Rewrite of Transformers: Shadows

Imagine spending the first fifteen vorns of your life starving, alone and in pain. When I first met Shadow, that was what he was like. He’d had no experience of love or of a family, he’d never had a proper meal and he’d been violently abused by everyone he’d come into contact with. It was a fragging miracle he’d survived as long as he did.

But within a few minutes of our first meeting, the reason for his abuse and abandonment became clear.

He was the son of Megatron.

We eventually discovered that he’d been born right at the end of the war, when hatred for Megatron was at its peak. We think the abuse started there and never stopped.

Shadow did heal physically, after a lot of hard work and care. I doubt he'll ever heal mentally. Those scars run too deep. Silverbolt, Skyfall, Cloudraker and Optimus have been fantastic, giving him that stable, loving environment that he craved.

I hope that some day he’ll be able to live a somewhat normal life. Get a trine sorted out with Skyfall and Cloudraker and live his life fully. I’ve always imagined that Shadow has a great destiny to fulfil, but that’s just wishful thinking on my part. I’ll be happy if he settles down somewhere.

It’s not like I expect him to become Prime or anything.