[TF] Anamnesis - 07

Anamnesis
Chapter Seven

Hot Rod’s internal alarm wakes him long before anything else. He grumpily turns it off and snuggles back into Megs’ embrace, the planes and angles of his frame fitting perfectly against the other mech’s.

Wait.

Memory trickles back, a subtle reminder ping floating Megatron to his active queue. Not Megs, but Megatron. The mech he pulled from the Heap, who he’s been housing and caring for, is Megatron of Tarn, hero to so many across Cybertron.

It’s still unbelievable.

He’d be a fool to think that means his life isn’t going to change. His whole world is going to change.

Hot Rod isn’t necessarily upset by this. It’s not like he planned to work as a clinic assistant and scrap scrounger and occasional mine grunt forever. They were all means to an end, a way to survive in a city where a mech like him doesn’t have many options. He doesn’t have plans or dreams or aspirations.

Survival has been all the plan he can manage.

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