Whoah, whoah! Wait a minute! Corrupted?! What do you mean by corrupted?! Is something going to happen?!
Also, yeah, I can imagine what seeing such a bit truck would make some people do a double take, depending on the location. I live near the border and there's a TON of huge trucks passing by, so I don't pay them too much attention but I can imagine a person saying 'Wait a minute' if something so large is seen driving on the highway.
I can sort of imagine Optimus sitting outside, on the base's roof, yet still towering over the bots and saying 'I kind of miss being able to fit into spaces. Meanwhile he has to crouch to pass through doors. Or just how you said, he is almost stuck in a mine due to a sudden growth spurt.
I imagine that at some point he'd be so big he won't fit in the med bay, so Ratchet just rolls the equipment out and Optimus is just laying on the floor. Just think about it, when he eventually reaches the stage where he's too big for conventional treatment, like the other bots... they'd have to start treating him like a titan with all its intricacies. My, I can just see it, the first time Optimus had to open up so Ratchet could treat him and by that I literally mean he opens his plating and Ratchet has to get inside to treat him! I would think it would feel pretty weird to have someone crawling through your insides.
Well, that is if Miko hadn't gotten inside first! Just imagine it- Optimus is still not used to the internal changes of his body and is in the mid-stage where he's not quite titan but still pretty big! He can't control the new internal structures too well, so he can't do anything himself. Miko, in her curiosity and 'frick it we ballin' attitude just crawls in through a vent or something along OP's body while everyone is distracted, then at some point his internal sensors pick up something living is moving inside him and he's startled by the new data and feeling. 'Where's Miko?!' - someone shouts and they realize where she was. They call her to come out of OP but the little goblin pops her head out of a window, says 'Nyeh! >: 3' and just... goes back inside. Imagine that and they can't get her out nor is OP confident enough to remove her himself without risk of injury. So, the other two also go in and try to get Miko out, cartoon chase music and all while OP just feels WEIRD! Maybe his coding is tickling or something. The inner vents and tunnels are actually quite long when OP is in that stage and some things are changing, but eventually they get her out and since then OP is always wary around her, so she doesn't get in his vents and get stuck.
Then, Miko shares about all the cool stuff she saw inside, not knowing it is kind of mortifying for a bot to have someone talk about their inner parts. It will be like saying "Oh, yeah, you know, that dude's pancreas had a really weir shape last time I crawled through him!" like, WTF. Then she might drop a bombshell like "Did you know he has a microwave inside? We should totally also get a microwave for the base or have OP heat up some food for us!"
OR! Something has happened recently and Bee, the super awesome scout, is a bit injured. Nothing serious, according to Ratchet's professional opinion but those titan coding protocols are just acting up and OP just... ends up holding Bee. Like you would carry a cat everywhere with you or a baby and he just doesn't want to let go! Even if Bee is getting exasperated by being in what's essentially air jail and what everyone is telling OP, he just doesn't want to let go. What if he gets hurt again?! Alas, he can't carry him all the time and he isn't big enough for the bots to live in, yet.
Maybe there could even be an epic battle with the Nemesis in space or even add a combiner team and have them fight it out? I am not too sure but I think Breakdown was part of the Constructicons?
I say corrupted because Megatron ends up becoming that way, if he became a Prime before Orion, Megatron would still become power hungry. Sorry for the confusion!
I like these! Poor Optimus has to deal with it but at the same time, he became a symbol…and hope. Optimus opening panels, yeah, definitely would have to be done to get things examined. But hey, isn’t that what surgeons do? Open you up and examine? I bet it’s a bit cool, Ratchet gets to actually SEE things. I can see OP using a compartment to store his allies in them in case of injury in a battle!
Miko would definitely be sneaking around! That’s so her! Okay so, Miko is awake while every bot is in recharge (the children had stayed over for the weekend), she saw Prime getting ready to recharge. Upon coming over as quietly as possible, trying to be more so because Optimus has very, very sensitive senses…such as hearing. Miko managed to avoid alerting the mini titan, climbed onto his leg last second before i was raised, and got in. I imagine it would feel like having some kind of parasite having someone walking inside you, oh Optimus…that’s just Miko! Not a scraplet!
Lovely idea, he is definitely protective. He sees an Autobot get shot, even if they’re fine, he gets pissed and goes full on Godzilla mode. Speaking of which, I was thinking he gets new abilities, like a laser beam so he is like menacing to the cons. If you’ve watched Godzilla 2014, you will kinda know what I mean. Optimus would only come to play in the battles only if he is needed, and he will know!!!
A fight between the Nemesis? Well, that’s if the cons manage to transform the ship. If my memory serves me right, it couldn’t transform (anymore?) Maybe due to energon being so scarce. How Optimus does it? He goes and finds it himself, to the Pit if the Autobots go. That is too dangerous! As for the combiners, that’s if Optimus is their size by the time he fights one, he will end up very large…
Anyway, thanks for the ask ^^ I appreciate you being curious! I’m still working on the au, however, these help a lot on ideas!