I don't want to be alone
"Please, Megatron, have mercy! I beg of you!" Starscream desperately pleaded. "I'm too valuable to you. To the Decepticon cause." At this point, he broke down, sobbing. "I don't want to be alone!"
"You are no longer of use to me, Starscream. After too many failures in battle, you are more trouble than you're worth. Until you can prove that you are worth the energon wasted on you, you are hereby exiled from the Decepticon base, and Cybertron as well"
He raised his canon arm, and with a booming echo, Starscream fell backwards, unconscious.
"Lazerbeak, get this piece of scrap out of my sight"
Lazerbeak clasped Starscream around the waist with his talons, and flew them to an empty valley far from human settlement. After carelessly dropping the seeker, he turned around and flew back to Soundwave and the nemesis.
Several hundred feet away, a small figure ventured out from behind the shrubbery he was currently taking refuge in. Cautiously approaching the Decepticon Air Commander and began to repair him to the best of his abilities. He, too, knew what it was like being abandoned by his own kind.
Squawking sadly, Swoop recalled the events from earlier that day.
*That morning several miles in the desert outside the ARK*
Grimlock was leading the Dinobots in a series of training exercises that included target practice and some hand to hand combat. It was going smoothly until Grimlock ordered them to transform into their dino-modes.
"Me Grimlock say good shooting. Dinobots! Transform! Us Dinobots do stomping stuff now."
When the Dinobots transformed, Sludge noticed something.
"How him Swoop do stomping stuff if he no have stomping legs?" Sludge asked, eyeing at Swoop's delicate looking talons.
Swoop opened his beak to speak when Slag interjected.
"And why him Swoop so small? Us Dinobots supposed to be big!"
"Hmmm, words make sense. Me Grimlock say you Swoop be Dinobot no more!"
"But-"
"No But! Go away now! You no wanted anymore!"
'But I don't want to be alone' Swoop thought.
With a sad sigh, Swoop transformed and flew away to a valley, hiding in a shrubbery to cry where no one else could see.
When he was gaining more control over his emotions, he heard the flapping of metallic wings, then a thud.
Peeking out from behind his sanctuary, Swoop spotted Starscream, who was not moving, but not offline.
Swoop hesitated, unsure what to do. On one hand, Starscream was one of his mortal enemies. But on the other hand, Swoop did not like being alone.
Loneliness wining out over the temporary fear of being attacked, he approached the fallen Decepticon to see what he could do.
Several hours later, Starscream's optics flickered online, and for a moment he wondered how he was still alive. He could see the sky, so, obviously, he was not on the Nemesis, located deep beneath the ocean. Uncertain of what the Well of Allsparks or Deceptiheaven or wherever it was he would go when he DID die would look like; he started to sit up to have a look around.
A sharp pain shot through the area he was hit, and he was quickly and painfully was reassured that he was still alive. He put his head back down again.
Scrap.
That meant he was alone, and unless another Decepticon came to help him (he almost laughed at the thought of an Autobot coming to his aid), he would die slowly and agonizingly from lack of energon. This meant he had to get back up if he wanted to survive.
Rolling carefully onto his uninjured side, he saw that he was not as alone as he thought.
Curled up a few meters away from him, he saw the Dinobot Swoop recharging within what appeared to be a giant metalic nest.
He tried to muffle his scream from surprise, but covered his mouth too late. He was alone with an enemy and no way of properly defending himself. With a startled squawk, Swoop leapt up and headed straight towards him.
After doing his best to repair the fallen seeker, Swoop gathered some trees to form into a nest to better watch over Starscream from, not intending to fall asleep before the Decepticon SIC woke up.
He didn't even notice that he was asleep until he heard a scream that was quickly cut off. Assuming the worst, he swiftly got up to tell what was wrong.
After looking around, with no attackers coming and the seeker didn't appear to be in any further pain, he suddenly realized why Starscream had panicked; it was him.
Lowering himself to a less aggressive position, he spoke to the Air Commander in a calm and reassuring voice similar to one Whelljack would use with him whenever he got hurt or scared.
"It OK. Me Swoop no hurt you. You Starscream awake now. That good. Me Swoop scared you no wake up at all."
Starscream was more than a little shocked at the sound of the other's concern and extremely grateful that he wasn't being shot at or crushed by his armed and very much larger Dinobot companion. Even though he was the smallest of the Dinobots, he still had size on his side.
Then it hit him.
"Aren't there usually five of you Dino dolts? Where are the others?" Starscream sat up slower this time and nervously glanced around, expecting the other Dinobots to jump out of hiding and attack at any moment. Swoop noticed this, and sat down next to him.
"Others not here. Other Dinobots no want Swoop any longer because me Swoop not big like other Dinobots." Swoop replied, looking down at the ground, tears just moments away. "Me Swoop all alone".
After staring at the Dinobot for a startled moment, Starscream wrapped his uninjured arm around the Swoop's wings, and allowed the larger mech to cry into his shoulder. It was nice to know that, although his 'fellow Decepticons' would not be coming any time soon, he was no longer by himself.
Note: I am revising previous chapters' grammar in order to better suit my current writing style and to reacquaint myself with this story before writing chapter 5. It's been a while and I forgot what I wrote.