Trivia / Meta-Fic Alt: Rising War

What Could Have Been: The fic is most likely dead, and never even got to most of the major battles of Ship Wars 4, let alone Ship Wars 4: IF and Meme Ship Wars. The main event being the Dark Hive Invasion, in which Bumblebee shippers from Tumblr brigaded the contest. The majority of those on Reddit banded together to create the Alliance for the Sanctity of the Subreddit (ASS) to stop them. According to Word of God from the author of the sequel, "Survival of the Memes,: several key character moments and references to these events were skipped in said sequel because he assumed they would be covered in "Rising War."