End-Of-The-World Party

[dunmurderin]

Title: End-Of-The-World Party
Word Count: 1945 approximately
Characters/Pairing: Kup/Beta
Author's Note: Takes place a couple centuries shy of 11 million years ago, shortly after the overthrow of the Quintessons. Written for Dec. 2006 Mecha_Erotica fic challenge: One Night Stand.

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Comments

[ravynfyre.livejournal.com]

I loved this, Dun. That twist at the end? Priceless. And Kup gets laid. *gryns* Which is awesome.

thankee!

[dunmurderin.livejournal.com]

And congratulations on winning the challenge!

Dun.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I like this, I like this a lot. (I voted for this.) I mean, on the one hand, we got Kup getting laid, always an admirable goal.

On the other hand, this is set way, way back in Cybertronian history in a time-period that a lot of people don't write. You both wrote it and made it interesting. I like a lot of the underlying ideas to it - that they called themselves Consumer Goods and Military Hardware, that they're going to buy/steal back their fellows that the Quints sold, etc.

Some of the little details really endeared me: the problems with the external radios and Kup being cross-trained for lots of different work on the ship in case something went wrong. The simple names everyone has. Freight's crack about needing to be kept entertained on the voyage.

Beta rocked muchly.

I got the impression that Lifter is Military Hardware. Right/wrong?

re

[dunmurderin.livejournal.com]

Thanks 8)

The Consumer Goods/Military Hardware thing comes from, if I remember right, Five Faces of Darkness. As I understand the cartoon version of things, the Autobot/Decepticon labels didn't arise until much later. Or at least, that's the version of events I'm going by.

I'm not sure where the idea of buying or stealing back their fellow slaves comes from, other than Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett and the idea of the golems buying themselves and their fellows free from slavery. That and the historical idea of slaves in the American South buying and/or "stealing" themselves and their families from their masters.

Kup being cross-trained serves the dual purpose of giving him an excuse for being a jack of all trades in some of my later fics and because I figure at this point, the Transformers are still struggling to build a society of their own.

The simple names are, likely, still a holdover from the Quints. More elaborate names, I'm betting, are a product of the TFs becoming their own beings, independent from the Quints.

Freight's crack...aww hell, Kup's gonna be refueling on the "No, really, I shagged Beta, THE Beta!" story for years to come.

Thanks on Beta. I likes her.

I'm not sure what Lifter was, I think he's likely Consumer Goods, but I'm not sure. What gave you the impression he's Military Hardware, outta curiosity.

Dun