Another fifteen.
1. Cassette players aren’t the only types of human technology that logically, have ‘children’ (the cassettes). Microscopes have slides and different sets of lenses, don’t they? And microscopes show the contents of the slides like cassette players show the contents of cassettes.
2. Perceptor as a Dinobot.
“Although there is no direct way to measure a dinosaur's intelligence, one of the few possible measures of intelligence might be a large brain in a small body. The genus that perhaps fits this description best was the Cretaceous bird-like dinosaur Troodon, which also may have had binocular vision (depth perception) and excellent eyesight and was built for speed...” From: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0862627.html,
3. Sudden cracky idea. What with mechs getting pregnant and all…
A. Elita-1 gets Optimus pregnant.
B. Chromia gets Ironhide pregnant.
C. Arcee gets Hot Rod/Rodimus/Springer pregnant.
D. Etc.
4. Prowl infects all the other Autobots with his logical-ness. The ‘Bots who are usually illogical are hit hardest, and become logical to the point of near-ruthlessness.
A. Of course, the ‘Bots immediately ditch the humans (an inexcusable liability, war-wise).
B. The ‘Bots obsessively focus every second of their lives on winning the war for good (because even if some little piece of illogical affection toward the humans remained, it would be logical to focus on destroying all the ‘Cons so the humans would be safe).
C. The Decepticons are horrified as the Autobots go on the offensive for once… and win every battle with their superior strategies.
D. Having lost the advantage of passive, non-attacking enemies, the ‘Cons are struggling to survive. No one can get close enough to the ‘Bots to try and reverse the terrible logic-glitch.
1) The Decepticons try sending a paid human agent, reasoning that the sentimental Autobots would at least hear the person out. The Autobots capture the human, and when he claims to be a ‘Con representative they deduce that he is a spy or saboteur and kill him.
2) To fend off the Autobot attacks, the ‘Cons must join up with Spike, Sparkplug, and Carly. The three of them had been present at enough meetings to know something of how Prowl’s logic works, and as humans they have creative and irrational thinking to find ways to counter the logical strategies. Because Prowl would never predict that their former human allies would join forces with the ‘Cons. That’s completely illogical! So, all of Prowl’s strategies have little human-sized holes in them…
3) The Autobots somehow lay siege to the Decepticon base. The only way for them to avoid starving to death is getting humans to send an energy-carrying submarine that can somehow dodge Seaspray.
5. The Decepticons are surprised to discover just how cynical some ‘Bots can be.
6. “Some people are like Slinkies; they’re basically useless, but when you see one fall down the stairs you can’t help but smile.” (Megatron & Starscream?)
7. A long time ago, Scavenger’s kleptomania drove him to steal something from Primus.
8. (Art or fic) Ratchet cowering before someone else’s wrench-throwing rage.
9. The 'Cons were originally all clones created by a mad Autobot scientist. The mech cloned was an insane 'Bot named Barricade, who insisted that there was another type of mech besides Autobots, the 'Decepticons' who were sworn to destroy the Autobots at all costs. When the Autobot scientist tried to manipulate the Barricade clones into developing a sense of individuality (because the scientist wanted to study the many different facets of the original Barricade's insanity), all but one of the clones became too different from the original to be of use in the experiment.
10. Unicron destroys every Cybertronian except for one, whom he takes a shine to. He holds that mech prisoner, doomed to watch from afar as the same universe is created and destroyed over and over... without him in it.
11. Perceptor is captured by the 'Cons, and by the time he's recovered, he's been permanently traumatized. Optimus has his memories erased, and makes an elaborate plan to keep Perceptor basically imprisoned in certain separate areas of the Ark until the war is over. Only 'Bots who are in on the plan are allowed to visit Perceptor, because he has been told that there is no war and the little piece of the Ark that he's allowed in is the only world that exists. Like that riddle where the girl is raised in the cellar by her parents and told never to open the door because she would see things she's not meant to see.
12. Perceptor/Inferno.
13. Inferno is always dragging Red Alert to the medbay, panicking that he's glitching beyond repair. Everyone laughs at his mother-hen attitude, and usually Red Alert is given a quick check-up, then sent away with a mild order to 'take it easy for a little while'. But one day, Red glitches so badly that his 'horns' short-circuit and don't even light up. No one will believe Inferno when he insists that Red is on the verge of going crazy and ripping the Ark apart.
14. Instead of being way younger than he looks, Perceptor is actually by far the oldest mech on Earth. In fact, he's the only mech who's ever survived long enough to experience the Cybertronian equivalent of death from old age.
15. Starscream using his screechy voice for echolocation (like bats and dolphins).
2. Perceptor as a Dinobot.
“Although there is no direct way to measure a dinosaur's intelligence, one of the few possible measures of intelligence might be a large brain in a small body. The genus that perhaps fits this description best was the Cretaceous bird-like dinosaur Troodon, which also may have had binocular vision (depth perception) and excellent eyesight and was built for speed...” From: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0862627.html,
3. Sudden cracky idea. What with mechs getting pregnant and all…
A. Elita-1 gets Optimus pregnant.
B. Chromia gets Ironhide pregnant.
C. Arcee gets Hot Rod/Rodimus/Springer pregnant.
D. Etc.
4. Prowl infects all the other Autobots with his logical-ness. The ‘Bots who are usually illogical are hit hardest, and become logical to the point of near-ruthlessness.
A. Of course, the ‘Bots immediately ditch the humans (an inexcusable liability, war-wise).
B. The ‘Bots obsessively focus every second of their lives on winning the war for good (because even if some little piece of illogical affection toward the humans remained, it would be logical to focus on destroying all the ‘Cons so the humans would be safe).
C. The Decepticons are horrified as the Autobots go on the offensive for once… and win every battle with their superior strategies.
D. Having lost the advantage of passive, non-attacking enemies, the ‘Cons are struggling to survive. No one can get close enough to the ‘Bots to try and reverse the terrible logic-glitch.
1) The Decepticons try sending a paid human agent, reasoning that the sentimental Autobots would at least hear the person out. The Autobots capture the human, and when he claims to be a ‘Con representative they deduce that he is a spy or saboteur and kill him.
2) To fend off the Autobot attacks, the ‘Cons must join up with Spike, Sparkplug, and Carly. The three of them had been present at enough meetings to know something of how Prowl’s logic works, and as humans they have creative and irrational thinking to find ways to counter the logical strategies. Because Prowl would never predict that their former human allies would join forces with the ‘Cons. That’s completely illogical! So, all of Prowl’s strategies have little human-sized holes in them…
3) The Autobots somehow lay siege to the Decepticon base. The only way for them to avoid starving to death is getting humans to send an energy-carrying submarine that can somehow dodge Seaspray.
5. The Decepticons are surprised to discover just how cynical some ‘Bots can be.
6. “Some people are like Slinkies; they’re basically useless, but when you see one fall down the stairs you can’t help but smile.” (Megatron & Starscream?)
7. A long time ago, Scavenger’s kleptomania drove him to steal something from Primus.
8. (Art or fic) Ratchet cowering before someone else’s wrench-throwing rage.
9. The 'Cons were originally all clones created by a mad Autobot scientist. The mech cloned was an insane 'Bot named Barricade, who insisted that there was another type of mech besides Autobots, the 'Decepticons' who were sworn to destroy the Autobots at all costs. When the Autobot scientist tried to manipulate the Barricade clones into developing a sense of individuality (because the scientist wanted to study the many different facets of the original Barricade's insanity), all but one of the clones became too different from the original to be of use in the experiment.
10. Unicron destroys every Cybertronian except for one, whom he takes a shine to. He holds that mech prisoner, doomed to watch from afar as the same universe is created and destroyed over and over... without him in it.
11. Perceptor is captured by the 'Cons, and by the time he's recovered, he's been permanently traumatized. Optimus has his memories erased, and makes an elaborate plan to keep Perceptor basically imprisoned in certain separate areas of the Ark until the war is over. Only 'Bots who are in on the plan are allowed to visit Perceptor, because he has been told that there is no war and the little piece of the Ark that he's allowed in is the only world that exists. Like that riddle where the girl is raised in the cellar by her parents and told never to open the door because she would see things she's not meant to see.
12. Perceptor/Inferno.
13. Inferno is always dragging Red Alert to the medbay, panicking that he's glitching beyond repair. Everyone laughs at his mother-hen attitude, and usually Red Alert is given a quick check-up, then sent away with a mild order to 'take it easy for a little while'. But one day, Red glitches so badly that his 'horns' short-circuit and don't even light up. No one will believe Inferno when he insists that Red is on the verge of going crazy and ripping the Ark apart.
14. Instead of being way younger than he looks, Perceptor is actually by far the oldest mech on Earth. In fact, he's the only mech who's ever survived long enough to experience the Cybertronian equivalent of death from old age.
15. Starscream using his screechy voice for echolocation (like bats and dolphins).