"What?" Skywarp had voiced exactly what Starscream was thinking. "I mean, it's not that easy to make someone your trine-mate, sir! There are customs and rituals and he's a smaller model and he's obviously too young! His inexperience could get me n' TC killed!"
'I don't want them as trine-mates either. They're obviously slag heads.' Starscream thought bitterly feeling a little rejected. He didn't want to be forced into some abomination of a trine, but Skywarp could have had more tact than underestimating him.
"Skywarp," Megatron's voice was menacingly low and surprisingly calm, "Are you disobeying a direct order?" Skywarp froze. He wasn't fidgeting anymore, he was as still as a statue.
"I-I uh… I, No! I just-You don't know-I!" Skywarp seemed like he was about to blow his circuits out.
'How dare a ground-pounding slag-head tell a seeker who his trine-mate will be!' In the following silence, as Skywarp was obviously trying to think of something to say, one thought came to Starscream's mind in regards to Megatron 'I am going to beat the ever-functioning slag out of you.'
In a brief moment, Starscream lost all fear. He was prepared to die. No one would take something he valued from him again. They took his family, his future trine, the sky, his hopes and dreams, and crushed them. Trying to force him to share his spark with some loopy seeker and his trine mate was the last piece of scrap that broke the scrapper's metal alloy back!
Starscream transformed from his ball as quickly as he could and propelled off of Skywarp, the unfortunate mech holding him, into the direction he had heard Megatron's voice. As soon as he made impact there was a grunt and many gasps of horror. As they connected with the ground, there was another grunt.
Starscream shrieked in his painfully high pitch, screechy voice "Eat this!" He slammed his pede where he had heard Megatron's voice. Everything came into focus and he was staring at a gargantuan silver mech... with Starscream's pede in his face.
Starscream was taken aback.
'How can any mech be so huge?' He was sitting on the chest of a mech easily three times his size. The surprise on Megatron's silver face was short lived as it quickly turned into pure rage. Starscream was suddenly terrified.
'Holy Primus!' This thing could easily crush him if he turned back into a ball.
His fight or flight statistical processor recommended he fly. Then it screamed for him to as Megatron reached for him. He fired up his thrusters on his pedes to propel himself across what appeared to be a very large warehouse filled to the brim with mechs. As he did so, he ended up blasting his thruster into Megatron's face. A howl of surprise and pain reached his audios.
He had managed to evade the gigantic mech's grasping servos. As he hit the ground, he looked around for a point of escape. That was when he felt something viciously trying to hack into his mind. He saw a blue-mech with a glinting visor. The mech was a little shorter than Megatron, but still much taller than Starscream. Oddly, it was standing near Megatron's fallen form. No one else was near Megatron. Instantly he knew, 'the respected one.'
"Soundwave." He felt a smirk tug at a corner of his lips. 'Payback's a glitch.' He made his thoughts sporadic and strange so that Soundwave would be unaware of his next move. He thought about everything from complex equations at the academy to stupid jokes Skyfire used to tell him. As Soundwave was processing this and Megatron was getting back on his pedes, Starscream had flown to the ceiling of the warehouse.
He aimed at Soundwave and kicked on his thrusters again. In an astrosecond, his fist had made contact with Soundwave's visor, and the intrusion to his processor had stopped. He heard the visor crack and Soundwave had sprawled onto the ground, Starscream approached him and slammed his pede onto the cracked visor "You will stay out of my mind or I will melt your visor to your faceplates." Starscream said calculatingly. He powered up his thruster for emphasis.
Soon though, He noticed a hole in the corner of the warehouse ceiling. If only he could get to it before Megatron beat him to slag.
'Almost there-almost there-almost there!" He was incredibly on edge. He was so close!
Finally! He made it out of the warehouse hole, only to realize he had no clue where he was. He could see smoke from fires in the distance, but they were far away glowing like small embers. Everything else was desert. He relished the feel of the wind on his wings again, and then he realized he was low on energon.
The containment center gave enough energon to keep its wards activated, not active. They felt it was easier for them to control mechs with less energon in their systems. It apparently didn't prevent the mechs from doing quick lethal damage, but Starscream was beginning to see where this would be an inconvenience for him to get away.
His victory was short lived with that revelation as he realized that two more mechs were flying after him. Neither of them were Skywarp. 'More seekers?' That put even more of a damper on his mood. How could he get away?
He rocketed forward. He was the fastest seeker in his entire generation. Surely that made him faster than these seekers.
'Maybe if I get really far, really fast, I can hide!' The thought of how much of his precious energon would be wasted niggled at the back of his mind, but what other choice did he have?
He flew as long as he could until warning signals started flashing. There was a scrap metal heap he could hide among a little distance ahead, and the seekers were nowhere in sight.
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