Shockwave made his way down the hall of his base back on Cybertron and made his way to the room he was needed in and opened the door to find Megatron there waiting for him. "Hello, my liege. Anything I could do for you today?"
"No. I'm just here to wreak havoc upon those accursed femmes. They are taking all of your energon, of which you need to send to us at times, and they're a plain nuisance. Destroying all of your equipment, stealing it, breaking it and whatnot. It's time I showed them who they're actually dealing with."
Shockwave nodded. "That is very true, my Lord." he said as he opened a door for Megatron to walk through and bowed as Megatron exited the room.
Firestar and Chromia were sitting next to each other just gazing off into space. Bored, nothing to do, and sleepy. Moonracer approached them. "You girls look pretty bummed."
"We are." they said in unison and sighed.
"Well, I think we're safe down here for now." Moonracer said with assurance. "If Shockwave or any of his little goons try and get us, we'll show them who's boss!"
"Yeah!" they said in unison. Again.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud that caught the femmes attention. Firestar sat up and motioned for Chromia and Moonracer to be quiet. She slowly walked down a corridor and motioned for them to stay and she got two nods in return from each of them. As she slowly walked, the thudding came from the right it seemed. She walked to the right of the small hallway and then stood to listen again. Strangely, it sounded as if it were coming from behind her now. She hesitantly turned around and listened very closely and walked to the left this time instead of the right. Then the thudding AGAIN, sounded as if it came from behind her. She continued the same way this time and left the small space and looked up around the outside and saw no one. 'Maybe he's inside?' she thought. But before she could go back down, someone grabbed her by the back of her neck aggresively and threw her down. It was Megatron.
"Well hello there, Firestar. Being a little glitch as always?"
Firestar glared with fury at the silver tyrant threw a hard kick at him.
Megatron caught her leg and twisted it then threw her down. "Let's see how powerful you are when you have no legs to operate."
Firestar stared at him in terror as he twisted her legs every way they would turn. She screamed in sheer terror and shrieked in agonizing pain.
Megatron looked down upon her and smiled a smile only a madman could muster and then began dragging her by her broken legs. "When I am done with you, you will wish you'd never been sparked, you disgusting femme."
She wimpered in fear and pain as she was dragged down the roads of Cybertron.
Megatron arrived back to Shockwave's area and threw Firestar at Shockwave's feet. "Put her in a holding cell. I have a few surprises in store for this little femme..."
Starscream awoke from recharge and sat up rather lazily and rubbed his temples. He stood up and went to his closet and rummaged around in there to find his private comm. communicator and decided to open a private frequency so he could talk to Skyfire. He pushed the middle blue button on it and it rang about 4 times before Skyfire answered.
:: Hello? :: Came a soft voice.
:: Skyfire? ::
:: Yes, Starscream? :: Skyfire said sincerely.
:: Meet me at the same location we had Elita at last time in 30 cycles. I want to speak with you in private and we also have some other things to attend to and I'm sure you know what they are :: Starscream said dryly.
:: Yes I know. I'll be there ::
:: Thank you, Skyfire. :: Starscream said in an appreciative tone.
:: ...Anything for you. :: Skyfire responded softly.
Starscream was a bit taken back by Skyfire's response but then he shut off the comlink and turned to take his leave to meet Skyfire.
Skyfire arrived at the same location Starscream and him had met last time. Starscream hadn't arrived yet so he just found a large rock to sit on and stared off in the direction of the ocean, watching the waves go up and then gracefully go down. He then looked up at the clouds and observed the shapes of them. Before too long Starscream came soaring onto the scene and landed infront of Skyfire. Skyfire quickly stood up to greet Starscream.
Starscream held his hand out to greet Skyfire but to his surprise, got pulled into a hug instead. "Um, Skyfire?"
Skyfire was hugging him and didn't wanna let go. "Yes?"
"You can let go now."
Skyfire hesitantly let go. "I'm sorry. I just had to."
"You're not exactly gentle whenever you hug people."
Skyfire frowned. "I'm sorry. I must have upset you..."
Starscream darted his eyes to Skyfire and quickly said, "No! You didn't. You just kind of squished me."
Skyfire looked up at him and smiled a small smile. "So you're not upset with me?"
Starscream smiled a bit himself and looked at Skyfire's adorable face. "No, I'm not."
Skyfire sighed a sigh of relief. "That's relieving. I didn't want you to get mad at me for hugging you. I honestly couldn't help myself. It's just been so long since I've even been in eye contact with you, and last time I hugged you is whenever we were both still in the science academy learning the basics. And that was only one hug..."
"Well I don't really like hugs."
Skyfire looked at him confused.
"What?" Starscream said feeling a bit confused himself by the confused expression on Skyfire's face.
"You hug and embrace Elita...yet you won't let your friend embrace you?" Skyfire said changing his confused expression to a hurt expression.
"No no no! I'll let you! Just...be more gentle!" Starscream quickly said.
Skyfire's expression lightened a bit and he took Starscream's hand and looked into his optics.
Starscream was a been taken back by this action but he looked back up into Skyfire's optics. "What is it?"
"Can I show you something?"
"Alright?" He said unsurely.
"Close your eyes for me." he said softly.
"...Why?" Starscream asked a bit uneasily.
"Just please. For me?"
Starscream irritably sighed a little and closed his eyes. He immediately felt him self being pulled in a direction and he quickly followed where Skyfire was pulling him. Then, he felt his thrusters get wet and as time passed with each step, the wetness went further and further up his legs. Skyfire was taking him into the water. It wasn't too long before Starscream was absolutely covered in water and was being pulled through the water. He wanted to open his eyes, but kept them shut for his friend. Before much longer, they stopped and Starscream felt his heels in the damp sand under the water.
"...Open your eyes." Skyfire said ever so softly, almost in a whisper.
Starscream opened his eyes to find something astonishing infront of him. He looked all around him and there were beautiful fish everywhere, swimming in place, glimmering and shining from the light of the sun shining through the surface of the water. There were small schools of fish swimming quickly through the water, their scales glimmering like diamonds. He looked to his right and there were clown fish (or as the humans called them, Nemo fish?) the sun shimmering down upon them made their scales shine a bright, beautiful orange color. Everything was colorful and full of life and beauty.
"It's beautiful..." Starscream said in awe.
Skyfire smiled and took Starscream by the hand and led him closer to himself.
Starscream was now in the arms of Skyfire. "What are you doing?" he said rather suspiciously.
"Hugging my best friend." Skyfire there and then picked up Starscream in an embrace and gave him the most loving hug he'd ever given anyone and Starscream had ever been given.
"...Too..tight.." Starscream croaked.
Skyfire let go of him and gave Starscream the most handsome beaming smile he'd ever seen.
Starscream allowed himself to smile back.
Skyfire held Starscream's hand and they both gazed at the many fish around them and for a moment, they were happy.