Setting: Transformers - G1
General Thematic: Song Drabbles
Characters: Skywarp
Previous Seekers Drabblets: Build You Up, Precious Things, Try, Strangers Like Me, Shut up and Drive, What I've Done, Caribbean Blue


Peter Gabriel, Here Comes the Flood
Seekers, Red Alert | G1

"You're being stupid," Skywarp interrupts flatly, not even waiting for a pause in the ranting, which has been ongoing for the better part of an hour now. The words float underneath Starscream's continued vituperation for a moment, until the red and blue falters then falls into silence, uncertain if he's heard correctly. Thundercracker just ducks his head, the mulish glare Skywarp is giving their trinemate more than enough for him to know that this particular argument is one Starscream is doomed to lose as of now. Skywarp has that look. The one which means not even Megatron descending from the heavens to blast him to smithereens will change his stance on the matter.

"What?" Their wing commander's eloquence seems to have taken something of a dive, and there is a gleeful giggle in the back of Thundercracker's processors at the expression on his face. He'll do anything, really, for his trinemates - each would for the other, and this is the foundation they've built everything else on. But that doesn't mean he can't enjoy seeing them taken down a peg or two, whenever they've worked towards it and in this instance the jet has to agree with Skywarp. This is something that's been coming since their arrival here, really.

"You heard me right. You're being stupid. He's not any more suspicious of us than he is of any other Autobot." This still feels weird to say at times, but not now and Skywarp doesn't even register the words he's just spoken as he goes on, pinning Starscream with narrow-eyed glare. He's focusing on something more important now and that means all the details that matter are about that something, really. "He's just doing his job - he's trying to keep us safe. That's all." The black and purple's tone is oddly muted, his wings drawn tightly against himself in the clear sign that he's ready to go to battle over this one, no backing down, no compromises. He then rushes on before Starscream can even considering winding himself up for another rant, charging in where most would flee without a look over their shoulders. "I think he hates that no one gets why he's so obsessed about all those little details of his, I think he only wants to try and make sure no one ever gets hurt and I think he wishes once, just once, people would realize what he's about instead of just bitching 'bout him all the time."

Still staring, mouth open but nothing coming out, Starscream stares bemusedly as Skywarp straightens up suddenly and scowls. "And I think I'm going to do something about it. So there." With that, the teleporter stalks out of their shared quarters, a mech with a mission. All that's missing are the blinking neon lights over his head, Thundercracker reflects to himself, letting the mental image amuse him briefly before he focuses on Starscream, still standing stock-still in the room, one hand raised and a single index pointed upward in a point still not made.

"..."

"I think Skywarp's starting to settle in nicely here, really," Thundercracker opines from his berth, offering the still flummoxed Starscream a small, fond smile. "Don't you?"

"...huh. Looks like."

~*~

Amongst the afternoon's shenanigans, foremost was that of Ratchet chasing Skywarp across the base, threatening bloody blue murder upon the cackling flyer while both trampled any unfortunate witness unwary enough to stray in their path. All agreed that Skywarp showed a singular lack of worry for his well-being in so taunting the medic, as caroling "You know you want some!" back at an enraged Ratchet was not something any mech with even a smidgen of a survival instinct would consider doing, really. Sideswipe, on the other hand, was suitably impressed and cheered Skywarp on, but no one considered Sideswipe to be particularly possessed of any survival instinct to start with anyway...

Only First Aid was present in the medlab in time to bear witness to the small, bemused smile etched on Red Alert's face when he woke up from a Skywarp-induced processor crash, later on.