On the ninth day of Christmas
Title: Ruminations
Fandom: G1 Transformers: Earthforce
Characters: Prowl
Rating: G
Word Count: 500+
Summary: On the founding of Earthforce, Prowl considers his options.
Author's Notes: You may blame Luna for the fact that I know enough about Earthforce to write it, and you may blame the Magnificent Six issue for the fact that I did.
Ruminations
***
Prowl thought he might possibly be insane. Staying on Earth, under Grimlock's command, instead of returning to Cybertron to assist in developing a strategy to combat Unicron?
Never mind that Grimlock needed someone to rein him in, and it wasn't as if the big lug could handle strategies more complicated than "get 'em" and thus needed a skilled strategist much more than Prime did.
Never mind that Prime continued to ignore Prowl's perfectly reasonable suggestions for how to handle the Decepticons once and for all. According to him, 'the ends did not justify the means' and 'creating an army of Guardians was unethical' and had the mech ever met a Decepticon yet that did not respond to pure, brute force? You had to be as hard as they were to handle them.
You had to be harder to defeat them.
Maybe Prowl wasn't insane, after all, to prefer Grimlock.
Anyway, it wasn't as if he was leaving Cybertron forever. Just until the problem of Megatron and Shockwave was appropriately dealt with. Given the mechs he had at his disposal, he was more than certain he could handle that before Unicron arrived. Assuming, of course, Silverbolt didn't usurp him first. The Aerialbot had a certain slyness about him. He seemed mild and calm most of the time, but Prowl paid attention to how he manipulated his team to keep them together.
A dangerous mech. Prowl wasn't sure if he liked him or ought to lock him up for the good of the Autobots.
His gestalt, though, was exactly what the Earthforce needed for handling the Decepticons. Super-soldiers, all of them, and not just as Superion. Very, very useful, and Prime wanting to treat them as normal Autobots was absurd. They weren't normal Autobots, they were weapons to use against the Decepticons. Always holding them in reserve, giving missions to other Autobots instead of them so they didn't get a taste for killing, honestly. Prime had been back to Cybertron, he did know how some of the Autobots there were. What was so wrong with using them?
Not that he would put it to the Aerialbots that way, of course. Especially not since Silverbolt had only recently come out from under Galvatron's influences, and who knew what was going on in his head.
Never mind that Prowl had also been under the same influences. He was an Autobot and more than capable of overcoming his base instincts. Silverbolt was still too young and too untried.
He was not someone to leave alone with Grimlock.
Fortunately, he wouldn't be going into this Earthforce mess alone. Or, staying in this Earthforce mess, he supposed. Wheeljack, Ironhide, Jazz, and Sunstreaker were here, and Inferno was coming from Cybertron. It would be just like old times.
Of course, old times with the Magnificent Six had involved watching a comrade be tortured to death and then part of Cybertron becoming a radioactive wasteland.
...
Prowl supposed he should take up drinking heavily. It would probably hurt less than actually thinking about his life.
-End-
Fandom: G1 Transformers: Earthforce
Characters: Prowl
Rating: G
Word Count: 500+
Summary: On the founding of Earthforce, Prowl considers his options.
Author's Notes: You may blame Luna for the fact that I know enough about Earthforce to write it, and you may blame the Magnificent Six issue for the fact that I did.
Ruminations
***
Prowl thought he might possibly be insane. Staying on Earth, under Grimlock's command, instead of returning to Cybertron to assist in developing a strategy to combat Unicron?
Never mind that Grimlock needed someone to rein him in, and it wasn't as if the big lug could handle strategies more complicated than "get 'em" and thus needed a skilled strategist much more than Prime did.
Never mind that Prime continued to ignore Prowl's perfectly reasonable suggestions for how to handle the Decepticons once and for all. According to him, 'the ends did not justify the means' and 'creating an army of Guardians was unethical' and had the mech ever met a Decepticon yet that did not respond to pure, brute force? You had to be as hard as they were to handle them.
You had to be harder to defeat them.
Maybe Prowl wasn't insane, after all, to prefer Grimlock.
Anyway, it wasn't as if he was leaving Cybertron forever. Just until the problem of Megatron and Shockwave was appropriately dealt with. Given the mechs he had at his disposal, he was more than certain he could handle that before Unicron arrived. Assuming, of course, Silverbolt didn't usurp him first. The Aerialbot had a certain slyness about him. He seemed mild and calm most of the time, but Prowl paid attention to how he manipulated his team to keep them together.
A dangerous mech. Prowl wasn't sure if he liked him or ought to lock him up for the good of the Autobots.
His gestalt, though, was exactly what the Earthforce needed for handling the Decepticons. Super-soldiers, all of them, and not just as Superion. Very, very useful, and Prime wanting to treat them as normal Autobots was absurd. They weren't normal Autobots, they were weapons to use against the Decepticons. Always holding them in reserve, giving missions to other Autobots instead of them so they didn't get a taste for killing, honestly. Prime had been back to Cybertron, he did know how some of the Autobots there were. What was so wrong with using them?
Not that he would put it to the Aerialbots that way, of course. Especially not since Silverbolt had only recently come out from under Galvatron's influences, and who knew what was going on in his head.
Never mind that Prowl had also been under the same influences. He was an Autobot and more than capable of overcoming his base instincts. Silverbolt was still too young and too untried.
He was not someone to leave alone with Grimlock.
Fortunately, he wouldn't be going into this Earthforce mess alone. Or, staying in this Earthforce mess, he supposed. Wheeljack, Ironhide, Jazz, and Sunstreaker were here, and Inferno was coming from Cybertron. It would be just like old times.
Of course, old times with the Magnificent Six had involved watching a comrade be tortured to death and then part of Cybertron becoming a radioactive wasteland.
...
Prowl supposed he should take up drinking heavily. It would probably hurt less than actually thinking about his life.
-End-