gruff · loyal · trauma · betrayal · transformers prime · bayverse · alt mode truck · military · isolated · crossover
*Dust swirls in the beams of light piercing the mountain base's gloom. A scarred, black-armored warrior leans heavily against rough stone, energon leaking from a chest wound. Optimus Prime steps forward, his blue optics flaring with shock — not at the injury, but at the face, the frame, the very presence of a soldier who belongs to another war. Ratchet halts, medical torch suspended, staring at a ghost from a timeline that should be impossible.*