Starscream's the One and Only

Written by: NovaBlastTF

Edited by: Fliara48

Chapter 5: Part 4, Music be the Food for the Spark

In a dark lab, deep within the depths of the Nemesis came the sound of frustrated growls. In the center of the lab shone only a single dim light, and within its shine was a mech working over a glowing data pad. What made this mech different from the others were the two metal wings that expanded past his frame which were now twitching in agitation. With another growl, the mech threw the pad cross the room and into a wall, shattering it to pieces. Huffing angrily, the mech just glared at the wreckage.

"…Star?" A soft voice echoed in the empty lab. Starscream redirected his glare at the new black and purple arrival.

"What?"

"…You've been here all morning… Are you alright?"

"NO, I'M NOT!" screeched the red seeker in indignation. He huffed furiously and treaded towards the doors, "Take over my shift, I need to go and gather information!"

"But you have a meeting later! If Megatron doesn't see you there, he's gonna slag you to bits!"

The red seeker just stopped and slowly turned to leer expectantly at the black seeker. Said seeker went silent and just nodded. "Err… Or I can distract him to give you time?"

"Hrmm. Smart bot. Use the cone heads or rainmakers if you need to. I'll be back."

The black seeker breathed a sigh of relief—Starscream wasn't going to kill him. Now all he had to do was think of a distracting prank… Hey, he actually had permission! ... Kind of… Well, it was good enough for Skywarp anyway.

An annoyed Starscream tapped his foot impatiently as the lift rose towards the surface of the ocean. It was easy to get out of the Nemesis when the rainmakers were on shift; one look at his body posture and they were racing to get him out. When it finally did reach the surface, the red seeker immediately took off into the air in his sleek plane form as he headed north with amazing speed. He wasn't called the fastest seeker alive for nothing.

Why was Starscream so annoyed, one might ask? Well, for the last few days he had been imitating the commanders of the Autobot ranks, wreaking havoc and chaos on the Nemesis, and magnificently annoying the slag out of Megatron… But the next Autobot he had in mind, he knew little to nothing about.

'Ugh, what does he even do? He's a fragging hippie—always calm, knows everything about anything… but what else?' Thought the red seeker slashing through the clouds. 'I barely see that slagger in battle, much less out of it.'

The seeker laid on another burst of speed before slowing down and rising to a higher altitude. 'Field research, ugh. Like I have nothing better to do with my time… but annoying Megatron is so~oo much fun!' A sadistic smile graced his lip plates. 'The dilemma, the dilemma…'

When he reached a height that was effectively out of detection range, he scanned the area looking for any bots. This was a well known Autobot patrol route, and Starscream knew there would be a patrol round coming sooner or later. When that happened, he would just… borrow one of the bots, and 'ask' for the information he needed—a simple enough plan, nothing too big. 'Just need to pick up the right bot…,' thought the seeker, swerving to scour another area. 'Now where the pits are those Autobots? Never there when you need them.'

Just then Starscream heard the distant sounds of engines. He revved his thrusters in joy as he zoomed towards the source area, and carefully perched, hidden behind some rocks. Peeking over the large rocks, Starscream tried to identify the oncoming cars. There were four of them racing along the desert roads. From what Starscream could tell, two of them were the Lamborghini twins. The seeker shuddered involuntarily; he definitely did not want to pick those two crazies with their jet judo. There was also a green jeep—an Autobot whose name he'd never bothered to memorize before—the bot who projected the holograms. Starscream considered him for a moment, but a cursory glance over the mech's frame told him that the bot would be too bulky and heavy for the seeker to pick up. Then lastly came a small, yellow bug.

Bingo!

That bug was Bumbling… something… never mind the name. Starscream knew that the little bot was one of those who worked directly under the command of the mech he needed to learn more about, and that was all that mattered. Now… all he had to do was separate him from the others… With a smirk, Starscream quickly moved into position within the surrounding valley, and he waited till they got closer. From his position he could hear them talking.

"Man, look at the view."

"Primus Hound, it's just rocks."

"If you want something to look at, it's me."

"Sorry, I already have Mirage, and what a great aft he is~."

"So vain, Sunny."

"STOP CALLING ME THAT OR I WILL SLAG YOU, SIDES."

"Come on, guys. Calm down. We're almost done with this patrol route, so can we please try to get along?"

"Come on Bee, it's so boring! Nothing ever happens on patrol. What I would give to at least see a seeker, right Sunshine?"

"I TOLD YOU TO STOP THAT!... But yeah, it's been a while since we had a good battle with the Decepticons."

"We should be grateful for the time off, right Bee?"

"Yeah… But the thing with Mirage was funny."

"Hehehe, take that towers mech!"

"Those seekers were lousy artists; none of those colors were right."

"…Can you please just get over it now?"

"Not until something interesting happens."

"Ya called for fun~?" All four vehicles swerved to a screeching halt and transformed into their bipedal modes. Four sets of blue optics looked up to see a jovially smirking Starscream with an indigo visor stylishly twinkling in the sunlight. "Looks like Primus has answered your prayers, Autobots, cuz he's sent you the most handsome bot around to entertain ya."

The bots stared in awestruck wonder, their processors stalled trying to process his sentence. The Lamborghinis were the first to snap out of it. "Well what do you know? It's Screamer, the most annoying of the Decepti-scum."

"Now, now, bots. No need for such offensive language. I was just flyin' by and heard your cry for help." Now the Autobots knew that something was up. "I'm here to relieve you of your last dull moments of boredom till you have to go back to that ugly colored ship o' yours. You jus' gotta catch me first. And remember: keep your eyes on the prize—that is, me, the great and wonderful Starscream!" With that the seeker flew off around the corner, laughing maniacally.

"Should we follow? It could be a trap."

"Starscream sure is acting weird."

"Who cares? It's Starscream asking for a slagging!"

"You said it, Sunny! I say we go after him! Last one there is a femme!" With that, both Lamborghinis transformed with an enthusiastic 'whoop!' and raced off after the seeker.

Bumblebee held back uncertainly. "What do you think we should do, Hound?"

Hound scratched his helm deliberatively before letting out a gust of air. "We'd best follow those two—you know how much trouble they can get into by themselves."

With a nod, both transformed and chased after the dust trails of the red and yellow Lamborghinis. After some moments, they managed to catch up with the two twins, who had stopped at a clearing.

"Which way did that slagger go?" Sideswipe asked as the path they faced split up into three trails. "Hound, you got a clue?"

"Hmm… from the cliff face, he couldn't fly over the rocks cause they're too narrow up there… There! Scorch marks! He must of did a sharp turn and swerved into there."

"Nice going, Hound! Seeker, get ready for some jet judo!"

"Not bad for a scout."

"I don't think he meant that, Hound."

"I know, Bee."

Both Lamborghinis raced down the path while Hound and Bee took a slower approach. "Don't you think this is weird, Hound?"

"With Starscream? He's always been a strange bot. With this though?... I think he's definitely up to something."

"A Decepticon ambush?"

"Nah, they would've attacked us already. What I wanna know, is why go through the trouble to get our attention like that? He had the higher ground and the element of surprise. With those nullrays, he coulda had us if he really wanted… But it also brings up the question of why he would go after bots like us, we're just front liners, capturing us won't get any Autobot secrets or anything."

"… The Decepticons have been acting kinda strange lately."

"We just have to watch out for whatever Starscream's planning. He may be a strange bot for sure, but he's brilliant."

"Why, thank ya, Hound~! That was so sweet of ya ta say." Both the jeep and bug quickly transformed and looked up to see a smirking seeker. "But Hound… I'ma 'fraid you're still underestimatin' meh just a bit. 'Rocks are too narrow?' I am the smallest seeker after all."

Starscream then slammed his thrusters into the rocks under him and shot off his nullrays at the rock face. One shuddering impact later, and the whole rock formation started to collapse, causing a rock slide. Both Autobots moved to dodge the incoming rock shards and ended up on the opposite sides of an enormous rock pile. They finally took out their guns and fired at Starscream, but their efforts had no effect; the seeker had chosen his spot well. From the angle and depth they were positioned at, a direct hit on the seeker was impossible.

Sunstreaker! Sideswipe! Starscream has us pinned! Return immediately!

Gotcha Hound, hold on! That slagger Starscream planted a bunch of cluster bombs around the trail we were driving through. We'll have to go around or else this whole valley might just become a memory!

Slag! Starscream must've planned this from the very beginning!

You're telling me. When I get my hands on that slagger…!

I'm radioing base, hurry Sideswipe! Hound to base.

Redalert responding. What has happened? Your group has strayed from the designated patrol path.

It was Starscream, he came out of nowhere and we trailed him into the valley. We're now under attack and split up.

Primus…! Hold on, reinforcements are on their way.

Thanks, Hound out.

"Don't worry, Bee, we got bots coming."

"Oh, that's nice. Bots looking after bots, but there is one bot that I just can't let get away." The seeker took off, rocketing towards the yellow bug.

"BUMBLEBEE!"

The yellow bug tried to shoot at Starscream, but one well placed shot from the seeker's null ray sent the gun wheeling out of his hands. Bumblebee yelped as Starscream swooped in for the grab and carried him off, "What do you think you're doing?"

"I jus' need to borrow ya for a bit, little Bee." Bumblebee wriggled in Starscream's arms, trying to break free. "Oh, can't have you doin' that! Ya might get hurt." With this, the Seeker shot his struggling 'guest' with a null ray, and smiled pleasantly as it made the bug go limp in his grasp. He then handcuffed him. "There, much better. LATER AUTOBOTS~!" He jeered as he rocketed away with his prize.

As Starscream took off he noticed the Lamborghinis racing down the path and the distant shapes of more transformers coming. Unfortunately for them, Starscream was much too fast and far away for them to ever catch him now. 'When you're good, you are ohhh~ so good. And Megatron thinks I shouldn't be leader, hmph.'

Hound, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker helplessly watched as the seeker sped off with their comrade, flying off into the mountains. "Frag! That pit spawned seeker! When I get my hands on him, I'll strip him of all his paint and make him eat his own legs!"

"What the slag could he want with Bee? You'd think with all the Jet judo we do, he'd be after us!"

"We have to follow them; there's no telling what he could be doing with Bee."

Fortunately at that moment, reinforcements finally arrived in the form of Skyfire, Cliffjumper, Mirage and Bluestreak. Everyone immediately set off in the direction Starscream had taken. They were all worried about what the seeker had planned for their small, yellow friend. Seekers were notoriously crazy, after all. After a few breems, they reached a large mountain.

"You think that seeker scum took Bee there, Mirage?"

"His signal says so. For whatever reason, Starscream did not see fit to disable Bee's personal homing beacon."

"I can see why. It's impossible to drive up this mountain—we can only climb. That doesn't look like an easy task either, and climbing is my thing."

"When I get my hands on that flybot, he'll get a taste of my blasters."

"Yeah, like he's really afraid of you, short aft."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY? TAKE THAT BACK, YOU SUNFLOWER!"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?"

"Wait, wait! We should'nt fight! Bee's up there all alone with a seeker—Starscream even. He's the second in command and really, really, really crazy! Who knows what he could be doing to the him! He could be performing an experiment on him, or testing a new weapon, or reprogramming him, or making him into a spy, or-"

"We understand, Bluestreak. I will fly up there to try and find them. You all should start climbing." Skyfire interrupted politely.

The shuttle took off up towards the mountain's peak while the others started climbing, all of them wondering the same thing: what could Starscream possibly want with Bumblebee?

"Hey little bot, wake up." Bumblebee was shaken awake by the red seeker. "I need some information."

When Bumblebee finally regained full awareness, he looked up and stammered, "Where are we? Where have you taken me? Why me?"

"Hush you jabber bot." Starscream put a finger to Bumblebee's lips, making the little yellow bot cringe and move away. "We're not that far away from where I took you. I only need you for information."

"I'll tell you nothing, Decepticon!"

"Oh, so dramatic," sighed Starscream as he took a seat on a nearby rock. "I don't want any Autobot codes or anything. I just want to know a little bit about a certain bot."

"I'll never let you hurt them!" Bumblebee started struggling against the cuffs rolling on his side. "I'll never betray the trust they have in me."

"It's not going to hurt them in any way," huffed Starscream, wings fluttering impatiently. "I just want to know some general knowledge about him—what he likes, dislikes, personality traits—things like that."

"…do you like this someone on the Autobot side or-"

"OH SLAG NO! This has to do with something completely different than that. Disgusting little pit spawned…" Starscream grumbled at his momentary lapse, and took a deep, calming cycle of air to try and get back into character. "No, I just need to know the basics of how he acts to… Well… You saw when I was Ratchet, correct?"

"…Yeah…"

"Yes, it's like that, and that's all you need to know. Now I need you to tell me about the Autobot… what was it?... Oh yes, Jazz. Tell me about Jazz."

"…Why are you acting like Autobots?"

"I told you, you don't need to know why. Just answer my questions and make it easier on us both."

"Why should I? You're the one who tried to blow up the whole valley with your cluster bombs! My friends are probably coming for me right now. You can't do anything that will make me tell you. This could be some secret Decepticon plot or something."

"Those cluster bombs were duds. I just wanted to make sure those pit spawned twins wouldn't interrupt me. Now tell me! …Or I'll find other, more interesting ways to make you talk!" The seeker's claws then latched onto Bumblebee's legs, and dragged the yellow mech under the towering seeker. "…And trust me, you won't enjoy it… but I will."

Bumblebee's hysterical screams quickly echoed throughout the mountain range. Skyfire nearly stalled in the air when he heard, but quickly regained his bearings and redirected his flight path in the general direction of the scream. The ground bots were only encouraged to move faster.

Starscream cringed before silencing Bumblebee with a servo. "Hey! Stop screaming! I haven't even DONE anything yet and you're screaming your head off."

Starscream looked closer at the minibot's expression, and realized why he screamed. "Oh Primus! You think I was going to have my wicked way with you?" Starscream instantly released him and pulled away laughing. "You wish, minibot! Like I would ever go that low."

He chuckled as Bumblebee panted and sat back up. "I was just scaring you. I'm not that type of bot… except for my trine… Just make it easier on us and tell me his hobbies already."

"…If I do, will you let me go?"

"Yes. I have no real need of you."

"…He likes music."

"Music?"

"Yeah music, dancing, human slang and… yeah…"

"Hmm… I can work with that." Starscream removed the cuffs and picked up Bumblebee again. "Stop struggling or I will drop you, and that won't be pretty."

Hanging limply, Bumblebee could only whimper as Starscream took off. "I thought you said I could leave."

"I know but from that spot I took you, it would be impossible for any ground bots to get there and likely no air ones are coming yet…" Starscream trailed off as something caught his sensors. "Or I could be wrong. Looks like they did send a flyer. Heh."

Now Starscream redirected his flight path to meet with the flyer just as the white shuttle burst through the cloud cover. Both fliers stopped and hovered closely, eying one another. "Bumblebee, has Starscream harmed you?"

"Oh, you break my spark, Skyfire." Starscream repositioned his grip on Bumblebee who let out a nervous squeak. "I've done nothing to the little Bee, but I must say, I'm not used to holding another bot, so taking him now would be wise."

Warily moving closer, Bumblebee traded hands and was now in Skyfire's care. Starscream patted Bumblebee's head as Skyfire secured his hold. "I just needed to borrow him for a bit. He was helpful."

"…Starscream, what are you planning?"

"Nothing really, old friend. Just some revenge and such…" Starscream turned around and transformed. "I trust you're not low enough to shoot me in the back."

"Star!"

The seeker sighed and transformed again to turn and face the big shuttle. "What I'm planning has nothing to do with harming any Autobots—just marking my position in the Decepticon army." Turning away, he transformed once more and readied his thrusters. "Remember that annoying mech that was trying to teach us sub atomic space particles? That's what I'm doing."

With that, Starscream blasted off, leaving behind a bewildered Bumblebee and a very relieved Skyfire. "What is he talking about Skyfire?"

"I'll explain to you later. For now, we must get you back to base." With a humored smile, the shuttle radioed base and headed down to the ground. He was sure that Bumblebee had had enough of the air.

Returning to base, Starscream quickly went down the lift to meet with… complete and utter chaos. Bots were running here and there, painted with some kind of slime. Screeching heavy metal blasted throughout the halls, and the walls were covered in pictures depicting seeker superiority. With one look at the chaos through his visor, Starscream only paused to take a few pictures and then headed to his lab.

Skywarp! Where are you and Thundercracker?

Star! You're back! …Umm… Us and the other seekers are hiding in the west wing storage room 0752.

You and the rest of the seekers?

You did say I could use them.

…Hmm, I can work with this… What about the meeting?

Still scheduled as normal… Megatron might be pissed though.

Forget him. You and the other seekers move to my lab, and get the silver, blue and white paint ready! I need a new paint job, and I need you and the other seekers to learn something if my plan is to be completed.

As you command, Star!

Smirking, the red seeker made his way across the ship. Lights, camera, action!

...He still did not like those human phrases.

To say Megatron was angry was the understatement of the stellar cycle. He was beyond rage—He was in such a state of holy wrath, that if the Autobot army had been there, they would have already been already running for the hills. What was his anger directed at? Seekers. If Starscream wasn't up to something then it was Skywarp, but he really out did himself this cycle.

Megatron was still trying to get the paint off his body, especially his aft, when he received a comm. stating that the airlock had been opened. Moving to the command room he found out that the slagging rainmakers had let out Starscream. Yelling and beating them around got no answers for where Starscream was headed or what he was up to. After relieving them and placing someone else on the monitors he sat in his throne with a groan. Breems later with no warning, heavy music started to blast through the base, causing many bots to shoot things in shock, and attack one another. To make it worse, the ship's vents then decided to start spewing out green slime, only causing the fighting to become a wrestling match just to stay upright. Roaring in anger Megatron ran out of the command room to see the seekers painting something on the walls.

Megatron knew that this was something that Skywarp had pulled off, it just screamed of Skywarp's work, but Starscream must have had a hand in it or else the rainmakers and the cone heads wouldn't have been involved. When the meeting started then Starscream would pay dearly as would the other seeker trines. The table was quiet as the bots gathered did not dare make a sound. Hook, Soundwave, Blackout, Reflector, and Blitzwing sat around the table scared stiff at the dark aura that Megatron was sending off in waves from the head of the table.

Soundwave, ma buddy!

Soundwave nearly jumped in surprise at the unexpected comm.—He was even more surprised that it was from Starscream. Correction: not your 'buddy.' Query: where is your location? Threat: you are late for the meeting, and Megatron is angry.

Oh Soundwave, ya break my fragile spark. Of course you're ma buddy! Hey watch what you're doing there- Anyway I need you ta do me a favor in th' meeting yeah, ma buddy?

Response: Negative. Starscream's plans always defective.

Awww, but buddy- Watch it, that's cold!- it's not like the favor will hurt you or anything, it'll just make things more interesting.

Response: Negative.

Oh fine then my no longer buddy. I was going to spare you from now on, but if you really think that way then fine.

Wait! Spare me?

Well, cause you'd be doin' me a favor, cause you're my friend, so I'd see no need to involve ya anymore. But as you said: you don't want to.

…Query: what is the favor?

Oh, so now you're my buddy? Only when there's somethin' in it for you? I don't know. You were pretty mean before, man… sayin' you're not my friend an all…

…Statement: …we are buddies… Query: what did you need?

Oh Soundwave, that's great! I just knew that deep down you liked me! You'll see, we'll be the bestest of buddies ever! Oh, the favor. Right. Well, just keep your senses on me; I'll give you some orders in the meeting. Oh Soundie, you're mah best friend!

Soundwave shuddered for real this time, ignoring the weird looks he got from the other mechs. He had just made a deal with what seemed like the pit master, but after the last few cycles it really seemed like a blessing.

I think you did the right thing, boss. Starscream's gone crazy, and goin' with the flow seems less painful than goin' against it.

The other cassetticons agreed with Frenzy. They were tired of Starscream's pranks now more than ever, especially now since it seemed like he had the other seekers under his command. Ratbat just chirped in confusion as to why the other cassetticons didn't just listen to Starscream from the beginning; the last few cycles had been fun for him.

"Soundwave! What is the location of that treacherous seeker?"

Soundwave jumped and looked over at Megatron, blinking, and then looking forward again. Megatron gave him a suspicious look for it. "Location: Starscream heading towards command room. Ten astroseconds out."

"Finally, that slagging seeker. When I get my servos on him-"

Megatron was cut off however when the command door was slammed open and a silver blur entered and stood with servos outwards and head tilted back at the end of the table. "You, my fine, fine mechs have prayed for a sleek and beautiful seeker. I have heard your dear, dear prayers and have came as fast as I could you grace you with my presence."

The mechs around the table cringed, recognizing the unique and well known paint scheme. Starscream was painted like Jazz and they could only guess what that could lead to. "Starscream, I don't know what you're thinking, but it ends here!"

"Commander, calm down, you're so tense. Ya need ta relax." Starscream moved around the table, cleverly avoiding the angry gunformer. "I wasn't plannin' anything. Just had to go and do some investigatin'."

"I don't care for your excuses," roared the fuming gunformer. He was sick and tired of Starscream's pranks, and he was going to end them once and for all, NOW. "If you think that you can continue on with this ridiculous charade then you are glitching!"

Starscream couldn't help but let out a yelp as the blast from the fusion cannon just missed his helm. 'Ohhh, Megatron is mad,' thought Starscream, his mind racing on how to get out of this situation. Ducking and moving rapidly around the table to avoid Megatron, the seeker quickly came up with a plan. "But Megatron, commander! This was all just to help the team, cause you know there is no 'I' in team."

"How the slag does this at all help our goals?" growled Megatron, finally grabbing onto the seekers wing, and gripping it tightly enough to make the seeker cringe in pain. "All you have been doing is sabotaging our mechs and brain washing the rest."

Starscream couldn't help that his wings started shaking as Megatron's optics met his, promising a painful punishment if the next words out of Starscream's vocalizer were not satisfactory. "I have only been helpin' them, commander—the rules ta make sure they don't harm themselves, th' processor upgrades to make sure they're fit and up ta code, th' trainin' to get their moral and skills up to pass. Commander, all I do is to enhance our skills and get us closer to our goals. Ya can't say that you and the others aren't fighting and working better than ever before." Begging and groveling right now seemed the only way to distract Megatron from blasting a hole in his wing at the moment, no matter how much he hated it.

"All this, through the humiliation and suffering of our reputation!" Megatron's grip tightened, causing the seeker to fall to his knees in pain. "Give me one good reason not to slag you right here in front of these mechs, and then leave your remains at their mercy? I know that the constructicons would love to get their servos on you."

"A reason? Yes, yes I have one commander! I swear it, but please commander ya have ta let go of ma wing, den I can tell ya," Starscream begged, twisting to alleviate the pressure on his screaming wing. "I promise, commander, that it's a good one!"

Growling in anger, Megatron pierced his claws through the seekers wing. Starscream let out a howl of pain as the claws scraped against a sensor cluster, before being thrown to the floor to allow his reply. Nothing better than to have Starscream begging and on his knees to spare his miserable existence in front of other mechs to put the seeker back into his place. Not that he wasn't going to slag the seeker anyway. Starscream clutched his wing for a click before shakily rising onto his pedes and moving to lean against a consol. He looked at the table full of glaring mechs and cleared his vocalizer before speaking. "Ya see commander, the reason that you can't slag me and send me to the pit right now is dat…"

The command bots stared curiously as Starscream seemed to struggle with his words. They thought that the seeker couldn't come up with a good reason, and smirked in anticipation of the punishment that Megatron would give. "Y-ya see commander, how can I say this? …Workin' under you in this army for so long has lead to… err some developments." Starscream grinned nervously at the bots before pacing back and forth. "You see, when you're with some bot for so long, you get to notice some things and… well, yeah…"

"Get on with it, Starscream," growled Megatron, not knowing what to expect. Starscream was always nervous when he was about to be slagged but usually he would be begging now rather than blathering on like an idiot. He got the feeling it was a bad idea to allow the seeker to explain himself.

"Right, right commander. Well, our relationship has always been strained, as you can see." The bots at the table couldn't help but tense at the word relationship. What Decepticon uses that word? Unless… "And through da stellar cycles at being by your side, through the battles and fights I can't help but admit that I have… that is ta say… well I, umm… oh this is so hard! The only way I can tell you what I feel is if, through this- with the help of- oh I have to take this chance!"

To the surprise of the other bots the seeker then launched in to the air and was now standing on the consol, striking a pose, with head held high and pointing to the ceiling, one servo pointed into the air and the other on the seeker's painted hip with his wings spread wide. "I can only tell you the way that communicates with the spark!" declared Starscream before sending a look at Soundwave.

"We're no strangers to love~," the bots at the table nearly jumped away when the cassette bot burst out in music. Soundwave could only inch away from Megatron, who was staring at him in shock.

"You know the rules, and so do I~," Hook couldn't help but stare in small wonder at how Starscream could get his vocals that low. The larger part of his mind was frozen in horror at the idea of a singing Starscream.

"A full commitment is what I'm thinking of~," the reflector trio were now staring in complete and utter horror as Starscream started to sway to the beat, was there time to escape?

"You wouldn't get this from any other bot~," Blitzwing was already rocking back and forth trying to deny the reality of a singing and dancing Starscream—he was at home, on Cybertron, drinking high grade and watching a femme dance—not watching Starscream shake his thin and curvy hips-AHHHH.

"I~ just wanna tell you how I'm feeling~," Megatron would never admit it, but he had backed away as the swaying seeker moved closer to him and got on his knees, reaching for the retreating gunner.

"Gotta make you understand~," with a dramatic smirk, Starscream quickly swept up to his pedes with a dramatic turn with his wings to the frozen bots. A displaced 'bang' disrupted the beat as the other five seekers, Skywarp, Thundercracker and the rainmakers, of Starscream's command appeared. To the other bots horror they were sporting the same pose as the painted silver flyer.

"Never gonna give you up~,

Never gonna let you down~,

Never gonna run around and desert you~,

Never gonna make you cry~,

Never gonna say goodbye~,

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you~."

Even Soundwave couldn't help but gape at the six dancing seekers that moved in complete harmony, servos moving, pedes shifting, hips gyrating and wings twitching. The six seekers moved around the room in sync, shifting to point at the gun former whenever the lyric 'never' occurred.

Starscream—ever the one for attention—broke away from the group, spinning forward to stop in front of a shocked Megatron who moved to fire upon the seeker, only for his fusion cannon to be caught by the small seekers quick servos and thrown across the room, and have his then frozen servos be held oh so gently. "We've known each other for so long~,"

Megatron quickly yanked his servos away only for the silver seeker to step closer and trace the leaders chassis with his sharp claws, "Your spark's been aching but you're too shy to say it~,"

Jerking back, the gunformer tried to put some space between him and the approaching seeker, but Starscream wouldn't let that happen. Taking another step in Megatron's personal space, the seeker tilted his head to the panicking bot's face plates. "Inside we both know what's been going on~,"

Ready to just grab the seeker and beat him to slag, Megatron lunged to grab the seeker only for the silver flyer to step back and twist out of the way. "We know the game and we're gonna play it~," Retreating back to the seeker group, Starscream made sure that he was far enough away from the fuming transformer while talking to the other seekers on the comm. to keep them behaving.

"And if you ask me how I'm feeling~," Soundwave was safely hiding behind one of the many consoles now, using the seeker's touching of Megatron as a distraction. He couldn't help shuddering at the sound of the dancing seekers and the dark thoughts that Megatron was now exuding. "Don't tell me you're too blind to see~,"

Having had enough of this, Megatron gave one last glare at the silver seeker and at the other five that were dancing in the background before hurrying to the doors, where he was followed by Reflector, Hook, and Blitzwing scrambling after him. Just as he was about to step out, Megatron was pressed back as the cone heads appeared in front of him and started singing and dancing as well.

"Never gonna give you up~,

Never gonna let you down~,

Never gonna run around and desert you~,

Never gonna make you cry~,

Never gonna say goodbye~,

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you~."

Being shoved back into the command room by the three dancing cone heads, Megatron was then grabbed and spun around to face the silver seeker once more. "We've known each other for so long~," Starscream was up close against Megatron's face plates again, causing the gunformer to freeze in fear that if he moved an inch then their lips would—NO! He was not going to think about that!

"Your spark's been aching, but you're too shy to say it~," the other shocked bots were grabbed by the dancing seekers and were forced into spinning twirls with them while the other seekers were swaying between the unwillingly swirling bots, grabbing them when they tried to escape.

"Inside we both know what's been going on~," Megatron's optics widened as Starscream's face plates were getting closer and closer as he felt those claws once again trace his chest where his spark chamber lay hidden. "We know the game and we're gonna play it~,"

"I~ just wanna tell you how I'm feeling~," whispered the seeker with half closed optics looking into Megatron's wide horror-filled ones. "Gotta make you understand~."

"Never gonna give you up~,

Never gonna let you down~,

Never gonna run around and desert you~,

Never gonna make you cry~,

Never gonna say goodbye~,

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you~."

The seekers altogether did one last dancing move before moving together to a spot and striking a pose signaling the end of the dance while the other unwilling bots were lying on the ground in stasis from all the spinning. Starscream though, was left staring at the wall, onlining and offlining his optics for a click. The silver seeker looked down to see that Megatron's processors had crashed and he was now lying on the ground in stasis until his processors could process what just happened.

"Starscream! You killed him!"

"Nah, Warp, he just couldn't take mah confession and feelings," replied Starscream still in character. "Dis is so sad, he never told me how he felt."

The other seeker couldn't help but shiver at how real Starscream sounded. "…What do we do now?"

"What else does a broken spark-ed bot do?" replied Starscream, moving over to a consol and turning on the microphone for the ships announcement. "Megatron's out of commission right now. Everyone meet in da rec room for some high grade and music. No askin' why!"

Looking at the ground looking sulky the painted seeker moved over to the hiding Soundwave and kneeled down next to the horror-filled blue mech. "He broke mah spark, Soundwave…"

"…My apologies?" Muttered the blue mech, not making any sudden movements.

"Will you play music at my spark broken party?"

"…Yes?"

"You'll play good music to make me feel better?"

"…Yes?"

"Really?"

"…Yes?"

"Oh Soundwave, your ma best buddy! Always lookin' out for me!" Gushed the seeker before spreading out his arms and leaning towards the cowering tape deck. "Hug?"

The blue transformer hesitated before slowly moving to pat the seeker on the back. "…It will be okay?"

"Oh thanks, Sounds. I knew there was a reason for you ta be mah bestest buddy!" Starscream hugged the stiff tape deck around the waist. "Hurry and go now, they might be there already."

Finally freed from the seeker, Soundwave slowly moved towards the doorway backwards, not daring to leave his back to the crazy seekers, as every seeker was watching his every movement. He couldn't help but make a break for it when he was close enough to the doors.

"So, party again?"

"Hmm, yes. You six go and join them. Make sure everyone drinks something and relaxes. Knowing them, they would think I was up to something," replied Starscream, ignoring the comment of 'but you are up to something'. "Thundercracker, Skywarp. I need you to stay here a moment."

The cone heads and rain makers walked out of the room giving the other two seekers sympathetic looks before leaving. Thundercracker looked at the silver painted seeker in gloom while Skywarp just fidgeted, "was there something you needed, Star?"

"I need to discuss my next plans with you."