LOL Of course! xD
The whole first episode, DC was in complete denial. It wasn't until he was injured and healed before his own optics that it ll came together and he realized (Rampage too). He threw a fit. :/ But somewhere inside he thinks it's his fault, like he should have known or something, so he didn't exactly explode. Seems to me that while DC is hateful, his personal responsibility, logic, and inability to completely deny the truth prevented him from going off the deep end.
I also did NOT want to write him being an irresponsible baby, no matter what happened. :/
So, about a day later, Tigatron went to talk to him and he had already 'calmed' enough to think straight. He went back to the group, blahlbahblah.
Rampage is confused as the Pit and was taken by complete surprise since DC's denial completely blocked his empathic abilities off. It was like DC didn't exist, which bothered him. When they found out, he was confused as the Pit and strongly affected by DC's reaction, but as time goes on, he starts to reason things out and thinks the whole thing is very ironic, even funny, and, in a way, fitting. He eventually expresses his possessive streak more, and instead of consuming DC's "still pulsating spark", he starts to think he sort of owns it and he's willing to try to use that to his advantage somehow. He's very curious as to the complete implications of the whole bonding thing, though, since so far his life's been torture, a chase, a capture, more torture, war, and lots of death. He's highly intelligent, of course, but if the info isn't there to ponder, and the moral issues involved in this event don't impact him the way it does DC, he can't know right? :/ And being the proud guy he is, he hates asking questions. :/
Does that sound decent? xD
I can't wait to get into the full swing of the story but I MUST take it slow and go epi by epi because I want the whole thing to be believable, especially that part. n_n What you said is exactly what I've said and I fully intend to try to keep it real...and Beast Warsy. lol 'Real' probably means that DC threw a bigger tantrum than I wrote, but like I said, he's a more complex guy than he appears sometimes and I'm trying to get a Beast Warsy feel in the story somewhere, so, if I need the plot to move on, I make it so they deal with the real heavy stuff later.
Their biggest challenge so far is reading each other. So far, Rampage could read his emotions and play with his head, and DC had one goal in mind and nothing anyone said or did could change that goal. But now DC realizes there's more going on than just him, Primal's responsibilities start to fall on him, his attempt to kill X didn't work anyway and he doesn't know how to complete it,Tarantulas has told him that sparks are very difficult to sort out (I dunno if I got to that part yet, but DC definitely goes to him and
orders him to reverse it. xD), AND he inherited some of Rampage's memories that, while I've not made it clear how they're affecting him yet, they start to bother him as he starts to remember.
He, also, picks up on some empathic ability, but I don't think emotions are his strong point at all anymore (if they ever were 9_9) so I dun care how empathic he
could be because of this, he can't read others using that ability for slag. :/
WOO lots of explaining, but I'm trying to make it apparent that I'm taking it very seriously. I mean, before ANYtHING remotely romantic could ever be possible, DC has to discover, process, grieve over, process some more, accept, and move on over a lot of things. Slowly, his hate turns towards the real people who are to blame (scientists, the council, etc), but he could never forgive Page for what he did, simply because emotions and trauma are that hard to overwrite.
When I glimpse into the future, (I already know how they're relationship will work later on, lol), even, DC still hasn't forgiven him. He starts to have some kind of feelings for him, (which is really weird to write right now because I'm skipping everything in between, but let's pretend there was stuff in between. ) which contrasts messily with his hate for the guy. ;_; By that time, his role as leader is taken far more seriously and he's regained some semblance of control over his group and they'll be in space heading back to Cybertron. Amidst a lot of stuff, he accepts his feelings for his ex-enemy but he kinda goes Emo on people when he thinks too hard or certain topics are brought up. I guess, another way to say it woudl be that he likes Rampage, but he feels extremely guilty, even evil or dirty, for liking him. ): ...which isn't good for any relationship is it?
He'll act fine, but if someone messed with his head and brought a moral question about that relationship to him, DC would have a really tough time. :/ How can you love the one who destroyed everything you knew and that you were personally responsible and failed at that and etcetc? He'd struggle with that, get all self-loathing, pull away, deny the question, pepper some emoness in there - anything but say, "WOOT, I DUN CARE I LUVS HIM!

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So even seeing that far ahead, there are some major issues to be explored and stressed. :3
Gods, I love psychology....
....okay, I've exhausted my 5 AM mind on that, I hope it makes sense ( I just woke up to use the bathroom and checked to see your response and decided to respond while only half lucid. xDDD lol! ) now onto Terry...
Ahem: YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! That's EXACTLY how I visualized it!

But I've written and rewritten that moment. T_T!!! And rewritten it again! D:
Terry comes down from the sky and attacks Airazor. The others come along and the battle begins. It's pretty short, I'm not sure how to make it longer. While Inferno beats the tar out of QS and Waspinator, lol, and DC shoots Tarantulas and Rampage, Terry fights Airazor and Tigatron launches himself at him and bites his face. lol. Terrorsaur tries to maintain flight, but DC comes out of nowhere and body slams them all to the ground. Once they land, he does a Megatron thing and picks him up by the neck. He tells him off, then does an unMegatronnish thing puts him down, when Terry was expecting a full beating for that. :/ So, the group is put back together and blah.
But it just sounds so weak! DX
I REALLy didn't want to make Terrorsaur overpowered, but if he's supposed to be an example of the upgrades they're all going to get soon, then maybe they should have a much tougher time in the battle than what I have? What do you think?
lol, I think even after Terry accepts him as leader, he still probably highjac's Depth Charge's command chair when he's not in the room or something. xDD (in the ship) I fully intend to explore and develop Terrorsaur's character without ever really changing him. Same with everyone else.
CChPA!

(Canon Character Preservation Agency. :'D )
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As for Airazor and Tigatron - yesh. :3
They were blown up as Tigerhawk, but you know how in Beast Machines, there were a couple times when sparks ran around without a body AND without dying ? That was explained by "depolarizing", where the spark is somehow programmed or destabilized in frequency or something so that it's not bound to a body. Using that theory there, I made it so that they never 'bonded' with the Tigerhawk body. When it blew up, they were injured and disoriented, but unbound to the body they managed to float away into the woods somewhere.
I imagine the Maximals left only a couple days after the Nemesis thing, that's what it looked like to me, so their sparks floated around.
It kinda gets tricky here - the way I wrote it, their consciousness survived and they were able to observe things in spark form, but without optics and stuff, they could only absorb. So, they could 'see' the Maximals leave and know where, but without a chronometer, they couldn't know when except by impressions or things they heard. Without a compass or map or whatever, they couldn't tell distance either, they only have an image in their minds and a general direction.
Sooooo, first episode, DC gets up and realizes that he failed at killing X. Feeling weird and somehow knowing exactly what Rampage is doing and feeling, he walks up onto the beach. As he wakes up fully, he pushes Rampage out of his head, unwilling to deal with his failure right now, and finds - omg! Sparks! o_O!?!? In order to sustain each other without energon or a body to manage them, they support each other by fusing the way they did in the show, a big silver sphere. (yay for another Spark Theory! 8D ) Kinda like ....erm...fusion or whatever. By joining together, they release energy that they can both absorb, and thus delay their demise. If they didn't do that, the atmosphere would wear away at their sparks, depolarized or no.
DC concludes that they want him to follow them and still in slight daze, he follows them to a blank pod out in the forest somewhere. He opens the pod and makes it work, and Airazor is the first to emerge. When she does, she's Transmetalized. She explains as much as she can, but translating spark memories into a new processor takes a while. DC is impatient and starts to get snippy, but she remains calm and tells him the first big news - the MAximals left.
DC throws a fit and curses Primal's name, but calms himself and helps her program the pod to repolarize and help sustain Tigatron's spark.
Now they need energon to help fuel the pod and in turn the tiger's spark, and Airazor faintly remembers Tarantulas's cave. They take off in that direction.
Primus, is this taking too long? xD Sorry!!
Rampage, meanwhile, gets up and, confused as to what happened and how he was still alive and where DC was, he goes off in search of DC. Along the way, he passes through the area where Inferno and QS were blown up and he steps on Inferno's remains. With a surprised laugh at the irony, he takes the still living ant's torso and spots Airazor in the distance. He follows. With Inferno in tow.
Before anyone reaches the cave, DC, Airazor, Tigatron kind of, Rampage, and Inferno kind of, have a stand off. DC goes to shoot him, but Rampage plays his cards right and they strike up a deal - DC isn't stupid, he knows Rampage could come in handy in getting off the planet, there's no where to imprison him or tie him up :/, so Rampage must follow his orders or else. And 'or else' might happen anyway.
Lalala, they skip off to the labs.
For some reason, the Maximals forgot or didn't bother to check the labs or something before they left. (TBH, I kinda forgot what my reasoning was in regards to that, lol) Airazor checks the place out and finds an empty stasis pod and it looks like something big and violent came out of it. But she spots, omg, another pod! Looking it over, she realizes that the spark inside was terminated on purpose and she's saddened by this, but all of a sudden, something attacks her from the dark!! Like a zombie! D: Pulling the pod along with her, she kicks the things aft and heads outside. There, DC and Rampage turn their guns on the cave entrance.
The zombie turns out to be a welded-together Tarantulas. He has pieces of his Season 1 form and his TM form fused together and 16 legs and messy welds all over his body. He's in incredible pain. D: He starts firing at them but a swift missile later, he's tossed to the side where he writhes in agony. D: As creepy as he is, I hated writing him in so much pain. ;_; Airazor takes a chance and puts Tigatrons spark into the new pod and programs it, but the next attack interrupts that.
The big guns come flying out of the cave - a sizeable Cicada flies out and attacks DC, ripping into his chest. Airazor and Rampage shoot at it, but it's very strong and won't give up yet. DC fires his power pizzas into it, which slows it down, but its animal ferocity is not Cybertronian. OR very buglike. DUN DUN DUUUNN!
A cool blast of ice later, it's a revealed that Tigatron's up and running, Transmetal as well, and the four of them fend the thing off. The cicada lands on top of Tarantulas and the Vok that was still trapped inside his spark joins the one that's possessed the cicada's body. O_O
The cicada flies off!
The others are all left in shock but with a sigh of relief Airazor and Tigatron smile at each other. But THEN, Airazor's like - omg! DC look!
DC looks down and at his hands to find that he's healing in seconds, his armor closing up like nothing happened.
They realize they're bonded blahblah fit blah.
And that's the first epi! 8D
So, yeah, they get new bodies. :3
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Now, for Dinobot...I was going to bring him back, the original anyways, in the Beast Machines part of the story. AKA - the Oracle or whatever brings him back. HEY, it can happen! DX The lore of BM CAN be used for good!

But Dinobot II's body is still in the Nemesis.... So I was thinking...what if I did bring him back but I surprised my readers by bringing him back WAYYY earlier than I meant to? o_O
The Problem : Original DB in DBII's body? OR just DBII?
The way I explained DBII's death/life, was that, when DC 'killed' Rampage, Rampage's spark was kinda sucked from Dinobot II's body to be fused with DC's spark. Dinobot 2 was designed very well and only needed the spark to give it
Life, but without the spark he was still able to function, albeit, on the original Dinobot's programming. Yay!
So um...well, who do I bring back? And how? o_O :scratches head:
I thought it'd be WICKED if, in some episode down the line here, hopefully within 3 or so, they go to find the Nemesis because somehow someone reasons that Dinobot's body might be found in the future by Decepticon -
LOL!!! Can you imagine?! XD
Starscream walks into the control room complaining about the salt water and finds a raggedy old body crammed behind a computer console. XDD
.....and upon inspection, he finds that it's extremely advanced! O_O!! After lots of study and stuff, the Cons make huge breakthroughs in technology and win the war using very futuristic weapons nad then the Beast Wars never happen! D: NOOOO! D:
- s, so they head off to find it. However, while fighting something off, perhaps another Vok thing, Dinobot 2 steps out of the weeds with coral growing in his eye and says something Dinobottish.
lol or something. xD
I never planned, originally for Dinobot to come back on Earth. ._. I think it'd be really weird to have him under DC's command. In fact, I don't see them getting along too well. lol So, since he doesn't quite fit into the dynamic of the group the way I see it, I'm not sure if I SHOULD. And yet.... Someone convinced me to bring Quickstrike back from the dead and he's actually working out okay. n_n
Poor Scorponok's the only one who died in the Beast Wars. :/ lol! But I couldn't think of a way he could survive the lava! D: And if there wasn't a chance, then I can't bring him back.... :/ And I had a cool redesign idea for him too. T_T
Primus, this is long. I hope it's not TOO long! x_X!!
What do you think? :3