Possiblities, part I
Let the woobifying of Starscream begin!
Though to be fair, everyone else is ridiculously out of character too. Naturally, they come together to make a completely unbelievable story called Possiblities (yes, there's a typo in the title, always a good sign), which begins when Sunstreaker and Sideswipe manage to trap Starscream in a cave. Rather than blasting his way out or even sending a distress signal to the rest of the ‘cons, he screams for help and finally breaks down in sobs. Ratchet is most irate at this.
"Enemy or no enemy, no one, absolutely no one deserves such cruelty!”
Cruelty? What did they do, weld him to a chair and force him to watch Revenge of the Fallen?
Ratchet then leads an expedition to rescue Starscream, “requesting Ironhide as back-up should the Seeker be too far out of his mind to realize that they were there to help him and turn hostile instead of docile”. Apparently Starscream is only hostile when he’s “far out of his mind”, and his normal condition is one of placid obedience. This Ratchet is more than a match for him in the OOC department, though.
Approaching the slope in which the mentally insane frontliners had imprisoned the enemySeeker, Ratchet felt an uncomfortable tug at his spark while listening to the desperate pleas for help…
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were never my favorite Autobots, but why are they insane for imprisoning an enemy? That’s what you’re supposed to do to them! Ratchet is livid, though, about the damage inflicted on Starscream, which includes (temporary) blindness and a speech impediment that makes him come across like a Danielle Steel novel.
"T... transform, yes. I... I..." Slag, he had almost forgotten...! "Even outside, I wouldn't... I, my thrusters, I tried to melt, it melted and... and... But transform, yes."
So Ratchet rescues him and Starscream sobs pathetically on the Autobot’s shoulder.
"NO!" Starscream screeched, crying the denial against Ratchet's shoulder plating, where he had again buried his head. "No, no...! Don't make me leave, no, please!" Megatron would be so disappointed in him, disappointed and disapproving…
Megatron would refuse to dance with him at the next Decepticon soiree.
Ratchet responds to this sparkfelt plea. More than responds, he behaves like an attack dog with a bone, snapping and snarling at anyone who so much as looks sideways at Starscream. Up to and including Optimus Prime, who has (justified) concerns about welcoming the enemy SiC with open arms.
"I appoint myself Guardian of Starscream under protocol five of the Iacon Treaty," was the first thing that came to Ratchet's processor as said Seeker stopped moving, even going so far as to slightly hide behind him.
“I shall feed him regularly and keep him off the furniture.”
"I cannot allow that. It would be unwise to have our CMO preoccupied with babysitting an enemy instead of attending to his duties." Optimus had the audacity to contradict him
So Ratchet threw a wrench at his head?
which caused a motion of slight panic from Jazz, who flailed his arms and head in denial wildly.
I hope I never see Jazz’s motions of extreme panic.
Prowl managed an irritated scowl, enough to tip their leader off onto the fact that he had just done the rudest thing ever. He really wasn't a born diplomat now was he?
I’ll bet he didn’t hold his energon cubes with his pinky digit extended either. What’s next? Is Optimus going to relinquish the Matrix to Ratchet as a consequence of his gigantic gaffe, since he can’t hold his helm up among the Autobots any longer?
Starscream smiled, still clearly amused, "And here I thought all Autoscu... Autobots were in awe of their Prime."
"I wouldn't compare wriggling through his innards on a regular basis because the slagger can't fricken take care of himself with being in awe of someone.”
Mocking canon characters doesn’t make your OC - coincidentally called Ratchet - interesting, edgy or original. I also can’t see any Autobot speaking like this about their leader before a Decepticon, unless they were trying (and failing) to convince the ‘con that they were defecting.
Ratchet proceeds to repair Starscream, and this leads to what medical procedures in badfics always lead to. Apparently no one else uses the Autobots’ medical bay and Red Alert was probably too cowed by Ratchet to install or use security measures. So Starscream quickly goes from shivering, terrified wreck to amorous horndog.
Funny he had never noticed how well-formed Ratchet's face was, clean-lined and shockingly expressive.
Ratchet, of course, is more than eager. Perhaps the Iacon Treaty required him to bang anyone under his guardianship. And professional ethics or proper treatment of prisoners or just keeping one’s distance from the treacherous enemy SiC are for losers like Optimus. But most of all, Ratchet is starting to care deeply about what poor Starscream might have suffered in the past, before he became Ratchet’s patient, responsibility and lover in the space of a few hours.
If he was the first the flier willingly would interface with, then he had clearly interfaced unwillingly before already, and that thought was just disturbing for Ratchet, disturbing and shockingly worrisome. What else had Starscream suffered without their knowledge?
This is so bizarre I was at a loss for words when I first read it. Starscream, for all that he gets slapped around, brings it on himself fairly often by provoking or challenging Megatron. And he’s the Air Commander! He’s got privileges and authority to make up for all this suffering that Ratchet is wangsting over. There are a lot of Decepticons who would love to be in his position.
To be continued…
Though to be fair, everyone else is ridiculously out of character too. Naturally, they come together to make a completely unbelievable story called Possiblities (yes, there's a typo in the title, always a good sign), which begins when Sunstreaker and Sideswipe manage to trap Starscream in a cave. Rather than blasting his way out or even sending a distress signal to the rest of the ‘cons, he screams for help and finally breaks down in sobs. Ratchet is most irate at this.
"Enemy or no enemy, no one, absolutely no one deserves such cruelty!”
Cruelty? What did they do, weld him to a chair and force him to watch Revenge of the Fallen?
Ratchet then leads an expedition to rescue Starscream, “requesting Ironhide as back-up should the Seeker be too far out of his mind to realize that they were there to help him and turn hostile instead of docile”. Apparently Starscream is only hostile when he’s “far out of his mind”, and his normal condition is one of placid obedience. This Ratchet is more than a match for him in the OOC department, though.
Approaching the slope in which the mentally insane frontliners had imprisoned the enemySeeker, Ratchet felt an uncomfortable tug at his spark while listening to the desperate pleas for help…
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were never my favorite Autobots, but why are they insane for imprisoning an enemy? That’s what you’re supposed to do to them! Ratchet is livid, though, about the damage inflicted on Starscream, which includes (temporary) blindness and a speech impediment that makes him come across like a Danielle Steel novel.
"T... transform, yes. I... I..." Slag, he had almost forgotten...! "Even outside, I wouldn't... I, my thrusters, I tried to melt, it melted and... and... But transform, yes."
So Ratchet rescues him and Starscream sobs pathetically on the Autobot’s shoulder.
"NO!" Starscream screeched, crying the denial against Ratchet's shoulder plating, where he had again buried his head. "No, no...! Don't make me leave, no, please!" Megatron would be so disappointed in him, disappointed and disapproving…
Megatron would refuse to dance with him at the next Decepticon soiree.
Ratchet responds to this sparkfelt plea. More than responds, he behaves like an attack dog with a bone, snapping and snarling at anyone who so much as looks sideways at Starscream. Up to and including Optimus Prime, who has (justified) concerns about welcoming the enemy SiC with open arms.
"I appoint myself Guardian of Starscream under protocol five of the Iacon Treaty," was the first thing that came to Ratchet's processor as said Seeker stopped moving, even going so far as to slightly hide behind him.
“I shall feed him regularly and keep him off the furniture.”
"I cannot allow that. It would be unwise to have our CMO preoccupied with babysitting an enemy instead of attending to his duties." Optimus had the audacity to contradict him
So Ratchet threw a wrench at his head?
which caused a motion of slight panic from Jazz, who flailed his arms and head in denial wildly.
I hope I never see Jazz’s motions of extreme panic.
Prowl managed an irritated scowl, enough to tip their leader off onto the fact that he had just done the rudest thing ever. He really wasn't a born diplomat now was he?
I’ll bet he didn’t hold his energon cubes with his pinky digit extended either. What’s next? Is Optimus going to relinquish the Matrix to Ratchet as a consequence of his gigantic gaffe, since he can’t hold his helm up among the Autobots any longer?
Starscream smiled, still clearly amused, "And here I thought all Autoscu... Autobots were in awe of their Prime."
"I wouldn't compare wriggling through his innards on a regular basis because the slagger can't fricken take care of himself with being in awe of someone.”
Mocking canon characters doesn’t make your OC - coincidentally called Ratchet - interesting, edgy or original. I also can’t see any Autobot speaking like this about their leader before a Decepticon, unless they were trying (and failing) to convince the ‘con that they were defecting.
Ratchet proceeds to repair Starscream, and this leads to what medical procedures in badfics always lead to. Apparently no one else uses the Autobots’ medical bay and Red Alert was probably too cowed by Ratchet to install or use security measures. So Starscream quickly goes from shivering, terrified wreck to amorous horndog.
Funny he had never noticed how well-formed Ratchet's face was, clean-lined and shockingly expressive.
Ratchet, of course, is more than eager. Perhaps the Iacon Treaty required him to bang anyone under his guardianship. And professional ethics or proper treatment of prisoners or just keeping one’s distance from the treacherous enemy SiC are for losers like Optimus. But most of all, Ratchet is starting to care deeply about what poor Starscream might have suffered in the past, before he became Ratchet’s patient, responsibility and lover in the space of a few hours.
If he was the first the flier willingly would interface with, then he had clearly interfaced unwillingly before already, and that thought was just disturbing for Ratchet, disturbing and shockingly worrisome. What else had Starscream suffered without their knowledge?
This is so bizarre I was at a loss for words when I first read it. Starscream, for all that he gets slapped around, brings it on himself fairly often by provoking or challenging Megatron. And he’s the Air Commander! He’s got privileges and authority to make up for all this suffering that Ratchet is wangsting over. There are a lot of Decepticons who would love to be in his position.
To be continued…