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primus-why · 9 months

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You know how in some continuities Orion Pax and Megatron really didn't know each other before the war? And usually that's where OP is just minding his business when suddenly Megatron and his revolutionaries just happen to swing by where he is working as a laborer... and he ends up dying/being near-death and brought to Alpha Trion to be reformatted/recieve the Matrix of Leadership?

Yeah... who wants to pair that with the stories where Orion Pax and Megatronus were friends but tragically end up on other sides of the war?

Here's what I propose:

Orion Pax and Megatronus become friends over their shared interest in philosophy and their concerns over the safety and wellbeing of their fellow Cybertronian. They are minor celebrities to those who follow Megatronus' continual rise in the Pits.

The government sees them as dangerous revolutionaries on the verge of igniting a movement that could stand to ruin everything the high-castes greedily covet. But what can be done? Obviously both sides have their staunch supporters, but how to sway the remaining general populace?

Clearly their doctrine and censorship isn't stopping the spread of information. But that shouldn't even matter; in the past, all they had to do was disincentivise the public from even noticing what happened around them. In time, the citizens of Cybertron could be cowed into submission once again, given they take the proper course of action...

The government decides to make an example of these revolutionary leaders.

This is easier plotted than executed, as Megatronus and his closest posse have been expecting assassination attempts for quite some time... it's nothing new to them. Orion longs for a day his friend may relax and go about his day without expecting death around every corner...

There is no point in meeting in secret, as Megatronus and his gladiator companions have tracking devices on them anyway. No, Orion always meets his friend at the transport station, where they walk and chat all the way to the gladiator's quarters.

Only, on this particular day, he doesn't even finish greeting Megatronus from across the walkway before he experiences a great pain. The greatest pain he has ever felt. There is panic in the fields of those around him, and he feels himself fall as everyone else runs away. Why can't he run away??

The last thing Orion sees before he shuts down for reboot is Megatronus' shocked and aggrieved expression as he tries to run towards his prone frame, only to be stopped by policemech.

Then next time he awoke, he was no longer with Megatronus. He was no long Orion Pax. He was... Optimus Prime.

And it turns out, stellar cycles had gone by... and in that time Optimus found he could no longer recognize the mech he once called friend. Megatron was on such a rampage, on a quest for violence, that he had lost sight of what their revolution had been about... lost sight of himself. And so Optimus decided to face him, in the hopes of talking/knocking some sense into him...

#megop #anyways i think it would be neat if the government that feared Megatronus' revolution decided to send him a message #by killing Orion Pax and turning him into a symbol of their oppressors.#they couldn't kill Megatronus. he'd be a martyr. but they could kill his beloved little companion.#they knew the lower castes didn't care as deeply for Orion as Megatronus did. this was entirely personal.#but then even when Optimus is back he's not happy to see him because they both hate what they've become #ajdjsjdjdjdjdjdjd

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