All Hollows Eve
It’s the start of a very frightening day for one Transformer
SPECIAL EVENTS
Noel Butterworth
10/31/20253 min read
He runs...
...but the monster is behind him.
He hides...
...but the monster can find him.
He transforms...
...but the monster can catch him.
Ground Hog is scared. Running scared. Transforming (into a vehicular alt mode) and rolling scared.
The monster. The Monster. THE MONSTER.
A beast that wants his energon. His very life-form, his essence, his spirit. The beast cries out on the wind, “You will be hollowed!”
Ground Hog tries hard to remember the events prior to this nightmare. But his memories are jumbled. He’s been running so long, transforming so often. He remembers a cliff. He remembers falling. No! That hasn’t happened yet, he tells himself. He remembers...
He remembers the monster, the energon sucking demon. Dark, mysterious and utterly evil. Its optics blazing red. “I vant your energon!” Ground Hog seems to remember it saying. But his memories are mixed and confused.
He sees another figure.
It’s a familiar form, but when the light hits the figure, it illuminates ... an abomination? Some meshed-up Transformer, pieced together by component parts? Energon bursts wrapping around its form in a chaotic uncontrolled manner...
Ground Hog had heard of the sparkless, the demons walking the wastelands of Cybertron. The dregs of the Transformers race, sucked clean of a life-form, sucked dry of .. energon? ’The Hollowed’, he realises and his systems start to pulse quicker.
He runs...
...and the monster is behind him.
He transforms...
...hurtling at speed away from his demons. He remembers the bar. Yes the Engex bar! Maccadam's! That’s where it all started! There’s some comfort in the memory that he begins to recollect correctly and can piece together the story. But Ground Hog is distracted. He doesn’t notice the metallic cliff-edge of the speedway. He misses the sharp turn.
He tumbles, he falls, transforming as he does so back to his robot mode, but it’s no use, he’s falling to his termination. He looks up to the cliff-edge and sees the monster watching him fall..
He wakes upon a Cybertronian speedway. Checking his form he can see no damage. Confused, he stands up, but then on the winds he can hear a voice. “You will be hollowed”. Ground Hog turns and sees a familiar form...
...and he runs.
To be continued.. in “Ground Hog’s Day” 02 February 2026.
----The first of a three part mini-story and to be fair this was to be the final part but the sequencing has gone all skewy because I haven’t had time to write them properly. But I really wanted to do a new Halloween story now that Pelybots is live as a website and I sat one morning waiting for the local train, plotting how to re-jig the narrative so that this could come first. Et voila!
The opening line is a homage to a classic Simon Furman (Marvel UK writer) where Buster Whitwicky is being chased by Shockwave. I remember being ill when I read that story and it registered and made such an impact.
And the line “The monster. The Monster. THE MONSTER." is either a homage to Furman’s “The Body in Question” a Death’s Head story, or Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s “The Highway Rat”, you can choose.
As always, Transformers franchise is ownership of Hasbro / Takara Tomy. This is purely a non profit fan fiction. All images and text are my own. Some images created using AI technology to create the backgrounds only, then manipulated to include photos of my models.