"When you first left the decepticons, I was so angry at you. I haven't felt this betrayed since Orion chose the Council over me. Over the years, I wanted nothing more then to hunt you down and rip off your wings and legs, so you would never leave me again… But I think you suffered enough by their hands… How I found you is not important. All you have to do is say 'Thank you for rescuing me, Master.' and I'll welcome you back to our cause with open arms. I'll even make you my second again, so what do you say my sweet seeker?"
The seeker glared weakly at the warlord as he hung in the air from the chains holding his arms. "...I know what you did to Vos, Megatron and there's no way I will ever join you again."
Megatron, instead of being surprised that the truth was revealed, grinned bigger and chuckled darkly. "Oh, I know you know Starscream. I saw the piece of Arcee's memory that was left on the monitor. But what you fail to understand is that what I did, I did for us."
Starscream's eyes widened in rage at those words. "US?!"
"Yes, Starscream. Vos was a neutral city, but they were considering to join the autobot cause and I couldn't risk our enemies winning the war. And you were never really happy in Vos. In fact, many people have made you miserable there, which is why you joined my cause in the first place. So why are you so upset that I made them pay?"
Starscream snarled, feeling his energon boil inside of him. "If you really believed I wouldn't be upset about Vos, you wouldn't have been hiding it in the first place! And yes, I was unhappy in Vos, but I also had friends there! Friends that were destroyed by Shockwave and by your stupid paranoia!...I hate you, Megatron. I would rather be tortured and die then join you."
Starscream expected anger, he expected Megatron to hit or strangle him, but instead the tyrant laughed again and placed a small cube of energon on the ground. "You haven't shown me such rebellion in a long time… it's so refreshing."
Megatron walked out of the room, but before he closed the door he said, "It's only a matter of time until you understand what I did was the right thing and then… you will be by my side once more, my little seeker."
With those final words, Megatron closed the door and the chains released Starscream.
The doors were stronger then seeker claws, no matter how much Starscream tried to slash at them.
But Starscream kept scratching at it until he lost all his energy.
Leaving the poor, tormented flier to pant and sob.
This was always his life
To be free from one prison, only to be trapped in another one.
The cube of energon remained untouched, for Starscream knew from his time with MECH that he wouldn't be able to drink normal energon anymore… no matter how… hungry he becomes.
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PAIN
CHANGING
TRAPPED
HUNGRY
ENERGON
ENERGON IN CUBE
MUST DRINK ENERGON
ENERGON BURNS THROAT
ENERGON BURNS BODY
CAN'T DRINK ANYMORE
DOOR HAS OPENED
PURPLE THING ENTERS WITH CUBE
BIG RED EYE
FULL OF ENERGON
DELICIOUS ENERGON THAT DOESN'T BURN
ENERGON
ENERGON
ENERGON!
…
Full
Happy
Sleepy…
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"..."
"What is it, Soundwave?…"
"…"
"Something on the monitors…Starscream? What is he….HehehehahahaHAHAHA! It seems that dark energon has a different effect on our seeker! Oh Starscream, such wicked undeserving power you possess… I can't wait to control it as I have controlled you!"
1010101010
It's been a month since Starscream's capture… and Megatron was the only living face he ever remembers seeing.
The warlord sometimes comes to talk about what happened when Starscream wasn't around.
A flier named Dreadwing became the new Second In Command.
A medic named Knockout and his assistant Breakdown join the Nemesis.
Shockwave survived the spacebridge explosion and works on his special science projects.
Optimus Prime has a small team of 5 autobots and has allied himself with the humans.
Megatron spend a great amount of time in space searching for a bigger army to destroy the autobots.
Instead he found the blood of Unicron.
Dark energon.
When Megatron shows it to Starscream, the seeker realizes in horror that it looks just like the crystals MECH had pierced into his body.
Megatron then proceeds to pierce the shard in his own spark.
Creatures with dark energon inside of them can sense each other.
That's how Megatron was able to find him.
There really was no escape…
…But the worst part though is when Starscream gets hungry… and wakes up with a full tank to the managled corpse of a vehicon and Megatron petting him like he's an animal…
He knows what Megatron is doing, Silas did similar experiments to him…
…
Starscream sometimes wished he never learned the truth of what happened to Vos…
He should have killed Cliffjumper and Arcee when he had the chance…
1010101010
Cliffjumper running down the halls of the Nemesis.
The red autobot couldn't believe that Megatron is bringing the dead back to life.
Or that Arcee, Ratchet and Optimus get to have all the fun of kicking their butts while Cliffjumper, Bumblebee and Bulkhead have to rescue the grumpy Agent Fowler from Commander Dreadwing.
Hopefully, Cliffjumper will finish the mission in time to join Arcee on her mission.
Suddenly he heard a growl.
It was coming from a dark room.
Curiously, Cliffjumper looked through the window.
…Starscream?! He's still alive?!
When the seeker was never seen again, the autobots all believed that Starscream died fighting Megatron trying to avenge Vos.
Cliffjumper couldn't help but feel guilty.
Even though Starscream was a glitch, he lost everything thanks to his leader.
And Cliffjumper often wondered that if he gave Starscream a chance to join Optimus and the autobots, maybe the seeker would've become a better person.
But since Starscream is alive and now a prisoner, maybe he would be more willing to accept changing teams.
Cliffjumper opened the door.
He walked inside.
The growling grew louder.
Starscream's head was down so he couldn't see the seeker's face.
Cliffjumper ignored it and the loosened the chains holding the seeker up.
"Hey Scream, it's been a while… Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm gonna get you out of here."
But when Starscream slowly stood to his full height and lifted his head up… fear consumed Cliffjumper's spark at the sight before him.
…
…And fear was the last emotion he ever felt.
1010101010
HUNGRY
RED BOT
CHAINS ARE GONE
ENERGON!
...Full.
1010101010
Starscream gasped when he snapped out of his hunger.
He blinked at the sight before him.
… Cliffjumper?
What?
Starscream looked up to see that the door was open.
The seeker can be confused later, after he's leaves this nightmare!
Wiping mouth and claws of the energon on them, Starscream run out of the room, taking a few shards of dark energon for fuel that Megatron left behind and fled down the hall.