#autobot high command

[kaontic]

G1 Autobot holoforms/human forms Part 1: The High Command

Wanted to choose people who look like they could kick some serious tailpipe—or ass, since they’re humans (for) now.

WELP, IT’S ROLL CALL TIIIIIIIIME~ :D

Optimus Prime

Jazz

Prowl

Ironhide

Skyfire/Jetfire

Grimlock

Elita-1

⭐️ BONUS ⭐️

Roller

Combat Deck

Wow, that didn’t take long at all, but that’s what happens when you think about this stuff for over a year.

[thinkingboutthoseformers]

Reader is working as an assistant/tutor/babysitter for Isaac Sumdac. These are some various prompts/thoughts I had concerning tfa. Very self-indulgent reader insert.

Reader sees sari all by herself with very little human interactions: Mr. Sumdac, if you ever need a babysitter or tutor or anything, I'd be glad to help...

Reader: SARI, WE NEED TO LEAVE

Sari: I made a new friend

Bumblebee: Woah. You have a bigger human as a pet? Cool.

Reader:AHHHGH

Ratchet: The damn equipment is fried, I can't use my micro tools to fix Prowl.

Reader: Can I help? I got tiny hands, at least compared to you.

Ratchet: WHERE DID THE ORGANIC COME FRO- Nevermind, just come up here and help.

Reader:Sees Isaac in the megahand chair, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?

Isaac:Whuh

Reader: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU USING HIS HAND AS FURNITURE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO CUT OFF MY HAND TO USE AS A CUPHOLDER?

Isaac: ah...my apologies,, Megatron.

Reader: PLEASE TELL ME YOU AT LEAST HAVE KEEPING THEM COMPANY OR KEEPING THEM BUSY

Isaac, sweating:...ah,,

Reader: ISAAC SUMDAC THAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE, YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER.

Isaac:i...I'll will work on that,,

Megatron, who has been through worse imprisonment by the autobots, pleasantly surprised by the concern from this little creature.

Reader brings stuff for Megatron to do, as well as spending time with him so he won't be lonely. They watch movies together, discuss literature and culture, and exist in the same space as each other. One day Reader comes in and is quiet.

Reader:...Megatron, I know I am overstepping by saying this, but you're a Decepticon, aren't you?

Megatron is quiet before: Yes, I am. I'm assuming you told-

Reader: I haven't told anyone.

Megatron becomes quiet in a mix of contemplation.

Reader: I just- I noticed things. The way the 'bots talk about their 'cause', how they talk about themselves, how they talk about decepticons and... I worry.

Megatron: Worry?

Reader:...The things they say, about being 'cogs in the great autobot machine', about being drafted into the military against their will, about how they were abandoned once they were deemed useless. I guess... well, indoctrination is a hell of a thing.

Megatron: You speak as if you know these things personally.

Reader: Not really, I guess I'm more...well read and aware than anything else. Which is why I wanted to ask you your side, the deception side of the story.

Megatron: Very well...*talks about the war* Does that answer any of your worries?

Reader: It does, thanks Megatron.

Megatron: Will you tell Dr. Sumdac or the others?

Reader: No, I won't. I don't care what your background is, nobody deserves to live as a head in a jar. And... well, when I was explaining that I want my friends to be happy, I was also including you, Megatron.

Megatron's optics soften ever so slightly, before remarking: Head in a Jar? Is that another human phrase?

Reader: Oh, I should show you Futurama!!

Megatron gains his freedom and leaves during the season finale. He doesn't kidnap Issac, as the reader pleads to him to leave the sumdac and sari alone.

Reader is exposed for knowingly interacting and aiding a decepticon.

UM: You knowingly helped a deception. Why would you-

Reader: He was wounded! Maybe dying!! I wasn't going to let him suffer!!

SP: What is wrong with you, filthy organic? Don't you know what he's done? How many Autobots he's killed

Reader: NOBODY DESERVES TO SUFFER LIKE THAT.

UM: I see, you have strong convictions organic. However, those convictions will not help you in the autobot court of law. Sentinel, have them cuffed and taken to the brig.

Reader: Let go, let go let go LET ME GO!!

OP: Ultra Magnus, sir, please! You don't, you can't-

SP: Ah-ah-ah, Optimus. You're already on thin ice. The academy dropout who lost the allspark, harboring an organic traitor? I should handcuff you after them.

*Optimus flinches and begins trembling but backs down, Sari begging them to do something. The rest of the crew torn between trying to help or follow orders*

Reader: IS THIS THE NOBLE AUTOBOT CAUSE?! ARRESTING NONCOMBATANTS FOR TENDING TO THE WOUNDED?!

Megatron: I see, so this how the autobots conduct themselves. How truly disgusting. *Megatron enters, along with his other decepticons. He attacks, overwhelming the autobots. He then takes the reader, but before leaving looks at OP.*

You should know that your little friend here had nothing but good things to say about you. Here I was, hoping that I would be wrong. But, unfortunately, you autobots are all the same. How disappointing. Deceptions, Fall back! For now.

*Reader looks over at Optimus with a cold stare, before looking over to Sari with a pained smile.* Take care, Sari. I- Keep up with your studies!!

*Megatron and co. leave, with optimus and the others left in the wreckage.*

[bluecookiesabi]

Excerpt for an upcoming Jazzprowl fic!

Prowl is at a meeting and Jazz is suspiciously absent. Surely he's not up to any trouble. 438 words

"—and that concludes my report. Any questions?" Prowl asks the room. Setting down his pad, he glances around for any raised servos, receiving none.

His eyes flicker to the empty chair beside him. This was usually the time where Jazz would chip in with some nonsensical question designed to test Prowl's patience, but the mech in question was currently missing, doing Primus-knows-what. Prowl would have preferred they waited for the mech before starting, but Optimus insisted that they continue, much to Prowl's displeasure.

He looks back at the others. Ratchet is doing his best not to doze, clearly uninterested in the topic at hand; Red Alert is joting down some notes; and Wheeljack and Perceptor, who at first glance seem to be attentive, are actually chatting in a private comm. Prowl twitchs a doorwing, mood souring. At least Ratchet was upfront about his disinterest. Thank Primus for Optimus, who was genuine in his attentiveness.

Another kilk passes, and Optimus stands up, gesturing for Prowl to sit.

He looks down at his pad. "Ahem. Thank you for that, Prowl. If that is all, then next on the docket is Wheeljack and Perceptor, I believe?"

The two scientists spring up, eager to start. Well. At least Prowl will learn what they obviously deemed so much more important than his presentation.

"That's right, Prime!" Wheeljack says, rummaging through his subspace, before pulling out a strange metal cube, covered in dials and switches, "and here we go! Now look at this!"

Ratchet startles, barely managing to stay in his chair as Wheeljack nearly smacks him in the face with his triumphant gesturing.

"Watch where you swing that thing!" He snaps, scooting himself back, "You nearly knocked my head off!"

"Sorry, sorry, got a little excited there! Didn't mean any harm, Rachet! Now, Perceptor, if you would do the honors?"

Perceptor nods, pulling over the rolling monitor board (which they keep in the corner for instances such at these.) Activating the screen, he plugs in a data card, and various diagrams begin to pop up.

"As you all are aware, Wheeljack and I have been tasked with devising a new form of containment field generators. We believe that we have made a breakthrough. Now, if you look at this—"

Prowl leans in, intrigued. While he still finds it extremely rude of them to have been chatting while he was presenting, the tactical benefit these new generators present has his own mind racing. His TacUnit has already started calculations, running through various scenarios and spitting out probabilities and statistics for him to review. Opening a note on his pad, he busies himself with writing

[ominouspuff]

DHC past and present

[keferon]

…..I should be working rn but one of the songs in my playlist hit harder than usual so

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Noticed some things about the Autobot rankings, now I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be in high command, buttt it does look kinda weighted from an outsiders perspective lol

[transingthoseformers]

Thinking about Optimus forgetting to switch accounts and accidentally reblogging a string of gun fetish posts onto his main😔

[cybertron-after-dark]

Low intelligence specimens

[cykepedia]

collection of prowl getting sucker punched

[diabolichare]

(4/?)

The next day, the Terrans are with Bumblebee while Tfe goes to the meeting with the Autobot High Command (It was quite a shock when the seeker basically dumped the kids with the yellow scout then left). They're the center of attention, everyone is friendly overall and very interested in the first sparklings they've seen in ages. But the Terrans were getting uncomfortable, luckily Bumblebee steered them away to somewhere else more quiet.

They get to watch soap operas with the Autobots and play old videos, they have a great time. The Terrans talk about technology in their time, and what they usually do back home for fun. Hashtag mentioned Bumblebee being much taller in the future, so the scout asks more about his relationship with them. The kids think back to what Tfe Starscream told them, as long as it's not about the Emberstone it should be fine right? (completely forgetting the future part)

So they gave some vague stories about Tfe Bumblebee being their mentor, teaching them. And some more stories about their siblings. Everyone is invested. Then someone asked about their "sire". The trio quieted down, sharing glances. This makes the bots suspicious.

"What's wrong? Do your parents have strange rules about talking to strangers? You can tell us"

"No not that, our parents love us. It's just that Starscream doesn't like them much. But we're working on it!" (What does that even mean)

"There's this human organization called GHOST, that worked with the Autobots to catch and imprison Decepticons to "protect" Earth. But they were actually experimenting on their prisoners. Starscream, still won't tell us what happened just that it was Shockwave's level of bad?" (What)

"The humans were involved with our birth actually. Starscream didn't really want us at first but Hashtag managed to get through him so here we are! Now most of the time he is down in Nightshade's lab doing nerd stuff with them and Dad 2" (The Autobots are starting to get not very good feelings about how this story is going. Also who is Dad 2???)

The conversation stops when the Terrans see Tfe Starscream arriving, the kids circle him telling him about their day and all of these things the Autobots show them. The seeker goes along with their stories, ooh and aah while steering them to a table and dug around in his subspace to give them some snacks (barely bothered by the loud cheers or the fact that Hashtag is like a limpet attached to his leg). He spared a glance at the frozen Autobots who were giving him strange looks. Tfe Starscream is pulled back to the kids when the kids continue to talk about the soap operas they are watching.

The Autobots who were listening (eavesdropping) to the conversation - plus Ravage who was in the vent - are now horrified by the implications of how the sparklings came to be and Tfe Starscream's situation.

Prev/Next

[coalballbaby]

While I have my TF mic in my hand. Maybe I am a little more severe on Prowl than what my heart truly believes in... but I really can't express enough how much I've really seen it all. Highs and lows. So so so many lows. And if me being a little harder on him for the consequences of his actions (specifically on other characters) will balance out the amount of excuses I've seen made for Prowl by the fandom then so be it. I really do think it does a disservice to other characters within IDW by ignoring the butterfly effect. I will move a mountain to get even one person out of the individualistic Prowl-only-focus era

[autoacafiles]

[barttrvk]

mmmm. biting my tongue. until i read more comics to lock in my opinions. but mmmmmmmm.

[enby-rodimus]

Going about my day and then I remember when Autocracy implied that the people Optimus & co. arrested back when he was an enforcer working under Zeta were hooked up to the energon tanks and died because of it.

[mychlapci]

my favourite thing about g1 is how none of the autobots give a rats ass about how dangerous their battles are for the humans that tag along. do u think they just never bothered to really learn how humans work besides the obvious so they assume that while small and squishy they're still as durable as cybertronians. or are they like a fun passive uncle going "eh they can take care of themselves im sure its fine" and carry on shooting at each other without a care

[ninjasmudge]

i love love love when theres a drawing of autobots groovin and inexplicably, soundwave is also there groovin like yeah, optimus, he is a member of deception high command but have you considered that hes got the rhythm