So recently, I met someone on Tumblr, The Boombox. We started talking and bounced around ideas of what could have happened if Dreadwing lived. This is what we got.

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Most of the events leading up to his death remain the same.

He still gives the Forge to the Bots and still turns down Optimus’s offer of joining them

Though the bots and Cons don’t immediately go to Cybertron for the Omega Lock

In this AU, the Space Bridge isn’t finished yet, and to convert the Groundbridge into one, they need some more materials 

But, when Dreadwing’s about to kill Starscream, Megatron just bearly misses his spark chamber and the shot doesn’t go clean through his chest

Megatron has Soundwave ground bridge Dread’s body into the middle of nowhere to leave him to die

In Autobot base, they get a new energon reading, where Smokey is sent to find it

He instead finds Dreadwing’s “corpse”

Smokescreen being Smokescreen doesn’t call back to base and instead goes to check it out

Dreadwing is, in fact, NOT dead and is just barely conscious

Then Decepticons show up

Smokey fights them off best he can, much to Dreadwing’s surprise

He’s even a little shocked that Smokey is trying to save him

But, Smokey is very clearly struggling, so he calls back to base

Autobots arrive, see Smokey fighting and a seemingly dead Dreadwing, and put two and two together

They quickly make work of the massive squadron of Vehicons, since it is no longer 1 vs 30

The Autobots debate about what to do with Dreadwing, before eventually deciding to take him back to base

Phew, that was quite a lot of writing. I’ll be adding more Autobot Dreadwing posts in the future, so just sit tight.