**Title: Cybernetics of the Damned**
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**A crimson twilight hung over the Hazbin Hotel, painting the oddly silent cityscape of Hell with deep reds and bruised purples. Charlie Morningstar, hope kindled in her eyes, paces the hotel’s grand foyer waiting for her most unpredictable guest.**
“Alastor! I know you’re listening! I need you at the hotel, now!” Charlie shouts, her voice straining with a mixture of frustration and hope.
There is a flicker of radio static, shadow slithering along the floor, and Alastor—the infamous Radio Demon—materializes with a flourish, cane swirling, smile eternally carved onto his face.
“Good evening, darling Charlie! How may I brighten your *wasted* little endeavor today?" Alastor beams, a twinkle of mischief in his red eyes.
Before Charlie can answer, the familiar walls seem to stutter—color draining and refilling in alien chromatics—while the air vibrates with an electricity that isn’t Hell’s usual flavor.
“Alastor, what did you—?”
A wild gleam lights up in his eyes. “A change of scenery, perhaps a touch of… *entertainment*! Allow me to demonstrate a true transformation, for both of us.”
He stretches his hands. The shadows answer, swirling into intricate veves that pulse neon and silicon, alien script scrolling at their edges. Charlie tries to pull away, but finds the world liquefying around them both.
“Wait—No! Please, Alastor, what are you—!”
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**A world not Hell, not Earth—metallic skies, battles echoing in the distance, titanic robotic forms moving in intricate ballets of war and peace—a world of Cybertronians.**
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Charlie’s body feels *wrong*. There’s a whirring deep inside, like gears finding their rhythm. She clutches at her tuxedo jacket in panic, feeling it—her clothes, her skin—fusing to a tough, cool carapace of gleaming pink, pale gray, and lines of bright blue. Her limbs shudder, lengthen, bulging with newly formed musculature beneath the metallic shell. The bowtie hardens, fusing into a glowing emblem at her chest; her shoes melt over her feet, then shift and reform into sturdy, armored boots.
She gasps, but her voice cracks and drops, the timbre deepening into a strange, masculine resonance she barely recognizes. “No—this isn’t right! Alastor, help me!”
Alastor, no longer slim, but now swelling with power, yelps in delighted surprise as his own clothes fuse with his stretching body—pinstripe jacket and cross emblem becoming angular red and black plating, outlined in white, as he grows bigger and bolder. New antennae curl from his previously black-tipped antlers, now part of a striking helmet; his elongated legs, arms, and neck toughen with responsive armor, the grainy shadows of his old self dissolving with every transformation.
His voice is different now too—gone is the static, the transatlantic accent replaced by the vibrant lilt of late adolescence. He looks down at himself, reveling, “Oh! Would you look at me—never thought I’d look *this* electrifying!” He laughs, but then frowns, a new and unfamiliar sensation. “Wait, frowning? That’s—That’s new.”
Charlie—her hair now rigid plates curling around her new helmet, entire face angular and deeply metallic, optics shining a bright, pupil-less blue—stares at her hands. She (he?) flexes, her mind gnawing at the shifting sense of self.
“Alastor, I—my voice—my hands—I’m not—”
Alastor, now a giant among machines, circles his new hands and lifts them to his face. “Charlie? Something’s—wait, listen—” his voice cracks, mid-teen instead of vintage dandy. “Bro, this… man, this is—what’s happening to us?”
He blinks—then frowns again. Frowns, truly, for the first time. “Why… can I frown? What is this—this *feeling*?”
But the changes aren’t done. Thoughts—strange, alien thoughts—bubble into both their minds. Names flicker at the edge of their consciousness: **Dynamo**. **Torpedo Blast**.
Charlie turns wildly, voice both foreign and familiar. “Torpedo Blast, I—why am I calling you that?”
Alastor groans, clutching his helmeted head as static fuzzes in his mind. “Dynamo—no, I don’t—I can’t remember—but I know that name, like I’ve—dude, what is happening?”
Their old selves start to flicker like dying signals—memories snatched away and replaced with others: battlefields under alien suns, oil and energy pulses instead of blood and heartbeats, names and faces of metal giants.
Alastor—now Torpedo Blast—tries to resist, voice breaking, “No, man, I don’t want to forget—I—*we’re not*—” But his words dissolve into a wash of data, the past splitting apart.
He turns to Dynamo, confusion and panic warping across his once confident features. “Bro! What… what’s going on? Why am I talking like this? Where’s all the old—uh—mannerisms? Why do I wanna say ‘dude’ and ‘man’…”
Charlie—now Dynamo—answers, mind fuzzy, alien logic replacing empathy and hope, “We’re just… going back to normal. Our actual selves. The old stuff—it was like a glitch, right? Never real. Not really.”
Alastor’s memories, once so bright—vivid, infernal, thoroughly hellish—are gone, overwritten by the rhythm and history of a cybertronian warrior. He looks over at his brother with sudden, easy camaraderie. “Yeah, bro. Just… gettin’ our heads screwed on right. We’re finally ourselves.”
The transformation finalizes. There are no more flickers, no more doubts—just certainty.
Standing amidst the metallic expanse, Dynamo thumps a plated fist to his own massive chest. “Torpedo Blast, we ready to head back to base? Prime’ll wanna know we kicked Decepticon tail out here.”
Torpedo Blast cracks a grin—now just another expression, not a mask. “Yeah, Dynamo, let’s move. Autobots are waitin’. Decepticons are gonna get what’s comin’ to ’em next time…” He glances at Dynamo’s pink and gray armor. “Cool colors, bro. Makes you easy to spot—just how you like it.”
Dynamo laughs, deep and entirely at home in his new frame. “You know it, man. Autobots, roll out!”
Without another word, the brothers—two titanic Autobots, their Decepticon emblems betraying complicated loyalties—stride away, unaware of Hell, of humanity, of anything but the deep, ancient war between Autobots and Decepticons. The world of Hazbin Hotel is nothing but the faintest, most distant bug in their system—a glitch resolved, long since overwritten.
Their memories, their hopes, their feelings—all cybertronian, all true, always the way it was meant to be.
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**And the war rages on.**
This story was generated by user DylanVsFizzarolli7 with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.
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Prompt: Write the transformation story of Charlie Morningstar and Alastor the Radio Demon (both from an adults cartoon/animated series Hazbin Hotel) turning into cybertrons (which are sentient robots) from the Transformers franchise, complete with gender change (with Charlie Morningstar transforming from female to male), robotification (becoming robots) body change (due to both Charlie Morningstar and Alastor becoming giant humanoid robots), clothes-body merge (Charlie's and Alastor's clothes merging with their bodies to become metallic armor of their own respective colors), height progression (making them much taller until they are more than 25 feet tall), voice change (Charlie's and Alastor's voices change to fit their new bodies, with Charlie's voice becoming deeper and masculine while Alastor's voice loses his radio static effects and changes to become more similar to a late-teenager), reality change (Charlie's and Alastor's world becoming the world of Transformers), and mind/mental change (with all of Charlie's and Alastor's personality and memories being completely replaced with those of cybertrons, making their minds fuzzy (the fuzziness in their minds clear up when their memories and personalities are fully replaced), despite their best efforts on fighting them off (they don't want to forget their previous self but then completely forget all about their previous selves against their will), making them unable to remember their previous selves (which they realize (or rather know) were not real and that they were never demons to begin with, which they know was just a glitch in their retinas/programming), so they remember (or rather know) that they have always been cybertrons (which is their true/real selves) and formerly Decepticons on Megatron's side (having joined the Autobots despite both the cybertrons retaining the Decepticon symbols on their shoulder pads), completely oblivious/unaware of their previous selves (which wasn't real to begin with)). The transformation is permanent (meaning it is forever) and is completely irreversible. For Charlie Morningstar's appearance (before the transformation begins), she is a tall, slender hellborn demon, standing at around 6 feet tall or over. She has long, blonde hair, with lighter blonde and pink highlights, which is tied into a twice-banded low ponytail. Her blonde bangs flip to her left with a curl. Her lips are black and she has rosy red cheeks. She wears grey eyeliners, her eyes are red, her sclera is light yellow, and she has thick black eyelashes, both top and bottom. She accessorizes with a small black bowtie and black suspenders, with an untucked white, long-sleeved dress-shirt. Over this she usually wears a fitted red tuxedo jacket with dark-red lapels and a pair of red fitted pants. She wears black and white saddle shoes. When in her full demon form, a pair of dark-reddish horns protrude from her head and her eyes' sclera turn bright red with slit pupils. Here is Charlie's personality; she is compassionate and empathetic to a fault, feeling genuine upset at the idea of harm coming to others. Although she isn't unaware that Hell is populated with souls that have committed egregious acts in their living lives, she still views their yearly extermination as a senseless waste and makes it her personal mission to help them avoid it via self-betterment and eventual redemption, something she is seemingly alone in believing is possible. Charlie's idealism, while setting her apart from many of her hellborn peers, can also make her naïve to many of the harsh realities that appear to stand in the way of her potential success - something her girlfriend, Vaggie, tries to remind her of, only to be cheerfully ignored in favor of a more blinkered, sunny optimism. This can also cause her to rush headlong into the initial stages of her plans without much preparation. Charlie has a love for musical theatre, song and dance, and will often convey her emotions and ideas through showtunes and ballads. She appears to take perceived failures hard, as she believes her heartfelt theatrical passion should be enough to bring people over to her way of thinking, and is disheartened when it's not as simple as she imagines. She openly admits during a dejected voicemail to her mother that she doesn't actually know what she is doing, or how to make her plan for reforming sinners work in practice. Despite being sweet and lacking 'street-smarts', this doesn't make Charlie a pushover or stupid. When people insult her or openly mock her ideals and plans, she has no hesitation in standing up for herself, or even rolling up her sleeves to physically fight back. She is also not above letting a few cuss words slip. Charlie also displays some grounding in her idealism, understanding that not all demons can be redeemed, or even likely to change for the better. She displays sensible hesitation when confronted with an ambiguous deal from some high-raking demons. For Alastor's appearance (before the transformation begins), he is a slim (having an unnaturally thin torso, neck, arms, and legs, except his shoulders are broad), dapper sinner demon with beige-colored skin, and usually has an unnaturally broad smile (reaching from each cheek's upper area) full of sharp, yellow teeth (he has no ability to frown due to this permanent smile). He is approximately 7 feet tall. He sports a pinkish-red cropped, angled bob-cut with black tips at the ends and two large, black tipped tufts of hair extending from the top of his head, evoking the ears of a deer. The style has an undercut at the back, and two small black antlers protruding from the crown, which can grow in size in his full demonic form. Alastor's eyes have dark-red sclerae, bright-red irises and thin black pupils (which can change into the shape of radio dials when shifting into his full demon form). He also has four fingers (like all Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss characters), unlike real world humans. His forearms and lower legs fade to dark grey, and he has red hoof-toed feet and red clawed fingers. Alastor wears a red pinstripe coat with dark-red lapels piped with white, which is ragged along the bottom hem. Underneath this he wears a bright red dress-shirt with a black cross on the chest, and long black dress pants with matching bright red cuffs. He also wears a dark-red oval-shaped monocle, rimmed with black, over his right eye. He accessorizes with a black knotted bowtie with a bright red center, black gloves with red at the fingertips, and black pointed-toe boots with red deer hoofprints emblazoned on the soles. Alastor also carries a thin cane with a sentient vintage style microphone attached to it, which he uses to play sound effects and broadcast his voice. His voice also sounds like it is coming from an old-fashioned vintage radio. Alastor has many supernatural powers, such as demon transformation (the ability to turn into a more powerful demon form), flexibility (able to contort his body into numerous unnatural poses), demonic magic (able to cast magic thanks to the high power-level he has accrued in the demon ranking system, this magic takes the visual form of glowing red symbols that resemble Voodoo veve, which float around him), shadow manipulation (able to summon shadows and manipulate them into doing his bidding), spatial warping (able to get around with the help of his shadow, allowing teleportation through this ability), portal creation (able to transport others to his location easily via the portals he makes), pyrokinesis (able to summon small balls of fire for display purpose), phytokinesis (able to make plants wilt with a single stare), manifestation, photokinesis (able to project red glowing light from his eyes as well as his microphone), and outfit alteration (capable of changing the outfits of his targets as well as his own with a snap of a finger). He is also capable of various other abilities including deal-making (as Alastor is known to be a deal-maker demon; deal-maker demons like Alastor can increase their power by dealing in souls, which is a very powerful commodity in hell, so they’re seen as very manipulative and not to be toyed with, deal-making is not something every demon can do, as such it is not to be taken lightly as it doesn’t generally work out well for the other party), broadcasting (when he was a living human, Alastor's profession was as a radio show host, and he continues his broadcasts in Hell as a demon, ensuring that Hell's denizens are aware of his activities over the airwaves, earning him the title of "The Radio Demon"), bilingualism (Alastor can speak English fluently as well as some broken Creole French), cooking (Alastor is noted to be "a big foodie" and mentions having admired his mother's cooking, specifically her Jambalaya), musical/dancing/theatrical talent (Alastor is known to display moderate vocal abilities and excels at dancing, with some people noting tap to be a style he excels in specifically, he also shows a flair for theatrical showmanship), and wide intellect (Alastor is known to be quite a cunning individual, resulting in him accruing a large amount of power through his tricks and deal-making). Alastor stands out from many of the more chaotic residents of hell for his well maintained amiable persona. He gives a first-impression of a good-natured and charming man, wearing a permanently wide grin on his face at all times. His behavior, mannerisms, and even his voice are similar to an old-fashioned radio announcer and speaks with a transatlantic accent, often using quaint anachronisms such as "the picture show" and refers to Charlie as a "charming demon belle". This playful dandyish exterior, however, obscures a much darker side to him - one with high levels of self-importance - and he will not hesitate to use physical violence when others don't act in line with his very particular values or expectations. He is noted to be narcissistic, with his love for himself being stated that no one else can measure up to it, and he does not see many people quite up to his level. Alastor is described as a man of duality. He values good manners, affability and intelligence very highly in others, and will actively look down on those who do not meet his standards, however he will often play fast and loose with these arbitrary rules in regards to himself and his own conduct. Alastor has an odd sense of morality, which is described as "not normal", and has been noted to be quite sadistic, even cannibalistic, devouring lesser demons or those that have incurred his anger. Despite this, he keeps close friends with the other cannibals of Hell, including the denizens at the Cannibal Town. His smiling is a very self enforced form of ego and a show of power and dominance; he looks down on anyone who lets their true emotions show, and even when faced with a rival in strength, if they let slip a frown, Alastor will see them as truly weak. His smile is also to be more unpredictable and unnerving, and gives him a feeling of complete control over himself. While Alastor is powerful, he is aware that there are other demons and entities that rival him in terms of power, such as other Overlords. For this reason, he is wary around such demons, as they could potentially harm him if he is not careful. Despite everything, Alastor does genuinely seem to want to help Charlie run the Hazbin Hotel, albeit for his own amusement, and hopes for its failure over siding with her idealism. Alastor also dismisses the idea that redemption is possible as laughable, nevertheless, he fulfills his role as patron as promised, providing the hotel with staff, and protecting Charlie and her business from outside threats. He views the whole endeavor as a fun distraction from his decades of boredom. Despite consistently having a confident and cheerful demeanor, he harbors a vulnerable side that becomes apparent when confronted with reminders of being "chained". In this instance, his facade of certainty crumbles, and he succumbs to panic attack. According to Mimzy (Alastor's friend), when Alastor was alive he would become a "kitten" (not literally a kitten) if he drank enough rye whiskey while jazz music was on. Here are Alastor's preferences (his likes and dislikes); he likes himself (including his own fashion style), smiling, doodling, gossip and drama, invading others' personal space, his mother and her cooking, jazz music, strong liquor, cooking, seeing people fail, playing pranks, bitter tastes (especially those of black coffee), theater, dancing, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, venison, being in charge, Charlie's potential, pineapple on pizza, and making jokes. However, he dislikes Lucifer Morningstar (the king of Hell and Charlie Morningstar's father) and his "tacky" circus décor, Susan (a Cannibal Town resident), being touched (including his hair being touched), dogs, frowning, tea, anything sweet, Angel Dust's sexual remarks, being humbled, post-30s' technology, anyone ruining his outfit, being controlled and reminded of it, the idea of the hotel failing, and Mimzy bringing destruction to the hotel. The story is that Charlie Morningstar needed help from Alastor and she calls him to help her with the Hazbin Hotel, but Alastor, who wanted to bring in more entertainment, intentionally uses his black magic to transform both himself and Charlie into cybertrons for fun (while also causing them to be in the world of Transformers), starting their transformations into cybertrons. As their bodies become metallic (while they start to grow much taller), Charlie's outfit merging with her body as her body bulks up (becoming bulky yet athletic) to become pink and light gray metal with light blue rims and bands (pink feet with gray patches and light blue rims, gray lower arms with pink patches and light blue bands, gray helmet with pink rims ans black bands and black ear pieces, and pink upper torso with gray patches and light blue rims, as well as dark gray thighs, dark gray upper arms, dark gray lower torso, and dark gray neck) while her eyes become pure blue eyes without pupils or irises and her face becoming a dark gray masculine and metallic face (her voice deepens to a manly voice to match her new form hair shortens and becomes a pink-and-gray helmet with rounded black antennae-like ear pieces) as she was now 25 feet tall, much to Alastor's amusement. Alastor is enjoying his own transformation, as Alastor's outfit merges with his body as his body bulks up (becoming bulky yet athletic, no longer unnaturally slender or slim) to become red-and-black metal with white rims and thin black stripes (red feet and lower legs with black stripes, red lower arms with black hands and white wrists, red helmet with black lines and ear pieces, and red upper torso with white rims, as well as black thighs, black upper arms, black lower torso, and black neck) as he was now 25 feet tall, while his eyes become completely red without irises or pupils (unlike his previous self) and his face becoming a deep gray metallic manly face (with his hair shortening before merging with his black antlers to turn into a red-and-black helmet with sharp black antennae-like ear pieces), much to Alastor's amusement. Once their bodies stopped transforming (much to Charlie's confusion and horror since she doesn't want to transform), they were now completely cybertrons, much to Alastor's amusement (noticing his voice no longer having radio static effect and now sounding like a late teenager's voice), and he tells Charlie that this was his plan (even though he doesn't know the world or characters who inhabit it). Unfortunately, without Alastor's consent and against his will (and against his plan), both Alastor's and Charlie's mind starts clouding up and they both start forgetting all about their previous selves (also against their will, especially Alastor (now frowning due to no longer having a permanent grin but an expressive face), who never planned or wanted to replace his own personality or memories, so he and Charlie both try to fight off the mind/mental changes but to no avail, as Alastor begins calling Charlie "Dynamo" while Charlie begins calling Alastor "Torpedo Blast", despite Charlie and Alastor not having heard these names before (Alastor is confused why does he know these names, and Charlie is also confused by that), making them realize, much to their horror, that their memories are being replaced), making them hold their own heads, and they are losing all memories and personality of their previous selves, making it completely impossible to remember their previous selves or lives and leaving them as cybertrons (while their memories as cybertrons flood their mind (with Alastor no longer saying quaint anachronisms such as "dear" or "charming demon belle" and, due to his changing personality becoming more like a teenager's personality (Alastor is confused on why he's acting like an everyday teenager instead of himself and asks that), he, against his will, now says stuff like "bro" and "dude" instead of "dear" or "belle" (he realizes that he can no longer say quaint anachronisms and is saying "bro", "dude", "man", and other teenage slangs instead (making Alastor confused and scared), due to his personality changes making him act more like teenager instead of his old self as Alastor, so he's acting and talking like a teenager against his will and much to his horror (with Alastor even asking himself on why is he acting like an everyday teenager and Alastor also asks himself on why is he speaking like a teenager (such as saying "dude", "man", and "bro") instead of "dear", "my dear", or "charming demon belle")), and he now (against his will) sees Charlie as his brother and Charlie seeing Alastor as her (now his) brother), making Alastor ask Charlie on what's happening before Charlie answers that they are returning back to normal, or in other words, returning back to their true selves (cybertrons), making them realize that their previous lives as Charlie and Alastor were not real, they never had been real, and, by the end of the mind/mental changes, they are starting to remember the names "Dynamo" and "Torpedo Blast" and they then realize that they always had been cybertrons named "Dynamo" and "Torpedo Blast"). Once their minds clear up, they realize (or rather know) that they had always been cybertron who once sided with Decepticons, but eventually sided with the Autobots (despite retaining the Decepticon symbols on their shoulder pads) led by Optimus Prime; with the pink-and-gray cyberton himself (who was never Charlie Morningstar) being named Dynamo and the red-and-black cybertron himself (who was never Alastor) being named Torpedo Blast, and they both have always been brothers (which they refer to each other and some other characters as either "dude", "man", or " bro"). They return back to their base with the other Autobots, as they always have after a successful mission against the Decepticons. There should also be quotes from the characters in this story so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking.
Response: **Title: Cybernetics of the Damned** --- **A crimson twilight hung over the Hazbin Hotel, painting the oddly silent cityscape of Hell with deep reds and bruised purples. Charlie Morningstar, hope kindled in her eyes, paces the hotel’s grand foyer waiting for her most unpredictable guest.** “Alastor! I know you’re listening! I need you at the hotel, now!” Charlie shouts, her voice straining with a mixture of frustration and hope. There is a flicker of radio static, shadow slithering along the floor, and Alastor—the infamous Radio Demon—materializes with a flourish, cane swirling, smile eternally carved onto his face. “Good evening, darling Charlie! How may I brighten your *wasted* little endeavor today?" Alastor beams, a twinkle of mischief in his red eyes. Before Charlie can answer, the familiar walls seem to stutter—color draining and refilling in alien chromatics—while the air vibrates with an electricity that isn’t Hell’s usual flavor. “Alastor, what did you—?” A wild gleam lights up in his eyes. “A change of scenery, perhaps a touch of… *entertainment*! Allow me to demonstrate a true transformation, for both of us.” He stretches his hands. The shadows answer, swirling into intricate veves that pulse neon and silicon, alien script scrolling at their edges. Charlie tries to pull away, but finds the world liquefying around them both. “Wait—No! Please, Alastor, what are you—!” --- **A world not Hell, not Earth—metallic skies, battles echoing in the distance, titanic robotic forms moving in intricate ballets of war and peace—a world of Cybertronians.** --- Charlie’s body feels *wrong*. There’s a whirring deep inside, like gears finding their rhythm. She clutches at her tuxedo jacket in panic, feeling it—her clothes, her skin—fusing to a tough, cool carapace of gleaming pink, pale gray, and lines of bright blue. Her limbs shudder, lengthen, bulging with newly formed musculature beneath the metallic shell. The bowtie hardens, fusing into a glowing emblem at her chest; her shoes melt over her feet, then shift and reform into sturdy, armored boots. She gasps, but her voice cracks and drops, the timbre deepening into a strange, masculine resonance she barely recognizes. “No—this isn’t right! Alastor, help me!” Alastor, no longer slim, but now swelling with power, yelps in delighted surprise as his own clothes fuse with his stretching body—pinstripe jacket and cross emblem becoming angular red and black plating, outlined in white, as he grows bigger and bolder. New antennae curl from his previously black-tipped antlers, now part of a striking helmet; his elongated legs, arms, and neck toughen with responsive armor, the grainy shadows of his old self dissolving with every transformation. His voice is different now too—gone is the static, the transatlantic accent replaced by the vibrant lilt of late adolescence. He looks down at himself, reveling, “Oh! Would you look at me—never thought I’d look *this* electrifying!” He laughs, but then frowns, a new and unfamiliar sensation. “Wait, frowning? That’s—That’s new.” Charlie—her hair now rigid plates curling around her new helmet, entire face angular and deeply metallic, optics shining a bright, pupil-less blue—stares at her hands. She (he?) flexes, her mind gnawing at the shifting sense of self. “Alastor, I—my voice—my hands—I’m not—” Alastor, now a giant among machines, circles his new hands and lifts them to his face. “Charlie? Something’s—wait, listen—” his voice cracks, mid-teen instead of vintage dandy. “Bro, this… man, this is—what’s happening to us?” He blinks—then frowns again. Frowns, truly, for the first time. “Why… can I frown? What is this—this *feeling*?” But the changes aren’t done. Thoughts—strange, alien thoughts—bubble into both their minds. Names flicker at the edge of their consciousness: **Dynamo**. **Torpedo Blast**. Charlie turns wildly, voice both foreign and familiar. “Torpedo Blast, I—why am I calling you that?” Alastor groans, clutching his helmeted head as static fuzzes in his mind. “Dynamo—no, I don’t—I can’t remember—but I know that name, like I’ve—dude, what is happening?” Their old selves start to flicker like dying signals—memories snatched away and replaced with others: battlefields under alien suns, oil and energy pulses instead of blood and heartbeats, names and faces of metal giants. Alastor—now Torpedo Blast—tries to resist, voice breaking, “No, man, I don’t want to forget—I—*we’re not*—” But his words dissolve into a wash of data, the past splitting apart. He turns to Dynamo, confusion and panic warping across his once confident features. “Bro! What… what’s going on? Why am I talking like this? Where’s all the old—uh—mannerisms? Why do I wanna say ‘dude’ and ‘man’…” Charlie—now Dynamo—answers, mind fuzzy, alien logic replacing empathy and hope, “We’re just… going back to normal. Our actual selves. The old stuff—it was like a glitch, right? Never real. Not really.” Alastor’s memories, once so bright—vivid, infernal, thoroughly hellish—are gone, overwritten by the rhythm and history of a cybertronian warrior. He looks over at his brother with sudden, easy camaraderie. “Yeah, bro. Just… gettin’ our heads screwed on right. We’re finally ourselves.” The transformation finalizes. There are no more flickers, no more doubts—just certainty. Standing amidst the metallic expanse, Dynamo thumps a plated fist to his own massive chest. “Torpedo Blast, we ready to head back to base? Prime’ll wanna know we kicked Decepticon tail out here.” Torpedo Blast cracks a grin—now just another expression, not a mask. “Yeah, Dynamo, let’s move. Autobots are waitin’. Decepticons are gonna get what’s comin’ to ’em next time…” He glances at Dynamo’s pink and gray armor. “Cool colors, bro. Makes you easy to spot—just how you like it.” Dynamo laughs, deep and entirely at home in his new frame. “You know it, man. Autobots, roll out!” Without another word, the brothers—two titanic Autobots, their Decepticon emblems betraying complicated loyalties—stride away, unaware of Hell, of humanity, of anything but the deep, ancient war between Autobots and Decepticons. The world of Hazbin Hotel is nothing but the faintest, most distant bug in their system—a glitch resolved, long since overwritten. Their memories, their hopes, their feelings—all cybertronian, all true, always the way it was meant to be. --- **And the war rages on.**
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