1. Light

Light grey on dark grey with silver lining and a touch of bloody read. Thin and lean and deadly. If only he could shut up for a minute!

2. Dark

Three vorns of absence and a pile of dark energon was all he got?! Was this a joke?

3. First

Starscream might be Megatron's first lieutenant, but he never forgot that he wasn't the first first lieutenant. And as he thought about all the surveillance and communications that were controlled by his predecessor on this post, he sometimes wondered if his own promotion was just a charade to move the real power figure out of sight.

4. Last

"At last!" - Starscream exclaimed watching a decepticon beacon blink on the Harbinger's monitoring panel. It was time to pay the con's ship a visit. He craved energon (and company, though he would never admit it)

5. Fear

Even when Arcee's arm blasters were geared up and aimed at his face, Starscream didn't fear her or other autobots. He wasn't fearless, that was not the case. There just hadn't been any more place for a new fear in his spark. Megatron's wrath took all the place.

6. Hope

No energon, no spare parts, no one to talk to. It was so foolish! What hope did he have to survive in this flesh-infested world by his own?!

7. Drop

He didn't know what had been the last drop. Was it Megatron trying to offline him in a mine? Airachnid's teasing? Autobots preaching? It felt like the cube of his patience had been full several dozen drops ago. He had his full of all of them!

8. World

This feeling of power that filled him when he was leading his seekers into the battle... he wouldn't trade it for the world.

9. Deep

Two forces were warring deep within Starscream's spark: his desire to seize reign from Megatron, pay him back for all the disappointment and humiliation, SNUFF HIM... and his desperate need to earn Megatron's approval, make the warlord appreciate him, prove that he's going to be a perfect heir to the Decepticon Empire.

10. High

There was no higher pleasure than to watch a devious and elaborate plan... a starscream's plan... coming together.

11. Fly

All Seekers were addicted to the skies. Take away their ability to fly - and get yourself a snapping bunch of restless moody 60 feet tall robots craving for destruction. It was part of the SIC's routine to make sure all seekers got at least one flying assignment every third solar cycle. It wasn't energon-savvy, granted, but the alternative had been worse.

12. Fall

However low he fell, Starscream was willing to fall lower to get his wings back. Beg, kneel, lick dirt at Megatron's pedes, surrender anything - anything! - to get his T-cog back into his frame. If Megatron knew he had no T-cog... he would know the Seeker was completely at his mercy, he would not need to bargain for anything - why, if he could just take it all. However, Megatron surprised him. As soon as the warlord understood, that his former second had lost
the one probably most precious thing in the universe for him, something shifted in the decepticon's leader vermillion optics. Softly, unlike his earlier ruthless words, the warlord asked: "You have lost _your wings_?" Megatron knew what it meant for a seeker. It wasn't some plot to trick him into another outrageous treachery. It was Starscream begging for his help as much as his seeker's pride would let him, reaching out to Megatron from his own personal hell, and Megatron would be slagged if he didn't pull him out. To whatever outcome.

13. Shout

Shouting Starscream was just normal Starscream. He raised his voice so often that even the vehicons weren't scared anymore.

14. Silence

A vow of silence! Just another pathetic excuse.

15. Follow

Sometimes Starscream's plans were too devious even for Megatron himself to follow. The glimpse of admiration that would flash in Megatron's optics when his SIC had to spell out the details of his new plans to him was immensely gratifying (though Megatron would probably never acknowledge it)

16. Lead

You have to admit, Starscream-the-Leader-of-all-Decepticons-and-the -Emperor-of-Destruction sounds pretty cool!

17. Enemy

There had been different kinds of enemies: enemies of all decepticons, enemies of the seekers, his own personal enemies. The last ones were his top priority.

18. Friend

Starscream would laugh at anyone who dared to suggest he needed friends, though it would really nice if some of Megatron's mindless followers came to acknowledge his, Starscream's, awesomeness.

19. Life and 20. Death

His life and Dreadwings death were two sides of one coin now. And Megatron was tossing that coin. Starscream froze, expecting it to end there and then. But Megatron chose life for him and death to the blue warrior. As the Seeker looked at his leader over the smoldering chassis of the bomber jet, he realised that it was more than his life that had just started anew - a new devotion was born in his spark. And it wasn't just his rival that lay dead at his peds - all the hostility toward his leader that he had accumulated over the eons died as well. "Don't make me regret the choice I've made" - Megatron said.