just remembered an Au/fic idea I cooked up awhile ago but never got to writing
Basically, Two separate universes, but during a fight for an artifact, it gets shot and the only people near the artifact were Arcee and smokescreen.
Luckily for Arcee, smokescreen noticed and pushed her out of the blast radius like. RIGHT before the artifact went boom. Everyone was HORRIFIED because oh Primus oh Primus smokescreens DEAD-
Except where the artifact was.. there was now a bot, who was much larger and had different colors than smokescreen, they were all alarmed and thought this bot was a threat-
Until they saw his face/heard his voice.
He had smokescreens face, albeit with more scars and with a distressed look on his face AND he sounded older, more tired, but was undeniably smokescreen, they later learn that this smokescreen is a prime, and the earth he came from is VERY apocalyptic due to the cons. They realize that this isn’t their future because
A: He has the forge, which still has energy left
B: He’s surprised at the fact there is no dark mount anymore.
Meanwhile in the alt universe everyone thinks smokescreen got de-aged or smth and canon smokes is SO CONFUSED and pretty terrified.
Basically Canon!smokey got universe swapped with a Prime/Apocalypse au Smokescreen and it’s everyone’s problem.