Hi again! I just started a new story, about 'Kid Vs. Kat'! Anywho, I'm so excited about typing up this chapter; it was one of my favorites to write, and now I can make it even better on Fanfiction! I hope you all like it! To Knockout'sFanGirl: Yes, fewer than 7 chapters until then. Thank you! Thank you again! To Autobot-Bre: Thanks! Oh yes indeed, the pinecone wars. Pinecones are funny for some reason, I think. Okee dokey! To Taeniaea: Thank you very much! To Autobot-Mayday: You are welcome for the pinecone wars, oh kind reviewer! And yes, I shall update soon! On with this long-awaited Starscream chappy-ter!
I stared at the huge jet-Transformer. He was around twice the size of Barricade, who was about twice the height of a tall human.
So Starscream was like the height of four tall humans standing on one another. Or four average-height humans and one smallish one. In other words, he was really tall.
His jet-form was really dark silver, but his robot-form had more colors.
Mostly orangey reds and silver, with some light indigo on his arms and joints, and sections of pale purple on his legs and tips of his armor.
I was a bit too far away to see many details. The fact that my left eye was still slightly messed up from Frenzy's kick (see chapter 26) didn't help much either.
Starscream strode forward and through the trees surprisingly quietly. Still, he was a Decepticon, he was rather famous, and he was big.
Thus, I hid in a bush.
This did not work, since I was wearing a brightly colored coat that stood out very well in the whites and brown of the wintery forest.
I buried my face in my gloved hands and moaned quietly, "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, my last wish is to have someone like Ducky from NCIS do my autopsy, I'm gonna die, I'm sooooo gonna die…"
Frenzy yanked me out of my rather pathetic hiding place, half dragging me by one coat-sleeve. I whimpered and followed him.
A squirrel nearby chattered and flicked it's tail at us, and I thought deliriously, 'Oh yay, a squirrel! A witness to my murder. Too bad humans don't speak squirrel.'
'You is strange human,' ShortCircuit thought at me, but I'm pretty sure that she was scared, too.
Once we were within earshot, Starscream asked Barricade in a faintly hiss-y voice, "What is this pathetic human doing her? I was informed that my 'partner' would be a flight-capable malfunction, not… this."
"The Decepticon malfunction 'ShortCircuit' is with the human," Barricade growled, then ordered me, "Show him." I resisted the at-that-time-foolish impulse to tell him to say please.
Instead, I removed my heavy winter coat, and stretched out our wings. ShortCircuit poked her head out, squeaked, and pulled it back in again.
I just stood there with my arms around myself, shivering. I may like cold weather, but even I don't like standing outside in a freezing forest in early morning in a T-shirt when it's barely 30 degrees Fahrenheit!
Starscream stared at me for a couple seconds, and questioned Barricade, "Then what is the point of this insignificant human being here? "
"Um," I squeak-whimpered, "I help ShortCircuit fly."
Starscream whipped his head around to leer at me. "Oh really?" he scoff-sneered condescendingly. I find that he's surprisingly good at that.
I nodded and stared at the ground as the Decepticon leaned his gigantic head really close to inspect me.
Yikes! I can't even look most humans in the eye; how was I supposed to look up at Starscream?!
A moment later, the huge 'Con stood back up and abruptly informed Frenzy and Barricade that they could leave. They did so, though Frenzy seemed highly reluctant to, since he probably didn't want to leave his sister all alone there to be squished or something by Starscream.
After the duo left, Starscream just stared at me for about a minute, until I mumbled, "Hi, S-Starry."
"'Starry'?" he inquired with an edge in his voice, which wasn't nearly as scratchy or high-pitched as portrayed in some TF series, like G1.
"Yep," I replied nervously, "S' better than 'Screamy'." A split second later, I was so scared that I blurted out, "Please don't kill us!"
The Decepticon's dark scarlet optics narrowed as he asked suspiciously, "And why would I do that?"
Shaking, I answered rapidly, "Um, b-because most Decepticoons hate humans and the only reason that Megatron assigned ShortCircuit to you is so that she would be killed and out of his way!"
That seemed to actually surprise Starscream, and his optics widened. After a moment, he picked us up (causing me to squeak and mentally start screaming) and lightly placed us on a thick branch of a large tree, a bit lower than eye-level with him.
"…Didn't Megatron tell you about it?" I asked nervously, and he shook his head.
"Tell me more, human."
YAY! I'm gonna LIVE! Ya' know, I think that almost every TF fan secretly thinks that at least one of the TF universe's Starscreams is really cool. Or not-secretly. Man, he is just such an awesome character!