Title: Transformers: Musing
Universe: G1
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Author's Note: Thundercracker and Skywarp discuss possible reasons for one of their trine leader's well-known habits. This flash fan fiction is for the theme 'rush.' Yay, life has calmed down enough that I can get back to writing (at least a little). Word count: 297
"Have you ever wondered why he does it?"
Thundercracker loved his jet form. Truly. But it did have some drawbacks. For instance, the inability to glare at his trine mate when he blurted out random thoughts. Doing his best to convey a glare through his vocals, he said, "Why do you do that? I'm not a telepath. What are you talking about?"
"Starscream."
"That's a start. Now, how about you add an action to your statement?"
"Attacking Megatron all the time. Why does he do that?"
Thundercracker decelerated as he pretended to ponder the question. "Hmm, well, I believe he mentioned his dissatisfaction with Megatron's leadership one or two … thousand times. That might have something to do with it. One might accuse him of hating our leader. Maybe."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. But plenty of Decepticons don't like Megs, and a lot of them wanna be leader, but they don't run out and keep attacking him. You get what I'm saying?"
"You're really stuck on this, aren't you?"
"Stay with me. Starscream's smart. He's the smartest mech I know. Yet even I've figured out that shooting Megs in the back is a really bad idea. Not Screamer. He keeps doing it. Why?"
"Maybe he's betting that he's more useful alive than terminated?"
"Maybe. Or," Skywarp paused dramatically, "he wants the thrill."
"What?"
"Think about it. He's the fastest Seeker, the most agile. The best. He can out fly anyone. Where's the challenge? The excitement? The rush?"
Thundercracker thought over it. "I dunno, 'Warp. I wouldn't consider having my wings ripped off 'exciting.'"
"The danger makes it exciting."
"It's possible. But I think I'll stick with the, 'he just hates Megatron that much' theory."
Afterword: This isn't as humorous as some of the others, but it does contain an interesting theory that occurred to me. I wouldn't consider it likely, but possible, yes. Of course, being an author I can't just come out and state this theory. Nope. I stuck it into a fic. And I'll do that again. I have another theory that I'm just waiting for a theme that fits it to write about. *glares at the random word generator*