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1. Crossover with Harry Potter. Because Mixmaster and Snape totally need to meet each other.
2. He knew someone who was going to die.
3. Starscream and Red Alert became bondmates shortly before the war.
4. 2007. An escape pod, holding several malnourished sparklings and a dead femme, crashes to Earth.
5. Well, we've wondered what Perceptor and Bluestreak would be like if given caffeine... but what about Red Alert?
6. Sapient Pearwood. Yes.
7. Perceptor was a teenager when he got pregnant. His creators, seeing him as a disgrace, disowned him and kicked him to the streets. He barely manages to survive and as it gets closer to the time his sparkling needs to be placed in his/her own body, he becomes desperate to earn the money needed to construct a frame.
A. Enter Megatron, who offers to have a body made for his sparkling if he agrees to work for the Decepticons.
B. Enter Optimus, who offers to have a body made for his sparkling if he agrees to work for the Autobots.
C. Enter someone else.
And where is the sparkling's other creator during all this?
8. Even silence tells.
9. Optimus tries very hard to keep his science team busy. Because nothing scares him more than bored scientists.
10. His creators had taught him to act sweet and innocent to fool the social workers into believing everything was all right.
11. Wheeljack convinces Perceptor to help him with a new project. This project explodes in a huge way. Inferno managed to drag Wheeljack out of the fire, but he didn't know Perceptor was there until it was... too late.
12. A type of Cybertronian Artemis Fowl.
13. Crossover with Artemis Fowl. Red Alert meets Foaly.
14. "Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know." ~ Foaly; Artemis Fowl.
15. Mirage's 'invisibility' actually works just like the 'shielding' fairies use in Artemis Fowl. (Can anybody guess what book I just read?)
16. Skyfire, trapped in the ice but fully conscious, has created imaginary friends to prevent himself from going insane from loneliness. This fails, obviously, because the imaginary friends have become alternate personalities.
17. Starscream turns Skyfire into a cat. Inspired by Kkal's art.
18. Swoopimus Prime. Inspired by a
pic I saw on DeviantArt. Be sure to read the artists comments. Backstory number 2 had me staring in shock.
19. Perceptor is the name of a race, not the name of an individual. They just see no reason to tell anyone their real names and as there are so few of them and they are rarely anywhere together, they simply claim Perceptor to be their own name.
20. Art. Sparkling!Starscream drawing a picture of Skyfire on the wall.
21. Art. Sparkling!Skyfire, drawing (on paper) a picture of Starscream flying. Underneath Starscream Skyfire has written My Best Friend Forever.
22. "You're so addictive."
23. Art. An upset Perceptor resting in Grimlock's arms, leaning against his chest.
24. "Don't think the threat of imminent death gets you out of explaining!" ~ Quote from a Rurouni Kenshin/Bleach Crossover I just read.
25. "You can't not be here if you're here."
26. He was born dead, and no one noticed.
27. A few vorn after the Ark disappeared, the Autobots, desperate to survive, formed a
Ghost Army. This army was surprisingly successful and is so classified only Ultra Magnus, Alpha Trion, and the members of the Ghost Army even know about the Ghost Army's mission. Suggested Ghost Army members: Perceptor (come on, did you honestly expect me to not mention him?), Blaster, Red Alert, Inferno, Smokescreen, and anyone else you think would fit.
28. Perceptor can see things others cannot. Most know this but few of them realize that this means that he can also shield things from mortal sight.
29. Sometimes, Perceptor seemed impossible to predict.
30. His accent sounded like a little bit of everything.
31. "If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
32. Dating rescues.
33. "I should have known something was wrong."
"How could you have possibly known?"
"He told be goodbye. He never said goodbye before."
34. The overlooked is often the most dangerous.
35. 2007. Red Alert was killed long ago, but was reborn on Earth, as a human. And Miles is starting to remember his previous life. Bonus if he remembers before the movie and Sam thinks he's going crazy when he starts talking about a civil war fought by giant robots. More bonus points if Sam doesn't remember Miles 'delusion' until a few months after Mission City.
36. Optimus: *stares in shock* "What do you mean you accidentally created a black hole?!"
Perceptor: *cowers* "It's only a little one, sir."
Optimus: "Only a-" *sigh* "Go... just go."
Perceptor: *runs away*
37. Crossover with Bleach. Kurotsuchi meets Perceptor and Mixmaster. And wishes he hadn't.
38. Perceptor can stop time. He has fun with this.
39. "Is he a genius or crazy?"
"What's the difference?"
40. Prowl/Blaster.
41. Perceptor occasionally has rapid changes in mood. And it has nothing to do with pregnancy or PMS.
42. There seems to be a suicide 'epidemic' going around the Autobots. Perceptor, Blaster, Red Alert, Springer, and Ultra Magnus have all killed themselves. At least that's what everyone believes. But the 'bodies' that were found were fake, and the 'dead' Autobots are actually very much alive. Unfortunetly, they are very much alive in a Quintesson's lab.
43. Cop Bunnies. Because Cop Bunnies is what a friend heard when I told her that the Plot Bunnies were chasing Perceptor. (Bunny!Prowl?)
44. "Hold your horses."
"Hold my... what?"
45. Snarl/Swoop.
46. "Good and evil is not always black and white. They do blend a little."
47. "Anything they can't fix..."
48. Jazz loves Prowl. Prowl does not love Jazz. Prowl is already bonded. Jazz doesn't know this. Prowl tries to discourage Jazz. Jazz is not about to give up.
49. Too unstable to love.
50. If he were a cat, he'd be purring.
51. It was like watching a cat toying with a mouse.
52. "Perceptor just lets everyone sleep all over him." Note: No, my mind was not in the gutter when I came up with this one. I didn't even realize it could be a bunny until after I said this about
my new Perceptor.
53. "I think Skywarp has finally grown up."
"Yeah... I hate it."
"Me too."
54. Steeljaw watches the Lion King.
55. Tracks is the creation of Mirage and one of the Twins.
56. The scientists' accidentally-destructive-ness is apparently contagious. As Tracks discovers. "I didn't do it. Honest. ... I didn't mean to do it."
57. When they made the Dinobots, they hadn't expected a femme spark. Swoop wonders why 'he' seems different than his brothers.
58. Early in the war, certain femmes (Perceptor, Blaster, Springer, and Red Alert) were ordered to disguise themselves as mechs. It took them a long, long time to feel comfortable in their new bodies, but they eventually grew used to them and even began to like them. But now that the war is over, Optimus and Elita have told them that they no longer needed to hide. Optimus and Elita order them to report to the medbay for new bodies. But Optimus and Elita never once stopped to ask if they wanted new bodies, but they can't ignore a direct order and so they obediently report to the medbay. And afterwards... their lives seem to fall apart. Their friends react badly to their real gender, they are treated differently... they hate it. And Optimus and Elita are too blind to see it.
59. It was a race to see what would kill him.
60. "You weren't supposed to die before me."