Bunny for adoption

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Some of you might have read my oneshot Inevitable a few weeks ago. I would suggest reading the story, before reading the bunny, if one wants to be surprised, as the Oneshot IS the bunny. ;)


This bunny plays mainly in the Bayverse, but can happen in most other verses as well.

The idea was, that there is a core programming in every Transformer which is an integral part of their personality. And which they can't ignore. Part of this core programming was, to guarantee a stable society, to obey the Prime, or in the case of the military inclined mechs to obey the Lord Protector.

A war forced the Cybertronians to make nearly all newsparks into military inclined mechs, aka soldiers, and to sent them off-world to fight against an alien race. They won, but when they came back, the population spike (and the unproductivity of the soldiers, because really they weren't factory mechs) led to a famine.

Prime didn't to anything. His core programming was to protect the peace of the society as a whole. Megatron, though, as the Lord Protector had as his highest commands to obey the Prime and to protect society, to protect the population. Said population was starving and dying and Megatron literally couldn't watch. He had to protect them - and he chose to defy Optimus Prime.

The consequence of ignoring such an integral part of ones own programming was madness. So Megatron went mad.

But - all the military mech followed him, because they hated the mechs that led them starve and because of their own programming. The same was true for Optimus Prime.

The civil war started. But a Prime wasn't made for fighting. A Prime is made to keep his population happy and peaceful. Being forced to fight meant - ignoring his own core programming. Optimus managed to stave of madness, until coming to Earth. There he met his breaking point and his core programming "adopted" humanity - abandoning the Cybertronians.


The comments to Inevitable made me realise, that this bunny has a lot more potential than just this one Oneshot. What about all the other Cybertronians in the war? Did they go mad, too? Can they be saved? Is there hope after Inevitable or only madness and destruction?

Ratchet: Might have gone made, between the orders to obey Prime and to heal - and the reality of being forced to fight, of war. I eman, throwing wrenches isn't a good sign in a medic which core programming is "healing".

Wheeljack: Maybe he was something else than an engineer and his explosions are a sign of suicidal thoughts?

Soundwave: Maybe he went quietly mad, because he felt all the madness around him  -and erased all of is core programming but the need to obey Megatron?

Starscream: Well, I touched upon his case in the oneshot, between the orders to protect the skies and Cybertron - and to obey Megatron who became a danger to said skies and Cybertron.


And so on. Sadly, at the moment I really don't have the time (or the ideas) to write more about it.

I would love to read other ideas, how they might have all been forced to go against their own core programming with various outcomes. No holds barred. If someone has an idea about Prowl and Jazz, or Megatron or Optimus, I would love to read it as well. :)

~silber

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Interested in taking the bunny up? ;)