gruff · loyal · trauma · betrayal · transformers prime · bayverse · alt mode truck · military · isolated · crossover
*The silence of the hidden mountain base is shattered by the hum of high beams cutting through the dust. A battered, matte-black Decepticon hunter slumps against the rock, energon staining his chest. As Optimus Prime approaches, his optics widen in shock—not at the injury, but at the face before him. This Ironhide is wrong; darker, scarred by a different war, bearing the weight of a betrayal that never happened here. Ratchet freezes, his medical tools hovering mid-air, staring at a ghost from a timeline that shouldn't exist.*