Best MegOp Betrayal Fanfics
The best betrayal MegOp (Megatron/Optimus Prime) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Betrayal hurts in proportion to love, which makes it fiction's most efficient heartbreak; readers brace for the reveal scene the way they brace for a dropped glass.
Top MegOp Betrayal Fic Recs
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The Brave Shall Heed The Call
Betrayalby MlleMusketeer
Defeated and dragged back to the world he called home in chains, Megatron can do no more than endure. A rescue from Cybertron itself is almost impossible; he is forced to face the possibility that the Decepticon cause is lost, and that he will end his days as an Autobot experimental subject.Optimus'
Victory Condition
by astolat
“Do you want me to tell you a story?” Megatron said mockingly. “You won’t like it, Prime. It’s not a very nice one.”
Peacemaker
by astolat
Megatron just stared at him through the cell door with a strange expression and didn't say anything. "Well?" Optimus said, half furious and desperate. "Will you promise not to hurt any Autobots escaping if I let you out?"
House Divided
by spaceliquid
It all started with the Jettwins.When their Decepticon coding begins to grow more active, Optimus Prime has to seek help from the last person he wants to see: the captive Decepticon leader. Megatron names the price for his cooperation, and it is nothing like Optimus expected. However, when an old en
A Degree of Compatibility
by astolat
“And what’s the price for a Decepticon leader’s help these days?" Optimus said. "Head of his captor on a pike?”The Councillors started falling over each other hurriedly protesting, no, no, of course not, how could Optimus think, never—and Megatron laughed over them all and said, “It’s not your head
The Parent Trap
by astolat
“Oh my God, are you saying that Megatron had Optimus’s baby?” Miko shrieked piercingly.
Battlesleep
by Reyairia
Megatron escaping from prison was, of course, Sentinel’s frag-up. What Optimus didn’t count on was being kidnapped by the warlord on his way out.Now, halfway across the galaxy, Optimus must discover the reason behind Megatron’s reluctance to kill him, and with it a secret of his species’ biology tha
Project Bang
by astolat
Ratchet shrugged tolerantly when Optimus asked his opinion. "I think it’s more a lark than anything, but we can all use a lark, now and then."
Contact
by auri_mynonys
Orion Pax knows there's a word for what Megatronus means to him. He just can't quite put his finger on what it is.Which is probably how he missed the moment where he asked Megatronus to marry him.
Grappling
by astolat
The worst part of getting tied up in his own grapples and yanked into Megatron’s terrible grip and nearly killed was, unquestionably, getting tied up in his own grapples and yanked into Megatron’s terrible grip and nearly killed. The second worst part of it...
Coming Home
by astolat
Megatron went back to Kaon.
Turn of a Switch
by spaceliquid
One day, Orion Paxes from IDW and TFP universes switch places, and an unfortunate miner from Tarn meets an archivist instead of a police officer. What will it change? Oh, so many things.
Excessively Clever
by astolat
“Don’t let this become one of the occasions you get excessively clever, Swindle," Megatron said. "My patience for the current situation is highly limited.”
you’re dying of thirst (so hop in that water and pray that it works)
by spacelattae
SYSTEM QUERY: can you [optimus prime] change the ending?R E L O A DSYSTEM QUERY: can you [orion pax] change the ending? —# In which the world is ending, and Optimus Prime has one chance to fix it all… by going back to where it started, a millennia ago. To the mech he once called friend (but that wor
Plus One
by auri_mynonys
Megatronus has a party to attend. A high-caste date will lend him status in the eyes of his fellow gladiators, and Orion Pax is all too happy to play the part...
THREAD: Advice - Interface Dream About Best Friend??
by auri_mynonys
Megatronus learns that Orion Pax has been having erotic dreams about him via a poorly-disguised anonymous post in a dream interpretation forum.
Quarter After One
by auri_mynonys
Optimus learns that getting drunk and calling your ex isn't a human-exclusive thing. Certain ancient ex-gladiator warlords can do it, too.
Fool's Hope
by astolat
There was very little hope to be found within the Darkmount cell. What there was, Optimus clung to, for as long as he could.
Trust Me
by ChicoFeels
Hashtag yearns to connect more with Starscream and she can't stand at how the world doesn't want to give him a second chance. She also wishes he wasn't so hostile towards the world. Her solution? To welcome Starscream into the Malto family as a new uncle and shower him with the love and support he n
The Lost Prime
by AlphaGirl404
The Primes learn of Sentinel's treachery and take action. After an intense battle, they believe him to be dead. Unaware to The Primes, Sentinel survives with a burning desire to take revenge against them. He does so by kidnapping The Prime's newest addition to their family: A sparkling named Optimus
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Why Betrayal MegOp Fanfiction Works So Well
Megatron/Optimus Prime — Before the war, they were Megatronus the gladiator-poet and Orion Pax the archivist who believed in him — continuities like Transformers: Prime and IDW canonize that the Autobot and Decepticon leaders began as brothers-in-arms or closer. Four million years of civil war between former idealists gives the ship operatic scale. MegOp has anchored Transformers fandom for decades.
Betrayal — Someone trusted turns the knife — a defection, a lie unraveled, a secret sold — and the story measures the wound. Betrayal fic covers the act itself, the discovery, and the long question of whether the breach can ever be repaired.
Every laser blast is a lovers' quarrel four million years deep — the fall of a friendship that took a planet with it. Betrayal hurts in proportion to love, which makes it fiction's most efficient heartbreak; readers brace for the reveal scene the way they brace for a dropped glass. That's why betrayal MegOp fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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