Chapter 1
Summary:
Thundercracker introduces yres waifus to the followers of the Aegis Flock blog.
Chapter Text
Original: https://voidwingsprime.tumblr.com/post/645387054487879680/ic-status-greetings
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Thundercracker is doing an intro stream for the new followers of the Aegis Flock blog.
“This is Winglord Thundercracker of the Aegis, I care and watch over our flock of refugees and deserters, along with acting as the Aegis’ agent.”
Thundercracker looks very serious with yres crimson eyes and set mouth.
Then a mischievous glint enters yres optics and Thundercracker smirks.
“These are my waifus.”
Being a mech that’s over two hundred Earth imperial feet tall, TC can easily hold up yres partners.
TC holds up Skywarp like a dangling long cat. “This is Commander Skywarp, my second wing and munidor to our creations.”
Skywarp goes OWO on sha face screen, and waves. “HEWWWWWOOOO.”
TC places Skywarp around yres neck like cat and then picks up a disgruntled Starscream like ferret.
“This stinker here is Lord Doctor Starscream. Kha is a xenobiologist and has many Ph.Ds from Earth. Kha is shinti to our creations.”
Starscream stares into the camera as though kha wants to murder someone. Khyr holofeathers are bright and glittering and shimmer through the rainbow spectrum. Kha is secretly pleased by the treatment.
Thundercracker sets Starscream on yres shoulder.
Yres sighs and pulls out a very annoyed Soundwave from yres shuttlechamber, whose trying to wriggle out of TC’s grasp.
TC holds up Soundwave with two hands, with zir wings pinned to zir sides.
“And this is the stinkiest of all the waifus, Soundwave. Ze is currently being rehabilitated from dysfunctional yandere parenting practices and being a Decepticon war criminal. “
Soundwave flashes a very vulgar symbol on zir face screen.
“Ze here acts displeased by being picked up, and is very tsundere. But ze can easily bridge out of my grasp if ze wanted to. Soundwave secretly likes the attention.”
TC has a very wide smile, with too many teeth and pats Soundwave on the head like a loving kaiju.
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@thenamesblurrito did the art.
Chapter 2: Cuddle Times! But dogmech....
Summary:
Soundwave onlines inside of Thundercracker in a tangle of sleeping Seekers.
Chapter Text
Original: https://voidwingsprime.tumblr.com/post/642032377718276096/cuddle-times-but-dogmech
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Soundwave boots up into a tangle of limbs, data cables, and anime body pillows. Wrapped around a forty foot long body pillow of zir lost Endura, Megatronus, ze notes zir surroundings. Frenzy and Rumble are docked onto zir chest and back plates, and they rustle a bit as they chirr in sleepy satisfaction.
The Odium Endura, Starscream is spooning Skywarp, with khyr arm over the Voidwing’s side and khyr legs wrapped around Warp’s hindlegs. Warp shiself has Slipstream tucked underneath a foreleg and her siblings are piled on top of her.
Cooling cables run rampant and Thundercracker’s shuttle space is now warm with the soft ex-vents of datadreaming mecha. The door’s also swung open.
Thundercracker yreself is deep into recharge and yre sleepy rumbles and ex-events are a sign that TC won’t be rousing soon. Judging by the angle of the shuttlespace, Soundwave deduces that Thundercracker is on yre side.
Sleepy wuffles from outside indicate Buster’s presence, a dog-shaped thirty foot long and fifteen foot high biomech with a dog brain, another of Earth’s fleshtech horrors.
TC must be holding yres therapy dogmech then.
Soundwave feels zir plating clamp down and ze activates the recharge protocols again. Nope, nope, nope, not dealing with that thing awake and alone, nooooooope.
Back to sleeeeeep
Chapter 3: Pre-programming rituals
Summary:
Soundwave and Thundercracker chant as they do their pre-programming ritual before Howlback's mind-check.
Chapter Text
Original: https://voidwingsprime.tumblr.com/post/641369680240590848/ic-status
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On the livestream:
Thundercracker is loafed on yres lower half and yre upper arms are clutching Soundwave’s spindly digits as ze stands on a communal table.
Both of them are marked with paint in old pre-quint war glyphs, Soundwave has zir old gladiator veils and conjunx crown.
Both their vocalizers are loud and rumbling as they chant.
TC booms out the history songs of free seekers while Soundwave chants the songs of the lost gladiators, as ze is one of the last.
The stream is being recorded and played for Humans, because if the flock and seekerkind goes extinct at least someone will remember. A holoscreen on the back wall flickers with a live translation into several human tongues.
Howlback is docked on Soundwave’s chest as ke listens, this is the pre-programming ritual for kir mindchecks.
The little one learns the history of Seekerkind, while their new mind and coding is added to the extremely long songhistory.
Both junis’ voices die down into lower and lower tones as their data cables slither out and both of them plug into Howlback.
Ke will fine, ke just needs to be checked for glitches and viruses.
Chapter 4: Photonic Crystals!
Summary:
In which Thundercracker explains photonic crystals to yres human viewers!
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Tumblr link: https://rogue-seeker.tumblr.com/post/679425371897266176/fireside-chats-with-tc-episode
“Oh yes, this is what a photonic crystal looks like. Give me a minute…”
On livestream, Thundercracker unhinges yres lower jaw, and yres maw grinders, shredders, and denta all relax and widen, yres throat cables expand and there’s a deep rattling noise. Maw lubricant drips out.
*Shlooorrrp*
HOoooorK.
TC slides out a lavender-tinged crystal out of yres maw. Yre maw parts all fold back and contract back into yre face-plates into yre usual socializing form.
The palm sized crystal is held by TC to the light, it shines like an amethyst lit by starlight. Yre optics are zoomed out, as though yres is examining it like a jeweler with a loupe.
“Lighter grade of dark energon, also known as purple or the blood of Unicron. Symbolizes the hunger of the spark that created it. Only grade of energon that can store spark energy or awaken one of the Undying. Rare, and only gifted to flock members. Found only in the energon circulatory system that coils around the spark chamber.”
Thundercracker pops open yres grubpit and stashes the crystal in there.
There’s dog barking and yre massive hand, holds up a very excited and wriggly dogmech.
“And of course, here’s Buster! He’s very excited to see all of you!”
Her tail lashes excitedly against TC’s wrist and embedded in her forehead is a small dark purple gem.
“So Buster here, doesn’t have a spark.
But! He’s still part of the flock.”
Thundercracker pets him right on the helm.
“And every day right when he goes off to recharge, his consciousness gets sent to the soul-cloud for backup! If something happened to this frame, I can still bring him back.”
Thundercracker holds up Buster to yre face-plates, for a good nuzzle.
Notes:
This differs from the tumblr original posts, in which I had to correct a continuity error. I originally wrote Buster as a male dogmech, wrote another buster post months later, forgot the original gender and wrote Buster as a female dogmech. Ooops. Can't be arsed to correct the tumblr posts, so this one has been edited to fix continuity.
Chapter 5: What do you think of Megatron?
Summary:
In which Thundercracker goes on a long rant about Megatron to yres human readers on yre blog.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Originally on Tumblr: Rogue Seeker (tumblr.com)
THUNDERCRACKER, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF MEGATRON?
ASKED BY ANONYMOUS
“An idiot who nearly got me divorced as you humans would put it.”
-Winglord Thundercracker of the Aegis
Thundercracker frowns at yres answer, deletes it and types in some more. The human therapist did say it was healthy to vent and express emotions…
“An imbecile who seduced my best friend, squatted in our old ship, and then took it over. Like an infestation of scraplets, but worse. At least most scraplets aren’t sapient and capable of manufacturing with Seekers.
This (UNTRANSLATED) not only seduced my amica, ey MANUFACTURED a set of hellions with my amcia. Then abused said hellions,and now I’m left raising this idiot’s hellions with the idiot’s widow and Skywarp. “
-Winglord Thundercracker of the Aegis.
Thundercracker inserts a selfie of yreself with yres optics shut and pinching yres sensory crest in frustration.
Notes:
Thundercracker is extremely salty at Starscream flouncing off to trine with Megatronus and Soundwave as you can see. Fixed minor continuity error from tumblr. Original post mentioned scraplets aren't sapient....guess what, I later decided some are! Domesticated scraplets are a healthy part of Titan-ship ecosystems since they consume excess metal growths and keep the interior systems healthy.
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