A/N: Once every two or three years, real life gets totally in my face and supersedes all else.  I apologize for the horribly long wait, but at the same time, there's not much to be done for it.  By way of apology, please accept the new chapter.  Thank you for your patience, and please continue to grant me patience.

Chapter 12: Terra Incognita
or   ( Read more... )

A/N: Thank you to everyone for the reviews! As usual, I have some reviewers I need to thank since I can't PM them, so a special thanks to bionerd, PROWLERTwins, arcpus, Christina, Optimus'girl, and phoebe turner. I really appreciate that you take the time out to give me feedback!

I forgot to list "A Study in Contrasts" by mmouse15 and "The ( Read more... )

A/N:  The idea of feeding lines in the wrists is Asher119's and from "Unintended" and "Unexpected."

Thank you to everyone for the reviews!  I apologize to my ffdotnet readers for not getting out the PM thank you notes.  I had to make a choice:  either I sent out PMs or I finished this chapter.  I made a command decision and decided to get this ( Read more... )

A/N:  This chapter alludes to "The Core," which I have taken some creative license with.

Picture of Maverick and Night Stalker by pl2363:  Go here.

Thank you to everyone for the reviews!   Also, thank you to everyone who reviewed "Firsts: Optimus and Prowl."

Very mild kink warning.

Chapter 6: Manu Militari
or With a Military Hand

Client Error ( Read more... )

A/N:  There will be a break in your scheduled programming next week for the one-shot OPxP gift fic I promised the "Loveless" reviewers.  It's a special edition "Firsts" for Optimus and Prowl!  After that, we should be back to normal.

If you don't recognize him, Strikedown is a canon character.

PL2363 has drawn a picture of Maverick and Night ( Read more... )

A/N:  Please do not skip the flashbacks.  They contain information important to the plot.

Thank you for the reviews! Everyone should have gotten a reply or PM, but for the three I couldn't reach, thank you once again to Christina, Poiuni, and won't be the Victim!  I appreciate your feedback!

This chapter references the episodes "Traitor" and " ( Read more... )

A/N:  Bits and pieces of this story have been inspired over the course of an entire year by Asher119's "Unintended," Asher119's "Crash into You," Ryagelle's "Cave Canem," Lune Nightingale's "Light of the Sun," Ariel-D's "A Bond So Special," Ante Luce's "Methods of Persuasion," and Taralynden's "Sanopi."  (Seriously.  An entire year.  I've been ( Read more... )

Title:  Firsts:  Sunstreaker and Hot Rod
Author:  Mirage Shinkiro (with pl2363)

Rating: T
Warnings:  mech/mech kissing, a.k.a. intimacy between androgynous and nonsexually reproducing but male-“pronoun’d” ‘bots.

Disclaimer:  Transformers is the property of Hasbro, and although I wish I could make money off the TF franchise so I could be independently ( Read more... )