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
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Title: Firsts: Drift and Perceptor, Take 2
Author: Mirage Shinkiro

Rating: T
Warnings: light mech/mech, a.k.a. feelings 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 wealthy, I am ( Read more... )

Title: Only For You
Author: Mirage Shinkiro

Rating: T
Warnings: very light mech/mech, 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 wealthy, I am not. Alas, I ( Read more... )

Title: Firsts: Blaster and Perceptor
Author: Mirage Shinkiro

Rating: K
Warnings: very light mech/mech, a.k.a. feelings 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 wealthy, I am ( Read more... )

Title: Firsts: Prowl and Optimus, TFA
Author: Mirage Shinkiro

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 wealthy, I am ( Read more... )

A/N:  Thank you to everyone for your reviews, and I apologize both for not getting out PMs this time and for the delay.  November has been a really rough month for me, and for a solid week, my muse totally collapsed.

FYI, there's another scene experiment in this chapter.

Chapter 11: Ab Initio
or  From the Beginning

Under the fake cut...

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:  Thank you to everyone for the reviews!  As always, I greatly appreciate the feedback from my "anonymous" reviewers Christina, Poiuni, and Phoebe Turner, as well as Ruby650.

The concept of the old-style mechs comes from primarily from "The Key to Vector Sigma" but also a bit from "Desertion of the Dinobots I & II" as well.

One scene is a ( Read more... )

A/N:  Thank you to everyone for the reviews!  A special thanks, since I can't PM you, to Christina, Timonx3, xxxxx, AquamarineRagDoll, won't be the Victim, Ltuae-42, and Phoebe Turner for your feedback!

Since this is an AU, I've taken creative license and sided with Sunstreaker's Universe toy.  He has a jetpack, too.  Also, I desperately wanted ( Read more... )

Title: The Reason for Faith
Author: Mirage Shinkiro

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 wealthy, I am not. Alas, I ( Read more... )