Originally posted by Skywarp18
How about this for the Whole Sunstreaker-Hound Shuttle thing
Once Kup sees hot rod firing on the shuttle and the Decepticons fly out kup tells the others to go back to the city and warn Magnus while he goes and helps out hotrod
when bluestreak hound huffer and sunstreaker get back to the city magnus tells hound and sunstreaker to go to the moonbase to get prime in case the communications get jammed
What? in the space of a few minutes? Ironhide, Prowl and Co. travelled from the moonbase in a massive shuttlecraft. The implication must be that Cybertron is more than a few thousand miles away from Earth. The kind of instantaneous travel you mention could only be possible via the Decepticon's space bridge, and there's nothing to suggest that exists in 2005. Certainly no-one was using it in the movie, or in any of the third series that followed. If it was operational, Megatron wouldn't bother hijacking Autobot shuttles in the cold depths of space. He would simply amass an entire fighting force a few guys at a time by sending them through the space bridge armed to the teeth.
If Cybertron was as close to Earth as would be required for Hound and Sunstreaker to nip up and warn Prime in such a short timescale, they may as well just look up and shout.
In your defence, there's no definite time frame to say how long the assault on Autobot city lasted. We get that one sequence showing the trench war (where Swoop's leg passes by close to the camera), and we see the sun setting. Perhaps a day of battle then? Or was it just the heat and light of a million missiles and lasers lighting up the sky over the space of an hour?
There's also no explanation for where this massive horde of Decepticons came from in order to attack Autobot city. When Megatron attacks Prowl and Ironhides shuttle in space, we know that behind him are the seekers, Soundwave and the Constructicons. Hardly the entire Con force, must be about 11 guys in total. And yet on Earth we have the second generation of seekers, the Insecticons, the triple changers etc.
Maybe all these guys ripped open another hole in the shuttle and remained in the back while Megs had his fun.
I just think its a bit of a long shot re: your explanation of Hound & Sunstreaker on Prime's ship. Its not impossible though.