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Depth Charge hears whispers about Colony Omicron being destroyed with no survivors. Bot experiments on the asteroid are an open secret, so everybody thinks it was something escaping the lab. They say its name is Protoform X and it's immortal. The government, naturally, denies everything. Depth Charge digs around, getting his hands on pictures and videos from Omicron's security cameras, some later fights and sightings.
X is beautiful. Depth Charge doesn't know if he's taller than him but hopes so, he hopes the hulking tank-bot would pick him up in his strong arms, carry Depth Charge away from his boring life. His purple and red armor always perfect, shining in the blaring alarm lights and under alien moons, his ember-orange eyes big and glowing.
Depth Charge spends hours and days watching the same footage of X. Tearing himself free from chains and ripping apart the evil scientists who tortured him all his life, bursting through walls like they're nothing, cutting through swathes of guards and soldiers and leaving behind bloodied wreckage, shrugging off everything they throw at him. X looks even more alluring splattered with their mechfluid, and DC's cooling fans grow louder as he imagines licking it off him after another rampage, imagines being caressed by those wicked claws that'd never hurt him. Because Depth Charge is the only one who understands X is the real victim, because he's only bot who loves him, because he'll help X stay ahead of the government forces and catch more meals. Because Depth Charge will let X bite him, tear and warp his neck plating with his maw like he tears into his victims but more tenderly, and lap up his mechfluid if X asks to taste him. Depth Charge's face flushes at the thought. X's body and especially his actions occupy his mind whether he's asleep or awake.
But then X is captured, somehow. Transported from deep space towards one of Cybertron's moons where reprogramming awaits him. The idea of the Security Force getting their needles on his beloved terrifies and enrages Depth Charge.
But he can save X. He can steal a ship and raid the transport before it gets there, and by breaking him out and saving him Depth Charge will make himself known to X and prove his love in one fell swoop. Then they can run away together, for a killing spree across the galaxy, and X will hold him when they're still covered in gore and grime.
And if Depth Charge fails, well, dying won't be too bad if X will still hold him, even briefly.