#would Starscream actually abandoned Op like that? Nope

[elindae-writes]

OKAY ALRIGHT. I KNOW I'M LATE BUT SOMEHOW THE LATEST CHAPTER OF UNBURIED HAS COMPLETELY ESCAPED MY ATTENTION, AND I HAVE ONLY JUST NOW FOUND IT & READ IT. AND LEMME TELL YOU, I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE WORRIED ABOUT A COMPLE FICTIONAL CHARACTER THAN I AM NOW. THAT ENDING??? 100/10, IT'S GREAT. IT ALSO COMPLETELY BROKE ME. OPTIMUS WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PLAN. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

EXCUSE MY SCREAMING BUT HOLY HELL THIS WAS SO GOOD. I'M SO HYPED UP. AND GOD, I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE WHERE MEGATRON'S ABSOLUTELY BRILIANT PLAN LEADS TO.

THANK YOU!! Your comment made me very happy, I was having a scrappy day and your comment really turned it around. I was suspicious of that chapter so I am pleased to see that people liked it a lot!

Optimus really did just fling himself onto the Nemesis at the last moment and Starscream is going to be Not Pleased with that. Megatron has a plan (kind of) that only he really knows. He has "fun" activities planned for him and his houseguests.

Somebody said that the premise of the next chapter sounds like a sitcom and I agree. If Unburied were a comedy story and I was slightly more deranged I'd write it out to be like that one awkward episode of The Office where the houseguests are having dinner with Micheal and Jan.

Starscream shatters a comically small computer console only the width of Megatron's talon and Megs loses his mind

Megatron: THAT WAS A 300 SHANIX ULTRA COMPUTER SCREEN

Megatron begins to listen and sway to songs from the good golden days as Optimus and Starscream silently sit there at the dinner table and internally scream. Shockwave is there. Soundwave needlessly inserts himself and is also there sat at an extra metal folding chair next to the table. Oh, and Knock Out and Breakdown are hiding in the kitchen. Literally just hiding. Megatron insists that the energon takes three hours to prepare for dinner but it's a lie, it's just sitting there on the counter

Starscream makes up a lie about him and OP needing to urgently return to base in order to help with a flooding disaster and it doesn't go well

Starscream: Autobot Outpost Omega One has flooded! We must return!

Megatron: one of you can stay. one guy job. who stays?

Optimus: ...

Starscream: ...

Starscream: I need to go back and check on things!

Optimus: YOU CAN GET ANOTHER AUTOBOT OUTPOST OMEGA ONE but you can't get another   p a r t y , S t a r s c r e a m

Megatron: partay

Soundwave: *slinking off into the night*

The Autobots are somehow listening in and can hear all of this