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By Any Means Necessary Ch. 8

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Over the next week Eva decided she was actually glad to have another Decepticon around. Skywarp had managed to keep her somewhat distracted from thinking about the sparkling with tales about pranks he had plaid on his brothers or other Decepticons and coming up with new ones. He had even snuck in a paint ball gun and she had found that shooting Starscream with multi colored balls of paint was a wonderful way to relieve stress. She had been quite shocked when Starscream took off and later returned with a dozen or so large balloons filled with paint and attacked Skywarp with them before threatening his life if he brought her any more paint balls, then threw him into the lake.

That day Skywarp had been sent to get some type of supplies leaving Eva to find ways to entertain herself. After getting board with reading and not really feeling like going for a long walk she decided to walk far enough to get to where Starscream was putting up yet another of his mysterious panels about a third of the way around the lake.

Sitting down on a nearby rock and deciding to irritate him with questions instead of just random insults she asked. “Where do sparklings come from?”

“There are a couple of ways to create sparklings, the most common isn’t all that different from how humans reproduce, although it requires the joining of bodies and sparks.” Starscream replied.

Eva was a little disappointed that he didn’t seem uncomfortable about the subject like most humans would have been, but that wouldn’t stop her from asking more questions. “What’s a spark?” she asked.

“It’s what keeps Cybertronians alive, it’s our heart and soul and when two sparks are joined they can create a new spark that is then carried by the femme until its body has developed enough to survive.” he replied not looking away from his work.

“What about the other way?” Eva asked.

Starscream let out a sad sounding sigh, “New sparklings use to be able to be created with the Allspark, a body would be created and then taken to the Allspark to be given a spark, but it was destroyed.”

“What about the little monster, where did it come from and why did you need me to carry it.” Eva asked ignoring his glare when she called it a monster.

“Our race is on the verge of extinction, there aren’t enough femmes left to sustain our kind and with the Allspark gone we have no way to increase our numbers. Before the war unmarried femmes occasionally wanted a sparkling of their own  and would have sparklings created from parts of their own sparks and then the sparkling was put into the femme to develop naturally. That’s what I based my experiments on, it wasn’t easy convincing the others to go along with it, having a part of your spark removed like that is quite painful, but in the end I was able to convince a dozen or so Decepticons to do it and began to grow the sparklings. Then we began to run low on energon and without it the sparklings began dieing, slowly starving to death until only one remained. I swore I wouldn’t let it die and since there are no female Decepticons I tried to kidnap an Autobot femme, but was unsuccessful. It was after that failure that I decided to use a human to carry it.” he said.

“Why even bother, you’ve made it clear you don’t think there’s much chance of it actually surviving?” Eva asked.

“Because it was better than doing nothing, I couldn’t watch another innocent sparkling slowly starve and die.” he replied with such a sad, heartbroken tone to his voice that it shocked Eva. “Why don’t you go bother Thundercracker, I have work to get done here.” he said suddenly as he walked away.

Eva staid there on her rock thinking about what Starscream had told her, wondering what she would have done if she were forced into a similar situation, watching her kind slowly go extinct as the few new babies died. She suddenly shook her head and jumped off of the rock then headed back towards the cabin, she didn’t want to think about it, didn’t want to feel any sympathy for Starscream or the sparkling she was carrying. It was because of them that she had been torn away from her life and feared every time she went to sleep that she would never wake up and that she would never see her family again. All she wanted was to simply hate them and yet the genuine sadness in Starscream’s voice when he had mentioned watching the sparklings die made her wonder if she was putting too much blame on him, after all Thundercracker had said they wouldn’t have even been anywhere near earth if it weren’t for Megatron insisting they stay. Letting out a frustrated growl she threw a rock out into the lake then looked up hopefully when she heard a jet approaching.
“Perfect timing Warp.” she thought, relieved to have a distraction from her thoughts as she ran along the lake shore to get to where he had landed.

“So what did you bring me this time?” she asked him.

He glanced around for a second to make sure Starscream and Thundercracker weren’t nearby then pulled a large black garbage bag out of his cockpit and handed it to her.

Eva opened the bag and found several bags of brightly colored craft feathers and tubes of super glue. She grinned up at him as he finished removing the wires and other stuff Starscream had sent him after then picked her up, “So how are you going to get them to use their holoforms long enough for me to do this?” she whispered as he carried her towards the cabin and then sat down next to it.

“I don’t know, I’m sure I can think of something.” he replied as he rested his elbow on the roof of the cabin putting just enough weight on it to cause part of it to cave in, “Oh dear, look what I have done, I guess we will just have to fix that now and it is such small work we will have to use our holoforms to fix it.” he said.

Eva’s grin grew, “You’re sure they won’t be able to feel me sticking the feathers on them?” she asked.

“Don’t worry as long as you don’t actually climb onto them they won’t feel a thing as long as they’re using their holoforms and distracted with the repairs. And I’ll keep them well distracted, you actually might be able to get away with climbing on them too, but I would do everything you can reach from the ground first just incase they do feel you.” he told her as he set her down so she could hide the bag of supplies near where Starscream and Thundercracker usually sat when they were using their holoforms.

“Hey guys, we have a little problem over here!” Skywarp called as he walked to the edge of the lake and waved his brothers over.

“What did you do now?” Starscream asked running a quick scan on Eva and the sparkling to make sure they weren’t injured.

“Well it was sort of an accident, Eva and I just got to talking and I wasn’t thinking about where I was resting my arm.” he replied pointing to the damaged roof.

“Why don’t you just fix it yourself, it shouldn’t take too long.” Thundercracker suggested.

“But I’ve never done anything like fixing a human roof before what if it takes me longer than you think it will and Eva ends up having to sleep in the cold air and get’s sick. We should just all work on it and get it done quickly then you two can get back to your other project.” Skywarp said.

Starscream let out a frustrated sigh, “Fine, but if this happens again you’re fixing it yourself.”

“No problem, I’m sure once I see how you guys do it I won’t have any worries about how long it would take me to do it by myself.” Skywarp replied as all three of them sat down at the edge of the forest and activated their holoforms.

“I’m going for a walk, I’ll see you guys later.” Eva said.

“Be careful out there, I don’t want that sparkling hurt.” Starscream told her.

“I will be, just like I have been every other time I’ve gone hiking.” Eva said before she headed into the forest.

As soon as they had left to start fixing up the cabin Eva stepped back out of the woods with the bag of glue and feathers, after making sure they were sitting far enough back in the trees that they wouldn’t be able to see what she was doing from the cabin she set to work.
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X'D I could image a Wanted Poster for Eva and Skywarp~ "The killing Mas-duo EVA AND SKYWARP EVIL MASTERMINDS OF THE PRANK BEWARE!!!! $1,000 reward for anyone who turns them in" :police: