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1. There is a Road by Stoneflew

   Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers (Unicron Trilogy)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   16 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Hot Shot & Ironhide
   • Hot Shot & Wheeljack
   • Hot Shot and Ironhide and Original Character
   • Hot Shot & the kids
   • Hot Shot (Transformers)
   • Wheeljack (Armada)
   • Original Cybertronian Character(s)
   • Kicker Jones
   • Sixshot (Transformers)
   • Ironhide (Energon)
   • Bradley "Rad" White
   • Alexis Thi Dang
   • Carlos Lopez (Transformers)
   • Depression
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Angst
   • Hurt with very little comfort
   • Dark
   • Prisoner of War
   • Torture
   • Psychological Torture
   • Blood and Gore
   • Robo-blood but also a smattering of human blood
   • Additional Warnings Apply
   • Violence
   • Now that we're past the dark tags I'd like to introduce you to Roadbuster
   • Ironhide (Energon) but I call him Roadbuster for distinction
   • He became a floofy puppy lad with mild angst attached
   • I have no regrets
   • Hot Shot is depressed
   • Wheeljack is a narcissist
   • The original character decided to grow a personality and run off with it
   • Sixshot is not very Sixshotty but there's a reason for that
   • trust me - Freeform
   • oh also there is some comfort
   • I can't write depressing endings
   • No Romance
   • No Slash
   • we 👏 write 👏 angst 👏 to tear 👏 down 👏 character 👏 and 👏 build 👏 it 👏 up 👏 again 👏
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Unreliable Narrator everywhere
   • there are occasional hugs!
   • Platonic Relationships
   • Nightmares
   • Flashbacks
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Sad with a Happy Ending
   • screw having organised tags we die like Cliffjumper
   • the Unicron Trilogy needs more love
   • Minor suicidal ideation
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Character Death
   • Everyone Needs A Hug
   • and therapy
   • Angst and Feels
   • Friends to Enemies
   • Mental Breakdown
   • admittedly there are a few of those
   • Panic Attacks
   • Dissociation
   • Paranoia
   • It's Not Paranoia If They're Really Out To Get You
   • Crying
   • yeah there are a few tears
   • Cybertronians Can Cry
   • The Path to Healing Is Not a Straight Road
   • Transformers Spark Bonds
   • (David Attenborough voice) of the rare platonic variety
   • not so much a plot as a character study
   • Escape
   • escape is the idea
   • This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think
   • in either possible direction

   Summary

   (Armada/Unicron trilogy continuity soup. Based in Armada (and Energon) characters but with cherry-picking of practically everything else and then some)

    

   Five years after his life ended, forgotten and left to the mercies of the Decepticons in a prison camp, Hot Shot continues to exist in a living hell. A grey hell populated by the dead and the dying, their sparks still pulsing in their chambers, but their hopes extinguished.

   Here, at the end of everything.

   And it's here, after five long years, that he finds what he didn't expect. Something new. Something he thought he'd lost.

   A spark, a flicker, just a fragile glimmer so easily crushed underfoot....

   And he finds that maybe, just maybe, this isn't the end.

   Series

   • Part 8 of Tar

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   226,788

   Chapters:

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