AU where Soundwave has died and in his grief Shockwave blends all the cassettes together into some sort of Super chimera in a sick expression of pain and experimentation. His conclusion of the question, What would have saved him.
I imagine the base as Ravage, with wings, one taken from Buzz and Laserbeak. Rumble and Frenzy are torn down to just component parts that are laid like ornamentation along the torso, one side dedicated to each twin. I think this would allow Ravage to use Rumble's pile drivers and Frenzy's frequency abilities.
Those are the main cassettes but if you wanted to add more you could like adding Slugfest's spikes along Ravage's back.
I think Ravage would be disgusted with their new form and would blind themselves or ask Shockwave yo remove their optics or even parts of their processor so they are just nothing but a set of tasks. They could wear a wrap around their helm. Maybe Ratbat could be represented here and Ravage would be given increased hearing and sonar abilities and an increased sense of smell after they have been blinded.
Shockwave just poking around at a pile of parts that used to be cassettes and adding more and more onto Ravage EX in a blind destructive haze, not caring who he hurts in his own hurt
I immediately had a vision of the cassette chimera and had to get a sketch out.
Always a fan of the idea of Shockwave doing fucked up science when he is also actively fucked up.
