Beast Wars AU where Optimus and Megatron are anonymous pen pals/online friends before the start of the show
the drama of slowly realizing that your sworn enemy and your best friend and confidant are one and the same. the hope of realizing that maybe you don’t have to fight, that maybe you have more common ground than you know. the ROMANCE
sorry in advance that it took me a thousand years to get to this, for some reason I thought I had answered it and realized when checking my drafts that I apparently and obviously didn't. Oops XD NGL the comedy of this idea goes up tenfold when you recall BW Megatron's unique speech pattern and mannerisms. I would assume that, despite prioritizing maintaining anonymity as best as he can even with his pen pal, despite enjoying the conversations with each another (won't risk said pen pal turning on him and he's prepared for any betrayals the pen pal may come up with), some of his mannerisms would occasionally leak through the letters or messages.
So imagine Primal, after a couple encounters with Megatron, senses that something about the way Megatron talks seems familiar, but he's not quite sure how or from where and thus doesn't think much of it at first. But then he goes to re-read some of his old messages from his pen pal and he can't help but think the pen pal, at times, kinda talks like Megatron. But that has to be a coincidence. After all, this pen pal he's had for a while-years, even-has been nothing but a good friend and confidant, and Megatron is the annoying asshole across the river who won't stop hatching evil plans and attacking the Axalon crew every five seconds.
And then, the drama. Just imagine if Primal decides, as part of a test, to try and send a message to his pen pal. Considering how little luck his own crew have had trying to contact Cybertron in a different star system and time period, it should in theory not work. But not only does the message go through, he gets a response by his pen pal saying that responses may be slow due to complications. Meanwhile, you got Megatron receiving a message from his pen pal asking how he is and knowing that this should not be possible...unless his pen pal is somehow in the exactly same temporal space as he is right now. And yet neither want to admit the most obvious answer of "my archnemesis has been my pen pal of many years this whole time" to be true, trying to assume it has to be some sort of coincidental but very improbable luck. But deep down, they know this isn't coincidence.
Cue a very awkward neutral grounds meetup where they confirm with each other their worst fears, yet coming out of it more curious about each other than ever. And then cue them continuing to message each other despite this reveal (and said messages getting a little too friendly later on down the road if you catch my drift ;) )
Thanks for sending this AU idea my way, this is a fun one to think about!
