And when we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
And question this most bloody piece of work,
To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us.
In the great hand of God I stand; and thence
Against the undivulged pretence I fight
Of treasonous malice.
- Macbeth, Act II, scene iii

For those of you in the cheap seats, Other Vengeance 2.0 is a Beast Wars-based Transformers-as-Humans story. Yeah, yeah, one of those. As of this chapter, they've been squishy for a week and have more or less got the hang of the basics.

I quite like how this chapter turned out, which means the rest of you probably won't. You'll note that it diverges quite sharply from the cartoon, plot arc-wise. I tried sticking more or less to Season Two in the original version of Other Vengeance and it eventually bogged down under its own weight and fizzled out. Thus I'm exploring the universe from another direction. Hopefully it will entertain.

Synopsis: Everyone's been trapped inside by the rain for three days, the fuzors are still sick, and now Dinobot finds himself in charge of a murder investigation. Dinobot mangles Macbeth, Waspinator sings, and Optimus has one of his worst days ever.

It only ended up being fifty-one pages in the end, heh. ( And if you think adding nine pages worth of edits to what started at forty-two pages is bad, you'll fall over dead if I tell you how 'Morning' came about. ) It's chopped into four parts. It should keep you from asking when the next chapter is coming out for a couple hours. Maybe if I call them 'novellas' instead of 'chapters', a five or six month wait between updates won't seem so bad. I've certainly got the word count for it.

Trivia: Other Vengeance 2.0 is now longer than the original version ( 521kB vs 468kB. )

Link to the Other Vengeance 2.0 main page.

Link to Other Vengeance 2.0 - 'This Most Bloody Piece Of Work'

( Yeah, it'll all make sense and tie together someday. We're still in the build-up section of the story at large. )

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- Other Vengeance 2.0 chapter five: Up to twenty-eight pages, no idea how long it'll end up. Your teaser: Inferno confronts her Maximal past.