(This is heavily influenced by the Marvel comics’ take on Transformers history – the idea that Primus created Cybertronians to one day battle Unicron.)
Skyfire’s voice was soft, but the venom in it was palpable: ”You created us for war, split us into two kinds, and then left us alone – what did you think was going to happen?”
“Even if I had anticipated this,” the holomatter avatar of their creator said gently, “I would not have intervened, for I made you free beings to determine your own path, not mindless automatons to die in my war.”
“And yet you did make us to die in your war – you just let us bumble around killing each other first for – what? practice?… or was it to assuage your conscience by letting you think you were giving us a choice about what to do when the planet-eating abomination turned up?”
“Neither, my dear one,” Primus murmured, and as the avatar slid two fingers under Skyfire’s chin and coaxed him to meet his optics, the planet itself – Primus’s actual body – thrummed with energy beneath them. "It was to give my creations a chance to change and grow… into astonishing people like you.“
Peacemaker (26921 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers Animated (2007) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Ratchet, Sentinel Prime, Primus Additional Tags: Transformer Sparklings, Size Difference, The Matrix – Freeform Series: Part 9 of Transformers works Summary:
Megatron just stared at him through the cell door with a strange expression and didn’t say anything. “Well?” Optimus said, half furious and desperate. “Will you promise not to hurt any Autobots escaping if I let you out?”
(PS: This is the canon where the Decepticons are Much Bigger than the Autobots in case that is relevant to your interests.)
…and then they ended teaming up out of necessity and boredom snarking eachother while also talking shit about Prowl and Chromedome and nobody important died.
Cybertronian Database 