In your suitor trials au, will Wildwheel be in it? (I love western, I am a Lone Ranger and Rifleman fan)
Because I have an idea if you’d like?
This takes place when the princes are young/children. The whole family is doing a tour around Kaon and its landscape around it. What they don’t know however is that someone is tracking them and are planning ahead. At some point the family and their guards stop at a large western like town.
They set up camp while the young princes explore the town (even though they’re not supposed to) but suddenly a stranger comes up to them and they disappear.
When Optimus and Megatron find them gone, everyone searches for them frantically that feels like forever. Until Sentinel comes up to the couple hands them a note he found along with Bumblebee’s toy.
The note is a ransom, demanding that Optimus surrenders himself at this secluded location at a certain time, or he will never see his sons again.
Megatron is obviously very furious about this, and Sentinel isn’t helping by saying that Optimus should basically surrender himself! Optimus however, says that they need information first, find out who kidnapped his sons, and why.
Meanwhile, the poor princes are scared after the bad bot and his crew took them away from their parents. And now they were tied up and stuck in a dark, cold canyon. But luckily, these bad bots don’t seem to know the middle prince is a beastformer. The young princes plan that Cheetor slowly cuts their ropes with his claws when the bad guys aren’t looking. And once they were free, they would race out of the canyon while Hot Rod carries Bumblebee in his race car form.
The couple goes around asking about any information the locals have. The bartender, Swerve, at the saloon mentions that some shady bounty hunters came to town a couple of days ago. Rumor is that they set up camp in one of the canyons outside of town, but don’t know which one. Luckily, some locals are more than happy to help them out. Those bounty hunters had everyone on the edge, and no one puts sparklings in danger and gets away with it.
As the princes are making progress, the other bounty hunters are starting to get a little nervous. The sparklings they kidnapped aren’t just normal sparklings, they are the children of the king and queen of Kaon. The leader, however, tells them to be quiet. All that matters is his revenge against Optimus. Once he has that, the little princes will go free. The others aren’t sure though they will make it out alive.
One of the locals, Quickstrike, helps lead the group by following the bounty hunters tracks. Strangely, Sentinel seems to be absent from the group but that’s not what’s important at least for now.
The princes almost have the ropes cut through. Luckily, the leader isn’t watching them, one of the bouncy hunters mumbles that he’s meeting with someone about something important. However, everyone starts to panic a bit when they get word that the king and queen are on their way to their camp. But their leader seems surprisingly calm and tells them to get ready. Luckily, as they dragged the princes, they still don’t realize the ropes are almost completely cut.
Anyway, the two groups reach a stand still inside the canyon. With Optimus and the leader each going up ahead. Optimus asks who he is and why he has kidnapped his sons. For money? The leader scoffs at Optimus, telling him to take a good look at him.
Optimus: …Wildwheel? Is that you?
Wildwheel: Oh now you remember me? You sure didn’t remember me when you left me behind!!
Wildwheel: The prime caravan? How I woke up and everyone was gone and you all left me behind!!
Optimus: Wildwheel, I swear I had no idea. Your pod just disappeared, we had no idea where you were. I generally apologize that we didn’t go back for you and I wanna make it up to you. But please, let go of my sons. They’re innocent in this.
Wildwheel: Nah, you aren’t getting off that easy.
Wildwheel shoots Optimus and chaos breaks out. With everyone shooting or punching at each other. Wildwheel thought he got Optimus, but he didn’t know Optimus was wearing a steel slab on his chest under his poncho. The princes break out of the ropes and race to Optimus while Megatron covers them.
Wildwheel tries to shoot at Optimus again while everyone is distracted. But before he can, Sentinel shoots him out of the blue. The rest of the gang are arrested and taken back to town. But before the family leaves, Wildwheel swears he will have his revenge on Optimus and he better watch his back.
Meanwhile, Optimus is conflicted about all that happened and knows that this will probably not be the last time he sees Wildwheel but his husband and sons help cheer him up. And Optimus is happy that his sons are safe and sound now. Thankfully, the rest of the tour goes smoothly and they go back home safe. At least for now.
(I kind of got inspired while re-watching my favorite rifleman episodes and sprinkled some those ideas from the show into this idea) Hope you like it!
i PERSONALLY have no plans on adding Wildwheel to this AU. Not cuz I dislike Wildwheel as a character or anything - far from it, i want Hasbro to bring this guy back so badly - but mostly cuz the Cast is already blown up like a balloon and I don't want to add any more characters unless I TRULY think they could add something to the plot and lore long term.
That being said, as you know I love it when people create their own "What if" scenarios and "AU within an AU" stories for my Suitors' Trials story. And for that I was of course delighted and honoured to find this amazingly written story in my inbox. Thank you so much <3 <3 <3
