Starscream's path of reasoning is a frustrating one to follow, made even more so by his difficult to comprehend emotional cycles. Signless has never doubted that he'll try to stop him. He simply is confident that he won't be able to, when it comes down to it.
But that isn't the part of all this that is bothering him the most. Something about the situation, about the things Starscream keeps saying, is infuriating him. He's learned more about Cybertron's history by now and it's so...futile.
"So what?" Signless snaps, unmoved by Starscream's threatening motions. "So you intend to take it, so that your hand can be the one responsible for your own extinction? You speak as if your species is something you intend to protect, but from all evidence it is not."
"You are not a threat to her, and you never have been. She could just as easily sit back and watch you destroy yourself - you've brought yourself to the edge of extinction without any need for assistance, and now you dare speak to me as if your species is something you intend to protect! To give this to you would be just as much her victory as taking it, you...you hypocrites!"
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But that isn't the part of all this that is bothering him the most. Something about the situation, about the things Starscream keeps saying, is infuriating him. He's learned more about Cybertron's history by now and it's so...futile.
"So what?" Signless snaps, unmoved by Starscream's threatening motions. "So you intend to take it, so that your hand can be the one responsible for your own extinction? You speak as if your species is something you intend to protect, but from all evidence it is not."
"You are not a threat to her, and you never have been. She could just as easily sit back and watch you destroy yourself - you've brought yourself to the edge of extinction without any need for assistance, and now you dare speak to me as if your species is something you intend to protect! To give this to you would be just as much her victory as taking it, you...you hypocrites!"