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Post by Starscream on Apr 3, 2024 20:54:50 GMT
Characters Appearing: Starscream , Skyfire Location (s): The Arctic Circle Timeline: February 2nd, 2024 Plot Summary: Finally things are starting to go Starscream's way with the ground bridge and an energon converter successfully functional, but just as he goes to create a new converter in the arctic circle.. an 'old friend' makes his presence.
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Post by Starscream on Apr 3, 2024 22:05:43 GMT
Starscream couldn't say he was too excited about returning to the arctic circle, but had to admit that it was the most convenient place to test out a portable energon converter.
Almost too convenient, but it would take much longer to find another source to mine if there even was another.
It had taken a lot of hard work and time, but Starscream was rather proud of himself for completing the energon converter back at the Compound. It kept it out of sight, and they could simply refine energon there. That unfortunately was the difficult part. Sure finding an energon crystal or two wasn't entirely impossible, but what of larger deposits? If one could be found it would be far easier to build a second energon converter to have at the ready; portable too. With so few of them at the base and most of which being flyers, it made finding large desposits of raw energon slightly more complicated. Seekers didn't fair well in the caves, and that was best left for the grunt work anyway. No need to dirty his servos, but without Soundwave things only became more complicated. Unfortunately, Starscream did know of a single spot on the planet that was bountiful in energon. That wouldn't have sounded like a problem, had he not gained that information from Skyfire. Just ten kilometers away from where his old friend had been buried under the ice.
If only he'd had a shanix for every time that happened to Skyfire, he'd have two shanix. Not a lot, but strange that it happened twice.
And so to the arctic circle he went using Skyfire's own map. Was it predictable? Yes.. but if one desired energon badly enough then sometimes the desperation was warranted. They needed it if they wanted to get off Earth to reach Cybertron, but even that itself would take time and careful planning. How to travel.. how to find the AllSpark.. those were important things to account for before making any finalized plans. Fortunately with the ground bridge completed and operational, it made travel much easier. All Starscream needed to do was bridge over to the arctic circle using the precise coordinates from the map and keep someone on the other side to open the ground bridge should things go sideways and he need a quick escape. That was his task for Nightshroud, ensuring the femme that he would be perfectly fine and just as she would do for him he would comm her every so often to ease her nerves.
The former air commander walked through the arctic, carrying the portable energon converter carefully toward the vein of energon. Just as Skyfire's map had said.
<<"I have arrived safely. Stay at the ready and be prepared to open the bridge at a moment's notice.">>
There. Now Nightshroud could be appeased. Setting the converter down, Starscream made the necessary connections between the energon crystals and the converter as he set up empty cubes for the refined stuff to fill into. "A few energon cubes shall suffice for this test, but next time I'm not doing this by myself." He didn't want to risk someone else messing up his creation, and while he did trust Nightshroud to do it he didn't want to put the femme in harm's way should there be an ambush. Starscream knew he could take care of himself, and truthfully he knew Nightshroud could as well. He just got a bit carried away with how protective he was at times. Besides, he really didn't want to deal with another Rampage situation.
...Primus what if Rampage was out here? The mere thought sent chills down his spinal strut. Hopefully he would be able to just fill up these few cubes and be on his way.
But when was Starscream ever that lucky?
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Post by Skyfire on Apr 4, 2024 2:12:53 GMT
Working on the Space Bridge, and the prison on the Moon, was taking up a great deal of Skyfire's cycles. That and of course the situation that had occurred in Witwicky, where that strange technorganic boy was. What a brave new world this was, that had such beings in it. But there was one beacon he'd had to keep active, regardless of what else needed to happen. At the Arctic Circle, near his crash site, there was a very specific signal being tracked. And of course, there it was. Starscream had probably realized that his old friend would monitor for his presence, and planned for it.
If he had a shanix for every time he and Starscream mutually ensnared each other in a trap, he'd have two shanix. Which isn't a lot, but it's strange that it happened twice. Of course, the hope that Starscream would surrender still fired in his abstract cogitation engine, but when had Skyfire ever been that lucky?
He came in with his jets roaring, the giant transformed and landed near, and slightly behind, Starscream. There was no value in him sneaking around, he was far too big for it. But what he could do was activate a device he'd been working on for the moon base, a warp interdictor. Since all space bridges and ground bridges worked by accessing transwarp space, simply firing a counterphase field would ensure that neither of them would "suddenly" disappear. Of course he'd realized that Starscream would be designing a Space Bridge - as loath as he was to admit it, their minds ran along the same channels; and while their reasons for wanting to leave Earth were different, and their goals once gone as well, he knew without question but that Starscream would be seeking a Space Bridge to... somewhere. Possibly Mars. Still, he didn't draw his weapon at first. Maybe, just maybe, he could talk sense into his old friend. He saw the energon converter, and nodded.
"Is that unit based on my design, Starscream?"
It was confrontational, sure, but it was his attempt to "just talk".
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Post by Starscream on Apr 4, 2024 23:54:34 GMT
Starscream closed his optics, growling as the sound of afterburners filled the air. He didn't even have to turn around to know who was there. He already knew.. Starscream recognized those engines anywhere, and the loud thud of a landing that could only be produced for someone tall. It gave Skyfire away every single time. Clenching his servos, Starscream didn't immediately turn around as the white seeker spoke up. There was so much he was feeling in that moment.
Anger.
Frustration.
Hurt.
Optics narrowed, the former air commander whipped around and stomped his pede on the ground beneath him. "No! This was entirely mine." It'd definitely been Skyfire's, but there was no way he was letting his old friend take the credit. Still, he hadn't fired up his null rays to immediately blast the taller mech. "But I will tell you can take credit for. All the damage you have caused. I have something wrong with my processor. I shot you and sent you into stasis lock for no reason. I need to beg for your forgiveness and Thundercracker's. Do these words not sound familiar to you?" Starscream crossed his arms, glaring up at Skyfire as he continued. "Nightshroud told me everything that you said to her. That you threatened her into speaking to Clematis or you would send me elsewhere so she would not ever find me if she didn't comply. That I am the one responsible for tearing her and her twin apart that night in Uraya. That you destroyed her confidence in completing the mission I had tasked her with. What gives you any right to say any of that to her?!"
Naturally he would get defensive over his adopted sparkling.
Starscream was only feeling himself grow angrier and angrier as he spoke, trying his damnedest to not attack his old friend. "That isn't very noble of an Autobot such as yourself.. to use such underhanded tactics to manipulate those around you. And here I thought you were the peaceful sort, but perhaps you've taken a cue or two from me. Tell me, Skyfire.. have you told the Autobots you've been lying to them? That you are, in part, responsible for all of us escaping from our cages? Frankly, I'm only partially surprised that they didn't imprison you, but let's face it. The Autobots would never imprison their own even if they decimated half this planet you all so enjoy. It sickens me."
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Post by Skyfire on Apr 7, 2024 2:59:20 GMT
Skyfire folded his arms over his chest - of course Starscream was lying again. Whatever he did now, he wanted all the glory. Where was the scientist from aeons ago? Where was the explorer who served his function as joyfully as Skyfire? Where were their travels, far from Cybertron? For the giant mech, they felt so very recent, but as much he knew the aeons of hurt Starscream had been through, he couldn't help but see that his old friend had been corrupted by something.
And of course, the accusations - and frankly, most of them were true.
"I do not regret what I said to Nightshroud, nor has my opinion changed. Putting you into stasis lock and dropping you into the bottom of the ocean would be a kindness, compared to what you have done to others. You refuse, endlessly, to surrender. You refuse to let the War end. Even your former leader has relented. In the face of a brewing conflict with the humans, he remained on our side. A bit more violent about the situation than I was, perhaps, but I also fired some shots. After all, G.H.O.S.T. mistreated one of my old friends too. Protecting an innocent caused my ethical processes to change priority in the moment."
He locked optics with Starscream, having avoided directly saying Megatron's name. He knew it upset his old friend.
When he talked about the Uraya incident, Skyfire held out his arm, opening the projector, and showing Starscream the footage from Jazz's datatape, with all the identifying data showing at the top of the video. "This is from Jazz. Lieutenant of the Autobots, who saved Clematis' life. Not a mechanism known to lie, or inclined to fabricate his own memories." Skyfire paused the video, then zoomed in on a single tri-jet from the set of three - the one with an open bomb bay, with the payload aimed for the building where Clematis and Nightshroud were. There was no mistaking it for either of them, it was Starscream.
"Would you like me to track down Thundercracker, and ask for his memory engram of the event? Certainly, he must know that you were the one carrying the payload. Skywarp, too. You did this. You killed innocent scientists!"
Skyfire took a step forward, his size suddenly much more imposing as he glared down at his former wingman with anger in his eyes. "We were scientists, before you changed; and before you forced me to take up as a soldier. We could have been assigned to work in that facility, in between explorations. You... you attacked mechanisms of your own function class, Starscream! Soldiers, I would understand; fighters, I could accept. They are built for it. Scientists, especially domestic scientists, are civilians. They are not part of any war. All you did was commit murder."
He stepped back, and shook his head as he closed the projector. "I've informed Optimus Prime of the entirety of my actions leading up to the breakout, and submitted my memory engrams for review. You are not privy to the result of that review or any actions taken as a result. You are not an Autobot. Regarding my 'nobility', that particular neurocircuit seems to have become only intermittently functional as a result of long-term exposure to raw Energon with only my passive shielding active. I assure you, between this wretched cold and wet, the confirmed artifacts of the Thirteen, the transwarp pulse that we encountered, and whatever was buried in that cave before I got there, I am not enthusiastic to make a home on this world. I do enjoy this world, as I enjoyed every world I've studied. Like all of them, I'd prefer to be at a greater distance. Wanting to leave does not make me any less an Autobot. Being homesick does not make me disbelieve that all will be one."
He degaussed his vocoders quickly, before speaking again. "Only a few beings know what you did that night, by the way. I haven't made it public knowledge, nor is there reason to do so."
With that, he shrugged. "No one but me knows that we're here now, either. I could have alerted Autobot HQ a hundred times over in a thousand different ways, as you know. I have chosen not to, because - well, I don't know why, exactly. But it didn't feel right to stab you in the back like that. I'm certainly capable of underhand actions, and acting to further my own goals; I won't deny it; but I'm not like the mechanism you have become. All Clematis wants with Nightshroud is to be sisters again; you met her. There's no malice in her, no duplicity. She doesn't even hate you for the damage she took when you kidnapped her. 'Til all are one, that's it. And all I want is this damned war to decisively end, so that we can work as a species to get off this cold, wet, mudball, and go home. I don't want to fight, and I never did. Not you, not any other mechanism, and not the humans. I just want to perform my function - to seek out new worlds, new lifeforms, and new civilizations. I want to figure out where the Guardians went. Where the Great Arks went that went missing."
He shrugged again, looking at Starscream, waiting to see how the other mech would respond.
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Post by Starscream on Apr 7, 2024 17:14:16 GMT
The ocean?
THE OCEAN?!
Starscream had only known that Skyfire had threatened to move him from what Nightshroud had told him, but he didn't know the part about his former friend wanting him put in stasis lock and thrown into the ocean. He had no reason to doubt that Nightshroud had also been unaware of this as she would have flat out told him the truth, but to hear it from Skyfire himself somehow hurt that much more. To hear his former friend speak so callously, to not feel any remorse for what he'd said not just about him but to his adopted sparkling's own face.. This was not the shuttle he knew, nor was he the brilliant scientist that Skyfire once knew. Skyfire could at least say he got a free pass for most of the war and didn't get to witness it at all, but Starscream? He went through millions of years of torment both through Megatron; through the loss of his friend only to find him so he could join the Autobots as well as the destruction of his (and everyone else's) home planet. It was damaging to say the least, but the brutality of Megatron? His sheer idiocy? At least Skyfire could say he didn't have the pleasure of witnessing it at it's prime!
But then he had to go and bring out that data tape. The former air commander sneered as his former friend chose to play it, boldly assuming Starscream had no recollection of the events. Oh, he did! He did recall it perfectly. The fact that he even needed to present this at all wasn't even the full reason he was as angry as he was about it. No. It was the fact that he knew that Skyfire had made Nightshroud watch this knowing how badly that night had traumatized her.. having spent countless nights before he was captured trying to comfort the femme after she awoke from nightmares exactly about that event. He knew he was fully responsible for what happened, and until the crimson seeker came into his life he felt no remorse whatsoever. It was another job to be done, but even still the taller seeker kept prattling on about how everything Starscream had ever done was wrong.
Still, it did amuse him to a slight degree to hear that Skyfire confessed his involvement in the breakout to Optimus Prime. Oh how he would have loved to have been a fly on a wall for that.
"Are you finished?" Starscream waiting until the end of his former friend's pontificating before speaking up. "For your information, no. I do not need Thundercracker nor Skywarp to jog my memory because I do recall that night, and that had been on Megatron's behalf. Don't pretend you know what happened on Cybertron because you don't. Uraya was stubbornly neutral during the war, and Megatron ordered the bombing and we carried it out. It was only sheer irony that most who survived joined the Decepticons afterwards, but do you know why I never told Nightshroud I was the one responsible? Considering she won't forgive her twin, do you really think she would have forgiven me? That she wouldn't have immediately left? After I found out that was what happened to her, I took her under my wing not as a means of redemption but to prevent the creation of another story such as mine and then you just had to go and try and undo all of that. To try and turn her against me. Well it pleases me to tell you that you failed in every way because she did forgive me not that I asked her to. She treated our time together as me making it up to her, and she knows full well we were different bots then. That we did not know one another, nor was I actively trying to terminate her. Mere happenstance during a war tearing the planet apart." Huffing in a half laugh, the red and blue seeker continued. "As for her twin, you cannot force Nightshroud to speak to her. You cannot force her to forgive her, but I will tell you this. She has willingly talked to Clematis through their spark bond a couple times more recently, but only very briefly and by that I mean no more than a few words. I'd like to think I've helped her far more than you."
Like he was going to tell Skyfire about the whole Rampage thing that easily.
"As far as the war goes, the war has been over. Finished. Ended. I told you I no longer wish to fight, yet you insist I'm still resisting. As if I would ever align myself with those who would follow the noble Optimus Prime." Starscream rolled his optics. "You keep speaking of longing to continue preforming your function, but do you even know what the Autobots stand for? The Decepticons? The Autobots fought to keep the old caste systems in place; to limit what one could and could not be and the Decepticons fought against that. To fight for the right to be whatever you wished.. to go wherever you wished and not treated as some slave in some cases. I do clearly recall telling you, Skyfire, that I much enjoyed the life of a warrior than that of a scientist. It's far more exciting and exhillerating, but we would not have to fight if your precious Prime would think for himself and realize what oppression he continues to preach. 'Til all are one'.. What utter slag. How are we to be one if we are to preform based on mere function alone and not what our sparks desire? Instead he would rather align with the humans and imprison any and all Decepticons, and starve those who have yet to be captured by cutting off access to energon. Do you not understand why I am here? Why I am harvesting this energon and converting it? It is so we have the edge and a chance to even survive! As I said, Skyfire. You were not there. You do not understand what we have been through. What I have been through. Perhaps if you had been there to see how I begged the Council to send a search and rescue team for you only to be shamefully denied then you would understand why I made some of the choices that I did."
Starscream turned away, looking at the energon converter as it began to fill the first cube. "Neither of us are what we once were. I chose my path, and you chose yours. You could have stayed by my side. I fought to revive you.. to help you quickly rise through the ranks of the Decepticons to eventually become my second in command, yet you immediately squandered that by siding with the Autobots over a couple of measly humans not even understanding what the Autobots fight for. They don't fight for peace. They fight for functionism and segregation. We have evolved far past such archaic times, yet they wish to enforce it. How are we to rise to our fullest potential if we are not even allowed to dream of it? You should know that better than anyone.. or I once thought you did. You'd sooner throw an old friend to the deepest trenches of the planet than than stop and question that logic yourself. What is it that you really fight for, Skyfire? Freedom.. or oppression?"
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Post by Skyfire on Apr 10, 2024 20:26:51 GMT
Skyfire looked at Starscream, not accepting his excuses about the night in Uraya; and his initial silence made that perfectly clear. It wasn't Megatron that had released those bombs, after all. It was this... thrill-killer who had taken his friend's place. Somehow, Starscream had failed in his function, and that made no sense to the giant shuttle. "You have free will, and did then as well. I won't argue that Megatron is terrifying, but you had the capacity for interplanetary travel, even if you didn't feel that you would be safe on Cybertron after defying him. You made the choice to fight. You made the choice to commit murder. All because it's exciting."
He glared at Starscream when he started asking about freedom and oppression. Nonsense, protoformat nonsense from the word 'go'. "I have always served in my function, proudly, until I was forced to adapt, against my will. Individuals of differing function classes should be free to interact in public areas, when they are not actively serving in their constructed function, to develop new ideas and new solutions. I do not know why I fight, except to defend myself, and the beings who have defended me. The mechs who did not scream that I was a 'traitor', because part of my function as an explorer includes making friends. Mechanisms who were protecting a world and protecting lives, not trying to mindlessly drain the energy of a unique world for destruction and devastation. I do not wish to fight, and I never did. It's not 'exciting' to me. I would throw you to the deepest trenches of this planet, because I do not have the capacity to realign your personality circuits back to what they should be and not this tainted nonsense that's been allowed into your positronics!"
Skyfire shook his head and the expression on his face was pure disappointment. "I have always wished to return to the Golden Age under the Elders, guided by the wisdom of the Primes, where all members of our species act as one. If you oppose that, then we will forever remain opposed until our sparks return to the Matrix."
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Post by Starscream on Apr 10, 2024 23:39:52 GMT
To Skyfire's credit, he wasn't wrong. Starscream could have done anything in that moment. He could have fled Cybertron. He could have betrayed Megatron in an effort to steal leadership from him. He could have switched to the Autobots as disgusting of a thought that was, but it was still an option. However, that did not change what needed to be done. Sometimes drastic measures needed to be taken to make one's opinion heard, and that's what the Decepticons had decided. Even before Megatron fully founded the Decepticon movement, did they not launch attacks on largely populated areas on Cybertron to make a statement? To make their voices heard so to speak? The Council did not care about those who suffered under their rule, and while Starscream himself had quite the cushy life as a scientist he was still denied. They refused to go send a rescue team for Skyfire; they refused a great many things. Starscream wanted change, and there was once a time he believed in Megatron's vision.
It's just that Starscream and Megaton had vastly different opinions, and he hated the mech's leadership style.. the choices he made. If he'd been in charge the war would not have even left Cybertron! It would have ended before it reached that point!
Skyfire continued his prattle of what he believed was right; that he believed that functionism was the way. That they needed to return to the Golden Age where all were 'one'.
But they weren't one, were they? They never were.
So this was how his former friend felt. If he felt this way now, he would have felt that way in the past. Had it all been a lie? Was Skyfire always this much of a fool? Did he ever believe in Starscream's hopes and dreams? It was all too much in that moment, not that the red and blue seeker would ever let that show. His processor raced, questioning it all. Was Skyfire ever really his friend, or was he trying to manipulate Starscream into seeing the same vision that he did.
Til all are one.. As if.
"You are either lying, or you're stupid." Starscream growled, remembering Megatron's words but finding them all too fitting at the same time. He turned off the energon converter once the first cube was filled, too irate to even continue the test run. One cube was filled. That was enough for now, but there was another matter to attend to. Once the energon converter was stowed away Starscream took the energon cube in his servos, glaring at it angrily. "This is the real you, isn't it. You were never my friend. We were never wingmen." In a quick maneuver, hurled the energon cube at Skyfire before firing up his null rays. It would only take a few more seconds. "So why don't you take a hint, Skyfire, and return to your icy tomb.. permanently!" Leaping into the air with afterburners pushing him backwards, Starscream opened fire at the energon cube before immediately transforming and making an attempt to fly away. He knew that blast wouldn't be enough to do much good but it would buy him a few seconds at most. Not enough time to comm Nightshroud and have her bridge him out. Skyfire would quickly catch up and if he tried to get away via ground bridge now Skyfire would have a chance to get through too.
He needed more time!
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Post by Skyfire on Apr 11, 2024 2:45:49 GMT
Skyfire had determined the fact that Starscream was going to act. The moment the smaller Seeker warmed his null ray, Skyfire was holding his laser carbine. He acknowledged the energy expenditure it took to restore him, and that was after they'd already been on Earth for some time. So, he respected the decisions of the Elders. The fact of the matter was that finding Earth again, bringing a team or a ship to recover him would have been totally unwarranted for a single Seeker. He still respected what Starscream had done on his behalf, but also understood the reason for the denial. Why did his former friend have to be so damned emotional about everything? Had that transwarp pulse changed him so much that his reason circuits were now secondary to his emotional ones? Or was it something more horrifying that happened while Skyfire slumbered beneath the ice?
"We were friends. When you were sane, and life was well-constructed. I trusted you with my life. I do not hold you accountable for the first time I was buried here. The second, though, was entirely your doing. Something is deeply wrong with you, and you are beyond my help. I do not know what's wrong exactly, and I do not have the necessary skill to perform a personality realignment to repair you. My function is exploration and science, not surgery. You are not the same being that you were. I don't know who you are anymore. You're wearing Starscream's shell and using his name, but whatever abomination powers you is not my friend's spark."
When the cube was hurled at Skyfire's chest, he snap-fired at the same time as Starscream. The two beams struck the unstable energy source at the same time. The explosion was massive enough to shake the earth, causing snow to fall in driven mounds. The giant mech was pushed back, even as he activated his own jets and took off into the air while transforming and locking onto Starscream. Skyfire's massive jets roared like some kind of raging beast as he accelerated toward the Air Commander. If there was an observer on the ground, it would look to them like Skyfire was looming up behind the Decepticon like a shark having located its prey. He opened the missile bays along his wings, and his frustratingly unemotional voice would come across Starscream's radio - even as the Seeker's various sensors would be telling him that Skyfire had every one of his weapons locked in. Even the bays that would still normally be loaded with his probes in a fight had warheads now.
"You are a traitor - to everything we once believed. Set down and surrender peacefully, or I will force you into stasis lock. Your choice."
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Post by Starscream on Apr 16, 2024 13:53:52 GMT
Starscream was the one who wasn't sane?
He?!
Skyfire could blame him all he wanted to, and while yes it was true that Starscream had been the one to shoot first it had been Skyfire's idea of using the last of his own strength to fire at the seeker and thus sending him back into his icy tomb for what.. a week? For a mech saying Starscream had a choice in following Megatron's orders to strike Uraya, did Skyfire not also have a choice back then? He could have simply let Starscream go instead of trying to sacrifice himself for seemingly no reason. And he thought Starscream was the one who wasn't sane. Perhaps neither were, but at least Starscream knew where he stood. Skyfire? That was a complete mystery to the point of questioning everything.
But the one thing he didn't question? The fact he no longer cared for the tall, white Autobot. Any feelings of fondness and friendship that had once been there were gone. They'd reached a point of no return, and Starscream held no remorse for what he now doing.
"It is you who is the traitor, Skyfire. You and your fondness for that you know nothing about. You don't get to judge my choices based on a war you were not present for, and that wasn't by choice. I have suffered for millions of years. We all have! War changes bots, and it's changed me for the better." It really hadn't. "I've said I no longer wish to fight and want to return to Cybertron, but it is you who wishes to continue this fight! You are the one who keeps insisting that we should fight whether you choose to believe that or not. It's not my fault you're too blind to see the truth before you. Maybe you're the one that needs to have your processor examined by a medic, or maybe it would be for your betterment if I plunged you into the depths of this insufferable planet! You seem to like it there after all."
Pulling upward, Starscream rocketed his thrusters before completing a full summersault and opening fire on Skyfire. As he glared at his former friend from within his jet form, he privately commed Nightshroud. It was only fair that she knew what was going on, but he didn't want her to interfere either. He didn't want her in the crossfire.
<<"Skyfire's here. Pulling rule number 2. You are not to open that ground bridge until I give the word, is that clear?">>
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Post by Skyfire on May 4, 2024 7:11:20 GMT
As Starscream pulled a complex aerial maneuver well-suited to his shell, Skyfire used his bulk to his advantage - even feathering his engines for a moment put him into a steep dive, gaining him speed as he reached a higher velocity, vectoring his thrust against the gravity of the Earth, dodging the more nimble mech's bullets. There was a reason he'd guided Silverbolt in battle against Starscream once.
In the back of his memory circuits, there was a flash as he thought of Silverbolt. In one part of his mind - the conscious one - he saw the Aerialbot who had been, paradoxically, afraid of heights. In the other, less controlled part of his mind, there was the image of some kind of flying wolf - and with him, some kind of scorpion thing. He didn't understand it at all, but it was irrelevant and taking up cycles he needed now to defend against his former best friend.
"For the better? Is this truly better for you? I pity you, old friend."
Skyfire knew he had damage in his mental circuits from the long time here on this world - damage that was explained by the raw energon; or maybe damage from someone trying to remove memories remotely from his systems, and not knowing that his backups would be waiting.
He pulled up, aiming to drive his nosecone through Starscream's fuselage, taking advantage of the missile lock and firing a barrage that filled the sky at the smaller Seeker. "I offered you the chance for surrender and freedom, in the hope that we would build a new Space Bridge, to leave this world without fighting. You refused to cooperate on our shared goal of leaving this cold, wet, mudball of a world behind. Your logic behind that choice still totally eludes me."
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