Dreams and Swords

Title: Our Shadowy Pattern
Series: IDW Transformers
Characters: Megatron/Impactor
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2100+
Summary: It's friendship at first word. But it's the poetry that undoes him.
Author's Notes: Written for the tf_rare_pairing prompt 'Megatron/Impactor, i want to paint a love poem all over the sheets and you'.

( Our Shadowy Pattern )

Because my hormones are flailing at me and demanding procreation. Stupid hormones.

Rules:
- Two slots unless you're one of the people I normally give extra slots to. In that case, you get five.
- Male/female pairings only. Or female/female with suggested sperm donors. I've already done an mpreg meme, kthx.
- Kids will range in age, names, genders, 'bending abilities, etc. as the whim takes me. If I already have some kidlets for a particular pairing, I'm likely to write them instead of making up new kids.

MEME IS CLOSED.

Because I have the crazy, and someone said something to set me off. I am still planning to finish the Crazuko Meme, it's just on hold while I deal with new job/Christmas exchanges. Also, Twelve Days of Christmas is still taking requests. I might not write your request if you ask, but I definitely won't write it if you don't ask.

I am now taking requests for a quick mpreg meme to blow off steam. This one is going to be pretty heavily restricted compared to my normal request memes, mostly because this is something I'd find much harder to keep fun if I let it go free-for-all.

- One request per person
- The following may ask for three requests: lunatron, spyridona, suzukiblu, neldluva, and ravynfyre
- Fandoms: Avatar, Transformers G1, Transformers Animated, weird RPs I've participated in (including DegSep)
- No genderbending.
- NO JETKO
- In fact, no Jet unless Jet's the mother.
- No death-in-childbirth. No miscarriage. No whumping in general.
- No requesting a non-consensual impregnation. I may write one, but you can't ask for one.

Also, TF people, if someone would toss in a request for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain/Starscream/Catechism thing, that'd count as a freebie.

MEME IS CLOSED.

You know, the constant bashing of Megatron is getting kind of annoying. Ohnoes, everyone thinks he's a horrible leader who has lost sight of the Decepticon cause. Ohnoes, he's so terribly incompetent and possibly insane. Ohnoes, he has a small dick.

No, I am not kidding about the last one. It was brought up in the fic.

I'll ignore the thing about his dick-size, because dude. Giant robot. He can get an upgrade if he really wants a bigger one.

1) Megatron has lost sight of the Decepticon cause.

As this fanfic seems to be set in the G1 cartoon, there may actually be a Decepticon cause outside of what Megatron has made it today. After all, there were some guys who fought the Second Great War against the Autobots. Of course, we have no idea what they were all about, anyway, since the primary point of that episode ("Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2"; thanks, invisiblemoose!) was to show that the Transformers fought a lot in their back-history. Yay, Autobot propaganda films!

Be that as it may, the War that's lasted for the past nine million years? Megatron has been the supreme leader of the Decepticons. He formed the Decepticons, shaped them, led them out against the Autobots... Everything they currently are, the entire War that currently exists is because of him.

Megatron may have changed the rhetoric and the focus of the Decepticon cause in the last nine million years (I don't think the Cult of Megatron bits were originally included), but the Decepticon cause of this last War has pretty much always been what he defined it as.

Want him to go back to his roots? Fine. Thinking he hasn't improved with age? Fine.

But you have to accept, when you get right down to it, the Decepticon cause is Megatron.

2) Megatron is incompetent.

While I do think it takes a special brand of incompetence for a war to last nine million years, I don't think it's the type that's being used in this fic.

Anyways. Megatron has successfully run the Decepticons for the last nine million years. Despite, a) Starscream, b) the Autobots, c) Astrotrain and Blitzwing, and d) other's best efforts to the contrary.

Oddly enough, the way this fic phrases things, I get the impression that the incompetence on Megatron's part is something new. Which is... odd. It makes me hope that perhaps Megatron has some debilitating, brain-eating disease that will be discovered. Or he's faking it so he can retire and go have grand mercenarying adventures on the galactic rim, because he's tired of managing the Decepticons.

But then I remember those options would be interesting and realize they're not going to happen in this fic.

The plan of attack for this weekend:
- Friday night: take math quiz
- Saturday: write English midterm essay and History essay; reread English literature assignments
- Sunday: finish rereading English literature assignments, rent and watch 'Rear Window', study for math test on Tuesday
- Monday: continue studying for math test, polish History essay

And now I leave you with the mental image of a baffled Starscream watching Megatron knit an energon cozy out of metal wire.