Giants of the Earth, Chapter 26
So after 25 chapters and over three and a half years of writing, we FINALLY reveal who the Big Bad is ... :)
Title: Giants of the Earth, Chapter 26
Author: hopeofdawn and fractalserpent
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Optimus Prime, Prowl, Silverbolt, Skyfire, and many, many other ensemble characters ....
Warnings/Notes:Takes place after DOTM, with minor tweaks to movieverse events/characters (so there are minor spoilers for the third movie). Most of the characterizations will be taken more from G1--especially Optimus, who is *not* the 'kill 'em all, let Primus sort 'em out' character he is in the movies. Most of the onscreen 'deaths' of Decepticons and Autobots have also fallen victim to authorial override--see the fic for details. Warnings in this chapter for battlefield violence and non-graphic genocide.
White Aster was an awesome beta, once again--as always, all remaining mistakes are our own. :)
The images of their enemy rippled from mind to mind across the tacnet, reaching every Autobot in the embassy in a single lightning-sparked moment. Echoes of comprehension and reaction spread with those images, trailing echoes of rage, of fear/fight and the spark-shuddering realization of the magnitude of this invasion, until the entire tacnet was a roiling riptide of anger and fear.
The initial shots were grainy, fuzzed by distance and Sol’s glare, but they sharpened by the nanosecond as one processor after another logged into the interpolation task threads, buttressing Teletraan’s analysis. Even as the images sharpened, pixel by pixel, the AI was searching, working in tandem with Red Alert and the others as it offered up a billion possible ship designs, new and ancient, from the local galactic cluster and beyond.
It flagged a possible match--and Kup’s sudden rage shouldered upwards, threatening to swamp the tacnet.
//This one. I know those ships, Optimus.//
Cross-posted to tf2007fun
Title: Giants of the Earth, Chapter 26
Author: hopeofdawn and fractalserpent
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Optimus Prime, Prowl, Silverbolt, Skyfire, and many, many other ensemble characters ....
Warnings/Notes:Takes place after DOTM, with minor tweaks to movieverse events/characters (so there are minor spoilers for the third movie). Most of the characterizations will be taken more from G1--especially Optimus, who is *not* the 'kill 'em all, let Primus sort 'em out' character he is in the movies. Most of the onscreen 'deaths' of Decepticons and Autobots have also fallen victim to authorial override--see the fic for details. Warnings in this chapter for battlefield violence and non-graphic genocide.
White Aster was an awesome beta, once again--as always, all remaining mistakes are our own. :)
The images of their enemy rippled from mind to mind across the tacnet, reaching every Autobot in the embassy in a single lightning-sparked moment. Echoes of comprehension and reaction spread with those images, trailing echoes of rage, of fear/fight and the spark-shuddering realization of the magnitude of this invasion, until the entire tacnet was a roiling riptide of anger and fear.
The initial shots were grainy, fuzzed by distance and Sol’s glare, but they sharpened by the nanosecond as one processor after another logged into the interpolation task threads, buttressing Teletraan’s analysis. Even as the images sharpened, pixel by pixel, the AI was searching, working in tandem with Red Alert and the others as it offered up a billion possible ship designs, new and ancient, from the local galactic cluster and beyond.
It flagged a possible match--and Kup’s sudden rage shouldered upwards, threatening to swamp the tacnet.
//This one. I know those ships, Optimus.//
Cross-posted to tf2007fun