Haha! I found out how to make cuts work with my computer!
It involves a lot of bypassing popup blockers.
Anyway, I have some interesting ideas.
1. Optimus Prime has a guilty secret... He likes cleaning. It's actually quite relaxing. What would the reaction of, say, Prowl be if he came across him with a bucket and brush happily scrubbing the floor of a lesser used corridor in the Ark - and humming?
2. Mirage isn't a tower's mech, he's just a rather spoiled son of a merchant. Cliffjumper on the other hand...
3. Mirage is a ghost.
4. Having learned language from the internet, the Autobots made a few small mistakes in conversation...
a) 1337 speak
b) Someone copies their voice from the muppets instead of other pop culture
c) Someone attempts to speak to a flowerpot ("flobbadob?")
5. A documentary crew sneaks aboard the ark, and try to film the Autobots undetected.
"And here we have the lamborghini in it's preferred habitat. Lamborghinis are amphibious by nature, and this pair seems to have made their nest in the washracks. Observe as this one, which we have codenamed Red Devil, assists the second, codenamed Sunshine, with hard-to-reach area- THEY'VE SPOTTED US! RUN!"
"A pack of minibots is an exclusive social group, but luckily we have an insider. They have accepted Spike Witwicky as one of their own, and we will be interviewing him shortly"
And finally, I can't remember where this particular fic was, probably ff.net, but it has one scene where a camera crew are broadcasting the Autobots excavating something and someone makes a comment about them being shy. Just as this happens one of them walks by and waves at the camera. Can anyone help me find it?