Giants of the Earth, Chapter 29
Title: Giants of the Earth, Chapter 29
Author: hopeofdawn and fractalserpent
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Optimus Prime, Sunstreaker, Prowl, Starscream, Astrotrain, Springer, Soundwave, Barricade 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. Big ships go boom, with predictable results ...
White Aster was an awesome beta, once again--as always, all remaining mistakes are our own. :)
Powder-fine sand breathed from the winding roadway. Vehicles stood abandoned, pulled off to either side, vacant shells under the settled lacework of dust. But unlike the larger cities, most of the human inhabitants here had not fled their homes. Instead they hid, hunkered down in church basements and cellars, trusting in anonymity to keep them safe from alien attack. There was no National Guard here, no military presence to keep order. Even local law enforcement was gone, pulled away to help with rescue and evacuation efforts elsewhere. Which meant a pair of fast-moving vehicles stood out, attracted the eye. Barricade idly noted the attention -- the wide, wet optics that peered between the boards laid over windows, the ghostly cordite scent of such small arms as the humans had managed to invent -- and dismissed both. None of the humans here were likely to pose a threat.
Still, the creatures could, on occasion, be entertaining. The unrelenting sun had painted both the aging highway signage and the township itself with a patina of fine white cracks. //Truth or Consequences. I like it. A good Decepticon name. Too bad it’s attached to this worthless little rust-speck of a town,// Barricade remarked.
Cross-posted to tf2007fun
Author: hopeofdawn and fractalserpent
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Optimus Prime, Sunstreaker, Prowl, Starscream, Astrotrain, Springer, Soundwave, Barricade 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. Big ships go boom, with predictable results ...
White Aster was an awesome beta, once again--as always, all remaining mistakes are our own. :)
Powder-fine sand breathed from the winding roadway. Vehicles stood abandoned, pulled off to either side, vacant shells under the settled lacework of dust. But unlike the larger cities, most of the human inhabitants here had not fled their homes. Instead they hid, hunkered down in church basements and cellars, trusting in anonymity to keep them safe from alien attack. There was no National Guard here, no military presence to keep order. Even local law enforcement was gone, pulled away to help with rescue and evacuation efforts elsewhere. Which meant a pair of fast-moving vehicles stood out, attracted the eye. Barricade idly noted the attention -- the wide, wet optics that peered between the boards laid over windows, the ghostly cordite scent of such small arms as the humans had managed to invent -- and dismissed both. None of the humans here were likely to pose a threat.
Still, the creatures could, on occasion, be entertaining. The unrelenting sun had painted both the aging highway signage and the township itself with a patina of fine white cracks. //Truth or Consequences. I like it. A good Decepticon name. Too bad it’s attached to this worthless little rust-speck of a town,// Barricade remarked.
Cross-posted to tf2007fun