This is to keep track of mechs Ironhide's mentioned that didn't appear in the 2007 live-action movie. Will be edited further as various mechs get mentioned ( Read more... )

1. Ironhide uses the word 'born' for events that take place on a planetary or greater scale. Stars are born. Landmasses are born. Mountain ranges... well, maybe, I'm not sure about those. Living things, machine or otherwise, get the verb 'incepted ( Read more... )

1. He's old. He's damn old. I'm using a tentative date of around four million Earth years, but the exact number doesn't matter at this point- he's just really damn old. This makes talking to organics interesting; their lifespans, to him, are a little bit horrifying. Humans practically blink in and out of existence, by comparison. They're a young ( Read more... )

(After this.)

Prime had briefed all the Autobots on his encounter with Isaac as soon as it had concluded, so Ironhide was well aware of the entity's presence when he reached out to connect.As yet, there wasn't any communication between the two of them beyond an acknowledgment. Ironhide wasn't quite ready to say sorry about all the times I trash- ( Read more... )

Down the elevator and into the garage, and back to his normal size- that's a relief if anything ever was- and past all the other vehicles to the garage door. Ironhide's scanners pick up the immense heat of the sands of Qatar almost before the door begins to open. When he rolls through, it's straight from one garage to another- from Milliways to the ( Read more... )

When all the smoke cleared, Ironhide came back to the system where he'd left Bob. As he expected, the Guardian wasn't there any more. Where he'd gone the mech didn't know, but that was the nature of partings sometimes. You had to assume that any given parting would be the last if you ever wanted to deal with all the ones that came to pass in your ( Read more... )

Earth. What a planet. What a people... and what a mess. For all their good intentions, the thing Optimus had feared had come to pass: the Allspark was here, the Decepticons were here, and interstellar war was about to come to Earth.

Slaggit.

Ironhide has just enough respect for what he's seen of the more comprehensible aspects of the human ( Read more... )

Last time Ironhide spoke to Bob, the sprite (an unbelievably weird concept for the Autobot- how do you get a piece of code that small to behave that much like a living machine, anyway?) had just come out of enforced downtime. Ironhide locked his storage sector into stasis shortly thereafter and shunted the information about him to a low-priority ( Read more... )

It's a long slagging way to Earth from where Cybertron used to be. Most of the trip is in the past by now. When you're an organism that measures its lifespan in numbers that require scientific notation by human standards, a couple of decades left hardly mean anything at all.

Or they shouldn't mean anything at all, anyway. Nobody ever makes it to the ( Read more... )