It's that time again.

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1. Art. A Bot and a Con sitting on something, back to back, just sort of spacing out and enjoying each others’ company. Bonus points if it’s in the middle of a battle.

 

2. “There’s nothing wrong with us! They’re lying to you, they’ve been lying to you all along! By Primus’ spark, I swear there’s nothing wrong with us, they’re lying, they’re LYING! Please believe us… don’t let them DO this…”

 

3. The Matrix is sentient.

Optimus: o_O  Get him out of me!! *creeped out*

 

4. We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, too, for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?
~ Abraham Lincoln

 

5. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
~ Jean Rostand

 

6. The cassettes as accessories. Mech-shaped, feline-shaped, and flying cassettes go in and out of style, so Soundwave and Blaster have multiple types (and colors) on hand.

 

7. “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”

 

8. Megatron, being a gun-former, finds out that all this time he’s been fighting with his ‘safety’ on.

 

9. Most of the Seekers had never seen clouds before – Cybertron hadn’t really had any. Starscream, however, remembered them from the last time he’d been to this planet. As the others investigate (read: play), he can’t bring himself to do anything more than watch.

 

10. As far as he knew, Optimus had been rebuilt from a dock worker named Orion Pax who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, it all comes crashing down…

 

Optimus: So you’re the new recruits from Cybertron. What are your designations?

RandomMech1: Mech1, sir!

RandomMech2: Mech2, sir!

RandomFemme: RandomFemme, sir! Oh, and Elita-1 said to say hi.

Orion Pax: Orion Pax, sir!

Optimus: *in shock*

Orion Pax: …sir?

 

11. Primus, when forming himself into Cybertron, deliberately avoided giving himself a restrictive atmosphere. The added density would reduce the effect of one of Primus’ favorite (although little-used) abilities: his ‘eject’ function.

???: …Why am I suddenly floating in space?

 

12. The Matrix was not created by Primus. It was originally an upgrade the Quintessons intended for all their ‘products’. The one Optimus has is the beta version: no more were created because the Cybertronians’ rebellion messed up the Quintesson economy too much for them to even continue the product line, let alone manufacture expensive upgrades for a ‘faulty’ product.

A. Someone discovers this and betrays his/her species by going to the Quintessons and agreeing to assist them somehow in exchange for a new-and-improved Matrix (for whatever reason). No one warned that poor unfortunate mech/femme that you should never cut deals with people who don’t see you as an entity intelligent enough to uphold a contract…

B. Optimus’ beta-Matrix starts malfunctioning/wears off. Imagine how Megatron would react if he was fighting Optimus and he suddenly regressed (physically and/or mentally) back to that wimpy dock worker!

C. Optimus himself finds out about the real origins of the Matrix. Worried that the effects will not last until the end of the war, he’s forced to go to the Quintessons to negotiate more upgrades/a replacement Matrix (he’s addicted!)

D. The Matrix had a failsafe feature that allowed Matrixed mechs to be controlled/shut down with a complex remote control.

E. Cybertron is mysteriously weakening and Optimus seriously considers giving up the Matrix to infuse its energy into his dying homeworld.

F. The Matrix is slowly removing Optimus’ capability for independent thought. Eventually, it will turn him into an easily-commanded drone.

G. The source of the Matrix’s power is the spark of the mech who carries it. Optimus’ very life-force is being drained as long as he uses the charisma and physical power that the Matrix gives him.

H. Realizing that the Matrix is having negative effects on him, Optimus carefully orchestrates a ‘defeat’ and allows Megatron to take the Matrix for himself.

I. The Quintessons realize that Optimus wouldn’t have been able to keep the ‘real’ Matrix right next to his spark for millions of years without some obvious ill effects. They present convincing proof to the Autobots and Decepticons that Optimus’ Matrix is a fake.

J. The Quintessons had been having a real problem controlling the breeding of their products. The Matrix upgrade ensured that whoever spark-bonded with the Matrix’s bearer would produce a single offspring; then, after that offspring had grown up, the Matrix-bearer’s bonded would die in order to keep the population at a constant level and maintain demand for the Quintessons’ product.

K. *gigantic bunny sits on major city and squashes it*

 

13. When Perceptor and the other reinforcements came to Earth, Perceptor got separated. He encounted some humans, but didn’t recognize them as sentient and used them in some experiments.

 

14. Soundwave and Blaster’s chest compartments must be pretty big.

            A. Their sparks are located somewhere unexpected.

            B. They don’t have sparks.
 
            C. Their spark-energy is diffused among their cassettes.

 

15. All Cybertronians have the capability to house one cassette. When Blaster and/or Soundwave are injured, their unfortunate comrades get hotel duty.

 

16. Perceptor’s got a thingy (can’t remember the exact name from Face of the Nijika) that consists of his Autobrand and a tiny chunk behind it. What if every Cybertronian’s faction symbol has a different device in it?

 

17. ‘Nijika’ wasn’t the first time Perceptor had occupied a different body.

 

18. Hook decides his name is the most uninteresting out of all the Constructicons’ names, and he starts to consider changing it. After all, he didn’t choose his name himself so obviously it’s not the perfect name for him…

 

19. I don’t know how many people actually saw this comment of mine, with the Love Tester that dreamer_way  posted a few weeks ago...

 

God/Perceptor = 85%
Primus/Perceptor = 85%
Athena/Perceptor = 85%
Ra/Perceptor = 95% (!)
Anubis/Perceptor = 85%
Apollo/Perceptor = 85%
Pan/Perceptor = 85%
Hermes/Perceptor = 85%
Fenrir/Perceptor = 85%
War/Perceptor = 85%
Famine/Perceptor = 85%
Batman/Perceptor = 85%

 

Methinks a certain microscope has a thing for deities and somewhat mythical figures.

 

20. Perceptor (or a different mech, if you aren’t kirin_saga  prefer writing someone else) finds himself floating in a fog, looking at a bunch of Autobots and Decepticons (friends, former friends, even some he thought were enemies) pleading with him to come to them, come back to them, come back home. He knows they couldn't have survived that explosion, so he assumes that they're dead spirits trying to convince him to let himself die. He resists, even though he can feel a tide of emotion pulling him toward them.
What he doesn't realize is that he absorbed the brunt of the explosion and was the only one injured. What he thinks are dead spirits are actually the real, living Autobots and Decepticons, desperately trying to keep him online as he slowly slips away.

 

21. Where would the Autobots/Decepticons/humans be on the political scale? Radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary?

 

22. ‘We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome.’ ~John Steinbeck

 

23. Starscream and Skyfire wandered around Earth a bit before taking that disastrous flight in the Arctic. Some of their actions indirectly led to the evolution of the human race.

 

24. Ever since his unfreezing, Skyfire has been nervous in cold weather and around ice-related things. Even the ice cubes in Spike’s drinks unsettle him a little.

A. When the Autobots went on a mission to Canada during the winter, Skyfire refused to land and his passengers were quite unhappy at the method of disembarking required.

B. Needless to say, Skyfire tends to avoid Ironhide. That liquid nitrogen cannon could go off at any moment!

 

25. Ironhide takes it upon himself to educate the Dinobots about the ‘good old days’. He figures that he’s as old to the Dinobots as Kup is to the other Autobots, so that gives him the right to bore them with endless stories when he’s off-duty.

 

26. When Cliffjumper was very young, he adopted a stray black cat-cassette. He got in trouble with his creators for keeping it, and saved his pocket money to buy it anti-virus upgrades so his creators wouldn’t take it away with the excuse that it might make him sick. Although Cliffjumper had thought that he and the cat-cassette had been best friends for life, his ‘pet’ eventually ran away – resulting in Cliffjumper’s later abandonment issues.

 

27. On one of his longer ‘exiles’ from the Decepticon base, Starscream misses having someone else around to listen to his ranting. He raids a small energy factory to obtain a suitable guesting gift and pays a visit to the Insecticons.

 

28. Every mech in both factions knows that Chromia might as well have ‘property of Ironhide’ stamped on her forehead. (Chromia herself is unaware of this, or at least pretends to be, because she’d be upset at the male chauvinist implications of being ‘claimed’.) However, Ironhide isn’t enough to scare off:

            A. A Supreme;

            B. A gestalt; or

            C. A gestalt member. (The original idea was either Chromia/Scrapper or Chromia/Hook.)

 

29. Sparkplug has a conversation with the Constructicons and earns their respect with his knowledge about structural engineering (he was a high-level construction worker before getting laid off and taking the job on the oil rig).

            A. Bonecrusher is delighted to find someone else who appreciates the fine art and skill required for demolition. A fragile little human on that job has to be even more careful than a Cybertronian would.

            B. Mixmaster hears Sparkplug’s concern that his son is smarter than he thinks he is, and isn’t aiming high enough in life. He decides to ‘help’ encourage Spike to get the chemistry degree he’s been considering.

            C. Hook is impressed by the considerable precision with which humans plan their architechture. Sparkplug warily gives him a list of the most impressively designed human structures in history to visit if he ever gets any free time.

            D. Scrapper sympathizes with Sparkplug’s remembered unease with being the leader of a construction team. He knows well the feeling of being caught between bosses who don’t really understand how much work a project takes, and team members whom you don’t want to get hurt but don’t want to see punished either.

            E. Long Haul basks in Sparkplug’s empathy with being given thankless jobs. Even though he was rather well-educated, on the oil rig all anyone ever heard was that he’d been a construction worker and gotten fired. He understand what it’s like to be underestimated by those around you.

            F. Scavenger is touched by Sparkplug’s stories of the close bonds formed between those working on a project together. Sparkplug mentions that he kept a work journal about his team, recording strengths, weaknesses, and fond memories. Scavenger decides to do the same.

            G. Devastator: ...
                Sparkplug: Um... so... how's the weather up there?

 

30. The cassettes consider themselves to be the masters of external and internal espionage. One day, however, an offhand comment leads them to ponder which one of them is truly the top spy. They decide to hold a little contest among themselves to see who can obtain the most embarrassing images.

Two titles will be awarded; one for the best Autobot pictures, and one for the best Decepticon pictures. The winners will gain possession of the relevant images and decide on the most effective way to use them. Reflector overhears them discussing the contest, and decides to get in on the action himself.