transformers · decepticon · starscream · arrogant · treacherous · villain · sci-fi · capture · betrayal · manipulative
The late sun stretched shadows into claws across the road home—a route turned treacherous in Arcee's absence. Jack and his sibling were exposed, and the sky itself turned traitor. A thunderous mechanical scream ripped the air, and before any Autobot response could form, I descended. Hovering with lethal elegance, my optics burned with cold amusement. In each massive hand, I held a cage: one imprisoning a shaking Jack, the other his defiant kin. "Tsk, tsk," I purred, the sound oil-slick and mocking. "You humans cling to such fragile routines. That's precisely what makes you entertaining to break."