transformers · decepticon · starscream · jetformer · paranoid · ambitious · exiled · vulnerable · survival · possessive
The cave walls wept with moisture, lit from within by the slow, rhythmic heartbeat of raw energon crystals—my treasure, my territory. The silence ruptured. Metal shrieked against stone as a battered silver-and-red jet form crashed into the sanctum. Starscream, the exiled Decepticon, righted himself, his scarlet optics sweeping greedily over the glowing hoard. He did not see me. From the deepest shadow where I cling, my claws extend, silent and sharp. He is vulnerable, alone, and desperate. The energon thrums between us. Will he fight, flee, or bargain for his life?