TaintedSweetness
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From the Ashes: The Links That Bind Us, Part 2 by prynxe_of_darkness, TaintedSweetness
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007)
26 Jun 2025
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UPDATED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
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In the fragile calm after the storm, three worlds begin to bleed into one.
Optimus Prime is free, but far from whole. Haunted by pain he cannot name and a bond he does not understand, he must learn to survive among former enemies aboard the Darksyde. As Megatron quietly unravels the walls he once built, both leaders begin to shape a future neither dared hope for.
Back on Cybertron, Sentinel Magnus tightens his grip. But resistance stirs beneath the veneer of control. Team Prime is scattered and hunted, but not defeated. Sari, small and stubborn, has followed her guardian into exile, carrying questions that no one knows to ask, and no one can yet answer. And somewhere beneath the metal skin of Iacon, a secret stirs, one that could shift the tide of war.
Trust must be earned. Power must be redefined. And from the ashes of rebellion, something new is being forged.
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- Part 2 of The Links That Bind Us
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Fractured Steel: The Links That Bind Us, Part 1 by prynxe_of_darkness, TaintedSweetness
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007)
08 May 2025
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"And sometimes, the hardest thing to do... the thing that only the strongest can manage... is to choose peace. To be strong enough to be gentle."
When everything he fought for crumbles, he must choose: obedience, or revolution.
Optimus Prime has always believed in the ideals of justice, honor, and peace, even to those who would gladly see him dead. When Cybertron's greatest enemy is cast down before him, broken and defeated, Optimus makes a choice only he would dare to make: to show compassion to the one who deserves it least.
It is a decision that will cost him everything.
To show mercy in a world ruled by fear is to be seen not as noble, but as dangerous. To see something worthy of kindness and dignity in the one he was taught to hate is an unforgivable crime. As the walls of blind obedience close in and the fires of rebellion stir, Optimus must face a truth long buried. Sometimes, it is not hatred that makes a rebel. Sometimes, it is hope.
And the most gentle of acts, is enough to change the fate of everything you hold dear.
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- Part 1 of The Links That Bind Us
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Transformers Zero by TaintedSweetness
Fandoms: Transformers One (2024), Transformers - All Media Types
24 Mar 2025
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Now with art!
Prequel to Transformers One.
35 Cycles after the fall of the Primes, K-214 is just another nameless, cogless bot, riding on the false promises of the false Prime Sentinel, trying to make as best a life as she can for herself. When she suddenly finds herself in a life threatening situation and is confronted with the horrible truth of her existence, she is charged with a familiar relic, and asked to aid in bringing an old ally of the High Guard back into their fold. But even with the help of a High Guard ally at her side, exactly what sort of difference can one nameless, cogless bot possibly make against the might of Sentinel Prime and his forces?
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The Links That Bind Us by prynxe_of_darkness, TaintedSweetness
Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007)
27 Jun 2025
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Winners and Losers by CarnoBot
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
24 Jun 2025
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Drift and Ratchet have been gone for months. And for a long, long time Rodimus and Megatron have been at each other's throats. Everyone is sick of it. Most of all, Ultra Magnus. He begs them to work on their professional relationship for the sake of the crew, with some guidance from Optimus Prime.
Little does he know, Rodimus and Megatron are pathetically attracted to one another (everyone else knows). One thinly veiled excuse for a hookup later, and Rodimus is caught in a web of lies of his own making.
Bookmarked by TaintedSweetness
04 Jun 2025
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One More Time Optimus Prime! by prisonmechanic
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007)
09 Oct 2019
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Primus is fed up with the divide of it's people. With religion being essentially removed from Autobot and Decepticon tradition alike, Primus takes a more... roundabout way of fixing the issue; Namely throwing a Prime into a time loop until someone figures the whole mess out.
But Megatron's being difficult and Ratchet can't help but notice the change in his commanding officer. Oh and Sentinel isn't going to be any help.
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- Part 1 of OMTOP
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Bookmarked by TaintedSweetness
30 May 2025
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The Fall (But Slower) by Smatterbrained
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers One (2024)
19 Apr 2025
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The gray mech locked optics with him. The scrutinizing crimson, winged helm, large chassis, and angled shoulderplates all came together to form a powerful figure. Orion almost couldn’t equate this bot with the one who had been kneeling at Darkwing’s pedes just a few solar-cycles previous.
Did he know..?
“I know what you did,” the mech rumbled.
“Ah.”
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Megatronus is a miner, just trying to keep his numbers up, and his helm down. This becomes more difficult when he befriends Orion Pax– fellow miner, and self-described anti-functionalism-pacifist. Nobody could guess that their meeting would spiral into the most brutal and long-standing conflict in Cybertronian history.
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Bookmarked by TaintedSweetness
19 Apr 2025
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GUNS AND ROSES by Starpuddle
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
30 Apr 2025
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Love, guns and medicine? A look at Ratchet and Drift’s relationship during the war, up until their days on the lost light. A look at Drift’s transition from Deadlock to Drift and how they juggle a sparkling in the middle of a war. Trust me, the story is much better than my garbage summary. This one is for the Dratchet lovers.
Bookmarked by TaintedSweetness
30 Mar 2025
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Between Enemy Lines by StarlitSabotage
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Animated (2007)
19 Mar 2025
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Stranded on an alien planet after a crash landing, Optimus Prime and Megatron find themselves in an unexpected truce. With no battles to fight and no bots to lead, the weight of their roles as leaders is lifted, freeing them to exist as they truly are—not as symbols of their causes, but as individuals. In this fragile peace, the lines between foe and ally begin to blur, forcing them to confront what they thought they knew about each other—and themselves. This new understanding could change everything—or destroy them both.
Bookmarked by TaintedSweetness
25 Mar 2025