Thwarting Destiny

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Prompt: Day 2 - Past/Smile

Continuity: IDW1

Rating: Teen

Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime

Characters: Megatron & Optimus Prime

Warnings: Double Drabble, Serious Injuries, Spark Merging, Not Beta Read

Summary: In which Megatron refuses to let Optimus die.

Crossposting: AO3 | Tumblr

Fic under cut. See AO3 for complete notes.

Optimus lay on the floor, face up with his open, smoking chest towards the uncaring sky. His blue optics began to dim.

“No.”

It would not happen.

“You do not get to die here.”

Megatron would not allow it.

He crawled forwards on his remaining two and a half ragged limbs towards Optimus's mangled frame.

The obelisk on the far shore of the boiling salt lake glowed, the aftermath of the energy bolt it had sent through Optimus's armor. The force of the impact had rent Megatron’s limbs from his frame, throwing him back.

The alien device had targeted the Matrix in Optimus’s chest; Megatron had merely been collateral damage.

" You…. " His voice caught in his throat between words as he struggled to ventilate. “You… die when I say so.”

His shattered hands, with several fingers broken off at various knuckles, could barely pull him forward.

But that didn’t matter.

Physical pain, like a fire raging through his circuitry, didn’t matter.

Only one thing mattered anymore.

After clawing his way to Optimus’s side, he forced those broken hands into his own chest plates, prying them apart to expose the glowing orb of his spark.

"No sooner,” he growled, “no later!"