The Cybertronian

Fiction Edition
1-7 Oct, 2011

Editor's Note

It's been an incredible week. Lots of challenges from September were wrapping up, and new challenges for October are being issued. It's exciting!

As always, given the hectic week I've had IRL, if I've missed something or dropped a link, please poke me gently and I'll get it fixed ASAP. Thanks!

Fanfiction

K Fics (G)

darkeyes_17 The Artist [Ratchet, Sunstreaker, G1]

dragovianknight Basic Instincts [Rhinox, BW]

Big Damn Heroes [Rhinox, Rattrap, BW]

eerian_sadow Lost and Found [youngling Arcee, Springer, Kup, G1, fluff]

fianna9 The Escape [Prowl, G1 AU]

foghornleghorn3 A Forgotten Lullaby [Prowl, Jazz, movie, slash]

hopeofdawn Giants of the Earth Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 [Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, ensemble, movie, spoilers for DotM]

jarakrisafis Exothermic Thermolysis [Wheeljack, G1 prewar]

Checkpoint [Punch/Counterpunch, G1]
Falling [Soundwave, Laserbeak, movie, DotM spoilers, canon character death]

kaitekat Ch. 1 Berth Snatcher [Prowl, Jazz, G1]

merfilly Forward Moving Once More [Thundercracker, Hook, Megatron, Starscream, ensemble, movie, hatchlings]

Ch. 11: Waypoint Walk a Different Road [Mikaela, Optimus Prime, Hound, Mirage, Sideswipe, movie, xeno, hatchlings, post RotF]

K+ Fics (PG)

antepathy The Down Low [Lockdown, IDW, mention of canon character death, spoilers for the Drift series]

Beaux Arts [Drift, Wing, IDW, fluff]
Shadowsong [Wing, IDW Parallax AU]
Ch. 24: Hiding and Hesitation Mabaya [Drift/Deadlock, Perceptor, Turmoil, IDW AU]

chibi_veneficus Ch. 2.5 Verumi [Optimus Prime, Jazz, mentions of others, G1 AU, angst]

eerian_sadow Chromaticvision drabbles [Bobby Epps, Monique Epps, movie]*

Happy Ending? [Jazz, Sari Sumdac, Arcee, TFA, character death, angst, tissues]
Chromaticvision drabbles II [Raul/G1, Jorge "Fig" Feguero/movie]*

onyx17 To Be Alone [Arcee, IDW, angst]

prowler44 Goodnight My Angel [Jazz, Prowl, G1, fluff]

prowlerprime Oh Goodie!!! [Prowl, Jazz, Barricade, G1 AU]

stunt_muppet Joyride [Miko, Sierra, TFPrime, xover with TFA, G1, movie verses, mild romance, femslash, AU]

suncharger Secrets [Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Ratchet, Jazz, ensemble, G1]

usagi_atemu_tom Surprising Origin [Jazz, Prowl, movie, slash]

Do not lean on the doors!

__wilderness__ Shiny [Sideswipe, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, G1]

Doctors Are Not the Best Patients [Sideswipe, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, G1]

zatnik Alone [Starscream, G1 AU]

Skill in Argument [Starscream, G1 AU]

T Fics (PG-13)

anothersquirrel Offer [Prowl, Jazz, mentions of others, G1 AU, hinted slash]

antepathy Check [Salazar, movie, f-bomb]

beckykw Ch. 7, Interlude 1 Fallout: Apocalypse [Jazz, Thundercracker, ensemble, movie AU, character death, language, violence, disturbing imagery, religious ideological discussions, theoretical science, OCs]

fuzipenguin Should've Watched Die Hard [Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Mikaela, movie, light petting]

greedyslayer Ch. 2 And the Glass Zone Shatters [Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream, Breakdown, Knock Out, TFPrime SG AU, violence, language]

lady_katana4544 Just This Once [Firestar, Grapple, ensemble, G1, implied violence, het, implied intimacy]

merfilly Ch. 10: Crossroads [Mikaela, Megatron, ensemble, movie, hatchlings]

prowlerprime With a Little Help from My Friend [Prowl, Jazz, Optimus, Ratchet, Ironhide, Blaster, Ultra Magnus, G1 AU]

rosa_kaiba Prologue, Ch. 1 Day of the Black Sun [Sam, Carly, ensemble, post-DotM, Spoilers for DotM]

sakon76 Ch. 6 Deus Ex Machina [Sam, Mikaela, Bumblebee, Hound, Mirage, Trailbreaker, movie AU]

silver_rayan Ch. 2 Language Most Foul [Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, ensemble, G1?]

ultharkitty Ch. 12 The Adventure of Mirrorverse Vortex [Vortex, Blades, Swindle, Onslaught, G1/SG AU]

usemychopsticks That One Bar Fight…and Everything In-between [Combaticons, G1]

velvet_infinity Aftermath [Ratchet, Sideswipe, mentioned Sunstreaker, G1]

yuuzaiden Ch. 1: Burnt Out, Ch. 2: Melt Down Sparks (edited) [Sam, Bumblebee, movie]

__wildernesss__ Miracles [Sideswipe, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, G1, established character death]

M Fics (R)

dreamerchaos Just Bite Down Around the Pain [Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime, Megatron, movie AU, slash, violence, gore, spoilers for DotM, AU]

femme4jack Ch. 5: Bonding Consort [Optimus Prime, Mirage, Ratchet, AU, smut, sparks, sticky, references prior valve injury]

MA Fics (NC-17)

darkeyes_17 Ch. 3 Feeling Changes [Optimus Prime, Starscream, ensemble, G1?, slash, sticky]

femme4jack Ch. 6: Tragedy and Reunion Consort [Optimus Prime, Mirage, Jazz, AU, explicit smut]

ladydragon76 Day 64 Crackalackalicious [ensemble, AU, human!mechs, slash, sex]

merfilly Outtake 4: Parting Gift Patronus Outtakes [Optimus Prime, Megatron, movie, slash, spark sex]

New Trick, Old Need [Ironhide, William Lennox, movie, PWP, smut, xeno]

ultharkitty Ch. 3 The Wages of Compassion [Vortex, First Aid, Brawl, Onslaught, G1 AU, spark bonding, robotic gore, implied combat violence, sexual themes, explicit consensual and noncom sticky and non-sticky sex, coercion, dark]

usagi_atemu_tom Part 1 A hidden femme's secret [Jazz, Prowl, ensemble, movie, angst, violence, death, discussions of rape, abuse, slavery and abortion]

Plotbunnies & Challenges

prowlxjazz's final week of the challenge was posted, I hope people looked and participated! It will be over shortly after this is posted.
Check out the prompts at

tf_speedwriting - new prompts will be posted on Saturday, and you have until the stats post on Friday to play with them, but only for 120 minutes each! Here are last week's stats.

twins_x_ratch is having their first challenge. The rules and the first week's prompts have been posted.
My first bunny, a very long bunny about optics.
Head on over to

tf_rare_pairing and check out the weekly request post. There's always some terrific prompts, and if you think of some yourself, send them to the comm's gmail. New prompts are always welcome!

beastwars_100's challenge this week is Work Hard, Play Harder! Have fun with it, but only in 100 words.

crimson_optics is having a commentfic party for October.

transficsation is having a Cybertronian ghost story challenge for October. Go have fun!
Here's the roundup for the September prompt challenge on

tf_prime, and October's challenge is Scary Stories.

flesh_and_steel's Phobia challenge ends tomorrow – check out all the nifty stories that got posted.

tfiwts {Transformers Fanfic I want to see}

Looking for a fic that is epic-ish and sounds really interesting! Can anyone help?
Looking for stories similar to Piscaria's Into the Fire, a Sam/Bee story. Does anybody have any recs?
Does anybody remember a fic where Prowl wrote a report about his culpability for the war, denying any culpability of Spec Ops, and was taken away? If so, please help this person find the story, and thank you.

Fic Recs

I have one for you. Five Million Years started as a kinkmeme response and after that was done, the author de-anoned and started writing the prequel. It's long and gorgeously written and I simply love the characterizations. It is a WIP, but so worth waiting for each update. It's Thundercracker and Skywarp, early war, and wonderful to read.