History FanFic / BlackCrayons

*** Megatron is his introductory scene has him think about the time [[Film/{{Transformers}} he was killed by Sam]] as well as losing [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen The Fallen and the Sun Harvester]].

* JuniorCounterpart: Annabelle Lennox to Sam Witwicky, they were both regular people who became aware of the Cybertonians because of their respective families: [[Film/{{Transformers}} Archibald Witwicky discovered Megatron when he was frozen in ice and had the location of the Allspark imprinted on his glasses; William Lennox was attacked by a number of Decepticons and works with the Autobots in NEST.]] Sam and Annabelle have also befriended one Autobot in particular, Bumblebee and Ironhide, respectively.

* OCStandIn: Annabelle and her mother Sarah Lennox only barely made appearances in ''Film/{{Transformers}}''. In this series, they get more attention and development such as solidifying the former as a PluckyGirl who [[HeroWorshipper looks up to her father William Lennox and the Autobot Ironhide]] and the latter as a badass MamaBear who makes soldiers, government officials, and Cybertonians quiver in her wake.

** Bumblebee is this to Mikaela and Sam, just like how he was in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''. This continues into ''A Child's Innocence'' (which rewrites ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'') [[spoiler: where he encourages Sam to propose to Mikaela and is disappointed when Sam seems to not want to go through with it.]]

* ForWantOfANail: A few examples in ''A Child's Innocence'', different choices made by the characters leads to different events happening compared to ''Dark of the Moon'':
** [[spoiler:Annabelle being captured the by Decepticons leads to her picking up on the fact that there is a traitor among the Autobots. She delivers the message to Ironhide, allowing him to piece together that the traitor is Sentinel Prime. [[SparedByTheAdaptation This results in Ironhide avoiding Sentinel's assassination attempt]].]]
** [[spoiler:While holding some of the Autobots captive, Barricade and Soundwave choose to execute Bumblebee first, meaning Wheeljack avoids being killed like in ''[=DotM=]''. Just as Soundwave is about to execute Bumblebee, he is distracted by the sight of the Decepticon fleet falling from the sky which the Autobot scout takes advantage of and headbutts Soundwave. During their fight, Soundwave manages to retreat, avoiding his death from the film.]]
** [[spoiler:During his encounter with Starscream, Sam places the explosive in the Decepticon's shoulder joint. When it goes off, Starscream nearly loses his arm and retreats, but lives to fight another day.]]

** [[spoiler: Mikaela Banes is kidnapped by Dylan Gould and Soundwave to force Sam Witwicky into being TheMole for the Decepticons.]]

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: [[spoiler: When Annabelle is kidnapped by Laserbeak and Starscream with the latter watching over her, she appeals to Starscream's ego and points out that as the second in command of the Decepticons, he could use the chain of command to drop tasks that he feels are beneath him onto someone else. [[PunyEarthlings As much as Starscream hates humans]], he does concede that she has a point and gives the task of watching Annabelle to Barricade. This leads into another example when Barricade does not want to hold Annabelle captive because he is afraid of what [[PapaWolf Iron]][[TriggerHappy hide]] will do to him when he finds out. Annabelle tells Barricade that he could drop her off at a location where an Autobot will pick her up. Barricade concedes to it as Annabelle will have already served her purpose as a distraction for the Autobots if he does drive her to said location.]]

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]]
* TricksterTwins: Mudflap and Skids
* TriggerHappy: Ironhide with his [[{{Main/BFG}} cannons]]. Chromia is also this to some extent.
* UndyingLoyalty: Soundwave to Megatron

** Among the children Annabelle befriends in ''Not According to Plan'' are [[Franchise/StarWars Luke]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter, and Gwen]].

* WhipItGood: Jolt and Mirage have [[DualWielding one on each arm]] which they use in robot form.

%%* BadassArmy: The Autobots and the Decepticons.

* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:When Mikaela is captured by Dylan, she spends the time trying to figure out a way to escape or imagining killing him.

* BadassInDistress: When [[spoiler: Mikaela is captured by Dylan]], [[spoiler: she]] spends the time trying to figure out a way to escape or imagining killing [[spoiler: Dylan]].

* BaitAndSwitch: In ''DOTM'', Bumblebee presents rings to Carly and Sam, however Sam tells Bumblebee to "slow down", showing that's he's not ready for that step in a relationship. In ''A Child's Innocence'', a similar scene happens (only with Mikaela in place of Carly) and Sam tells Bumblebee the same thing, only immediately afterwards he follows it up with telling Bumblebee that he (Sam) should be the one proposing.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The protagonists

** In ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Laserbeak goes to the house of one of the Decepticon's human collaborators and disguises himself as a smaller, pink version of Bumblebee and asks a little girl, "Is your daddy home?" . In ''A Child's Innocence'', the house that Laserbeak goes to where he disguises himself is the Lennox home and asks Annabelle the same question.

*** Mikaela brings up events from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' in her angry thoughts when Mearing says that Sam is just a "messenger". Specifically, Sam running through Mission City with the [=AllSpark=], using the Cube to kill Megatron, and risking his life to save Optimus. Mikaela also thinks about the time hot-wired a tow truck to assist Bumblebee after the Autobot scout lost his legs in Mission City and running over Alice the Pretender.
*** [[Film/{{Transformers}} Once again Mikaela]] [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen hotwires a car.]]
*** [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen Skids and Mudflap climbing on a larger Decepticon.]]

** [[spoiler:Ironhide himself is on the receiving end of this trope, courtesy of [[EvilAllAlong Sentinel Prime]]. At least in this version of events, [[SparedByTheAdaptation Ironhide gets to avoid his fate from]] ''DOTM''.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Two examples in the ''DOTM'' rewrite:

** [[spoiler:While holding some of the Autobots captive, Barricade and Soundwave choose to execute Bumblebee first, meaning Wheeljack avoids being killed like in ''[=DOTM=]''. Just as Soundwave is about to execute Bumblebee, he is distracted by the sight of the Decepticon fleet falling from the sky which the Autobot scout takes advantage of and headbutts Soundwave and fights him.]]

* SecretKeeper: Not including those connected to the government or [=NEST=], those who know the truth about the Cybertronians include Sam, Mikaela, Annabelle, their families, [[AndZoidberg and Leo]] ([[TheGhost though he hasn't appeared in the series]]).

'''Optimus Prime:''' Time to find out. ''[[[spoiler:Cuts Megatron's right arm off with his axe and later [[StopHittingYourself beats Megatron with his own arm]]]]]''\\

** In ''Not According to Plan'', Tommy, Mike, Emily and Katie were trying to destroy any sympathy for the Autobots with an anti-Cybertronian video. Tommy, in particular, believes all Cybertronians to be murderous psychopaths and Mike is only interested in being famous at the Autobots' expense. You really can't help but cheer when Annabelle stands her ground against them and Sarah chews out Katie for trying to spread fear and hate.

** [[spoiler:There's not much change to Shockwave's role in ''DOTM'' before Optimus Prime off-lines him.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Barricade contacts Wheelie and the latter immediately assumes that Barricade is going to force him into being TheMole for the Decepticons. When Wheelie tries to stand his ground, Barricade tells him that the reason he contacted Wheelie was so that he could give the location of Annabelle Lennox, whom the Decepticons had kidnapped earlier.]]

%%* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mikaela gives one to Emily for kidnapping Wheelie.

* FiveManBand: The Autobots and their allies
** TheLeader: Optimus Prime
** TheLancer: Ironhide, Sam Witwicky, William Lennox
** TheSmartGuy: Ratchet, Wheelie, Wheeljack, Brains, Mikaela Banes, Charlotte Mearing
** TheBigGuy: Ironhide, Sideswipe, Skids, Mudflap, Mirage, Leadfoot, Roadbuster, Topspin, Robert Epps, Dutch
** TheChick: Bumblebee, Jolt, Arcee, Chromia, Flareup, Mikaela Banes, Sarah Lennox, Annabelle Lennox, Seymour Simmons, Charlotte Mearing
** TagalongKid: Annabelle Lennox
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]]

* AliensAreBastards: The Decepticons, obviously.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mikaela gives one to Emily for kidnapping Wheelie.

* BadassArmy: The Autobots and the Decepticons.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In ''My First Decepticon'', Annabelle seems perfectly fine after her encounter with [[spoiler: Barricade]]. ''Nightmares'' however shows that said encounter did in fact take a psychological toll on her.
** In ''A Child's Innocence'':
*** While Mikaela and Sam both want to help the Autobots, Mikaela has to go to her job because they need the income.
*** [[spoiler:Ironhide is almost killed by Sentinel Prime and although Ratchet manages to help him recover a bit, he warns Ironhide that he should not be considering doing anything strenuous. Not too long after Ironhide has to help his fellow Autobots fight Decepticons in Chicago, one of the Decepticons [[GameBreakingInjury aggravates the weapon specialist's injury from where he was stabbed, and giant alien robot or not, this nearly gets Ironhide killed]].]]
** The opening chapter of ''Not According to Plan'' details [[spoiler:the aftermath of the Decepticons' attack on Chicago with numerous children orphaned and a large group of people working to rebuild the city.]]

* AdultFear: William Lennox shows concern when he discovers that Annabelle is unaccounted for in the evacuation of her school from [[spoiler: Barricade]] and then goes into PapaWolf mode.
** In ''A Child's Innocence'', Sarah Lennox is driven to tears when she sees Annabelle being kidnapped by Laserbeak. It happens again when she finds out that [[spoiler: that Annabelle is in Chicago which is currently overrun by the Decepticons, she breaks down in tears at the thought of her child in such danger.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''A Child's Innocence'' compared to ''Dark of the Moon'', [[spoiler:when characters die, there is much more attention to detail given to the deaths. When our heroes are in Chicago, more time is spent on making it clear how gruesome the carnage is with countless innocent people being killed by the Decepticons, simply ForTheEvulz. There is also the AdultFear that comes with Annabelle being kidnapped by the Decepticons out of her own house and her entering a war zone.]]

* AlternateUniverseFic: ''A Child's Innocence'' is a rewrite of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. One of the differences is removing [[ReplacementScrappy Carly]] and putting Mikaela back in the storyline.

* CheerfulChild: Annabelle

** Dutch is proven right in ''Not According to Plan''; there are a couple of new characters [[spoiler:who have witnessed the Decepticons tear apart Chicago]]): a group of teenagers (Tommy, Mike, Emily, and Katie) who plan to destroy any sympathy for the Autobots in response to what happened in [[spoiler:Chicago]] and a group of children (Danny, Luke, Izabella, Peter and Gwen) whom Annabelle befriends while her family assists in repairing [[spoiler:Chicago]]. Unlike the rest of the teenagers, Tommy in particular believes all Cybertronians to all be complete monsters, the children believe Annabelle when she tells them that there are good and evil Cybertronians. The children befriend Wheelie when Annabelle shows them that he isn't dangerous. Izabella especially as she recognizes Ironhide as one of the good guys despite his size and weapons and acknowledges the Autobots' heroics for stopping the Decepticons.

* CombatStilettos: AvertedTrope. Mikaela wears tennis shoes to the dinner party with Dylan Gould [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen to avoid a situation where she has to run in heels]]. [[spoiler: She made the right call.]]

** [[spoiler: Mikaela has more than a few scratches from pulling off the above mentioned CarFu. She even has her arms almost entirely covered by guaze by the end of the story.]]

-->'''Annabelle:''' My name is Annabelle. And you're a big mean bully. [[SmugSnake You just act tough when you scare people]]. [[TheBully Like Carl does]]. But if someone isn't scared, you don't know what to do. You have to stand up to bullies or else they always will pick on you. ''(smiles)'' And bullies get in trouble. 'Cause good guys stop them.\\

'''[[spoiler: Ironhide]]:''' [[spoiler:[[PreAssKickingOneLiner No, me.]]]] ''[[spoiler:(Cue CurbStompBattle for Barricade)]]''

'''Sam:''' (once he and Mikaela are out of earshot) That was so hot, 'Kaela. You can fight my battles anytime you like.\\

** After getting attacked by Annabelle and the other children, Tommy lets out what is described by Izabella as "words that Izabella's parents would have never allowed under their roof".

** In ''A Child's Innocence'', [[spoiler:the world leaders buy that the Decepitcons will spare the Earth's population if the Autobots are exiled. Sam, Lennox, Epps and Simmons are aware of the fact that the Decepticons will most certainly not keep their word and that the Autobots are the Cybertronians who don't wish humans any ill will. The Decepticons will attack and Earth is forcing their only real chance at combating them off the planet. Simmons refrains from saying "I told you so." when the Decepticons unsurprisingly go against their end of the deal and blow up the ''Xanthium''.]]

** In ''Not According to Plan'', Tommy, Mike, Emily and Katie were trying to destroy any sympathy for the Autobots with anti-Cybertronian propaganda. Tommy, in particular, believes all Cybertronians to be murderous psychopaths and Mike is only interested in being famous at the Autbots' expense. You really can't help but cheer when Annabelle stands her ground against them and Sarah chews out Katie for trying to spread fear and hate.

'''Tommy:''' (hisses) ''Hey''.\\

'''Izabella:''' (weakly smiles) I'd like that.\\
'''Tommy:''' (pointing the camera towards the children) Look at what they've already taken from us. Look at these children orphaned by those aliens.\\

'''Emily:''' (arriving) Hey. What's with all the shouting?\\

-->'''[[spoiler: Sentinel Prime:]]''' [[spoiler:(to Megatron) Traitor.]]\\

* MeleeATrois: Optimus Prime vs. Megatron vs [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]]

** The Universal Greeting: [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Bah wheep grana wheep ninny bahn]].

--->'''[[spoiler:Dylan]]:''' See that? (Points to Cybertron) I just saved a whole other world! You think you're a hero? You think you're a HERO!?"\\
'''Sam:''' No... [[MeaningfulEcho I'm just the messenger]]! (Rams [[spoiler: Dylan]] with the metal bar, causing [[spoiler: him]] to collide with the Pillar's energy beam, electrocuting [[spoiler: him]] to death.)

--->'''Megatron:''' (as he's about to finish off [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]]) But I'll have to finish off Optimus as well this time, he and his followers have gotten in the way once too many times. I have to wonder, though... what will it be like without him around? Who will I be without him?\\

'''Optimus Prime:''' Time to find out. ([[spoiler:Cuts Megatron's right arm off with his axe and later [[StopHittingYourself beats Megatron with his own arm]]]])\\

'''Optimus Prime:''' (picks up Megatron's gun) [[spoiler:As I said before you didn't betray me, Sentinel. You betrayed yourself.]] (takes aim at [[spoiler:Sentinel]]) \\

'''Optimus Prime:''' (Fires the gun, killing [[spoiler:Sentinel]])

** In ''A Child's Innocence'', Annabelle tells Megatron that she thinks [[spoiler: Dylan Gould and Sentinel Prime]] are responsible for [[spoiler: what is happening in Chicago.]] This serves as a blow to Megatron's ego as he thinks that humans do not believe that he is the leader of the Decepticons or a significant threat and that [[spoiler: Dylan and Sentinel have overshadowed him. He then attacks Sentinel.]] Note that Annabelle really ''does'' believe that [[spoiler: Dylan and Sentinel]] are the ones responsible for what is happening in [[spoiler: Chicago]] and has no idea that Megatron is actually the one who is behind everything.

* SuddenNameChange: The name of the third Arcee sister was originally "[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Moonracer]]" before the author changed it to "Flareup" to match with WordOfGod of the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''.

** [[Film/TransformersTheLastKnight Izabella]] appears in ''Not According to Plan'' [[spoiler:when her losing her parents to the Decepitcons when they laid waste to Chicago was still recent.]]

* NotSoDifferent:

Set after ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', this series is a prime example of what happens when characters wrestle control away from the writer. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5026037/1/Black_Crayons Black Crayons]] started out as a short one-shot about the idea of Will Lennox's daughter growing up with the knowledge of the Autobots and how this would affect the child. It was intended to be something short, but as its creator, Creator/BookwormGal, quickly learned, the tale was nowhere near finished. Currently, the series consists of sixteen stories. Most are short one-shots, but five are multi-chapter pieces including one that rewrites ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''. The series was written out of order and most can be read separately, but taken as one long story as well.

Black Crayons consists of (in order):

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5026037/1/Black_Crayons Black Crayons]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5039456/1/Drawings Drawings]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5066572/1/Babysitters_Nightmare Babysitter's Nightmare]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5071269/1/Night_Sky Night Sky]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5060907/1/Bully Bully]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5059167/1/ParentTeacher_Conference Parent-Teacher Conference]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5173390/1/Everyone_Needs_a_Birthday Everybody Needs a Birthday]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5073757/1/Babysitting_Take_Two Babysitting, Take Two]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5182664/1/When_I_Grow_Up When I Grow Up]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5212715/1/Party_Time Party Time]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5347566/1/Language_Lessons Language Lessons]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5456444/1/Summer_Vacation Summer Vacation]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5264011/1/My_First_Decepticon My First Decepticon]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6398626/1/Nightmares Nightmares]]
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7170395/1/A_Childs_Innocence A Child's Innocence]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12547645/1/Not-According-to-Plan Not According to Plan]]

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5593005/1/100_Black_Crayons 100 Black Crayons]]

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* RealityEnsues:
** In ''My First Decepticon'', Annabelle seems perfectly fine after her encounter with [[spoiler: Barricade]]. ''Nightmares'' however shows that said encounter did in fact take a psychological toll on her.
** In ''A Child's Innocence'':
*** While Mikaela and Sam both want to help the Autobots, Mikaela has to go to her job because they need the income.
*** [[spoiler:Ironhide is almost killed by Sentinel Prime and although Ratchet manages to help him recover a bit, he warns Ironhide that he should not be considering doing anything strenuous. Not too long after Ironhide has to help his fellow Autobots fight Decepticons in Chicago, one of the Decepticons [[GameBreakingInjury aggravates the weapon specialist's injury from where he was stabbed, and giant alien robot or not, this nearly gets Ironhide killed]].]]
** The opening chapter of ''Not According to Plan'' details [[spoiler:the aftermath of the Decepticons' attack on Chicago with numerous children orphaned and a large group of people working to rebuild the city.]]