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It Happened Then (but I Still Have the Wound) by JupiterRainstorms
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
02 May 2026
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“I get tortured day in, day out for three years straight while you just get to sit back and watch. What a fucking world.” Something in him cracks, an ugly, dark feeling rearing its head in his spark, vengeful and demanding retribution.
“Did you enjoy the little show?” Max wheels on him, bridging the distance between them in a sparkbeat, fists clenched and teeth bared, body aching for a fight. “Was it fun seeing me get knocked down a peg?”
Grimlock’s optics spark wildly with anger and his whole body tenses. “You think I liked seeing any of that?”
Or: Max takes Grimlock back to Luna-1 for treatment post MTMTE #46, but doesn't anticipate all the feelings that come along with that decision.
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Oh, to Tighten My Hands Around the Waist of Something Violent by JupiterRainstorms
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
22 Nov 2025
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“But I’ve always wondered,” Overlord continues in his low croon, a veneer of false fondness like this is a game they’re both relishing in playing, “what might happen if those prisoners were rescued? Would they spend the rest of their waking moments waiting for the day their captors come back for them, torn hopelessly in two different directions? The unyielding certainty of a cage and the frailty of freedom.”
Or: the missing scene between Max's therapy session and the hostage situation in MTMTE #6
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Familiar, Like Someone I Used to Be by JupiterRainstorms
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
13 Oct 2025
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Even so far removed from his old position, it’s still in Cerebros’ instinct to fix things, to smooth over any rough edges that he can. It’s gotten worse, now that his life has become so thoroughly entwined with two other lives, the threads of time sewn together here on Luna-1. It’s difficult to believe that there had once been millions of years before they met here. They all lived their own lives separate from each other—lives filled with hurts they’re still trying to find a way to live with.
That has perhaps been the hardest thing to come to terms with—there is so much Cerebros cannot fix. No matter how much he wishes he could, he can’t undo the violence that was inflicted on Max nor erase the pain he still carries from it; he can’t ease all of the terrors that have plagued Red Alert’s life. But he’ll be damned if he can’t try.
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Our Little Horror Story by JupiterRainstorms
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
20 Mar 2025
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Overlord took a step back, really looking at Max for the first time, a sinister amusement playing across his face. “You got a little something there.” His thumb swiped across Max’s cheek, smearing the energon more than wiping it away.
Max glared at him. “Whose fault is that?”
“I thought you looked like you could use the assist.” Overlord gave a blithe shrug.
Or: Things go poorly for Max while working a case. Help comes from an unlikely source.
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“I see it in you too, you know,” Jetfire said, earnest and without reservation. His hand raised slightly but he didn’t move to touch him again, honoring the distance Max had put between them. “So if you’re looking for good in the world, you won’t have to look far.”
It’s then that he allowed himself the weakness of looking away, giving a small laugh tinged with a bitterness that had only grown in him more and more as of late. He couldn’t imagine what it is that Jetfire saw in him, but it wasn’t goodness.

