Pride fills Starscream when he with the autobots momentarily distracted by Thundercracker is able to turn his helm and watch the blue seeker flee.
The blue seeker takes several hits to his plating, but never once does he falter in his transformation and less than a klik later Thundercracker blasts away from the site, high-tailing it towards decepticon territory.
Soon everything is calm again, not even Thundercrackers engine being heard in the distance.
A nozzle is pushed flush against the back of his helm, and Starscream stiffens completely.
"So, how does it feel to be abandoned by the one you love? Ha, decepticons and love never matches. You are a power greedy lot. I'm sure he is well on his way home to cement his defeat of a superior. Maybe even going as far as taking the power for himself!" the green autobot goads while the rest of his team gathers around the lone seeker.
Starscream narrows his optics, but refrains from saying anything. If the 'bots think that lowly about the decepticons in general then this might buy him precious time. Sure most in the decepticon army truly does act that badly towards their comrade in arms, but that doesn't mean that all decepticons are like that.
He can't help the smirk at the thought of what these 'bots would think if they ever participated in an officer meeting among the decepticons.
All decepticons are sparkless killers.
'Yeah right.' He snorts inwardly at the thought.
They haven't seen the friendly banter and care showed when none of the lower rankings are around. And the officers doesn't care to paint any other version of themselves, mainly because being seen as anything else than a sparkless killer is going to make them vulnerable to their own faction. They need to be seen as strong, fierce and brutal leaders to keep their troops in check.
So Starscream knows that when Megatron gets knowledge of his capture, the leader is going to do everything he can to get to him before he is taken to the autobot base.
And he knows Thundercracker will alert the high-command as he has told him to do. Thundercracker together with Novaflare is the only one among the lower ranks that ever has seen Starscreams true personality in the weak moments that has occurred between the blue seeker and his superior. And there had been no sign of revulsion from the blue seeker, instead feelings and love had bloomed.
In the middle of his fond thoughts of the blue seeker, his spark suddenly skips a beat and a wash of intense feelings overtakes him.
Skywarp.
Panic fills him from the black and purple seeker, and Starscream knows he must have transmitted some of his own distress without knowing it.
In his attempt to calm down the black and purple seeker, he is only vaguely aware of the autobots talking, and it is only when servos clamps down on his wings harshly that his attention turns completely to his enemies.
"Sentinel tells me to send his regards." Another voice speaks behind him before shrill screams are forced from his vocalizer when his wings one after the other slowly is torn from his frame.
"Just a taste of what is to come little seeker." a third voice says before the Air Commander is consumed by blessed unconsciousness.