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Calibrated Loyalty by hero_of_derp (SillyBillyDillyDally), SillyBillyDillyDally_TF (SillyBillyDillyDally)
Fandoms: Transformers: Prime
24 Mar 2015
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It's hard to tell if freedom changed Starscream, or if he's always been this way. Out from under Megatron's iron grip, Starscream makes his way on his own. When hunting after the same energon source, Ratchet finds himself in debt to the Seeker, and his medic coding won't let things go until he repairs the former Decepticon. While the autobots have no reason to trust them, they are unable to touch him while under Ratchet's care, and are given no choice but to get to know Starscream. He's not really that bad...is he?
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- Part 1 of Calibrated Loyalty
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[only on Chapter 2, but would this count for Immortal Starscream? eh okay his spark went out like four times-]
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"No," Starscream whispered, and then his optics went bright with fury. He had not come this far to lose. He had not sacrificed so much over thousands of years to see it end like this. "NO!" He jumped over the edge and transformed, not recognizing his name being called from Ratchet. He swooped down, one wing skimming the surface of the cybermatter, and transformed in time to grab the Star Saber.
His mind was empty of all thought except for his one focus. Put an end to this fight. Put an end to the war. One more death piled upon hundreds of thousands of millions. Countless sparks dimmed for power. He'd lost friends, berthmates, and each time Megatron had just sneered. The cost of war.
The cost was too high.
"MEGATRON!" He roared, and Megatron turned. The momentum from his flight carried him still, as Starscream gripped the Star Saber. He stabbed the sword forward and it met spark, and at the same moment Megatron fired, point blank, into Starscream's chest.
Pain ripped through his body but Starscream took another step foward. The blade slipped into Megatron's chest a few inches deeper. His pain sensors overloaded entirely, failing and rebooting and segments. Pain and numbness shot through his body. Starscream's spark glowed through cracks in his chest, as energon began to well and run down his torso.
His satisfaction that not even Megatron could survive this was stronger than the panic revelation that he was about to die as well.
"Star...scream..." Megatron managed to get out, and he raised his own blade to attack, but it slipped from his fingers. "You...traitor."
Starscream stared at Megatron, frame shuddering, and suddenly coughed up energon. It splattered across the saber, across their frames, and Starscream smirked. "I finally....made good on my word." His legs gave out and he his his knees, and his frame creaked. Cracks in his armor worsened. He was kneeling in a puddle of his own life blood. "I finally did it." He looked up at Megatron who stumbled back one step. "You will never - " he hacked again, more energon flecking across the floor before them " - harm another....again."
Megatron sputtered and grabbed at the sword with his hands. "I will...kill you...for this," he said, words half static as he pulled the sword out, inch by inch, each breath possibly his last. His optics were fading and brightening as he clung to the last flares of energy from his spark.
"You already have," Starscream said, and he had the satisfaction of watching the last of life fade from Megatron's eyes a sparkbeat after he disloged the sword and it clattered to the floor. The warlord fell back, off the edge. Starscream's vision half faded for a moment as he tilted his head back. One eye was completely off. His systems struggled every moment, and he heard the faint tinkle of crystals.
Crystals....Vos. He fell back, and the gap in his subspace let something slip out.
He turned his head, reading the broken glyph that Ratchet had etched into the crystal long ago, now shattered from the impact from Megatron's fusion cannon and his own metal caving in. He let out a choked sob. It was ruined, destroyed, in pieces, and smeared with his energon.
Promise broken.
The ship shifted again, and he rolled, powerless to stop it, He hit the pool of cybermatter, beginning to sink under it's surface. "...Ratchet..." his whispered, before his tanks were full.
His other eye failed.
His chest stopped glowing.
His spark was gone.
It took Arcee and Smokescreen both to keep Ratchet from diving over the edge, but neither of them could stop the staticy wail that Ratchet's vocalizer had produced. It had started at Starscream's name but gone intelligible. His vocals reset three times, evident for the time breaks in his cries, but it refused to reset the fourth time and Ratchet fell against the other two autobots, his frame shaking with silent sobs.
He had lost him. His amica. His Starscream.