Minor Planet 20000 Varuna
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It sat ill with Starscream to huddle in the shadows of the ruddy-grey rockball and wait among their gathered forces for yet more Decepticons to arrive from the depths of space, but Shockwave had issued his orders. Just now Starscream had no desire to disobey them. That was a rare occurrence, and one not likely ( Read more... )

The minor planet Varuna orbits Sol at such a distance that its presence was only detected by the momentary disturbance it made when it occulted the light of a distant star. No planet-bound telescope could hope to catch sight of it. Even satellites set in Earth's orbit, probing endlessly outward into the deep and lonely skies, scarcely stand a ( Read more... )

There were islands on Earth larger than Varuna. Landing was a simple matter of homing in on Shockwave's signal, selecting a suitably flat patch of surface, and letting the local gravity take over; there was no atmosphere to complicate his descent. Starscream maintained flawless form the whole way down, nevertheless. He had a witness, after all, and ( Read more... )

Starscream seethed with rage as he slipped past the bounds of Earth's atmosphere, hurtling outwards through the silent dark. This wasn't happening! This couldn't have happened! Megatron, fallen- all right, he hadn't exactly been saddened when that happened, but to see it done at a human's hands? And at such a cost- the Allspark, gone forever; the ( Read more... )