You know when pet owners get really freaked out when their pet sleeps so deeply they look dead?
I think the Autobots should experience that with their human companions.
Made worse by the fact humans live on such a short time frame compared to Cybertronians.
Imagine an Autobot (Bee, Mirage, Arcee, etc) coming into base and seeing their human curled up on a sofa or chair or even the floor and creeping over to gently poke them.
They don’t respond, but it’s cute how soft and squishy humans are. So they lift their arm and watch it flop back down.
Okay…their human didn’t even twitch…okay-
They start gently shaking their human. Still no response.
They then fully grab their human and shake them like a snow globe and the human suddenly twitches to life, bleary eyed and discombobulated only to see their Autobot shaking with a mix of anger and relief over them.
“Wake up, DUMBAFT! Don’t scare me like that-!!”
They were just trying to take a nap, bro…