Over to you

[jecca_mehlota]

ALL right. Three months ago I made an entry fully planning on returning shortly to make another one, but then.... I dunno, I was scared. There were only a few issues left, and I didn't want to say nice things that would then be immediately unearned. But this is it - the last issue of my wonderful robots comic. So in lieu of the original entry, please enjoy this readalong live-blog. Warning for image heavy entry to follow. Spoilers basically immediately.







"Story So Far:

You're joking, right?"

lol











So I had whose funeral this was spoiled for me like ... yesterday or something, but I'm kinda glad for that because it meant most of my feelings have already been dealt with. Still, Drift. :(

(But also: IT'S. CANON.

I mean, we already knew that from last issue. Not the point.)


Also BRAINSTORM I SEE THAT BRIEFCASE TETHERED TO YOU, WHAT

ALSO WHERE'S REWIND



Ratchet's reaction to learning of his condition, though.




fucking typical, hahaha


(My poor boyyyyy)


If you'd told me way back in the All Hail days that I would someday fully and sincerely love Drift, I would have laughed so hard, but HERE WE ARE


JRo has gone on record as confirming that all time frames in this issue are 'as long as you-the-reader need them to be,' which is good because TIME IS REALLY LONG NOW.


.... Prowl. Honey. Please. Fix. Your eye, you lost that at the end of MTMTE, it's been at least months.

Maybe he thinks he looks cool this way, lolol, oh Prowl.





It's pretty cool that they kept Functionist Cybertron, since I'm guessing Unicron destroyed the original over in the main series. I mean, it's not like they could've sent it back. But still. Glad they're using it.

Prowl is being more reasonable than usual here, I'm glad he's doing a little better now. But he should still go back to Luna 1 and hang with Fort Max and Co forever. I really wish JRo could've had Prowl like he wanted. He would've done better by him.











That said, don't give him Ideas.







WAIT THEY'RE GOING TO WHAT TO THE SHIP I

STOP

DON'T HURT HER








BAD.




....... "lap of honor" I'm not sure *I* trust this, Rodimus, and you know I'd trust you with my life.




Swerve ffs, a franchise? Really? Also .... >>>113. I see you, Roberts.




NAUTICA, MY GIRL, because apparently this is still my immediate reaction to her name even being mentioned.





also. "There is a light that never goes out."

HE DID IT


THANK you, Cyclonus, asking the questions we need answers to.




Wha-

oh baby no :(







Aaaand then we did a double-take and BRAINSTORM HAS JUST MADE ME CRY HOLD ON I NEED A MINUTE


Okay. Geez. Okay




"even with the case" What does that even mean, dude




ps, gay:









Back to present day, woo.





Ratchetttttt. I guess I got good news for you there?







Gay.




I'm.... really going to miss this Megatron. It'd have been a nice change of pace him trying a redemption arc no matter what, but I've really, really come to like this guy, and I'm really sad that we'll probably never see a Megatron like this again.






.....







James FUCKING Roberts, you BASTARD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.



If this weren't, you know, the last issue, that "a bad copy" would look alarmingly foreshadowy







Okay but Ultra Magnus writing fanfiction for the sprinkler system.





(also Whirl's shirt)









GAY.




aww, haha








....D RIFT.















gay gay gay gay










Declaring it a crime we never got most of these stories.
















I saw someone say this is a bad poem and I'm gonna agree that it's not very good, lol, but it's cute that Magnus is such a fanboy even when he's not meaning to be.






Oh, kids. :(














HE LEARNT HOW TO SAY IT!!!! (also lol again at "spectacular failure")



cries and cries and cries and cries and cries








haha but it's true that she only knows it from Swearth.



I ALREADY KNOW THIS WON'T HAPPEN (EVEN IF IT TAKES A WHILE FOR THEM TO ALL FALL OUT OF COMMUNICATION) AND I'M ANGRY







Cyclonussss sjodhono








Save this precious boy from his sads or I'll kill you





Whirl, what the hell have you been doing














RATTY. Dear god.


Ah, and we get a briefcase explanation. Life support because he almost blew himself up. Well. It's Brainstorm, I... can't say I'm too surprised? (Except I am, because how very unlike him to have miscalculated that badly.)



Prowl you're still a dick but I also can't wholly blame you for this one, you don't know better (and yeah okay it was one hell of a war he started and yeah okay you still haven't had that therapy you so very clearly, very desperately need)



But still, wtf.





RODIMUS. you liar. you opened it with your fucking teeth because you'd lost an arm and Megatron couldn't do it. I love you.







THE FEEEEEEELS









guyyyssssssssss



(CYCLONUS HAS TWO HANDS))

((WHIRL DOESN'T NEED HANDS))









The LUNARIANS HAVE THE EYEBRPEJDJAKlkv.





FUCK



I don't LIKE THIS.



















Back to the present again, which has been ruined, fuck you, James, I told you to be nice to Rodimus and apparently he's just living drunk and heartbroken under Thunderclash and Ratchet is dead and Megatron is dead (by his own hand?? because it beat isolation for literally eternity, no fucking blame) and RATTY IS A SHIT PETNAME EXCEPT FOR LIKE AN ACTUAL RAT DRIFT WHAT THE HELL and THEY ALL FORGOT RUNG SOMEHOW and Whirl is in prison and Brainstorm lives in a bubble because he can't survive outside it for long and Rewind broke his own mind and and everything sucks and I'm sad and angry. DELETE BAD ENDINGS



NOPE EVEN RODDERS NEEDING TO BORROW MONEY FROM HIS RICH AF FRIEND-WITH-BENEFITS (WHO'S GETTING MARRIED SOON) AIN'T DOING IT FOR ME IT'S OVER I can't believe they gave us four extra pages for me to just be angry the entire time this is so unfair GUESS I'LL MISS THIS SERIES LESS THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD

I JUST


LOST LIGHT HAD FINALLY TURNED AROUND


WHY IS IT ENDING LIKE THIS??? I'M REALLY ACTUALLY UPSET RIGHT NOW.



sigh.


Okay well let's finish.


.....


I lied I'm coming back later





Okay it's been a few hours turns out I can't go to bed without finishing this




....... I see where this is going, but I'm having conflicting feelings about it.











.... Gay. Also wow, he actually did it.





Author's note.


Roberts, 100 is a teensy bit of a reach, but I'm gonna give it to you, 'cause yeah you basically right.

c r y i n g a g a i n

And I guess on that weirdass downer ending..... I don't even know what to say, I'm having a lot of feelings right now and I don't like most of them.




MOTHER FUCKER

I had a different paragraph here but I went to brush my teeth before posting this that ASSHOLE I know by the laws of quantum physics or whatever both copies of the ship are the real copy of the ship but RUNG DIDN'T DUPLICATE, Rung was the only one who didn't duplicate (which makes sense when you consider whoops he's Primus) and


The "future" didn't remember him at all.



The "future" wasn't our ship.



They're

They're all out there and together and exploring the universe.


Like. The bad future still sucks but. I don't KNOW it's like I was okay with the other ship being slaughtered because it wasn't OUR ship, the bad future isn't our ship I





Anyway I just washed my face and now I've gone and got tears all over it again, for fuck's sake. This has been a really busy 36 hours for my tear ducts.



What a trip.


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