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1 month ago

For those who have seen DCAU’s Justice League Unlimited, you may remember the episode, Grudge Match. In that, there is the iconic fight where a brainwashed Wonder Woman fought and beat up her fellow League women.

If you haven’t, here is a video of it:

Now my big smart brain was inspired by this scene to imagine one where Optimus gets placed under mind control by an enemy (Quintessons, most likely) and is made to fight his team and the Elite Guard. And when they realize what’s about to happen, they’re like; Oh, Primus.

“Anybot got a plan?” Jazz asked as they all backed away from Optimus.

“Yeah, try to stay alive.” Ratchet answered.

“Does anybot have a good plan?” Prowl questioned, preparing to fight.

As much as they tried to overwhelm the Prime, things were not looking good for the Autobots.

“We’re getting our afts creamed out here.” Bumblebee remarked as Optimus slammed the combined Jettwins into the ground.

“We need a new strategy.” Ratchet said. “Sentinel! Keep him busy.”

“What now?” the Prime blinked before he was shoved forward. Next thing he knew, a fist landed right against his face.

With Optimus distracted, the others decided they needed to call in reinforcements. Decepticon reinforcements, to be exact. When they finally get there, Starscream just scoffs, thinking that it’s no big deal.

“I mean, how hard can it be to take down one little-“

And then his head is kicked off from behind.

Blitzwing and Lugnut give it a shot, but they don’t fare much better against Optimus. Their only hope now is Megatron, who can, thankfully, keep up with the brainwashed Prime.

During the course of the fight, the Decepticon warlord is high key turned on by the possibility of the Autobot actually killing him. The others notice and are all; “Are you for real?”.

Eventually, Megatron is able to incapacitate Optimus long enough for the rest to free him from his mind control, defeat the Quintessons, and the day is saved. Optimus feels guilty about the whole thing, but the other Autobots assure him it’s not his fault. Megatron, however, says if he wants to make it up to him, that can be arranged in private. Optimus, though not surprised, isn’t particularly against the idea.

No one sees them again for the rest of the day, or the next morning.

Oh, and no one bothered to retrieve Starscream’s head and put it back on his body. So he’s just been laying there the whole time.

(I might make a fic of this one day. Until then, this is just a fun little prompt I thought of)