Title: So long, moral mech.

Rating: K+.

Fandom: Transformers (G1).

Genre: Angst, tragedy.

Characters: Starscream, implied mentions of Skyfire and Megatron.

Summary: An Air Commander actively tries to make a Friend defect through non conventional ways, and succeeds.

Notes: This bunny has been tormenting me since forever now: I've always had this theory of mine, that maybe, just maybe, Starscream made Skyfire defect on purpose. That scene in 'Fire in the Sky' in which he shots at him, and calls him a traitor happened so sudden and so fast that I grew suspicious, and then the bunny bit me, and I had to do something with it, so here is that (little) something at last (Not that I'm ignorant of Starscream's sudden mood swings, but this could always be a possibility, I believe). Also, just mentioning a point here that I believe it's important, and couldn't work it on this piece somehow: To be a Decepticon, you need to be able to kill if the situation calls for it, which happens in like a really considerable percentage of the time, and every Decepticon knows this as a fact. That is all.


It hurt.

He couldn't remember the last time something had 'hurt' at all. It wasn't physical, and he couldn't soothe it, reassure himself.

He was a selfish braggart. He wasn't stupid, though, and he wasn't blind either.

War had changed everything it could touch; he was never touched by it.

He dreaded it, he didn't want to admit it, but he knew the he would never fit here. He was a selfish braggart, and he would never fit by his side again.

It hurt. Letting go of him was rationally the best (but what about himself? He needed the shuttle with him) and he didn't want to.

When he refused him, refused his orders, refused to kill some measly Autobots in the name of the cause, the Decepticon flyer knew it wasn't an option anymore.

He didn't fit. Would never fit, ever.

Letting go hurt more than it should have; more than the shot he gave at the white chest plates, more than the call of 'Traitor' –a twisted call of 'Good bye'- and definitely more than the punishment he was sure would receive from his leader.