Chapter Text
Time: 23:45
Date: July 14, 1992
Location: Somewhere in South America, Earth
A shooting star crossed the dark sky, any person gullible enough would try to make a wish to this possible meteorite, most of them ignorant of its true nature.
The shooting star propelled to the ground, crashing in the middle of a forest, leaving a trail of broken trees and burned soil until it finally stopped, a trace of a blue liquid tracing after it.
Instead of a meteorite, or even some sort of space garbage, an unknown metallic structure shaped like a pill opened a furrow on the earth, some of the platings of the metallic object had fallen off, revealing broken cables that started to emite sparks.
With a "whooosh" sound, the metallic structure opened like a cracked egg, smoke arising and blocking the sight of a giant figure coming from the "space-ship."
Once the smoke cleared, a humanoid metal giant was visible. Dark-grey face platting without an apparent nose, two lines descended from its closed "eyes" and stopped on the base of his black helm. His most distinctive features were two pairs of wings coming from his back, one smaller than the other one, colored blue and pointing at the sky, the bigger pair, painted mainly red with white details, covered his entire back. His torso was mostly bright red, the paint extending to the bot's upper legs, purple bio-lights illuminating from the joint on their shoulders. His servos were clear blue with small, sharp claws in the tips. The strangest part were their "feet", they looked just like rocket thrusters, but white and elevated from the ground thanks to three blue struts on both peds.
There was a small yellow glow being obscured by the yellow cockpit on his middle section. Finally, orange optics onlined, scanning their surroundings as a bright HUD appeared in front of him.
[Diagnostic complete, displaying results]
[Spark Casing - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Primary Data Drives - Integrity: 78% - Status: Online]
[Optical Sensors - Integrity: 94% - Status: Online - Damage: Minor]
[Audio Sensors - Integrity: 88% - Status: Online - Damage: Minor]
[Olfactory Sensors - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Pain Receptors - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Vocal Synthesizer - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Locomotor Functions - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[T-Cog - Integrity: 97% - Status: Online]
[Energon Fuel Lines - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Energon levels - 76% - Status: Refueling recommended in [28] Groons]
[Weapons Systems - Integrity: 100% - Status: Online]
[Total Operational Integrity at 92%]
The iron giant tch-ed at seeing the low levels of energon, but stopped once he looked around and gasped in delight at seeing the vegetation and the moon in the sky.
"I did it!" - a kind of raspy but still smooth voice came from the robot's throat. The robot let out a cackle as he bent one knee and grabbed a chunk of dirt and marveled, watching it run through his digits - "I'm home. " - he giggled like a little kid - "Now I just need to find the Harbinger, some nice energon reserves, and wait until the war is over. "
Coward — a dark but familiar voice mumbled in the back of his head
"Shut up. " - he gritted his denta
He was NOT a coward.
Caution wasn't a synonym of Cowardice, so itso facto, Starscream was not a coward.
What, did they really believe he was going to stand there and be the end receiving of Mega-bitch's beatings until they could get a chance to speak with Optimus and beg for a second chance? No! Prowl would shoot the seeker down before they even got a chance of getting near his oh-so-precious leader!
Sorry, but they weren't going to pass for all the humiliations the original passed through the series, especially the change of frame! Good grief for that! They truly dodged a bullet! Though they loved Screamy in the Aligned continuity, they couldn't run on Levoutine Heels to same their lives.
And it's not like someone was going to miss Starscream! Everybody hated them! The Deceptions may throw a party if he just goes missing!
So that's why they stole a scape-pod and put the coordinates to Earth and crossed his digits to no one snitching on him, they would go and actually beg Optimus for protection, because there was no way that they were taking Megatron on their own.
"Now where the fuck even the Harbinger landed on??" - asked Starscream
Do they even had to check for every canyon to find it?
Ugh, the sole thought of hard work was exhausting
"Okay Screamy! Let's think positive! We have plenty of time before the Auto-bitches come to bother us! We have all the time of the world!"
The exposed platting of the ship emitted small sparks of electricity, lighting up the energon in blue flames and scattering gunpowder, making Starscream yelp and jump away.
"Oh frag!" - exclaimed as his ped was caught on blue fire - "OH FUCK!"
Starscream tried to extinguish the fire on his ped, completely ignoring the disaster ocurring behind them. He sighed in relief at seeing they didn't even have a minor scorch on the blue painting of their ped, thanks Primus to that, until the fire finally catched up with the main energon line of the scape-pod and consequently exploiting, the wave of the explosion send the seeker to the skies with a very dignified cry, the thrusters on their peds lighting up and sending the seeker flying through some trees and knocking them over.
"Scrap" - the seeker turned around only to see the beautiful forest from a minute ago catching up fire - "Oh Prime, oh PRIME, FUCKING ROBOT JISUS PRIME!"
Probably no one actually noticed that big blue explosion right?
Yeah?
No?
"Screw it!" - the seeker transformed into a cybertronian jet and took the skies - "We're not fixing that!"
And so, our protagonist decided to run away from their problems like the reasonable mech he was
At least he wasn't Shockwave, right?