Authors Note: Dear Friends of Fanfiction, and those who read my work. I have tragic news, and no, the local Hot Topic did not burn down. No, My boyfriend of 3 months and 3 weeks broke up with me today because he didn't have the same feelings as I did towards me, but he let me down easy which I'm glad of, so I guess we're still friends, Yay!. But that still doesn't mean I cried for 3 hours and my eyes swelled shut.
Anyways…
I must now regain my Zen,
So all of you can be distracted by…
Chapter 10!
Chapter 10: I Require Food
After about an hour of screaming my head off from the pain of Starscream fixing my ribs and putting me in bandages, I finally had time to breathe and relax. I let out a long sigh and rested there on the table, my torso bandaged. I was still naked, but really I did not care I just wanted to lay there for a while. Starscream had looked away from me and occupied himself so he did not piss me off by looking at me more than needed, as I had conditioned. I laid there for about ten minutes and sat up, beginning to dress myself slowly, seeing as I was still healing.
Starscream looked over just as I finished putting on my shirt and smirked slightly.
"Feeling better, human" he asked "I mean Jody" he corrected himself as I gave him a scowl.
"Lots, thanks" I smiled "I'm not 100 but I'll be able to move more freely without every single ounce of movement rippling pain throughout my body" I said.
Starscream nodded and put his hand down for me to climb on. I walked over at my own pace and crawled into his palm. He stood and walked back over to his bed, sitting down gently on the edge. I looked up at the ceiling and wondered how the others were, praying they were OK. I suddenly heard a rather loud growl emit from my stomach, I instinctively covered my stomach with my arms to muffle the sound, beginning to blush savagely.
Starscream looked down at me with a curious expression.
"Are you sick?" he asked.
"No" I said slowly, still growing red in the face.
"What was that growl then, and why are you holding your midsection, are your ribs still hurting you badly?" he flooded me with questions.
I laughed and almost fell backwards "No, I'm fine, the growl was just my stomach saying 'Feed me now or I'm going to embarrass you by making weird bodily noises'" I explained with a smile.
Starscream looked around his room "Well, I don't know what you humans eat, and I don't believe we have anything here to your liking" he told me.
"Well" I started trying to think of something "If someone can just get me some milk, chicken flavored ramen, water, and a microwave, I'd be happy"
Starscream gave me an odd look, I laughed.
"Nothing, don't worry about me, you've done enough for me just by fixing my broken ribs" I told him with a shy smile.
"Megatron gave me orders to look after you" Starscream insisted.
"Yeah, well I don't believe Megabutt would allow me outside this place to get anything to eat, so I'm shit out of luck" I sighed.
Starscream laughed at the altered name for Megatron.
I looked up at him "I see I've struck a funny bone" I said.
"Well to you it would be a funny bone, but it would be hydraulics to me" he corrected me.
I stuck my tongue out and and folded my arms over my chest "Meh" was my only response.
Starscream laughed at me. He gently laid me on the metal bed and stood up straight, heading for the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"I'll be back, don't worry" he assured me and left.
I stared at the door for a moment and sighed. I fell backwards, being careless and forgot about the metal the bed was made out of and banged my head on it as I fell back. I jolted up and held my head quickly, my ribs reacting at the sudden movement and shot pain through my body.
"Shit, God damn, mother..." I shot off in curses as I tried everything to make the pain stop.
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Optimus and Jetfire searched from overhead and on ground level for the missing Jody. Optimus was cutting a corner to search in front of a store but saw nothing of Jody. Suddenly there was a reading on his scanner.
"Optimus, I'm detecting a Decepticon" Jetfire said over his com link.
"So am I" Optimus replied and found that it was heading straight towards him "and coming right to me"
The Spruce Goose and Semi truck watched as a red Fighter Jet flew overhead and transformed in midair, landing in front of the store.
"It's Starscream" Jetfire said "Permission to transform, sir?"
"Granted, but make sure to let the humans out of the way first" Optimus said as he watched people run, screaming away from the store.
"Gotcha, Optimus" Jetfire responded and flew closer to the ground.
Optimus waited until a mother ran in front of him with her baby before transforming. He stood tall as his comrade transformed and landed next to him. Starscream glared at them and tore down a wall of the store. Jetfire and Optimus looked at him questioningly.
"What in the name of Primus, are you doing?" Jetfire roared.
"Shut up, Autobot, I'm here in search of food" he said like it was nothing, even though it sounded weird, he ignored them and searched the store for something he thought a human would like.
"Food for what?" Optimus asked.
Starscream growled and took a few things, then looked up at Optimus "none of your fraging business, Prime"
"Where is Jody?" Optimus persisted.
"Like I would tell you Autobot scum" Starscream growled dangerously.
He put the food in his cockpit and transformed, about to fly away. Optimus grabbed onto Starscreams left wing and kept him from flying away.
"Tell me where she is Starscream, now!" Optimus roared.
"Never!" Starscream roared back and swerved slightly to the right and let his Jet engines fire searing hot blazes into the Autobot leader's face.
Optimus yelled in pain and let go of Starscreams wing. The Decepticon put on a cloaking device and disappeared into the sky without any other obstacles. Optimus fell back onto his backside and put his hands over his face. Jetfire ran over to his leaders side and called in the incident to base.
"Optimus, we have to get you back to base, you have to transform so I can transport you there" Jetfire told him.
"No, go after Starscream, we must find Jody, no matter the cost" Optimus argued.
"I'm sorry to disobey your orders Optimus, but you need medical attention" Jetfire insisted and pressed a few areas on Optimus' body and forced him into his vehicle form.
Optimus groaned in pain. Jetfire transformed into his Spruce Goose plane form and reversed back with his ramp down so the Semi would roll inside. Once the truck was safe and secure inside his cargo bay he flew into the sky, heading back to base.
They reached the forest where their hidden base resided. Jetfire waited until a runway unearthed itself and landed, screeching to a stop as he entered the docking bay of the base, where all the Autobots, plus Jaden and Josh were waiting. Hot Shot, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Ironhide helped Optimus out of the cargo bay of Jetfire and rolled him into the medical bay. Jetfire transformed and followed, picking up Josh and Josh on his way.
Red Alert and a white and gray Autobot stood waiting near a giant hospital bed. The other Autobots helped Jetfire transform Optimus back into his robot mode, placing him on the hospital bed.
"Everyone out of the room, Ratchet and I need to concentrate on repairing Optimus" Red Alert said firmly.
"I'm fine" Optimus protested.
Ratchet removed Optimus' hands from his face and saw that it was melting.
"Yeah, sure you are" Ratchet retorted sarcastically.
The unauthorized and none medical Autobots were shooed out of the medical bay and left to wait for their leader to be fixed. They new that it was minor and that it was nothing that Red Alert and Ratchet could not fix, but they could not help but worry. Jetfire told them about what exactly happened and they all gawked at him like he was crazy.
"Starscream getting human food?" Hot Shot asked shocked.
"Yeah, that's what I said" Jetfire told him.
"Man, that is messed up" Jazz said.
"It is not like a Decepticon or any transformer for that matter to need human food" said Bumblebee.
"It's so confusing" said Ironhide scratching his metal head.
"Tell me about it" Jetfire said.
They were all left to wonder why until Jaden spoke up.
"Maybe he got it for Jody" she told them.
"Yeah, I mean they have to feed her" Josh said backing her up.
"But, it's not like Megatron" Hot Shot said.
"Maybe it was not Megatron who recommended it be done" Bumblebee suggested.
"Maybe Starscream did it on his own will" Jazz suggested further.
"But he's a Decepticon, it makes no sense, he would be starving her, not feeding her" Ironhide said ignoring their suggestions.
"Well, we know Starscream is a Decepticon, but we all know he holds honor and more care than Megatron could ever spawn from his one tracked CPU" Jetfire said.
"That's true" said Hot Shot said thinkingly.
Ironhide just grumbled.
"Let's just hope he's taking good care of her, and not letting the other Decepticons harm her" Jetfire sighed.
The Autobots nodded.