#shrapnel

It'd be so chaotic. You saw giant metal bugs mowing down your crops (aka your livelihood, aka your money) and went to investigate. They then chittered at each other before addressing you condescendingly. You offered to find them a different, more reliable food source as long as they kept out of your crops. They were not going to be ordered around by some lowly human, but the temptation of easy food access was too great to ignore.

And that's how you ended up being a parental figure to their many children they keep spawning. You wake up with half a dozen sparklings in your bed and groan as they snuggle into you, searching for warmth and the feeling of your faint internal em field. You've raised livestock before. However, that livestock has never crawled into your bed and demanded attention, interrupting your REM cycle.

It's almost ironic that the Insecticons have made their home on a farm with crops they rarely touch. It angers you when they do, and you need this stupid human currency money from the crops. It's confusing. How does your plant become this oddly colored paper? You can exchange it for a great many things. It's moronic (and fascinating).

Both the Autobots and the other Decepticons are wary of interacting with you. The Insecticons will attack any Autobot on sight. They can handle Megatron, but see him as a threat to you: their fleshy sparkmate. They get riled up when Decepticons are close to stepping on your property. They could damage something! Yes, the Insecticons are always (accidentally or otherwise) destroying things on the land you cultivate, but that's different. They've earned their place among your fields.

The government at this point just leaves you the fuck alone. Taxes? Nah, you don't have those anymore. Mortgage? It's paid for. They already have enough problems with the two alien warring factions on Earth. You subduing the Insecticons brings great honor to your country.

don't worry if you're not a TF fan, the only canon context that's relevant here is:

Flywheels was in a comic with zombies once

the Insecticons' whole gimmick is that they eat stuff

Insecticons playing with questionable parts. Wonder who´s winning 𓆦𓆣𓆨𓆑𓆤𓆧𓆬