The Sound Of A Thousand Screams

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Chapter 4
{Till They Wake}
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Starscream entered the control deck where Megatron would normally be if he wanted to see someone.

The room was empty, no one around.
Computers were shut down and the thrown was empty.
Starscream stepped towards his own computer, turning it on to check some files.

Starscream found his private files and looked inside of them, they were filled with schemes of how to kill Megatron, more schemes of how to kill Megatron, Megatron and-

Okay, maybe Starscream does have something wrong with him and his processor.
There's literally hundreds and hundreds of obviously obsessed schemes of how to kill this one person,
Starscream mouth plates fell into a thin line as he read all the schemes.

Starscream vented a sigh and deleted most of the files, he kept the ones that sort of worked and pictures of those that backfired at someone else.

Starscream was about to exit the files until he saw another file at the bottom left corner, one that wasn't about Megatron.

Starscream looked into the file.
It was a simple picture with a few bots that he knew, some of those bots were bots he once knew and some of those bots were bots that died in the war.

Soundwave was standing in the middle, on his right was Frenzy and on his left was Rumble.
The bot on the right that was leaning on Soundwave's shoulder blades was SlipStream, smiling at the camera lazily. Looks as if she just woke up a few nano-klicks ago.
Next to SlipStream was Thundercracker, followed by Skywarp.

Shockwave stood next to Soundwave to his left, turned completely towards the left. Looking towards something at the distance, Shockwave didn't want to take the photo at all so he just looked away.

Behind Shockwave was Jetfire, smiling happily but looking a bit worried for whoever took the photo.

Behind Thundercracker and Skywarp was Breakdown with Knockout in his servos, lying dramatically.
Knockout had a servo over his optics and the other was hanging off of Breakdowns servos.

Breakdown in this picture still had both of his optics, The bot that was taking the photo was Starscream.

Starscream stared at the photo and was about to exit the file, that was until he noticed a certain bot behind Soundwave.
Starscream felt his mouth plates shift into a small smile,
Megatronus was busy staring at a data file but did his best to pretend like he wasn't.
Megatronus' faceplates had no scars, no red optics and his dentas weren't sharp.
The photo was taken before the war, when times were simple.
Where Megatronus wasn't Megatron, where Starscream didn't have to pretend to be a heartless monster whenever he was with all of them, where SlipStream and the Trine would be with the others and wasn't locked up in some room for following Starscream.
Where Jetfire, Frenzy, Rumble, and Breakdown were still alive,
Where...They all weren't lost and confused.

Starscream stared at the photo, remembering all of the times they all nearly died because someone was too reckless and they would be yelled at by Starscream while Megatronus tried calming him down.

Starscream flinched as he heard the doors to the control deck open with a hiss.

Starscream hurriedly close the computer and turned towards the mech standing in the doorway.