A Soundwave learns about all the cool things humans have invented for child development and decides that his cassettes need enrichment. Ravage gets specially designed cat trees in almost all public areas of the ship. Buzzsaw and Lazerbeak have perches and bird toys like bells and chew toys all over. Ratbat gets a ball pit and a large selection of enlarged baby toys to keep them entertained. Rumble and frenzy get leapfrog tablets and bord games. There are also communal toy boxes containing blocks toy cars and planes and craft supplies. If the crew gets on soundwaves nerves he lets his kids have epic nerf battles for a whole day. Mechs are still finding darts in weird places.
This is just a list of small ideas about the three princes' (and also Rumble and Frenzy's) childhood and some general worldbuilding regarding how Kaonites (and to an extend Iaconians) tend to raise their children. It does include a smaller story idea about Soundrod and Rumble and Frenzy’s earliest childhood at the end.
But TLDR; you can comfortable skip this post as it does not really effect the greater plot of the AU and is more like flavour text. For those of you who do decide to stick around tho, just look under the cut!
Table of Contents
Sire Gift
Sparkling Pendants
Chosing your first Altmode
Soundblaster's revenge aka: How Rumble and Frenzy created a national crisis
Sire Gift
The Birth of a sparkling as you assume is always celebrated to the highest level and newborn sparklings are showered with gifts from their creators’ friends and family.
But there is one person’s gift that, in Kaon at least, is seen as more important than any other person’s present.
That is the Sire’s Gift.
And while it is not required in Kaon it is common for Sires to handcraft their “Sire Gift” while their partner is still carrying. Some Sires will spend the entire carrying cycle slaving away to create the perfect Sire present for the day their sparkling arrives.
When Megatron found out about Optimus being pregnant with their first born (Hot Rod), he went straight to work. His sire gift was a giant playroom for their child. With toys, books, a little table for snack time and even a whole Climbing Frame. But the feature he put especially great care in was the mural decorating the playroom’s walls. The mural depicted the landscape and city of Kaon, to always remind his son that one day he might take his sire's place as king of Kaon and that he should always strive for the country's wellbeing in his endavours.
Of course at that time neither Megatron nor Optimus would have ever imagined that they would have more than one sparkling. Let alone three, because again Sparklings are incredibly rare on Cybertron.
So when Megatron learned years later that he has sired a second sparkling he was quite stressed out to think of a Sire gift that could match the playroom. The stress was so bad Megatron actively went to his in-laws for advise. Specifically to Alchemist Prime to ask him for some divination on what his second son would be like. While Alchemist's divination (as always) was incredibly vague Megatron did manage to decipher that his second son would most likely be enamoured with organic life. So Megatron, with the assisstance of the Primes once again, went to work and rearranged the royal gardens of Kaon to become a never before seen wonder of nature. Megatron gathered plants and pollinator organic species from all across the galaxy to create this garden for his child.
And then some more years later Megatron found himself in the exact same position once again. His beloved queen was carrying their third child and how could Megatron give his youngest bitty a sire gift that was on par with an entire playroom and garden? He had tried asking Alchemist for another divination, but this time the Prime's divination had been worded so vaguely not even Megatron could make head or tail of it.
The king of Kaon was at the edge of despair trying to think of a Sire Gift, while his youngest child's due date approached ever faster. And that is when his father-in-law Megatronus Prime came to him and told him about his Sire gift when Optimus had been born. He had given Optimus a simple stuffed animal. Megatronus explained how he had never sown anything prior and frankly the plushie did not turn out great. But Optimus had cuddled up to it every night regardless. So it's not the size or grandeur of the sire gift that matters. What matters is that you show your sparkling how much you adore them through it. The Sire Gift should be the manifestation of the promise of a father's love and support to their child.
And that is when Megatron finally knew what he shoudl gift his third son. For the following days Megatron locked himself away in his study not even coming out to eat or sleep, worrying his conjunx and annoying his advisor Shockwave in the process. When Megatron emerged almost a week later he revealed his Sire Gift to Optimus: A hand carved crib for their third sparkling. The crib had a little Tank and Truck carved on each side, representing his Sire and Carrier respectively. A manifestation of their promise to always love and support their sparkling.
Sparkling Pendants
As I have already established in a previous post: Sparklings are seen as undeniable precious and treasured beings given how rare they are. As such creators tend to give it their all to protect their bitlets from any and all harm.
One way creators attempt to shield their precious little bundles of joy from harm is by gifting them a so called Sparkling Pendant.
The Sparkling Pendant is a simple necklace with an amulet dangling from it given to a sparkling almost right after emergence. Sparklings often are made to wear it up until they are the human equivalent of a 5 or 6 year old. Though there have been a handful of cases of especially protective creators making their children wear it all the way up to the age of 12 and beyond.
The Sparkling pendant (originating from Iacon) is believed to protect the child from evil spirits (or even Unicron himself in more conservative parts of Cybertron) and harm such as major injuries and sicknesses. However there is no proof that it actually does anything like that and is mostly founded in superstition (similarly to how we believe 4 leafed clovers bring good luck)
Megatron and Optimus had sparkling pendants custom made for each one of their children. The amulets were made out of pure silver with Energon leylines encrested into it for decoration. The royal crest of Kaon was carved into the front of the amulet and the Child's Initials on the back.
Rumble and Frenzy's Sparkling pendants however bare the crest of Iacon and were also given to them at birth by their Sire Soundwave.
Soundwave had actually designed them himself as his 'Sire Gift'. He would have wanted to give his sons something much grander, but he did not dare to leave his pregnant conjunx alone and he feared for Rodimus’ safety, given some servants had kidnapped him and forced Rodimus into the Iaconian isolation ritual before when Soundwave wasn’t around. And Soundwave did not want to risk this from happening again so instead he stayed by Rodimus’ side during the entire carrying process and just designed the twins’ sparkling necklaces instead as his sire gift.
little Fun fact: The Sparkling Necklaces are directly inspired by the ancient roman Bullae.
Chosing your first Altmode
While transformers are born into a certain frame type, their altmode is still chosen by them.
On the sparkling's 5th birthday (So around the same time they are old enough to take off their sparkling pendant), a set of different altmode options are laid out in front of the child in the form of toy models. The child then choses their first altmode from this set of toys.
In both Kaon and Iacon this ceremony is seen as a great deal (Kind of like how we tend to view a child's first day of Kindergarten or School), but in Iacon it can have some slight religious undertones (like so many things). Usually this manifests by richer families asking for a priest or diviner to be present during the ceremony. The priest usually blesses the child after chosing their altmode while the diviner attempts to deduce a reading of the sparkling's future from their choice.
Of course apart from the clergy, the ceremony is also attended by the sparkling's family members and friends.
Cheetor's ceremony had taken everyone by surprise when he ignored every altmode option the priest and diviner (who had traveled all the way from Iacon) had brought with them and instead had run out of the palace's grand hall, all the way to the royal library. His family and all the guests watched in confusion and curiosity alike as the young child pulled out a book about organic creatures and skipped all the way to a page about a creature called a 'cheetah', explaining how he wanted to be THIS.
Why this was especially shocking is that Cheetor was not born a Beast frame. And yet here this young sparkling was scanning the simple image of an organic creature and making it his alt mode. It was obvious to everyone present that this transformation did not come easy to Cheetor (as is usually the case if one chose an altmode outside of ones born frame type), but the sparkling's determination presevered.
And frankly Megatron had never been prouder of his son before. Megatron who had started a revolution and rebuilt an entire nation on the idea that one's frame type did not dictate who you had to be, had just witnessed his own child defy the odds and chose an altmode that did not allign in the slightest with his frame type. Because it's what he wanted.
Cheetor's grand-sire Alpha Trion (an actual born Beast Frame) had taken it upon himself that day to visit Kaon as often as he could to personally train Cheetor in how to navigate his new altmode. Not that Alpha Trion minded much. Any excuse to spend time and play with any of his grandsparklings was a valid excuse in his eyes.
Soundblaster's revenge aka How Rumble and Frenzy created a national crisis
This is a small story idea, set not too long after Rumble and Frenzy are born. The 13 Primes and Rodimus are working hard to get the tradition of isolating carriers during their pregnancy banned in Iacon but the council keep arguing how it's tradition and many more conservative Iaconians are unfortunately reluctant to change, believing that a carrier must endure this test Primus had given them by letting them have a sparkling in the first place. So needless to say the process is slow and Rodimus, still getting used to his new role as Prime and the cultural difference between his homeland and Iacon, is absolutely exhausted to say the least.
Rodimus' one guiding light in all of this are his dear baby twins Rumble and Frenzy and his conjunx Soundwave. No matter how drained he feels after hours of arguing and holding speeches to push Iacon away from its outdated traditions and lead the country to a new future, seeing his family at the end of each day always brings a smile to his face.
So much so that Rodimus straight up tells Soundwave one day that without Rumble and Frenzy, he would be lost. Unfortunately for the couple, a certain former acting Prime (*cough cough* Sentinel *cough cough*) overhears their conversation and instantly begins scheeming. Sentinel has been trying and failing to sneakily break the young Prime's will for quite a while now. But no matter what curveball he seems to throw at him, Rodimus always bounces right back.
So Sentinel in the dead of night travels all the way to Kaon to pay someone jailed in one of the highest guarded prisons there a visit.
That someone turns out to be none other than Soundblaster, a bounty hunter who's had a long lasting (and extremely one-sided) rivalry with Soundwave. Sentinel promises that he will help Soundblaster break free and get revenge on his arch nemesis Soundwave if he in turn can make Soundwave and Rodimus' twins disappear. Sentinel does not care how. As long as Soundblaster makes sure no one can ever find them again, Rodimus would fall into despair and Sentinel could easily reclaim the throne of Iacon by claiming he is 'simply taking over the reins while the young Prime is mourning the loss of his sparklings.
Soundblaster, upon hearing this plan, does not need much convincing. After all nothing he could ever do to Soundwave would hurt that accursed musicplayer as much as taking away the one thing he loves the most. The one thing he cannot replace: His sparklings.
So that night Soundblaster sneaks into the twins' nursery and basically abandons the sparklings somewhere in the deepest woods, where not even Ravage's nose or Laserbeak's optics coudl track them down.
And just as Sentinel had hoped, his plan was falling neatly into place. When Rodimus and Soundwave woke up the following day to find their twins' cribs empty, Rodimus instantly sounds the alarms. Soundwave, along with the high guard, leaves the tower of the Primes to search all of Iacon for his missing sons. Thousands of Iaconian civilians join the search efforts but every last one of them turns up empty handed.
Exactly as Sentinel had planned, Rodimus begins to fall further and further into despair as the days pass with no signs of his sparklings anywhere and with his usually oh-so-vigilant Conjunx out of the tower to search for their twins. Not to mention the Primes themselves being too distracted with the search for the princes to notice their grand-sparkling Rodimus slowly fading away.
Rodimus was all alone with his own grief. No conjunx to support him. No Creators nor siblings to wipe away his tears. No grand-sires to take the load of Iacon off his shoulders. He was perfectly vulnerable and unknowingly playing right in Sentinel’s hands as he sat on the throne of Iacon with hallowed optics staring into nothingness, dried tears smearing his cheeks and barely responding to anything the council was saying anymore. Rodimus had lost any and all will to fight with his beloved sparklings gone.
So Sentinel strikes the iron while it’s still hot and suggests to Rodimus and the council that he will once again, heavy hearted, take on the mantle of Iacon’s “acting Prime” until Rodimus has recovered from his grief or until the princes will have been found. Of course Sentinel fully knows that those babies are never going to return and thus no one can ever take the throne away from him again.
Or so he thinks.
Because while no one in Iacon could find the sparklings, someone else did.
For the woods in which Soundblaster had abandoned the children were home of the elusive Maximals. A nation made up entirely of Beast Formers, who preferred to not engage in international affairs and rather lived in the shadows of the trees. As the sun had risen on that faithful day of the twins’ disappearance, a young Maximal femme named Airazor had heard the distressed cries of two sparklings and went to investigate. That is when she stumbled across a little basket with the shivering and starving sparklings inside it.
With the twins’ creators nowhere in sight, Airazor took the babies with her even deeper into the forest - to the hidden capital of the maximals. There she presented the twins to their nations leader Optimus Primal, explaining how she found them abandoned in the woods.
Primal however quickly took notice of the insignia engraved on the twins’ sparklings pendants: Iacon’s coat of arms. Whoever these sparklings belonged to, they must hail from Iacon. But the journey to Iacon was treatorous. Even for hardened Maximals. Especially with two vulnerable sparklings in toe.
And so Primal put together a team of his strongest warriors to accompany him on this journey to Iacon. On this quest they have to master their way through dangerous terrain, fight off hungry beasts ready to feast on the energon of some sparklings and most importantly keep Soundblaster off their back. Cuz as it turns out Soundblaster (while hiding out in the woods satisfied at having taken away Soundwave's greatest treasure) noticed the group of Beast Frames heading towards Iacon and that their leader carried the happily giggling twins on his back.
The group eventually does manage to reach Iacon and in a #dramatic-chase-scene reminiscent of the one in Steven Spielberg's 'the Adventures of Tintin' where the Maximals run through Iacon city to reach the tower of the Primes, while Soundblaster tries to snatch the twins away from them.
Eventually Soundwave returns from another unsuccessful search for his children when he suddenly sees Soundblaster running after a Hawk, a Gorilla and a Rhinoceros who are carrying Rumble and Frenzy. Soundwave, not really understanding what is happening but knowing fully well he cannot let Soundblaster near his sons, joins the chase and faces off against Soundblaster, ordering the Maximals to head inside the tower of the primes and return the twins to Rodimus.
While Soundwave beats Soundblaster into a pulp, the maximals run through the halls of the tower of the primes and eventually manage to find Rodimus. The young prime had become unresponsive to the world around him in the wake of his children's disappearance. But all the light and life returns to his optics the second he heard his twins laughter echoing through the tower. Rodimus jumps off his bed and runs frantically through the corridors of the tower, following the sound of Rumble and Frenzy's voices. He meets the Maximals half way who happily return the unharmed sparklings to their carrier. Rodimus crumbles to his knees as he finally holds his sparklings in his arms again.
Soundblaster gets imprisoned again, Sentinel loses the throne for a second time and all is back as it used to be.
Thanks for reading all this way! I hope you enjoyed it! I for y part had a lot of fun writing it. I don't know why Soundblaster would have beef with Soundwave in this AU frankly, given I only know him from Cyberverse and they never really explained what his deal was in that show so if you got any ideas I'd be happy to hear them.
The next textpost will actually describe the first of the suitors’ trials! So please stay tuned until then!
And as always I hope you enjoyed this post mine. If you have ideas of your own for this AU feel free to send them to me. Or heck if my take on this AU is not up to your satisfaction/doesn't go in the direction you want you can write your own version of it (just by god don't use AI to do it that is my one and only request). And if you do: Tag me in it, I would love to see your version <3
My Transformers addiction is coming back and along with my craving for plastic so does the one for Soundwave.
Specifically him and his cassettes. I need a story exploring their dynamics, and I’m not talking about couple or one specific bot, I’m talking the full family dynamic of Soundwave being a father for at least 16 bots.
Also I am personally a fan of Ravage being a girl as presented in Earthspark, idk, doesn’t really add anything to her but it feels right in my mind. Also speaking of which, anyone else think of Ravage when they first saw Shadow Panther? Like I know he has an actual BW design but I don’t like it. Also I think all the cassettes getting new bodies like that with a traditional robot and alternate mode could make a cool “coming of age” style thing. Like they’re adults now.
I have ideas for a short story I might make… MAYBE… but I’m working on this fic that’s gonna be LONG and I’ll being splitting into separate “books” so after I get the first one done I might make it.
As a kitten Ravage would often get late night zoomies. Soundwave would often wake up during the night to the sound of things falling and crashing, Ravage often had a pleased look afterwards.
Deadlock was the one who taught Ravage how to use their teeth and claws. The next day a lot of cons had their ankles attacked while Deadlock had a proud look on his face.
Ravage's favourite spot to nap was Megatron's shoulder. He often didn't mind and even allowed the other cassettes to nap on his shoulder's as well. They still do nap on his shoulder even when grown.
In Transformers Earthspark there’s a singular throw away line about Rumble exploding because SoundWave tried to transform when low on Energon after a fight. And that’s a shame, personally I believe they did that so they wouldn’t have to have another character to animate. Either way. There’s the story of how Rumble survived
Side note- SoundWave has telepathy, why? Because it’s f u n. Also, WARNING FOR ROBO GORE IN PHOTOS AND DESCRIPTION
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Wood cracked and snapped as dark grey servos’s slammed a yellow autobot scout’s head against a mature oak.
“You’re supposed to be offline”, Sound’s gravelly voice echoed like the caw of a crow in Bumblebee’s processor as the yellow mechs optics flickered from the impact.
“Guess you can say I got better!”, Bumblebee shouted as his own servo shot out, his digits wrapped around a thick branch. With one solid motion he tore the branch from the main body and crashed it straight into the side of SoundWaves head.
Soundwave reeled back and a sonic screech left his speakers. Pain throbbed like a hot iron through SoundWaves helm. His servo came up to his long audial as he left something warm drip onto his shoulder, energon.
“Soundwave!”, Rumble shouted out in a panic as she scrambled for her electric keyboard that lay abandoned in the bramble that seemed to swallow it like it had just been waiting for the moment to inconvenience her.
This day had all gone wrong. Frenzy, LaserBreak, Ravange, and SoundWave were all low on Energon. SoundWave told the three to stay at their little hideout while he and Rumble went out to try to find where their sensors had been picking up nearby Energon traces. Unfortunately for Rumble, SoundWave stumbled across the thought to be dead Bumblebee who was very much alive and well.
“I told you this was a horrible idea!”, Rumble cried out at SoundWave who had recovered from being hindered and was going back and forth with the autobot scout.
“Shut up, I can handle this”, SoundWave shot back at the small femme whose metallic arms were digging her keyboard out of the thorns, scratching her arms up in the process.
With one final stretch Rumbles digits wrapped around the strap and yanked it out with all of her force, causing her to shot back and landed on her back. Scrambling to her feet she immediately pointed the blaster end at Bumblebee who had just dodged out out her fathers sonic blast that came from his hand.
Rumble didn’t even think, she just did. Her digits glided over the keys and she began riffing. Each key press strengthened the shot that was building up before she shot. The blast shot made direct contact with Bumblebee’s neck which caused him to stagger back and wince. Soundwave immediately took the opportunity and uppercut the distracted scout.
Bumblebee let out a strangled cry as he felt a heavy pede crush down on his chest, the metal hood on his chest cracking. “W-we don’t have to fight- I’m not with G-“. His reasoning was cut short by more pressure being applied to his chest. Bumblebee’s optics refocused and suddenly there was a palm infront of his face with sonic energy building up.
The yellow scout closed his optics tightly as the weapon, his stinger slid out of his arm compartment. Where was the ear-twisting sound of metal slicing metal before SoundWave stumbled back, a huge gash now in his lower thigh, painting the off-white paneling bright pink.
Bumblebee moved to thrust the stinger into SoundWave’s lower abdomen but suddenly he felt a fury of weak blasts on his side.
“N-NO! STOP! GET AWAY FROM HIM!”, Frenzy sobbed out as her fingers clumsily pressed the key’s, physically unable to form the powerful combo’s she once was sure she knew by spark. She couldn’t let her father die. No, not after everything he’d done for her and Frenzy. Not after he took them in after they were found frozen in long forgotten stasis pods.
Slowly the autobot crawled a bit away from the decepticon fugitive and Frenzy, his optics wide in conflicting. Bumblebee’s processor whirled at the choice to continue or to spare. Soundwave was hurt. This was his chance! It would surely make Optimus proud and prove himself after his fumble… but the war was over, Bumblebee firmly reminded himself. There had to be no more unnecessary death.
Suddenly the sound of approaching helicopters roared out in the sky. The figure of G.H.O.S.T copters loomed in the horizon.
“Slag, they must’ve heard us”, Bumblebee murmurs in a panic as he held his chest plate and got to his pede’s. The soreness already starting to leach into his every movement.
“Why are you worried?”, SoundWave sharply asked through the scouts mind as he stumbled towards a tree, using it to support his weight as Energon trailed behind him.
“Because I’m not with G.H.O.S.T! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you! Why do you think I’ve been staying low?!”, Bumblebee anxiously shouted at the blue decepticon as his optics remained locked with the shadows on the horizon.
SoundWave’s optics widened behind his visor at that realization, they both were in deep trouble now. His optics flicked down to his leg as he felt something touching it. It was Rumble who was desperately applying an Energon coagulant to the wound which was slowing the gush down to a mere trickle.
Soundwave scooped her up in his servos and ordered through his link with her, “cassette, now”.
As Frenzy obediently transformed he immediately safely stored her in his chest cavity. Soundwave took a starting run, ignoring the throbbing pain in his thigh before trying to transform.
His body refused.
He tried again. His plates shifted but failed. Warning symbols popped up on his hub, his Energon levels were too low to safely transform so his frame automatically stopped the process… he manually overrode it.
SoundWave’s plates began shifting and sliding in all the wrong directions. His arms went all in the wrong order then they were supposed to. Panic prickled up in his system as he tried to stop it, but his body kept going. Suddenly there was a sickening crack and crush as part of his arm unrelentingly pressed into something, but it wasn’t his body that was cracking. He felt no pain as his parts slowly shifted back into place.
“…. Rumble?”, SoundWaves real voice slowly asked, rough from lack of use… there was no response.
Immediately she force started his body to transform out of its alt mode, energon that wasn’t his own leaking he between his his plates as he came to the horrific realization of what happened.
Soundwave collapsed to his knees and struggled to get his tape hatch to open. His digits clumsy in his panic. The hatch popped open and a small form tumbled into his hands.
Pink Energon costed his servo before he could even register it. Rumble’s face was half torn off, her pink visor halfway gone with it. Her arm was was completely torn off, taking a chunk of her torso with it. He could feel her ripped off parts inside his frame, pressing against his own innards. It was inside of him. He had done this.
“S…Soundwave?”, a choked voice echoed from Rumbles vocalizer. Her once bright pink optic was a dull glow now, her optic lazily starting at him as Energon bubbled from her nose.
“No- no- don’t talk, SweetSpark. I’m here, your sire is here. You’re going to be okay. J-just keep your optics online. Please.”, SoundWave couldn’t stop the desperation in his voice. He didn’t care anymore, his baby was hurt.
A gargle came from Rumbles throat as the energon nose her nose turned into a river, streaming down her lips and chin.
“I-It hurts”, she tried to say as dark spots freckled her vision, barely even aware of the fact that SoundWave was using his physical voice to comfort her.
“Shh- it’s okay, it’s okay. Just- just”, SoundWave felt moister building behind his visor for the first time in centuries. He stared at her butchered frame, his own optics struggling to focus on anything but the femme he raised since she and Frenzy were a small sparkling.
“Just keep your optics on- Rumble?… Rumble?!”., SoundWave shouted as he felt something in his spark shrivel. His hands trembling around her dying frame as her optics starting loosing their already dull glow. Then suddenly, she was still.
The helicopters were getting closer, their sound temporarily capturing SoundWave’s attention. His visor turned to the sky, blurry from the tears now dripping into his mask. G.H.O.S.T was coming.
His optics glanced at Bumblebee, he looked sick with horror. His optics shrunken into pricks and his jaw agape. His doorwings were even stiff with anxiety as he watched the scene
SoundWave’s mask clicked back, revealing his scarred lips, destroyed by a violent blast to the face. “I’m so sorry… my darling girl.”, SoundWave whispered as he held back a sob. As his final act of love he gently pressed his lips to her forehead. Would her spark find its way back to Cybertron? Or was she stuck on this hell planet just like she was in life.
Gently he laid her amongst the soft grass, it cradling her body and slowly turning pink from her energon. He couldn’t take her with him. Her energon would leave a trail back to where the others were hiding and doom them all… he had to keep the rest of his family safe. Even if it broke his spark to leave her in the woods.
With shaky servos he took her visor, a reminder to himself to never make the same mistake again, and a remembrance item.
Soundwave felt his spark screaming as he stood up, he wanted to hold her a little longer. To prey to Primus if he was even real to spare his youngling… but no. He bolted, he bolted into the woods, away from the pain he’s caused and from G.H.O.S.T.
Bumblebee slowly approached the offline body. G.H.O.S.T was nearly here but it felt… wrong to leave a body out in the open. Especially that of a youngling, even if it was an older youngling.
He reached his servo out to wipe away the energon when he noticed something. From the huge open tear he saw some light. Rumbles spark dully burned in her spark chamber, like the last ember of a fire. It had condensed itself into a tight orb, keeping itself alive when the body was heavily injured.
Without another thought he scooped Rumble up into his arms, he wasn’t going to let someone die on his watch. Screw what Optimus thinks. Bumblebee was an autobot, not a G.H.O.S.T agent.
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Might add onto this AU later! And post a reference for the Rumble design.
TL;DR- SoundWave picks a fight with Bumblebee while weak. Ghost comes and makes SoundWave run. SoundWave tries to transform with Rumble in his chest and accidentally crushes her. Soundwave leaves frenzy thinking she’s dead, Bumblebee takes her in when he realizes she didn’t dead.
