"You know, the fence is not a safe place for you to stay." The voice knocks you out of your thoughts as a white and red jet transforms and lands on his pedes in front of you.

If you remember correctly, he's the Decepticon Second in Command- "Starscream," he cuts off your thought process with a smile, and extends his servo in a greeting gesture that the humans do. He keeps it there for a moment before realising the error and pulling his servo back. "Sorry , I forgot that's only a thing Cybertronians on Earth know about."

Starscream doesn't look much like the Second in Command of a massive army. His paintjob is unscratched and he doesn't seem to be packing any weapons. He looks... Normal.

His optics drift over to where you're standing and the relaxed smile on his faceplate dissolves, replaced with a look of sorrow mixed with fury.

Below the small cliff you're standing on is the remains of an Autobot raid on a neutral settlement.

Broken corpses leaking neon Energon litter the ground and smoke rises from the unfortunate bodies that were set on fire. Nobody was left alive, and limbs are scattered across the trampled ground.

There's a low creaking sound as Starscream's servo's clench into fists, his digits mildly denting his own servo.

"I... I'm sorry." He glances at you with optics the colour of a cloudless sky. "We didn't know the Autobots would be targeting your settlement, or we would have come sooner, with more than just me."

Carefully, Starscream places a servo on your shoulder, turning you away from the carnage.

"The Autobots are monsters. I didn't come here to ask you to fight if you don't want to, but to ask if you would join the Decepticon cause, and help us stop the Autobots from doing... This to anyone else."

"You don't have to answer right away, but please. Consider it."