My Supergirl.
You can tell by the way, she walks that she's my girl,
You can tell by the way, she talks she rules the world.
You can see in her eyes that no one is her chain,
She's my girl, my Supergirl.
And then she'd say: It's OK, I got lost on the way
But I'm a Supergirl and Supergirls don't cry.
And she'd say: It's all right, I got home late last night
But I'm a Supergirl and Supergirls just fly. (…) - "My Supergirl" Reamon.
Warnings: Rare and odd pairing (at least in Primeverse) and sex later on.
Timing: Post season 2 finale, in my very own Beauty of the Beast Prime timeline.
Rating: T – M (MA for extended chapter – if there will be one).
Pairings: Shockwave and Arcee.
Disclaimer: Transformers Prime © Hasbro. Story's plot and OC's © me. There may be some OC's that aren't mine – they belong to their respective creators.
Cold, dry, stone.
I know you think I'm wrong but I'm not your tour guide
Have a guess I don't let you look inside
Cold, dry, stone.
What makes you want to carve your initials in me,
Rained and weathered erasing, hard to read
Find me distant, outwardly rough, obscene Cold, dry, stone
Cold and dry as stone,
Cold and dry as stone.
I'm not a cornerstone in a palace for you
Time will bring your very own hard truth
Not to worry ice covered rocks still move
Cold, dry, stone,
Cold, dry, stone. – "Stone" Alice in Chains
oOo
New Kaon, Dark Mount (formerly Jasper), west of the Valley of Fire, Clark County, Nevada, USA. August 9th. Morning.
Ground based Vehicons, Miners and couple of Insecticons were keeping themselves busy with debris of the New Kaon's remains. The cleaning up was taking more time that was anticipated at first due to Shockwave's insisting on salvaging as much as possible of equipment buried under the rubble.
Two Insecticons were currently lifting heavy metallic girder that was in the way of removing remains of some random wall. The moment the construction piece was off the way group of five Miners began to remove parts of the wall. The girder and the pieces of the wall would be melted and re-used.
Three grounder Vehicons were securing another girder so another two Insecticons could move it away to a heap of metal destined to be melted and formed into new elements. A single Vehicon was diving head first and aft up in some hole, then he pulled back and lifted something with triumph – it looked like he managed to get relatively undamaged data pad.
The entire site looked like a mess but to someone who knew what was going on it made perfect sense. The remains of the tower were cleaned up methodically; certain parts had to be moved before others as it wasn't stable building anymore. What used to be tower was now nothing more than heap of construction elements lying randomly around. Everything had to be moved in certain order so it would not cause danger for the workers or cave in and make things even more difficult.
Shockwave supervised the work and incessantly corrected his plans to fit what was excavated and salvaged. He wanted to shorten the process of cleaning the construction site but he also knew that if it was to be done right it had to take time. Especially with some equipment in certain areas that could still be salvageable if needing some repairs. He hoped that power generators were well protected in lower levels of New Kaon and that they weren't smash into smithereens.
Luckily the work was progressing smoothly, the weather was dry and hot, typical to desert area New Kaon was located. Human weathercast that Shockwave watched on special video transmission showed very stable weather for another fourteen Earth days which meant that he could plan in advance, at least to a certain degree. Shockwave was almost satisfied, he wasn't by any means happy, and certain factors were missing for him to be pleased; but it was enough for him to not be displeased and his subordinates appreciated such state. Displeased Shockwave tented to have sharp glossa and be prone to manifest his superiority to his underlings by means of violent punishment. Or in other words he would intimidate some poor Spark verbally and then (in extreme cases, or Starscream) hit them, choke them and/or shoot them.
Currently team of Vehicons was uncovering vault area, another Vehicon joined the one that 'dived' into debris in search for anything unbroken in the rubble, they looked like pair of scavengers but it was worth to look in remains of vault. Especially that Soundwave was short of his Resonance Blaster and everyone wanted to get to his good side by reuniting him with his missing 'toy'. Being on TIC good side always paid off.
The vault was also the area where Airachnid's pod was located and while the spider-femme managed to crawl to the surface and Starscream managed to confirm her absence (by means known to him and whoever was with him); the pod itself was buried beneath metric tons of mangled metal that had to be taken apart with utmost care. It occurred to Shockwave that it was like dismantling a bomb: one bad move and someone would lose their limb (if they were lucky).
Shockwave's musings were interrupted by whirl of blue and green light when a Gourndbridge opened in safe distance behind his back. The mono-optic mech looked behind; it could be someone from Nemesis or the Autobots. He knew that someone from Team Prime was about to pay him visit in regard of Airachnid's empty pod, but it could also be Starscream who paid him visit at least once a day to find out what he salvaged, what was the progress and what the Tarnian Noble would deem necessary to rebuild the tower.
It was with certain amount of lack of disappointment or perhaps a pleasure that the Scientist noticed that the silhouette emerging from the portal wasn't the one of the Air Commander. It was strikingly similar yet different. A lot shorter and instead of prominent wings it had elegant set of winglets.
Arcee. Shockwave made a mental note to ask her about similarities between her frame and that of Starscream. The Air Commander was a Seeker of Vos, pure breed and also one of the rarer types – a speeder, frame created for traveling vast distances in short time and for aerial combat.
"Shockwave." Arcee said in cool tone in acknowledgment, it was sort of greeting yet not quite. Shockwave wasn't sure what to make out of it. It was rather cold greeting but it wasn't like he was all about warmth and cordiality.
"Arcee." He answered just as coolly. "You are here about Airachnid's pod." He didn't have to guess; why else would the Autobot femme come to New Kaon?
"Where is it?"
"It is currently recovered." Shockwave answered calmly. "My workers are carefully removing debris to get to it."
"You had a month and it's still there?" Arcee frowned. She hoped to learn anything from the pod, the wretched spider former was out there, plotting Primus knows what, being a constant threat to her and Jack and Arcee couldn't do anything about it.
"You understand that it is a complicated process." Shockwave took a close look at the irritated femme. "We couldn't just reach and pull it out."
"I know." Arcee growled angrily. "But you don't seem to have any kind of progress!"
"The progress is indeed slow, slower than anticipated, yet we cannot speed up the process due to nature of the building we're deconstructing. The debris must be removed carefully." Shockwave said in his monotone voice. He already explained everything to Starscream; couple of times in fact, one more time wasn't making him any difference.
"Doesn't matter. I want that pod." Arcee walked pass by the Decepticon and measured the ruin with her optics.
"I'm afraid you cannot have it." Shockwave said walking closer to her. "After it is recovered it will be sent to Knockout where he will analyse it in order to find how and why the stasis was terminated."
The ex-senator didn't expect Arcee to spin so fast on her heel. Before he could react she was already facing him with an angry scowl.
"Now listen to me, you Decepticon half-wit! That Wretched spider creep is out there, plotting how to reach me! She has personal fixation on me and to reach me she strikes at my partners! And she history with my current partner as well because he destroyed her ship and is responsible for her being stuck on Earth!" The femme was growling with dangerously low voice that Shockwave found fitting her. "And to reach me and him she already teamed with M.E.C.H. once! How far do you think she will be willing to go this time around?"
"I am aware of the unhealthy interest Airachnid has in you and your human partner. I am also aware that while teaming with M.E.C.H. she and Silas abducted your partner's carrier who happens to be Lord Megatron's current inamorata." Shockwave answered in his most calm voice. "She also managed to take over a hive of Insecticons and attack Nemesis with it. We are well aware of how dangerous she is and just how far she's willing to go to have her way. This is why the pod must by analysed in fully equipped laboratory by a medic who will be able to read and interpret pod's medical logs."
They stared at each other for long moment and Shockwave could claim that he now understood why Arcee was found one of the fiercest, most ruthless and dangerous Autobots alive. The femme would make a fine Decepticon, but she was a lethal Autobot instead. He felt his antennae twitch. Shockwave was fairly sure that she had no Tarnian ancestors but she had temper of Tarnian politician, very much like Megatron's. And Shockwave's before the Shadowplay… and empurata.
"I will inform you when the analysis will be complete." He said stoically. "You will be allowed into the laboratory to look at the pod."
"How generous of you." Arcee grumbled with sarcasm.
"You will be able to take the pod into pieces if that will satisfy you." Shockwave didn't miss the sarcasm but chose not to react to it. What he was met was risen opticbrow.
Arcee was surprised that Shockwave promised her free access to the pod, because taking the pod 'into pieces' meant just that. She observed the Tarnian for a moment, all the time his antennae were set on neutral position, safe for that one twitch, as if he was up to something.
"I will notify you when the pod will be available to you." Finally he said while staring at the femme. It was a blank stare but he had no other expression. Only his antennae could betray some of the most primeval, originating directly from his Spark, feelings; but it wasn't easy to analyse them.
"Do that." She said and then walked away while calling for Groundbridge that she stepped in the moment it materialised.
Once again Shockwave was left alone with his work. And workers.
TBC.
I have results of poll about June and Megatron, the situation about it is difficult because I set two polls, one of dA and one on FF and both polls gave me opposite results.
I decided to sum both results and see what I will get. In case you have any doubts, I wasn't summing results in per cents but amount of votes that I got in both polls and those from private messages (which were 50-50 for both options and didn't affected the end result) and only then turned them in per cent result.
The result:
56% for Megatron and June having a baby of their own.
44% for Megatron and June not having baby of their own.
I hope that the result is as transparent as possible.
Also I'm so sorry for being so outrageously late. I was off-line ever since December
21st. And when I was on-line again, I decided to re-write this chapter. Plus I wasn't able to use my computer while off-line because I hadn't had means to plug it (I had to write on my tablet, which works on Android and the system's keyboard is simply evil). And if that's not enough, I'm back on my schedule with other projects as well.