Another alternate reality shenanigans idea
The Lost Light crew, as they bounce around from alternate reality to alternate reality, wind up in the G1 cartoon. I mean literally they are the subject of an episode in which the Autobots must help their new friends get home. All cartoon logic applies.
Someone gets blown up into a bunch of pieces. Understandably, Tailgate and Nautica (who have never seen death before getting on this forsaken ship) scream. The G1 cast makes a big fuss over getting their comrade to Ratchet, but they’re very confused why the LL crew is so worried. Dude is walking a few minutes later.
There’s no blood/energon or gore. Someone loses an arm and is just chill.
Optimus says “Roll out!” and two seconds later they’re on the other side of the planet. It’s still a desert.
The physics are so broken that the crew can use warped proportion issues to their advantage. Fly off, feet get wacky big, use big feet as a mallet. Tailgate sometimes shrinks. Ultra Magnus is at one point twice his normal size.
Nautica accidentally gets bridged to Cybertron. She and a socially starved Shockwave enthuse over science for most of the episode. Shockwave is devastated when she leaves.
Every now and then people get paint swapped. Ultra Magnus is about to have an aneurism because people keep changing when he looks away.
Rodimus is so excited by all the chaos and is appalled that his counterpart’s hobby is fishing.
After encountering G1 Megatron, even Megatron immediately agrees the ‘Cons might be much better off with their Starscream. That is, until they meet G1 Starscream.
The Ark doesn’t have a door, and Ravage cannot get over this.
Everyone’s designs shift to match the G1 style (for example, Magnus doesn’t look identical to G1 Magnus but is much boxier). Cyclonus just looks like G1 Cyclonus, but that character hasn’t appeared yet, so it’s just a detail only the readers get to giggle at.
Brainstorm loses his mouth at one point due to an animation error.
The episode’s theme is to be okay with being silly, especially in times of great tension or grief. Rodimus laments being created in the wrong universe, finding he fits the style of this place so much better than he feels he does his home dimension. But G1 Optimus has a classic heart to heart with him about how needed Roddy’s energy is, then, to his broken world. Dare to be stupid and all that jazz.
The episode ends with no clear method how they’d get out of this dimension save the vague acquisition of a macguffin. The crew is just in the next dimension in the next scene, all of them confused.
