Author's note: I do not own Transformers, except for Berserk. Heh, here's the start of Berserk's and Soundwave's dimensional travels.
Berserk was the first to wake up to see the city lights ahead of her. Her mate Soundwave was by her side with their daughter Ravage. Through her optics, she saw that the city looked different from most of Earth's cities that she saw in the past; this one looked more like her old home world before Unicron destroyed it. She tapped Soundwave to wake him up with one of her tentacles until he shook sleepiness from his processor. The satellite saw Berserk and the city before them. He looked at Berserk and asked her where were they. "Don't know; but that Ground Bridge transported us to here. I'm glad that it's a place with technology. We may need parts to repair the hand-held one" she said as she held up the device. Soundwave looked at her then transformed into his jet mode as he flew towards the city with Berserk behind him. They needed to find a place to stay.
They flew around for a little bit until they came across an offline transformer's body. Berserk landed and transformed into her robot mode as Soundwave did the same. Hooking up to the transformer, she transmitted life energy to the offlined robot until his spark returned. "Prepare to be…oh" he said as he saw the femme and the mech. "Where are we?" Berserk asked the robot. "How did you bring me back?" the robot said back to the femme. "Very well, I have the power of life and death. I can bring dead transformers back to life and can remove their life forces just as easily. Now, where are we?" she asked the mech. "Wait, you can bring the dead back to life?" the shocked mech asked the femme. Berserk nodded, then said "Can you please tell us where are we?" "How is it that you can bring the dead back to life?" said the mech. Berserk looked at her mate and said "Looks as if we're not going to get any answers from this one. We'll have to ask somebody else" as she started walking away.
The mech looked at the robots and said "Wait!" as Berserk and Soundwave looked at the robot. "You're on Earth, in a place known as Detroit City. I'm Starscream" he said to the two others. Berserk looked at Soundwave and said "Did Starscream ever look or act like this?" as Soundwave shook his head in response. "The Ground Bridge must have transported us to another dimension then, because I've passed Detroit City many times before while on Earth, and it didn't look anything like this. Guess that we have to find parts to repair it so we can return to our dimension" she said as they began walking away. Starscream ran after them and shouted, "Wait up! I just need to ask you a few questions!" as Berserk and Soundwave stopped once again. Starscream caught up to them and said "Just who are you?" "I'm Berserk, and that's my mate Soundwave. He doesn't talk much, but he doesn't need to" said Berserk. Starscream looked at them and said "So, you've come from another dimension? Is there a Megatron there?" "Yes, there was a Megatron before he got upgraded into Galvatron, but he died in this final fight with Unicron. After his passing, you, or rather, the Starscream from our universe became the leader of all Decepticons. Of course, Optimus Prime was never the same when he saw his brother die to protect him" said Berserk sadly.
"Wait! Megatron is Optimus' brother? And I lead the Decepticons?" said a shocked Starscream "That's hilarious! I've been trying to gain leadership for all these vorns, but the Starscream from your universe is the leader? Megatron is going to overload once he hears this!" "Is Megatron still alive in this universe?" asked Berserk. Starscream said "When I was offlined, he was still alive, but I'm not so sure now. He could have been offlined in the last battle, of which leveled most of the city" as he gestured to some of the fallen buildings.
Berserk looked around, then said "Is Optimus Prime here? I would like to ask him a few questions." Starscream looked at her and said "Truth be told, I don't know where he is at the moment, but…" as he smiled sinisterly "We can do something that would get his attention." Berserk looked at him and said "I think that Soundwave and I are better off finding the Autobots for ourselves, because we're all used to on how our Starscream's behavior is like, and you're not much different from him" as she and Soundwave walked off. Starscream steamed as he watched the two walk off, ignoring him as they turned corner as he started shouting curses.
At Sumdac Towers, Professor Sumdac was looking at the night sky as he saw a bizarre looking plane and a UFO fly overhead and land on his tower. They gained robotic appearances as one of them began investigating the Space Bridge built by Bulkhead. He hid as one began talking to the other in English before flying off. He raced to the controls and contacted Cybertron. He needed the Autobots immediately.
Back on Cybertron, Optimus and the others were being hailed as heroes when a transmission came in. No one was at the controls, so Sumdac left a message. It wasn't for several days until the message was picked up and alerted to the Elite Guard. Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime, and all the others watched Professor Sumdac report his message "…two unknown robots were here at the Space Bridge on Earth. Don't know which side that they are on, but one of them was called Soundwave. Please come at once" before it was cut off and Starscream appeared, with an evil smirk. He said, "If you ever want to see the human alive again, bring me the Allspark" before the transmission ended. All of the Autobots looked in horror, but none was in more shock that Sari. "Dad" she said before she passed out.
When Sari came to, she was lying on Ratchet's repair berth, with Bumblebee by her side. He smiled at the techno-organic as she held a digit of his. "We'll be leaving for Earth soon" he said as he smiled sadly. He knew how much Professor Sumdac meant to Sari, and he was willing to do anything for her to make her happy. She hugged Bumblebee as she silently cried as he stroked her back gently.
"Ugh, do we have to return to that icky planet?" said Sentinel as he boarded his guard ship. Optimus looked at him and said "We have to get Professor Sumdac back. We have a plan to get him back as well." "And when are you going to tell me about this plan?" said Sentinel in an irritated voice. "After it works" smirked Optimus as the rest of both teams boarded the ship. Sentinel grumbled as he punched in a few commands as the ship took off for Earth. It was going to be a long trip for Sentinel.
Back on Earth, Starscream was looking at the little human in the cage when an explosion outside caught his attention. He raced outside, leaving Sumdac alone at the moment. The human heard a growl coming from behind him and saw a robotic panther approach the cage. With its strong jaws, it ripped apart the cage and knelt for Sumdac. It took a few seconds for Professor Sumdac to understand that the panther wanted him to ride it. With little hesitation, Professor Sumdac mounted the panther as it took off, racing through the tunnels until it came outside. Two robotic claws picked up the human and the panther as the human looked up at Soundwave. The satellite looked down at the human before transforming into a Nighthawk and flying off. Soon, an unknown jet followed Soundwave, leaving behind a knocked-out Starscream on the ground below. As the jet and Nighthawk flew, they encountered the Elite Guard ship passing them by. The two aerial machines hovered for a moment before Berserk followed the ship, but at a distance. She was curious on who was entering Earth's atmosphere at the moment.
When the Elite Guard ship landed, the Autobots came out and looked around. The city was in the very same state that they've left it in when they left for Cybertron. On a skyscraper not too far from them, Berserk and Soundwave landed and transformed back into their robotic modes. Professor Sumdac was a little shaken up from riding in Soundwave as he looked up at the robots surrounding him. Berserk looked down at the transformers on the street as Ravage walked over and looked down. "Bot" she said as she saw the others. Nervously, Professor Sumdac inched over to where the robots were looking down and saw the Elite Guard. "Friends of yours?" asked Berserk as she noticed the little man looking down at the humans. He nodded, then Berserk said "You want to be reunited?" as he nodded again. Berserk got ready to jump, when Soundwave grabbed hold of her arm and looked at her. She paused for a moment, then looked down at Sumdac. "Soundwave says that he wants to know who they are. What are their names?" she said as she pointed to the Autobots.
"They're the Autobots. That one down there is Optimus Prime, while the green one is Bulkhead. The yellow one is Bumblebee, and the white and red one is Ratchet. That one over there is Sentinel Prime, and that's Jazz. That blue one is Jetstorm, while the orange one is Jetfire" Professor Sumdac said as he pointed to each Autobot. "I see" said Berserk. She looked at her mate, then looked down at Sumdac, saying, "Soundwave here wants to know who is the little human with them." "That's my daughter Sari" said the professor as he looked down at the dot that was his daughter. Berserk was silent for a moment when Ravage started saying "Eek! Eek! Eek! Eek!" as Sumdac looked at the panther in confusion. Soundwave pointed at the sky, and Berserk looked on with no emotion at the dots growing larger in the sky. "Seekers…" she said as she looked down at Sumdac "Looks like we may be able to see your friends in action."
Down on the ground, the Autobots looked up at the seekers flying above them. Starscream looked furious at the Autobots as his clones looked at them with hate. "Where's my dad" said Sari in a worrisome voice. "He's dead, so it looks as if your efforts at getting him back were in vain" said Starscream. Sari went pale as she heard this, and dropped to her knees as she stared at the ground, mouth agape. "Dad…" she said as Bumblebee looked furious at what Starscream said. "You, you, you…" was all Bumblebee could say before he ran towards the seeker with his stingers out, sparking angrily.
Berserk and Soundwave looked down at the battle beginning before their optics as Professor Sumdac could only look with his hands over his mouth. "Ravage? Ravage?" said Berserk as she noticed that her daughter was missing. She looked at Soundwave and said "How do you like that? Our daughter can't even speak a whole sentence, but she's already a master at giving us the slip. We need to get one of those little toddler leashes for her" as Soundwave facepalmed himself. Watching Ravage was a full time job for the parent transformers.
With ax out, Optimus was ready to fight the seekers as they were fighting with the other Autobots. He thought he heard something like "Pwime, Op-ie-us Pwime" before he felt something hugging his leg. He looked down to find a little sparkling hugging on to his leg, purring happily at the Autobot. "What the? Who are you?" said Optimus at the little sparkling before he was knocked off his pedes by an oncoming blast. "Whaa!" screamed the little sparkling as Slipstream covered her audios as Ravage cried. "You little…this will finish you" she said as an oncoming jet rammed into her. Ravage went on crying, but stopped when a Nighthawk flew down and transformed into Soundwave as Professor Sumdac hopped down from the spy. One tentacle nuzzled Ravage as the sire looked at his mate slugging Slipstream into scrap metal. Soundwave looked down to find Optimus looking up in shock at the master spy. "Look out!" shouted Optimus as Starscream flew down towards Soundwave as he looked on calmly. A sonic blast came from Soundwave, ramming into the jet as he lost altitude and crashed into the street. "Why you…and you were a Decepticon. I can't believe that you were once on Megatron's side, Soundwave" snarled Starscream. Soundwave just looked on as he began focusing his telepathic abilities at the seeker. "Ow, ow, ow!" said Starscream as he began punching himself in the face. Ravage just laughed at what was happening to the seeker as her sire made the comical occurrence happen before her optics. Optimus Prime couldn't understand on how Starscream was punching himself, but a blast caught his attention as he looked at Berserk attacking two of the Starscream clones. The clones retreated, with Slipstream caught under the other femme's pede. Berserk looked down coldly at the seeker as she spat at the femme. "Think that you could defeat the Decepticons? Your Autobot friends could never defeat Megatron. You'll be crushed beneath his pede as he'll offline your friends before your optics" snarled Slipstream.
Berserk got off the femme, but one of her cables wrapped around Slipstream's neck, bringing her to optic level with the other. "Then give him this message: if he ever harms my sparkling or my sparkmate, I'll offline him in a very slow manner. He doesn't know with whom he is messing with" said Berserk before she threw Slipstream as far as she could. The femme shrieked as she flew across the sky, but not by her own jets as she hit a building. She heard a gagging sound from behind her, and turned to find Soundwave strangling Starscream with his tentacles. Sentinel Prime just stared, then said "Well, it looks like we found the two responsible for holding the…human hostage. Jefire, Jetstorm, arrest them!" "Yes sir, Sentinel Prime" said the Jet twins as they approached Berserk and Soundwave. "You'll be coming with us" they said in union to the two. Soundwave just looked at Jetfire before he transmitted something to the jet before he returned his attention to Starscream. Jetfire just stared in fright at the satellite as Jetstorm looked at his brother and said "Brother, what is it?" Jetfire said nothing as he continued to stare at Soundwave as Starscream gagged "What *ack* did you *ack* do to *ack* to him *ack*?" Soundwave transmitted the same message that he sent to Jetfire to Starscream as the Seeker's optics widened at what flashed through his processor. The Autobots stared at Soundwave in confusion as Jetfire spoke "He…he…he…so cold…so evil…pure evil…so…" before he collapsed on the ground in horror. "Brother!" exclaimed Jetstorm as he ran to Jefire's side. "What did you do?" snarled Sentinel Prime to Soundwave. Soundwave looked calmly at Sentinel Prime as he said "I just showed him what I faced not too long ago. You Autobots have no idea how good you have it in this dimension. Where we came from, Cybertron is destroyed, and we have legions of the undead plaguing the dead planet. You never faced him either, the Destroyer of Worlds. You don't know what pure evil is, nor what is like to lose your home by war."
"What are you talking about? The Destroyer of Worlds? Other dimensions? Not knowing what it's like? Are you fragged in the head or what?" said Sentinel Prime in an angry voice. "Oh, let me explain. Soundwave, Ravage, and I came from another dimension. The ground bridge malfunctioned, so it transported us to a different dimension rather than another planet. We…also had some…how to put this…journeyed though hell in a way" said Berserk. "Journeyed through hell? What did you see?" asked Sari to the femme. Berserk looked at her sadly and said "You don't want to know. It's…too horrible to describe. Let's just say that no transformer should ever see what we've seen." "Could…*ack* somebody let me go *ack*? said Starscream as Soundwave paused before he loosened his grip on the seeker's neck. Starscream fell and rubbed his neck at where the tentacles were. He looked at Soundwave with a poisonous look as he snarled "I won't forget this" as he coughed.
During the whole time, Optimus was silent as he listened to what was going on, but at times he looked at Ravage who sat on his chassis. The little sparkling purred as she looked at Optimus with bright optics. "Op-ie-us Pwime" she said as Berserk and Soundwave stared at their little sparkling. "Well, I guess that Ravage likes Optimus, no matter what dimension that we're in" said Berserk as she laughed. Bumblebee approached Ravage, saying "And I bet that she likes me, no matter what dimension she's in, right?" as Ravage looked up at Bumblebee and started crying. Soundwave grabbed Bumblebee by the back of his neck, and found himself staring in the faceplate of the spy. "Actually, you share something with the Bumblebee from my dimension: both Ravage and Soundwave don't like you" said Berserk as she laughed again. "Why does Ravage and…Soundwave don't like Bumblebee?" asked Sari to Berserk. "Well, it's part of a very funny story, but it's one that I don't want to talk while in front of Ravage" said Berserk to the little human.
Ratchet, who was silent the whole time, finally spoke "I've been around for a great many stellar-cycles, so I have a rough idea of what you did that could make your sparkmate so angry at Bumblebee. So, you came from another dimension? How is it different from this one?" Berserk looked at Ratchet and said "Well, for starters, you're a lot younger in the other world, and Optimus is a lot older. Bumblebee's also older, and Starscream is both the Decepticon leader and a lot more sinister…and smarter, I might want to add." "I heard that" coughed Starscream as he stared coldly at Berserk. "So, Soundwave is an Autobot from your world?" said Optimus as he looked at Soundwave. "Actually, he was a Decepticon until he was demoted, and left their side for the Autobot side because of me. Soundwave can give you a more detailed version of the matter" said Berserk. "Is he to be trusted?" said Bulkhead as he looked at Soundwave with a little concern. "Well, the Autobots from our world still don't trust Soundwave 100%, so they keep an optic on him. But, he is trustworthy if you ask me" said Berserk.
During the time when her parents were talking, Ravage looked around and spotted that the ship's ramp was left open. Being bored, she hopped off Optimus and walked towards the ramp. Since he was a responsible bot, Optimus followed Ravage onto the ship as she speedily walked through the hallways until she came to a door. With her claws, she crawled up the wall and started pressing buttons on the control panel. The door opened, and Ravage walked in, with Optimus closely behind her. He was silent as Ravage stared at the offline bot before them. She looked up at Optimus with wide optics as he sighed. "This is—was our friend Prowl" he sadly said "He was a great warrior, but he gave his life to bring together the Allspark." Ravage reached up with her servos at Prime. "Up, up, up" she said. Optimus looked down at her, then knelt to pick up Ravage. She looked at Prowl's offline body as she felt the sadness coming from Optimus Prime's spark. Prowl? Optimus Prime says he dead. Creator can help, Sparky can help. Sparky and Creator can help Prowl thought Ravage. "Mama! Mama! Mama!" said Ravage as she looked up at Optimus. "No, I'm Optimus Prime. That's Prowl. Your mom's outside" said Optimus as he looked down at Ravage. "Mama! Mama! Mama!" Ravage said again. Optimus rolled his optics. This was going to be a long solar-cycle.
While outside, Berserk was explaining a few things to the Autobots when she detected that her Allspark fragment was acting up. She removed the fragment and stared at it for a moment, before she walked towards the ship. "What was that about?" said Sentinel Prime with his arms crossed. "Well, Berserk can act weird from time to time, but she has her reasons for it" said Soundwave. "And what was she holding?" said the twins. "Oh, that was her Allspark fragment. Back in our dimension, Berserk was the one that found the Allspark on Earth, which she gave to Optimus Prime to guard. She said that she could talk to it, and that she understands what it speaks to her" said Soundwave. "Wait! She gave the Allspark to Optimus? What type of an idiot is she?" shouted Sentinel. "She said that the Allspark wanted to explore the universe so it can create new life, and Optimus understood why it must travel through the universe. She also said that the Allspark didn't want to be with the pain of all the suns that it absorbed in the past so it could power itself up, but at the cost of depleting organic planets of their life force. It wanted Optimus to help it in creating new life on other planets" said Soundwave. "Wait! She can talk to the Allspark?" said a shocked Sari. Soundwave nodded, then said "Well, she can sense and understand its emotions and moods. It's more of a wordless communication on how she talks to it. I once allowed myself to understand on how Berserk communicates with the Allspark for one conversation. I've never been so frightened in my life while Berserk and the Allspark communicated with each other. I could sense on how wise, old, and what it saw as the universe was created. It's not an experience that I would like to undergo again," said Soundwave "I could sense Primus' presence as energy flowed between myself, Berserk, and the Allspark." "Who is Primus?" asked Sari. "He's the god of us Transformers, and is the one responsible for creating our race. His brother was—is Unicron." "Unicron?" she asked Soundwave. He sighed to himself. It was going to take a while to answer all of Sari's questions.
Back aboard the ship, Ravage kept on crying "Mama! Mama! Mama!" as Optimus sighed. "Listen Ravage, your mother isn't here at the moment. She's outside" said Optimus. "Did she call for me?" asked Berserk as she poked her head through the doorway. "Mama!" Ravage said as her creator picked her up. Ravage looked at Prowl, and Berserk understood what needed to be done. She placed her Allspark fragment on Prowl, and stood back. The fragment glowed, then sent its energies through Prowl. Prowl gasped as the spark brought him back from the dead, then looked around the room. The spark faded back to its dull self as it finished its job, and clinked as it fell off the ninja-bot. Berserk picked up the fragment and looked at Prowl. "Meow" said Ravage as she looked at Prowl.
Prowl was confused at first when he woke up. Wasn't I offline? He thought as he placed a servo on his helm. He saw Optimus Prime, Berserk, and Ravage in the room with him. After a moment of silence, Prowl was the first to speak. "Hello Optimus. Where am I? Is this a dream, or am I offline?" he said with a confused look. "Well, you were offline, but…uh, what was your name again? I didn't catch your name while we were outside" said Optimus to Berserk. "Oh, I must have forgotten to mention it. My name is Berserk, and, if you didn't catch her name, Ravage" she said as she pointed to the sparkling. "Berserk and Ravage? They sound like Decepticon names" said Prowl "Is Berserk your mate, Optimus?" "Well, I'm Soundwave's mate" said Berserk. Wait! Soundwave? Here?
"Soundwave's mate? How, how, how could that be? Wasn't he turned off by Sari?" said Prowl. "Well, when I mean Soundwave, I mean that he, myself, and Ravage came from a different dimension. My Soundwave isn't so bad, but he still retains some of his Decepticon characteristics and behaviors, so he isn't a "real" Autobot" said Berserk. "So, you're a Decepticon as well?" asked Prowl. "No. I'm a neutral in reality. As for Ravage" she said as she looked down at her sparkling "It's up for her to decide on what side to choose." "I see" said Prowl. Suddenly, they all heard a loud shout coming from outside the Elite Guard ship that made them all jump. They all looked at one another, then raced outside to see Soundwave snarling at Professor Sumdac and Bulkhead. "Soundwave, what's going on?" asked Berserk as she looked at her mate. "They just told me that my counterpart in this world was a dancing robotic toy designed to entertain people. I wasn't a gladiator, or born on Cybertron, or could transform into a jet or a satellite in this world. I could only transform into a car, and if that wasn't enough of an insult, I could be destroyed easily" snarled and huffed Soundwave. Berserk could only nod at her mate's anger. "Well, then he's probably going to hate this the most: the toy robot version of him could also play music when dancing. He managed to hypnotize the Autobots and humans that way" said Sari. "Now, that I can see Soundwave doing. He's good at some mind control techniques, and he does DJ at some human parties on the weekend" said Berserk as Soundwave facepalmed himself. "Hey, I've seen you pretending to be a huge ceiling decoration while you blasted dance and techno-music to people while at raves" said Berserk. Bumblebee laughed at Soundwave, only to find himself punched in the faceplates by a clawed servo.
Noticing that the sky was getting dark, Soundwave looked at Berserk and said that they needed to find a place to stay for the night. "Well, it looks as if we have to head back to that abandoned part of the city. Sure hope that Ravage doesn't put things into her mouth like last time" said Berserk as she watched the sun set. "Well…" said Optimus, as he looked at Prowl and Ratchet before turning his attention back to the seekers "It doesn't necessarily have to be that way. You could stay with us until you find a way back to your dimension." "Thanks for the offer, but we don't want to impose" said Berserk. "Normally, we wouldn't allow Decepticons at our base, but a sparkling is too precious to lose, no matter what side it's on" said Ratchet "I've seen some of those primitive buildings built by the humans, and they're pretty dangerous." "Ok, we'll stay until the hand-held space bridge device is repaired, but I must warn you, it could take months to repair, and Ravage can cry pretty loud from time to time" said Berserk as she held the sparkling. Ravage blinked at the Autobots before snuggling against Berserk and falling asleep. "Autobots, transform and roll out" said Optimus as the Autobots transformed and headed back to base. Soundwave shook his head as Berserk and he transformed and followed them. They had no idea how much trouble Ravage could be from time to time.
Hours later, after Starscream was locked up in the back of the plant, Berserk was in her room with Soundwave. Ravage was sleeping in between the two transformers, as Berserk nuzzled her head against Soundwave's wings. Soundwave was still up, resting on his back, staring at the ceiling as his mate rested. I'll show that Soundwave from this world what it's like to have real power he thought as he listened to the silence, hearing the occasional snore from Bumblebee or Sentinel Prime. He sighed, then decided to get some sleep himself. He had a feeling that he was going to need it tomorrow…