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quetzalpapalotl · 2 years

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More Optronix VA! Another request by @bitegore, as always from PUE by @lord-squiggletits, chapter 11. SG Optimus gets a visit from his ember-brother :). This one was short and very fun since I too, have a brother, so I know what this is like.

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One day, the hallway door clanked open. Optronix was still rebooting his disused vocalizer to snap an insult about how he had already drunk his fuel for the day so leave him the hell alone, when the guard said in a clipped voice, "You have a visitor."

Optronix's optics shot online. "Megatron?" The incomplete reboot made his voice crackle.

"No. Your ember-brother, Ultra Magnus." The guard tromped away.

Oh. Ugh. Optronix considered turning up the holoscreen and his radio even louder, just to show his brother what he thought of his presence... but Magnus would probably gladly shout at him to make himself heard, and Optronix didn't wish to subject himself to that cacophony. He sighed and turned off his datapad, but left the holo on.

The door banged open, feeling like a gunshot reverberating around the inside of Optronix’s helm.

"Optimus Prime!" Magnus boomed. "Or should I say, Optronix, since you have been sadly divested of your precious artifact?"

"Magnus. I'm surprised they let you out of your cage without a muzzle on."

"As insufferable as being your brother is, it does give me visitation rights after medical emergencies. My apologies for that, incidentally; it's a shame your operation was successful."

For once in my life, I agree with you. Though Optronix would never tell Magnus that he was right about anything. He groaned softly and forced himself upright on his berth. "Speaking of the operation, look at this." He opened his mask and gestured at his face. "See? Now you don't have to be the only ugly brother between us. Though I can confidently say that I did a better job on your face than they did on mine."

Magnus growled, facial components twitching in a vaguely infuriated way. "Reminisce on your past victories; they are all you will have left. My rehabilitation is progressing at a swift pace!"

"Oh?" Optronix smirked, feeling his face crinkle, and raised a brow ridge. "So what you mean is that you're doing very well at bowing and scraping before your captors. You've only ever been good at being beneath others."

"Cut your slag!" Magnus jabbed at the surface of the forcefield, punctuating every sentence with a sizzling tap. "Unlike you, I have intentions to get out of the dump heap they call a rehabilitation facility. I have no need to cling to old allegiances or loyalties when a new Cybertron awaits! Once I'm out, I will have the freedom to start gathering influence once more. I will be a figure of standing one day, and you will still be stuck here to rot. Then you will know how it feels to be the inferior sibling!"

That was, hmm. Not entirely expected. "Abandoning the truth of Primus so easily, brother? I thought you understood the futility of our struggles in the universe."

"Futility! Bold words for someone who spent more than a million years hoarding power and influence to himself!" He thumped his fist on the forcefield. "Get out of your idiot berth and stand up to me!"

"No," Optronix said. He laid back down and rolled over, pointedly turning his back on Magnus and snapping his mask shut again.

"Let's talk about futility, then." Magnus' footsteps paced back and forth in front of Optronix's cell. "Do you want to know what else is futile? You! You and everything you've ever accomplished! You lost the Matrix and, judging by the complete lack of panic by our captors, you're completely incapable of ever getting it back! We were ripped from the other universe just as we were on the cusp of victory, and now we have come back to a universe where all our destruction has been built over again! Congratulations on falling for the same trick twice, brother!"

Optronix sighed serenely. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Everything we worked for has indeed turned to nothing. That's what the way of Primus is, brother. Congratulations on admitting that I am right yet again. And by the way, your plan isn't going to work. You're completely delusional if you think that you of all people are going to be accepted anywhere on Cybertron."

"I won't be insulted by someone who can't even get out of his own berth," Magnus retorted. "Primus, you're disgusting. I never thought you would let yourself be degraded to such a state."

Optronix's optics onlined, but he didn't face Magnus. "I will not degrade myself by complying with my captors. Society holds nothing of value to me. I have no need for society or rehabilitation, therefore I do not pursue either. Have fun being an experiment, little brother."

Magnus' stomping ceased. He was silent and still for a long time. Finally he said, "You should have just killed yourself. You would be less pathetic than you are now. I'm going to tell all of them, Optronix. I'm going to go back to my prison and I'll tell all of the Autobots how pathetic you are. I'll go on the streets once I'm free and tell everyone that the legendary Prime is so soft and desperate that he does nothing but lay in berth all day calling it 'resistance.'"

"Interesting story, brother." Optronix offlined his optics and burrowed more comfortably against the berth. "Well, you will be the first between us in one thing at least. The instant you step onto the streets, you'll be the first to have your processor blown out by the nearest Decepticon who sees you. Goodbye."

#pay unto evil

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