#implied megop

[kawaiiblue18]

Small TF One animatic as I distract myself from the horrible U.S. election results

Optimus Prime figure collection save me🙏

[scribescrawls]

On a more silly note, imagine the High Guard after the whole killing Sentinel thing happened/banishment and a few weeks later call a meeting with Optimus and they go “hey so I know we’re at odds at the moment but are we ever going to get payed for the last 50 cycles?” cause I mean technically I don’t think they were ever officially fired so much as declared dead to the general public and secretly being hunted down during that time. Do they go up to Optimus and are just like “so I get that we don’t really work here anymore but like can we still get our severance pay and our backlog of paychecks?” Cause I’m pretty sure since they were military the government was paying them before the whole Sentinel betrayal thing and any funds any of them had has probably been seized by the state (aka Sentinel during that time) or frozen sitting somewhere in account of being presumed dead. Does Megatron not want to have this meeting but the entire High Guard are grumpy about it like "no I want to get payed! I want my stuff/money back!" so now he has to sit across from Optimus in the most awkward meeting after their fall out as Starscream shouts across the table negotiating if they still qualify/are entitled for the Cybertronian equivalent of military/veteran pension for their previous cycles of service.

Cybertronian Civil War on hold due to the nightmare of bureaucracy and paperwork because tracking down at minimum 73 different case files of each High Guard member and getting them all in order when probably half of the information was purposely destroyed by Sentinel means it will probably take a while. How many times has Shockwave and the rest of the High Guard have to sign documents to declare "yes I am alive" "no I did not fake my death to commit tax fraud". Or dealing with banks and other organizations going "please provide proof that you are indeed Starscream." Starscream going "I'm literally Starscream and standing in front of you what other proof is more clear! You are literally looking at a photo of me on the datapad!" "Apologies, but unless you have x, y, z document I am afraid we cannot simply take your word that you are Starscream. If you are missing these documents please fill out these thirty forms as alternative verification of identity". Also imagining Thundercracker going "hey do you think my buy five get one free drink stamp card still works. I've been sitting on that free drink for 50 cycles…"

Funniest thing if Shockwave was a senator before joining the High Guard and there was a small period of time where he actually was declared dead before it got cleared up back in the day when the Primes were still alive, but now they can't find the paperwork that cleared up that it was an error and he was still in fact alive so now he's been declared doubly dead.

Shockwave: It's document 37C!

Elita: Repeating it for the fifth time will not change the fact that it does not exist!

Shockwave, done with being declared dead: It exists! It's added every time my taxes get filed each cycle! Did I suddenly imagine the last thousands of cycles of my life!

Elita, losing her own temper: There is no document 37C! Listen here Blinky, I can easily resolve this matter by getting you declared dead for a third time for real!

Optimus stressed and trying not to cry: Maybe we should call for a break in the meeting...

When the break is over no one can find Optimus who has decided to play hooky from his responsibilities because he'd tired and feels like he's going to lose it dealing with all the sudden responsibilities of being leader of an entire planet. I like the idea that it's Megatron who finds him. Megatron going "if I have to suffer through these meetings so do you" (he was secretly also ditching the meeting and accidentally bumped into Optimus because the place is technically their old spot that they sometimes went together, both thought it would be abandoned and no one would find them there). It's awkward, there are hurt feelings on both sides, but maybe they slowly get to talking and at least commiserate how much they hate paperwork. Also funny if they find out they both also have to resolve their own "declared dead by Sentinel" paperwork considering he said they both died after the Iacon 5000 lol.

Also I think it would be funny if these meetings drag on for so long that Optimus is just like instead of commuting back and forth from the surface to Iacon every day just stay here in the city it will save time. Banishment temporarily rescinded. Even more funny if they also have to deal with the Quintessons so half of these meeting turn into war meetings to deal with and fight the Quintessons off their planet where both sides are like "we're not on the same side!", but also eventually have to work together to win. So it's basically an officially we're not on the same side, but all actions say otherwise lol. I like to think Bee likes to hangout with Soundwave during meetings and finds him so cool, and Soundwave actually likes listening to Bee yap finding him endearing.

They eventually realize that it would be easier (and less paperwork) to just reinstate the High Guard and at this point so much time has passed that they've basically been doing their old job anyway as they fight the Quintessons together. Banishment permanently rescinded for all parties involved. I like to think megop over the course of these meetings and fighting together against the Quintessons make up. Things can't go back to the exact way it was between them, but that doesn't mean they can't rebuild something new between them. I like to think both groups have differing ideas of how to lead and how to deal with situations, but I like to think eventually they get to a point where they can compromise and work with differing ideas depending on what's best for the situation at hand similar to the 13 Primes who probably had conflicting and contrasting personalities and approaches but were able to use these differences to work together and make them stronger as a united front.

Cybertronian Civil War avoided through the sheer slog of paperwork and bureaucracy.

[raileurta]

Miko starts to play careless whisper when Megatron and Optimus are fighting, send post.

[scarghoul]

Little Optimus animation

[primus-why]

TFP OC Idea

A librarian/fellow archivist who once worked with Orion back in the day, having a friendly work relationship. Recalls how fondly Orion would speak of his friend, the gladiator, and how he eagerly sought recommendations from this OC coworker on various works said friend might enjoy...

Fast forward to present day. The librarian never formerly joined a faction-- Primus, they had barely held it together back then, there was no way they could throw themselves into a war. But, by some miracle, they stumble upon Earth and Team Prime. Seeing Optimus after all this time brings up old memories; the Prime is different in many ways-- obviously the conflict has reshaped them all-- but in many ways he's still the same.

They soon fall into an easy, friendly conversation. OC can't remember the last time they've felt this close to normal. They lightly joke that Orion still has overdue datapads in his name, and the Prime wordlessly fishes the very same pads out of his subspace. Any further conversation dies shortly therafter-- all they can do is stare at the lost literary works.

OC wonders, in awe, how these could have survived so long. What if they've become corrupted? Are they even charged? No, Orion-- the Prime-- would know how to maintain them. It's just a wonder that he even bothered. The Archives are gone, razed long ago, leaving only a pile of debris scattered with broken, unrecoverable works. No one had cared enough to protect the building or what was inside, it was too late for that, they simply ran for their lives. It was only after the dust had settled and OC found themself on a shuttle packed with NAILs did the profound loss sink in.

Never again would they walk those grand halls. They would no longer help visitors discover new works that might interest them, much like solving a personalized puzzle. Gone are the days when they could even hold a datapad other than the one they had brought in from home on the day they left.

It was a stark reminder that they could not go home-- there was no home to even return to, and one of the mechs responsible for their situation was right here in front of them. And yet, somehow, seeing the delinquent datapads, the tiniest bit of hope sparked for a fleeting moment.

'We are still here,' OC realized, 'cracked and scuffed and worn around the edges, but we are still here...'

OC didn't know when they had started to tear up, but swiftly they recomposed themself and apologized. "It's nothing, I was simply... startled." The Prime apologized too, though for what specifically was left up to interpretation.

After a beat, OC smirks and gathers the guts to ask, "... Did he at least like my suggestions?"

Optimus lets out a soft, sad laugh, "I didn't get a chance to show him."

"Mm... what a shame."

"Indeed."

[50mi3ta]

wouldn’t it be poetic if later on a rebellion begins somewhere along the way.

Someone took d 16 and is wearing his face plate it becomes common in the rebellion to copy the look of a small gray miner

it infuriates Optronix so he burns and decapitates dismembers his way through the masses… but. They. Don’t. Stop.

the world around him becomes his mistake an unending swirling madness of you should’ve been better,

you should have saved him,

HE should function.

So you scream and cry out to the skies high. Nothing ends your madness. No one can save you from your own

selfish

GRIEF driven

Mania…

it’s always just been mania hasn’t it.

every helm and fuel line you’ve severed.

the tyrant of golden lies upon his false prophecy

strung apart in a messed up harmony

every grey helm and miner build lined up upon your throne you proclaim to the masses

you preach your genocide, your extermination

you preach it as a means to an end

They are traitors

they must burn

they killed D-d…

you stop

you reset your vocal cords

they have killed the masses of our citizens you proclaim

Kilocycles pass

discreetly every miner form and grey paint job disappear

So you set urself up from your bloody throne

They set in front of you this chords batch of unlucky fraggers

the helms covered in bags facing the masses

A swing of my axe and a helm falls to the crowd

it’s iiits it’s it’s him it’s got to be the gray frame the small helm the htnsb zbssjbsksk no no nononkinknmonhxbwksoewbnaajakkdh

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

HIS HELM In THe SERVOS OF THE OFFENDEr

THE GILDED MASSACRE

RePLaCed THE GOLDEN LIES

pROCLAIMING To BE A SAVIOR

WHO ARE YOU

BUT

THE OFFENDER

What have you done.

Imagine a timeline where instead of safely descending them down the chute to sublevel 50, Darkwing just throws D-16 and Orion down.

For Orion, it's okay. He's used to jumping off buildings, he knows how to fall. But it's dark, and desperate, so all he does is spread his frame out and scramble to grab anything and everything that can slow his descent, and it works.

He and D-16 land with a sickening crunch, and he's injured, and winded, but he's laughing. "D! We made it!" he giggles, looking over at D-16's still form. "Oh, Primus! You okay?" Silence. "D?" No movement. He starts crawling over towards his still frame, watching it fade into a sickly monotone gray. "No, no, no no no D talk to me! D! D! D don't do this, please wake up, please don't do this..."

B-127 meets a mourning mech in shock that his best friend was just murdered.

Days pass where Orion just sits with D-16's sparkless frame, hollow-eyed. B-127 tries to help him feel better by sitting D-16 at the table with Steve and AAtron. That's when the emergency transmission is found. A way to find the Matrix. Orion latches onto it because maybe, just maybe, the Matrix can bring D-16 back.

They go up to the surface with Elita-1, who willingly follows them because Sentinel's begun working the miners to death. They learn the truth. B and Elita are in shock, but Orion? Something dark and ugly grows inside Orion. Sentinel was D's hero, second only to Megatronus Prime. And he killed him. But what's worse? He's the reason the Matrix was destroyed. The only way to get D-16 back. Sentinel may as well have killed him all over again.

Orion's optics slowly tinge purple.

By the time he rips Sentinel Prime in half in the middle of Iacon, his optics are red, his colors faded and matte. And when he takes Megatronus Prime's T-cog for himself, his colors turn black and purple. A mask grows to cover his face, leaving only hateful optics burning like hot coals. The Matrix does not appear. And D-16 is still dead.

But Optronix Prime rises.

Til All Are Gone.

[cinderoo]

baking my long distance bf into a cookie because i miss him

[pockyfr0g]

fighting over custody and it's just them actually going into hand-to-hand combat after realizing speaking is getting them nowhere to an agreement

[lazychimken]

Here’s some more art I had for my TFO + TFA inspired au, I should really start posting these separately instead of these doodle dumps 💀 some context:

This is after the events of TFO but before the events of TFA/Bots on Earth

- B-127 has been training for years at the Autobot boot camp to become a soldier and is currently doing deliveries for the Autobots alongside Cliffjumper, Mirage, etc

- He still aspires to be part of the Elite Guard, and a chance meeting with Elita-One during a shipment of energon rations had him ecstatic to see her again (he hasn’t seen her since Megatron was banished from Iacon and OP left him in the care of others)

- Elita-One, while secretly happy to see B-127 again, fears that she’ll lose him if he becomes part of the Elite Guard, so she immediately denies B a promotion and tries to have him keep doing deliveries (not very successful so far)

- B-127, while initially shocked by the rejection, doesn’t really take it to heart and so every time he runs into Elita he immediately bombards her with demands over joining the Elite Guard; he has yet to see OP

Here’s a relationship chart of the four disasters that are the protagonists of this story:

B is a little scared about how this will all end, please someone send these bots to a couples therapy 🙏

Also here’s a doodle of Starscream and B:

- Over the course of the war and the Deceptions commit a few war crimes, B eventually looses the hero admiration he had on the High Guard

- Doing deliveries, while not as dangerous as outright fighting, is still a perilous job with resources becoming more scarce

[peace-hunter]

For the haunted au:

We already know they all hate Megatron and no one can understand what Optimus sees in him so they just assume Optimus has terrible taste in mechs and try to push him towards other bots to date instead.

Megatronus: what about that Femme Elita? She is strong, loyal, and has a good helm on her shoulders.

Optimus: what? What are you guys talking about now?

Solus: what about that doctor? Ratchet? He would be a great choice considering how reckless Optimus is.

Optimus: seriously what are you guys talking about!?

they have Opinions™ about it yes. Optimus is absolutely mortified about it and would like to never speak of the topic ever again thank you and good night.

he also cannot believe bee would betray him like that. this is the second time he's been murdered by friendly fire OTL

haunted au

bonus:

[noritaro]

:3

[raileurta]

Pacific rim x tf

I love just the idea of the autobots and deceptions coming to earth to try recruiting the sentient jaegers, but being harshly declined. Why? Well for one they're already busy dealing with large monsters on a regular basis and two they love their humans too much. With plenty of evil robot related movies fueling paranoia among engineers they hardcoded into the jaegers that they want to protect humans.

So they are pretty reasonably pissed at the bots for dragging their people into their war. Anyways they force the autobots and decepticons to make up. (All this because of a messy breakup? Jeez and you call humans violent.)

So now with the Cybertronians new free time the yeagers will reach them the joys of human beings.

[mapledkanata]

And then Knockout was never seen again </3

[naehilisms]

I saw this in a vision

Bonus: Optimus does not appreciate the my little pony socks

[artfandroid]

- He's gone.

- He is.

- And he's never coming back.

- No.

- How did you stop grieving?

- I didn't.

[cinderoo]

i miss my wife, tails