~Worth It~ (Megatron x Starscream)

1: Unworthy

Starscream's wings fluttered as he felt the cold breeze against his frame, it was another peaceful night on the Nemesis flight deck which he had all for himself, just like every other night. No sounds, no interruptions, just him, the wind and his thoughts.

The seeker walked over to the edge of the flight deck before letting himself tip forward just to fall into the clouds, his shiny red eyes, half open as he fell, it was calming. He transformed into his jet and soared through the sky, turning and looping through the clouds, engines roaring as he went full speed while twirling in the air with grace, just like how he use to back on Cybertron.

"Starscream," Soundwave said from his comm link, "Why aren't you joining us for dinner again?" the communications officer asked, sounding rather concerned but Starscream paid no mind to it, "I'm out for a quick flight. I'll be back shortly," Starscream replied and quickly turned his comm link off.

The seeker suddenly caught an energon signal, he sent a quick message to Soundwave before heading down to check it out. An energon mine, untouched and plentiful, "If only my efforts meant something to my master..." He mumbled to himself, running a clawed digit against an energon crystal, "He seems to notice my failures more than my achievements," Starscream looked at his pitiful reflection in the energon crystal, he sent Soundwave the coordinates and walked out of the mine.

"Starscream, care to explain why you're out at this hour?" Megatron asked through the comm link which Starscream quickly turned off once more before transforming and heading back to the Nemesis. Hanging up on Megatron, what a brave yet foolish move, he's sure to get a good scolding when he arrives.

Meanwhile on the Nemesis, Megatron stood on the flight deck waiting for his second in command to arrive while holding an energon cube in his hand, he had no idea why Starscream acted so rudely towards him when he was just asking for the reason on why he was out so late. "Lord Megatron, why are you still outside?" Arachnid asked as she stepped closer to the warlord, "I'm waiting for Starscream," Megatron replied, feeling a cool breeze pass by.

"I'm guessing he found this week's 5th energon mine," Arachnid chuckled, spider legs twitching as if they were trying to be sarcastic, "Correct. He hung up on me when I called him."

"Rude, but what else do you expect from him?" Arachnid stated before letting out a small yawn, "I'm going to my room now, goodnight my lord," she said beginning to walk back inside the ship, leaving Megatron to wait for the seeker, he then spotted a silhouette in the clouds immediately knowing that it was Starscream. He could tell that seeker apart from any crowd, Starscream made it to the flight deck and transformed back into a bot, before looking up at Megatron.

The warlord carefully handed him the energon cube, which Starscream took into his small hands hesitantly, "Did you have a nice flight?" Megatron asked, "Yes... I suppose you already know about the mine."

Megatron nodded, the seeker took a sip out of the energon and sighed, "Though, it was quite rude of you to hang up on me when I was just checking on you..." The silver warlord stated, causing Starscream's wings to lower themselves slightly. "I-I'm sorry my lord," Starscream stuttered, taking another sip from the energon cube, Megatron raised his hand as if to slap the seeker and it certainly made Starscream flinch and choke on the energon he was drinking.

"Pathetic," Megatron mumbled as he watched the seeker cough up some of the energon, it was clear that Starscream feared him, a little too much. Megatron turned away and walked back into the ship with Starscream soon following behind, still drinking the energon.

The seeker finished and went straight to his berthroom, Megatron had seriously just scared him with a half hearted hand raise, he was indeed pathetic.

Starscream laid on his berth with a sigh, he felt lost, he didn't feel like staying up late just to make plans for Megatron's demise, nor did he even think once about terminating the warlord today. He felt odd, as if a pang of guilt hit him in the spark, he felt unworthy of being Megatron's first lieutenant.

He can't even remember the reason on why Megatron chose him, but he did. Starscream rolled over to his side and whimpered, wings clamping down with a slight clang, eye lids dropping slowly as the seeker fell into recharge.

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Next Morning

Starscream awoke to a loud bang right outside his door, "WAKE UP YOU VOSIAN FILTH!" What a surprise, it was Megatron at 4:30 in the fragging morning. Starscream got off his berth and yawned before opening the door to see Megatron covered in blue paint, "What-" "Knock Out and Breakdown won't wake up. So you'll be helping me scrape this paint off!" Megatron cut him off before dragging him away by the shoulder.

He desperately wanted to go back into recharge and dream about being in a calming pool of blue water, but he couldn't.

Megatron had dragged the seeker all the way to his private quarters which were only permitted to him and no one else on the ship, Starscream was probably the first one to see his room. The warlord handed Starscream a little scraping tool, and the seeker got to work, the paint was all over Megatron's chassis, stomach, thighs, and even some got on the tip of the spikes on his helmet.

[Idk what to call his bucket head thing]

"May I ask how this happened?" Starscream asked and the warlord gave him an irritated groan, "Dreadwing was repainting his arm, then a vehicon knocked the paint can and everything spilled onto me," Megatron explained, already expecting an insult or some sort of mockery from Starscream.

But the seeker didn't say anything and only hummed in response, "Aren't you going to make fun of me?" Megatron asked, "I would, but I'm not..." Starscream replied with a slight sigh, moving down to scrape the paint off the larger bot's stomach area. Dear Unicron, Megatron didn't think this through enough, "Stay still, some got in between your transformation seams," Starscream demanded.

He got the rest of the paint off of Megatron and the warlord immediately felt his spark jump when Starscream kneeled down to scrape the paint off of his thighs.

Just about when Starscream was about to continue, Megatron suddenly kicked him right in the gut causing energon to spill from his mouth, "Leave," Megatron growled.

Starscream didn't know what he had done wrong, "W-What did I-" "I SAID LEAVE!" Megatron shouted, causing the seeker to flinch and mutter an apology before getting up and leaving the room. He seriously didn't know what he did to deserve that kick.

He felt as if Megatron had considered him more of a personal punching bag than a fellow bot. Starscream broke into tears while he silently made his way back to his berthroom, he felt so unworthy of his place. Megatron didn't even respect him like the others, Soundwave deserved this position more than he did since Megatron respected Soundwave like he was someone with feelings.

Yet Starscream gets treated like scrap. The seeker just wanted the pain to end, he didn't want anything else.