TFA: A Screamer and A Baby 2

“Where go?” Bumblebee asked long after finishing the energon and having the cube taken and tossed away by the seeker. He shifted in Starscream’s arms and snuggled closer to the tall mech’s spark chamber, glancing around wide-optic and curiously.

“A way out of this accursed cavern. If you meddlesome Autobots learned to not interfere with my plans, then neither of us would be in this situation in the first place,” Starscream bluntly explained as a scowl of annoyance appeared. He glanced down at the bright sparkling, after feeling him move in his arms, without much thought that he currently had no idea what Starscream was talking about. Bumblebee, un-phased and paying no mind to the statement on the other hand, smiled innocently and dove to embrace Starscream’s neck again.

“Stop that!” Starscream hissed and pulled the sparkling out of physical reach of the area after deciding he was irritably fed up with his sparkling attitude and affection. Instantly though, the light gray face plate sunk into sadness after Bumblebee struggled for a few moments of trying to accomplish his goal hugging the seeker, but in failure, his lips began to quiver as he whimpered.

“Don’t waste your time with that face,” Starscream snapped with a raised optic ridge and a light smirk. “I’m Starscream, soon-to-be leader of the Decepticons. I write the book on deception! And there’s no way in Pit I’ll let a sparkling get the best of me,” he stated surely of himself and smiled arrogantly.

“Mean Sar! Mean Sar! Pway!” Bumblebee frowned grumpily and semi-glared at Starscream though it didn’t have much intimidation. He didn’t understand why the seeker didn’t want to be hugged, but it drove him on the verge of sobbing. When Bumblebee realized he was being tucked in a cradle between Starscream’s spark chamber and his massive arms, he nearly hiccupped a slurred cry in surprise and looked upwards for some sort of explanation.  

“If energy is wasted in a situation such as this, then the longer we stay down here,” He explained softly and slowly pat the sparkling’s helm comfortingly- his narrowed crimson optics meeting with the younger’s light blue seeing mechanisms. “Now is not the time for fooling around and playing- perhaps later, when the timing is better, but definitely not now.”

Bumblebee frowned once again and looked away, feeling ashamed from the scolding while giving a small sniffle. “‘tay.... Wattah?”

“Hmm?”

“Pway......wattah?”

If Starscream could easily stare Megatron optic to optic and even fearlessly fight the Decepticon in battle, then in shouldn’t have been too difficult in answering the question with a simple lie. And yet.......he found himself hesitant for the first time, in a long time.   

“Sure.......We’ll play...later,” Starscream eventually replied as he watched the sparkling examine the null-ray laser on his right servo and even begin to nip at it.