Author's Notes: So this is my first story and I'm open to suggestions so please tell me if you have any ideas. I heard in TF armada that Optimus referred to Hot Shot's past as "disturbing" and thus giving me an idea. This is just the first chapter. I have no set date as to when I will post the next one but I will try to make it as soon as possible.

Thrasher - An Autobot's Dark Past

A ruthless Decepticon, a compassionate Autobot, and one of my greatest disappointments; ever since his departure from our ranks no one dares speak his name aloud in the presence of any Decepticon. Not even myself. But throughout all my years to come of being the supreme leader of the Decepticons, Thrasher, will not be forgotten.

Though he now allies himself within the Autobots, there is question that even they would accept him if they knew his dark past. It is likely that the only Autobot besides Thrasher himself who knows such information is Optimus Prime. To conceal his secret, Thrasher changed his name and hid much of his power. The reason being that if the Autobots knew the way he was able to lay waste to so many Transformers weather they be Autobot or Decepticon, they would immediately know where he came from, and many of them would feel obligated to destroy him. Young as he may be, he as seen far more in his lifetime than a few of my elder Decepticons have.

Years ago on planet Cybertron, there was a large uprising of Transformers who hated both Autobots and Decepticons. These relentless bots were known as the Swarmers. They were bloodthirsty killers, but not without purpose. They saw our war over the mini cons as pointless since they thought the Mini-Cons would lead to our distruction. Unlike the Autobots and Decepticons, the Swarmers wanted to keep the Mini-Cons out of the hands of any transformers, including their own. The Swarmers saw Mini-Cons as pure tools of war and their ultimate goal was to destroy them. Dear Thrasher, for a time, shared these beliefs as well. Since he was a Swarmer when I first encountered him.

No one knows how many Mini-Cons were killed by the Swarmers. But as proof there was once a fourth mini-con weapon. One day it fell into the hands of the Swarmers, and it hasn't been seen since. I don't think Thrasher ever destroyed a Mini-Con but I am almost certain he witnessed the destruction of many. Thrasher never entirely understood the purpose in destroying the mini-cons when they could simply have been sent away or locked up. But his many "brothers" in the Swarmers insisted he carry on the doings. After all it was the way he had been brought up. But Thrasher's compassion eventually got the best of him and he was forced to choose to abandon his brothers or go against his own belief.

The first time I encountered Thrasher, there was a group of Autobots that invaded a post that some of the Swarmers had set up in a slum just outside of Iocon. They had stationed themselves in an underground warehouse and had been living there for months. I was curious to their ways of destruction and I was thinking there might be a way to convince them to side with the Decepticons. (This of coarse being before I knew what they were doing to the Mini-Cons) I hid in this warehouse for approximately six days. I can say from witnessing it first hand that the Swarmers' treatments of the Mini-Cons even made me, the supreme leader of the Decepticons, cringe.

Flashback to scene in the Swarmers' warehouse

"Thrasher! Glad to see you made it back in one piece!"

"Good to see you too Thunderwing, I have them, like you asked for."

"Them?"

"The uh—Mini-Cons." Thrasher felt slightly sick knowing what his brothers were about to do.

"Aaah, excellent, right this way."

Thrasher followed Thunderwing into the center of the room were a burn barrel stood with the Insignia of the Swarmers branded on it. Right next to it stood a table with all kinds of horrific tools on it. And scattered across the floor were parts. (I would later find out that they were the limbs of dead Mini-cons that the Swarmers had slaughtered.)

Thunderwing held out his hand, wearing a friendly smile on his face as his brother handed him the bag that contained two Mini-Cons that had been stolen from an Autobot outpost.

"Thrasher since you brought these two scumbots back here, I'll give you the honors of dismantling them."

"I couldn't do that Thunderwing, I might mess things up."

What had come across to Thunderwing as a joke was really Thrasher's guilty conscience tugging at his spark.

"Haha, well still I owe you one brother."

I was curious to see what was in the bag, and what the Swarmers were referring to as a "scumbot." I was a bit surprised when I saw Thrasher's brother dump the two Mini-Cons out on the table. My spark nearly went out when I saw what he did next.

This same transformer who had been acting like an Autobot a minute ago now grabbed both of the Mini-cons one in each hand and slammed their heads against the table as hard as he could. Instantly killing both of them. But that wasn't the end of it. He tore the heads off both of them and put them on the opposite bodies. He then welded the heads on and hung the Mini-Cons up on a wall that was covered in a large amount of dead Mini-Cons many of them seemed to have had something torn off and a piece of another welded back on to it in place. Others had been torn into two large pieces and the two halves hung next to each other. The more recently killed ones still dripped with energon blood. And the older ones were beginning to rust.