I am sorry to disappoint the fans of this fic that have waited for this fic to update and for that update being a notice that the update will never come and that the story is being declared dead. Honestly, I lost most of my interest in the series after the first season and the aftermath of the battle with Unicron. the show started leaving the kids nearly completely out of the show and didn't develop them or their relation to the Transformers at all. They had nothing to do with the final battle of the show and weren't in the movie, plus are yet to even be mentioned in the sequel series. The kids interactions with both sides of the war were my favorite element of the show. I did enjoy seeing Predaking brought into American TF for the first time to my knowledge, but then crap kept making the continuity of my fic further and further away from possibility. Though I do find it funny that some slight elements of my fic became canon in very different ways. In both my fic and the show Silas was mortally wounded and became merged with a Decepticon and in both Airachnid became a vampire. In my fic though Silas and Airachnid became a monster bio-transformer and the first (very flawed) iteration of the type of thing Jack and Arcee later became. However, the show ended Megatron a different way, repaired Cybertron a different way, wrote out the Terrorcons, did a sort of "Galvatron in everything but name" in a different way, and even brought in a "Hot Rod in everything but name and colors" character that amounted to nothing.

Anyway instead of just leaving the series unfinished forever, I'm going to tell you the rest of the plot I had in mind. If you still want to hold out hope that the next season of the new series will inspire me to start this up again, feel free to ignore the rest of this and go unspoiled.

Starting from where we left off, Jack and Arcee would go to face Black Airachnid alone, and be slightly outclassed. Complicating things further would be the appearance of Hot Rod once again ordered to apprehend the mutant and kill Arcee. Naturally, Hot Rod continues strafing the rules on the detonator attached to his spark, managing to help Arcee take out Black Airachnid but in the fight the fact that Arcee and Jack merged and it gave her a power boost is revealed. As is the fact that the explosion that mutated Black Airachnid did so by merging her with Silas in a similar way to the accident that merged our protagonists. Also, Hot Rod has no choice but to escape with Black Airachnid.

Eventually, Megatron figures out that humans applify energon and give the Autobots power, so he attacks Jasper (specifically the high school), this being the first time in this continuity that the Transformers become public knowledge. Darkmount and such never happened in this canon. Jack's original cursh Sierra and her friend are among the teens Megatron has kidnapped and the Autobots assault the Decepticon ship to save the day and stop Megatron from upgrading using enslaved kids. The bully Vince however ends up merged with a vehicon drone as a test subject and becomes this fic's version of the G1 Decepticon "Scavenger" (the process just making a regular strength Decepticon with the brain of a loser like Vince, nothing special). In the resulting conflict when the Autobots attack, Hot Rod makes the fateful decision to be a hero even though it will result in him exploding. He sets about unlocking the cages from the control room and setting the ship to self-destruct, and Megatron breaks away from battle to confront him. Hot Rod, resolved that he will die anyway, makes sure Megatron is caught in the blast when the detonator inside him explodes.

The Decepticons born from the corrupted Autobot shells appear alongside a new enemy when the Decepticons strike again months later as the Autobots are finding out the drifing planet of Cybertron is heading to Earth. This new threat is their new leader: Galvatron, who is attempting to create a space gate powerful enough to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit seemingly in order to mobilize the Terrorcons that are once again active on it. Galvatron is immensely powerful, as strong as Optimus would be if merged with a human as Arcee and Jack were. The only thing that keeps him from just killing them personally is that he seems to suffer some sort of glitch that forces him to retreat. The Autobots fail to stop the gate from replacing the Moon with Cybertron however, and the truth of the situation is revealed...

The shard of Dark Energon fired into Cybertron at the start of the series has turned Cybertron into Unicron himself (or rather, simply allowed Unicron to take over Primus' body) and aiming to consume his former body (Earth) to effectively become "Primed" himself by fusing it with Primus. The autobots attack, entering Unicorn in an attempt to stop him like they did last time using the Matrix of Leadership. Optimus fights Galvatron and is gravely injured, but in the process revealing where Galvatron came from. The spark of Hot Rod detonating merged the Autobot with Megatron. Hot Rod manages to stop 'himself' from killing Optimus, and finally manages to seperate from Megatron as Jack and Arcee can. However, Hot Rod is still connected to Megatron by the spark and Optimus is too wounded to use the Matrix. Optimus assures Hot Rod that he proved himself a hero back when he sacrificed himself to save the kidnapped kids, and hands him the Matrix, as Hot Rod opens it, Optimus chooses to sacrifice himself and use the release of energy to merge with Hot Rod, creating Rodimus Prime and seemingly killing Megatron and Unicron in the process.

Rodimus (mentally Hot Rod and unable to detect Optimus inside him) isn't convinced that he should lead the Autobots as the new Prime, gives the Matrix to Arcee, and departs to go back to the planet he left his crew to die on, aiming to overthrow the tyrants he fled from to redeem himself. Arcee is dubbed "Artemis Prime". On the other planet, Rodimus is shocked to find two members of his crew are still alive (I never decided what G1 Transformers to make them, but Kup would have been one most likely). They originally want nothing to do with him, but forgive him along the way to overthrowing the tyrants and the trio head back to Earth (Kup might have stayed to help form a new government).

Rodimus would have had arm gattling blasters similar to Rhinox from Beast Wars (because those things were awesome), additional modes aside from truck such as a turret (with the gatling blasters in boosted form on them) that could be manned by other bots to shield them and boost cannon power.

Some new threat I had not ironed out would feature Rodimus Prime returning in time to help, with more confidence in himself and proving himself a suitable Prime and earning the forgiveness of Arcee/Artemis. However, post final battle with the threat it would be revealed that due to the flawed way that Arcee and Jack merged the boundary between their life forces is failing slowly and they will eventually merge completely. This effectively means they will die and become a different person altogether. Arcee and Jack hope for a cure, but it proves fruitless. The merging system is perfected during the search for a cure, enabling humans and Transformers to enter paired bonds if they choose to for whatever reason. Content with the time they have had together, Arcee and Jack decide to take the new spark that will be born as their child and leave a message for it before the end.

This new spark appeared in the short-lived fic that I deleted with the intent to redo it later. The fic featured the Decepticons returning and attacking a city with a weapon that duplicated the negative effects of the planet in Beast Wars, rendering technology that wasn't shielded inert (vehicle modes couldn't shield Transformers from this). The human protagonist was Sierra, and the new spark was pretty much a kid mentally at first, though bore traits of Arcee and Jack's personality. Sierra helped him out before the weapon hit and shortly after the Decepticons appeared and tried to capture him, but Sierra stood defiant. Seeing this, the new spark scanned a nearby rare white and gold lion (they were in a zoo) and became the first "Maximal" Beast Wars style, calling himself "Leomidas" (a mix of fragments of Jack's memories of stories of Leonidas and Kind Midas).

This was this fic's version of the Japanese Beast Wars 2 character "Leo Prime" and he was going to grow up fast, build a team loosely based on the team in Beast Wars 2, Sierra and him would grow closer and closer too, eventually being in love and dealing with a love triangle with a team member that was a female version of Skywarp (from Beast Wars 2) that was G1 Chromia turned into a Maximal. This triangle would ends upon Skywarp figuring out that Leomidas is technically her nephew at best and at worst partly her sister Arcee. Leo would get a combiner form like the character Leo Junior in the original show, and eventually get upgraded when Sierra merges with him.

It is about this time that Leo finds out "Sierra" is not actually "Sierra" and is really her friend that was also captured (the one that suffered through a teen pregnancy in the prior fic). Having aborted the child she was pregnant with and suffered the loss of her friend Sierra (who died at the hands of the Decepticons without the reader knowing), she took to calling herself Sierra and acting like her friend, who she believed was a much better person than her.

Eventually the team would save the day and Leomidas would be given the title of a general (Lio Minor) and years later become Lio Prime.

I hope you enjoyed that summary and am sorry I am canceling the fic without completing it. Farewell readers. It was fun while it lasted.