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As much fun as treacherous!Starscream is
sometimes it is interesting to see him go the other way
Loyalty
"I've done all I can my Lord," came Hook's somber voice as he stepped away from his patient. The medic looked absolutely exhausted, having worked frantically through the night to stabilize the seeker. "It is up to Starscream now."
Megatron merely nodded in response, his optics never leaving the off-line form of his Air Commander. Spark twisting in his chest, though his face remained expressionless; Starscream was so still, so quiet. His Second in Command was never quiet. Well, not for more than a click at a time at any rate, always ready with pithy comment or a blistering retort.
When the seeker had slammed into him Megatron's first thought had been that this was yet another of the other's infantile takeover attempts. His second was that he was going to beat the fragger off-line for pulling such a stunt on the battlefield. Starscream was usually smarter than that.
It was only after that the sound of the shot registered with his audio's; that he felt the younger mech jerk in his arms. Calm, too calm crimson optics meeting his own as Starscream's frame crumpled like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
The tyrant didn't consciously recall catching his lieutenant, nor raising his arm to fire the shot that had undoubtedly taken down his attacker permanently. He did however remember calling the retreat as his Second's energon stained his servos. The seeker feeling small and delicate in his grasp although he knew from previous experience Starscream was far from fragile.
The beam had caught the other in the upper back, right between his wings. The experimental weapon tearing through high-grade armor as though it wasn't even there. Truthfully, it had done just as much damage going out as it had going in, if not more.
Gaze fixed on the recently welded plating, Megatron could not help but grit his denta. He had no illusions about what would have happened without the seeker's intervention. Starscream was quite a bit shorter than him. The beam would have gone right through his spark chamber, deactivating him instantly.
Even now, the injuries his Second had sustained might still prove to be mortal. Despite all the claims of desiring the Decepticon leadership. All the plots, the schemes, the screeching; Starscream had saved his life at the risk of his own.
He only wished he knew why.
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Most of these drabbles could take place in any 'verse
Though I admit I always see Starscream as the G1 version
Except just a bit slimmer the way the animated 'Screamer was
In the event something is 'verse specific I will post a notice
Until then, please review. It encourages my muses.