This is from Redscream's point of view

Chapter 10: Redscream

Well, you can't say that life at the Decepticon base is uneventful. One minute I'm a lowly Scrapmetal trying to stay away from the Decepticons so I didn't get killed, the next, I'm getting my armor cleaned by some telepathic child that thought I was down right cute. Not that I'm complaining, it's the most attention that I ever got in my life so far. I just wish I could tell her really tall friend that I'm a girl not a guy.

"Silence, that makes it look like a femme." He stated.

'You don't know that it isn't a femme.'

Can they not tell the difference between a femme and a mech? Seriously, can't they tell that my body is small and feminine? Is that so hard to see?

"Silence! You don't put that on a Scrapmetal!" He groaned.

'Why? It can't have a little class?'

She had put this thing on one of my legs. It was shiny and purple. I liked it, so I didn't let the large mech take it off. I scuttled away from him as he came forward to remove it. I hissed at him to chase him off. Bad idea. Very bad idea. DON'T HISS AT THE DECEPTICONS! They really don't like that.

"How dare you! You miserable little piece of scrap!" He roared.

He swung his foot and caught me under my stomach. I shrieked as was flung sideways against the wall. I landed in a heap, and man was my head spinning. The femme that had found me looked very mad from what I could tell.

'Starscream! You didn't need to do that! It just didn't want you to touch the gem!'

"Well it shouldn't have hissed." The mech stated.

I stood up and walked forward. I fell over and landed on my face. The femme walked over to me and picked me up.

'Poor little Redscream. Look at what you did to her Starscream!'

At least she knew that I was a femme. The mech didn't look too impressed at her statement. He shook his head.

"Silence, make sure you keep an eye on it. We don't need the others to try to shoot it." He stated.

'It's a femme, Starscream. Only a femme would leave the gem on. That was the whole point.'

The mech stopped and looked at her. A smile spread across his face and I swear I caught the scent of attraction coming from him. I shook my head and looked at him. The smile was still there and so was the smell. He was falling for the femme. She looked like she had only seen 50 years.

"Clever plan. Maybe you should be a tactician." He said.

'You need to be able to talk to be a tactician.'

"Not if you stay with Megatron. He'll appreciate a good tactician." The mech replied.

The femme shook her head and laughed. I could tell she thought he was joking. He smiled once more and left the room. She placed me on the ground and I looked up at her. I wanted to go looking for something to eat. Energon was my preference but I will put up with whatever I could get.

The femme walked over to the door and motioned me to follow. I walked beside her down the hall until I caught a whiff of something. Was that…oh it was. ENERGON! I spun and followed the scent trial. No clue where I was going or who I was going to run into but I didn't care. When energon was in the area, clear out. I'm an energon addict to the extreme.

I ran down the hallway until I saw an open door. The smell was coming from inside. I carefully opened the door and walked in. There was a cube of energon sitting on the floor. Who in their right mind would leave energon on the floor? That's asking for trouble. I walked over and went to grab the cube when I heard and angry shout somewhere above me.

"Get away from my energon!" A mech voice screamed at me.

I look up into a large blue mech's face. He looked mad and I didn't care. Finder's keepers, loser's weepers. I grabbed the energon cube by the corner and high tailed it out of there. I could hear the mech running behind me, still screaming at me to put down the energon. Did he think I was stupid? I wasn't about to stop. That is until I saw an image of him tripping over me, than I stopped so fast that I smelt the singed metal on my feet. I felt the mech's foot catch my backside and watched as he fell over top of me. I growled at him and ran over top of him. I was about to take off when I heard a familiar voice.

"I thought I told you to look after that thing Whitesilence."

Uh oh. That was the Decepticon leader. I knew I was in trouble now. I tipped my head back and quickly drank the energon. No evidence, no problem with the blue idiot right? Wrong. I heard the mech yell angrily.

"THAT WAS MINE!"

"Well, too late now Thundercracker. She already drank it." Another voice sounded.

I turned around and looked up into the face of the mech that had kicked me. Now he thinks I'm a girl? Would he make up his mind! I saw the femme standing behind them. She didn't look happy and she was tapping her foot in annoyance. I let out a sad chirp and walked forward slowly. When I reached her I rubbed my head against her leg, asking for forgiveness. I knew that she was trying to take good care of me and I wouldn't have run off if I hadn't smelt that energon.

She sighed as she pet my head. I heard the Decepticon leader chuckle and I looked at him. He didn't look angry so that was a good sign. At least I wasn't about to get blown up.

"You will need to look after it better." He stated.

He bent down and stroked my head. Did I mention that I loved attention? I leant into his petting and purred. I love attention, as weird as that may sound for a Scrapmetal. I really liked being pet, especially on the back of my head. I leant my head forward, directing his hand to the back of my head and purred again. He laughed as he started scratching my head. I rolled over onto my back and waved my feet above me. I heard Whitesilence laugh in my mind and the other mech chuckled gently. I heard the other mech, the blue one, mumble under his breath about the energon that I ate on him.

Whitesilence kneeled down beside me and started rubbing my stomach. I wiggled my feet and if I could have I would have laughed. I think that I could get to like living here. Well, besides Blueboy that is.