Title; Volatile compounds
Pairing; Starscream & Acid Storm
Summary; Short, rough drabble for a meme that randomly combined two favorite characters; what happens when the most ambitious seeker is forced to work with the least ambitious?
Notes; Acid Storm is the green/camo Rainmaker from G1 - gotta love obscure characters. Look up his toy bio, he's surprisingly intriguing.
"How the slag did this happen?"
If one were to choose a sound to jolt a mech back online, Starscream's voice had to be one of the least pleasant options in the whole wide universe.
"I don't know," Acid Storm replied bleakly after a moment. He took to staring at his cockpit, looking more offline than online.
"Well I would like to know, to ensure it never happens again," Starscream hissed, fastidiously examining his paint for any scuff.
The room looked like a small-scale battle had taken place in the middle of it, which wasn't that much of an exaggeration.
"You blew up my experiment," the camo seeker supplied, darkly.
"No, you blew up our experiment! I knew we shouldn't have been paired up for this, but nobody ever listens to me. An audio-crippling virus must have spread in this whole region for everyone to be so deaf to good advice!"
Acid Storm shrugged, thinking of tuning the other seeker's vocal frequency out entirely.
"If you're still functioning you better get up already," Starscream ordered acidly, ticked off by the lack of response. "As much as I'd like to take the blame for your 'unfortunate' demise, this isn't where I'd like to be caught."
Seeing as the other seemed unwilling to move still, he smirked maliciously. "Did you blow a circuit after all? Any servo malfunctioning or missing?"
"Only my dignity," Acid Storm deadpanned, pointedly refusing to let any sort of emotion color his tone.
"Mute it, drone. That would be my line," Starscream stuck his nose component up haughtily, "I don't make a habit of dealing with sub-par batch mech material such as yourself. You will take responsibility for the explosion and mention that I was already out of here about...half a joor ago. And clean up this mess."
"Fine, whatever." Acid Storm just really wanted the other to get out. Both his central processor's functionality and the situation would get exponentially better once removed the Starscream factor.
The white and red mech gave him a satisfied smirk before pausing at the door. "For the records, don't even think about blackmailing me, seeing as my word has far more credibility than yours."
"I wasn't planning to," Acid Storm shrugged, tucking his cables back before sitting upright.
Scoffing, Starscream turned on his heels, barely sparing him a condescending backwards glance over his shoulder.
"This is why you'll never be anyone," he candidly added as a parting greeting.