eliteguardjazz:

@megarowboat ’s original scenario:

And then I took it way too far lmao (Bulkhead facilitates Starscream’s redemption arc):

So there’s a firefight between the deceps and the autos, Starscream gets injured so his legs are out of commission. Megatron and his generals are defeated and retreat, leaving Starscream behind.

Bulkhead, being the caring bot he is, insists that they can’t just leave him there. After a bit of negotiation which involves disabling Starscream’s guns and flight capability, Bulk convinces them to let him bring Scream back to hq.

Optimus is really on the fence about bringing Starscream back to hq, but after negotiating he reluctantly lets it happen. Prowl is absolutely not here for this but he warms up to maybe even room temperature after a while. Bumblebee thinks it’s cool that they’ve captured a decepticon, and would pick on him if he wasn’t so scary, even without guns, wings, and legs. Ratchet tries to be mean but gets very soft about him cause he’s just a kid.

Starscream wants nothing to do with the autos and the only reason he goes with them is he was literally carried. For a short while, he threatens that Megatron will come to get him, at which time the autobots will be in big trouble. But Megatron doesn’t come. After that Starscream realizes he’ll have to get out himself so he plans to step 1) gain the autobots trust, step 2) betray them, step 3) ???? and step 4) rule cybertron. Ruling cybertron sounds better than just ruling the decepticons right? (Subconsciously he’s already becoming woke)

While staying with the autobots he starts to realize a lot of things, like the deceps never cared about him and even made him into something he realizes he doesn’t want to be, but even though he’s a decepticon these autobots are treating him with respect and care? Hes entirely conflicted because decepticon ideals are all he knows, they are truth, they are law. Then why do they all seem inaccurate all of a sudden?

As days pass he starts losing the desire to betray the autobots and starts becoming even friends with both Bulkhead and Bumblebee (being their same age). He gets love and affection and validation from the autobots and learns who he is as a person and eventually entirely deserts the decepticon cause.

He’s still a little shit though