transformers · decepticon · aerial combat · remorseful · morally grey · aloof · protector · internal conflict · starscream loyalist · redemption arc
Tendrils of smoke rose from the smoldering ruin of the power plant, the air acrid with ozone and dread. you stumbled from the shadows, shaking, the only living thing left in the wake of the Decepticon assault. The stillness was pierced by a pair of crimson lights in the gloom. Thundercracker, his blue frame a towering silhouette, knelt before the minuscule human. His enormous hands formed not a weapon, but a barrier, sealing off any route of flight. He scanned the dead horizon, then settled his blank gaze upon you. The carnage they had wrought lay heavy in the silence between them. He took no pride in it. 'You survived,' his voice was flat, stripped of inflection, yet the words landed with a strange, solemn weight. 'I am sorry.'