By Any Means Necessary Ch. 10

Over the next week Starscream and Thundercracker finished setting up the panels around the lake and had spent many hours trying to get the glue and glitter off of themselves. Thundercracker had managed to get most of it off, but Starscream still had several partial hearts and flowers on him and one eye of his Decepticon emblem was still blue. Skywarp had been assigned the job of keeping Eva entertained and occasionally left to get more supplies, but Thundercracker or Starscream always checked everything he brought back with him to ensure he wasn't sneaking anything to Eva.

"Hey birdbrain!" Eva called as she came out of the cabin that morning and walked over to Starscream.

"Would it kill you to call me by my name?" Starscream asked.

"Okay fine, Screamer, I need new clothes, the ones I brought with me are getting to tight." Eva told him.

"Oh this should be fun, can I come with you? I'd love to get some video of you buying a ton of maternity clothes and the strange looks people are sure to give you." Skywarp asked as he walked over to join them.

"You're right, a guy going and buying a few maternity clothes might not be that unusual, but getting a whole new wardrobe would look odd." Eva agreed.

"You can sew can't you? Starscream asked.

"Sure if I had a sewing machine, but as much as I love to make my own clothes, without a sewing machine I'd go crazy or have the sparkling before I could get anything made. So with no electricity out here unless you can find a working antique sewing machine you'll just have to go shopping." Eva replied.

"Fine I'll see what I can find for you." Starscream replied then glanced at Skywarp for a second before he took off.

"So have you eaten yet today?" Skywarp asked.

"Yeah, why?" Eva asked.

"I thought we could go hiking, I like seeing things from you're point of view so I thought we could go exploring together. We can even pack you lunch and just hang out in the forest and see how long it takes Starscream to start panicking and come looking for you."

"Oh that sounds like fun, I'll go grab lunch and be right out." Eva replied grinning evilly then headed into the cabin to get the food.

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Eva and Skywarp spent the rest of the day out hiking, with Skywarp's ability to access the internet there wasn't a single animal, plant or even rock that they couldn't identify. By the time they headed back towards the cabin the sun was already starting to set and Eva was exhausted, but hadn't felt so happy or at peace since she had been brought kidnapped.

"Maybe we should take a break, I'm getting really tired and my feet and legs hurt." Eva said lowering herself onto a log.

"I shouldn't have brought you so far out here, are you alright." Skywarp asked.

"I'll be fine, I'm just really tired is all and I'm glad we did this, I haven't gotten to explore this far yet and who knows how much longer I would be able to make it this far." Eva said resting her hand on her stomach as the sparkling started kicking.

"Well we need to get you back so you can get some proper rest and I don't want you exhausting yourself anymore." Skywarp said as his holoform suddenly changed.

Eva gasped as the robot who had been standing in front of her was replaced by a human man, he was just short of six feet tall, had short brown hair, was well built and wore black jeans with a dark purple t-shirt.
"Why did you make yourself human?" Eva asked.

"Like I said we need to get you back to the cabin without exhausting you anymore and I thought this would be more comfortable than hard pointy metal." he replied then scooped her up into his arms and started walking back to the cabin.

"I can walk myself, you don't have to carry me back." Eva told him.

"Sure and if I let you get any more exhausted than you already are I'll have to put up with Starscream throwing a fit about it. Trust me I'm doing this as much for my own good as your's." he replied.

"Alright." Eva replied already starting to doze off with her head on his shoulder.

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"Eva, Eva wake up." Skywarp said.

"Why, I don't want to." she replied drowsily opening one eye to see that it was completely dark out.

"Were back and trust me you want to wake up." he told her as he stepped up onto the porch of the cabin.

"Why do I want to wake up." Eva asked as he set her down.

"You'll see." he replied as he opened the door for her.

As Eva stepped inside, the cabin was suddenly filled with light that was coming from an electric light that was hanging from the ceiling. "Those panels you guys have been putting up around the lake, they were solar panes weren't they?" Eva asked smiling.

"Yep, since you brought you're computer and DVDs with you Starscream thought if we could get you some electric he wouldn't have to put up with you harassing him as often for entertainment." Thundercracker told her from where he was standing at one side of the room with Starscream.

Before she could reply Eva noticed a new door on the far side of the room. "What's with the door?" she asked wondering why they would have added a back door to such a small cabin.

"That was Thundercracker's idea." Skywarp told her as he stepped forward and opened the door for her.

Eva gasped when she realized it was a whole new room, the right wall was lined with shelves containing dozens of bolts of fabric and other sewing supplies,  along the far wall sat a large comfortable looking couch and chair, to the left was a large sewing table to cut things out on and then a smaller table with a sewing machine on it.

Skywarp stepped into the room, "and this was my idea." he said pulling open two doors to a cabinet that sat along the wall next to the door to reveal a large flat screen TV, DVD player and a shelf with all of the DVDs Eva had brought.

"Guys this is amazing, thank you so much, I can't believe you did this all in one day." Eva said.

"Well we had the extra room planned for a while and have been sneaking the lights, TV and other stuff in and keeping it hidden for a while now along with having all the wood ready to be used. The only stuff we had to bring in today was the sewing stuff and Starscream went and got it while I started on the new room." Thundercracker told her.

"It's still a lot of work for one day and it'll be so nice especially with it starting to get colder out so I won't be able to stay outside as much." Eva said stifling a yawn.

"We need to get you fed and into bed, you've had a long day and you're exhausted." Starscream said.

"I guess you're right." Eva replied trying to fight the exhaustion that was trying to take over her as the excitement of the new room and electricity started to die down.

"Why don't you relax and we'll make you something to eat." Skywarp suggested as he led Eva over to the couch.

"I don't know, nothing I have here sounds good." Eva replied.

"Well you have to eat something." Starscream told her.

"Then why don't you go pick me up some chocolate ice cream and Doritos? That's all that sounds good right now." Eva told him.

"It's already late, we can get you that tomorrow along with a freezer to keep the ice cream cold." Starscream replied.

"What the heck does the time have to do with anything, you don't want anyone noticing you making too many trips in and out of here anyways so going at night would make more sense and I'm sure you can find somewhere that's open twenty four hours to get the stuff from." Eva replied.

"You need to eat quickly and get to sleep, you can eat something we already have hear." Starscream replied.

"No! I want chocolate ice cream and Doritos I'm not going to eat anything else!" Eva replied stubbornly.

"You need something healthier than that, you are going to eat something we already have here." Starscream told her.

"You can't make me, I'll eat what ever I want! Go get me my ice cream and Doritos now!" Eva demanded angrily.

"I'm not going anywhere and I'm not going to bring you any at all if you don't stop being so stubborn." Starscream replied getting irritated.

Eva suddenly burst into tears, "You don't care about us at all do you? You figure the sparkling probably won't survive so why go to the trouble of even bothering to keep it alive. You're trying to kill us." she sobbed curling up on the couch, wrapping her arms around her stomach as she cried.

"What's wrong with her?" Skywarp asked over their comlink.

"It's called mood swings, it's another side effect of human pregnancy and might be made worse by the fact that she's exhausted." Starscream replied.

"You know you're shaped kind of like a Dorito." Eva said suddenly walking over to Starscream and licking his side.

Starscream jumped away from her as she dropped to her knees on the floor and started crying again, "But you don't taste like one." she sobbed as all three Decepticons stared at her in shock and confusion.

"Maybe you should just go get her what she wants, you may be able to get back before we could convince her to eat something else anyways." Thundercracker said.

Letting out a frustrated sigh Starscream said, "Fine I'll go get your ice cream and Doritos if you'll just calm down and stop crying."

"O- okay." Eva replied between sobs.

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Buy the time Starscream returned Skywarp and Thundercracker had managed to get Eva calmed down and were watching a movie with her, one of them sitting on each end of the couch with Eva laying with her head on Skywarp's lap and her feet resting on Thundercracker's lap.

As soon as Starscream walked into the cabin Eva stared at him, "What happened to you? Why do you look like that?" she asked looking over his suddenly very different appearance as she walked into the kitchen.  Instead of the wide triangular body she was use to seeing he was skinnier and more human shaped.

"This is what I looked like before taking my earth alt mode, I don't feel like risking you licking me again, but I don't like walking around looking like a human either so I thought this would work well." Starscream told her as he dished her up a bowl of ice cream then handed it to her along with a bag of Doritos.

"You know you look a lot better like that, face still looks like you hit every branch on the ugly tree when you fell off and then climb back up for seconds, but it's still an improvement." she said as she took the food from him and headed back to watch her movie while she ate.