The Song of Darkness: Essence of Madness ● Transformers Prime {Starscream}

Chapter 4: Frist Attack

Every high ranking Decepticon came rushing out of their chambers, armor on. Megatron, being one of them, was already shouting orders and demanded to know what was going on. I activated my purple armor and went to follow them only to have Starscream grab my arm.

"What do you mean there's more of them?" My bones ached but I pushed the feeling down and straightened. I ignored the banging in my head and focused my mind. 

"Later, Starscream." And with that, I rushed towards the control room. When I barged into the control room, I froze in disbelief. Displayed on the monitor was a small army of unmarked life signals, all located at one of our land bases. "Holy shit..." I breathed coming up to Megatron's side. 

"Indeed." Megatron turned and his gaze fixated on Blaze. "Did you lead an army of Autobots here?" Blaze's eyebrows rose as he held his hands up. 

"No, my Lord. Like I told you, I followed three Autobots here." I narrowed my eyes at this. He hadn't told me about any Autobots. Megatron growled and in a blur of color, had grabbed Blaze by the throat. Blaze struggled to breathe as Megatron pulled him close. 

"I'm having a hard time believing you, sin." 

"I-I swear." Blaze croaked out. 

"My lord, I'm sure there is another reason." I couldn't have Baze going into battle half alive. Megatron threw Blaze roughly to the ground. The warlord shouted orders towards Starscream who instantly nodded, rushing off to make sure his orders were met. Once Megatron made sure everything was running, he turned back to the monitor. "They are unmarked," Megatron grunted a reply as we watched the life singles move closer and closer to the base. 

"I tried contacting one of them." I raised an eyebrow in question. 

"And?"

"And they didn't answer." I braided my hair back.

"So we are going into this blind?" The Nemesis came to a stop above the land base. Megatron looked down at me as I finished tying my hair. "An army of unknown soldiers against a weakened, depleting one. I like those odds." I turned on my heel and started making my way towards the flight deck. Megatron took his time catching up with me. 

"You and your sins have gone up against worse odds and come out victorious."

"Ture, but need I remind you, I only have one sin. The others are dead." The flight deck was full of Vehicons decked out in their light purple armor. Metallic wings were attached to each of their backs. This was a neat little toy we had that the Autobots did not. 

"You stationed Aurora at this land base." I nodded as my heart filled with dread. Two sins were alive. Who's to say the others weren't dead. "You have two sins." And with that Megatron made his way to the edge of the flight deck. My wings unfolded in a cloud of darkness as Starscream took to the sky, shouting to the troops. As soon as Starscream was done speaking, the Vehicons ran off the flight deck, taking to the sky. There are not enough of us. We hadn't had time to even start cloning more. 

Soundwave, in purple armor that was almost black, opened a ground bridge for all the Vehicons without wings. Knockout, in cherry red armor, Breakdown, in blue armor, and Blaze all ran in after the Vehcions. They were the few that had refused to strap wings to their backs. Airachnid, in black and gold armor, was one of them; though she didn't use the ground bridge. I watched as the smaller female sprinted off the side of the ship and dived, feet first, downward. I wasn't worried though. She always had some way of staying alive. 

With one strong flap of my wings, I shot into the air. I flew over the battlefield and nearly fell at the sight of who we were fighting. It was them. More of those creatures. I pulled my sword off my back and landed hard on the ground, cutting swiftly into an attacking creature. Its body disintegrated into a cloud of purple smoke.