As Starscream ran, he heard a scream which made him stop.
He turned his head to see a room where a vehicon is holding three humans.
The female human demands to be let go, while the taller male is silently struggling.
But the smaller male human was scared out of his mind and was whimpering for help.
"Bumblebee! Somebody! Help us please!"
Even though Starscream hated humans and should have ignored them, for a moment he saw himself in the smallest one.
With lightning speed, Starscream impulsively grabbed the humans and pushed the vehicon to the wall, knocking out the drone.
Starscream ran down the hall with confused humans in his arms.
"Thank you…" the smaller human whispered.
Nobody has thanked Starscream in a long time."…Okay."
"Who are you?" the bigger male asked.
"I'm not a decepticon and I'm getting you off this ship."
"Are you an autobot too? What's your name? What can you turn into?" the female chattered.
Starscream sighed. "I'm neutral, my name is… Star and I can turn into a jet. No more questions."
Of course, the female asked more questions…
Why did he save these brats?
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A vehicon entered a dark room to give the imprisoned seeker his food, but the prisoner was no where to be seen.
"… Megatron is not going to like this…"
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Once Starscream lift the ship, the humans told Starscream to leave them at the city of Jasper.
He hoped they won't tell the autobots what he looks like.
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Of course those brats told them what he looks like! About a few earth hours later, the autobots had found him in a forest while Starscream was trying sense for dark energon.
Bumblebee and Bulkhead aimed his guns at him until Optimus Prime told them to stop.
The Prime looked at him. "Hello Starscream."
Starscream paused. "…Hello Optimus Prime."
The seeker transformed flew for miles to a mountain.
A few minutes later, a green portal appeared again and the autobots walked through it.
Optimus calmly waved his hands. "It's alright, Starscream. We're not here to hurt you. We only wish to talk. We know you saved the human children…"
Starscream rolled his purple optics. "Are you wondering why I did it? Well, I don't even know why myself…"
Optimus smiled warmly. "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about joining the autobots."
"…What? Why?!"
Optimus got quiet for a moment and let out a deep breathe. "…When Arcee and Cliffjumper first joined our team on Earth, they told us about what really happened to Vos and what you learned. They told us they thought you died by Megatron's hands. They both felt sympathy for you and Cliffjumper felt great guilt for not offering you a chance to join us at the time… And I felt guilty as well… But now that I know you're alive, I wish to give you that chance. Will you take it, Starscream?"
"…Optimus, the only way I'll join the autobots is if the world was ending."
Bulkhead took a step forward. "Actually…"
Bumblebee buzzed that the world might end.
Starscream optic twitched. "Scrap!"
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When Starscream arrived to the autobot base, it was quiter then he thought.
The medic, Ratchet was working on the computer and the beeping from it was the only noise.
Arcee was in a corner of the room, holding something that looked like ahorn with a sad look on her face.
Starscream knew why she was sad, but decided to ask the question to look innocent. "…Where's Cliffjumper?"
All the autobots froze when he asked.
Arcee silently left the room, while Ratchet glared at him.
Optimus looked sadly at the ground. "Cliffjumper… was killed during our latest mission. Bumblebee and Bulkhead found his body in a room destroyed beyond repair, with giant claw marks all over his body. It was most likely caused by one of Shockwave's creations… Bumblebee brought back Cliffjumper's horn, cause he believes Arcee wouldn't be able to handle seeing what happened to her partner's body…The children you saved were heartbroken by the news of his death and one of them decided to permanently leave the base."
Starscream said nothing at first. He didn't feel good about killing Cliffjumper, but he didn't feel bad either. He doesn't know anything about the bot.
So he said, "…It's probably a good thing if they all leave. This is not their war."
Optimus nodded. "But it is their planet."
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The next day, all the children returned and were happy to see him, despite their depression over Cliffjumper's death.
Even the smallest child named Rafael or Raf.
He was smart, loved computers and he was the only one to understand Bumblebee's buzzing cause it was similar to binary code.
He thanked Starscream again for saving him.
The curious female was named Miko.
And she seemed to love anything cool and dangerous, so of course she would try to get close to him and ask as many questions as possible.
Bulkhead watched this happen, nervously.
It was annoying, but at the same time oddly nice that someone was interested in him and didn't show that interest with punches or chains.
Then there was Jack, who arrived on Arcee's motorcycle form.
Jack seemed to be the most responsible of the children and the boy says that he thinks Starscream's name is awesome cause Jack always had an interest in stars and constellations.
That is interesting.
…
...No.
He doesn't care about them.
He can't care!
He needs to think about something else!
When will Optimus and Ratchet tell him what Megatron is planning already?!
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So, Megatron has a giant spacebridge, which he's gonna use to throw dark energon in to create an undead army under his control.
And we have to destroy the portal before it happens.
What a wonderful first mission for Starscream.