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Hours Gone By ([personal profile] hoursgoneby) wrote2019-08-23 08:49 pm

FIC: The Emperor's New Plating

Written for AU Yeah AUgust 2019, Prompt: Fairy Tale

Title: The Emperor's New Plating
Prompt: Fairy Tale
Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers - Aligned Continuity Family, Transformers: Prime, TransTech (Transformers)  
Character/Pair: Knock Out, Swindle Swindle & Swindle, Ramjet, Breakdown, Soundwave, Rumble 
Words: 1,276
Rating: G
Summary: One cycle three mecha, all named Swindle and for a good reason, came to the city where the emperor's palace was located. They claimed to be armourers and were capable of making the most extraordinary plating one could imagine. Not only was the metal sleek, durable, and so reflective it never needed polishing, they said, no one who was incompetent or stupid would be able to see their reflection in it.
 
Based upon The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen.