Tension; Building
The Bridge, The Nemesis
Soundwave was with Airachnid at the command as the two of them had watched Megatron and the team that he had brought go through and continue mining through the Earth when she saw that they had acquired the item just as the Decepticons had found the artifact, A Spark Extractor, a weapon created by Prowl and another scientist to contain prisoners, it was a devastating weapon that Decepticons attempted to take.
“Soundwave, send the ground bridge.” He commanded and she had went and complied with that, opening one up as she saw that the MTO’s engaged The two Autobots just as a third had entered the area, Soundwave noticed that Megatron was about to come through their way when she heard something, “What?!” he demanded, sounding angry as he roared, leaving the Bridge.
As the bridge closed, Soundwave and Airachnid saw that he was alone, The Autobots missing and the MTO’s all dead, “It appears that today was not a success.” she said as Soundwave went and opened up another bridge to let their master back to The Nemesis, Megatron walking back in snarling as he had entered, smashing his fist against a console, Fury. coming from him.
“The Spark Extractor was in my grasp!” he had said, furious, “I should have removed more than that scout’s voice box when I had the chance!” he had said, as he did, Soundwave approached, ready to remind him that there were still more that they could acquire to help them win against them, showing the globe and the rest of the information that Orion Pax had given them, “Indeed, Soundwave.” he said.
Soundwave had calmed down at that, “We possess two more sets of coordinates which Orion decrypted before departing our ranks.” he had said to her, stepping over to stare into her Face Screen, “Let us see what other long-lost treasures we might be reunited with.” Megatron had told her with a smile at the possible advantages each and every one of them would have for their cause.
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Namibia, Africa
Soundwave had received the ping that she gave to Thundercracker, walking out a Ground–Bridge to find The Seeker and see him standing there, looking anxious as he and Buster noticed her, The Decepticon CCO had nodded to him, “<And what is it that you have found?>Starscream” She had asked of him, making Thundercracker look around, “I was following Starscream like you asked when I saw it.” he said.
“<What>Airachnid” She had asked of him, “Some humans stunned Bumblebee, in that time they had went and pulled out his T–Cog, it was…”Thundercracker shook at the memory, Soundwave got worried and showed him images of The Project Toymaker people and Garrison Blackrock, “<Were these the individuals?>Shockwave” She had asked of him, “No,” Thundercracker said, “They were in green leather–”
“<MECH.>Airachnid” She had said to him, Confusion. Coming from him, “I heard about that, Marissa said that they were a group that had been trying to dissect us for a while.” Thundercracker said, hearing that, Soundwave had thought on how similar Toymaker was using corpses from The EDC, “Do you think The EDC is funding them, like Toymaker?” She had asked him.
“Wait, what do you mean?”he had asked, hearing that, Soundwave showed him the data that she had on Joshua Red, a member of Unit: D and how he had been helping in Project Toymaker, “Marissa wouldn’t do that!” Thundercracker said, Honesty. Coming from him, “I’ve known her since she was a baby!” he went, Soundwave not knowing what that was but getting the idea.
“<Rogue Faction.>Prowl” She had said and he nodded at this, “Report to me again if Starscream does anything.” She had said to him and walking away from him and bridging back to The Nemesis, Thundercracker sighing at his new position in life as he picked up, waving to The elephants there before the two of them had went and headed back home in Alaska, hoping that they won’t be like this forever.
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The Bridge, The Nemesis
Soundwave was at the helm and saw that Knock Out was heading towards the second artifact, as she saw this, Soundwave had walked away, going to her quarters, “Soundwave, may I join you?” The Eukarian had asked of The CCO and she had nodded, the two of them walking through the hall, “So it seems that we are about to acquire another,” Airachnid said, “I wonder what it will be this time.” she asked.
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Soundwave’s Quarters, The Nemesis
As they had entered, Airachnid sat on her berth and stared at her, “So, what do you think will be in the next?” she had asked, “Unknown, The Hall of Records stretches back To The Thirteen, even an artifact from The Golden Harvest, anything could be there–” “Maybe Q tech.” Airachind said, “<Hisssss!>Insecticon” She went, making Airachnid realize her misstep.
“Right, they who shall not be named.” The SIC said, them all knowing having heard of the horrors they had done to Cybertron during the Nova Regime, if Unicron is the first enemy of Cybertron, than they would be the Second, Airachnid had looked over everything before seeing the only bit of litter that was a part of the room, curious she had webbed and taken it, examining the vials.
They were Circuit Speeder injectors, used, but there was something else in them, taking a small taste, Airachnid realized that she was dosing on a Nucleon/Circuit Speeder Cocktail, the mere taste already making her wired, the Circuit Speeder was bad enough, “How long have you been using these?” Airachnid asked which was when Laserbeak sent a message to her.
As soon as she had read it, The SIC had reacted, taking the other vial that Laserbeak directed her to and having grabbed it, she had went and stabbed Soundwave with it in the neck, making Soundwave panic, wondering what it was that had been done as she started to lose control of her body, she went and fell down on her back, already going out, Airachnid was tempted, but Laserbeak would stop her.
Venting, Airachnid looked down at her sleeping comrade, she remembered the last time that she was like this, it was during The Battle of Junkion which was essentially just Two Diun’s of bloody fighting, the worst was when they had gotten The Sharkticons to attack them, so many of them eaten alive, as Airachnid had remembered that bloody siege, she wondered if Soundwave recalled what happened then.
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The Battle of Junkion, Soundwave’s Dreamscape
Soundwave was barely keeping things together, Springer had cut her servo off and they had barely repelled the last Sharkticon wave, “Soundwave! We need to call a retreat!” One of his fellow Decepticons had shouted as she had worked one servoed, “Negative.” she had told them, “Order; Wait for reinforcements.” she had told them as The Femme had gotten a report from the 51st Battalion.
The Insecticon had devoured enough and were able to shore up their numbers and now they were engaging the Sharkticon attack unit, that was good, it let her vent when she had heard something, it was a whistling that made her look up, “Incoming!” she shouted before running, the others followed and all of them had went and went to vacate the small fort as fast as they could before the missiles landed.
The shrapnel had went and hit her back, making her fall to the ground as The Aerial Bots had went and transformed before they had landed and aimed at him, “Looks like we got a big prize here mechs!” he had said as Soundwave turned, glaring underneath her visor when she had heard something, something that had made her grin underneath her face mask as they began to feel the rumbling.
“What the–?” the first started to ask when a set of Fateweaver pedes had emerged from the ground and grabbed him, dragging the bot down into the ground which had surprised the others as they heard screams from him just as Insecticons had crawled out of the hole and started to attack, overwhelming them easily, Soundwave wanted to laugh as she saw The Eukarian Queen of The Insecticons emerge.
He had placed a pedes on Soundwave, keeping her on the ground as she had smirked at the TIC, “I appears that you needed some assistance, Soundwave.” she said, removing her pedes from her, “I suppose that you’ll be needing someone to take over command for you.” she said but Soundwave perished the thought, getting up as soon as the Pedes was off of her.
Up now, she had grabbed a Ion Blaster and started to fire upon the enemy, “Decepticons; Attack!” She had ordered, walking past those that were on the ground, seeing all of them tired and wounded, wanting to let The Insecticons to do the work, but as they saw Soundwave looking Half Terminated, they started to get up, not wanting to get upstaged as they joined their commander, “Huh.” Airachnid thought as she watched.
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The two of them were in one of the temporary fortresses that their Junkion allies had constructed and their enemies were disassembling, the two of them firing against the enemy, The Decaying Tower was crumbling and making them keep their balance as best as possible as the two of them had fired upon them, Airachnid transforming into her Spider–Like form as she had crawled down the wall.
Soundwave looked at her fighting and seeing her like that, Soundwave went and slid down, her T–Cog useless without a servo, Soundwave aimed and fired with a Plasma–Shell Shotgun, going as fast as she could, sliding under The Insecticon Queen and putting the barrel into the Sharkticons intake before firing, making another hole into them as they had landed on the ground, dropping the weapon and throwing a thermal.
Airachnid transformed and fired out a shot before attaching it to a Sharkticon and getting help from Soundwave, they had swung the feral creature around as it bit and devoured the enemy whole, the two of them in synch as they had given the Decpeticons some breathing room for the moment, the two of them looking at each other with relieved smiles before they were joined by the rest of their forces
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Soundwave was still rotating the spare that The Decepticon Medical Corps had provided was fine but she would wait for Tinker to restore it, as they had watched the Decepticon Warship come in, Airachnid walking beside her, “So, are you going to miss this place?” She asked, lightly bumping into Soundwave who just rolled her optics, “Statement; Mission not complete.” she told her.
The Eukarian gave a small vent at that as Shockwave walked down the ramp, looking around, “Soundwave.” he said, “Situation report.” he had said to her, reacting to this she opened a holo, “Both Wreckers and Prowl are attempting to utilize Sharkticon forces.” She told him, “Best course of action would be to acquire the allegiance of Wreck–Gar.” Soundwave had said to him.
“Strange. Is not Rum–Maj the more logical choice?” Shockwave asked, “That would be true, if Rum–Maj could say no to her consort.” Airachnid said with a smile, making the CSO nod at that as he and the fresh troops were given the plans, hopefully this would make the time they had wasted on this planet all worth it as Soundwave brushed her servo with Airachnid’s.
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Soundwave’s Quarters, The Nemesis
Soundwave woke up quickly, looking around and startled as it were, shocked that she had remembered that massacre, the only reason Junkion wasn’t destroyed right now was thanks to the Gravimetric Barrier that was set up, recalling when the battle was over and they had their mercenaries, panting, she had checked how long it had been and saw that it another of The Artifacts had been collected.
Curious, she had left her quarters, “Feel better, Soundwave?” Laserbeak had asked, “Yes, had a… a memory.” She had told him, Laserbeak saw the memory and knew what she was thinking about as Soundwave went to see what it was that they had collected, perhaps one of The Thirteen’s various relics, it would be a sight for her optics to see something as amazing as that.
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The Bridge, The Nemesis
“Ahh. Excellent work, Knock Out.” Megatron told The Velocitronian, “I live to serve, Lord Megatron.” Knock Out said to him, “But what exactly is it?” The Velocitronian had asked of him, examining the object her carried, instead of answering, Megatron gave a demonstration, firing upon the bot who had flinch in a reaction, as he did, a force field appeared, deflecting the blast for him.
Knock Out was surprised by this, looking at the undamaged artifact, “Now you know.” Megatron told him, “I think I leaked a little transmission fluid.” Knock Out said and Soundwave would not be surprised by that as she had stepped forward with the next artifact, easier to lactate with the last one which seemed to be glitching out at random intervals for some strange reason.
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Namibia, Africa
Soundwave had arrived once she had received the message from Thundercracker, venting, she waited for him, tapping her pedes as she saw him land, the dog coming out again as he went robot mode, “<Why do you bring… THAT with you>Starscream” She had asked him, “Buster gets lonely if I leave her alone.” he said, gently scratching her as Omegatron came with the herd.
“Wait, elephants like Soundwave?” Thundercracker asked, “<What did you discover?>Megatron” She had asked of him, snapping him back to the reason he was here, “Right! Starscream’s working with MECH! They already started mining for Energon, I herd something about an army?” he told her, hearing that, Soundwave got angry, enough that she had pulled up a VERY old Audio log.
<By providing services to an organic race, you’re in violation of Article Three of The Tyrest Accord.>Ultra Magnus” She had told him, hearing that, Thundercracker nodded, “So what now?” Thundercracker had asked of her, she was about to answer him when Soundwave got a transmission, “<Keep me updated for now.>Megatron” She said before going to deal with Mohawk now.
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Sanctuary Station
Soundwave had arrived once again and as she had looked around, The CCO had seen that there was the Two Wheeler waiting, she had witnessed the failure of The Forge of Solus Prime and really needed to hear the sound of something a little better, “<Report.>Shockwave” She had told him, “Yeah yeah Soundmaster!” Mohawk said, using that nickname that he coined again.
“So sorry Mech! But this is important!” Mohawk said, “One of The OG’s wanted to have a convo with you!” he had said, heading further into the Station while Soundwave was curious what he meant by a OG, as they had continued to walk further and further in, the Decepticons all acknowledging her as she had headed in, wondering who is ‘OG’ was, she was an OG, Starscream unfortunately and Megatron were.
As Soundwave looked around, trying to discern who they were as she saw that Soundblaster was make the rounds, “Hey there Sis!” Soundblaster had said to her, “What’re you here for?” He had asked her, “Mohawk told me there was a bot looking for me.” She had said before feeling that there was a hook by her throat, the bots aiming their weapons at the bot while he only gave a tired chuckle.
“Nice reaction time.” A voice that sounded like nothing surprised him anymore said, Soundwave gently pushed the hook away before going to turn around and seeing the Decepticon, it was the Bounty Hunter himself, Lockdown, the mech famous for how he never snitches or betrays any contracts that he had made, “<Why are you here?>Starscream” She had demanded of him.
Lockdown just gave a chuckle, “Straight to business, nice.” Lockdown said as he had pulled out a holo, “Got a ping for THIS on Earth,” he said, showing the image and data, “Figured I’d let you and Megatron know before I head down there.” he told her, hearing that, Soundwave panicked, seeing it and the danger that it could cause, “I’m gonna be there in a Astrocycle–” but Soundwave had other ideas.
“Soundblaster! How much–?!” “I’ll put it on you tab.” he said, waving it away as The merchant had sent the message to his people to fire up The Geosynch for them while Lockdown had chuckled, the two of them headed away when Mohawk spoke up, “OH! Main man Sounds!” He went, making her turn, seeing both him and Soundblaster approach the two of them.
“Got a bead on a Autoglitch coming that way too!” he had said, tossing the data to him, “It’s Prowl’s numbah one.” he had said, making her curious while Soundblaster chuckled, Soundwave looking over it and recalling it was that Autobot that her brother told her about, “Looks like a challenge, fun.” Lockdown told her as the two of them had went and headed in, wondering if they could stop Earth from looking like Junkion II.
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El Paso, Texas
There was a meteorite, firing down at a pace that would be alarming to many as people started to run when they saw that it had started to slow in descent until eventually there was a stop before eventually there was a stop as the meteorite which looked like a metallic satellite as the panels that expanded out had kept it from falling before the object transformed and became a mechanoid.
The 38’ tall Midnight Blue bot with a White Smoke Grey secondary had looked around, the fins on the sides of her helm had extended out, her yellow optics had glared out at everything when she saw that the organics were approaching, she could hear a pinging, making Trochia of Darkmount raise an optic ridge before seeing that the natives were attacking her, reacting she put up her guard.
Trochia’s extra plating went down, a defense mechanism that she had since she had fully formed, Prowl jokingly called her a wrecking ball with how she dealt with things, ignoring them, she had activated the Spec Ops camo tech, vanishing as she had walked, heading away from the humans and heading towards the last known location of The Autobot Base, a little excited to finally meet the Prime.
Trochia was a part of The Peaceful Revolution, she had come into existence, She had been a part of Spec Ops since then, learning how she had come into his mentorship and who was responsible, Trochia had earned plenty of names, The Wrecking Ball, Prowl’s Hammer, The Doom, she had earned them in these later conflicts but this was the first time she’d face off against Decepticon High Command.
It made her a little excited as she had walked through the planet, the bot that had held her in captivity, depriving her of any kind of life until Prowl had found her, he probably was the reason for her disability, making her a little excited but also wishing that she had a alt–mode to utilize before remembering her mentor’s gift.
Trochia had went and searched through the database of military vehicles that we there, preferring Aerial Bot forms before finding one that was interesting, something called a B–2 Stealth Bomber, liking it, she had downloaded the specs and liked the feeling before transforming and flying up, feeling a little bit of excitement as she had flown up and gave a spin.
As she had headed towards Nevada, Rafael had spun the little egg shaped device that Rodimus gave him, it was odd and he had barely seen that the new symbol there, stopping the spin, he had noticed that there was a skull with a Egyptian–like headdress on it now with some strange symbols on it now, Raf looked at it confused, not knowing what it was or how dangerous it truly was.