Here is the hook I had for a subplot in Autobot Outpost. I hope anyone who actually reads this will enjoy.
Most of Soundwave's minions were infamous. Usually it was for how effective they were, but that was not the case for Slugfest and Overkill.
No, those two were infamous for an entirely different reason. They were so incompetent that they essentially never got deployed. They were so bad, that Soundwave of all bots got sick of them and actually kicked them off his team, a feat that was previously unheard of.
After that humiliation, in an attempt to make a fresh start. They committed fraud on fellow Decepticons in order to obtain enough energon chips for them to pay for new alt modes to replace their storage forms. Unfortunately for them, when their fraudulent behavior was discovered, it put them on the DJD and Decepticon high command's shit list. Literally.
Therefore, they were forced to flee as far away from the front lines as possible, and so the fled to Earth, a planet long used as a distant observation outpost. They landed just outside of Chicago and scanned some dinosaur animatronics.
Slugfest immediately began to complain "Why the hell can't I deploy my guns in this form? How does my name make sense now, I can't got firing off any slugs now."
"Then scan something else, I for one, am satisfied." declared the T-rex "Finally, a form worthy of the name Overkill."
"To bad the bot in that form isn't. Seriously dude, why do you keep trying to rebrand yourself like that. Nobody will call you that. Your name is Overboard. OVERBOARD! Overkill doesn't even make sense as a name for you. Seriously, I don't think you've intentionally killed a thing in your life! Overboard is the perfect name for you considering what always happens when I pull a scheme with you." retorted Slugfest.
"I've totally killed before! I've killed some Autotroopers, and remember that one time I killed a Vok?"
Slugfest looked at his partner incredulously "That wasn't a Vok you dipstick, that was a crab wearing a skull! And do either of those things count as life anyways?"
"Well, the Autobots count them, so that is good enough for me." said Overkill, acting like he won the conversation.
"We're Decepticons! Why the hell should we use Autobot standards for that?!" shouted Slugfest.
And so, the two bickered back and forth until they reached the city... which was under repair due to one of the first public battles between the local Autobots and Decepticons. Therefore making the city... rather unreceptive to anymore Cybertronians.
An angry mob chased them into a random garage where a young woman named Verity, asked to cut a deal with them...
This is as far as I got before I got a writer's block. Two bounty hunters, Whisper and Blitzscream (Blitzwing from the BB movie, were supposed to be hunting for them, and Overkill would accidentally bite the later's head off , while Verity would help them kill Whisper. It was supposed to be a whole subplot, but whatever.