Code Of Honour

Epilogue.

Sam was woken by a screech of a jet engine, and Bumblebee's alarm going off.

Then: "Sam! Run! It's Starscream" Bumblebee shouted.

"Calm down Autobot, I wish only to talk to your fleshling charge. I won't hurt him." Starscream said. He crouched so his face was on a level with Sam's window.

Sam got dressed and opened his window, and crouched on the windowsill. He wasn't entirely convinced of Starscream's promise, but he didn't want to refuse, and then have Starscream punish Bumblebee for Sam's recalcitrance. He had a feeling Stasrscream would have loved any excuse to kill Bumblebee.

"What do you want?" Sam asked, in no mood to be diplomatic-especially as it was 7 AM on a Sunday morning and his parents were demanding outside his room to know what was going on.

"To thank you." Starscream said, to Sam's surprise. "Barricade tells me that the Autobot medic said that your actions in stemming the flow of coolant from my wing saved my life." Starscream looked down, seeming almost embarrassed, Sam noticed.

"Okay, you've thanked me, now piss off!" Sam said, looking down at where Starscream's feet had destroyed his Dads patio, path, and churned up half of his lawn. He cringed. "Dad's gonna go ballistic when he sees what you've done to the garden! So's Mom, and she's got a temper."

"They'll have to put up with it." said Starscream. "I believe Barricade explained the significance to my people of what he called, for your simple organic processors to understand, the "Code of Cybertron?"

"Yeah…?" said Sam, wondering just where this was going.

Starscream looked at the ground again. Again, Sam thought Starscream looked embarrassed.

"Well….I swore the same Code to the same conditions. You saved my life, I must repay that debt, just as Barricade did. Don't worry, I'll find a way to fit in this area in front of your house."

Sam felt dizzy.

"You are kidding, aren't you?" he whispered.

"I am not." said Starscream.

Sam's last conscious thought was 'Barricade was able to explain a Police car on the lawn, but how will Starscream explain the presence of a bloody F-22 jet?'

Then he fainted, and Starscream put his hand in the window and caught him before he could hit the bedroom floor.