Remember the plot bunny where the Autobots find a bunch of humans but their field signature said they're sparklings? Aka the humans-are-sparklings trope?
Well.
There's gonna be a 2nd part of it where the Decepticons find their own human space ship but like- it's actually complete so I'mma probably post it sooner or later.
But yeah, I plan to start my own fic about it and my mind went the other way around and wonder...
What if the humans were already sparklings?
One of the major difference between the Decepticons and Autobots in the fic is how they treat the humans and I was planning to have the humans from the Decepticons are already sparklings from the conversion Shockwave did to them (it's also worth mentioning that this event is most likely a traumatic one) before they even meet the humans from the Autobots.
But like, I also have this another AU of mine, same story-wise but with different settings. The humans BECAME sparklings, or younglings because M.E.C.H found the allspark in Earth and was experimenting on it.
But like, the allspark also sends out signals or something- that causes the sparkling-humans to unconsciously go to their location.
This follows the "a select humans are sparklings" Trope.
The Au consists of like two groups of humans (one for the Autobots and the other for the Decepticons) and they all met in a nearby college where the experimentation is happening.
Anyway, fast-forward to the explosion.
Yeah, long story short- M.E.C.H finds out about the sparkling-humans and kidnapped some of the characters since the allspark energy kept fluctuating whenever it's near them.
After some time, and definitely some violence happening. Since this whole time, M.E.C.H tainted the water supply of the college with energon so that they could figure which humans reacted differently to it, causing the kidnapping to happen.
The allspark reacts, which led to a massive explosion to happen in the base. M.E.C.H manages to leave the area and left the humans behind, thinking they will die and although they were saved by their friends, the entire city and it's neighboring parts, ended up getting affected by the explosion.
An explosion that not only fully converts the Sparkling-humans into full Cybertronians, but also turned the surrounding area into metals, turned the water supply into energon, but also alerted the Autobots as well as the Decepticons on their whereabouts. Oh, and the allspark decided to peace out too and hide again.
What happens to the humans?
They got converted into ages that are similar to a young child to a young teen, and have no choice but to survive in their new environment. So basically, if you're 20 years old, you'll turn 20 vorns old which I'm gonna believe that it's an age for young Cybertronians. The reason for this change is because a toddler will definitely not survive this apocalypse scenario but an adult in a child's body might (low chance but not a zero)
Comes in the Autobots and Decepticons, who at first were treated with hostility, it also doesn't help that they were still at war. But when they found out that there's a huge part in America that is metal and it's actually slowly turning the soil into its Cybertronian equivalent. Risking Earth's nature and life, but giving nourishment for the sparklings in it.
Which led the humans to believe that the Allspark is a virus that is ruining Earth, and M.E.C.H- especially Silas were a bit salty that HE didn't get turned into a robot, which caused him to hunt down the allspark once again, to either use it for experiments, or a bargaining chip- whichever comes first
The Cybertronians found out about the humans-turned-younglings, and they are NOT believing that they were once adults.
So not only do they need to find and care for all of the sparklings, but they also need to find the Allspark while at the same time convince the other group to either let the allspark continue its change (Decepticons) or save Earth from extinction (Autobots).