#skywarp when will u come home

[robot-rarepairs-dotcom]

mr "2 bots can't be just friends around me" here !! ;3

i thought of them last night and fell in total head over heels love with them; IONCRACKER!!! (ion storm x thundercracker)

thundercracker is my favorite character, and while i hc him as arospec i think he would like a grunge-y emo-ish boyfriend!! and ik ion storm would love himself a light academia-ish poet/writer/artist/~ sensitive soul ~ boyfriend ;D

i think they're an ace4aro couple :3 if that makes sense? im just spewing hot nonsense! i love doing that. it's so fun, u should try it sometime!!!

side note, i dunno anything about ion storm's personality, and there's little to no info about him on tfwiki ;( im making stuff up for him, but also doing that bc ioncracker is canon in my au and this is my excuse to yap about them !!!

they totally have a little secret spot and a nest and they totally go there to ~ canoodle ~ .. i love them :D ramstorm walked so ioncracker could run (i still love both of them very much!!! 🥺 SEEKERS KISSING!!!)

nova storm and acid storm definitely tease the lights out of ion storm when they find out about him and tc. thundercracker is a better secret keeper so starscream and skywarp don't find out until like they get the wedding invites /hj XD

also! in my au thundercracker gets incapacitated by would-be assassins of starscream and then gets taken in by the autobots .. they had to change his frequency to one of their own bc his comm/radio was completely broken :( ion storm believes he's dead, like the rest of the seekers do, until they see him in battle on the autobots side, and then they see him as a traitor. it's especially hurtful in ion storm's case because he does try to get tc to come home and pretend nothing happened… poor boys </3 getting their dreams ruined by ol' meeee... >:3 thundercracker stays with the autobots as he doesn't want to face the wrath of starscream (or worse, megatron), and he becomes a medic, apprenticing under ratchet!! :D

ok, im stopping before this becomes a ramble about just thundercracker (but can u blame me? he's just so silly X3c) !!! i would love to hear your thoughts on them!!

I love thundercracker too being so fr I have a sideblog dedicated to him and only him, no other seekers overshadowing him💪

Anyways I think it’s cute! I like when people apply the beloved ace and aro spectrums into relationships it makes it more interesting

They need to have tender moments bro pleaseeee

[anmate]

“ where  is  the  winged  husband ?? ”

[radioactivepeasant]

Fic Prompts: Transformers Tuesday

(Returning to my Shattered Glass Prime characters, but this time we get a look at what was happening on the other side while Megatron was stuck in the reverse polarity Prime world. Introduces a character who seems to have been implied but never introduced for SG)

Soundwave was worried. It had been well over a month now with no sign of Megatron. Starscream hadn't left the Bridge bay in Arizona more than twice in that time. He was still trying to recreate whatever had gone wrong with the Transwarp Bridge before.

Considering the Autobots hadn't been any quieter, Starscream's absence on the field was starting to cause some tensions in the Con ranks. Especially with Sephie and the Trine. Soundwave was starting to fear that Sephie would do something drastic again.

"HMM!" Ravage bounded up to perch on the edge of the water tower beside Soundwave. "THERE'S NO BOTBOTS HERE AIFINKSO. MAYBEE I CAN ASKS DAT SPAYCESHIP, K?"

Soundwave twitched. He bent down and scooped up the excitable Deployer. "Dude, what spaceship?"

Ravage butted his head affectionately against Soundwave's chin, pushing his visor towards the sky. "UM, DAT WON, BOSS."

It took a moment to access the right satellites, but eventually Soundwave saw what Ravage was talking about. The craft was small -- by the standards of a Cybertronian -- and sleek; it seemed to be made for aerial combat. And it was headed for the atmosphere a little faster than Soundwave thought was advisable.

"OoOooOH. IT'S IN OUR AIRS, VOYDIN ITS WARRANTEE!?" Ravage fretted, hopping down from Soundwave's arms.

Soundwave hastily contacted the Nemesis. "Like, HQ, we may or may not have mondo unidentified dudes incoming. Uh...we got any like, IDs on these bros?"

Airachnid's irritated voice crackled over the comms. "Soundwave, if you don't stop butchering that surfer language, I'm telling Sephie to burn your cartoons."

"She totally wouldn't!" Soundwave gasped, outraged.

"She will if I bribe her. Give me the coordinates of the UFO?"

"You're like, the worst." Soundwave grumbled as he transmitted his location. "How come you get to say uncool stuff like UFO but like, I can't have any fun?"

"Because I'm older than you." For a moment, there was silence on the line. When Airachnid came back, she sounded tense. "Soundwave, that's a Decepticon signal, but that ship was registered as destroyed before we evacuated Cybertron. Keep your guard up. I'm sending Skywarp to your location."

"Stealth mode, got it," Soundwave agreed.

"I WILL BE ALL THE QUIETS!" Ravage loudly added.

The ship landed hard, shaking the water tower and plowing through the asphalt like soft earth. It came to a stop three miles from Soundwave's perch, leaking fuel from damaged engines.

"Well," Soundwave muttered, "If it wasn't totally busted before, it is now."

He dropped to the ground and crept closer. Until he could read life signs, he would refrain from broadcasting his presence. For all he knew, there could be Autobots aboard. Or pirates. Maybe even Cosmic Rust. Hopefully not Cosmic Rust.

A hatch on the port side buckled suddenly. It seemed like the mechanism was damaged, unable to open. A muffled shot barely rose above the hiss and groan of the wrecked ship, and then the hatch was forcefully kicked open. A formidable frame forced its way out of the damaged hatch and kicked its way clear of the rubble. Soundwave instantly relaxed when he saw a familiar red brand on the being's chassis.

"Yo! Over here!" Soundwave jogged up to offer a hand to the Decepticon. Belatedly, he realized that he was much smaller than the hulking warrior, and probably wouldn't be much help.

"What planet is this?" the stranger asked. Her vocoder buzzed oddly, clearly experiencing some kind of crash damage.

"Earth, Sol System," Soundwave answered quickly. "It's rad, full of cute little organic dudes with nasty tempers. So watch where you step."

"Earth," the femme repeated. "Good, that's good. What is your designation, soldier?"

Soundwave couldn't help standing just a little straighter as he answered, "Soundwave, Communications and Morale, ma'am."

"AND RAVAGE! U SEE ME? I AM WAVING!" Ravage interjected before getting distracted by the reflection of sunlight off of metal. "OOH!"

The femme nodded. "I am...well, the Quintessons who healed me, bless their embers, could think of nothing more than Mega Magna. Now the Autobots have begun to designate me "Mega-Empress", unfortunately."

"Mega...empress?" Soundwave tilted his head and flashed a confused emoji onto his visor. "That's um...that's..a name, alright."

"Commander Magna will do," the Decepticon sighed. "To avoid confusion with my conjunx endura."

Something tugged at Soundwave's memory. A story Starscream had told him about the origins of the Decepticon faction vorns ago. But the pieces hadn't quite fallen together yet.

Mega Magna turned back to the wreckage of her ship and called down the hatch, "Girls! Let's go! Don't worry about the ship, it's all salvage now."

Two smaller femmes, probably no older than Skywarp -- or maybe even Sephie -- at a glance, scrambled out of the wrecked ship. The black and pink one scurried up behind Magna and clung to her arm nervously. The black and blue one primed a path blaster and stared warily at Soundwave and Ravage.

"Satellites indicate a lot of Autobots on this planet," the blue one warned.

"Acknowledged, Moonheart." Magna appeared to be unbothered. "Any sign of Megatron?"

"I think I hate this place," the pink femme mumbled, "I wanna go home."

"We just totaled home, Luna," Moonheart snapped.

Soundwave looked back and forth between the newcomers and reluctantly commed Airachnid again.

"Uh, good news and bad news, dudes."

"What is it, Soundwave?"

"Good news is, they're Cons! Bad news is, they're looking for Mega-Boss."

"Well. Scrap." Airachnid mumbled a few more choice words under her breath, then added, "Bring them back to HQ. Shockwave can fill them in."

Magna frowned sternly and took a step forward. Peering down at Soundwave she asked a single question.

"Where is my husband?"

[dorkicon]

starscream :)

starscream :^) im gonna do g1/idw here

send me a character and i’ll list:

•favorite thing about them

g1: uhh what isnt to love...is the real question here...

i love his voice, i love when he pesters megatron, seeing him onscreen is like :^) what kinda trouble r ya gonna get into today little man

idw: im not done with idw yet but phew, the deep layers of trauma really hit home for me. i get where hes coming from by lashing out at people. i really just want the best for this starscream

•least favorite thing about them

g1: umm...oh, i dunno. i didnt like when he manipulated red alert. that really sucked.

idw: ok back to the lashing out at people bit, he needs to learn how to soften up.....let people in...starscream....pl

•favorite line

g1: oh, that one part in fire in the sky where star gets real quiet talking about skyfire, and hes like

"I circled half the globe looking for him. But he was gone."

oogh.

idw: :^) when he tells bumblebee about his dictionary calendar. also...

"You're awake."

"And you're ugly, Prowl."

•brOTP

g1: oh just the whole seeker trine. theyre jerks to each other, its huge sibling energy

idw: does starscream have friends? i think he and windblade could be a killer duo if they didnt hate each other

•OTP

g1: starscream/soundwave (the workplace romance jokes are mine for the making here) starscream/skyfire (this one is obvious, i think) and i read one starscream/grimlock fic that sort of lives rent free in my brain now, i guess...can i say starscream/bumblebee? is that allowed

idw: starscream/bumblebee is very good...oogh it makes my heart hurt

•nOTP

g1: i dont like megatron/starscream. it gives me the willies, no matter what fandom it is

idw: see above. also starscream/windblade

•random headcanon

g1: honestly if he ever actually led the cons i dont think hed know what to do. soundwave would probably have to do most of the work.

idw: i think he misses being close to thundercracker/skywarp :^(

•unpopular opinion

g1: honest to god i dont think i have any

idw: starscream isnt as sexy as you guys think he is. im sorry.

•song i associate with them

g1:

oh, you know,

idw:

part of the reason i included him was so i could put this song here

•favorite picture of them

g1:

wow! your mom lets u have two starscreams?!

(i have several good g1 starscreams but i had to limit myself here.)

idw:

:^) he bought a dictionary calendar.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

CYBERVERSE WATCH: S3 Episode 17, 18, 19, 20

Episode 17

Oh nooo Windblade u good??? LASERBEAK AND WINDBLADE OMG!!!

Beaky please don’t peck my girl (that is kinda cute though)

Windblade she isn’t a pest!!!

Laserbeak watches her fly off like “I get no respect and no thanks???”

HECK YEAH GET THEM FLIERS!!! Jetfire please be careful bud, Starscream has some old beef with you

OH NO ALL THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE SOUNDWAVES

The only downside to knowing all these characters and getting excited about cameos is it’s that many times more likely that a character I like will die 8(

YEAHH WAY TO GO LASERBEAK you’re the real MVP

JEEZ HE GOT OPTIMUS RIGHT IN THE CHEST

HEY CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE OPTIMUS

OH SHOOT WHO IS THAT

OH FRICK OH FRICK ITS MEGATRON!!! HELL YEAH

Megatron, a million universes away: My “Optimus is in trouble” and “Starscream is being a menace” senses are tingling, gotta go back to Cybertron

FRICK that was a cool entrance

Oh man what happened to his eye--HOLY FRICK HE LOOKS HOT

AYYYYYY ITS THE OG BLACK HELMET MEGATRON LOOK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

MAN I FRICKIN LOVE MEGATRON

KUP NOW ISN”T THE TIME FOR YOUR COMMENTARY (that was cute though)

Oh my gosh when Starscream started to say “You’re too late to save your--” for one very frightful minute I thought he was going to say something about Optimus like “partner” or something and I felt every muscle in my body tense up lmao, I should’ve known better but RATS

WHAT

WHAT THE FRICK THAT WAS SO FRICKIN COOL

IS THERE ANYTHING HOTTER THAN WAKING UP TO SEE YOUR OLD FLAME STANDING OVER YOU GLOWING LIKE A VENGEFUL ANGEL ABOUT TO KICK STARSCREAM’S BUTT

POWERS OF CYBERTRON UNITE??!?!?!?!?

EVEN OPTIMUS GOT SOME

BOYFRIENDS PUNCHING STARSCREAM’S ARMY OF QUINTESSONS TOGETHER!!!! SHADOWSTRIKER!!! BEE AND SOUNDWAVE!!!! GOSH THIS IS SO GOOD

WRECK THEIR SHOP SOUNDWAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starscream you’ve sentenced them like five thousand times what’s new about this OH RIGHT I FORGOT ABOUT THAT GLOB STUFF

ASTROTRAIN!?!?!?!?

Starscream: NO ONE CAN STOP ME *CUTS TO WINDBLADE* wanna bet nerd

I LOVE my beautiful girl

Oh that is some nasty looking Quintesson tech

Uh oh u good Windblade???

Croaton can you please slap Starscream out of the sky before you leave it’d save us a lot of time

Aw man I wonder what Megatron saw that made him sorta regret the stuff with Starsc

WH

HE”S BARING HIS SPARK!?!?!? WAIT IS THAT ANOTHER MATRIX

ARE THEY GONNA FUSE????

MEGATRON PRIME

GOSH I REALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO FRICKIN SPARK FUSE THERE FOR A SECOND

*CUE “THE POWER OF LOVE” AT FULL VOLUME*

Ok but what the heck did Astrotrain do???

If you get along with someone you don’t like the universe probably won’t end pfft, thanks Kup

CREEPY BUGS???

Megatron please take his hand :(((

IM LOSING IT MEGATRON REALLY IS A HUGE KID *takes out a piece of chalk and draws a line between them* this is MY side of Cybertron, this is yours

guess galavanting through space didn’t change him TOO much

Guhhh these opposing sides shots always break my heart I WISH THEY COULD OVERCOME THEIR DIFFERENCES AND BE FRIENDS AGAIN SOMEHOW....

Dang Astrotrain is HUGE compared to the rest of the bots, I wonder what he looks like in bot mode

SO MUCH HAPPENED IN THAT EPISODE (and I had to take a break in the middle of it) I FORGOT I STILL HAD THREE LEFT thank the stars

I genuinely can't believe Megatron essentially drew a line between him and Optimus and went "This side of Cybertron is MINE, the other side is yours" 

*cue shenanigans of Autobot and Decepticon buddies trying to secretly cross the line to visit their friends in the other faction* 

gosh fanfic always depicts Megatron and Optimus sneaking around meeting each other for smoochies I'd LOVE to see their subordinates being the ones doing the sneaking around while Megatron and Optimus are just like "GUYS....". Fingers crossed for the next episode!

Episode 18

CYBERTRON LOOKS SO PRETTY....

oh my gosh they actually built a wall

WAIT DID CLOBBER SERIOUSLY SWITCH SIDES OMG SHES AN AUTOBOT NOW

WHAT BEE CAN FLY!?!?!? WHAT!!!

LMAO LOCKDOWN NICE BOARDER PATROLLING

Well it took all of 30 seconds to confirm my theory lmao man I frickin love this show

Man I can’t believe how quickly they beat the Quintessons, I REALLY THOUGHT THE AUTOBOTS AND DECEPTICONS UNITING AGAINST THEM WOULD BE THE BIG SEASON FINALE I’m thrown for a loop now lol

ew those colors remind me of Sentinel Prime I hope that’s not him

OH WAIT IS THAT IACONUS MY BAD

PRIMA???? OH?????

Grand Imperium?????

Omg did Rack’nRuin switch sides too? I thought they were Decepticons

JETFIRE COME ON BUD OPTIMUS IS TRYING TO HAVE HIS MOMENT

Croaton city!!!

LMAO SKYBITE’S SHARING HIS POETRY....CUTE...

But where is Soundwave!!!!!

I’m with you Bee, those insects are creepy

WOW ASTROTRAIN IS HUGE

“And WHO rescued you from that tyrant” OH??? ANOTHER UNIVERSE’S MEGATRON MAYHAPS???

“I must know if the barrier holds!” OH!!!! Oh no is the final battle gonna be against all the other universe’s people who Megatron burned as he gallivanted through the multiverse??? I SURE HOPE SO

Gosh not to be predictable but that new armor looks so frickin good on Megatron

OPTIMUS IS SO STRONG

POOR OPTIMUS....

“During wartime, decision-making came so easily” MAN....THAT HURTS.....

oh he’s looking for Windblade!!!

AW SHADOW STRIKER C’MON, I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE BUDS NOW

“I know better than ANYONE what it’s like to be left broken on the battlefield. I did what I could” MY HEART JUST SWELLED THREE SIZES FOR SHADOW STRIKER....I LOVE HER....(ALSO THAT HURT)

Bee it REALLY seems like you should’ve had a plan / backup team for this!!!

BEE YOU’RE GONNA RESTART THE WAR!!

RODIMUS!!! YOU’RE BACK TO YOUR RED FLAME SELF!!!

WHIRL!!! OMG MY BABY

Wow that wall does a crummy job of keeping out fliers

SOMEONE PLEASE CATCH WINDBLADE

Thank you Whirl

OH JEEZ HERE COMES MEGATRON

SKYWARP!!! (I say while being super scared for my faves)

Whoa Megatron actually backed down

Nice

CHROMIA!!!! SAVE HER PLEASE

Episode 19

Ohhh are we gonna get to see Caminus??????

BEAST MACHINES?????

omg they’re gonna have to collect Windblade’s mind like they collected Bee’s memories

Chromia that doesn’t sound too convincing (you’re super cute though so I forgive you)

MORE BIRDIES!!!

A CYBER HORSE????

IT”S A  JET!?!??!

OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH IT”S CRYSTAL CITY!!!!!!

AGAIN, I WANNA SHAKE HANDS WITH EVERY BACKGROUND DESIGNER WHO WORKED ON THIS SHOW

OHHH mirror selves!!! Scary but pretty!!

OH MY GOSH!!! IS THAT RAVAGE!?!?!?!?

PLEASE LET ME SEE MY LITTLE BOY!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE BE RAVAGE

HOLY FRICK THAT LOOKED AWESOME??? KNIGHT??? A REALLY COOL KNIGHT???? WHO ARE YOU

Thunderhow??

My first thought was “Someone got their Warriors Cat oc into Transformers” and that cracked me up

KNIGHT OF THE PRIMES???

THIS STAINED-GLASS STYLE ANIMATION IS GORGEOUS

I like this dude but something tells me they’re gonna have to fight / kill him later

Bee’s smile is so cute!!

lmao nice lore-speak Chromia

They should just blast through the walls of the maze

“That sounds like a nightmare” “Scrap that!” THEYRE SO CUTE omg way to break the rules you two

CRYSTAL WINDBLADE!!!!

oh shoot many crystal windblades

I love the little “tink tink tink” sounds her feet make

Just her arm???? Jeez louise are the rest of the episodes gonna be about collecting Windblade?

Oh it’s Thunderhound

Optimus is just like “PLEASE leave me alone”

Petition for Optimus Prime to just get a frickin vacation

Episode 20

Man I’m so sad this series is almost over

Everyone in Mac’s bar without Mac..... :( Cute to see Percy as the bartender though

IS...IS THAT WHEELJACK?

OMG WAIT THAT”S THE COSMIC RUST WHEELJACK BACK FROM LIKE EP 2 or 3 IN SEASON 1????

“The Past” I FRICKIN KNEW WE’D SEE YOU AGAIN!!! IT WAS TOO WEIRD HAVING HIM WANDER AROUND IN AN EPISODE WITH NO EXPLANATION LIKE THAT

COWBOY WHEELJACK IS SO GOOD

Man Cyberverse is so frickin weird, I love this cartoon

Oh there’s my boy Soundwave

JEEZ THIS DUDE’S GOT NO FEAR

Megatron looks so cute...

“This is Autobot territory! You can’t--oh guess you can” pfft

I can’t believe Transformers is a western now

Optimus is the sheriff around these parts lol

Aw man Optimus JUST put that thing in there

OPTIMUS IS SO STRONG....I LOVE MY BUFF BOY

WILDWHEEL? Oh my bad, guess that’s not Wheeljack

“No one ever tried to find me” :(((( I wonder how many other bots felt that way

“I was one of the good guys! But you left me on that planet!” OW....

Pretty terrible shot Wild Wheel

OH NO....Innocent civilian got hurt, now Optimus is serious

Wild Wheel Optimus has been through a WAR your cowboy training aint gonna cut it

WELL THAT WAS A. WEIRD EPISODE. ALRIGHTY THEN I can’t wait to see how Wild Wheel is going to pop up in future episodes

Me: haha evil cowboy robot Wild Wheel: I felt abandoned because no one searched for me and I was forced to do horrible things in order to find my way home Me, tears streaming down my face: Haha....cowboy robot

[minimus-ambus]

so i had an idea for a fic idea centering around starscream and an incident with a truth serum, and i thought i’d write down a rough outline of it but whoops it’s five pages now

anyway here u go 

so like, Starscream (still leader of Cybertron) is making a public announcement when there’s a sudden movement at the edge of the crowd. A second later, Starscream feels a sting on his neck. He pulls out what hit him immediately: it’s a long capsule with a needle at the end. It’s then that his tanks churn and his processor starts throbbing, and he curses himself for being so stupid, for not reacting fast enough, for... At this point, the scene has devolved into chaos: the crowd is panicking, and bots are trying to run away from something that they can’t see. That’s when the guards tackle a bot at the front of the crowd: a bot with a mod on their arm that now clearly is a gun. As they hit the ground, the bot cranes their head to look up at Starscream, who’s two seconds from transforming and flying away. They’re wearing a mask, but their optics are clearly smiling as they wheeze, “My *lord*.” Starscream, not one to lose his composure in front of a crowd, straightens up as much as he can and growls, “An attempt on my life? Disappointing.” But the bot just laughs, something made hard by the guards putting them in stasis cuffs. “No, that’d be too kind.. you, you deserve so much-aghk-worse!” They’re hauled to their feet, but the bot’s glare never leaves Starscream. “Truth serum. Compulsively answer every question asked of you- truthfully.” The bot is grinning now, but there’s an edge of desperation in the expression. “Scared?” Starscream looks at them as if they are crazy, opens his mouth to scoff, and- “Yes.” An eerie quiet descends as the world stills. The crowd is frozen in their rush to run every way, all optics turned towards their leader. The masked bot’s grin has lost its desperation. Starscream blinks, the sound of his own voice repeating in his audials. It couldn’t be. It couldn’t. A servo moves to his throat, still sore with the injury made by the needle. For a minute, everyone absorbs what just happened. And what it means. In one movement, Starscream stumbles back- the crowd rushes forward- the guards lose the masked attacker in the rush- and Starscream’s engines tear through the sky as he flies up and out of the crowd, drowning out the shouted questions of the bots below. So basically after this Starscream is constantly trying to avoid everyone cause almost everybody wants to ask him something and actually get the truth- which in most cases he’d rather die than do. Starscream can’t think of anywhere that would be safe... until he remembers something: Thundercracker is staying on Cybertron for a few months. Dreading the prospect of facing his old trine mate but knowing TC is the best option he has, Starscream goes there. Of course Thundercracker is really surprised to see Starscream standing outside his apartment, and asks him what he wants. Starscream’s optics go wide, and for a second he chokes- before he says “I was hit with a truth serum in front of everyone and nowhere else is safe.” TC is dumbfounded by this... honesty? But then he processes what Starscream said and goes “oooohhhhhhhhhhh” and then he goes “awww” because Starscream feels safe with him??? So TC agrees to let him stay cause he’s nice like that TC doesn’t really take advantage of the truth serum to ask Starscream questions, if he does it’s usually by accident (“Hey Star do you mind if Buster stays in here?” “Yes I absolutely do mind, that four legged insect is not allowed within 50 feet of me”) Thundercracker talks most of the time, cause Starscream’s too nervous to even speak. TC tells him about Buster, and Marissa, and his screenplays, on and on and on. Starscream pretends like he’s not listening but at some point actually becomes just a little bit interested.   Eventually, Starscream actually speaks of his own volition, probably to say something like “your organic insect is gross and I don’t want it to touch me ever, but I suppose I could maybe understand why you like it...” “Heh, that’s progress in my book.” “Shut up.” “No way, this is the first time in vorns you’ve actually let me speak at length without interrupting to insult me!” Then there’s a vworp and Skywarp appears in the apartment, startling Starscream who screeches and then promptly shuts up Skywarp’s like “oooh hey Screamer!! I just knew you’d be here with this dirtlover.” Thundercracker grumbles “it’s called Earth and it’s not that bad, you guys are just mean” “Pssh whatever, anyway, I came here for Screamer, not you” Skywarp grins at Starscream, who is glaring sharply back at him. “Soo, I heard you can only tell the truth, huh?” Before Starscream can stop himself he says “yes I can, also I hate you so much” Skywarp’s grin gets even wider and he asks “then tell me, how sexy do I look when I pose like this???” and he strikes a ridiculous pose that gets Thundercracker laughing and Starscream for once wholeheartedly telling him how terrible he is Thundercracker thankfully gives Starscream a bedroom for the night, but it surprisingly takes a while for the former trine to actually part and go to bed. Starscream thinks about this as he sits on the edge of the berth. The ache in his processor that’s been there all day has lessened and lessened over time, and he’s actually kind of calm. Then, Bumblebee sits down next to him with the strangest little smile on his faceplates. They start talking in quiet voices, and at some point both of them realize that despite the truth serum still in Starscream’s system, he’s talking and acting just about the same to Bumblebee. Starscream’s always been truthful and open to Bee, at least for as long as he’s been a ghost. Bumblebee’s silent for a bit, until he says very softly, “I’m sorry about this.” Starscream is like “What are-“ but Bumblebee cuts him off and says with his optics locked on Starscream’s: “Do you think I’m real?” Starscream freezes, his vocal processors working. But he tries to stop the words about to escape him, so intensely he devolves into a small coughing fit. Bumblebee is immediately concerned, about to speak again- when Starscream looks up and with a crystal clear voice, says “I don’t. But god, I wish more than anything that you were. ” Bee feels stunned. His spark (or ghost spark, whatever it exists as now) is pulsing, and now more than ever he wishes he could be solid if only for a second. Then, Starscream swallows. And lies down on the berth, staring up at the ceiling. He lets out a dry, bitter laugh. “But you’re not. I’m just a guilt-ridden glitch who hallucinates and talks to himself. Leader of Cybertron... Pathetic, really.” Bee stands next to him for a few minutes, and Starscream begins to fall slowly into recharge. The minibot rests a hand on the edge of the berth. “If I was just some hallucination. Or a figment of your imagination. Then... why were you forced to answer my question?” Starscream only blinks. One of the hands lying at his sides curls into a fist. He closes his optics. The room is silent. In a whisper, he says, “I think you’re the best thing to happen to me in a very long time.” Bumblebee smiles. Very slowly, very carefully, he leans down and presses a kiss to Starscream’s cheek. Starscream doesn’t react, so Bee sighs, but still with a small smile. “I love you too.” Not fully in recharge, Starscream feels the strange tingling electricity dancing on his cheek die down. It does nothing to calm the flutters if his spark in his chest. The next day Starscream’s back to normal, so he bids farewell to Thundercracker (actually he just leaves a note on the door that says Thank You and sneaks out) and flies home.  Mustering up his strength, he goes to the council, who are just like “aw dang you’re fine now?? man, we really missed an opportunity there" Starscream is just incredulous cause someone ATTACKED HIM??? IN A PUBLIC SPACE????? AND THEY LET THEM GET AWAY??????????? he’s a very angry birb, his wings get all poofed up But I gotta add something in about Wheeljack, maybe he shows up after Starscream’s back to normal and jokingly says “oh you’re better? Dangit, I really wanted to study that serum’s effects! that, and- heh, no offense but I kinda wanted to ask a few questions myself. oh well..” but instead of being annoyed, Starscream looks at him, glances at Bumblebee in the corner (who’s gesturing vehemently at Wheeljack and whispering “go on you idiot”), and takes Wheeljack’s hands in his own. Wheeljack was *not expecting this* and tries to pull back, but is cut off by a “Wheeljack.” Starscream’s looking him right in the optics, something very unusual for him. The seeker seems to be struggling to keep eye contact, and it takes him a few seconds before he actually speaks: “...Wheeljack. I could.. I could never lie to you. I-I can’t. I don’t know why. But I can’t.” Wheeljack blinks. The room is quiet for a minute, and Starscream begins to get nervous, which isn’t helped by Bumblebee muttering “come on you idiots” over and over again in the corner. Then, Wheeljack finally seems to have gathered his thoughts. He smiles (maybe, the mask makes it hard to tell). Withdrawing his hands, he squeezes Starscream’s own, and says quietly, “...yeah. I think I’ve- ...I know.” And then, he steps back, and walks out the door. Starscream just stands there with his hands still out in the air, feeling the ghost sensation of Wheeljack holding them. He probably has a dumbstruck look on his face, but for some stupid reason, he can’t make himself feel embarrassed about it. Outside, Wheeljack is similarly stunned, but it’s showing in how he’s holding his face in his hands and quietly screaming at himself. Bumblebee is smiling in the corner, shaking his head as he mutters, “Idiots...”