The Innovative Fox 01:
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.
Or more Accurately: Greetings Earthlings~
Disclaimer:
This is a collaborative commission between KitsuneObseesedFreak and F3nn3l.
It is incredibly AU, due to the OCSI into a Cybertronian that has been around for a very long time before the story began.
Since this is an AU of Transformers Prime, be aware that things will change from time to time, and people will find themselves dealing with things that they normally wouldn't have. Especially as Akane is an Inspired Inventor type character, with a few hard limits.
I have it set to an exponential increase from 1-5 points, with one being able to create things at average quality, and 5 being godly, but 5 will be locked for quite some time. Which means Akane will only be able to create far future tech, not god-level tech.
Of course, she starts out with four points in Cybertronian tech, and will get one more point per chapter. Which will mean that she will eventually simply be the priority target for the Decepticons to capture, especially Starscream.
But hey, at least we have Fopformer genius in Transformers Prime, right?
There will be: Blood! Shed! Gimme a Reason to— Cough cough, I can't sing, but you get the point. It's a Transformers fic. Expect gratuitous robot violence.
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Akane would consider herself to be one of the best and brightest minds of the people of Cybertron. Her work in creating new methods of advanced transformation and ways to repair damaged Cybertronians had led to her discovering a need for more Energon. Something she was quick to attempt to rectify over the years, and she was actually quite successful in doing so.
Unfortunately, as with all things in all the lifetimes she had experienced, there was
always someone who would get in the way of Scientific Progress.
Her weapons were charged, she had her data stashed away in places no one would be able to find them, and she was almost positive her research station on this backwater planet would never be found. Yet, despite all the methods she used — all the precautions she had taken — it was as though nothing she could do would shake the goons employed by Senator Proteus.
The reinforced bulkhead door began to melt, the combined firepower of the best and brightest of
that bunch simply too much for the metal to handle. She knew she would need to run, to hide somewhere they wouldn't be able to find her so easily.
So that was what she did, she made her way to the stasis chambers, hearing the laughter of his goons as she did her best to hide among them until he left. She even hid on one of the chambers, waiting for him to pass by so she could leap out and disable him from behind, or even just one of his goons but…
"Aaaah, Akane, what a... pleasant surprise to see you here, on this
backwater planet," Senator Proteus said on the intercom as the goons continued to look for her.
Because of course the Senator wouldn't be caught dead trying to eliminate a threat to his rule, he was just going to send his goons to do so.
"You seem to be in quite the predicament, Akane? What's the rush? Research not going well? Or maybe..." The Senator's voice gained a sinister tone as he hissed the following words. "You were about to do something...
unwise."
"Oh slag, oh Primus, oh frag, I'm gonna be offlined here aren't I," Akane muttered to herself nervously as she shivered.
She wasn't much of a fighter, preferring to create rather than destroy, and it had created a few rather unfortunate tendencies in her to panic and become nervous when there was combat nearby. Sure, if she knew she was safe, she could remote control the defense systems to absolute precision, but she wasn't linked up to them at the moment…
he was.
"Heh, Akane just surrender, it saves time for everyone," Proteus said with a mocking sigh. "You're just making it harder for yourself, hiding like this. Just give up and submit to Cybertronian justice."
Akane fully powered up her weapons as the goons rounded the corner, and her eyes widened as the pod locked her in place, and its stasis field powered up all around her.
"Ah scrap," Akane said, before she was fully put into stasis.
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"Aaaand done!" Proteus said smugly as he watched the security terminal that showed Akane being put into stasis. "With this, my monopoly on Energon and it's synthetic form is complete!"
For mega vorns, he had worked behind the scenes, manipulating the Cybertronian Senate to his whims. After all, only
he had the knowledge, the skills, and the resolve to lead the Cybertronian Empire into a golden age.
An age of overflowing Energon, with incredible technological progress, worlds conquered in Cybertron's name, with him at the head of
his glorious empire.
Of course, he wouldn't be at the forefront, he had the Senate for that. He preferred to manipulate things behind the scenes, to pluck the strings here and there to ensure that his rule stayed unopposed by the uncivilized masses.
A Cybertron where everyone stayed where they belonged,
beneath him. A universe where all things served the whims of him, Senator Proteus.
After all, only
he knew what's best for Cybertron and his colonies. Only
he deserved to rule at the top of Cybertronian Society.
Unfortunately, that future could not exist if Akane was still alive. After all, she was the leading researcher for Synthetic Energon.
With her famous
empathy and
mercy she would release that discovery to the public!
Ergo,
Akane needed to go.
"I'm sorry, Akane," The Senator said with a faux-apologetic tone as he deactivated the terminal and walked away, his goons activating the many explosive charges they scattered around the facility before leaving.
"You do not need to exist in the future that I am about to create."
The base detonated as they left, leaving nothing but rubble and ruin in its wake.
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"Kekekekeke!" a small, furry orange creature giggled as it poked its body into the controls of the stasis pod, waking her up from her deep slumber.
It was a cute, fluffy, fuzzy little thing that seemed curious and friendly. It was also probably dangerous for that little thing to be there.
She groaned, pushing the rubble away even as she scanned the life-form to see what it was, and compare it to anything she knew in her mind. Only one thing really stood out to her: it was a fox, something she hadn't seen in this entire lifetime.
Radio signals came from the cracks in the earth, and she knew she would have to find a better way to blend in than her Cybertronian flight form. She pouted, the Foxcopter as she called her form was cute, and she liked it. But looking at the fox once again, maybe she could do something with that form — or at least something similar — to give herself a better method to blend in?
Chuckling to herself, she stood, before crouching down and transforming, the sly fox slinking into the shadows as she slowly shifted her rusty alternate form into a more manageable fox form, with nine tails that were usually her rotor blades, and fur all over. It wasn't so hard to make such a thing, despite being so old and worn out, but she'd need Energon soon.
"Ugh, I could really use a pick me up right now…" she moaned as she dragged herself out of the collapsed caves, and out into a rocky desert canyon.
Slowly but surely, she made her way to the nearest signs of civilization. By climbing the sheer cliffs to the top and collapsing on a paved walkway when she ran out of energy to move.
Right as a motorcycle slammed into her side, sending the motorcycle flying, before it transformed.
"What the— Optimus! We have a Beastformer here! Returning to base for immediate medical attention!"
Akane's optics blinked, before slowly powering down.
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"This is bad Optimus, her systems are failing and I don't think that she's going to live past this morning. She needs Energon, and stat."
"This is bad, is there no other way, Ratchet?"
"... The Energon Repair Ray, it's the only way to save her."
"The same one that only has one charge?"
"Indeed, I would have recommended an IV to slowly trickle Energon into her system to repair all the damage, but in her current state, the Energon Repair Ray is needed."
"I see, then do what must be done Ratchet."
"Activating the Energon Repair Ray now."
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When her systems came fully back online, Akane felt rather hollow. Sure, whatever these friendly Cybertronians had done had definitely saved her, but she still felt as though she had found her life's work stolen from her, her research outposts destroyed, and had the odd feeling that something was
incredibly wrong with the area she was in.
She sat up, transforming smoothly as she did so to get a good look around the facility with her own eyes. Though she found she had a strange urge to sniff everything, likely a remnant of the programming involved in scanning a living being.
Soon, she came to a stop before someone she had known for a while. Someone she had worked with a few times… "Ratchet? That you?" she asked, looking over him carefully as she did.
His Bio-lights were off, so she knew he must be starving. He also looked like he had seen better days, and Akane knew he could use some more Energon soon. Judging by how empty she felt, she was going to need to start focusing in on finishing her project right away.
"Akane... It really is you," Ratchet said in relief as he monitored Akane's vital signs. "You disappeared for so long, we thought that you perished somewhere. To think that you were on Earth this whole time..."
"Was caught by Senator Proteus, shoved into a Stasis Pod, and my base was blown to hell around me," Akane sighed. "You know how it is. He came with an army, I panicked, and I got shoved in a box for later. Only, they were hoping I'd just rust away, alone and forgotten to time."
"Well you will be glad to know that Senator Proteus was executed by Starscream, alongside the rest of the senate," Ratchet said with a scoff. "Good riddance to bad rubbish, I never did like the scrapbot anyway, he's too shady for his own good."
"Starscream did it?" Akane barked in confusion. "I'm surprised the brat had it in him. Good on him though."
After a moment, she chuckled. "Orion still around these days?"
Ratchet stilled for a few moments, before he chuckled.
"See for yourself," he said as he activated a terminal. "Optimus, our guest is awake."
"Optimus?" Akane asked, "That's a new—"
She looked at him, squinted a little, and tilted her head. "Ah, Orion. Been a while big guy."
"Indeed," Orion Pax, no, Optimus now, said in relief. "It's good to see you, Akane, I am glad you still function, and are on Earth like the rest of us."
"You're lucky that Arcee stumbled across you, you were hours away from going offline," Ratchet said with a wince, "We had to use the Energon Repair Ray to stabilize you as well, and with our dwindling supply, using it one more time would be... Unwise."
"Worrying, yes, but remember Ratchet, Earth has pockets of Energon scattered throughout it's crust, we only need to mine it, with permission of course," Optimus said with a sigh. "Something to notify the human authorities then, I will speak with Special Agent William Fowler about this."
"Hmph, after he rants about our actions and the need to keep ourselves hidden," Ratchet said with a scoff. "I understand the secrecy, but he is quite abrasive for someone so... fragile."
"Ratchet..." Optimus sighed and shook his head. "Please don't antagonize Special Agent Fowler when he arrives for his monthly check-up, please?"
Ratchet only shook his head with a grunt.
"So, if we are in dire need of Energon, I suppose I should get to work on finishing the synthetic variant huh," Akane nodded, shaking her head with a small smile. "Give me a week or two, maybe a month if I don't have the proper tools left in my base intact, and we'll have at least
something to work with, even if it won't be the greatest."
Optimus and Ratchet looked at Akane in hope.
"H-How close was that project to completion?" Ratchet asked hopefully. "There were data cylinders sent out into space before the war, but if we can independently recreate the formula somehow—"
"Ratchet, calm yourself, Akane still needs to recuperate from her millennia of stasis," Optimus reminded Ratchet who nodded. "It's better to ask Akane about the formula for Synthetic Energon once she has time to recover."
"I am
fine enough to work, Optimus. We don't have
time to waste," Akane told him, poking him in the leg.
Optimus sighed.
"Damn workaholic scientist," He grumbled under his breath, which caused Ratchet to scoff.
"You don't have any right to say something like that, Optimus," Ratchet said with a small laugh as Optimus shook his head in amusement.
It was good to see that her friends were still around and decently well. But what was this about a war?
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AN:
Stormy: Transformers... God it's been a long while since I thought about this series... Nice to finally have an excuse to think about this series again.
Kitsu: I never thought I would be commissioned for Transformers, but here we are.
Woolodin: It was a blast being part of the writing of this and I probably would have commissioned sooner if the Transformers Fanfics I watch stopped updating sooner overall a blast.
Stormy: One thing though, I really,
really enjoyed writing Senator Proteus here, he's just the kind of slimy, amoral, absolutely must get punched in the face Politician that I want to
ruin.
Kinda sad that he's already dead by the time the story starts, but I'll take his offscreen death and run with it. Sentinel though...
Hehehehehe...
Checks
Nevermind, he's dead as well. Ah well.
Kitsu: Okay, we have a fun shenanigan here, and we will hopefully get more of this soon. This was done via my server linked at
https://aikoakiyoshi.carrd.co/ and both myself and F3nn3l, whose Ko-Fi you can find
here and carrd website
here are more than willing to take commissions from people as they come.
That's all from me. Thanks for reading, and Stay Fluffy!
