"Well?"
The silver seeker's faceplate didn't show a hint of emotion. "He didn't make it."
Though almost undetectable, the Decepticon warlord sagged in his seat before scowling ferociously at the seeker. "Again you've failed me, Starscream. Perhaps if you weren't so weak he would have made it." He said coldly. "Get out."
"Yes, Lord Megatron." Starscream said before turning on his pede and leaving the room, the barest trace of a smug grin starting to show on his faceplate. He quickly stifled it as he returned to his separate quarters and only then did he allow himself to grin triumphantly.
The sounds of shrill chirping making his optics lock onto misty gray ones as the sparkling turned over on his front after examining his pede and recognizing that his Carrier had returned.
"Hello, Will." The seeker greeted before scooping up the sparkling and held him in one palm. "Your Sire fell for it, now he'll never know that the greatest irony of all will be him getting stabbed in the back by his own sparkling." He chuckled and said sparkling chirred questioningly.
Starscream's grin faded, but there was still a smirk on his faceplate as he tickled the front of Will. "You will no doubt ask who your Sire is, but I'll never tell you as I don't want you to ruin my ingenious plan if you come to grow actually attached to him. You will grow to hate Megatron though, this I'm sure as it'll be the only thing I let you feel around him."
His tone grew darker and his optics smouldered in anger. "He dared to tell me that you were never going to be publicly allowed to be mine and that you were going to have been made by the Allspark." He spat, his tone growing angrier. "He dared to tell me that I was not an adequate enough Carrier and no one would ever know about our tryst.
"As if he had any right to feel shame about what we did when it should be me for degrading myself to settling for a flyer that had himself remolded into one. Not even a true one." He hissed and shuddered as he reeled in his temper.
It wouldn't do for some mech to accidently overhear his ranting or his sparkling's noises.
"I'm going make Megatron pay for even suggesting that the Allspark could ever replace me; and unlike my other attempts to get rid of him, this one is going to work," he began absently petting Will on the helm as he held him up to optic level, "and do you know why?"
The sparkling made an unintelligible warble, but Starscream still took it as an answer and his smirk returned.
"Because Will, you are what's different about this plan. He'll never suspect it and then I'll be able to finally take my place on the throne!" he cackled.
The poor little sparkling had no idea was in store for him in the vorns ahead.