The basic premise would be, how can peace be attained? What would have to happen for the Autobots and Decepticons to sign a peace deal they can live with. My idea requires much more subtle motives from the robots and humans, more rational, not just evil for evil's sake, but evil with purpose.

 

1 - Premise - Energon is running out, and both Autobots and Decepticons must find a way to create it in order to survive.

 

The decepticons want to take over Earth without caring about the humans. The Autobots are trying to make energon with humans cooperation, with the ultimate goal of leaving, but also stopping the Decepticons from destorying human kind trying to do the same thing (very G1)

 

The Decepticon's goals are much easier to do. Megatron convinces the Decepticons that Human Nuclear bombs have enough power to make good energon efficiently. The Autobot approach using human civilian technology is producing very slow results. So from a selfish Transformer perspective, the Nukes are the way to go since it has results now. The more noble approach would likely not work, since by the time they make it work it may be too late to let the robots survive.

 

So the Decepticons are desperate and they have no access to human nukes (all the governments are aligned with the Autobots), so they recruit North Korea. The Decepticons go to North Korea and no one can stop them, since they're North Korea's guests - the UN can't do anything about it since they dont want to start a nuclear war, and the Autobots are stuck too since they won't have human back up.

 

North Korea uses this to its advantage, and decides that with the Decepticons as allies, they can take over South Korea again, and after that, who knows?

 

This galvanizes world governments who finally decide to act, but the war of course drags on.

 

In the mean time, progress starts happening with civilian energon creation that helps with human energy consumption too (maybe Sam could be the leading expert on energy after college). Finally there's a chance for peace between Autobots and Decepticons - the Decepticons now have a choice - Starscream now has a choice. Starscream still had ambitions of ruling Earth, but now he's conflicted.

 

Eventually the war turns around and the humans/Autobots start making in-roads. Starscream is getting diplomatic messages from humans about this possibility (maybe the Australian communications expert from the 1st movie could be involved in this) - With the war going bad, and with a peaceful way of making energon (a way out of war), Starscream tries to convince Megs to give it a shot.

 

Thats when he finds out Megatron lied. The nukes are no good for energon. Megs was after creating Unicron - the All Spark's opposite - its antitheses - the All Spark had the power to "create worlds and fill them with life". And the Matrix, a sacred creation by the All Spark, holds the key to it. The Unicron's sole purpose is to destroy planets and destroy all life. Megatron was never after making energon - his hatred for humans and the Autobots for destroying the All Spark, The Fallen, and the Sun Harvester is all consuming. Megatron wants to use Unicron to destroy Earth just like he did with Cybertron - in Cybertron he built Unicron as a barganaing chip - when pushed he activated it, but he figured he could always bring it back with the All Spark once he won the war. This time, he's just doing it out of vengeance.

 

He fully distrusts the Autobots - he's convinced what Starscream has told him is a ruse by Prime. Also, life isn't worth living if he's not in charge, and since the Transformers are doomed to extinction anyway, he wants to take everything away from the humans. Many Decepticons agree - to Soundwave, for instance, after fighting for so long, surrender would be an insult, dishonorable, they'd rather destroy everything than surrender. They wanna go out with a bang, samurai style.

 

This is how Starscream finally betrays Megatron - not for a petty desire to rule, but for a much more, and realistic, reasons.

 

The fight devolves into Prime having to use the Matrix (from the last movie) to destroy the Unicron. with the Matrix lost on Earth, Prime was unable to save Cybertron. This time, he vows he would not fail. But as a climax Megs merges with the Unicron to become Galvatron, and Prime has no choice but to sacrifice himself (this time for real) in order to destroy the Unicron. Just like Megs merged with the Unicron, the Matrix must be merged with Prime. Their one, equals, and for one to be destroyed, the other must also equally die.

 

With Megs gone, Screamer takes over command of the Decepticons who accept the terms of surrender (die-hards like Soundwave choose to die gloriously). The Autobots, following Prime's example of compassion invite the Decepticons to a peace treaty and to start over again in another world using the newly discovered technology. The decepticons decline the offer, for they are still quite bitter, but say that maybe in the future, perhaps unification will occur.

 

Thus peace is attained. The Autobots leave Earth, to try to start over in Mars, or something. With their human allies staying in contact. The End.

 

What do you guys think?

 

I know many think Unicron shoud be a planet consuming monster-robot, but frankly this goes beyond the belivable - "maximally counterintuitive" as they say. I think having the Unicron be like the All Spark is more belivable, maintains the essence of what it does, and keeps Megs as the main bad guy.

Sounds like a very good idea! Like how soundwave is loyal to the end :yay

 

The Starscream conflicted idea seems like armada tarscream! I always liked how he was torn between good and evil. It sounds a lot more realistic than the last one, kinda like a more 'mature' story line.

 

Also, would baricade still be alive? I'm hoping that at the start of TF3 they'll take care of the lose ends, like Barricade, Scalpel, Longhaul and any surviving protoforms.

I like it, except for three things:

 

1: The anti-AllSpark shouldn't be called Unicron. It just isn't worthy. :P

 

2: Prime dies? AGAIN? And Megatron/Galvatron? They shouldn't die again, they're too cool. Plus, if they stay alive, there's always the possibility of a FOURTH and FIFTH movie.

 

3: It all seems a little too political to me. As in, not any action until the very end.

Sounds like a very good idea! Like how soundwave is loyal to the end :yay

 

The Starscream conflicted idea seems like armada tarscream! I always liked how he was torn between good and evil. It sounds a lot more realistic than the last one, kinda like a more 'mature' story line.

 

Also, would baricade still be alive? I'm hoping that at the start of TF3 they'll take care of the lose ends, like Barricade, Scalpel, Longhaul and any surviving protoforms.

 

 

If you agree with me (and I hope someone does) and thinks that you must combine all the types of ROTF (Video game, Book, movie) to have the real story then you know what happens to scapel. but no one knows what happens to barricade but I think he should come back to only be destroyed by Prowl in another cop car (Preferably not a pos Mustang)