Night Before 'Transformers: The Movie'

The next Thursday...

Silvia waited at the bar, she'd long ago closed the bar for the night, telling Lana and Vic to go home, and she waited for her company. She checked her watch, 10:30 on the dot. When the bell rang Sil looked up to see just the man she'd been waiting for, Steven.

"I apologize for my tardiness, I had to make sure of some things before coming here." he said as he approached her.

Hugging him Silvia asked, "Work related things?"

Nodding as he pulled away he responded, "Naturally. Now I do also apologize if you were set on dinner but-"

"You have to go?" Sil sighed in dissatisfaction.

"Far from it, I just mean I had another activity in mind." Steven replied shaking his head then noticing her face added, "And it is not reproduction."

This caused her to laugh, "Oh okay then. What sort of activity is it?"

"Just come with me." he insisted as took her and and lead her outside.

Once they were just outside the door Silvia said, "Let me just lock the door before we leave." as she took out her key with her other hand. Steven let go and she locked the bar's door.

"This way." he instructed as he walked down the street towards a dead part of town.

Walking closer to him in the dark streets she asked, "What are we doing?"

"You remember when I promised you I'd tell you the truth someday?" he enquired, bringing her to the abandoned private warehouse.

Furrowing her brow she said, "Yes." They walked up to the unlocked front gate and he pushed it open, gesturing for her to follow. She did and he lead her to the biggest warehouse in the lot, it was big enough to hold three trains. As he pushed open the huge warehouse doors Silvia saw that it was mostly empty except for something in the back that was sitting in a darker corner of the building. Steven brought her closer to the object and she couldn't believe her eyes.

"That's an F-15, what is an F-15 doing in these abandoned warehouse, and how does this relate to your job?" then she noticed it's colours as her eyes adjusted to the dark. "That looks like, I mean it can't be! Starscream?"

Silvia looked to Steven and saw a wide grin that engulfed his face, "You wanted the truth? I am Starscream, Second in Command of the Decepticons and Leader of the Seekers."

Silvia laughed, "No, no really whats your job?" his pose didn't change. "You're not joking are you?"

"There is not an ounce of humour in that sentence." Steven said the added, "But since you don't seem to believe me, I'll show you." then he just disappeared. Silvia was unable to move, he had just, just disappeared! But she didn't have time to ponder it because behind her was some of the strangest sounds she'd ever heard. She turned around to see a huge robot looming above her, it's great wings stretching from behind it's shoulders and atop those shoulders a head with smouldering red eyes, or were they called optics? They bored into her, threatening to set her soul aflame, if she had thought Stevens eyes were fiery when she had met him now she saw them as little candles.

Since she was speechless the transformer, Starscream she knew, spoke first, "Well, am I so breathtaking as to inhibit vocal processes?" That voice! She knew that voice! If a bit louder and more metallic.

"St-Steven?" she asked, terrified and not believing.

The great figure of Starscream knelt down, placing his right blue hand to her left and the other rested on his left knee, "Indeed. Finally ready to accept the truth?"

His loud voice rumbled in her ears and in her chest then she realized she hadn't responded, "I-I guess." she stuttered out, here in front of her was one of the most terrifying beings in the universe, saying he was the man she'd had a crush on for the past year!

"Am I truly that terrifying Silvia?" Starscream (or Steven?) sighed as he moved his right hand behind her and shifted it to be palm up.

Gently sitting on his palm Silvia replied, "Well see it from my view, a man I've known for about a year turns out to be one of the most terrifying things in the universe, it's a bit of a shock. A part of me really doesn't want to believe." Starscream raised her up into the air just enough to allow him to sit on the ground behind, cupping her in his giant hands.

The movement caused her to fall backwards, further into his hand and she sat up on her knees to his laughter, "I almost forget how weak tiny humans are."

Frowning at his mocking Silvia said, "Not funny, we may be weak compared to a robot but for an organic species we can be resilient."

"Indeed." Starscream sighed, gently touching her head with the index finger of his left hand then adding, "I do have a reasoning behind telling you my identity."

A little worried Sil asked, "What's wrong? Comon your a huge robot, what could bug you?"

"I just wanted you to know I'll be leaving Earth for good tomorrow, one way" he said then looked away from her, "or another."

"I-" she stuttered, "I don't want you to die." as she placed a tiny hand on his smallest finger. "You may have deceived me, killed people and almost destroyed Earth but... but I can't imagine my life without you in it. You've almost become a staple in my life."

He sighed and his eyes moved back to look at her, "But it isn't that I will die tomorrow, It's that I might."

"But what if I can't live my life not knowing? Not knowing weather you lived or died?" she asked, tears welling up.

He was quiet for a moment then he enquired, "Do you have a cellular device?"

"Yea." she replied getting it out as she wiped her face on her sleeve. She held it up for him and a wire came out of his hand, plugging into her phone.

It retracted a moment later and Starscream said to her, "Now you will know, for as long as this device has power I live. But enough of this depressing talk." he added getting up, "I had another reason to bring you out here, albeit a selfish one."

"Huh?" Silvia wondered as he took then outside, his footsteps shaking her to the bone. He placed her on the ground then folded, melted, down into his vehicle form. Out here under the full moon his crisp paint shone brightly, crimson red, royal blue and a flawless pearly white. He lowered down on his wheels and opened his cockpit with a hiss.

"Shall we?" she heard his voice smirk.

Silvia's eyes widened and she gasped, "Fly? Now?" then ran over and pulled herself up on the lowered wing.

"No when you get a flight stomach, yes now!" Starscream laughed as she hopped in, belts wrapping snug around her and his cockpit closing over her head.

"Hey I bet you I can handle it!" she smiled, she'd never backed down from a challenge before and she wasn't about to now. He chuckled and she heard his engines, loud and powerful turn on.

"Your heart rate has gone up, shall I cancel our little flight?" he mocked.

"Hell no." was all she got out before he shot forward taking off into the star lit night. His speed took her breath away as they soared like a bird, higher and higher into the sky, into the heavens above. Clouds graced his cockpit, covering it with a light condensation, and then they raised above the little cloud with the most breathtaking view Silvia had ever seen. Little street lamps lit the ground far below, houses with people sleeping quietly, the nearby lake shining with only stars brightly shining back. But most beautiful were the stars themselves. Twinkling, gently winking to her from the darkness of space giving her a hope unbreakable and a wonder uncrushable.

"Beautiful." Starscream sighed and it took her a moment to realize he wasn't talking about the sky.

Silvia cuddled herself against his seat saying, "Nothing is more beautiful than this moment." she didn't know how long they stayed up there but forever wouldn't have been long enough for too soon they began descending from this heaven back to earth.

"I want you to know." Starscream began as they descended, "Forever and for always, you have charmed my spark, binding it to you forever more."

Grasping his armrests a little tighter she vowed, "I will never stop loving you, I will wait for you, 'till the end of time." They landed silently, Silvia climbing out and hopping down. There was going to be no goodbye, both of them knew it. So she just kissed his nosecone and began walking away, holding back a flood of tears. She wouldn't look back, not when she heard him firing up his engines, not when he blasted away, not when he disappeared into the horizon.

She made it back to the bar, surprisingly Lana and Victoria were waiting for her. She let them in and they told her about what had happened to them. That Will was Skywarp and Thomas Thundercracker, and that they'd each said their goodbyes. But she listened with hollow thoughts. She pulled out her phone and checked the battery for the first of a thousand times, bright green, lively green. She held her phone to her chest for comfort then looked up, her heart rekindled. She would wait for him, loyal to the end.

Loving beyond the oblivion of death, whoever's death would come first.