Author's Note: Here's my Christmas present for all my fans! More chaos!
Chap. 17: No More Secrets
My CPU was throbbing. His queen? Was he stupid? He knew I didn't like him, and even if I did, I would never like him that much, not enough to be his queen.
"I can't be your queen Starscream," I said unable to pull my arm out of his grasp.
"And why not?" he asked.
I thought of the best lie I could, "You deserve someone better than me, someone greater."
He grinned, "No, you're quite…perfect. Astrid, you don't have a choice."
A different bot walked into the room suddenly and Starscream let me go.
"Sideways, where have you been?"
"Oh, around. Did you miss me?"
"Not really,"
"Where are the others?"
Starscream pointed to the dimension gate, "You can go if you want."
"I think I'll stay here,"
"Good choice. Come, we must go get the omega lock and the third cyber planet key from the autobots,"
"But they only have two," I protested.
"The third one is on earth somewhere," Starscream said turning his attention back to me, "And I plan to find it."
"So," Sideways piped up, "Do we take her with us?"
"She'll just get in the way, or try running away, so we can't bring her with us, or let her stay here. Tell me Sideways, while you were away did you find a good enough area to call a base like I asked?"
"You bet Starscream,"
"Good, we'll bring little miss Astrid there, and put her somewhere where she can't get away,"
He grabbed my arm and pulled me through a dimension gate that Sideways had opened to the new base. Once at the base, which wasn't that different from Megatron's, he shoved me up against a wall. Metal restraints latched over my ankles and wrists, trapping me there.
"I hope you're comfortable because we may be gone awhile," Starscream said stroking my face with his thumb.
"I'll be more comfortable once you leave,"
"I like the feisty ones,"
"Sir," Sideways said interrupting, "We should probably get going."
"Right," Starscream said moving away from me, "I'll try not to be gone too long Astrid."
He left the room with Sideways and I breathed a sigh of relief. For the moment he was gone and I didn't have to worry about him violating me, yet. A tear slipped out of my optic and I was unable to wipe it away.
"Oh Megatron," I silently cried, "Wherever you are…I need you."
(Megatron's location…)
Megatron had been unimpressed by Starscream's trick. Now he was trapped in a circular prison with absolute morons, well with the exception of Crumplezone, who had avoided being trapped. Megatron went to the wall of the prison and slammed his fist into it. Not even a scratch.
"Crumplezone, come here," said the leader of the decepticons.
The soldier obeyed, "Yes sir?"
"Jungle Planet is in the distance. I want you to go there and get Scourge. He'll help us out, now hurry,"
"You got it boss,"
The decepticon opened a dimension gate and disappeared through it.
"Hey sir, what about Astrid?" Thundercracker asked, "There's no telling what Starscream will do to her."
"I know," Megatron said gloomily, "We can't do anything until we get out of here. Once we do, Starscream is history."
Megatron looked towards Jungle Planet and away from his troops. He couldn't believe how easily he had been fooled by Starscream. He couldn't believe how worried he was about Astrid.
"Oh Primus," he prayed silently, "Please spare her from Starscream. Let me see her again unharmed."
(Astrid's location…)
I had fallen asleep from boredom only to wake up to be horribly cramped from the position I was in. I checked the time on my internal clock and noticed about three hours had gone by. And Starscream was back. I could see him…glowing in the distance. He looked over at me and saw I was awake. He came over, as much as I hoped he hadn't.
"About time you woke up,"
"Starscream," I pleaded, "I need to move, please, remove the restraints."
"Are you going to go anywhere?"
"No, just…please,"
"Alright,"
He unlatched the restraints and I became a prisoner to gravity. After falling on my face I slowly started to get up, but Starscream pulled me up the rest of the way.
"Why are you glowing?" I asked.
"I'm absorbing power from the omega lock,"
"Oh, so you got it,"
"Yes and the third key, along with an army,"
"Army?" I asked confused, "What army?"
"I'll show you later," he said starting to massage my sore limbs.
I tried to move away from him because I didn't want him running his hands all over me. He held me where I was.
"You said you wouldn't go anywhere,"
"I'm sorry, just don't touch me,"
"Don't tell me what to do," he said wrapping his arms around my waist.
"Starscream…please,"
He sank his teeth into the metal flesh on my neck, puncturing it and lapping up the energon that trickled out.
"Stop it!" I shouted trying to push him away from me but he didn't budge.
"Stop struggling," he threatened, "You can make this easy, or you can make it hard. Trust me, you won't like it if you make this hard."
"I'm not going to like it either way,"
"You'll learn to like it,"
"No," I said scared, "Starscream, you know I don't want this. Just please stop."
"Oh, but I want this,"
He pushed me against a wall and held me there by my shoulders. I was able to push him away and scramble out of his grasp. We stood there facing each other.
"You're asking for it…kiddo,"
"Damien?" I asked, "Don't remind me of that low life."
"Why not?" he questioned, "Watch this."
I watched as he transformed into a human. A human who looked and sounded exactly like my cousin. He transformed back into his robot mode. Anger boiled inside me.
"No," I said baffled, "It was you…you were at my house when I went back. You were the one who turned me against my family!"
"Congratulations, you figured it out,"
"Why? What possessed you to do that to me?"
"I had to get you to stay with the decepticons somehow. And it weakened you, making you easy prey," he explained, "But then Megatron got in the way and prevented me from having you, so I removed him from the picture."
"Starscream, you idiot. Megatron will make you pay for what you've done,"
"No he won't, he never has, he never will,"
"He'll come for me,"
"Don't get your hopes up. Megatron will forget all about you if you give him a day or two,"
"No he won't," I said on the verge of tears.
"The only reason why he keeps you around is because you remind him of his mate,"
"What?"
"Heck, you look so much like her, you could be her,"
"What do you mean?"
"You have the same name, same looks, same personality, everything. If you don't watch out, you'll end up just like her," Starscream explained.
"How?"
"Dead," Starscream grinned, "I killed her when she chose Megatron over me. Megatron never found out either. I left her body in a battlefield, and Megatron was gullible enough to believe the autobots had killed her."
"How could you? She was obviously happy with him, he was happy. Why can't you let people be happy?" I asked furious.
"If I'm not happy, no one can be happy," he then frowned suddenly before saying, "You're with Megatron almost all the time. Don't tell me you have feelings for him."
"N…no," I stammered, fearing for my life if I told the truth, "I don't."
"Does he have feelings for you?"
"No,"
"You're lying," he said approaching me.
I backed into a wall as Starscream reached me. He put a hand on my cheek and slid his other hand on to my neck.
"No, I said, the tears spilling out, "Don't hurt me."
"There's no need to fear Astrid,"
I gasped as he went in for most likely the kill.
(Megatron's location…)
Megatron finally saw Crumplezone coming in the distance with Scourge. He now knew he was getting out of his temporary prison. When the two bots finally arrived Scourge and Megatron easily broke the prison down.
"That was quite some trick Starscream pulled off," Scourge said.
"I'm not impressed," Megatron responded, "Come men, we must go find this treacherous son of a glitch."
"Wait Megatron," Scourge remarked, "Let me go with you."
"I see you've changed your mind, alright, you can come,"
The decepticon leader opened a dimension gate to earth.
"I'm coming Astrid," he thought to himself, "Just hold on."
Author's Note: Once again Merry Christmas! Please take time from your busy Christmas parties to review!