Chapter 9

"Sky…Skyfire!" Starscream called.

Skyfire peeked down from his hiding spot. He saw Starscream coming. He noticed the dents in his body and the tears in his wings. Skyfire looked Starscream over and felt the same weakness and scared feeling as the first time he came across Starscream.

"Starscream. Is something erroneous?" Skyfire pondered, flipping down from his spot.

"He's so stupid! I…I hate him!" sobbed Starscream.

"What did he do?" Skyfire questioned.

"He doesn't want me to be an explorer. He says they're stupid! He's the stupid one!" whimpered Starscream.

"Come on Starscream. He couldn't…he couldn't have been that terrible," sighed Skyfire.

"He threw me into a wall…three times! He screamed at me. He laughed at me! He…he hates me!" wailed Starscream.

"Let's bandage some of those gashes," Skyfire mumbled.

"No! Let's just…just go to that alley thing," Starscream groaned.

"alright," whispered Skyfire.

Skyfire led Starscream down several alleyways. Starscream had the problem on his mind. He looked up. It was mid morning, almost half way through the say. Skyfire stopped. Starscream crahsed into him. Skyfire pointed a head. The alley got darker and deeper. Starscream nodded. Skyfire looked back at Starscream. Starscream looked like he'd lost his life.

"Starscream, if you're not up to this you shouldn't…" Skyfire whispered.

"No! Let's just get this over with," Starscream nodded, pushing a head.

"Nothing scares you. That is what I fear for you," Skyfire sighed, following Starscream in.

Starscream climbed up the boxes. Skyfire flew over the boxes. After landing on top, Skyfire helped Starscream over. Starscream pushed th ehand away. He pulled hard, lifting himself up onto the first box. Skyfire watched Starscream, against the pain in his left wing, pull himself over the boxes.

After the boxes, Skyfire stopped Starscream. Starscream looked at Skyfire. Skyfire leaned against the wall, sliding down to a sitting postion. Starscream tilted his head, slightly confused. Instead of asked, Starscream followed Skyfire and sat beside him. Skyfire smiled and looked over to Starscream.

"Starscream, I'm afraid for you," Skyfire sighed.

"Afraid? Why?" Starscream gasped.

"You're all alone, kind of, in the world. I think you need to share things…share what makes you scared," Skyfire explained.

"I'm not afraid! I'm not scared! I fear nothing!" wailed Starscream.

Skyfire watched Starscream. Starscream kept eyeing the floor, he'd never make eye contact with Skyfire. Skyfire smirked. Starscream perked. He looked at Skyfire's smirked. Skyfire looked into Starscream's expression. Starscream looked confused. Everything seemed to be tearing at the seams.

"When I was little," Skyfire began, "I was tossed into one of the few acid pools of Cybertron. When I finally got pulled out I was burned universally. From then on, I was petrified of low down places. Everywhere I can't rest my feet on I'm frightened of."

"hmm…" Starscream hummed, "Why'd you tell me that?"

"Cause you're my acquaintance and we ought to inform each other what makes us alarmed, what we trepidation…" Skyfire smiled.

"I'm afriad of heights," Starscream whsipered.

"I recognize. I've singled out that the further I hang around with you," Skyfire chuckled.

"I was a sparkling and…and Megatron says he just found me. He gave me a room more like a closet. I hated it. I was a sparkling and I was done with the yelling. I…I tried to run. I was climbing down my window. Megatron caught me. He grabbed my ropes and he…he…" Starscream panted. He flashed back to the moment. The wind soaring past him. The world edging closer. The world seeming to come to an end.

"Starscream?" gasped Skyfire.

"He dropped me…" Starscream whispered.

"Oh…" Skyfire mumbled.

"I just…I'm afraid of falling…afraid of losing everything. I almost off lined!" Starscream whimpered.

"There. Now that we know each other's greatest fears," Skyfire smiled, "We're try friends!"

"Really?" gasped Starscream.

"Really. We're going to go through everything together! Together we'll win any battle!" cheered Skyfire.

Suddenly a door swung open. Starscream leaped up. Skyfire watched as a bot came out from inside the building. Skyfire pulled Starscream behind a box. Skyfire peered over the box. It was a red mech. He looked very busy. He didn't notice them. Yet. Skyfire looked back to Starscream. Starscream looked ready to battle but at the same time ready to hide in a hole for life.

"I'm so busy. Why I got to do this…why not one of those other jokers!" the mech hissed, leaving into the building again.

"Skyfire, I want to ask you something," Starscream mumbled.

"Huh?" Skyfire gasped, looking back to Starscream.

" I…I don't want to go back to him. I never want to go home. I want…" Starscream whimpered.

"You want to stay with me?" Skyfire gaped.

"Yes," Starscream sighed.

"I guess. I could teach you how to fly…and we can work on being explorers!" cheered Skyfire.

Starscream looked to Skyfire. He looked like the happiest youngling in the universe. No one on Cybertron could be happier. Starscream couldn't helped but smile to. This would be fun.