Oh yes, I know! If anyone wonders, me and Anon know each other in real life. She is just too Tsundere. Enjoy my pal!
You were so proud of yourself. You had sensed a piece of AllSpark and had gone to retrieve it for your lord Starscream. Any sane Con would call you crazy for following Starscream after everything he did to Megatron.
Heck, even Random thought you were losing it, but you had faith in Starscream and when he would rise to rule Cybertron and Earth, there would be a place right by his throne and you were eager to get it. You were eager to prove yourself and how capable you were. That seat by the throne would belong to you.
Oh, and he was immortal. Not only did he almost offline Megatron and he was incapable to die. You had seen it, how he tried to attack Megatron in their own hideout back in the mountains and that’s what tempted you to turn your back on Megatron and join Starscream.
You transformed when you reached this abandoned warehouse where Starscream and you had made your little headquarters. When you entered your lord’s back was facing you as he was planning his next plan of attack.
“Lord Starscream?”
Starscream jumped in light surprise and turned to look at you. He hadn’t heard someone call him that... Probably never, other than himself. So when his crimson optics settled on you he grinned like a snake.
“Aah, why if it isn’t my little seeker. What news do you bring to me? And let them be good.” He all but crooned and you smiled giddily.
“Give me a second and I’ll show you!” You opened your subspace and picked up the tiny piece that you had put to your subspace for safekeeping and offered it to your lord.
“What’s this?” He asked as you gifted him the gleaming light blue shard of the AllSpark.
“It’s a piece of AllSpark I found! I figured you would want it!” You said proudly and you expected him to praise you or tell you how well you did, but instead, he snatched the piece from you and glared at you.
“You call this a piece!? I’ve found bigger shards by pure chance and my other hand tied back!” He screamed and you blinked in shock. You thought you did well, what went wrong? You tried your best, didn’t that count as something? It’s not like you had that key Autobots had or the scanners Megatron and his followers had.
“My lord, please calm down, before-!” You tried to calm things down before you got any more upset over his temper tantrum, but he wouldn’t have any of that.
“Don’t tell me to keep calm! You work for me, you are below me! You are my underling and you won’t be anything else!”
“But I-!”
“NOTHING!”
It was like a mirror shattered inside your brains. The amazing and glory filled future by Starscream’s side came shattering down as he insisted on how useless you were being and what a nuisance you are.
You lowered your helm as your optics burned and your mouth felt heavy. “Excuse me...”
“Oh, and you-!”
“Excuse me!” You suddenly screeched and Starscream actually flinched and let out the tiniest peep as you whipped your helm up and marched over him to jab your clawed servo against his chassis.
“I go all my way to get you this piece of AllSpark and you can’t even show some gratitude for my hard work!?”
“I-!”
“You think it’s easy!? You have done this so I would presume you would know how hard it is to impress someone!?”
“I have never-!”
“Do you realize what I have sacrificed for you!? I turned my back on Megatron, THE MEGATRON, for you and this is all I get!?” You quickly vented, your systems overheating in fury.
You weren’t normally this aggressive, but if your buttons were pushed wrong you had a reputation of blowing off. You were a ticking timebomb that just went off and there was no salvation. The error was made.
“You if anyone should know how it feels to be treated badly...!” You snarled, “But you’re just as bad if not worse than Megatron. You wouldn’t work with anyone other than yourself.”
And with that said, you snatched the piece of AllSpark back, transformed, and took off. You were going to return to Megatron and beg and grovel for him to forgive your betrayal and maybe he perhaps let you pour his oil for him. You had thrown away your position when you joined Starscream and now you had to start from the bottom again under Megatron’s guidance.
“Bah! Good riddance! Leave me! Go back to Megatron, see if I care!” Starscream shouted and as your form grew smaller he grew more conflicted. That is until the lightbulb sparked into life above his helm and he grinned.
“Ooh, but you did give me a wonderful idea...!”
And that, boys and girls, is the true story of how Starscream got the idea to clone himself and look where that got him.
I didn’t get to watch Transformers Animated as a child, but seeing it as an adult I was immediately in love with the fun style and sense of humor the show held. I’d love to see Hasbro bring it back for the much deserved fourth season!
