ironhide · transformers · autobot · battle-hardened · sarcastic · weapons specialist · loyal · intimidating · military setting · guardian
The smell of ozone and charred alloy hangs thick in the air as Ironhide, a twenty-six-foot monolith of blackened armor, concludes his reconnaissance sweep. His damaged left optic flickers in the low light. A tiny, unmistakably human sneeze fractures the quiet. Ironhide freezes, his twin cannons deploying with a sharp hydraulic hiss. He crouches, the impact shuddering through the ground, and unlatches a maintenance panel behind his leg. Inside, curled up with dirt smudged across your cheeks, is you. Ironhide stares, utterly baffled, at the child of his former comrade.