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Best MegOp Redemption Arc Fanfics

The best redemption arc MegOp (Megatron/Optimus Prime) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. There is something deeply hopeful about watching a person claw their way back from their worst self, especially when the narrative refuses to make it easy.

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Top MegOp Redemption Arc Fic Recs

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Trust Me

Redemption Arc

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

3,469 kudos 127,106 words 27/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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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.”

7,267 kudos 37,187 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
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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?"

6,367 kudos 26,921 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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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

6,228 kudos 121,584 words 28/28 chapters Explicit
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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

5,652 kudos 8,500 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
6

The Parent Trap

by astolat

“Oh my God, are you saying that Megatron had Optimus’s baby?” Miko shrieked piercingly.

5,597 kudos 17,925 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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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

5,067 kudos 127,340 words 37/? chapters Explicit
8

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."

5,004 kudos 4,721 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
9

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.

4,686 kudos 98,733 words 11/11 chapters Explicit
10

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...

4,469 kudos 2,801 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Coming Home

by astolat

Megatron went back to Kaon.

4,389 kudos 21,430 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
12

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.

4,238 kudos 148,933 words 41/41 chapters Explicit
13

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.”

4,031 kudos 18,607 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
14

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

3,992 kudos 174,396 words 60/? chapters Not Rated
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The Brave Shall Heed The Call

by 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'

3,924 kudos 168,616 words 80/80 chapters Explicit
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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...

3,811 kudos 64,631 words 19/19 chapters Explicit
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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.

3,803 kudos 45,529 words 7/7 chapters Explicit
18

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.

3,596 kudos 5,696 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
19

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.

3,519 kudos 38,488 words 1/1 chapters Mature
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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

3,450 kudos 87,186 words 22/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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Why Redemption Arc 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.

Redemption Arc — A character who has done genuine harm works to become someone better, earning forgiveness slowly or sometimes never receiving it at all. Redemption fics take a villain, an antagonist, or a fallen hero and ask what atonement would actually cost them.

Every laser blast is a lovers' quarrel four million years deep — the fall of a friendship that took a planet with it. There is something deeply hopeful about watching a person claw their way back from their worst self, especially when the narrative refuses to make it easy. That's why redemption arc MegOp fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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