So a while back I got some TFOne thoughts. Specifically considering that in TFOne Meg’s is the baby, and Star, Sound and Shock are all older. And with age, comes lots of experience…
So maybe one way or another - maybe it’s a comment Megs makes, or Megs going through his first ever heat - they find out that their new leader, is an innocent, bright opticed, blushing virgin. And Star brings the idea to Sound and Shock, that they should teach him. They can’t have a leader so inexperienced, so it’s their responsibility to prepare, and teach him…
So they drag him off, and they begin to gently work him, slowly convince him, after all, they’re just trying to help him, teach him, give him some experience, that’s their responsibility. And eventually they get him to let them start.
Star momentarily departs, tells Sound and Shock to keep going, and he’ll go prepare (make a little nest for them to be more comfortable doing it on), and handle the others to prevent any interruptions (make a polite, flowery announcement to tell the others to leave them alone for a while).
The pair work him, get him all flushed, and leaning against them, practically begging to go farther, and just then Star comes back, having decided he made an adequate nest for them to ‘teach’ their little leader.
They take him off to the nest, and settle down, quickly prepping him, and before long they’re already into the interfacing.
Soundwave and Shockwave have him sandwiched between them, spiking him, and Starscream is sat back, watching the show before him, somewhat servicing himself.
Megatron, despite being the largest, seems so tiny, when he’s on the pair’s spikes, which is so very interesting to Shockwave, he’s definitely going to need to test this again, and their newspark leader makes such pretty sounds, music to Sound and Star’s audials to hear.
They get to end, and as Megatron is drifting - because it was rather intense for such a sweet little thing, who’s never had any experience like that before - the three start to conspire between themselves a little.
One lesson definitely won’t do it. He’s gonna need some more experience to be ready to lead them. And they’re happy to teach.
I'm actually writing Transformers fanfiction, we are so donion rings.
Feat. Shockwave doing a science project, and an iconic face.
Shockwave had grown deaf to the chatter of laser fire. It was all part of the backdrop, now. Not a cycle since Cybertronians could walk the surface freely, and half of it seemed like craters already, he would muse to himself. Once he had fancied himself an archaeologist, going to those ancient cities, Vos, Stanix, in what free time an outcast bandit had, salvaging what was left of the Primes' reign from the rubble. Now, he only heard those names spoken of for the redoubts and advances and outposts.
One sound cut through all the skirmishing outside the facility, one that he would never be able to tune out: a fusion cannon. Three shots, four, in steady rhythm. Megatron's mood was easy to determine by his firing pattern. Rapid-fire meant short of temper; staggered shots like those betokened a deliberate mindset, thoughtfulness. But if Megatron saw fit to personally drive off those Autobot raiders, it meant he was eager for results. Shockwave turned his attention back to the slab.
He was just lowering the last of the chest-plates into position, micro-tuned tracking laser following his lone optic's most minute twitches for a surgical touch a nanomachine couldn't have, as the doors opened. No other bot walked like that, but a fine quavering note in the air, a hum, an auditory shiver, betrayed another guest.
"Megatron. Soundwave. Only a moment, now-" the final plate was sealed in place, a laser tracing its edges, and he shut down the program, turning, with a bow. Gestures of loyalty had become in high esteem among the Decepticons. It was like that since the First Starscream Coup, the Construction Coup, the Second Starscream Coup, the Third- it wasn't enough to be loyal, not even with Soundwave's truth-scan itching your audio-receptors as you spoke; you had to act loyal.
Megatron stepped forward, looking over the surgical slab. Metal purple with deac-reac sickness, the color of a Cybertronian dredged up from the rusty clutches of death. Armaments slimmed down. A face like horror itself. Megatron turned to Shockwave, gesturing at the recumbent machine.
"Go ahead. What've you done for me here?"
"A miracle, if I may say so, Megatron."
"Lord Megatron," rasped Soundwave, arms folded. He had taken to fanaticism like an electroduck to oil.
"Lord Megatron, I meant to say," Shockwave repeated, flashing a dullest-glowing glare at Soundwave. "The commandos retrieved the body from nothing less than Autobot top secret storage. A few techniques scoured from intelligence on Ratchet's work-"
Megatron tilted his head, giving a blank look and a rumbling rev. Shockwave felt it was time to cut to the chase.
"He should be as alive as any of the rest of us, once the energon infusion is complete. You left him in poor condition- I quite approve of it -but I had to remove the wings altogether to get the rest of him functional. His flying days are over. The sonic weaponry suite has been tested to perfection. I would wear audio dampeners-"
Megatron turned his gaze once to the body, then back to Shockwave, the body, the scientist, back and forth, until fixing Shockwave with a look he would have preferred staring down a laser cannon to being face to face with.
"I notice, Shockwave, he isn't online. Can he be turned back on, or not?"
"Lord Megatron, the- that lever-" Shockwave gestured to it on the control panel at the foot of the slab, faltering with haste, "I only supposed that you would want to be the one to make it official, so to speak, my lord."
Megatron turned his gaze towards the lever, and Shockwave unfolded slightly from his defensive cringe. Then he turned back.
"The mask?"
"Designed to your exact specifics, Lord Megatron. To the micrometer." The scientist stepped aside to his workbench, under his wall-sized surface map, and pulled the armored case off of it, releasing the catches of the shockproof metal with the smoothest of clicks; Megatron cracked a rare grin as he brushed one servodigit against the cargo within. Shockwave bowed stiffly.
"You don't disappoint on this kind of work, Shockwave. Allow me." He took the mask from its metallite-foam cushioning, walking around the slab, fixing it in place over that face, still locked in a death-scream of horror. Magnetic locks hissed and clicked. Shoot the wearer point-blank in the face, run them over, drop them from orbit, this mask did not "fall off".
Megatron circled around the other half of the slab, coming full circle to Shockwave's control panel, one servo grasping the lever. Soundwave shot Shockwave as dubious a look as his visor could manage.
"Lord Megatron, pardon my impudence," Soundwave droned, "but to reassemble him when better 'bots have gone to the smelting fire..."
"I'm not doing this for what he will be, Soundwave." Megatron's digits locked around the lever, began to push; concentrated Energon suffused the empty core of the dead 'bot. Blank light began to pour from his optics.
"I'm doing this for what he was. He was a liar. A traitor!" Shockwave toned down his audio receptors as Megatron's voice rose to an outburst, nearly drowning out the rising surge of Energon and creaking of machinery forced back to life.
"He kept 'bots in line, he kept them where he could step on them all! Tortured! Disassembled! Murdered! I want worse for him than just being dead, I want him to live, Soundwave. Live for the Decepticon cause! Live despised by both sides of this war, chained up in a prison the size of himself, locked behind that mask! All he did was die; I want him to suffer!"
The lever had gone all the way forward, the infusion complete; the bot was sitting up on the slab, which itself tilted slowly upwards, shunting him onto his feet. Were it not for the bracing brackets keeping the 'bot in place, he would have toppled to the ground.
"Excellent reasoning, Lord Megatron," Soundwave hummed. He scanned the 'bot, looking him over. "Welcome back. Welcome to the service of Lord Megatron, Sent-"
"Give him a new name," Megatron said. His voice was brusque; it had been a command, not a recommendation. Shockwave swiveled his torso, glancing at the surface map over the workbench, his gaze roving until it fixed on a point at random. He turned back to face the 'bot, whose optics roved wildly behind the mask, grating agonized moans as he got his bearings.
"Welcome to the service of Lord Megatron, Tarn. You will receive your first orders shortly."
Instead of having one, demonized "bad one" in the quartet of the main characters, and having a bake-ready Decepticon faction that only lacked Megatron as an evil outside agitator,
TF1's writers should have had two future Autobots and two future Decepticons (Orion, Elita, D-16, and ???*) as the main characters, and show Iacon's population splitting when Sentinel's lies were revealed.
*There are several options. Soundwave is usually Megatron's oldest and most loyal follower. Shockwave could be Elita's archenemy like Megatron is Optimus' archenemy, if Hasbro let them. Damus could have started off like Bee did in the movie, but taken Dee's side when things went wrong.
(Starscream being mad at Megatron because the guy ousted him from leadership works, better than them being together at the beginning would work, but not sure how it'd happen in this kind of a plot)
Not sure what to do with Orion, Elita, and Bee in the TF1 SG au where Megatron, Shockwave, Starscream, and Soundwave are all cogless in the beginning. It's one of those SGs that takes the concept of the continuity but does not follow canon.
Out of the quartet, at least Starscream is also a miner because angst, though if i do a megashock angle Shockwave should propably already know Megatron (i hate it when rushed romances randomly happen in fiction, and also Shockwave is arospec in every continuity so that would make even less sense), though cogless from different jobs can propably interact. Idk where Soundwave would come from.
At least Orion should propably be prominent, since Megatron was one of the main characters in the original. The whole "the origin of the main heroes and the main villain" angle that was part of TF1's concept. Not sure what Orion's role would be, since there's already four main characters. He could still be a miner, or other manual laborer. He could also be an enforcer since he was a cop in IDW (and otherwise privileged in at least TFP), though i'm not sure if that would be a good idea.
Like each continuity before it, TF1 took and built on ideas from the previous continuities, so i'm looking at my G1 SG au and my vague G1 SG au-derived ideas for other continuities (ie. not TFPSG Oneshot Series etc) that take the continuity's concept and build an SG version that does its own thing with that concept instead of following canon events. My G1 SG AU Optimus was a disgruntled dockworker who after getting fired became a fascist dictator running on an anti-objectformer and anti-warframe and car superiority platform (and "Optimus Prime" was just one of those titles dictators give themselves), and in my IDW SG AU idea Optimus was a cop who became a fascist dictator because middle caste bots (and high caste bros, but they didn't join) felt threatened by the possibility of the system being loosened in any way and/or were mad about it being loosened earlier when the open cold-construct segregation ended. Other Primes existing/having existed and "Prime" being a title used by other bots would still become a thing in at least IDW1 and Aligned, so the original Primes would propably still exist in this version of SG TF1.
I think Megatron and Optimus having known each other before the war was only invented by Aligned, and the only other continuity where they used to be friends was TF1? Not sure if that could even make sense in this series of SG continuities.
I'm also not sure what SG!TF1!Orion would do in the story or who/what he would even be against in TF1's setting where there isn't and has propably never been castes beyond cogless vs. cogged — particularly if he was still cogless himself. Or how thestory would end.
The only idea i currently have is that he gets roped into the plot somehow, discovers his leaders have lied to and used him, and gets mad at them.
Name ideas for my TF One Shattered Glass AU where the main characters are Megatrpn, Shockwave, Starscream, and Soundwave who are all cogless?
(Not yet sure about Orion's, Elita's, and Bee's role. This is less of a mirroring of TF One, and more like taking the concept of TF One and building from my SG versions of the earlier continuities)
