On the third day of Christmas
Title: Working in a Coal Mine
Fandom: G1 Transformers
Characters: Constructicons, Megatron
Rating: G
Word Count: 500+
Summary: Of all the many things Megatron had done, Scavenger thought, what made him proudest was that Megatron had made a damn fine miner.
Author's Notes: This is a mash-up of the cartoon and Megatron: Origins. Plus it involves the origins of the Constructicons. You have been warned.
Working in a Coal Mine
***
The Constructicons never explained why they built Megatron. Most people didn't even know to ask, and the rare few who did simply got stared at until they or the Constructicon in question got bored and wandered off. The Constructicons had their reasons, of course, but words were useless for explaining them. After the first combination into Devastator cemented everything, the idea-data on why was simply too big to transfer to anyone.
("All these stupid city-state licensings and rulings-"
"-Frakking corrupt officials, you know how much we paid for this-"
"-Oh, they got machines to do the job, did they?"
"Can't get hired, they don't like half of us being warbuild."
"Like frag am I changing my symbols, I earned these."
"It's Autobrands or nothing, these days."
"Autobrand isn't worth slag, they deal under the table as much as anyone-")
All the thousands of little things that had made building Megatron such a natural, amazing idea couldn't be summarized enough to tell people about. Especially not after the damage the Robo-Smasher did to them, and the way the first combination crystallized everything so they all understood it implicitly, every single nuance.
After they made him, though, they let him out in the world to discover why they'd made him for himself. After all, he was a person like them. They couldn't force him to be what they wanted.
Scavenger sometimes felt he was the only one keeping an optic on Megatron after that. It's not that the others forgot about him, but he wasn't right in front of them anymore needing to be worked on, so he wasn't really important. Well, not not-important, just...
Megatron went out and became a miner.
He did other things first, but they barely lasted half a vorn. But mining- Megatron stayed a miner. For vorns and vorns, working on all sorts of mines. Metal mines and gem mines and even energon mines, which only the crazy or the desperate would get involved in. Scavenger was pretty sure Megatron wasn't desperate, but he was pretty sure Megatron wasn't supposed to be crazy.
Of course, neither was Hook, but Hook didn't let that stop him.
Scavenger went to visit Megatron's mine once. The Constructicons had work nearby, and it wasn't too far out of the way. Besides, who was going to say no to a Constructicon stopping by for a site-tour?
All the minerals and metals and neat things made his shovel itch. He wanted to pick up the tools and start digging himself so badly. So, so badly, but Scrapper would be Disappointed in him, and Hook would yell at him for giving away his skills.
The tour was very nice, but the mine was... Well, Scavenger had dug better mines than this by himself. He'd definitely installed the kind of technology that would make this mine better and more productive. Of course, that kind of technology would also mean three-quarters of the workers wouldn't be needed anymore, but this was a government operation.
He hadn't seen a government operation yet that wouldn't view that as a good thing.
It worried him. Megatron liked mining, liked energon mining, and he'd stayed with this mine in particular for a long while. What would happen to their creation if he got laid off?
-End-
Fandom: G1 Transformers
Characters: Constructicons, Megatron
Rating: G
Word Count: 500+
Summary: Of all the many things Megatron had done, Scavenger thought, what made him proudest was that Megatron had made a damn fine miner.
Author's Notes: This is a mash-up of the cartoon and Megatron: Origins. Plus it involves the origins of the Constructicons. You have been warned.
Working in a Coal Mine
***
The Constructicons never explained why they built Megatron. Most people didn't even know to ask, and the rare few who did simply got stared at until they or the Constructicon in question got bored and wandered off. The Constructicons had their reasons, of course, but words were useless for explaining them. After the first combination into Devastator cemented everything, the idea-data on why was simply too big to transfer to anyone.
("All these stupid city-state licensings and rulings-"
"-Frakking corrupt officials, you know how much we paid for this-"
"-Oh, they got machines to do the job, did they?"
"Can't get hired, they don't like half of us being warbuild."
"Like frag am I changing my symbols, I earned these."
"It's Autobrands or nothing, these days."
"Autobrand isn't worth slag, they deal under the table as much as anyone-")
All the thousands of little things that had made building Megatron such a natural, amazing idea couldn't be summarized enough to tell people about. Especially not after the damage the Robo-Smasher did to them, and the way the first combination crystallized everything so they all understood it implicitly, every single nuance.
After they made him, though, they let him out in the world to discover why they'd made him for himself. After all, he was a person like them. They couldn't force him to be what they wanted.
Scavenger sometimes felt he was the only one keeping an optic on Megatron after that. It's not that the others forgot about him, but he wasn't right in front of them anymore needing to be worked on, so he wasn't really important. Well, not not-important, just...
Megatron went out and became a miner.
He did other things first, but they barely lasted half a vorn. But mining- Megatron stayed a miner. For vorns and vorns, working on all sorts of mines. Metal mines and gem mines and even energon mines, which only the crazy or the desperate would get involved in. Scavenger was pretty sure Megatron wasn't desperate, but he was pretty sure Megatron wasn't supposed to be crazy.
Of course, neither was Hook, but Hook didn't let that stop him.
Scavenger went to visit Megatron's mine once. The Constructicons had work nearby, and it wasn't too far out of the way. Besides, who was going to say no to a Constructicon stopping by for a site-tour?
All the minerals and metals and neat things made his shovel itch. He wanted to pick up the tools and start digging himself so badly. So, so badly, but Scrapper would be Disappointed in him, and Hook would yell at him for giving away his skills.
The tour was very nice, but the mine was... Well, Scavenger had dug better mines than this by himself. He'd definitely installed the kind of technology that would make this mine better and more productive. Of course, that kind of technology would also mean three-quarters of the workers wouldn't be needed anymore, but this was a government operation.
He hadn't seen a government operation yet that wouldn't view that as a good thing.
It worried him. Megatron liked mining, liked energon mining, and he'd stayed with this mine in particular for a long while. What would happen to their creation if he got laid off?
-End-