I have more ideas for my Unicron Redemption AU. :)
First post (general timeline and what started this) here: https://sturthepotofmadness.tumblr.com/post/698121264982786048/i-just-thought-of-a-crazy-transformers-au-that
Second post (Skyquake & Insecticons) here: https://sturthepotofmadness.tumblr.com/post/700220416473645056/i-wanted-to-add-more-to-my-accidental-unicron
LONG POST AHEAD
I forgot the relics existed in the first post (: I have to address them now
Also the Rescue Bots... why didn’t I cover the Rescue Bots in the Skyquake post?
(fuck, what would happen first, uh--)
We’re doing the Rescue Bots first.
Rescue Bots:
As per canon, they crash land off the coast of Maine and near Griffin Rock. As not with canon, Skyquake is the first one to make it to the crashed ship
Some humans join him and some of the largest drones help get the ship out of the water and onto the shores of Griffin Rock.
Unicron decides to force-ghost his way to see what’s up as Skyquake and the humans explore the ship
Skyquake and Unicron are the ones to find the current in-stasis Chase, Heatwave, Boulder, and Blades first. Skyquake attempts to get them out of stasis, but that fails.
The humans finally rejoin them as Unicron attempts. He wants to only do one, just in case, but he accidentally wakes up all of them so they now have to deal with these four, relatively young (they were in stasis for like four million years) bots freaking out because what the hell did they wake up to and HOW???
They get an explanation from Skyquake, since the humans are too busy vibrating with excitement and Unicron doesn’t want to scare them again.
The RBs are mainly told how Unicron cares for these organics, Unicron is an actual good mech to these tiny organics, they have no clue how to recreate blue Energon, the war hasn’t even touched this planet yet, and that the RBs are free to leave Earth if they so wish (once their ship is repaired).
The RBs ask to talk alone, that is granted and Skyquake goes help Unicron with calming down the hyper little guys that followed them.
In the end, the RBs agree to stay on Earth and join Skyquake as general Cybertronian inhabitants that kind of follow Unicron and these tiny organics.
No, I’m not explaining the Unicron part.
Oh, and they work all across the planet and later all across the colony planets thing, so no Burns family. Maybe they’re there, but they aren’t important.
Anyways, RELIC TIME--
I’m only including the eleven that are in the Iacon relics category on TFWiki and one (technically two) other thing randomly on Earth. I’m just gonna go down the list.
Apex Armor:
It was found in Greenland roughly a month before Unicron’s body was first entered and humans had zero idea on how to use it, so kept in storage for the longest time.
When Unicron finally began to like these strange organics that called his body home, the humans went “oh yea, that thing we found” and showed it to Unicron. He did not understand either.
Then Skyquake woke up and, after gaining his trust, showed him the collapsed armor. He identified it as the Apex Armor and they promptly gave it to the seeker.
Skyquake was flustered. Unicron laughed.
Force Field Generator (now on Blue Shield):
Like in canon, it was found in a random cave system.
The humans showed Unicron the Blue Shield, he did not understand. (Expect that for all the non-Thirteen Prime relics)
Skyquake was shown next. He grabbed it, attempted to use it, then accidentally activated its force field function.
The humans immediately began backwards engineering the Blue Shield with scans and Dark Energon. That’s what helped make the force field to help Unicron free himself.
Forge of Solus Prime:
Some scanning drones found the weapon buried on some plateau and immediately alerted the humans to something being weird.
It takes, like, three months, but the humans and some digging/mining drones manage to get the relic out of the Earth.
Skyquake has zero clue on what the relic is, but Unicron sure does recognize it.
After learning that it’s just a big hammer and completely useless to them, they put the Forge in some vault and forget about it.
Liquefier:
The relic is found off the coast of Griffin Rock by some diving drones and, like always, the humans are alerted to the weirdness.
While retrieving the relic, it accidentally activates and Unicron freaks out because I CAN.
The Liquefier is promptly shut off by some sort of spark pulse burst thing directed straight at it by Unicron. It also caused a small earthquake, but the humans (and the RBs) managed to deal with the aftermath.
The humans put the Liquefier in some sort of stasis chamber and seal it away.
Omega Key One: Egypt:
(yes, I’m giving the keys code names)
Using an altered scanner that’s like the scanner they used to find out that Unicron’s arm was hollow, they manage to find this strange reading in a pharaoh’s tomb, use some drones to open it, and find the first Omega Key.
They humans show Unicron, Skyquake, and the RBs the Egyptian Omega Key, all of them do not know what the Omega Keys are so are unable to recognize it. The best thing they got is Skyquake suggesting that it was some machine made that only works with some other machine they don’t have.
It gets shoved away in some vault.
Omega Key Two: Lake Erie:
I’m aware the lake is unnamed in canon, let me name it, ok?
The key is found by some lake/beach goers who decided to go to Lake Erie and promptly found the second Omega Key.
Some scientist/engineer people take the key, comment on the fact there’s two of the weird keys, and promptly put it with the first one.
What else are they going to do with it?
Omega Key Three: Olympic National Forest:
Guess what the scanner drones found weird?
Like with the Forge, they take a long while to actually dig out the key.
Someone comments on how there’s now three things that are exactly identical and promptly shove it with the other two.
We’ll come back to Smokescreen...
Phase Shifter:
Oh yea, this thing is under fucking Manhattan.
Guess what the drones found? At least they only had to dig into the wall and it only takes the same time as canon.
The humans show Unicron, Skyquake, and the RBs the Phase Shifter and Chase is the one to recognize what it is.
The Phase Shifter is shoved/gifted to Chase. Chase is confused, Unicron laughed, the other RBs take a moment to process...
Skyquake: You too, huh?
Polarity Gauntlets:
Guess what the drones found?
They dig up the gauntlets and promptly ask the local Cybertronians about it.
Skyquake recognizes it as a design made during the war, but he has no clue how it got to Earth. Boulder makes an off hand comment on how it could be useful in rescues and the gauntlets were promptly given to Boulder.
He’s embarrassed, the others think it’s kind of funny.
Resonance Blaster:
Guess what the drones found? That’s right, this is another underground relic... joy.
They show the Resonance Blaster to the Cybertronians, Skyquake once again identifies it, and makes sure the humans know that it is a weapon.
The Resonance Blaster is promptly locked away and forgotten.
Spark Extractor:
Guess what the drones found? It took a bit to dig up.
They showed the Cybertronians, all of them sans Unicron promptly freaked, and they destroyed it.
The Spark Extractor is better off ruined, anyways.
Seismic-Shock Warhead:
Flamesnort... exists. And I don’t like that name. Because RiD2015 can go fuck itself, we’re calling her Ignis.
The Rescue Bots, using their ship’s scanner, notice there’s a bot in stasis and decide to go there to see if they can find this in stasis bot. They inform Skyquake before they leave, but he doesn’t join them.
The RBs get to the island off of England and, after a bit of searching, find the in-stasis Ignis and the warhead. They take one look at the bomb and decide to... request Skyquake to come over.
He does so and identifies the warhead and that it’s, well, a weapon. They get the humans involved and they promptly take the weapon.
The moment any of them touch the weapon, Ignis suddenly wakes up and turns to face them. She sees the ruined Decepticon mark on Skyquake and the not-so-ruined RB marks on the RBs and asks what happened.
Skyquake explains to Ignis the situation as the humans and maybe Boulder take the weapon out of the cavern to put into the vault and forgotten about.
Ignis is... kinda forced to join them, because where else is there to go? She ends up sticking around with the Rescue Bots mostly, helping them with rescues and what not.
Star Saber:
The humans find this weird, indestructible rock with a sword stuck in it and ask the Cybertronians about it.
Skyquake, Ignis, and the RBs don’t recognize it.
Unicron immediately recognizes the blade as the Star Saber and now he has a choice to make.
After some thought, he tells the humans that it’s a weapon from when he and his brother were in conflict.
The humans hear the word weapon and promptly stuff it in the same vault with the other weapons.
Unicron does not like the fact that the Star Saber is so close to him, but he can’t really do anything about that so...
Omega Key Four: Smokescreen:
Yea, time for this idiot.
Like with the RBs, he crash lands on Earth, but no one knows how the fuck he got so close to Earth. Unicron didn’t sense him, the Rescue Bots’s ship didn’t detect him or a SpaceBridge, the humans didn’t notice anything wrong... now blame Alpha Trion.
(Not that they can blame him, they don’t even know it’s his fault. Plus, Alpha Trion thought the Autobots and Decepticons would be on Earth by this time, apparently not, as he is now learning.)
Skyquake, Blades, and some large transport drones are sent to retrieve Smokescreen and the pod he landed with.
They get him out and Smokescreen is so confused.
Smokescreen gets a rundown of the situation as they go back to wherever the Rescue Bots are stationed.
Like with Ignis, there’s no where for him to go, so just ends up staying with the Rescue Bots and Skyquake, though he mostly follows Skyquake around.
Tox-En Volcano Edition:
Some drones encountered this weird capsule while collecting obsidian/hardened lava and alerted the humans.
The drones and some humans managed to get the Tox-En capsule out of the ground, opened it, and asked the Cybertronians about it. All of them sans Unicron freak out and the humans promptly punt the Tox-En into the lava.
Tox-En Ireland Edition:
Yea, there’s two Tox-En locations on Earth. Thanks, RBA.
This is also the technical thirteenth “relic” on Earth.
Anyways, heavily altered “X Marks the Bot” follows and when they get to the Tox-En, they take it and promptly yeet it into a volcano.
This post is already long as fuck, so sadly I’m not getting to the interactions the Autobots and Decepticons have with Unicron, the humans, and the Cybertronians that stick with the humans/Unicron. Next time, though, that’ll be the interaction post!