3. Perceptor's creators had three locks on his bedroom door...
One lock to keep his physical body from leaving the room, another lock to keep him from mentally opening the door or using his mind to make someone open it for him, and a third lock to keep him from just destroying the entire room.
4. Before the war, Ratchet gave a youngling named Hook lessons on how to keep patients under control.
Except that was before Hook joined the Constructicons, and he had a different name. So when Ratchet is wounded and captured by the 'Cons, Hook recognizes Ratchet by his terrible behavior (because medics make the worst patients) and feels guilty for using his old mentor's own tricks against him.
8. What if the Constructicons weren't technically reprogrammed? What if their consciences were simply repressed?
And if that can be undone, what if all the collective guilt of millions of years would almost certainly destroy them or drive them mad? Even if they realized that they'd been manipulated, it would be too late for them to un-repress their consciousnesses because they don't want to die. And poor Omega is trying to 'free' them, but if he succeeds it'll kill them...
9. Perceptor's lover is actually a Decepticon spy. One of his assignments is to kill the Autobot's head scientist (Perceptor). The spy... can't bring himself to do it.
BRAWN! Those crazy cassettes are playing with our heads again...
14. Ok, we seem to be overlooking another potential blackmailer. Blaster. He's a communications officer, a tape deck, he can hear everything. No comm channel is safe from him.
What if Blaster is secretly blackmailing Soundwave?
15. Perceptor is going blind. Knowing that there's nothing Ratchet (or anyone) can do, he tries to hide this.
Hmmm, maybe his super-vision powers actually drain the strength of his optics. For every day he's used his ability to 'see everything', he'll have to spend a year without sight altogether.
21. The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
I want to see this with someone constantly telling Megatron that Starscream would betray/murder him, and Megatron not believing that person until it's too late. Or maybe... ooh! Inferno is always dragging Red Alert to the medbay, panicking that he's glitching beyond repair. Everyone laughs at his mother-hen attitude, and usually Red Alert is given a quick check-up, then sent away with a mild order to 'take it easy for a little while'. But one day, Red glitches so badly that his 'horns' short-circuit and don't even light up. No one will believe Inferno when he insists that Red is on the verge of going crazy and ripping the Ark apart.
31. Art. Sunstreaker roaring like the MGM Lion.
*loves*
39. "He may have been our enemy... but he died a hero."
*LOVES*
40. Sparklings and Younglings were the only ones Vortex was ever gentle with.
Awww... Now I want to see Vortex babysitting the Stunticons just after they were created.
47. One of the Autobots finds a device that erases memories. Deciding to have some fun, this Autobot decides to interface with several Autobots, with or without their consent, and erases their memory of the events. He continues this game until several of his victims end up pregnant. Now, his conscience is finally making itself known.
o_O
52. Blaster and Soundwave used to be friends, and therefore share a telepathic connection. When Blaster is badly injured, unable to move and barely aware, and is far from the Ark where no one can find him... it's Soundwave he reaches out to in desperation.
*loves*
53. Blaster and Soundwave switch bodies.
*imagines their new voices**cackles*
60. Perceptor begins having moments of weakness, feeling shortness of breath, and feeling his pump stalling briefly (like when a human heart seems to skip a beat, and the next beat feels harder). He puts off going to Ratchet, because for some reason, he's afraid of learning what's wrong.
Instead of being way younger than he looks, Perceptor is actually by far the oldest mech on Earth. In fact, he's the only mech who's ever survived long enough to experience the Cybertronian equivalent of death from old age.
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One lock to keep his physical body from leaving the room, another lock to keep him from mentally opening the door or using his mind to make someone open it for him, and a third lock to keep him from just destroying the entire room.
4. Before the war, Ratchet gave a youngling named Hook lessons on how to keep patients under control.
Except that was before Hook joined the Constructicons, and he had a different name. So when Ratchet is wounded and captured by the 'Cons, Hook recognizes Ratchet by his terrible behavior (because medics make the worst patients) and feels guilty for using his old mentor's own tricks against him.
8. What if the Constructicons weren't technically reprogrammed? What if their consciences were simply repressed?
And if that can be undone, what if all the collective guilt of millions of years would almost certainly destroy them or drive them mad? Even if they realized that they'd been manipulated, it would be too late for them to un-repress their consciousnesses because they don't want to die. And poor Omega is trying to 'free' them, but if he succeeds it'll kill them...
9. Perceptor's lover is actually a Decepticon spy. One of his assignments is to kill the Autobot's head scientist (Perceptor). The spy... can't bring himself to do it.
BRAWN! Those crazy cassettes are playing with our heads again...
14. Ok, we seem to be overlooking another potential blackmailer. Blaster. He's a communications officer, a tape deck, he can hear everything. No comm channel is safe from him.
What if Blaster is secretly blackmailing Soundwave?
15. Perceptor is going blind. Knowing that there's nothing Ratchet (or anyone) can do, he tries to hide this.
Hmmm, maybe his super-vision powers actually drain the strength of his optics. For every day he's used his ability to 'see everything', he'll have to spend a year without sight altogether.
21. The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
I want to see this with someone constantly telling Megatron that Starscream would betray/murder him, and Megatron not believing that person until it's too late.
Or maybe... ooh! Inferno is always dragging Red Alert to the medbay, panicking that he's glitching beyond repair. Everyone laughs at his mother-hen attitude, and usually Red Alert is given a quick check-up, then sent away with a mild order to 'take it easy for a little while'. But one day, Red glitches so badly that his 'horns' short-circuit and don't even light up. No one will believe Inferno when he insists that Red is on the verge of going crazy and ripping the Ark apart.
31. Art. Sunstreaker roaring like the MGM Lion.
*loves*
39. "He may have been our enemy... but he died a hero."
*LOVES*
40. Sparklings and Younglings were the only ones Vortex was ever gentle with.
Awww... Now I want to see Vortex babysitting the Stunticons just after they were created.
47. One of the Autobots finds a device that erases memories. Deciding to have some fun, this Autobot decides to interface with several Autobots, with or without their consent, and erases their memory of the events. He continues this game until several of his victims end up pregnant. Now, his conscience is finally making itself known.
o_O
52. Blaster and Soundwave used to be friends, and therefore share a telepathic connection. When Blaster is badly injured, unable to move and barely aware, and is far from the Ark where no one can find him... it's Soundwave he reaches out to in desperation.
*loves*
53. Blaster and Soundwave switch bodies.
*imagines their new voices**cackles*
60. Perceptor begins having moments of weakness, feeling shortness of breath, and feeling his pump stalling briefly (like when a human heart seems to skip a beat, and the next beat feels harder). He puts off going to Ratchet, because for some reason, he's afraid of learning what's wrong.
Instead of being way younger than he looks, Perceptor is actually by far the oldest mech on Earth. In fact, he's the only mech who's ever survived long enough to experience the Cybertronian equivalent of death from old age.