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My dumbass accidentally deleted the original post OTL

Try as they might, tragedy is just so inherit to them 🫠

That’s one way this au could go, for sure. It would be very different from the usual interpretations of shattered glass

Pax will join Soundwave, and the Great War will start anew.

I do think Pax will try to work with the Prime, at first. Surely he meant it when he said he would bring on a new and better era for all bots.
But as time goes on, Pax will become disillusioned to the Council, to Alpha Trion, to the Matrix that puppets his dear friend’s frame.

the gladiator, the headstrong leader, the poet. But the new Prime is indifferent, because none of that means anything to him. Though it doesn’t stop him from using Megatronus’ friendship with Pax to get him on the side of “reason.” To protect their fragile society.

betrayed. So chaos they sow. And it gives the Council all the excuse they need to sic the new Prime on the miscreants.
Orion Pax does of course encounter the new Prime; in private settings, at gatherings, on the field. He tries to appeal to Megatronus, his friend —

“to your function.”
It’s a complete 180 from what Megatronus used to say. And for the bots who were closest to him, it’s like a totally different bot using his voice.
The Decepticons are still a fledgling of a concept, but it doesn’t matter because they are angry. They are —

for them. “Our code was written in the very Core of the Allspark. Primus showed me clearly, to forcefully change our modes is to bring untold chaos. My forge-kin, I will work with the Council to herald a new age for Cybertron. But first you must lay down your arms and return —