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School has, if anything, encouraged the bunnies. Only some of them are coming out weird now. Warning: Some of these are rather epic-length.

 

1. Elita with a big banner with femme!Optimus on it.

2. [2007] Sam’s parents aren’t as good as they are in canon. When his parents loss custody, 7 year old Sam is sent to live with his newly released Great-Grandfather Archibald by a ‘social worker’ named Simmons. Sam is more caretaker to Archibald then the other way around, and by the time he’s 17, Simmons is one of the only adults he feels he can trust. 

3. [2007] Sam is beginning to suspect he’s an alien magnet. First Miles’s ship-pod-thing crashes in front of him at 8, and now he’s got a transforming robot in his driveway.

4. The Quintessons are actually a fundamentalist cult from the Quinte race. Most of the Quinte would rather not remember the nut-jobs they threw off planet a few generations ago.

5. Sentient beings are unique in their ability to learn from their mistakes, and remarkable in their disinclination to do so.

6. ?: Congratulations- you’ve disproved the ‘stable time loop’ theory of time travel.

7. [G1] Possibly related to above- Red Alert is a time traveler from a hellish future. He’s determined to stop it from happening again at all costs. (“Back home, Inferno used to chide me for being too trusting”)

8. [G1] All but one of the aerialbots are killed. So is Starscream. Skywarp thinks they can all solve their problems by recruiting the survivor into the trine.

9. [TF:A/G1] Blackarachnia ends up in G1 Shockwave’s lab.

10. [TF:A/G1] Sideswipe/Blackarachnia/Sunstreaker

11. [TF:A] Anyone remember BA’s comment about ‘being dismantled and examined on some lab table’ if Optimus had brought here back to Cybertron? I noticed that Optimus never actually says that wouldn’t happen. Methink all is not well in cybertronian society after the great war.

12. [G1] Jobs at power stations or oil rigs are now rated as one of the most fatal occupations in America. Accepting one is like joining the army- your family never knows when their going to get that call where the man at the other end says, “I’m sorry, today there was a decepticon attack…”

13. The autobots find out just how not-sane one of their human allies is.

14. [G1] Prowl: You do realize that I was just like you, before I had my battle computer installed?

15. In any given section of either army, roughly half of them couldn’t care less about the cause. 2 out of 3 of them joined because someone important to them was reprogrammed by the other side, and the 3^rd joined to stay close to stay to someone reprogrammed on this side. The other half are those brainwashed mechs. Naturally, everyone thinks their situation is unique, or caused by something only the other side would do.

16. [G1] Danny Phantom Crossover. Wheeljack and Perceptor meet the Fentons at a paranormal convention, and Perceptor is fascinated by the strange readings Danny Fenton gives off. 

17. Millions of years after the autobots’ first set of human contacts died, several young bots wake up with memories of a green alien planet and mechs they’ve never met. (You’re First Aid, right? Do you know who 'Ratchet' is?)

18. [G1] Arimus Prime, and her bonded, Orion Pax.

19. [G1] Blaster's visor is retractable. He uses it to shield his especially delicate optical sensors from sunlight.- Teletraan I
Vampire!Blaster, anyone?

21. [G1] Wheeljack and Perceptor invent a weapon that tears holes in the fabric of reality. This fact does not come to light until it is used in battle, when it is blown up, resulting in a permanent hole between realities, and causing temporary 'reality holes' to open and close erratically all across the universe, centering around Earth. Several copies of Unicron come through the permanent hole before the combined forces of the autobots and decepticons manage to seal it, but by then it's too late. The Unicrons are loose, vast swatches of the human population are dead, the universe has collapsed into anarchy as panicked races succumb to fear over their fate, and multiple members of both sides, mostly autobots but including both leaders, are dead. Two decades later, The Nemesis is home to Soundwave and Red Alert (or whoever you choose), co-leaders of an uneasily united alliance of decepticons, autobots and humans, all working together to scavenge, steal, bargain or borrow whatever is necessary for their combined survival. An unexpected reality hole catapults them into an unaltered version of their universe, but not everyone is ready to leave the ship and go back to skirmishes over energon, especially the children who grew up on ship.

22. Scene looking for a story: A collection of mechs and femmes with obvious weld marks, dents, missing and mismatched optics, tattered and clashing paint jobs, lost and obviously replaced limbs and a variety of faction symbols (some of which include autobot and decepticon sigils, stylized knots, complex characters and planetary images), all seated around fire in front of an equally damaged ship, telling stories, laughing, and drinking.

23. [G1] Blaster is Soundwave’s creation- from when he was an autobot.

24. [G1] There are laws against creating new bots simply to gain a lover or servants, but most rich mechs get around it by simply paying some else to make the new mech.
    A. There weren't always laws against it, and in order to get it passed, legislators had to promise not to take away mechs who were created for those purposes before the law passed.
     B. When one their 'new lovers' became boring, many simply dumped them on the streets.
          I. Some of them became involved in the illegal gladiator games, Like Megatron.
          II. Others, not content to languish in obscurity because of their origins, stole the identities and lives from other, more 'qualified' mechs and used to obtain positions of power and importance, like Prowl and Starscream.
          III. Most, however, have no legal or illegal recourse and end up stuck with dangerous, dead-end jobs at places like the docks and shipping yards, like Ariel, Orion and Dion.

25. [G1] What if Optimus was reprogrammed? He only thinks he and 'Ariel' were nearly killed in the dockyard energon raid. In reality, he and a seeker called Aerial were injured protecting their lord and lover from vengeful autobots after Sentinal Prime was killed. He and Aerial were brought back to Iacon to be interrogated and executed when a strange thing happened: He was chosen by the matrix of leadership. The autobots did the best they could with that curveball, considering. He and Aerial were upgraded into drastically different frames, had all memories after joining the decepticon's deleted (and in Aeriel's case, all memories period), a memory of a decepticon raid was added to explain their injuries and turn them against their former faction, and then had a dead friend (Dion) thrown in to prevent them from questioning things too closely.
    A. Elita-1 is captured by Soundwave, who attempts to reprogram her. Instead, he triggers a defense protocol left over from before 'her' reformating. It resets everything- system and processor and defense protocols- to the last 'clean' back up: Aerial, an orn before the raid. Aerial hides the fact and escapes to earth, convinced Shockwave is a traitor and is responsible for Orion/Optimus/Optronix's demise.

26. For a scientist, a minor glitch like only being able to speak the truth is hardly a problem- there's so much of it to tell, and most of it's misunderstood by laypersons.