spend the rest of his life beneath the boot of the Prime, will never grow his family, and will be a footnote in the history books. But when Prowl is presented with the rare opportunity to renegotiate his contract with the Primacy, he leaps at the chance. The price of freedom, however, may be steep…
Meanwhile, Jazz keeps himself busy these days as part of the ragtag group of revolutionaries who have been drawn to a charismatic young archivist by the name of Orion Pax. He’s been working on the outskirts of the Cybertronian caste system his entire life, and has a lifetime of tricks from just about every trade. Being Orion Pax’s righthand mech is a hard enough job, but it only gets harder when the unrest comes to a head, changing all of their lives at once, and putting Jazz at the center of the very system he has fought against…
And then, of course, that’s not even bringing up the illegal sparkling, Senator Proteus’s machinations, or Prowl’s TacNet acting strangely.
