Chapter 22 Revealing

Skyfire followed Megatron to the holding cells and watched in amazement at how close Starscream was walking to the silver tyrant. Starscream had never dared to walk that close to anyone before; perhaps his old friend had changed a great deal since they had last met. Anything was possible with the smaller Seeker, he knew that from experience. When they arrived at the holding cells, he expected Megatron to leave them, but instead he stood in behind Starscream, almost like a body guard.

"I thought you wanted this to be a private discussion." Skyfire stated to Starscream as he eyed Megatron wearily.

"Starscream would have informed me of the topics discussed." Megatron replied as he crossed his arms in front of his chest while Starscream chuckled coldly.

"Very well." Skyfire replied, not wanting to get into an argument with the Decepticon leader. He gave Starscream a fake smile. "So, who is your new mate?" He asked, missing the almost blindingly obvious exchange between the two mechs.

"Well, I can tell you that he didn't bore me to death when we bonded." Starscream snickered.

Skyfire growled and bristled. "I bored you?" He demanded. "I wasn't the one who was crying because "you finally found someone who loved you"." He sneered.

"I loved you and you betrayed me!" Starscream snarled.

Skyfire snarled back. "Only because you left me alone to freeze in that iceberg!" He replied just as coldly. He barely heard the snarl that erupted from Megatron's vocalizer.

"You wandered off! You vanished off the radar! I had to search for you with my optics only for days!" Starscream shouted.

Skyfire snorted. "Well then, you should have had your optics checked. I should have stuck out in all that ice." He retorted, crossing his arms in front of his chest and exhaling air through his intakes.

"You are red and white; how exactly would you have stuck straight out in an environment of white?" Megatron asked coldly.

"And I was in the middle of a blizzard! But I found you didn't I? The others wanted to give up on you, but I revived you!" Starscream shouted, pain seeping through his words.

Skyfire snorted as he shook his head. "All you did was tell everyone else to increase the voltage on the machine that was reviving me." He stated coldly.

Megatron growled, surprising Skyfire yet again. "Shouldn't the fact that he was telling them to revive you be enough to convince you?" He demanded.

Starscream was nodding his head quickly, agreeing with whatever Megatron was saying. "They didn't want to waste our precious resources on reviving someone who had been frozen for millennia! I made them!" He added, almost sounding desperate.

Skyfire grinned to himself. Starscream was supposed to have another mate, yet here he was begging him to accept his claims that he had indeed saved him. He didn't believe him; he hadn't done anything to save him. The only reason that he had been revived was because the other Decepticons felt sorry for him for being in such a pitiful state. The Autobots had then offered him a better life, and consequently, a better mate.

Skyfire rolled his optics in response to Starscream's whining. "Don't start crying on me." He sneered. "I don't feel like mopping up your fragging tears."

"You don't deserve to live." Starscream growled. Skyfire watched with amusement as the smaller Seeker's wings hitched up behind him in fury and rage. It was a comical sight to behold since Starscream would have never been able to actually beat him.

Skyfire laughed coldly. "Starscream, I deserve to live far more than you do." He replied. "What good are you to anyone? So you're smart, whoopee slag. You don't know any emotion that would deem you worth of living with what you have."

"That's because you stripped them all away!" Starscream screamed. He could see the tears starting to build in the corner of the other's optics.

Skyfire shook his head while clucking his glossa in disproval. "Now, isn't that just like you, Starscream?" He asked. "Always blaming someone else for your mistakes."

"Well let me tell you something, Jetfire; it's about time you received your fate!" Starscream snarled as he started charging his null-rays.

Skyfire pulled out his own gun and aimed it at Starscream's head, making the red Seeker blanch. "Don't you mean yours?" He growled. "According to the other Autobots', you're supposed to be dead. Guess they were wrong." He could hear Megatron's growl and the tell-tale sounds of his fusion cannon powering up.

Starscream's spark began to pulsate irregularly from fear and stress as he stared up the barrel of Skyfire's gun. Megatron glanced once at Starscream before he turned on Skyfire. He blasted him back just as he went to fire off his own gun. With a cry of pain, he flew backwards and smashed into the ground on his back. He wasn't dead luckily, but something told him that it wasn't very far off.

"Oh how I wish it didn't have to come to this." Starscream sneered as he walked over to his downed body. "But I can't have you running around threatening my life while I'm carrying Megatron's sparkling."

Skyfire looked at his old mate in shock. "What? You're carrying Megatron's sparkling? You're mates? And since when can you carry a sparkling?!" He demanded.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Starscream laughed.

Skyfire gawked at him. "We…we tried for years and never once did a sparkling come into being." He mumbled hoarsely before his optics flashed in rage. "Why should you get a sparkling?" He growled. "You certainly don't deserve one!"

"If I don't deserve one then why do I bear one?" Starscream asked as he stroked his cockpit lovingly.

"Freak accident." Skyfire growled as he lifted his gun up to point at Starscream's chest. "One that is easily corrected."

Before Skyfire could even pull the trigger on his gun, Megatron had emptied his fusion cannon into his chest, leaving a smoldering husk. His optics widened in disbelief before they faded away and his body collapsed to the ground the ash grey colour of death.

Starscream stared at the ember-strewn chest of his former lover as he panted in fear. Megatron wrapped his arms around his smaller mate and pulled him into his chest. "Are you alright?" He asked softly.

"We're fine." Starscream replied as he shivered.

Megatron kissed his lover. "He won't bother you anymore." He whispered as Starscream pressed himself deeper into his body.

Author's note: Any that's the end of that chapter. I realize that Skyfire is horribly out of character in here, but that is an important part of our roleplay; the Autobots are not as nice as you would think. Anyways, that was mostly told from Skyfire's perspective, leaving out all the communications between Starscream and Megatron across their bond and what-not. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please leave me a nice review before you leave.