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[starscheme]

 Who: Starscream and YOU

Where: Literally anywhere in the game setting you want, if you can think it I'll come up with a reason for him to be there

When: Any time post robo-fight club, pre musical

What: Starscream hits the town for various EVIL BOT shenanigans in both bot and holo form. 

Warnings: IDK Starscream is kind of a warning on his own. HUGE DOUCHEBAG warning how's that.

If there's one good thing that's come from the whole forge catastrophe, it's that Starscream isn't quite so skittish about showing his real self to humans.

That's not to say that he isn't still a bit paranoid; he hasn't forgotten what happened to Breakdown with TRIDENT, and then the crazy AI that kidnapped half the Decepticon forces on earth at the time. He figures they should all be exercising caution, and Starscream always takes his own personal safety very seriously. What it does mean is that he's not above briefly showing himself when it's absolutely necessary. 

For example, right now he's on a bit of a shopping trip, picking up necessary materials for synthesizing Energon back on the conquest. A few months ago it might have taken him ages to case out  a proper joint to rob and get everything set up, but now that the Decepticons needn't be concerned about keeping the fact that there's a large, mechanical alien race active on their planet safe from the humans, it's one less thing he has to worry about when heading city side.

Mainly he's been focusing on obtaining two things: lab equipment (from beakers to machinery and monitors), and various forms of crude energy. The former he tends to go into the city in avatar form for broadcasting into labs here and there before booking it. As for the latter... well, it's far easier to zip in, transform and gather up as many propane tanks as he can manage, and zip back out before the CONDOR agents show up. That's the benefit of their cover being blown. Near as he can tell, most humans are still terrified of his kind and will run without a proper confrontation... and damn does that sort of reaction just bring him a special kind of joy. 

[OOC Just trying to see if anyone wants to lay the groundwork for some CR before the musical event. Starscream is prickly and unpleasant but there's a plethora of different ways you can try and engage him. Please specify in your comment if you want the real deal or the holomatter. Drop me a private message if you want to discuss or plot anything or if you have any concerns at all \o/]

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[starscheme]

He might remember that name. Maybe.

One eyebrow goes up, not that he's exactly impressed, but.

"Make for the desert. I'll keep an eye on you from the air. If you make it far enough... well, I'll be sure to let you know when to stop."

He steps back and, following some fancy juggling combined with transformation, snaps up the armful of tanks into his cockpit and jets off. She either makes it to the desert or she doesn't, he's not about to play escort for her.

[heavyhitter]

It's a bit of a nebulous direction, but she can do that. She waits just long enough to watch his transformation (awesome), then applies the pedal directly to metal. The truck screeches forward and careens around a corner — not quite the right direction, but the most important thing here is getting out of direct line of sight from the scene of the crime.

She doesn't slow down until she's sure she made it away without anyone after her — and even then she's not going that much slower. This is still, after all, a stolen vehicle, and it'll be reported sooner or later. She glances out the window now and then, eyes skyward and looking for the robot up there, but mostly she concentrates on looking casual and normal. Just any old pickup, carting a load of propane around, nothing to see here!

Her looks upward get more frequent as she starts to draw away from LA proper, out further into the desert. If she doesn't get to see this guy again, man, she's gonna be pissed. She'd way rather have a second meeting with an alien than a shitty new truck.

[starscheme]

Once she hits a particularly deserted stretch of road, Starscream drops into a dive, cutting across the road at an altitude low enough that he's probably pretty hard to miss. He sticks a landing in the sand a hundred feet or so off-road, setting his armful of pilfered propane tanks down carefully. So she did make it out, after all... alright, so that's pretty impressive, considering her various handicaps as a tiny little human.

[heavyhitter]

Oh man, that will never get old. Do all these guys look so smooth and cool when they transform? She slows to admire it, then jerks the wheel of the truck to pull it offroad, heading out over the sand toward him. She sticks her head out the window when she's near enough, one arm already draped lazily down the side of the door.

"There, see, check this haul out. Not bad, huh? Better than what you had alone!"

Go on, tell her she's useful, admit it.