Tarnma Body Swap AU canon divergence would be so funny to me. I’m imagining this is before their blackmail deal reached the point where Pharma started killing patients. But just imagine one day they wake up in each other’s body and neither knows wtf happened but it occurs at the most unfortunate timing. Like Tarn and the DJD just caught someone on the List and are about to torture the bot and they expect Tarn to be there taking the lead. Meanwhile, Pharma has a surgery scheduled that cannot be missed cause it’s time sensitive for the patient and it’s a three person job so he can’t just make an excuse and have Ambulon or First Aid handle it on their own. After they private comm each other minutes before they have to leave to do their respective jobs (and got past accusing each other of causing this before realizing neither of them knows what’s going on), they realize that they both could mutually destroy each other/their team in each other's body so they’ve agreed to a temporary truce until they can meet up to undo whatever caused this. So for the rest of the day they have to pretend to be each other until they can meet up and try to figure out what the frag happened.
Tarnma after agreeing to just get through this day as painlessly as possible:
Tarn: Just torture the bot a bit then let the rest of the team have some fun and if your hesitation to kill is going to blow your cover you can play it off as giving the honor to one of the team. Kaon did pretty well today I’d recommend choosing him. But you can’t just half-aft the torture or they’ll know something is wrong! You have to give it your all!
Pharma: Fine! But if I find out you purposely let the patient die trust me I’ll know! And so will Ambulon and First Aid. This is a standard procedure for me and I could do it half asleep. Just tell Ambulon and First Aid that you’re testing them and want them to learn taking the lead on a more difficult procedure. Just let them know you're going to pretend to be a beginner nurse to test their skills taking charge and any mistakes you make will be chalked up to a test of their awareness.
Tarn: I’ve never done a surgery in my life! You’re setting me up for an impossible situation!
Pharma, bitingly: Well you’d know all about setting people up in impossible situations wouldn’t you? Not so fun from the other side is it?
Pharma: Look, you’ll be assisting more than leading the surgery, it’ll be fine! Just follow whatever Ambulon or First Aid tells you to do. The key to a successful surgery is not to panic and stay calm during the procedure.
Tarn: Don't panic and stay calm. Got it. And it was the blue wire near the spark chamber that I'm not supposed to cut under any circumstances?
Tarn: There's no need to shout!
Pharma, internally: There is a 60% chance this patient is a goner.
Ambulon and First Aid: Do we have to be listening to classical music while we do this surgery?
Tarn, in Pharma's body: Yes. And if any of you turn it off I'll cut off your hands (The music is the only thing keeping him calm and from a full panic attack)
Ambulon and First Aid thinking "Pharma" is being a bit moodier than usual today. Miraculously, the patient makes it with only a few close calls. Tarn is definitely thinking this is one of the most stressful 3 hours of his life by the end of it.
Meanwhile, Pharma who has never half-assed anything in his life and is an overachiever probably feeling very conflicted about hurting others over healing them but also conflicted about the fact that he's actually really good at this whole torture thing. Like the rest of the DJD are like "wow Tarn you really prepared for this one. I didn't even know Cybertronian bodies could react like that? That looks extremely painful, but also 10/10 creative manipulation of Cybertronian anatomy to maximize pain".
Other silly body swap shenanigans is that they are totally not used to being in each other's frame. Pharma has no idea how to use or control Tarn's outlier ability and accidently renders a chunk of the ship's tech inoperable, while Tarn is so not used to having thrusters on his feet never having a flight frame before and accidently activates them and flies into a wall lol
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