16. Dion's body was never found. What if he hadn't been hurt as badly as everyone thought? What if he slipped into stasis lock and was found by someone who didn't know who he was? What if, many many vorns later, he woke up?
Optimus had always thought (either secretly or openly) that Ultra Magnus was Dion reformatted. Then he finds out that Dion has been found. What would he think when he realizes that all this time he's been treating a stranger as if he were his old best friend?
23. "You can tell a lot about someone by watching how they treat those who are weaker than themselves."
GAHHH. WHERE IS THIS FROM. ARGH. I KNOW THIS. I think it was something like, "A man may treat his equals and superiors with respect, but to truly judge his character you must look to how he treats his inferiors." To Kill A Mockingbird, maybe?
27.He always heard screaming. Even when there was no screaming to be heard.
Makes me think of Starscream. Either this is where he gets his name, or Megatron is hearing Starscream's voice in his head. Maybe after he killed him? Or maybe it's Armada!Megatron (Galvatron?), remembering what Armada!Starscream sounded like when he was sacrificing himself to prove the threat of Unicron?
9. Before the war, several mechs were kidnapped and forced to undergo painful experiments...
*thinks* Which TFs weren't victims of size-changing in the original cartoon?
33. Perceptor is the creation of a Decepticon that Mirage has been ordered to kill. Mirage did as ordered before discovering the sparkling. Not knowing what else to do, he takes Perceptor with him to the Autobot base.
So did young!Perceptor think that killing was thus acceptable behavior? Or maybe he imprinted on Mirage?
37. "Never let anyone know that you're good with kids. You'll never get out of babysitting duty."
Blaster and Soundwave. Early in their Autobot/Decepticon careers, they let that slip and were promptly burdened with the sparklings of every creator in the 'Bot and 'Con armies. Some of the creators were killed; others were so badly injured that they forgot they even had sparklings; and some others didn't care about the sparklings or didn't know that they had contributed to the creation. But Soundwave and Blaster eventually got so attached to the sparklings that it didn't matter... although some of them still refused to address their adopted creators as 'Dad' or similar.
38. It had quickly become a banishment.
Idea! What if Starscream and Skyfire were allowed to travel to Earth, thinking that it was a scientific expedition, when really it was an excuse to rid Cybertron of their scientific genius before one faction or the other could get them under their control? Maybe hidden agents followed the two and chased them into the storm? Or maybe the agents' orders were to damage their alt-forms and equipment so they could survive on Earth but never make it back to Cybertron. Perceptor found out about this plot and, knowing he would be next if he didn't do something, volunteered to join the squad that would follow them. He couldn't slip away to warn Starscream and Skyfire, but he tried to sabotage his team's efforts...
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16. Dion's body was never found. What if he hadn't been hurt as badly as everyone thought? What if he slipped into stasis lock and was found by someone who didn't know who he was? What if, many many vorns later, he woke up?
Optimus had always thought (either secretly or openly) that Ultra Magnus was Dion reformatted. Then he finds out that Dion has been found. What would he think when he realizes that all this time he's been treating a stranger as if he were his old best friend?
23. "You can tell a lot about someone by watching how they treat those who are weaker than themselves."
GAHHH. WHERE IS THIS FROM. ARGH. I KNOW THIS. I think it was something like, "A man may treat his equals and superiors with respect, but to truly judge his character you must look to how he treats his inferiors." To Kill A Mockingbird, maybe?
27.He always heard screaming. Even when there was no screaming to be heard.
Makes me think of Starscream. Either this is where he gets his name, or Megatron is hearing Starscream's voice in his head. Maybe after he killed him? Or maybe it's Armada!Megatron (Galvatron?), remembering what Armada!Starscream sounded like when he was sacrificing himself to prove the threat of Unicron?
9. Before the war, several mechs were kidnapped and forced to undergo painful experiments...
*thinks* Which TFs weren't victims of size-changing in the original cartoon?
33. Perceptor is the creation of a Decepticon that Mirage has been ordered to kill. Mirage did as ordered before discovering the sparkling. Not knowing what else to do, he takes Perceptor with him to the Autobot base.
So did young!Perceptor think that killing was thus acceptable behavior? Or maybe he imprinted on Mirage?
37. "Never let anyone know that you're good with kids. You'll never get out of babysitting duty."
Blaster and Soundwave. Early in their Autobot/Decepticon careers, they let that slip and were promptly burdened with the sparklings of every creator in the 'Bot and 'Con armies. Some of the creators were killed; others were so badly injured that they forgot they even had sparklings; and some others didn't care about the sparklings or didn't know that they had contributed to the creation. But Soundwave and Blaster eventually got so attached to the sparklings that it didn't matter... although some of them still refused to address their adopted creators as 'Dad' or similar.
38. It had quickly become a banishment.
Idea! What if Starscream and Skyfire were allowed to travel to Earth, thinking that it was a scientific expedition, when really it was an excuse to rid Cybertron of their scientific genius before one faction or the other could get them under their control? Maybe hidden agents followed the two and chased them into the storm? Or maybe the agents' orders were to damage their alt-forms and equipment so they could survive on Earth but never make it back to Cybertron.
Perceptor found out about this plot and, knowing he would be next if he didn't do something, volunteered to join the squad that would follow them. He couldn't slip away to warn Starscream and Skyfire, but he tried to sabotage his team's efforts...