No. Give me dragonformers Prime kids thoughts. I need them
HEHE IF YOU INSIST (hi mootie!)
I’d like to think that the reason why they got tangled up with dragons was just incredibly bad luck. Or good luck, depending on how you view it, LOL. Maybe they legitimately WERE getting carried off by Cons to get eaten, only for one of the bots to swoop in to save the day. Or maybe some of them had prior connections with the bots (in human form) and that somehow that ends up revealing the bot’s identity? There’s a lot of potential scenarios for this AU and I absolutely adore theorizing about all of them.
Alternate scenario to consider: Raf making friends with the Oddly Silent Guy who keeps popping up when he feels suffocated out in a house filled with so many voices. They both sit near the creek down south of the village and Raf vents out all of his frustrations. The guy never interjects other than an understanding pat on the shoulder. Raf is taught how to skip stones and they make a game out of seeing who’s can go farther (Bumblebee always wins)
And then when Bumblebee shows up in dragon form for whatever reason, Raf immediately clocks him LMAO. He’s a very observant cookie — he’d sniff out the discrepancies with Bee pretty quickly. Like, “this guy is weird but I’m not getting bad vibes off of him. I won’t say anything for now…”
Jack doesn’t get to meet Arcee before she pops up as a dragon. I’d like to think that the poor guy is just very unfortunate. If anyone were to get kidnapped by a Decepticon, it’s definitely him. Arcee, hunting down her target in a bid to find Cliffjumper (who’s MIA cough cough) has to switch priorities and save this random human. That’s how Jack ends up stuck in the middle of their battle, hopelessly confused, panicked, and wondering why the pointy blue one won’t just kill him and be done with it. Arcee is … begrudgingly obligated to take Jack with her since the Con had carried him far off from his village. She does NOT care about him one bit (she absolutely does).
Miko is a self proclaimed monster hunter. Bulkhead doesn’t find her, SHE finds him. Does she care she’s about five foot nothing in comparison to the legitimate mountain she’s trying to bring down?? No. Bulkhead is just incredibly worried about her. Where are her parents?? Who is letting her run around like this? He’s also slightly impressed with her tracking skills and her determination but good lord, she gives him anxiety. If he just lets her run off again, who knows what she’ll run into? Malignant bridge trolls? Devious and horrifying tree spirits? Decepticons???? Bulkhead delicately yoinks her and decides that if no one is looking after this wayward hatchling, it’s up to him. If he takes his eyes off of her for more than ten minutes, best believe she’s trying to hunt down something else.
And then Bulkhead, Arcee, and Bumblebee all reconvene at Autobot HQ with their charges. Optimus just stares as his soldiers all point at each other like oh you’ve got one too, nice. Ratchet is very unhappy with the new additions. And it’s not like they can just… boot them off back home, right? 1) Miko doesn’t have a home so Bulkhead argues that she needs to stay around him, 2) Bumblebee is already attached to his little friend and Optimus has already resigned himself to them being a pair and 3) Jack and Arcee made a deal on their mini Con-hunting adventure so now they CANNOT just abandon each other. They have to find Cliffjumper and Jack needs to go kill the Con who kidnapped him.
Ratchet wants to shift into his human form just so he can pinch his nose bridge. He feels a migraine coming on.
Does he get attached?? No. No, absolutely not. He doesn’t want the kids here. He doesn’t worry about them at all. He does not bundle them up in his hoard when they’re sick or cold or —
Ratchet sighs harshly in exasperation. “Optimus, this is insane. Are you going to wind up with your own human now??” He bites out rhetorically.
Optimus: slowly pulls Agent Fowler out of his pocket
