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An Optimus Prime x reader story.
It's five years after the Decepticon invasion of Chicago, the Autobots were originally granted sanctu...
Optimus finally reaches Cybertron. Landing, he looks around. "What has happened to my world?"
"Your world is dying." A female voice says. He walks further in, following the voice. "I have been waiting for you, Optimus. Come meet your maker."
He sees a robotic female hovering above the ground, waiting for him. "You are my creator?"
"I am Quintessa, the prime of life."
He angrily approach her, pulling his sword. "What have you done to my home?"
She makes metallic tentacles grab each limb and his body to keep him restrained.
"I will kill you!"
She angrily strikes at him, getting him to his knees. "You dare to strike your god? Your war doomed Cybertron."
"Megatron started the war!"
She grabs his face. "You destroyed your world, you fool." She slaps him hard and a red paint mark appears on his face. "My perfect creation. You're going to fix it. Or the race of Transformers dies forever. I made you. You are mine to command."
He doesn't like hearing that and she can tell. She needs him to do something for her, and she needed his mind slightly open for her to get in and manipulate him.
He stops fighting the restrains for a moment and looks around. "Cybertron.. It must be rebuilt."
Then he's surprised with how torn he felt about saying that. A part of him wanted, even felt obligated to rebuild Cybertron, but another part of him wanted back to Earth, to be with you. That he trusted Bumblebee and the other Autobots to rebuild Cybertron.
Quintessa senses what's on his mind as that is everything she is trying to, to get inside his mind and reprogram him to do everything she tells him to.
"I sense something different about you, Prime. You feel a strong affection.. and for a human." She says, trying to hide her disapproval.
Optimus looks at her in surprise. He hadn't really admitted it to himself. But hearing it out loud, he couldn't deny it.
"I want to offer you a gift, Prime." She had originally planned on using his Cybertron as her way in, but sensing his hesitation she got another idea. She was still going to use his desire to rebuild Cybertron, but she could sense his desire to be with you was stronger at the moment. He does want someone to rebuild his world, he just wasn't sure if he wanted to come back and live here if he had the chance to be with you. And knowing desire for your love is a weakness in his case right now, she uses it first.
He frowns confused. "A gift?"
"Yes, just for you. The ability to shapeshift into a human form of yourself."
Quintessa then just waves her hand. Optimus feels like something has changed but not much, though it's as if he suddenly has an option to transform to something else other than the truck. He glances at her, then starts to transform into the new option, it's a different kind of transforming from what he's used to. He's shrinking for one and as he gets smaller his outer layer of steel changes itself into a material like skin and clothing. Fully transformed, he's standing on the floor looking at his hands in shock. Human hands, rubbing them together he feels the soft skin against each other. Looking down he sees his body is that of a human with normal casual clothes. He tugs at the t-shirt he was wearing, it was so realistic.
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It was as real as a Transformer could get to a human. He is still technically as heavy as he is in his normal form, but he's the size of and looks exactly like a human. Of course he doesn't have human organs, but he has every outer feature a male human body has under their clothes and can use it the way a human can.
"Your shapeshifting abilities will be restricted to only this human body." She tells him. This wasn't anything fake, she is genuinely giving him the opportunity to get this upgrade, if you can call it that. She just doesn't think he'll be using it in the end.
"I can be with Yn with this?" He asks, his voice different in this form. It sounds more like how he used to sound before he became a Prime, the voice suiting a human form better than the deep robotic one he has as an Autobot.
"Yes. But this gift, if you accept it, it will come with a cost."
"What cost?"
"Accept and your life span will significantly decrease. You will grow old the same as your female, and die with her. You will not get the upgrade to reproduce, I will not accept the species to mix like that, so this will not give you the ability to give her a family. Decline and you will still have many centuries to live, nothing will change to your Cybertronian lifespan." Quintessa tells him. She didn't really want him to be with a human, but giving him a peace offering now, would make him more receptive to her manipulation.
Optimus thinks about the offer. A chance of being with you, growing old way earlier than he originally would. He was ready, he has fought alongside and led the Autobots for over 8 million Earth years. Optimus remembers he asked you once if you had kids. You said no and that if you were to have any, you thought about adopting. And most of his kind, including him, couldn't reproduce anyway, so that part wouldn't change for him.
But an important thing to think about was that it wasn't a certainty that you would want him. As the reality of it was offered to him, he hoped, but couldn't possibly be sure of what you would want him. And he wasn't sure how long it has been since he left Earth, it could be years and you might've found someone else, started a family.
He needs to decide if he's willing to risk decreasing his lifespan, just for the opportunity of being with you. He closes his eyes for a moment and his mind shows images of every memory he has stored of you. Opening his eyes again, he makes a decision.
