The disgraced miner and the warlord

Optimus lost everything after Archa-7, his friends, his place in the academy and everything he thought was most important to him.
With no plan, no safety net under him without the academy and himself being too lost to his grief, he has nowhere to go... But when he has a chance encounter in a bar, he leaves Cybertron for good.

Who would have thought that split second decision when he had nothing left would lead him here, on some random off-planet mining colony working himself to dust...meeting Megatron himself who seemed...far kinder than he would have imagined.