The Sound Of A Thousand Screams

[22] Royalty And Loyalty

Chapter 22
{Tears Of The Young}
Royalty And Loyalty
[Back to the Past]
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The screaming continued, filled with horror.

Multiple mechs guided her out of the house while she screamed incoherently and thrashed.

Prisma Jet examined the scene, questioning what had happened there. She turned to one of the younger lieutenants.
"How many bots were in here?"

The young mech took out a datapad and read off his notes.
"Three femmes, one of which is a youngling. Several mechs tried to calm the older ones down but she kept screaming. They had to lock her in a room until the rest of the Enforcers arrived."

Prisma Jet watched the femme get carried away as she continued to scream, she sighed.
"This has to stop..."

"Ma'am?"

"This!This-endless cycle!"
Prisma Jet exclaimed tiredly as she gestured to the mechs carrying the screaming femme away.
"This has been happening regularly, whoever adopts the youngling either 'disappears' or ends up having horrendous trauma"

The mech looked back at the vehicle his comrades carried the screaming femme into and sighed.
"I...I don't know what to tell you, Ma'am...But...You can't blame the youngling...She's probably just as terrified as everyone else is..."
He muttered.

Prisma sighed.
"I know..."
She thought for a moment before she snarled.
"She's fragging royalty, why haven't her other slagging royal family members tried taking her in?"

The mech looked up into the dark night sky, the stars winking down at them.
"Haven't you heard...?"

Prisma looked back at him.
"Hm?"
She narrowed her optics.
"Heard what?"

The mech hesitated.
"...Queen Alkes Lynx had passed recently..."

Prisma blinked before looking down at the ground.
"Oh..."

They stood in silence for a moment before the young lieutenant started again.
"The kingdom is in ruins right now...considering that her passing was only a few cycles after the creation of her newborn sons"

Prisma hummed.
"...I wonder how the young prince is doing..."
She thought and spoke again.
"...When do you think they'll try contacting him about...her?"

She nodded toward the vacant house their comrades were clearing out, the young femme stepped outside wrapped around in a blanket, following two mechs back into another one of their vehicles.

The lieutenant watched and sighed.

"I'm sure...they've been trying"
The youngling got into the vehicle with the two mech and they drove away.
"...and they still are..."

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The constant ping coming from his COMM was getting annoying. He just wanted to be alone in his berthroom. Ignoring all of the energon the maid had came in and gave him. It didn't matter anymore. His carrier was dead, and he did nothing but watch with the very thing that could've saved her.

Starscream glared at the red diamond on the desk in front of him with misty optics, he stood and threw the diamond across the room in a rage.
He wanted to scream, he wanted to shout, he wanted every single emotion inside of him to go away.

His comm pinged again.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!"
Starscream screeched, grabbing the comm and throwing it across the room as well.

It cracked when it impacted against the wall and the screen shattered when it landed on the floor.