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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[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

"So you held no loyalty to your old cause?" Five asks.

Three's sure he has no idea what's going on, except that the kind of greenish bot is looking murderous and that has to be a good sign, in these shows. He's happy to watch on and see what happens.

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Actually, in that show, he could be flirting. Starscream adjusts the viewer so that it's got English subtitles as she shakes her head at Five.

"Loyalty to what? The demented fool who killed me and replaced me with another?" She snorts. "As I said, it was my research that took him down."

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Heeey, now he understands it! Three looks around to see what could have caused that, then shrugs and settles back down. This day is full of weird. He's going to make like a Controller and deal.

"Not your leader." Five gives Starscream a sidelong look. "I was talking about the cause you used to fight for."

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The small femme shrugs. "I am loyal to myself and to those who depend on me. If they ever choose to betray me my loyalty also ends."

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

Five nods, expressionless. "And that's all?"

Mercenary. I see. Well, that's all right.

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"What else is there?" She looks back, her eyes and face showing no sign of the list of what else that's playing out in her processor.

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

"Nothing, I suppose." Five knows what it's been raised to fight for; it has no idea what a Transformer 'should' want or whether the Yeerks have reason to care. It shrugs at Starscream.

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"What do you strive for?" Starscream subspaces the scanner and goes to work on the Natasha shell.

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

"For the total victory of the Yeerk empire, of course." Among other things. Five takes her cause rather for granted: the war just is.

[screamsofstars.livejournal.com]

"And what does that mean?"

[in-the-cracks.livejournal.com]

"Winning the war - defeating the Andalites and their pathetic allies. Finishing the invasions, establishing our superiority..." Five shrugs.