Transformers IDW AU — "The Last Stand"

⚙️ Ironhide — Defender/Heavy Fighter

Character: stern, straightforward, experienced, loyal to the team.
Role: Heavy combat support and base defense.

Towards Drift: he is wary of his past, but respects those who prove themselves through their actions. However, in many ways he humiliates him and can go too far and hit him.

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📡 Revise — signalman

Character: calm, attentive, a little withdrawn.
Role: Liaison with other Autobot units, signal interception and team coordination.

Towards Drift: He's neutral. He doesn't pry into his past or demand explanations. Therefore, Drift finds him quite easy to be around.

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🔬 Perceptor - a scientific specialist

Character: logical, serious, observant, sometimes too straightforward.
Role: scientific research, technology and data analysis.

To Drift: respects his abilities, but doesn't always understand his spirituality and philosophical views. Sometimes interesting arguments arise between them: Drift sees things through experience and intuition, Perceptor through facts.

How does the team as a whole feel about Drift?

In the beginning:

Rodimus → trusts,
Ratchet → cares, but constantly scolds
Prowl → suspects
Skids → is also interested in teasing, but knows when to stop
Bluestreak → tries to make friends, jokes, but not always successfully
Ironhide → watches cautiously/more often hates and humiliates
Revise → neutral
Perceptor → analyzes it

Drift's homelessness → substance abuse and hard life in Dead End → meeting Orion Pax and Ratchet → Gasket's death → Drift becomes extremely violent → Deadlock → Decepticon → personality change → Drift and the Autobot.

Main plot
Rodimus's team carries out reconnaissance and combat missions, rescuing trapped Autobots and defending their base. Drift constantly switches between his roles as a warrior and Ratchet's assistant. Sometimes he returns from missions straight to the crowded medbay, where he has to work side by side with Ratchet.
Gradually, the Decepticons learn the location of the base, and Turmoil begins hunting Drift. Meanwhile, Drift's relationship with Ratchet develops, and his friendship with Rodimus and the rest of the team strengthens.

Tarn is a fanatical DJD commander who believes that Decepticon traitors deserve punishment.
Soundwave is engaged in reconnaissance and is trying to figure out the location of the Autobot base.
Starscream is a cunning schemer,
pursuing one's own interests.
Turmoil - Knows Drift's past as Deadlock and can use it against him.
and still others

Rodimus's Team - "The Last Stand"

🔥 Rodimus is a leader

Character: charismatic, bold, impulsive, sometimes too self-confident.
Role: Commands operations, makes decisions and maintains team morale.

Towards Drift: He treats him quite warmly. He trusts him more than many other Autobots and believes that the past shouldn't define his present. Sometimes he deliberately draws Drift out of his isolation.

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🩺 Ratchet is a medic

Character: grumpy, straightforward, experienced, caring, but hides it behind irritation.
Role: The team's chief physician and Drift's mentor.

To Drift: Very attached, though constantly scolding him. He gets especially angry when Drift hides injuries or tries to work when he's feeling unwell.

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🕶️ Prowl - tactician

Character: cold, reasonable, pedantic, loves control and order.
Role: Plans operations and analyzes enemy actions.

To Drift: at first, he doesn't trust him at all. For him, the former Deadlock is a potential threat. Over time, he begins to respect his discipline and fighting ability, but trust is still earned gradually.

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🛠️ Skids is an engineer and researcher

Character: inquisitive, intelligent, a little absent-minded, sometimes unexpectedly serious.
Role: Repairs equipment, studies technology, and assists Perceptor with research.

Towards Drift: friendly and open-minded. She can spend hours asking him about his past and combat techniques, sometimes completely unaware that she's asking too personal a question.

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🚗 Bluestreak - scout

Character: talkative, energetic, optimistic.
Role: reconnaissance, communications and territorial surveillance.

Towards Drift: at first, she's a little wary of his seriousness, but then she starts constantly trying to get him to talk. It's Bluestreak who's the first to notice that Drift is actually much softer than he seems.

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Background
The war on Cybertron is in full swing. Cities are destroyed, Energon is in short supply, and the Autobots are constantly clashing with the Decepticons. Rodimus leads a separate Autobot squad called the Last Stand. The team has its own hidden base with a medical bay, hangar, workshop, and living quarters.
Drift is a former Decepticon named Dedlock who defected to the Autobots. He is a seasoned warrior, wielding dual swords and is well-versed in enemy tactics. Rodimus appointed Drift not only a member of the squad but also Ratchet's assistant in the medical bay. He helps treat the wounded, prepare equipment, and accompanies evacuation teams, gradually gaining medical training.
Ratchet remains the chief medic: stern, grumpy, and demanding. At first, he doubts Drift's abilities, but over time, he comes to trust him. Their relationship develops gradually—through teamwork, dangerous missions, and mutual care.