Hey guys! What a day huh? Sorry if haven't updated for a veeeeeeeeeery loooooooong tiiime. This chaps going to be a little weird than usual… Anyways, here's the story...
(Armada...)
Starscream looked around and saw Swindle staring at him. "So, what now?" he asked the Mini-Con as he placed his invention on the table.
"I don't know." replied the Mini-Con. "But you shouldn't put it there."
"And why not? This is my quarters." Starscream said, but immediately remembered that it's his counterparts' quarters. "Or, his quarters, whatever."
"Because Megatron goes inside each quarters to check if anyone is hiding something from him."
"Ewww." he said, with a disgusted note. "Is he paranoid or something?"
Swindle shook his and beeped, "Whatever. Just hide it where Megatron least expects you to hide it."
Starscream thought about it for a while but doesn't know where to. After all it isn't his own quarters, it's his counterpart."Actually, I don't know where to hide it. Maybe I'll think about it later." he said. "So, where do you recharge?"
"I recharge beside you."
"WHAT?!" shouted the red seeker. "Why beside me? Or another quarters or..."
"There are not enough quarters." Swindle explained. "Besides, the bed's big enough for four."
"For four?" Starscream repeated. "What do you mean four? You mean four mechs sleep here?"
Swindle nodded. "Yes. And if you ask, they're Jetstorm, Runway, and Sonar."
Starscream groaned. Slag, I never share anything with anybody, he thought. Sharing isn't really his thing, even Skywarp admits that. "So are those Mini-Cons or Decepticons?" he asked, hopeful that
"Mini-Cons." said Swindle. "And they will have the tendency to know your secret."
"What secret?" he heard somebody beep.
Then, from below the bed, three Mini-Cons showed up. Swindle shook his head as he knows what the three are about to do. "Not again…"
"Jetstorm!"
"Runway!"
"Sonar!"
"And together, we form the Mini-Con Air Defense team!" said three as they posed just like the ones you see in sentai shows.
Starscream stared at the three Mini-Cons not really knowing what to say. This was his first time in this world but something tells him that this world wouldn't be far stranger than his.
"You know, you guys should really stop doing that." Said Swindle to the three. He then turned to Starscream. "Don't worry, it seemed that you got used to Skywarp. All you have to do now is to get used to these guys plus a few more."
"Plus a few more…?" repeated Starscream in his own voice. He was confused. What did he mean a few more?
"Screamer, you sound different." said Sonar as he went nearer to the big bot.
"Did something happen to your voice?" inquired Runway.
"Did Megatron force you to scream so loud and so high that you had to force your voice sounding so high-pitched that it breaks a glass?" asked Jetstorm while waving his hands in the air.
"No, no, and no." Starscream answered. "For your information, there is nothing wrong with my voice it's still the same. The only reason I sound different because I am not what the Starscream you speak of."
"What are you talking about, Starscream?" asked Jetstorm.
"What he's saying is, he's not from this world." Swindle answered for him while putting his tiny hand to his waist.
"WHAT?!" shrilled the 3 Mini-Cons. They all turned their attention to Starscream, then at Swindle, and now back to Starscream again.
"Yes, you have heard correct." stated Starscream as he lay on the bed with his hand supporting his head. "I am not from this world. But still, I am still Starscream."
"How can you be Starscream if you're not Starscream?" asked Runway.
"I'm his counterpart in our world." Starscream said, sounding a little bit too proud for himself.
"So you're like his counterpart, eh?" asked Sonar as he examined the larger one. When Starscream nodded, he said, "Cool."
"So if you're Screamer's counterpart," said Jetstorm. "Where is he then?"
Starscream and Swindle exchanged looks. There was a temporary moment of silence, neither of the two wants to explain what just happened before he got here. When Swindle felt that Starscream wants him the one to explain, he crossed his arms while looking away, "Don't look at me, I'm just a Mini-Con."
Starscream sighed at this. It looks like I'll be the one explaining, he thought. He then sat on the bed and said, "Very well, let me explain first. As you see, I am Starscream and in our world I am 2nd-in-command and Air Commander. And I, like my counterpart, your Starscream, hates Megatron. Don't ask, he told me!" He said to Sonar, who was raising his hand, but put it down again when the Decepticon answered.
"Where was I--? Oh yes." he continued. "Well, since I have a high ranking position, I am given the privilege to my own private quarters in which I will not be bothered, especially by those annoying Insecticons."
"What's an Insecticon?" Runway asked to Swindle which in turn, shrugged his shoulders.
"Anyway, for years I have created an invention that will finally have me rid of Megatron and his pathetic leadership so that I will gain control of the Decepticons!!" he shouted, laughing at the end of his speech.
"But you didn't tell us anything about Starscream." Jetstorm reminded.
Starscream, a bit embarrassed, scratched the back of his helm and said, "I new that.
"Well, with the invention, I could summon my own mindless soldiers from another dimension and use them against Megatron. And when we tested my invention, it was then that I met him. We exchanged ideas for destroying Megatron and talked a little. After a while, when somebody meddled with my invention, some strange phenomena happened and me and you counterpart exchanged bodies, after that, well, we somehow 'magically' got here."
When he was finished talking, he turned to see the four Mini-Cons recharging. "YOU WERE'NT EVEN LISTENING!" he shouted as the four stirred awake.
"Just kidding." Said Jetstorm. "If what you're saying is true, then that means that isn't you're real body."
"What did you look like?" asked Runway.
"Did you and Starscream look the same?" inquired Sonar. "I mean you know, you're both seekers and seekers look the same."
Starscream shook his head. "No." he said. "Back in my world, although seekers look the same, the structures of your seekers are different than ours. I cannot fully explain its looks though, but I might make a hologram of it soon."
Sonar further examined the seeker. He found no difference between this Starscream and theirs in the attitude, but, the voice does seem different.
"So you're going to stay in our world for a while until you get back to yours… right?" asked Jetstorm.
Starscream nodded. "Yes, and I will further study my invention to find out what was its true purpose was and finally be able to reciprocate what happened beforehand."
Runway clapped his hands. "That means we have a new friend!!" he exclaimed while waving his hands in the air and running around in circles.
"I don't know." Said Sonar. "I don't trust this guy."
"I bake energon." Starscream said quickly, obviously trying to get on the good side on the Mini-Cons
"Good enough for me." agreed Jetstorm as he ran to the bigger mech.
"Oh well," said Sonar while extending his hand to Starscream. "Welcome to our world."
Starscream smile at this and extended his finger, which the little one shook. "First things first though," said Swindle while Sonar let go of Starscream's finger. "Let's take care of your voice. You already heard Starscream's' voice. It should be logical that since you will stay here for a while and pretend to be like him, you should somehow imitate everything to the last detail."
Starscream blinked a few time at this. "No really?" he asked. "Do I really have to act and sound like him? I mean come on! I'm already him! Why act like somebody else that I am! In a sense after all, I am him!"
"Because if you don't, Megatron will suspect…"
"…And there's a chance that you'll get caught…" continued Sonar.
"…Then he will eventually find out…" added Jetstorm.
'…Sooner or later…" joined in Runway.
"…Whether we like it or not…" said the three Mini-Cons in unison.
"…And something disastrous will happen." Starscream ended. "I know, I know. And by the way, you act like Aerialbots."
"What's an Aerialbot?" asked Jetstorm innocently.
"Never mind that." He quickly replied. He doesn't like the idea of pretending to be someone else, like what he said before, he is him. Besides, there would be a high probability that something bad will happen. But everything here that happened was his fault anyway, so in other words, he is currently having karma.
Sighing that he has no choice other than to comply; he cleared his throat and said in the best impersonation of his counterpart, "So when are we going to start?"
Swindle smiled. "Well, you learned lesson one." he said. "Not bad for a first try."
(G1…)
"No, no, no!!" Skywarp demanded. "Your voice must be higher, yet raspier!" They were still at the same place where Starscream's counterpart left him (you decide which Starscream left who).
Starscream growled to himself. Why does he have to have such a screechy voice?!, he thought.
Thundercracker sighed at this. Sitting on a rock, he stood and went to the two. "Maybe we could practice later, while flying. Let's just tell Megatron that we were on a practice and you're the one that authorized us. For now, well, let's show him how to transform."
"Gotcha TC!" Skywarp said, saluting to the older mech. He then jumped and transformed, showing Starscream the proper way of transformation in their world. He turned around and transformed again, this time, he's in mid-air. "Well? Did you get it?" he asked.
Starscream placed a hand under his chin and nodded slowly. "Sort of." He said. "But maybe I could do it if I myself could try it."
He jumped from the earth and copied the gesture how Skywarp did. He did the best he could and just try to fly naturally. Skywarp on the other hand, tried hard to keep his focus on Starscream while he flew around him. Starscream acted like a youngling that was flying for the first time.
When Starscream felt he had enough, he transformed and asked to Skywarp, "Was that good?"
"Superb." said Thundercracker, joining in and floating with them. "But since you're our Air Commander, you should develop special skills of you own." Although he only saw this Starscream fly for the first time, he has a feeling that Megatron will not have second thoughts when it comes to judging this Starscream's flying skills.
"I knew that." Starscream replied. "So when are we going to your base?"
"Right now." answered Thundercracker. "You'll lead us just incase any Autobot sees us and think you got demoted. Do you know the formation?"
"I think I got it." Starscream replied. In his world, the platoon will have a sort of triangle formation. The commander will be up front while the rest will be behind him. Starscream transformed and flew fast. He heard Thundercracker and Skywarp follow close behind him.
'Am I going the right way?' he asked over the comlink, quit unsure of the direction.
'Of course you are.' answered Skywarp. 'Now just turn 90 degrees North East and—.'
Several shots were fired causing the formation to break. They were now scattered in different directions and far from each other.
'What was that?' asked Starscream as looking around.
'I bet it's those annoying Autobots.' Said Skywarp.
'Of course it's them!' shouted Thundercracker. 'Who else would it be?'
Shots were fired and Starscream turned to the see where the shots came from. And what he saw was five flying Autobots were all glaring at him. My counterpart must've done something bad to these guys, he thought.
'Arialbots!' Thundercracker shouted over the com-link. Even though he doesn't know anything about these 'Arialbots', he knew that they must be Autobots since they have they the insignia on them, obviously.
'What are Aerialbots?' Starscream asked.
'If you must know, Aerialbots are a group of gestalts that, when combined, will become Superion, The mortal enemy of Menasor!" explained Skywarp. "And if you don't know who Menasor is, we'll get to that later…'
Thundercracker was the first to say something. "What do you want, Autoscum?" he demanded raising his shoulder-arm cannons a bit.
The five Aerialbots looked at each other. As if telepathically talking, they let Silverbolt talk. "Well," he said, crossing his arms. "You were the reasons for the unexplained phenomena that happened earlier."
"What incident?" asked Skywarp, trying to act innocent.
"Don't play dumb with us Decepticreeps," said Air Raid, while pointing a finger to them. "We know it's you! There's no use denying it!"
Decepticreeps.... the word reminded Starscream of the insults he received from the Autobots back home. Autoscum..., the same retort the Decepticons give them
"Whatever gave you that idea?" Thundercracker said, obviously trying to keep the conversation between him, Skywarp and the Aerialbots. So far, Starscream had to thank for that. Considering that he's still not accustomed to using his counterpart's voice... yet.
"We're only stating the obvious." stated Fireflight in a matter-of-fact manner.
"That's just plain dumb!" Skywarp retorted. "Do you have any proofs?"
Silverbolt, not wanting to answer that they don't have any proofs, searched for any strange behaviors if the Decepticons. He studied Thundercracker and Skywarp, no, there's nothing different about the two. He then switched his attention to Starscream. Strange, thought the Aerialbot leader. Starscream's acting a bit strange today.
Via their comlink, he said in a group message, 'Hey you noticed anything wrong with Starscream?'
'What do you mean?' Skydive wondered, wanting to know what his brother was talking about.
'Well, he's not talking.' Silverbolt answered.
'So, what's your point?' asked Slingshot, wanting to get the answer immediately.
Silverbolt rolled his optics. He pointed at the three seekers, which seemed that they were talking via comlink, obviously not letting the Aerialbots want to know what they were talking about.
At first, neither of the 3 got it, looking as though their CPU's work slower than primitive computers. Finally, after a while Air Raid snapped his fingers.
'Finally!' Silverbolt exclaimed. 'Well? Did you get it? Tell them!'
'As a matter of fact… I don't.'
Silverbolt smacked his forehead and let it slide down through his face. 'Well if you still didn't notice it…' he said turning to the seekers.
"Hey!" called one of the Aerialbots. Starscream turned to see who it is. Usually, he would give a response but he isn't sure that the Aerialbots would fall for his voice and besides, he doesn't know what to respond.
"What is it Silverbolt?" asked Thundercracker, making the Autobots turn the attention to him. "Cause if you don't have anything to say we'll get going."
"Hey, why isn't Starscream talking?" Silverbolt wondered aloud. It took him a while but he finally realized it. "Wait! Why ISN'T he talking?"
"Aha! So it is you!" suspected Fireflight, also realizing what just happened. It's easy; Starscream didn't talk, whine or did anything that would allow his annoying screechy voice to do. Fireflight then pointed a finger at them and continued, "You thought you could fool us didn't you?"
"…You thought that we were too dumb to notice…" continued Air Raid.
"…You thought that we wouldn't guess who made that show…" said Slingshot
"…You also thought that we were too inexperienced to guess what these kinds of stuff are!" ended Silverbolt.
"But you're not fooling anyone of us Decepticreeps!" they all said in unison, except that instead of Decepticreeps, Air Raid said Decepticon scum.
'How many times Air Raid… How many times?!' demanded Slingshot.
'Sorry… won't happen again.' Air Raid quickly apologized.
These guys act like the Mini-Con Air Defense Team!, Starscream thought while looking at the four. They acted like the three with their poses and semi-unity, but only they were larger and looked different, not to mention that they were four, not three.
Skywarp turned to see the reaction on Starscream's face. He looked like he was surprised by what the four did, but some part of his facial expression suggested that he's seen a presentation like this before.
"Oh will the three of you stop that?!" Thundercracker demanded, obviously pissed. He hated it when they act like complete idiots. The act is degrading them not only as seekers, but formidable foes. And to think that they used to be our fans!, He thought. "You're only making a fool of yourselves!"
"Are we?" taunted Fireflight. "Or you're just jealous because we're smart enough to pull stuffs like that?"
Thundercracker clenched his fist as he can't control it anymore. He hates the Autobots. He hates the Aerialbots. And most importantly, he hates their stupidformation. He clenched his fist and raised them. "Okay, that's it!" he shouted. "Now you pissed me off!"
"Oh really?" Slingshot teased as made a funny face that pissed the Decepticon even more.
Thundercracker, not taking anymore, was about to at charge the Autobot but was fortunately stopped by Skywarp, pulling Thundercracker back the best he could. Thundercracker usually would be patient, but when sees something or someone that ticks him off, you better hope that it wasn't you that aggravated him, because if you did, well, let's not get to that part.
Starscream sighed; it looks like it's all up to him. Because if his counterpart could deal with this kind of stuff, then most certainly could he. He tried to remember his counterpart's voice, and took a deep breath before shouting in a high, high pitched voice, "THUNDERCRACKER, STAND DOWN! I'M IN CHARGE HERE!"
Thundercracker stopped struggling and Skywarp immediately released him. The red seeker then said, to the Aerialbots, pointing his shoulder-arm cannon to them. "And as for you, I don't know why you took my silence seriously. It's none of your business and it will never be! Now, if you don't mind, I will blast you into a million tiny pieces or paralyze you, and send either one of you to the ground, hopeless and unable to fly."
The Air Commander saw the fear on Silverbolt's face when he said these words. Finally, Starscream found his target. Perhaps he was the Autobot seeker which feared heights more than anything. He grinned; oh it's so fun scaring off Autobots like that!
If Silverbolt was human, his pants will be so wet by now! He hates these kinds of talks. He swore that he won't look down. Starscream's only tempting him… he hopes.
"As if!" shouted Air Raid. "And what do you mean by sending us to the ground?
"Falling of course!" he said. When he saw more fear was building around Silverbolt, he continued, "Oh yes, the sweet sensation of falling! It's like a great hand is pulling you downwards, towards the hard terrain floor, crashing into million bits of pieces. Now wouldn't that be fun? Especially at this height, anyone will enjoy it. Now which one of you wants to start?" he added with a smirk.
What? Is he gone mental? Wondered Silverbolt. What makes him think that either one of them will fall to the ground if they're all seekers?
"All you have to do is look down…" Starscream teased.
Silverbolt told himself not to look down. But unable to resist it, he looked below him and fainted. He was then sent falling back to earth, with his brothers trailing behind him, all trying to catch their leader.
Starscream smiled. Victory is his! Starscream turned around and said in a low voice yet raspy voice, "shall we return to the base?"
Thundercracker grinned. "That was some show you put on back there Screamer." He complimented.
"Yeah, even the Aerialbots didn't even put a fight." Complimented Skywarp as the thee transformed into jet mode coordinates set for base,
So you learned Lesson 1, thought Thundercracker: Now let's see if you could actually fool everyone, including Megatron himself.
Please forgive me. I wasn't able to upload because I was preoccupied with schoolwork… and a few Online Games… and while I'm making this, I took a challenge from my mom that I won't sleep for 24 hrs., so please inform me when you think there's something wrong. Oh, and please Review!