Battlefield; Prepared
The Nemesis
The Decepticon was walking through the halls, there was nothing to do but wait for her next set of orders when there was a alert, “Soundwave,” Megatron had said, “I shall be indisposed with Starscream, I require you to make sure that the ceasefire you have told me of will stay to our advantage.” He had told the CCO, “<Affirmative, Lord Megatron.>Shockwave” She said before opening up a bridge.
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The Torment, Cybertron Space
Soundwave had arrived on The Decepticon Battlecruiser with her being greeted by Bludgeon and The Monstructor Six, “Soundwave!” Bludgeon, the master of Metallikato, had said, sounding happy, “Where are the Omega Krys?!/I am glad that Megatron had graced us with your presence!” he had said to her as she started to sign, Slog translating for her, “<Where will the talk be held?>” she had asked.
“Prowl has decided that the talk will be held on Metrotitan.” Bludgeon had said, in response to this, Soundwave had grinned at the thought, “<Excellent, here is what I want done.>” She had told Bludgeon, looking at the assembled Decepticons there and seeing what was there, she had started to work with the available fleet that was there and making the plan start to form.
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Metrotitan, Cybertron Space
Soundwave and the others had went and approached the Autobots that were there, “Soundwave!” Prowl had said with a smile as he approached with sunglasses similar to aviators, “Gotta admit, I hate the paint job!” he had told her as Laserbeak had spoken, still on her chassis, “We’re here to talk about the pause on Cybertron’s invasion.” he said, making Prowl chuckle, “Found yourself a new voice, eh?” he asked.
“Gotta admit, I thought you’d be using Trochia’s, what with your… ‘history’.” he had said, making her glare in anger, “So you know about that?” Laserbeak asked, “Recently, and it will be SO satisfying when I have her kill Megatron.” Prowl had told her, wanting her to react, to lunge forth and try to kill him, but no, that wasn’t what she was here for, “YOU!” Metrotitan was saying in her mind.
“I THOUGHT YOUR KIND EXTINCT BY GALVATRON?” He had asked of her, “Shut up and play neutral ground, for now.” She had said, making Metrotitan shut up as they had seen Dai Atlas approach them, “Prowl, Soundwave.” Dai Atlas had said towards the pair of them, “While you are on Metrotitan, no weapons are allowed.” he had told them, Soundwave nodded, “Of course.” Prowl said.
“Excellent, then follow me to the garden.” he had said, making them go and follow while their escorts had stayed at the entrance, they had walked through the Titan as they had seen something incredible, “What is that?” Laserbeak had asked, approaching the Tree, “Ah, The Energon Tree, it was discovered on Kanetch, one of The Colonies.” he had told them.
“During our exploration of the colonies, we found Kanetch didn’t have the resources that many colonies had, a Cybertronian named Quakestep had merged Flora with energon.” he said, plucking two glowing fruits and offering them to the pair, “A replenishing resource that we were more than happy enough to receive from The Kanetchians.” he had told them as the two partook.
Prowl biting into it while Soundwave opened her face screen enough to nibble on, making the two of them look in shock, it was as nutritious as Energon of the highest quality, “Now then, let us begin with The Talk.” He had told the two of them, two chairs had risen up and presented before the two of them, making the pair of them nod as they had went and turned to each other.
“So then, The Omega Keys.” Prowl had said, “They’re currently in the possession of The Decepticons.” They told Prowl, making him glare, “So YOU have the advantage then?” Prowl had asked with a glare, “Yes, we will be able to restore Cybertron.” They had told him, Surprise. Hope. coming from Dai Atlas at that while Prowl was cautious, “So what, we’re all going to die by Decepticons?” he asked.
Hearing that, Soundwave shook her helm, “And if it was, are you going to destroy Cybertron instead?” They asked him, making Prowl glare at her, “I’d rather just use that thing that Guzzle developed.” he said, making her glare, “We will need to find a compromise.” they said and in response to that, the two of them had started to talk about compromises.
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The Artillery, Earth’s Exosphere
Trochia had went and started to go through the information that was available on the talk that Soundwave and Prowl were having when there was a realization now, making her glare, “Progenitorfragger!” She had shouted out in anger, seeing that there was a team of Soundwave’s worst ready and looking pretty violent at the moment as a vessel had landed.
Seeing that it had belonged to Barricade, she had gotten worried as that meant trouble for her as an Enforcer could lead to serious problems there as Trochia had went and gotten ready to be shot down, needing to stop whatever was going on right now with them, because whatever it is, the possible danger that this could bring was not good for anybody on that planet.
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Namibia, Africa
“Barricade!” Flamewar shouted happily as she had leapt towards Barricade who slipped by her, “Why’re YOU here?” he asked, knowing that she was supposed to only be released in War Zones or on planets with the amount of crazy that she gets into, “Luxuria called me in!” she had said with a manic grin, “Who?” Barricade had asked of them which Flamewar answered.
“Oh! Soundwave’s personality! Apparently there’s–!” “Multiple, I know, I had a run in with one.” he had told her, making Flamewar pout, “Awww! I wanted to drop that bomb–!” She started when Trochia had crashed, making Flamewar, Barricade and the rest of The Pack had gotten away from the crash site, “What the Frag was that?!” Wheelie had asked, and none of them could say.
Trochia had risen up and glared at them all, “Who the Frag–?!” “Trochia of Darkmount,” She answered, “Spawned from Soundwave and Megatron, and I am here for answers.” She told them with a snarl and pulling out a pistol, glaring while Flamewar drew her own bow, “Well then, little sister, let’s play.” She had snarled towards the bot before the two of them fired.
Flamewar had avoided Trochia’s shot while Trochia took her arrow, nearly hitting her optic while Rumble had went and hit her in the back of the knee, making Trochia go down and glare towards him, “You little glitch!” she had snarled, grabbing him on the helm and about to crush his processor when Ravage leapt forth and coiled around, biting and clawing but doing nothing to her except distract her.
Before she could deal with the others, there was a reaction as Frenzy had went and started to drill at the joints angrily as the Dip had roared, trying to throw them off just as Ratbat had landed on her helm and gave a screech to her audials, high enough that it made her optics roll back and make her fall onto the ground, in a coil of the Pack who had just looked on at the sight and wondered what to do with her.
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Energon Mine A–3, Nevada
Trochia had woken up, angry as she had struggled and looked around, “Where in The Pit am I?” she had snarled as Ravage had approached in anger towards her as The Beast–Type had approached her, “You are Daughter of Soundwave?” he had asked as Ratbat had landed, “Yep! There’s Soundwave’s scowl!” Ratbat had said, making her scowl deepen, “I can’t believe it’s you again!”
That made Trochia look in confusion, “I’ve never met you before.” she told him, “Yes you did! When your progenitor had taken you out from the pair!” Ratbat said, “Buzzsaw and Laserbeak too!” he had said as Buzzsaw had nodded at that, “So you and The Glitch Vesper said the same thing!” Trochia had snarled, making the others glare, having received the file.
“Oi! What’re you planning with me?” she had demanded, glaring at the group while Buzzsaw had spoken up, “For now, you’re all wrapped up, and we’ll wait for the big bot to decide.” he had said, all of them curious as they had went and hearing that, Trochia wanted to snarl as she had worked on a way to remove her bindings before going and kicking Ravage, making him yelp as he went and landed in the others.
Seeing her advantage, Trochia had started to run as fast as possible away from them when she had ran and tried to get away when they had seen that a squadron was waiting for her, “Sunstreaker?” she asked, “Snowpiercer.” the white one said before they hit her with… something! Whatever it was, it immobilized her as the others had went and glared, “Why am I not surprised.” Ravage went as they dealt with her.
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Metrotitan, Cybertron Space
“So we’re in agreement? Nothing that can be considered a WMD,” Prowl said as they had continued to write an agreement, making Soundwave nod at the statement, “Great, we don’t want to DESTROY the only thing that can revive our home after all.” he said as they had continued to write out the agreements that would be set up by the two of them when there was an alert.
“What?” Prowl had asked on the comms, “Sir! It’s Monstructor! He went berserk and started to attack our ships!” An Autobot shouted, making him turn and glare towards Soundwave, “You planned this! Didn’t you?” he had snarled towards the Decepticon, “None of us can control him, the best we can do is try and keep him from tearing apart our own resources.” They had told him.
That had made the two of them glare at each other when there was another alert, “What is that?!” Dai Atlas shouted as an Autobot warship had fired, “Looks like we both have some eager warriors.” They said, making the two of them glare at each other before Dai Atlas had shouted, Metrotitan!” He had went, but there was nothing, “Metrotitan?” He had asked in confusion.
“I AM SORRY, DAI ATLAS, BUT THE TITAN MASTER HAS STOPPED ME FROM INTERACTION.” He had said, only as much as Soundwave would allow as She had sent her next instruction, a pair of cannons coming out from the walls and firing at them both, Soundwave let them hit her while Laserbeak had detached, making her grin under her face screen as she was neutralized.
“Soundwave!” Laserbeak shouted, “Nice acting, now get to work.” She had said and that made The Beast–Type fly and snarl towards them, “Get your bots under control! We’ll deal with ours!” he had said in anger while she had stayed sprawled there, Hardshell and Shadow Striker who she called in, both approaching and guarding while Prowl ran to do as much.
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The Torment, Cybertron Space
Bludgeon had watched as the Combiner had ravaged the nearest vessel, making him chuckle and wish that he had thought of it himself when there was a noise, making him turn to see that there was a message from Soundwave before a holo of his helm had appeared, the one before his new face plate, “Report: How is Monstructor?” He had asked of Bludgeon.
“He’s like a cannon, aimed properly, he destroys everything we want in his path.” The Decepticon had said, grinning at the destruction before there was a noise, one that had made him turn to see that like they had hoped, The Autobots were retaliating now that their hacked comrade was firing upon them, seeing this, Bludgeon wanted to laugh as he had turned to The DSS agent, “Good work, Mohawk.” he said to him.
The Two–Wheeler had grinned at that, “Yo mech this ain’t no tough scrap! They need to work on their little Glitch firewalls.” he had said, typing away with joy as the gloves had stretched out and typed where his digits couldn’t, the hack and the comm cut as easy as when he was giving false flags to Autobot Sharkticons on Junkion as Monstructor cleaved through the path given to him.
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Autobot Fleet, Cybertron Space
Monstructor had cleaved through the fleet, laughing as he had ripped and torn through the metal, his existence was pain, his every movement, every time energon pumps through his fuel lines, it hurt, Monstructor was made imperfect by a scientist that did not understand what he had wrought into the world, The First Gestalt made in The Silver Harvest, a Prototype that had allowed them to bring forth The latest of The Gestalts, leaving him on his own.
At least until he had been approached by The DSS, he remembered The Astrocycle in Six different ways, The Monstructor Six were freed from The Prison, walking out and covering their optics at the bright glaring light when they had seen that Soundwave was there, waiting for them with Bludgeon and Banzai–Tron, “You are The Monstructor Six.”Soundwave said, “You are The Eldest Gestalt.”He stated.
“Yes, and who are you?”Slog, the founder of The Slogism art movement had asked, “I am Soundwave, servant of Megatron, and we can help.” Soundwave said, making Scowl chuckle at that, “Help with what?” he had asked in anger, “Are you going to try and fix us like The AUtobots?”He asked, all of them knowing that meant mnemosurgery to remove the process.
But Bludgeon laughed while Banzai–Tron scoffed, as the two did, Soundwave spoke, “There is nothing to fix, we want to stop the pain, so that you may do what you desire.” Soundwave had told them, making the six of them stare in shock, “And WHAT is it that we want?”Birdbrain had asked of him, making Soundwave look at each in turn before speaking to them, “You wish to be one.” Soundwave said.
“You wish to be unrestrained, doing what you desire, whole and together as your true self, as Monstructor without pain.” He said, as if he could see in their minds, seeing Monstructor lying underneath, “So you can take the pain away?” Bristleback had asked, “Negative, but Shockwave, Jhiaxus’ student will.” he said, offering his servo to them, seeing that, in unison, they combined so that Monstructor may shake it.
As Monstructor had come out of the memory, he had seen that Superion had approached, making The Gestalt had laughed as his enemy had flown towards him with determination and anger, firing upon the Decepticon who had torn off some shielding and thrown it towards the Autobot, the pair of them glaring as Monstructor had laugh while the two had connected.
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Metrotitan, Cybertron Space
Soundwave was immobile, but that did not stop her from commanding and looking over the fleet battle that was before her, seeing their vessels firing, seeing the lives lost, her mind, if this was her before the war, would have been broken and she would have gone mad, if this was her still on that cocktail that she developed, Soundwave would have ost control due to withdrawal.
If this was before she had learned of what she apparently was, Soundwave would have had to calculate for Metrotitan and most likely would have lost many in the process, but now, this her, the strategist who was Decepticon, who was The CCO of The Decepticon Empire, and if the statement that had been sent out by The Dip’s was true, than she was one of the Ten most dangerous Decepticons.
As she had calculated and checked the numbers, seeing their movements and how they were losing how many on either side, Soundwave had initiated The Aegis, “This is Axer, we are ready to initiate it.” He had told her, hearing that, Soundwave had started to give the command as she had seen that her plan was starting to come to fruition through the cameras that were all there, all of them seeing what was going on.
The Aegis was a defense system that had been installed by The Quintessons, as a way to protect their investments and to make sure that none of them had escaped, as they had watched, there were comms everywhere as the jammers were in place, “What the frag is going on?!” Was the common question among them all as Dai Atlas had went and walked down to her.
“Are you the one?” Dai Atlas asked as a blade was aimed towards her throat, “Are you The Titan Master who would dare to take control of Metrotitan?” he had asked of her as Hardhsell had snarled, his mandibles clicking in threat as Shadow Striker had raised his rifle towards him, “Stay away from Soundwave.” She threatened, he had glared back towards them.
There was a standoff as Metrotitan had spoken again, “THE TITAN MASTER HAS BEEN SLAIN, I AM FREE.” He said and Soundwave emphasized it by moving, glaring towards the NAIL as she had looked around, “<What had happened?>” she had asked of the two of them, “There was an attack, Monstructor and a warship had gone rogue, there was a fight, and now The Aegis is engaged.” She told Soundwave.
Hearing that, she had faked anger, giving a few very rude gestures when they had received a communique from Prowl, “So, I guess we don’t have anything else to talk about!” Prowl had snarled towards her, “No one can get through the Aegis without a bridge!” He had said, “That’s not entirely true.” Laserbeak said, returning to her chassis, “What do you mean?” He asked.
“There is The Autobot and Decepticon contingents that are there,” Laserbeak said, both knowing that they had sent their own squadrons to search for and capture The Omega Lock, “So, we have them hold off until The Keys are there, then they can kill each other.” Prowl said, “Exactly, that is our proposition, no Bridging except for The Earth Team.” Laserbeak told him.
The pair could agree to that and as they had both been sent the agreement for the situation that would be happening now, “Have fun, I hope one of us smashes your helm in!” Prowl said with a grin, “And we hope you rot in a corner and die like an animal.” Laserbeak said as the comm was cut and now they had that all deal with the aftermath of what had transpired.
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The Terror, Cybertron Space
The Four of them had returned to the flagship, Bludgeon chuckling at that as they had looked down at The Aegis, “You know, it’s beautiful.” he had said Beautiful, that made her clench her servos, “Like a cage for livestock.” Soundwave told him, making the bot glare at that, “So then, we have our forces there, they have theirs, now all we can do is wait.” Bludgeon said to her.
“That’s all we can do,” She said, turning to him, “To our home being reborn.” She had told Bludgeon, “To our reborn home.” he had told her and hearing that, the two of them nodded before they had went to leave, “See ya, Bossbot!” Laserbeak had told her and she had saluted as well, the Cybertronians all leaving, The Gestalts returning to their respective groups as well.
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Energon Mine A–3, Nevada
Soundwave was annoyed that it would take so long for her to get there when there was a sight that she wasn’t expecting, “<What the frag is this?>” she had asked of them and seeing that, they had all started to explain before Soundwave raised a servo, “<You.>” she said, pointing to Ravage for the best possible answer to all of this, “We were welcoming Barricade to Earth,” he told Soundwave.
“It seems that we were not as stealthy as we thought as Trochia of Darkmount discovered location.” he had said while Flamewar had spoken up, “Can I PLEASE go hunt down Arcee now?!” she had demanded in anger, “<Why?>” She had asked of Flamewar, who had pulled out a pad “Because I checked every possible Arcee! And do you know how many there are?” she had asked.
“<No, how many?>” she had asked of her, “One thousand! Seven Hundred! And Forty Eight!” Flamewar shouted, “I got rid of all of the deceased before The War, because my progenitor would have known that! So I was down to 908.” Flamewar said, “After that, I removed anyone that said they were from The Darklands or anywhere else because those would be imitators or wannabees.” Flamewar continued.
“Which makes it 435, but that went down further when I removed any NAILs, because there is no way that she would sit on her servo’s!” Flamewar said, taking a breath before continuing, “Which put it down to 172, after that, we had gender, which took out A LOT! Making it Seventeen!” she had told them, “After that, I had to look for the most distinguished! Because there’s no way that she would be a nobody.”
“That put me down to Three and the two are a minicon stationed on a Autobot Medical Fleet, and a Decepticon that I met, not her.” Flamewar said, “So THIS is the last one out of all of them! And I need to talk to her.” Flamewar said, making Soundwave vent at that, impressed at her work, but there was the fact that she was too dangerous that she couldn’t let her loose.
“<When we have the time, until then, you’re to work in pairs, no one on their own.>” she had told Flamewar, making her pout in anger at that while Soundwave turned to Trochia, “Now what do we do with you?” She had asked of the bot, “What can you do but kill me?” she had asked, glaring at her and ready to kill Soundwave, making The CCO vent in irritation at that.
“I know just where to stow you away.” She had said, opening up a Bridge, all of them recognizing the coordinates that she was sending them, “Soundwave–!” Rumble went, “Are you sure?” “That place is a death sentence!” they had all started to say, “Where are you sending me?” she had asked of Soundwave, “A place where you can be secure and not a leak.” She said before dropping her into the worse prison possible.
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The Abyss, Benevolon Sector
Trochia had no idea where she was, looking around in shock at the sight that was before her, it was pitch black, and there was weeping and moans that she couldn’t quite grasp, looking around, “Where am I?” she had asked, “Praise the Antigod.” a voice said, making her turn as there was a bot approaching, “Praise the Antigod.” he had muttered, “What is this pace?” she had asked the bot.
“We are in The Abyss, The kingdom of The Antigod.” He had said, concerning her much more as there was a hissing, “The Antigods serpent.” he had said, turning in fear, “We must flee!” he said, grabbing her arm, “We must flee! Or else–!” “We die?” she asked, “Worse, we hurt.” he had said, running, Trochia turned and decided to follow him to not deal with whatever that was.
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Energon Mine A–3, Nevada
“I can’t believe you sent her there.” Buzzsaw said, “<She’s strong, she’ll survive.>” she had told them all, “It’s The Abyss, that place is a monstrosity on par with Sanctuary! We send monsters there to be devoured by monster!” Buzzsaw said, none of them knew why The Abyss was made by such monsters, all anybody knew about it, was that it was constructed by an Antigod that wore their emblem.
“But what if she’s not?” Laserbeak had asked, “Megatron had went into that place! And he’s still trying to recover!” The Beast–Type had said and she remembered, Soundwave never dared, whenever she had tried to, there was always a voice that said that she shouldn’t, it was strange, it made her want to go more until something had popped up to make her busy.
“<When there is victory, when there’s a large enough power base, we’ll transport her to another location, one of the prisons under DSS control.>” she had said, making them all agree to that, having heard of the danger that was there and making even Flamewar anxious at the idea while they had went and started to think and to plan on what they needed to do next.
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Thundercracker’s Residence, St. Matthews Island
Thundercracker was anxious as he had written, writing down on his latest screenplay, wondering what was going on right now with The Autobots and The Decepticons, wishing that he had something to do besides telling them about the location of The Autobots after he and Ravage had made progress on that, he needed something! If only he could be there! Record it!
Thundercracker had wished that he had a friend that he could– That was it! They weren’t friends, in fact they could be considered enemies, but if there was anyone that could do it, then the two of them could do it, he had used a backchannel, glad that he was able to get it from Soundwave as he had went ahead and opened up a comm to the pair of them, “Longtooth, Circuit.” he said.
“Who is this?” Circuit had asked, “An investor,” he had said, “And I would like to invest in a film for the two of you to produce, can you make it to Cybertron?” he had asked, “For The Omega Lock? We’re already trailing The Cons!” He had said and hearing that, Thundercracker had chuckled at that, “Smart, so would you like funding to make this a masterpiece?” he had asked of the pair.
“If you want help with editing, we’re more than happy to assist, it’s kind of hard to make a documentary for the war.” Circuit had asked, “Would you mind sending it my way? I’ve got some footage on the war too, I’d love to collaborate on it.” he had said, and hearing that, there was a pause, “Autobot or Decpeticon?” Longtooth asked, “Decepticon with some NAIL in it.” he told them.
“Then yes, the more on other sides we can get, the better!” Circuit said, “Excellent, send it to this channel and we can get to work on it.” he had said and in response, they had went and started to send the data to him as well, smiling, THundercracker had went and started to scroll through the data and smiling as he had went and began to add more to their story.
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The Nemesis
Soundwave had returned to a scream, making her pause in confusion before recognizing the audio, taking a vent, She wondered what got Dreadwing so upset while she had went and walked away and towards The Medical Bay where she had seen that there was a pair leaving the Medical Bay, “Ah, Soundwave.” Megatron said, “I would like you to grant Starscream his original status as Commander.” he told her.
Soundwave had nodded at that, giving him back his clearance while Starscream had given some relief towards the situation when there was a noise, screaming from Starscream’s quarters, she had turned back to him, “Ah, apologies, I just got so excited I turned their pain on by accident.” he had told them, turning off his little playthings while Soundwave had glared, “I take it that my quarters are still in condition I left them?”
Soundwave had nodded at that, opening up his quarters for him and offering him the new code for his quarters which had made him smile, “Excellent, I dreaded the idea that Dreadwing or that filth, Airachnid, had done something to defile them.” He had told the Cybertronians, making Soundwave want to snap and beat him again, but Megatron had simply chuckled at that, “Starscream, return for surgery.”
He had grinned even wider, Gratitude. Coming from the bot, “Thank you, My Lord.” he had said before going and heading back in, “Soundwave, you will be under the command of Starscream while I prepare for The return of our people.” he had told Soundwave, “I trust that you can keep him under control,my friend?” he had asked of her, trusting her to keep him under control.
Seeing that in his actions and in his mind, Soundwave had nodded, understanding and at that, Megatron grinned, patting her on the shoulder plate before walking past her, trusting her to do what was needed, what she always did, making Soundwave shiver in a vent of tiredness as she had headed away and not towards her own quarters but anothers.
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Airachnid’s Quarters, The Nemesis
Soundwave walked into the quarters, she was tired, causing a battle over the planet, being immobilized like Trypticon had done as much, finding herself having to send her child to one of the worst places in Decepticon history, Starscream, that bootleg was back and it had caused such grief that it had nearly overloaded her processor, she needed something comforting.
Soundwave had went and started to shed off her helm, it had hurt, but she didn’t care, taking off her helm and locking the room as she did, Soundwave had climbed up onto the web, taking a deep breath as she had went and started to speak, “Ravage… Laserbeak… Buzzsaw… Rumble… Frenzy… Ratbat… Barricade… Flamewar… Trochia… Airachnid…” she had said, remembering when it had happened.
The two of them were sitting on one of her webs, both drinking Nucleon after a hard fight, when there was a question, “How are you not angry?” Airachnid had asked of Soundwave, “Your Pack are hunted, beaten, attacked, why aren’t you angry?” she asked, “Oh I am,” Soundwave said to her, “I’ve been angry for a long time, but I always had others by my side, monsters as wrong as me.” she said in her true voice.
“I love my Pack and even though they know what I am, they love me.” she said, Airachnid looking at her then, “Then… what about me?” Airachnid asked, making Soundwave look and speak the truth, “I see… me.” she had told Airachnid, Soundwave remembered that Nexus, it truly started their little dance, making Soundwave wish that she was there to help her through this now more than ever.