12 CHAPTER DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE SERIES! MEGATRON victorious! All hope seems lost, as the DECEPTICONS tighten their grip! The shattered remnants of the Autobots struggle valiantly-- but their chances seem slim. If ever CYBERTRON needed a hero, the time is now!
Personal review: I think these later issues are just me glazing the writing, but that's alright. It happens. Idek what to say. I just like this one a lot. ___________________________
-This is my second favorite issue for Autocracy
-OHHHHHH THAT GRAY SEEKER IS SKYWARP!!!! Imma be honest, I did NOT recognize him. I'm used to him being purple
-Holy fuckin' shit this is from Hot Rod's perspective alright
-Skywarp and Thundercracker are leading Hot Rod to Megatron. Hot Rod's inner monologue shows that he never thought he'd be choosing sides and that his life in Nyon was much simpler and how he fought to protect his home and his people, but that's all gone now. He says that trusting the Decepticons was the biggest mistake he ever made in his life, and then its revealed in a flashback that he spoke with Megagron one-on-one :000
-Megatron praises him for sacrificing Nyon just to make sure Zeta wouldn't win. Hot Rod says that the cost was too high and Megatron tells him that, if he hadn't acted, then Zeta would've become unstoppable. He tells him that a true leader acts without doubt or regret, and he's made of sterner stuff. Hot Rod smiles and tells Megs that OP gold him the same thing
-Megs tells him that Orion was blinded by idealism and that it's a failing amongst many Autobots. He tells Hot Rod to remember that
-Skipping OP's small moment bcuz it's not important
-Megatron is torturing Bumblebee. Starscream tells him that it's a waste of time because he knows nothing, and Megatron tells him that it's not about information; it's about dominance and submission. What the fück
-I'm going to introduce Megatron to BDSM clubs. You know, I kinda wish there were more bottom Megatron fics. They're all him topping and domming! Listen, just because a character likes being dominant in their everyday life doesn't mean that they can't be a sub sometimes. Though, knowing Megatron, I bet he'd have a complex about that. This is why we need MegaOp fics of more sub Megatron tho bcuz I think it'd be cool to explore that dynamic. Anyways, Megatron tells Starscream to execute Bumblebee :[
-Bumblebee looks at Hot Rod and tells him that he hopes he's proud of himself. Hot Rod looks horrified.
-Hot Rod's/Rodimus Prime'a guilt #3: working with the Decepticons to save himself (he makes up for it, dw)
-Optimus is just on a fuckin' side quest. He's in an artic region following wherever the Matrix leads him
-Skywarp and Thundercracker are taunting the Autobots in their detention cells when Hot Rod comes in and attacks them. The Autobots are freed. Bumblebee asks him why he risked himself to save them, and Hot Rod says that he saw for himself that Megatron was no better than Zeta and that he may be even WORSE than him
-"I don't want my people to have died for nothing. I know if they could have, they would have fought for freedom. I finally see that's what you've been fighting for all along. So I'm rolling with you, if you'll have me." -Hot Rod
-The Autobots start heading to Nyon after Bumblebee tracks OP's signal there. The Decepticons start attacking them, but Prowl, Kup, Hound, and Springer ambush the Decepticons and start helping the Autobots
-OH DAMN, THAT ARCTIC IS NYON! Anyways, he the Matrix is calling out to an ancient power in Nyon and, like one of those ants infected by those creepy-ass mushrooms, he follows. His trance is interrupted by Bumblebee and Ironhide
-Optimus Prime reintroduces himself to the other Autobots. He gives one of his world-famous speeches that would be able to make Donald Trump himself rethink his ways (he'd still go to hell, but still)
-He introduces them to fucking METROPLEX. I legit GASPED when I first read that
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