Test run for yeerk drone vehicles: one

[screamsofstars]

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Starscream's moving as soon as her feet hit the floor of her lab, weaving briskly in and out among the stations where her assistants and drones are working.

"This way," she tells the human host who's following her with the bucket containing his squad mates. "Through this door."

Silence falls over them as they enter her private sanctum, which is currently dominated by three tables in the middle of the room. On each of those tables is what looks like a body covered from the chest down with a sheet. One of them is a dead ringer for a certain human woman named Natasha Stanton. Another is a fair haired male, and the third is a dark skinned male with strong features.

"Set the bucket here." She turns to look at him, her expression saying that she expects to be obeyed.

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[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"After he killed me I started working for the other side. The weapon that finally took him down was my own creation." She brings the device back and runs it over the drone shell, her eyes intent with interest. "And then I outlived even his memory."

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Five looks up sharply. "After he killed you?"

Just what does death mean to one of these beings?

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Starscream makes a few adjustments to the shell without looking up.

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

It shakes its head. "How is that possible?"

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"I had unfinished business and so couldn't fully cross the veil. Instead I made a deal with the living embodiment of Chaos that in return for bringing me back to life, I would get him a new body."

She smirks without looking up. "Only he gave me what I wanted before he had what he wanted, and I laughed in his face and told him to get his own body."

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Five doesn't gape, because no Yeerk would do that.

The way she's staring at Starscream, though, she hardly needs to. "...Embodiment of Chaos...?"

Like Crayak, Five, you remember him? Oh, wait, no you don't.

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"Mmmhmm. Unicron himself." She scans the shell's chest, her smirk still in place though her eyes are intent on her work.

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Five is uneasy. "I've never heard of a creature like that."

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"Pray you never do. He ate half our old homeworld before he was stopped."

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

The Controller looks up in wide-eyed disbelief. "He ate a planet?"