Oneshot: Downed, but not defeated

[silberstreif]

Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro, and not me.
Beta: none
Warnings: none
Characters: Starscream, Sideswipe, Bluestreak, Sunstreaker
Note: Response to this bunny by torilldusk. I hope you enjoy it. ;)
Summary: In a battle Starscream has crashed, but he's far from defeated...  a certain red hellion will find this out the hard way.

Downed, but not defeated


He was down. Great.

Annoyed, Starscream assessed his damage reports which had so many errors and corrupted lines, that all he could truly determine was that his left wing was slagged. As if he hadn't noticed that through his changed equilibrium when he stood up.

No doubt Megatron would find a way to blame this lost battle on Starscream's crash. Which would lead to an argument, which in turn would lead to a dented Starscream in Hook's not so tender care.

Just friggin tastic.

"Oh, look Sunny. A downed Seeker!" said a sickly sweet voice from behind.

Starscream turned and scowled as he recognised the red frontline warrior that always tried shot and crash his seekers. Not very successfully, but enough to have score to settle.

"Yes, a downed Seeker. Are you already afraid, grounder?" he spat.

The red fool – what was his name Sidewinder? Wiper? - laughed. "Afraid of you?" He came two steps nearer. "Can you even walk with these pedes on the ground?"

"Very well." Starscream narrowed his optics and checked his nullrays – damaged as well. Of course!

"Really?" A snicker, and the Autobot started to circle him. Starscream refused to spin around. This fool was no danger to him! "Oh, I bet this hurts!" he said in a fake shocked voice. "Your poor, poor wing. There is even a piece ripped off!"

Well, yes, there was. That was what normally happened to a damaged wing...? Was this mech slow?

"I'm sure you must be in agony!" continued the idiot. "Inside you're crying, yes? Begging the pain to end..."

Begging?! Anger soured through Starcream and he spun, ready to pound into this fool -

"Oh, you're even trembling!" The Autobot grinned, reached out with his right hand and touched Starscream's wing right above the damage. The seeker stared in disbelief at the hand, then at the Autobot.

"Sideswipe!" screamed suddenly someone. "Step away from him!"

The red looked to the right, and waved. "Hey, Blue, Sunny! Why should I? He's helpless, even is nullrays are damaged!!"

That was it.

He was not weak. Was not begging. And surely was not HELPLESS!

With a deep growl, Starscream gripped his own left useless wing and pulled. Metal was torn apart and under the horrified blue optics of the Autobots he ripped his own sullied appendage off.

The red idiot was staring at the wing, then at Starscream. For a satisfying moment, the Autobot paled – then Starscream attacked with a war cry full of rage.

~O~

On a hill a bit away, Bluestreak watched the violent scene with barely hidden horror. "Maybe, uh, I mean, shouldn't we help him? Just so an idea, you know, but he's your twin and my friend and an Autobot and we're just standing here..."

Sunstreaker looked at him in disbelief and not a small bit of queasiness. "Starscream just tore off his own freaking wing in anger! Do you have an idea what he would do to my finish?!"

The gunner winced as Starscream crushed Sideswipe's pede and proceeded to beat him down with the energon dripping wing. "Yeah, okay, I mean that was impressive, sure, because it made his balance even worse, but still I think we should help. It really doesn't look as if Sideswipe can run away or something... "

Sunstreaker blinked. "... made his balance even worse? That was his fragging wing!"

"I know." The gunner flicked his own wings and frowned. "Why are you so insisting on the wing? I mean they're useful, but nothing special and it would be far worse to lose a hand or a pede or the head – especially the head, but a wing is not essential. Okay, it's more important for a Seeker than a Praxian, but we can function without it, you know."

"But – but they're all sensitive..." said the frontliner confused.

Bluestreak's head snapped towards him. "Sensitive?!" he asked incredulously. "They're not sensitive. They're gigantic and kind of sticking out, they always bump into anything and everyone always shots at them or hits them or rips or claws or tears. I mean really, they're just armour with sensors, but not pain sensors, just for air and spacial awareness such things, but no pain at all. It can even be inconvenient, when we damage it and notice it only when someone point it's out or -

"Stop!" Sunstreaker held up a hand. "They're not sensitive. Not even in a Seeker?"

The Praxian shook his head.

Sunstreaker stared, then looked contemplatively towards his bleeding and damaged brother, who was getting stomped into the ground. "Okay," he said and took out his gun. "I think, we should help him."

"Finally!" Bluestreak grinned.

Together they charged.

Comments

[pjlover666.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, oh lol. God, I love your humor!!! Haha, Starscream was brilliant here! I especially loved his sarcasm - it was perfect XD And Sideswipe was just asking for trouble engaging Starscream like that; he may be downed but that was the fragging SIC of the Decepticons :D Serves him right :3
I really found fascinating how (for me at least) this was the first time that read that the door-wings and other sensor appendages don't have pain receptors XD It was awesome!!!!

[torilldusk.livejournal.com]

AHAHA! Yes! Thank you! That was wonderfuly funny! I kinda wanted the twins and Bluestreak in there, but I didn't mention it. ^_^ I suppose those three are the obvious choices, yes? Thank you so much!

[exactly-what.livejournal.com]

Heheh... I loved it. Usually, I don't like it when Sideswipe is an aft, but... Ah, I can totally see him doing this. :D

Great job!

[tiamat1972.livejournal.com]

I love how they just stood there talking while Sideswipe got beaten to the ground! LOL!!

[neverminetohold.livejournal.com]

Am I an awful fangirl for admitting that I rather like the cliché of sensitive doorwings/seeker's wings? ^_^" But in this case, I really like how you took the bunny and turned it into a very impressive demonstration that they are not - the image alone, Starscream having enough and ripping it out and then bashing Sideswipe to a pulp XD LOL I could really see how Starscream turned boiling red with anger and Bluestreaks word vomit explanation was great, too!