I'm actually starting to get kinda freaked out here.

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Seriously, this is addicting.

1. Science and magic do not mix well.

 

2. Optimus and Megatron are not the leaders of their factions; the true leaders are covertly posing as ordinary Bots and Cons in order to better judge and boost morale.

 

3. Primus and Unicron play cards, i.e. ‘My Soundwave trumps your Blaster!’ ‘Slag!’

 

4. Crossover with Xanth (read Kenya Starflight’s awesome Centaur of Attention and Catacombs for example of Xanth – they’re actually Star Wars/Xanth crossovers).

 

5. The day that First Aid got his official license as a battlefield medic equal to Ratchet, a whole horde of Autobots realized that Ratchet’s bedside manner (or lack thereof) was not in fact normal, and they could have been having a much more comfortable time of it than they had been ever since Ratchet was assigned to the unit. With an angry Autobot army at his heels, (and footage of his tantrums leaked to TV networks, so he can’t hide out at a human hospital) Ratchet is forced to take shelter with the Cons. As it turns out, his attitude is an improvement on Hook’s (who always insisted that his role was to build things, not patch up crazy kamikaze Seekers).

So, the Cons get a medic who actually follows the Cybertronian version of the Hippocratic Oath, the Constructies get to return to their intended function, and Ratchet is gratified to find that his wrench-throwing actually reduces stupidity-induced trips to the medbay. (Actually, the Cons are so confused by their new medic violently expressing concern for their well-being that they just want to stay as far away from him as possible.) So, if/when the Bots decide they want Ratchet back… what would they do if he’s tempted to stay?

 

6. The volcano that the Ark is stuck in erupts and the Autobots are now homeless. The powerful underwater geyser that the Nemesis is stuck on goes off and the Decepticons are now homeless. What’s more, neither faction was able to save the technology that lets them store energon in a safe and non-explosive manner.

 

7. Artemis Fowl encounters the Transformers.

 

8. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”

 

9. Primus’ and Unicron’s authority doesn’t extend to Earth. The two deities must haggle with ancient human deities (maybe Egyptian gods?) for the well-being of their race.

 

10. Overcharged soldiers decide to rename their faction and re-design the symbol, maybe write a motto and mission statement too. When they’re done, they change the physical symbols on their bodies, paint the new symbol on walls, set it as a screen saver on all the base screens…

 

11. Megatron and Optimus are found offline in a desolate area, miles from any human establishment.

 

12. Riddle contests.

 

13. Lying contests.

 

14. An unlikely capture.

 

15. Chip Chase finds out that the Autobots have technology that would let him walk, but they haven’t told him about it.

 

16. Energon made from Earth resources becomes toxic and loses its potency when stored for too long, making the Cons’ stashes worthless.

 

17. Shockwave/Autobot femme.

 

18. The Decepticons realize that the humans’ smaller size lets them assist with delicate repairs and thus badly-injured Autobots have little to no chance of offlining. They kidnap the Bots’ humans because they think it will be easier to gain their cooperation than to train new squishies. While the humans slowly develop Stockholm Syndrome, at least one Autobot dies who would have lived with the humans’ help.

 

19.  “What’s going on?”

“A pouncing lesson.”

 

20. “You have forgotten me.”

“No… How could I?”

“You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself. You are more than what you have become.”

“How can I go back? I’m not who I used to be.”

 

21. “Look at the stars. The great Primes of the past are up there, watching over us. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those Primes will always be there to guide you. And so will I.”

 

22. Mood-altering energon.

 

23. What would a Disney version of Transformers be like?

 

24. Decepticons see/do Monty Python.

 

25. Exactly halfway between the Autobot and Decepticon bases, there is was a small human town.

 

26. Someone decides to start writing his memoirs.

 

27. Sunstreaker receives an anonymous art commission.

 

28. The planet Skyfire and Starscream visited to survey was not Earth.

 

29. Skyfire is sick of being the Autobot Taxi so he asks Perceptor to shrink him (just a little). Something goes wrong.

 

30. A game show.

 

31. Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

 

32. Hound and Soundwave host a movie night.

 

33. “YOU… SHALL NOT… PAAASSSSSSSSS!!!!”

 

34. Some mechs just can’t pull off the innocent ‘Who, me?’ look.

 

35. By the time he realized that it just didn’t matter, it was too late.

 

36. Perceptor: “Kill them. Kill them all.”

 

37. ????: “No survivors.”

Skyfire: “Excellent.”

 

38. Someone proves that Optimus’ Matrix is nothing but a clever copy.

 

39. “We’re nothing more than puppets, dancing on strings… but the mech who holds the strings also has the scissors.”

 

40. The game is over but for one last throw of the dice.

 

41. Someone is suddenly very, very rich.

 

42. Red Alert’s glitch takes control of him… he wakes up the next morning to find that it is gone, but it managed to infect nearly every other Autobot. He and a few others must find a way to trick the Cons into helping them cure their friends.

 

43. Everyone assumes that Soundwave’s unusual speech pattern is a minor but annoying glitch. It is actually the symptom of a much more serious one. The cassettes have been hiding the glitch by absorbing tiny pieces of the corrupted programming as it spreads, but soon they won’t be able to continue without threatening their own mental well-being.

 

44. Rewind + Eject = ‘reject’. Frenzy + Rumble = ‘fumble’. Both sets of Cassettes discover this at the same time.

 

45. “You know I can’t answer that question.”

 

46. No way out.

 

47. “What do you mean, you can’t read?”

 

48. Back to the beginning.

 

49. The soundtrack of life.

 

50. What’s the opposite of nostalgia?

 

51. “That’s not supposed to be glowing.”

 

52. “What?! Snape kills Dumbledore?!?!”

 

53. Everyone really IS out to get Red Alert.

 

54. A Decepticon has an unusual glitch… he can’t lie.

 

55. ”Where did you get that medal?”

 

56. Lullaby.

 

57. A Decepticon tribute to the fallen (small f).

 

58a. Transformers and Winnie the Pooh. Optimus = Peter Cullen = Eeyore. But Dead End = Eeyore too… Rabbit = Ratchet? Tigger = Wheeljack? Honey = Energon. Decepticons = Heffalumps and Woozles!

 

58b. When Spike was younger and still went by the name Christopher, he and Sparkplug lived by a forest called the Hundred Acre Wood… Spike is used to having friends who are a little ‘different’. (Maybe both the Pooh animals AND the Transformers are all in his head!) OR

 

58c. Everyone knows that ‘Spike’ and ‘Sparkplug’ are just nicknames. Not everyone knows that Spike is adopted; Sparkplug is actually Spike’s uncle Max. Spike’s biological parents and his best friend Susie died in a car crash when he was ten, all due to skull fractures or brain injury. That’s why Spike and Sparkplug are often seen wearing hard hats even when they’re not necessary. Spike doesn’t like thinking of his previous life, and he never answers to his old name of Calvin. But one year Bumblebee has to scramble for a last-minute birthday present and all he can find is a ratty old stuffed tiger… (Can you imagine what the ‘Bots could do to the ‘Cons if they had “Calvin and Hobbes” type magic???)

 

59. What’s the Cybertronian version of a ‘wolf whistle’ or that thing that sounds like ‘Bow chicka bow bow!’?

 

60. Transformers without actual weapons – just anime-ish energy blast thingies and radioactive-looking ‘power-ups’.

 

61. Each Cybertronian’s paint job ‘inverts’; so Sideswipe and Sunstreaker would be green and purple respectively, with green Autobot logos; Skywarp and Thundercracker would be white-and-yellow and dark orange respectively, with yellow Decepticon logos, etc. And this would make Optimus… green and black, with purple bits and an orange helmet. Ouch. Art? Fic?

 

62. After the war, Starscream sues Megatron, trying to get him to pay for his therapy. (Yay ambiguous pronouns… I just realized that could mean Starscream wanting Megatron to pay for Starscream’s postwar self-esteem/abuse recovery therapy, or Starscream wanting Megatron to pay him for giving Megatron therapy during the war. Starscream the therapist… *shudders*) Hey, this could be combined with kirin_saga’s Judge Optimus idea! *ties matching bows around bunnies’ necks and stuffs them in a basket*

 

63. The Decepticons run out of ideas for random uber-weapons/energy sources. Soundwave gets a virus from/succumbs to and passes a virus on to the base computer so they can’t scan for human energy sources to steal from. And the Autobots are mysteriously nowhere to be found – even the Ark has vanished overnight!

 

64. An annoyed Optimus stopped by Wheeljack’s lab to give him a simple but confusing assignment: Create high-friction spheres of a certain diameter which are blast-proof to such-and-such level of charge… Wheeljack constructs them (without explosions), and distributes a bagful to each Autobot, as Optimus requested. All is revealed when, before the next battle, the Prime announces that the first Autobot to somehow get one of those spheres lodged in Megatron’s fusion cannon will win a fabulous prize…

 

65. Get a Cybertronian in a fic (or pic) to make a ‘just ate a very sour lemon’ face.

 

66. For kirin_saga:

Swindle: You know, that handy microscope barrel of yours would probably sell for quite a lot in some circles. You’re lucky I like you.

Perceptor: *flatly* The *only* reason you haven’t stolen it yet is because it *doesn’t detach*.

Swindle: Yeah, that too. Now, I’ve got an absolutely fabulous idea for marketing that latest gadget of yours…

 

67. What would happen if Optimus died/went AWOL without the Matrix, and Megatron ordered his most dedicated underlings to steal the Matrix, and it chose one of them?

 

68. Skyfirus Prime.

Skyfirus: *conversationally* Isn’t it funny that you were the one who favored getting into this war, but I’ve ended up outranking you?

(conspicuously NOT Lord) Starscream: Shut up. Shut. Up. Shut. UP! This is SO. UNFAIR! It’s not like you need the extra bulk or anything either, you big lug!

Skyfirus: …Are you calling me fat? *whimpers*

 

69. Starscreamus Prime.

Starscreamus: Hey, Skyfire, look! I’m as big as you now! Oooohhhh, a null-ray-cannon… *flies off to test it*

Skyfire: *sigh* Well, at least I know he still has his scientific curiosity…

Megatron: *goes and cries in a corner at the fulfillment of all his nightmares*

Comments

[alabaster-demon.livejournal.com]

I saw a fic a bit like that, but even though I liked it, it got a lot of critism about being OOC. Still, I think the idea as you've phrased it here is a good one.

You're right, this one would be hard to write without OOCing - because OOCing is sort of like cheating; you might as well just make an original character. I'm glad you like the idea though.

If I were ever to write this, it probably wouldn't be all Earth energon - I'd probably make just energon made from fossil fuel sources that eventually turns toxic. With the way the Decepticons work - getting energon by stealing from human power stations and the like - most of their supplies are suseptible to turning toxic simply because fossil fuel-based energy is so common, especially back in the 1980s.

Lots of good ideas in there. Want the bunny? Please take the bunny! (And post a link when it's all grown up!) *puppy optics*


My Ultra Magnus muse (non RP) has decided that he likes this. It sounds like something said between Optimus and Magnus - probably Optimus saying it before he went on the mission that ended up with him stuck in stasis on Earth for four million years.

And to think, when Optimus disappeared and Magnus probably felt all abandoned, Optimus really was 'up there' in the stars...

Oh Primus, pocket-sized Skyfire!

He would be very easy to just snatch and stuff in a subspace pocket, wouldn't he? *wants art*

This is another my Magnus muse likes - he's saying that Carly got herself involved with his, Optimus's and Rodimus's bonding ceremony, and Roddy had absolute hell because she kept adding a whole stack of human wedding customs into it, using the reasoning that since it was being done on Earth, a bit of adjustment for Earth customs would go a long way, especially since the bonding of a Prime is a big enough deal that it's the Cybertronian equivilent of a royal wedding.

It'd be interesting to see who Carly interprets as bride(s), and who is/are the groom(s)... and I *love* the 'royal wedding' bit. Would they need diplomatic representation from the Decepticons? Technically, the Prime is a leader of all of Cybertron (right?). So the whole Cybertronian race (symbolically) would have to witness the ceremony, right?

Oh, and Optimus - old, Rodimus - new, Ultra Magnus - blue, 'stupid pointless human customs gahhhh' - borrowed?

"Yes, well, you know how everyone treats Prime like he's the ultimate sex symbol of the Autobots?"

O_O. I MUST see someone bring this up to/in front of Prime - I bet he is *completely* oblivious to this.
"No one told me *that* was part of the job description!!"

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Lots of good ideas in there. Want the bunny? Please take the bunny! (And post a link when it's all grown up!) *puppy optics*

Unfortunately, I don't write. I have big ideas that'd make great fics... but I just don't have the endurance to write them - I'd wander off after the first chapter or two, distracted by some new shiny.

So the whole Cybertronian race (symbolically) would have to witness the ceremony, right?

Well I figure it'd definitely be televised, though that'd be another point that'd be a bit of a problem - despite all the explaining anyone does about Cybertronians being technically sexless and threesomes being acceptable marriage patterns in Cybertronian culture (the same thing as in one of my other recent bunnies - Prime has to bond in a trine), I imagine there would always be people who would get up in arms at Optimus Prime marrying not just one other male but two.


It'd be interesting to see who Carly interprets as bride(s), and who is/are the groom(s)...

Carly decided that since Optimus is Prime in this set-up, then that made both Magnus and Rodimus brides.