Twisted Tales: Shorty and the Beast (Part 1)
Title: Twisted Tales: Shorty and the Beast (Part 1)
Rating: G
Verse: G1ish?
Character: Sunstreaker
Warnings: AU. Crack.
Summary: Once-upon-a-times and might-have-beens paint a story most fair. A beauty stalks a tower in a guise most foul, and only one bot has optics to see past the grisly exterior.
Once upon a time, on a tiny little planet that circled a tiny little star way out in the middle of nowhere, there stood a tall, shining tower surrounded by a deep forest of even taller trees. And within the tower resided a tall and beautiful mech. His plating gleamed sunshine yellow, even in the darkest nights. His curves accentuated his chassis in lines that would make the most hardened artist weep. His frame was neither too tall nor too short, his girth neither too stout nor too slight.
All in all, the mech was easily the most beautiful bot for klicks; possibly even further. And the problem was that he knew it. He cared for nothing but his appearance. A cleaning rag was his closest companion, a bottle of polish his dearest lover. Dust was his rival; grime a bitter and hated enemy. He would spend hours before his mirrors to ensure that his paint was just so.
All this, perhaps, could have been forgiven if the beautiful mech possessed a loving spark. However, he was cold and selfish, caring only for his own comfort. He was not intentionally cruel, but neither did he seem to trouble himself a whit for the well-being of others, even those who had served his family for generations.
He had not always been thus.
Once he had been a spark as bright and shining as the star his planet circled. But his creators had passed on early in his life, leaving him alone and solitary in his station. His servants tried to make up for the lack, but their master grew aloof and distant in his grief. He came to take comfort in the grooming rituals his creators had taught him until the rituals themselves consumed him.
The servants watched, helpless, as their bright young master grew in to a cold and haughty mech. And they despaired that nothing could crack the beautiful and bitter plating that he had built around his spark.
But fate can be relentless, even if its path seems twisted and strange at times. And lonely and dark beginnings can lead to bright and happy endings, if you just believe.
On to Part 2!