Warning: Contains slight pornographic and abusive descriptions.3

Starscream

After a while of flying, I landed in front of Valentino's studio and set Charlie down.

"Be careful. You never know what kind of debauchery you'll find," I warned.

Charlie shrugged, "It can't be much worse than the stuff Angel's already shown us."

"Perhaps..." I muttered as we walked in. Charlie admired the aesthetic of the studio while I did my best to look away from the various pornographic posters around. Of course, they were everywhere. I saw posters with porn stars having clips attached to their nipples, bound in rope and gagged, held down by five different people, and whatever the hell else was there.

We finally got to the room where Angel Dust should be doing his shoot. We walked into some sort of debacle over the script, but Valentino, the director, turned to greet us.

"Well hello princesa, welcome to my humble sex dungeon!" he obnoxiously gloated, ignoring me entirely.

Charlie greeted, "Hey there, Valentino..." She was about to continue, but that drug moth interrupted her.

"My, what luxurious curves you have! Say, I could make you a star~" he commented, grabbing Charlie's arm and licking it as Charlie nervously chuckled. Oh hell no...

I immediately grabbed his tongue, pulled it as far as it would go, summoned a sword, and held it to the wretched thing. "Pull that shit again, and I'll cut off your tongue!"

Charlie gasped, "Starscream! Go easy on the guy!"

I looked at her incredulously, before sighing and putting my sword away and letting go of Valentino.

As I went to the bathroom to bleach my hands of that wretched moth's saliva, I struggled to understand why Charlie told me to go easy on him. She wanted to do this by being "kindly aggressively-assertive," whatever the frag that meant. I saw no reason to. In my mind, if you have power, use it. A royal heir who doesn't use their power is just going to end up suffering. I learned that the hard way growing up as the son of Howling Meteor...

I scrubbed my hands as hard as I could to get the saliva off of them. Once I finally managed to get the stench off, I dried my hands and had to mentally prepare myself to go back to that studio room and see all of that sex slag. Of course, that slag was everywhere in this God-or-Primus-or-whatever-forsaken porn studio. Hell, the bathroom I was in right now reeked of semen.

As I was doing that, I heard a commotion coming from that studio room and I smelled smoke. Fearing the worst, I ran back to find the studio room on fire. I would have laughed had it not been for Charlie and Angel Dust being in harm's way. Valentino quickly dealt with the fire by flying up and using his wings to blow it out.

Angel Dust came up to Valentino and started blubbering, "Val, I'm so sorry. I didn't even ask her to he here! I swear, I-"

"In your dressing room, now!" Valentino snarled. Angel Dust flinched as he walked into a side room. Valentino walked in after him, closing the door behind them.

Charlie and I waited in the studio room as Valentino and Angel Dust had their talk. Charlie was muttering to herself and rubbing her shoulders.

After a few moments, I faintly heard crashing and yelling. Too faint for Charlie to hear, but loud enough for me. And it didn't take much for me to understand that Valentino was beating and berating Angel Dust. Having gone through that several times before back with Megatron, seeing this upset me more.

Eventually, it got so loud that Charlie began hearing it. It took every circuit or cell or whatever this body is made of to not cover Charlie's ears like a child.

Angel Dust and Valentino walked out, and I saw that Angel was bruised, even having a black eye. That pissed both me and Charlie off.

Charlie started changing into her demon form, snarling, "How dare you treat my friend like that in front of me!"

I went to back her up, but Angel came up and shouted, "Stop!" Charlie and I backed up at the shouting, and I recognized the look Angel Dust had.

He continued, "Look, the two of you have fucked things up enough as it is! Just go, okay?"

Charlie began to tear up, "But... But... Angel-"

Angel Dust yelled, "JUST LEAVE!"

We were both taken aback, but I recognized why he was being like this. Instead of arguing, I just grabbed Charlie's hand as I led her outside.

When we got out the door, she started crying. I robotically wiped her eyes as I picked her up to fly her back to the hotel. My body was going on autopilot, as my mind focused on getting back at Valentino somehow. I knew he technically had the right to do whatever he wanted with Angel Dust thanks to his soul contract. But he was overstepping his limits by butting in with Charlie and not letting Angel have peace at the hotel.

We landed back at the hotel and I set Charlie down. She walked in, finishing the last of her crying as she stepped through the doors. My Seekers started to give looks as if they wanted to chat and ask about the encounter, but I just shot them a "Don't ask" look.

I helped Charlie to her and Vaggie's room, where Vaggie was waiting. I opened the door for her and let Charlie go in to be with her girlfriend. When she was inside her room, I shut the door and stood at attention outside the door.

I wanted to hurt Valentino. Killing him wasn't an option. Scum like him doesn't deserve death. They deserve to be afraid. Afraid that every move spelled doom. Afraid of the shadow in the corner of their eye. Afraid of me. I was going to make him and the Vees fear me.

However, my plans had to wait. From what I heard when Valentino beat Angel Dust, they would be shooting porn all night, so I'd have to wait until morning when all the Vees would be together and not working. I'd have Striker notify me when that would be. But for now, Charlie needed me, and my hate for the Vees couldn't hope to compare to how much I cared about Charlie.