Great story I’ll have to look up the new version on Ao3

I think that Bluestreak would be a good match with Windy. Bee...nah.

*Inserts iconic TFP Magnus quote*

Why the heck haven't you continued this? I read all 113 chapters and am looking for more. Is anyone continuing this for you if you've abandoned it? It was AMAZING and well written. Did you write a sequel? Please write a concluding chapter if you've truly abandoned it .

So I randomly just started reading this story thinking it would be a good way to pass the time for an hour or two while at the doctors office. Somehow that has turned into DAYS of me reading this story non-stop at the detriment of my sleep cycle and healthy eating habits. This story has been absolutely addictive. My love of a well-written plot with actual character development without all the cliches has been perfectly dated with this fanfic and I genuinely hope to read more of it in the future. I know it's been awhile but as Sam told Bee...I'll wait until I'm old and decrepit. Absolutely stunning work, thank you!

You really need to proof-read your character names so they make sense. Why are you welding Jazz's corpse to Bumblebee?

Apart from swapping names around the wrong way, this is quite good. You swapped Optimus, when Megatron was more likely the name you meant. I've noticed this with your other stories as well. Keep proof-reading!

I'm just read till chapter 58, and I couldn't stop myself to write a comment. Firstly, I really just tap into 1st chapter, and I like the style, so I continue reading. Then suddenly the notes from author about slash. No offense, I can accept the concept, but if can I would rather avoid it. However, I gotta salute you, . You had sucessfully made someone who would rather avoid slash, keep encouraging myself saying 'the story so far is damn impressive, and finally there is a scene of whereby Decepticon and Autobots is bargaining (or whatever it call) instead of killing each other, 5 Primes, and hell, a whole new perspective of Optimus playing politics and what others Autobots do before war. Er... slash... well so far the description is still acceptable and not too 'graphic', oh well, slag it, I will just treat it as this story is a whole new lesson for me to learn and accept homosexuality.' Boom, finally I gain enough courage to continue reading the story. Since I'm still in chapter 58, thus I will not know how the story will developed... But I really like your potrait of Mikaela at least handle it as maturely as possible with some help from Telteraan and Ironhide, and how you potrait the understanding and the family sense among Autobots about the issue, which is another reason I continue to read. (I am quite sure if Mikaela just blew up, I might be just stop reading cause this is people do I guess, and I kind of hoping my first slash fiction will show me another perspective, and darn, GJ !) Your story had let me at least exposed me to think that actually this might be what the couples were thinking and facing, because our society is non that forgiving plus open minded yet. Thank you, . You had written a story that I had enjoyed very much, and yet it me some light into a new perspective.

Oh, this talk Jazz and Prowl had... It was truly heartbreaking moment T_T the most in the story so far, I think. Fang issues with his sparkling and partner were saaad too, but this.. Awwwww

Darn you I was trying to cut back on the fanfiction and now you had to go and get me hooked on masks now can't stop reading it. It's one of those stores where you just can't stop reading once you start I hope it never stops sure how i'd feel now if I stopped reading it.

This is a jaw-dropping, incredibly amazing story!

I'm pretty sure I started reading it at some point a few years ago, but I never finished it. This time around, though, it honestly took me around 3 weeks to completely finish. Granted, I was only reading a couple chapters at a time, mainly whenever I had free time in between classes, or when I was supposed to be studying, or really late at night. I am so glad I stuck with it this time, as this story has been such an exciting thrill to read.

I'm excited that you decided to rewrite/edit this story and I cannot wait to read it. Not that this story isn't fantastic the way it is now! Because it definitely is. Other than a few misplaced sentences here and there and some character name swaps throughout, I think this story is remarkably well-written. However, I do understand why you might want to edit and change some things, and I'm very excited to see what you decide to do with it.

I don't know if you've ever thought about it, but I think turning this story into a trilogy would be a great idea. There are several fantastic arcs throughout this story, and I think they would be even better appreciated in 3-part series. And it would really help with the word count, which quite honestly is incredibly daunting and almost caused me to turn away several times. At almost a million words, this is by far the longest story I've ever read. While I was reading, it was very easy to forget that everything was taking place in the span of a few weeks. At times it felt like a lifetime.

You are an amazing writer, and this story will forever be one of my favorites.

My guess for the spy is the vending machine, its got to many mentions for a piece of random background stuff. Also there was the one that was brought to life by the all spark in the first film, it was green and i don't remember if it was actually killed

Welcome back! LOVE THIS FIC! Heading over to Ao3 to catch up!

Oops, I started reading Masks v 2.0 and enjoyed it so much that I couldn't wait for you to edit it, so I came back here (with the caveat that you weren't entirely happy with it and were planning to rewrite it) to read an almost 1 million word fic that you are in the process of rewriting. Because Masks v 2.0 was so good that I could not wait the few days it would take you to upload the next chapter.

I hope you take that as the compliment that it very much is. Even knowing what you wanted to change beforehand and bracing myself to catch flaws here and there, I actually didn't notice most of what you yourself pointed out. The story is good enough to get lost in, and maybe if I read it again I would notice more, but as it was I'm just so excited that you're rewriting this.

I love the new early development of Fangface, and I'm excited for you to catch up to here Masks v 1.0 is so that I can find out what happens with Skyfire and Skywarp and Thundercracker and Starscream, all of whom are very broken in their own ways and all of whom my heart was breaking for by chapter 112. I find myself hoping that Thundercracker, as the missing piece in this tangled web of people loving and hurting each other, comes in and is able to see things with a different perspective. And, god, what a perspective that's going to be! Skywarp is horrified by what he did when he wasn't capable of processing it, but here's Thundercracker who WAS aware the whole time, who back in the beginning visibly still loved Starscream and seemed to be aware of at least some measure of the pain he'd put himself through for their group, even if he'd stopped interfacing with him. And he's going to be coming back to Skyfire, who's a neutral and incredibly unhappy with the war, to a Skywarp who's capable of understanding what he's done for the first time in AGES and of Thundercracker's knowing compliance in those acts, and of what THUNDERCRACKER'S done, and a broken revived Starscream at the brink of suicide, who's done incredibly horrific things to Skyfire such that Skyfire and Skywarp have both divorced him. So many delicious tangled threads!

And Prowl and Jazz and Ranger. I can't quite convince myself that you don't know exactly where you're going with this; as much as the characters talk about despair and no point and how awful this situation is, with no possible answer in sight, you're not the kind of author who puts the characters in these sorts of situations just for the emotional agony it brings the reader. You're going somewhere with this, even if we can't see yet where it is. Though for my part, I'm fairly sure that if Jazz waited for Prowl all these years, he'd be willing to wait until Ranger is of age, none of this nonsense about Jazz finding another partner when he HASN'T all these years when he and Prowl weren't partnering. I have a feeling Prowl, in his despair, might not be seeing how desperately in love with him Jazz is.

And as much as my main focus isn't on Sam/Mikaela/Bee, I love how you're handling their own perspectives and prejudices and the baggage they're bringing to the relationship. And I'm particularly grateful for the fact that you're addressing the baggage and privilege Sam in particular brings to his interactions with the world, even when he means well, and especially grateful that Bee and Mikaela manage to redirect that or address it most of the time.

The long and short of this is that you have a great story here, and I'm really glad you're writing a version of it you can be happier and finish, because I'm excited to see where it's going. New plot threads, old plot threads, everything.

Mikaela, finally! *sighs*