Dangers; Increased
The Nemesis
Soundwave was walking through the hall when there was an alert, seeing this, she had went and checked, seeing that it was another artifact, she had went and headed towards the Bridge once again, excited to supply the data once again, “Wonder what this one will be.” Laserbeak had thought and she agreed, “Whatever it is, we must not let the enemy have the advantage.” Vigilem said they thought the same.
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The Bridge, The Nemesis
Soundwave had presented the coordinates to her master, showing the location to him, “You have decoded the next Iacon coordinates?” he had asked of her, “Excellent, Soundwave! Then it is time to beta test our decoy.” he had told her, hearing that, she had nodded, taking the container from him before creating a bridge and walking through to give them time.
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Chinese Air Space
Soundwave had plummeted through the skies, falling down hard as she had transformed, flying through the air now as she had headed towards a route that would keep them far away from the the location, as she had flown, Laserbeak had butted into her mind, “So, Soundwave, are you excited?” He had asked of her, "For what?” she had asked of him, “You’re joking right?” He had asked her.
“The surgery! Tinker has you scheduled for soon.” He had told her, hearing that, The CCO had remembered, to restore her voice box, as Soundwave had continued to fly when she heard their CMO attempting to make contact, responding to this, Soundwave had blocked communication as she had flown, making it last longer as they had flown around in the sky.
While she had flown in the air, Soundwave had detected The Autobots there, still looking, still following, it was making her glad as she had scanned all of them but Ratchet and the unknown Autobot, one, two Autobots at the most would not be a danger for them as they had continued to move when a Bridge had opened up, detecting this, she had gotten worried.
Soundwave sent a warning to her master, attempting to warn him of the Autobots that are there, but they were already gone, Soundwave had seen that there was no longer a need for her to remain here, so in response to this, The Decepticon had return to The Nemesis, wondering what the relic was that would make this leave another and hoping that The Decepticons had acquired it.
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The Nemesis
They were fragged, The Star Saber, the legendary blade wielded by Prima, a mountain was dropped on him and yet he had sliced it in twain with a single stroke, the slash that he had sent to to them had nearly downed the Nemesis, as they had risen back up now, Megatron had righted himself and spoken, “We Decepticons now face our darkest hour.” he told them.
Soundwave had went and opened up a diagnostic of the vessel, showing the damage that they had received from that slash, seeing this, he had snarled, “Find a Camien and head to Sanctuary for our repairs, I must plan our next move.” he had snarled, wanting to find a way to countermeasure The Star Saber while Soundwave had decided to push her appointment ahead.
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Sanctuary Station
Soundwave with a group of MTO’s had walked through, other Decpeticons had seen them, smiling and greeting the bots there as Soundblaster had approached with Termagax, “Hey there, Soundwave.” Termagax had said, “What has my Protege gotten into this time?” she had asked as Soundwave answered, “THE–!” he had started before shutting up, seeing the others that were there, “That’s big news.” he said to her.
She nodded at this, showing the items that were required by them as she had headed towards Tinker’s station, “Soundwave?” an MTO asked, “Soundwave has an appointment with his doctor,” Soundblaster said, “I’ll go ahead and help you get everything you need.” he had said with a smile as they had been moved away and Soundwave had started to psych herself up.
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Sickbay, Sanctuary Station
Tinker had looked up in surprise as she had entered, “I am ready for the procedure.” She had told him, “Are you sure?” he asked her, “Because this could possibly damage your voice so that you’re silent, forever.” he had told her, “<Better to try and fail then to not and wonder.>Airachnid” She had told him as they had went and gotten her situated.
They had went and strapped her in, “I’m going to need you to disengage your armor.” he told her, hearing that, she had went and did as much, opening up the needed areas for him as Tinker went as he had showed the materials that he was going to use before he started to induce stasis, making her really hate this part of the procedure as she had started to fade to unconsciousness.
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The moment that she had woken up, Soundwave had felt the pain, “Alright, we’re all good,” Tinker had said with a smile, “Your voice box is repaired now, just need to keep quiet and let the scars heal over.” he had told her, making her smile at that, “<Thank you.>Optimus Prime” She had told him, glad that she would be able to speak when there was an alert.
“All hands! We have a Charlie 23! Repeat! A Charlie 23!” Silverwater, their head of security shouted, “<Charlie 23!>Silverwater” She had asked of Tinker who was currently swearing and praying, “Someone’s trying to invade the station!” he had muttered, making her curious as Soundwave left the Sickbay to see what was going on exactly outside of the station.
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Sanctuary Station
“Soundblaster!” She went, cautious, “What is going on?” She had asked of her brother, “Mecannibels!” He had told her, “They’re here for everything mechanical.” He had continued, making her cuss, mentally, “We need–” “Soundwave!” Termagax had shouted, making them both turn towards Megatron’s Mentor who was approaching, “I heard that you were a strategist.” she said.
A bot that was able to master an Omniglobe to see entire battlefields and give commands.” she had said, impressed by the skill, most can’t keep up with the data process or focus on one sector, “Would you be willing to help?” she had asked her, hearing that, Soundwave was about to answer when The Empyrean Suite started to play and he took over, “<As you command.>Soundwave” The Decpeticon said.
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Security Module, Sanctuary Station
The Decpeticon was at the module, plugged in with holos all around him while Laserbeak had spoke, “Are you sure you can do this?”He had asked of The creature inside of Soundwave, “Affirmative, this strategy will eradicate 98.07% of the Mecannibel forces.” He had said, sending out the commands when he caught his reflection and saw himself as other saw him now.
The Decepticon was rail thin, as if a gust would blow him over, dark blue and violet being his colors while his helm the same as Tarn’s, on his digits, they separate into two others, operating separate while filaments like for puppets had spread out, this form, The Decepticon liked as he had started to implement his strategy on their termination, “Repeat everything I say.” He told Laserbeak who complied.
“Unit Alpha, release First Wave.” he said, hearing that, the assigned Unit Alpha had powered up and fired the payloads, releasing swarms of scraplets onto their vanguard, that would deal with them as The Mecannibels either avoided or they had fired upon their infected allies, more metal for the smelterhouse as they approached, “Unit Alpha, Release second wave.” Laserbeak said to them.
They had proceeded to do as much, firing a new payload, this one was organic in nature, Space Barnacles of a mutant variety, the creatures latching onto the enemy vessels and as they had done as much, The Decepticon grew excited at the thought before him when ejection pods had headed their way, “Unit Beta, form up on these locations and begin clean up.” Laserbeak ordered.
The surviving Mecannibles had latched on and dug through the hull, popping out of them pods only to be shot and cut by the security that had arrived at those locations, “Soundwave, there appears to be a message, a ceasefire.” Soundblaster said as he had received it, “Stop! We will cease attacks! Just stop!” He had said, begging him, “What do you want to do, Soundblaster?” Laserbeak asked.
“Mecannibels have terrible memory unless it’s traumatic,” Soundblaster said, sounding as if he had experience, “Make it traumatic.” He had ordered, hearing that, The Decepticon complied, releasing something that Mesothulas called, The Abomination, firing it into space towards the last of The Battleships which was when it had released itself.
It was horrid, a minicon, or what looked like one, had started to expand out and grow, techno–organic tentacles shooting out from every orifice as they had went and melded with the vessels, they could hear the screams over the comms as said Abomination had dragged them in, taking the vessels and appearing to absorb them, growing with the added mass in a ridiculous way.
It looked like something Lovecraftian, snarling in space, looking around before it had headed towards Sanctuary Station, “Mesothulas!” Laserbeak shouted in panic, “Relax, it’s life span will end in 3… 2… 1…” And like he had promised, it started to implode, devouring itself before there was nothing but a small ball in metal left that floated in space, ready to be collected by Junkion Scrap Merchants, “What about The Scraplets?” Tremor asked as the others celebrated.
The Decepticon just watched as the organic harnesses applied to the Scraplets started to detonate, wiping them out, satisfied now, Soundwave had retaken control of her body, disengaging and walking back from it, Soundwave had vented at that, great, now she just needed to have a nice chat with Soundblaster, leave, and try to fix every other problem that is going on right now.
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Sanctuary Station
There were cheers from the organics and mechanics that were there, glad that the Mecannibels were dealt with while they were cheering and celebrating, except for The Autobots and their allies, Soundblaster approached his donor, “Great work in there, Bro!” Soundblaster had said to her, “For you! 15% off on your purchases!” he had said with a smile, making the MTO’s look in surprise at that while she nodded.
“Thank you, brother.” She had said, walking away from him to the rest for a transport to The Nemesis once more, honestly she didn’t understand why they needed her to assist them, but hey, she got a discount, that’s pretty good at least as she had opened up a portal and as she had went and walked through, the bots there liking that she was there at the time while a few Autobots were curious what was up.
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The Artillery, Earth’s Exosphere
Trochia had no idea what she had just witnessed, it was incredible, it was stupendous, The Star Saber! The Blade of Prima himself there on Earth! It was… to put this as measly epic would be an insult upon everything that was related to the artifact, it was momentous for The Autobot Side! Their Prime had The Star Saber, this is one of the biggest advantages that anyone could imagine.
She was making sure that the data as being sent to Prowl was all good and encoded, after all, they didn’t want someone like Bludgeon or one of The Phase Sixers to hear about this, It would make the planet scorched if they were lucky, atomized or at worst made into a new Blackhole if they weren’t careful, taking a vent, Trochia kind of wished she could use it, imagining using it to destroy The Warship
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Machination Laboratories, Tampa
Garrison Blackrock and Ulysses Orlov had watched as the vehicles, all of them Lamborghini Countach LP500S’s, had rolled in, humming and ready to go, coming in Yellow, Red, Black and White, all of them creating a holo of a pilot, “Are the Master Units all prepared?” Garrison had asked of his Head of Project Metal Mold, “The Clones are all online and the link is functioning.” he had said.
Hearing that, Garrison had went and pressed a button, in response to this, The Clones had all started to transform, identical to the subject that they had acquired them from besides their glowing white optics, color schemes and the fact that they each had a rifle on hand that had been manufactured for them, seeing this, the two of them had grinned at the success.
“Alright, five units for each state, understood?” he had said with the Master Units all nodding, going and transforming, the lead vehicles opening for them and heading out, five for each state was a start and it was making him smile as he had seen that his other half was sending a message and getting ready to make contact, that was going to be good, very very good.
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The Nemesis
To say that Soundwave was stressed out would be putting it lightly, she could let WDA take over, but her joints would probably go out if she didn’t… relax, Soundwave had hated that, “Soundwave, what is it?” Megatron had asked of her, taking a vent, Soundwave had showed her diagnostics and how she needed to rest, “You are requesting… a break?” He had asked, surprised.
She had sent a compliance towards the leader who vented over comms, “There is nothing we can do now, go and do whatever it is you desire.” He had said, surprised by the fact that she was doing something like this, Soundwave never tired and never stopped, even if his vessel wasn’t damaged like it was right now, there was not much that they could do and Soundwave would be useless damaged.
“So, what’re we going to do?” Laserbeak had asked of her, knowing that she was tired and Trypticon wouldn’t let her have her ‘medication’ thankfully, “We’re going to Namibia, we’re going to care for the herd and we’re going to listen to Synth–Tone, because I’m not in the mood for anything else.” She had said, opening a Bridge and not in the mood for anything complicated right now.
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Namibia, Africa
It was your average day there when all of a sudden there was a crack of ozone, making the animals there all started to back away in fear as an explosion of light appeared, making them all start to run away as a small crater formed, from that crater, two mechanical beings rose up before the mech had started to act in a way that anyone not used to Quantum Travel normally did.
Lio Convoy had hurled the energon he had consumed, groaning as he had wiped the excess away, “That was–” he had said right before seeing that his comrade was looking fine, “Come on, chop chop!” she said, clapping her servos as she had headed towards the herd that she had heard so much about, Vesper, from Vespertilio, grinned at them, "Hello!" She went to them.
They had looked to Vesper, cautious as the femme spoke again, “I am friendly, not predator,” She told them, “But predator is coming for Soundwave.” She had warned of them, making the large and scarred leader approach, “Is he friend of Soundwave?” Omegatron asked of Vesper who grinned, “He is friend of me.” She said, “Hey! What’re you saying to the thing?” He had asked.
“I’m giving our hello’s.” she had said towards Lio Convoy, the two of them glaring at each other as they had walked, “Alright, so what’s the time period?” Lio Convoy had asked Vesper had opened up the system and she had checked, “We’re in the last Vorn of the Second Calender.” she had told her comrade, “Huh, wasn’t the fighting at a minimum now?” Lio Convoy asked her.
Hearing that, Vesper shook her helm, “Are you kidding me? Things here were devastating! The war had taken so many, they didn’t have the resources for anything major right about now like the beginning, but the last few strikes were still devastating.” she had continued, remembering the stories, how Unicron was awakened, how their world was doomed to die and about The Thirteen as well.
It had made Vesper smile at that when there was a noise, one that had made Vesper look towards Lio Convoy and saw that he was transforming and seeing that he was a Earth Lion, “Transform.” he had ordered, hearing that, she had glared, “I’m not going to transform.” she had snarled towards him once again, “I don’t care if you’re part of some Monoform movement, transform!” he snarled.
Instead, Vesper had just gave him The Human Bird before activating The Spec Ops stealth Tech that she had gotten from one of her favorite family members, the two of them had went and walked through the plains, Omegatron and the others following them as the pair fo them had walked through the location, cautious and looking around, “I can’t believe that they had lived here.”
“It was as exiles, there’s not a real surprise, everyone was hiding from The Organics around here, frag, I mean seriously, they had Organics inside of them.” she had continued, shocking Lio Convoy, “Why would they do that?” he asked her, before remembering what Vesper was, “It’s because–” “We need to set up choke points.” Lio had said, “Because of my form, I will maintain vigil on the ledge.” he said to her.
“You will stay close to The Elephants, that’s where the targets likely to appear.” Lio Convoy said, “You don’t think I know that?!” Vesper had snarled towards him, “I’ve had the targets habits down for Vorns!” she had hissed towards the other bot in anger as they had continued to watch, “Alright, so we stay out of the way, make sure the target doesn’t notice us and–” “Ha!” Vesper said.
“That’s not going to work!” She had told him as she had shooed the Elephants away from her spot, “Sneaking up on the target is near impossible, we need to play this smart.” she had told her comrade, “Come on! I know the target is dangerous but come on!” he had said and hearing that, Vesper had laughed, “Are you serious? Did you never see The Historical Record?” she had asked.
Hearing that, Lio Convoy had rolled his optics before going and opening up the file that they were given by their organization and seeing that there was a large, and he meant a LARGE file on their target, he had heard stories of what had gone on during the war, but seeing all of the destruction, all of the damage and death that had been caused, it had surprised him at the least.
“And they want us on THIS bot?” he had asked of the femme, “Because if we don’t then that afthole wins and we’re all fragged.” Vesper had hissed towards him as they had seen that there was a Space Bridge Alert coming in, “I get that but who would expect someone like that to be… this?” he had whispered as Vesper had watched as the Bridge had appeared now.
They had watched as the target had went and walked out from it, going towards the herd as they had watched, “Remember, we need to make sure that Soundwave stays here and isn’t taken by them.” Lio had whispered, both knowing about her hearing and the truth right now, the two of them REALLY hoped that she would tried to terminate them before they dealt with The Herald of Unicron.