It was fragging freezing!
Why is snow always so cold!?
Why did Starscream agree to do this stupid mission with the Prime?!
Thankfully, they should be done soon then they will be back to the cramped yet warm base.
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Comlink is down and the groundbridge hasn't opened yet.
Something has happened in the base, Starscream could tell.
He'd fly over there, but his wings were too frozen to even flap.
Luckily, the dark energon inside his body seems to be keeping him from losing power.
It seems that Silas piecring him with the blood of Unicron was a blessing as well as a curse.
However, Optimus doesn't share the same blessing and his temperature is slowly dropping to dangerous levels.
Starscream tried to make the Prime keep walking, but...
Optimus just lost all his strength.
It was a sad and horrible thing to see, watching the bright optics of someone so pwoerful slowly fade away...
Starscream sat next to Optimus and the poor, foolish prime tries to comfort Starscream by pullling the seeker close.
If Optimus knew that Starscream wasn't going to die as well.
...Yet for some reason, Starscream chest and optics started to sting.
But why?
Starscream wasn't going to die, only the prime will perish.
So why does he feel so bad?
Optimus reached out and held Starscream's hand. "Starscream, this may not be the finish that we had planned, but if this is indeed the end, if we are to be come one with the Allspark..."
Starscream whimpered. "Optimus... I'm sorry."
Optimus smiled sadly at this.
A poor and foolish prime.
A prime that had no idea what Starscream was really apologzing for...
...Then they both saw a wonderfully familar green light.
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The autobots were all attacked by scraplets.
Of course it would be one of Shockwave's stupid creations.
Starscream remembered when during one of MECH's experiments on him, they discovered this same scraplet trap the autobots had.
When they learned that these things eat metal, they unleashed a few to see me get ripped apart before my hunger takes control and eats the tiny beasts.
Just like with every experiment.
But... the scraplets didn't attack him.
The moment they saw him, the things desperatley tried to get back into the trap.
They were afraid of him.
After that failure, Silas decided to send most of the scraplets back to the artic, in order to avoid the MECH base getting eaten, while keeping a few dead scraplets to be studied.
It's probably for the best that the autobots don't know about any of this.
When Starscream learned that the Raf, Miko and Jack helped protect the autobots, he was surprised and impressed.
These human children really are more then just a bunch of annoying, loud and cute brats.
Starscream was starting to understand why the autobots want them around.
They do make the base more interesting.
…
He still doesn't like them.
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Dreadwing gazed sadly at his leader's broken and sleeping form in the medbay.
"Oh Lord Megatron... I will make that beast will pay for what he did to you... the moment I see him, I will end his life."
The sadness in the Commander's optics quickly became hard and cold as ice.