Hey all, figured that since I found a few stray bunnies here that I should add to the population. Just so as not to harm the delicate balance of nature, eh.
Bunny is thus:
Canon vs. Fanon. I'm sure we've all had this argument at one point or another. Canon has no sparklings, while in Fanon many Bots and Seekers are either being turned into them or suddenly responsible for them. What if there was a reason for that? I's like to take this opportunity to name this bunny-litter "Justify my fandom kink".
1. What if Megatron kept sparklings away from the War because Seekers go berserk when one is threatened and he didn't want to lose complete control of his Air Force?
2. Your plot-device of choice Wheeljack turns a significant number of mechs (minus the Seekers) from each side into sparklings. Megatron decides, should he remain unshrunk (if he is shrunk, you get bonus points. Pick your least favorite Con) to get rid of the bitty Bots. Cue dismemberment via furious, screeching Seekers.
Skyfire: *pleased as he watches Megatron point fusion cannon at sparkling* Huh. Looks like I'm going to win the pool.
??: What do you mean?
Skyfire: *points* Watch.
Megatron: Die Auto... Huh *looks up. is torn apart by Starscream and Seekers*
Cons: O.O!
Bots: O.O!
Skyfire: *is in the money!* Ha! And people said I was crazy to bet on Starscream ending the war! Who's crazy now suckers?
3.Transformers don't have sparklings at all. They have always come online fully adult (if not mature) but with the destruction of Vector Sigma/the Allspark, they need to figure out another method of reproduction. Humans decide to help. Megatron reads a theological study on the union of souls finds fandom-esque speculations on how Cybertronians could repopulate. Megatron orders Starscream (the traitor) and Thundercracker (fleshy sympathizer) to test the methods out. Screamer and TC want to refuse, but will be denied rations until they comply. They agree that death by bad sex, while embarrassing, is at least faster than death by starvation.
Starscream: *blissful smile, covered in blue paint streaks* What a wonderful day it is mighty leader! Here is the data on the experiment. Now if you'll excuse us... TC?
Thundercracker: *also blissed out, also covered in streaks of wrong color blue* C'mon Warp, we wanna show you something.
Skywarp: ... Eek! *is dragged out of control room by the wings*
Cons: *weirded out*
??: Well... that was creepy.
So Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp have a new favorite-thing-to-do-that-isn't-flying, the other Cons are avoiding them but are starting to wonder if maybe they shouldn't try this 'sex' thing out for themselves. The inevitable occurs and sparklings happen. Mass confusion and the war is called off on account of half the Decepticon army being pregnant and suffering moods swings. Bonus points for anyone who gets Soundwave jumped by the Seekers!
4. The real reason the Seekers joined the Cons is because the Council kept stealing their sparklings to experiment on since Seekers have a higher percentage of special abilities than other build types. The Council also spread rumors that Seekers couldn't take care of their sparklings properly due to a coding glitch. The Autobots continued to remove sparklings after war starts, not knowing that it just makes the Seekers worse.
Skyfire: *gaping* Do you mean to tell me that Starscream hasn't seen a sparkling since the war started?
??: Of course! Who would leave a defenseless sparkling with a pack of killers like that? Seekers don't have what it takes to care about sparklings anyway. Everyone knows that!
Skyfire: *horrified* Dear Primus, we're doomed.
Random sparkling that will soon be Seeker magnet: *chirps?*
Starsream/Seekers: *stare at sparkling* Eee! *snatch coo snuggles sparkling*
5. Unstable minds in Seekers are the result of Robosmasher-esque reprogramming. (Honestly, think of human fighter pilots. Now do you really think any canon Seeker could survive in a human airforce?) But Seekers are war-builds and have codes meant to combat and repair that kind of damage.
5A. Repairs manage to complete themselves after a spectacular explosion that finds its origins in Wheeljack, Megatrons Giant-Gun-Of-The-Week, and a mouse with a taste for red wires. Seekers revolt.
5B. Sparklings happen. Seekers redundant protective programming takes over, negates reprogramming damage, and Seekers revolt.
6. One of the cassettes brings back news that makes Megatron very unhappy. he decides to shoot the messenger. Note: Either Soundwave isn't around or Megatron is getting more unstable. Cassette makes a noise typically only used by distressed sparklings/has spark chamber exposed (not a drone!) with something special that identifies it as being a "baby" and Seekers dogpile Megatron. Bonus points for serious blunt-force damage being done by datapad!
7. Random Matrix/Allspark SNAFU causes all the mechs who lost the chance to have a childhood to/are horribly traumatized by the war become sparklings.
Autobots: Hot Rod, Arcee, Blurr(optional), Springer, Bluestreak, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, and Aerialbots.
Decepticons: Runabout, Runamuck, Stunticons, Combaticons
(I figure the SNAFU happens thanks to Megatron going "If I can't have it no one will! *shoots at Prime*") Request that the Dinobots and cassettes not shrink as they are childish enough. Lambo twins get taken in by Ratchet and Wheeljack (they like the explosions) and the Dinobots are the best big brothers ever. Blue is being raised by Prowl. Skyfire and Omega Supreme got stuck with the Aerialbots and are freaking out over how the pit they're supposed to take care of things that small. Prime and Elita are having a blast playing happy families with Hot Rod and Arcee. Wreckers are confused as to how they're supposed to handle this, since technically Springer still outranks them and if he doesn't wanna take a bath... Megatron has to call a ceasefire on account of it being the Combaticons naptime. The Seekers have descended into sparkling induced bliss and are happily nesting with Stunticons and Battlechargers.
7A. No one on either side knows how to deal with the sparklings... except for Skyfire and the Seekers. And Skyfire only knows as much as Starscream taught him.
Skyfire: *calm* You said I could do whatever it took to get the sparklings under control.
??: But... Starscream?
Skyfire: He knows more than me about sparklings. Everything I know comes from a short trip I took to Vos with Starscream a few orns after we graduated. Seekers adore Sparklings.
??: Whu? But... *stares at Skyfire, turns and watches Starscream coo at sparklings piled on his lap, stares some more* ... my head hurts.
Wow. Takes up more space than I thought... Now here's to hoping a few of these get adopted...
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