The wind whistled past his audios as he made a sharp turn to avoid another pointless attempt from those insufferable autobots to blast him out of the sky. Idiots, he thought as he continued firing. He wasn't aiming at anyone particular; he fired just to appear interested.
There they were again, trying to steal more energon from the humans simply to survive. At what point did they stop being warriors and did they become thieves? He remembered a time when he was proud to be a decepticon, a warrior of cybertron. Now, he was nothing more than a coward, a traitor and now a thief. Images flashed across his CPU as he remembered first donning the decepticon insignia and the pride he felt. Now, they were his torment, reminders of his life gone astray.
His gaze roamed across the battlefield until he caught sight of his ex-friend Skyfire in the distance attending to the wounded autobots. His mind began to drift again, now to a time long passed when he and Skyfire would talk about where they saw themselves in the future. Skyfire dreamed of discoveries and inventions that would better the cybertronian race. Dreams that never came thanks to him, Starscream thought bitterly. As for himself, to be known as the greatest seeker to ever grace the skies was his only dream. At least he could say he accomplished that, he thought as he effortlessly avoided another shot, this time from their weapons specialist. Unconscientiously, he answered back with a shot of his own that hit the autobot square in his chest, rendering him immobile. He didn't even register his hit on target as his mind was still elsewhere.
He was only pulled from his reverie when he heard what he'd been waiting for; Megatron's order to retreat. He hadn't been paying much attention to the battle below but he suspected that Prime had turned the tables on their illustrious leader and sensing the change in the tide of the battle, Megatron called for the retreat.
He quickly turned heel and fled with the rest of the decepticons, his trine mates joining on either side of him. The flight back would have seemed like the norm, had it not been for the underlying fury Megatron directed at their SIC. On second thought, Starscream thought, there was nothing unusual about the flight back.
Starscream ignored the comm. requests from his trine mates, instead focusing on the raising tower of the nemesis in the distance and steeling himself for another encounter with their leader. As they landed and filed into the control room, Starscream found himself airborne again, this time, flying right into a control panel on the opposite side of the room.
He landed with a grunt and fell to the floor. He slowly pushed himself up to a standing position but before he could speak, he felt a familiar hand grab his throat and squeeze off his vocal controls as well as his air intake and his sight began to strain because of it. It would have been frightening to any other mech but he was used to the sensation.
"You stupid FOOL!" Megatron yelled as he flung Starscream again. Ravage had managed to leap out of the way just before Starscream landed face down where the cassetticon was standing a mere moment ago.
Starscream watched as the cassetticon transformed and leapt into soundwave's chest. He felt envy at the small bot before his focus shifted back to the reason he was lying on the ground, now staring where Ravage was safe within Soundwave. He tried to rise but he felt a large ped on his back, forcing him back down.
"Your constant failures are beginning to irritate me." Megatron stated rather calmly.
That doesn't sound good, he thought before he heard the telltale sign of a fusion cannon powering up.
"Lord Megatron…" his whiny voice trailed off when he realized something strange. He'd spoken his name more out of reflex than anything. Truth be told, he didn't care what Megatron was going to do one bit and he felt a hint of something he couldn't identify.
"What is it, Starscream?" Megatron asked enticingly, waiting for the groveling seeker he knew so well to emerge. He did rather enjoy hearing Starscream beg for mercy.
Starscream thought for a moment before he answered in a tone that even surprised him, "you're a fragging idiot."
He heard the gasps in the room right before he heard a fusion cannon blast… and then nothing.