History Fanfic / TransformersRWBYTheFlamesOfRedemption

--> "Watch out for the quiet ones... They're the ones that speak the loudest when they want to"

** TheSmarGuy: Shockwave

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Dreadwing and Predaking are understandably leery about having to work alongside Megatron given their past history. They later grow to fully trust Megatron and become FireForgedFriends.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1070668/twilightnite13 twilightnite12]] worked alongside RyuJudge6614 to write ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13048863/1/Transformers-RWBY-The-Light-of-Hope Transformers RWBY: The Light of Hope]]'' as a tie-in centered around Predaking and Dreadwing as they meet Weiss and Blake set before their run-ins with Yang and Megatron. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13796280/1/Transformers-RWBY-The-Flames-That-Could-Have-Been Transfomers RWBY: The Flames That Could Have Been]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/13686571/ZeroTheOne ZeroTheOne]] has the Decepticons and Team RWBY transported to another dimension to react to the events of the original fic

* DidNotSeeThisComing: [[spoiler:Nobody expected ''[[RobotGirl Penny]]'', of all people, to gain the power of the Winter Maiden after its previous holder Fria died from a dagger wound from Cinder.]]

* NoTrueScotsman: Adam has this attitude towards Predaking after [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint misunderstanding Predaking's rejection of his offer to join the White Fang as him saying that he was a human bioweapon made to be used against the Faunus.]] This leads to him [[spoiler:attempting to tarnish Predaking's reputation among the residents of Menagerie alongside the Corsac brothers [[MaliciousSlander by portraying him as a "false Faunus".]]]]

---> '''Winter''': "Weiss... I think Father has just lit the spark... that will set this kingdom ablaze..."
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Everyone has this reaction when Salem shows up at the head of a massive Grimm army en route to Atlas.]]

* {{MassOhCrap}}: [[spoiler:Dreadwing, Weiss, and Winter has this reaction once they find out that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jacques]] [[AbusiveParents Schnee]] won the Atlas council election given his greedy nature.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jacques Schnee fits the bill as in canon with his money-grubbing antics. This comes back to bite him in the ass when it is revealed that he had unwittingly shared sensitive information with Arthur Watts, who is in the employ of [[BigBad Salem]].
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:During the Atlas council meeting, Shockwave reveals himself as Optimus' DoubleAgent within Salem's forces after exposing Jacques Schnee's dealings with the traitorous Atlesiana scientist Arthur Watts.]]

* HatredAtFirstSight: Dreadwing immediately gains a dislike of the vapid, selfish Atlesian upper class because they remind him too much of the High Class of Cybertron he had to put up with as a Cybertronian

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dreadwing gives one towards all the [[VapidElite visitors to the SDC charity event]] within the Schnee estate in response to a female partygoer's insensitive and demeaning comment regarding the Fall of Beacon causing Weiss to lash out at her.

--> Megatron: "One shall stand. One shall fall."

--> Soundwave(to Whitley): "YOU... Don't know... HIDDEN HERE... as if you're special... NO ONE... is... DISPOSABLE... I... FIGHT FOR OTHERS... to... HELP OTHERS... FOR... them... FIGHT... instead of... LOWER... YOURSELF... to... THROWN YOUR LIFE... for... PATHETIC REASON AS... you think... TRUE POWER... is... how you live... or your caste... alone. The only... ANIMAL... I see... before me... is you... Alone... in a hollow place that you inherited instead of making for yourself. If you truly see this as the height of your so-called power... (draws wrist blade and approaches Whitley)Then you truly are... PITIFUL..."

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dreadwing gives one towards all the visitors to the SDC charity event within the Schnee estate in response to a partygoer's insensitive comment causing Weiss to snap back at them for reawakening past trauma.

* CliffhangerEnding: Each storyline ends with the moment that Dreadwing and Predaking meet Yang and Megatron in ''The Flames of Redemption''.

* DragonKnight: Predaking is a dragon Faunus and is unfailingly polite and honorable, making him fit this trope to a T. Overlaps with ProudWarriorRaceGuy and WarriorPrince [[spoiler:after he is crowned the new leader of the White Fang.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Downplayed with [[spoiler:the Corsac brothers converting to Predaking's side after their defeat]] given their part in Adam Taurus' MaliciousSlander campaign against Predaking, but they do realize that they did the wrong thing and try to make amends.
* HonorBeforeReason: PlayedForDrama when Predaking attempts to commit suicide after [[AccidentalPervert accidentally running into Blake while she was in the bathroom]]. Blake manages to talk him out of it

* NoTrueScotsman: Adam has this attitude towards Predaking after [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint misunderstanding Predaking's rejection of his offer to join the White Fang as him saying that he was a human bioweapon to be used against the Faunus.]] This leads to him [[spoiler:attempting to tarnish Predaking's reputation among the residents of Menagerie alongside the Corsac brothers [[MaliciousSlander by portraying him as a "false Faunus".]]]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dreadwing gives one towards all the visitors to the SDC charity event within the Schnee estate in response to a partygoer's insensitive comment regarding the Fall of Beacon and Weiss's outburst towards it.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: [[WideEyedIdealist Ruby]] and [[TheStoic Soundwave]] have this dynamic
* ContinuityNod: Megatron quotes his old friend and enemy Optimus Prime in his fight against Harrier of the Ace Ops

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:During the Atlas council meeting, Shockwave reveals himself as Optimus' DoubleAgent within Salem's forces after exposing Jacques Schnee's dealings with Arthur Watts, a traitorous Atlesian scientist in service to Salem.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dreadwing gives one towards all the visitors to the SDC charity event within the Schnee estate in response to a partygoer's insensitive comment regarding the Fall of Beacon and Weiss's outburst towards it
** Soundwave gives Whitley a brutal example of this trope when Weiss, Dreadwing, and Soundwave run into him again at the Schnee estate after Whitley [[BullyingADragon decided to mock Soundwave's past]].

* WhatIsThisFeeling: Megatron is not completely used to having human emotions given that he was a literal alien robotic warlord hell-bent on conquest, so he is understandably ambivalent about them

* HeelFaceTurn: Downplayed with[[spoiler:the Corsac brothers converting to Predaking's side after he defeats them]] given their part in Adam Taurus' MaliciousSlander campaign against Predaking, but they do realize that they did the wrong thing and try to make amends.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint:

* HonorBeforeReason: PlayedForDrama when Predaking attempts to commit suicide after [[AccidendalPervert accidentally running into Blake while she was in the bathroom]]. Blake manages to talk him out of it

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* ADayInTheLimelight: ''The Light of Hope'' primarily focuses on Dreadwing and Predaking as they run into Weiss and Blake respectively before they meet up with Yang and Megatron

* DragonKnight: Predaking is a dragon Faunus and is unfailingly polite and honorable, making him fit this trope to a T. Overlaps with ProudWarriorRaceGuy and WarriorPrince [[spoiler:after he is crowned the new leader of the White Fang.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Downplayed with[[spoiler:the Corsac brothers converting to Predaking's side after he defeats them]] given their part in Adam Taurus' MaliciousSlander campaign against Predaking, but they do realize that they did the wrong thing and try to make amends.

* MeaningfulName: Dreadwing's alias of "Dreadwing Seeker" is a thinly-veiled allusion to his past as a member of the Seekers.
* NoTrueScotsman: Adam has this attitude towards Predaking after [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint misunderstanding Predaking's rejection of his offer to join the White Fang as him saying that he was a human bioweapon to be used against the Faunus.]] This leads to him [[spoiler:attempting to tarnish Predaking's reputation among the residents of Menagerie alongside the Corsac brothers [[MaliciousSlander by portraying him as a "false Faunus".]]]]

* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler:Dreadwing has an Atlesian implant on his chest that uses his Aura to seal and eventually heal the wound over his heart lest it kill him again.]]

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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler:Dreadwing has an Atlesian implant on his chest that uses his Aura to seal and eventually heal the wound over his heart lest it kill him again.]]

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:The Corsac brothers convert to Predaking's side after he defeats them]]

---> Megatron: "One shall stand. One shall fall."

* CurbStompBattle: The ex-Decepticons deliver this to Ace Ops because while they have years of experience, the Transformers have ''eons'' of experience under their belt. To quote Soundwave, "Cybertronians superior, Ace Ops inferior."

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:During the council meeting, Shockwave reveals himself as Optimus' double agent within Salem's forces after exposing Jacques Schnee's dealings with the traitorous scientist Arthur Watts]]