Tarn and the very bad no good terrible week

[sparkwhisperer]

Who: Tarn and Drift and Tarn and You
Where: The city center
When: A few days after the Rodimus incident
What: Tarn has an unfortunate run in with some new friends
Warnings: Tarn. Violence to come

Tarn has had bad days before. Occasionally his latest victim would get a good punch in, perhaps they were particularly good at eluding himself and his team, or they managed to temporarily escape. Maybe the pet decided to gnaw on a particularly important set of data pads. Or Vos decided to poach parts from one of the cleaning drones. Again.

Any of that is a walk in the park compared to the viciously terrible week Tarn has had. So far he has been transported to an alternate Cybertron without his consent. He has been harassed by Autobots, burned, shot at, disrespected,; but really, the proverbial cherry on top of the whole mess, was the incident with Megatron. The founder of the Decepticons, the mech he has sacrificed his identity, his name, his very life to serving, turned traitorous. Betraying his own faction and trading his own badge for an Autobrand. Honestly, Tarn is having a difficult time even wrapping his mind around the whole thing. One thing is for certain though...he is angry and on the hunt for someone to take his aggression out on.

He has been prowling the city ruins for hours, stopping every few minutes to transform a few times, just to take the edge off. He can feel his T-cog grinding more and more with every transformation. He is familiar with the sensation and the knowledge that the cog probably wont last him the month only adds to his every growing ire.

Comments

[starscheme]

Starscream is subsequently so taken aback and so furious that he literally starts to tremble with rage where he's standing. "Slandering!?" he sputters.

"Everything that I just said is irrevocably the truth, and you are a poor officer of justice indeed, if you would take the word of the convicted as law simply because you happened to speak to him first," the jet hisses. "Dreadwing disobeyed a direct order from Megatron in such a situation where our glorious leader was forced to dispose of him right then and there. He shouldn't even be alive, but this universe is apparently sadistic enough to have brought him here from an earlier timeline when his demise had yet to happen. These are facts, not opinion!"

He doesn't even remember what the purpose of engaging Tarn was anymore, he's just so offended that he told the truth for once and still no one believes him.

[sparkwhisperer]

You're Starscream . Of course he's not going to believe you. However, he is interested on what he has to say about Dreadwing.

Tarn crosses his arms, glaring down at the jet. He is going to ignore that comment about his reliability.

"Megatron has proven to not have his priorities straight in my universe, why should I believe that it is any different in yours."

[starscheme]

The jet opens and closes his mouth helplessly for a moment and rolls his eyes to glance off to the side, wincing. When he finds his voice again it creaks in at an impossibly high pitch before his words follow.

"To be fair... the Megatron in our world is arguably in a similar position. However, at the time of the incident in question, he was decidedly not."

Starscream taps his talons together nervously. "I had recently returned to the Nemesis after an extended absence, something that Dreadwing took issue with. He did not have the stomach for many of the more morally questionable experiments which we were utilizing in our fight against the Autobots, and he tried to terminate me for it. Megatron did order him to stand down, but in the end Dreadwing made his choice, and it ended with his receiving a rather large hole in his torso."

[sparkwhisperer]

Tarn immediately latches on to the admission that Starscream makes regarding Megatron. His eyes narrow behind the mask. Disappointing. Truly.

"Yes, of course."

He moves to storm away, turning his back on Starscream. Next time he sees Dreadwing he will have to address these claims, however unfounded they probably are.

"I appreciate your concern, Starscream. I will take this into consideration."

[starscheme]

Normally Starscream would take issue with someone so rudely turning their back on him in the middle of conversation, and he has so many questions for this strange Decepticon, too- such as, consideration for what- but for once, he has the good sense to realize that he probably just narrowly dodged a bullet talking with this guy.

"Yes... er... My pleasure, Tarn."

Yeah he's going to go ahead and fly away now.