Chapter Three: The Things We Go Through

I was headed back towards the Medical Bay when I notice someone walking down the hallway that lead to the Cargo Bays, I decided to do a loop and see who it was, I was sure Knockout was doing just fine without me.

Going into a jog I went down the hallways till I caught up with the person that I had been following, only to see it was someone who was suppose to be in the damn Medical Bay resting.

"Starscream? What are you doing down here? You're no shape to be moving around right now." I remarked when I caught up to him, I reached my hands out and took a hold of his left arm, slowly turning him around to look at me. "Starscream, what are you doing?"

Starscream looked down at me; he was pressing his other hand to his side, trying not to grimace in pain. "I cannot just lie in that room waiting for my wounds to heal Moonstar, I need to replenish my strength and be back as Second in Command before Megatron discovers any of the things that I've been doing in his absence." He explained to me. "I must keep him busy; lure him away, so he never finds out what I've been doing." He clenched his right servo into a fist, anger brewing within him.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" I asked him, stepping closer.

He smiled down at her. "Come with me and I'll show you." He turned around and continue heading down the hallway.

I followed him as we walked down the hallway; he was pressing his left servo to his side, I could see the pain etched on his face, I decided to step closer to him, putting my arm around his waist so he could lean on me and help lessen the pain he was feeling in his side.

"Thank you…" He whispered, not looking at me when he said that for I knew it embarrassed him to be like this.

"Your welcome." I said back.

After a while he stopped walking and I let go of him, he walked over to a curved pillar and pulled a glowing purple shard out from behind it. My optics widen when I saw it, recognizing it right off the bat.

"Dark Energon…..that's the shard you took from Megatron…" I pointed out as I walked over to him to look at it more closely.

"Yes, our dear Master may have replenished his strength with a new shard of Unicron's blood, and nearly beat the living energon snot out of me with it.…" He indicated as he pointed to his body, a sour look on his face.

"Yeah…wiping energon blood and nasty stuff up off of you wasn't the highlight of the day for me…neither was watching him pwn you for ten hours straight." I reminded him with a wave of my hand.

"Thanks for reminding me of that moment Moonstar, again!" He snapped at me sourly, glaring at me.

I winced at that statement. "Sorry dear…I didn't mean... You know..." I tried to apologize but kinda failed.

He waved his servo at me. "Forget it, back to my original point; I plan on using this shard to extract my revenge on our dear Master, and to raise one of his former followers from the grave, one who won't question my authority ever again." Starscream explained.

"Skyquake?" I asked, tilting my head to the side.

He nodded his answered. "Yes, Skyquake, such a formidable weapon to be used against Megatron, don't you think?" He smirked evilly at the thought.

Then he leaned close to me. "And you my little Moonstar…" He slipped his fore-finger beneath my chin and tilted my head up. "….Are going to help me with reviving him."

One elegant optic-brow rose up. "Why? I already watched you get pounded once, do I need to again?" I asked him unimpressively.

He glared at me. Thank Primus looks could not kill! I rose my servo's up in peace. "I'm just saying! You don't need any help in accomplishing your failed plans to begin with, so why should you ask me now? Especially if you're gonna be charged up with that slag, then one of you is defiantly losing something." I told him, counting off my reasons for not joining in.

Oh Starscream was fuming now; smoke was coming out of his audio receivers, I just stood there, servos on my hips, smiling very innocently up at him.

"Moonstar…"

"Yes?"

"I fragging hate you…."

I grinned ever-so-sweetly up at him; I raised my right servo up and gently patted his cheek. "No you don't, otherwise you wouldn't have chased my aft all those eon's ago." I smiled sincerely at him.

Starscream sighed, a human emotion that he seemed to do a lot. "And I'm bloody amazed by that. First millennium was lovely, now I'm currently trying to figure out why I'm still with you…."

"Because I've saved your aft so many times that we've both lost count?"

"No."

"Because you trust me and have my respect?"

"No."

"….." My optic was starting to twitch because of his answers.

"Because you love me?"

"No."

"Now I'm trying to find reasons why I'm with you!" I told him, crossing my arms in annoyance. It was my turn to glare at him. "Have fun with your revenge, I'm outta here." I turned away from him, a little annoyed and a little ticked.

"Moonstar, wait!" Starscream subspace the Dark Energon shard and reached out and grabbed both of her shoulders and hauled her little body against him, she looked up at him with a glare.

"I love you, you compassionate, kindness-ridden, sexy, slagging deadly with a rocket launcher, femme." Starscream said to her, pointing out everything that he loved about her. "Especially love it when you are pissed off or annoyed at something or someone, because then that rocket launcher of yours comes out and takes care of the problem that either pissed-off or annoyed you." He crossed his arms around her shoulders, staring down at her.

"But not when it's at you." I pointed out, a smile gracing my lips.

"Exactly!"

"You also love how I'm smart, sneaky, excellent at battle situations, brilliant at medicines and science, protective of you, able to put even the most hard-headed Mech in their place, sometimes, today being a complete fail." I sighed at that. "And I'm the most interesting challenge you've had in your entire spark-life."

"Unfortunately…." He mumbled. Only to be jabbed below the chest panel for that.

"Oh and I'm able to make you laugh!" I told him happily, looking up at him with my big silver kitty-optics; I learned the expression from watching human television called anime.

Starscream just looked down at me, one optic-brow raised in his famous confuzzled expression. That last statement was too suspicions

"You've been reading Skywarp's books again haven't you?"

Lighting bolt right across the screen, a fake-horrified expression crossed my face. "Of course not! Don't be absurd." I told him, stepping away from him and waving my servo at his exaggerations.

"I've known my brother's tactics at trying to distract me when he was trying to get at something for eon's, you've been reading his books that he kept all his schemes, pranks, and foolish shenanigans in that he thought was successful, or extremely useful for getting what he wanted." Starscream explained to me, he held out his right servo. "Give it here." His confuzzled expression gone and a serious one on his face.

"What? I got nothing. See?" I said, holding up both servo's and smiling sweetly.

"Moonstar I'm not in the fragging mood! I need to continue my revenge plan so whatever you slagging stole from me: Give. It. Here. Or I'm going to permanently wield you to my berth for all eternity." His warning finite.

"Nope, you'll get it back later, so go off on your mission of revenge and I'll meet you there shortly, bye!" I told him, smiling as I took running off down the hallway.

"Primus damn the femme to The Pit." He growled in frustrations, he would deal with her later, she would meet up with him at Skyquake's grave site and after he got what he wanted from the Dark Energon shard would he thoroughly punish her.

Skywarp had rubbed off on her way too much. His older brother had a way of turning everyone into his prankster ways.

Smiling at the remembrance of his older brother, he left the hallway and headed towards the Hanger Bay.

Author's Note: This Moonstar has no relations to TF Cybertron Through Human Eyes story Moonstar, I completely re-wrote this character, but kept the name because I love the name Moonstar.