That's why they're usually the strongest, and stay the strongest. Sure, it's nice and all to have no plot holes, but then there's nothing to keep you awake at night, telling you that you're either a) missing something, or b) you need to fill it in. That's what fanfiction is made of after all. :) That, and a wide variety of characters. The wider variety, usually the better fics tend to be written with less OC's, because they're already there.

I guess you're right about the helicopters, they are triple changers or gestalt members. But it was a nice thought anyways.

Tanks are fancy ways of getting yourself killed. If you have a tank, then you're screaming that you want to be killed. Period.

Meanwhile, while Starscream and his trine is still attempting to figure out if the Datsun trio are hidden Seekers, they've already confirmed thee fact that Sideswipe and Susntreaker are. The only problem now is to get them away from the autobots long enough to reformat them- a task that's proving hard.