I'm guessing you mean Shockwave (since Soundwave is usually on the ship with Megatron.)
This seems unnecessary and too derivative of Beast Wars. Also, one of the poignant aspects of the G1 comics is that Optimus Prime crashed the Ark on Earth was because it had no signs of life and thus he was responsible and guilty for bringing his war to Earth. Even assuming that Prime's idea of life is pretty narrow, it makes him even more ignorant if he decides that a planet covered in roads and the occasional monolith is uninhabited.