Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, just the story.
Author's Note: I might expand on this to include more characters, but that's if the reviewers reques it or I feel like it. So if you wanna see more characters: PM me or say it in the review! ^_^
Inspired by this: .com/art/Kitten-Face-122330022
You just had to put the idea in my head, peanutchan... -_-"
On with the story!
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(Chapter 1?): Soundwave's Worst Day
"Aw man, Megatron is gonna be so mad when he gets back!" Depending on the tone, the speaker was more entertained than scared.
"You mean if he gets back." The second speaker was clearly entertained too, feigning worry and concern, but failing miserably.
"What do you mean 'if', Rumble? This is Megatron we're talking about here! He always comes back!"
"Just shut up, Frenzy, and let's enjoy this while we can. Hopefully the Boss isn't gonna be too mad at us."
Soundwave opened his eyes. He was on his stomach on the floor. He started seeing and feeling things wrong immediately. First of all, Rumble and Frenzy were kneeling around him and were enormous, like the rest of the wreck room they were in. Second, he had no opposable thumbs, and his body seemed to have lost its firm mass and was covered in some sort of hair. The floor was slightly chilled beneath him and he felt something twitch. He sat up, but his legs curled up on either side of him and his arms had to support him up. Looking behind himself, he saw a back of blue fur that narrowed down into a small tail tipped in white. Looking down at his front, he found himself looking at a furry white chest. His arms, rather than ending in hands, ended in white paws. He lifted his front paws to his face and over balanced, plopping forward onto his forehead. This didn't bother him as he felt his face; yeap, still had a visor, but no face mask, and he had enormous kitty ears.
He was a tiny white blue creature with blue fur, color white on the feet, the tip of the tail, under side, and exposed mouth with large triangular ears and a red visor with a red pattern of the Decepticon symbol on the chest.
Sitting up, he stared at the Cassetticons for several minutes before he realized what was wrong.
"Error," he stated, "Possess organic life form of felis catus,"
"And you're a cutie kitten, aren't you?" Rumble cooed, scratching Soundwave behind one big ear.
A small purr started up in Soundwave's throat before he cut it off and said, "Inquiry: How—"
Soundwave tried to stand on his hind legs, but since he had four legs now for good reason, he fell onto his back. After a moment of trying to figure out how he could stand easily, he rolled over and got up onto all four white paws. Rumble and Frenzy exchanged looks and barely managed to suppress snickers as the blue kitten's antics.
"Inquiry," Soundwave began again. "How did this happen? Last memory files were of myself walking down hall way to wreck room to check on Cassetticons Rumble and Frenzy and are cut off just as I entered the room."
"Yeah, Megs, we were poking around Dr. Arkeville's lab and we found this neat sucker," Frenzy said, holding up a long-barreled gun of some type, colored purplish-grey and deep blue. "According to its notes, it turns mechs into organics! It's supposed to be used on Autobots, but we thought we'd, uh, test it out a little."
"On me?" Soundwave asked, his ears laying back.
"No, actually, on Starscream; we thought he'd turn into a chicken," Frenzy replied.
"But you kinda came through first and we shot before we looked," Rumble finished.
"Request: Turn me back," Soundwave ordered.
"Aww, come on, Boss, tiny and fluffy suits ya!" Frenzy said, grinning and tilting his head in a way at Rumble that suggested winking.
"Error: Tiny and fluffy not adequate for me," Soundwave said. "Order: Turn me back."
But the Cassetticons were enjoying themselves now, and let's face it: a tiny blue kitten with a red visor and big ears is not dangerous to behold.
"Sounds like he's getting angry, Rumble," Frenzy said, patting Soundwave's fluffy head. "Are you angry, Soundwave, huh? Does the little itty bitty pretty little kitty need a nap? How about some milk?"
"Ooh! We should get him some cat nip!" Rumble added.
"Yeah, we should!" Frenzy agreed, patting Soundwave's head.
Soundwave's red visor flashed and he opened his mouth to release a sonic screech to make Frenzy knock it off. All that popped out was a loud, adorable, squeaky meow.
Rumble and Frenzy started "awing" in cuteness, but then burst out laughing, falling down on their back ends as they leaned heavily against each other. Soundwave's ears drooped, but perked up when he feet approaching the wreck room. Skywarp and Thundercracker soon entered.
"So," Thundercracker was saying, "there I was with my boot on his neck, pinning him to the ground with my gun aimed at his head, when I said—Holy Primus what the Pit is that!?"
Thundercracker broke from his narration to jump up onto a table, his jet engines coughing nervously as they fretted between fight and flight. Skywarp looked at Thundercracker then followed his gaze to Soundwave. His optics shuttered and widened as he toed the still-laughing Rumble and Frenzy aside to kneel in front of Soundwave.
"Soundwave?" he asked, poking the blue and white kitten. "Is that you?"
"Affirmative," Soundwave replied, nodding, "Rumble and Frenzy were staging a prank with one of Dr. Arkeville's inventions for Starscream and accidentally completed the prank upon me, turning me into an organic. I have requested that they turn me back, but they are refusing. Request assistance from the Seekers to make them change me back."
"Do it!" Thundercracker yelled. "Quick!"
"What's with you, Thundercracker?" Skywarp asked, turning to the blue and white Seeker. "It's just Soundwave turned kitty."
"He's a monster, change him, quick!" Thundercracker exclaimed.
Skywarp looked between Thundercracker and Soundwave a couple times before smirking at Thundercracker. He bent over and picked Soundwave up by the back of his furry neck and approached Thundercracker.
"Thundercracker," he said softly, holding Soundwave out to Thundercracker, "Are you afraid of Soundwave?"
"Of course not!" Thundercracker snapped, even as he inched away from the approaching cat. "I've known him for eons! It's that cursed furry form that's a threat to us all!"
"A threat to us all?" Rumble laughed, jumping up and looking over to the Seekers. "He's just a cat! A tiny, fluffy, kitten!"
"But the claws! The fur! The ears! The paws," Thundercracker hissed. "The paws," he repeated, as if it were particularly important.
Soundwave looked at one of his own paws to see what he meant; sure, it was tiny and dainty, but then what was the danger of it?
"Irrational: Thundercracker's fear of felines," he spoke up. "Request/order to Skywarp: set me down and return me to my proper form."
"Come on, Thundercracker!" Skywarp said, suddenly stepping forward and shaking Soundwave at Thundercracker. "Show Soundwave how much you love him!"
"NO!!!" Thundercracker screamed, swatting Soundwave out of Skywarp's hand and running out of the wreck room, screaming.
Skywarp, Rumble, and Frenzy burst out laughing at Thundercracker's antics as Soundwave plummeted through the air. He twisted around instinctively and found himself landing on all four paws on the tiled floor of the wreck room, his fur standing on end in agitation, but other wise unharmed. He heard the small thunk of metal paws and a shadow fell over him.
Looking up, he saw that Ravage had entered the wreck room and was now standing over him. The panther robot was starting to emit an electronic purr as it stared down at Soundwave. Soundwave was simply grateful that the black panther-bot recognized him and was not making him a chew toy.
"Ravage," Soundwave began. "Requesting assistance---"
Before Soundwave could finish his sentence, Ravage bent its head and picked the kitten up by the ruff of his neck in its mouth. Soundwave briefly heard Rumble and Frenzy protest before Ravage bounded away and out of the wreck room, carrying the helpless and confused Soundwave with it. A few minutes later Ravage had taken Soundwave to a storage room and was on top of a large metal crate.
Ravage lied down, placing the tiny Soundwave between its front paws. Soundwave attempted to walk away and resume his quest to become a mech once more, but Ravage grabbed his tail in its jaws and pulled him back gently. One of Ravage's large paws settled down on Soundwave's back, making him sit down. A moment later, the paw was removed and Ravage began to bathe Soundwave, typical cat style: Wit the tongue. Soundwave's ears and tail, as well as all his back fur, pointed straight up as he stiffened. But true to his nature, he failed to express his emotions in voice.
"Ravage," he spoke up. "Unacceptable behavior. Order to cease this nonsense and aide me in making Cassetticons Ravage and Frenzy return me to mech form."
Ravage grunted and continued to bathe Soundwave. Rumble and Frenzy ran into the room at that moment and spotted the feline pair up on the crate instantly.
"Come on, Ravage!" Frenzy said. "We gotta return Soundwave to his mech form before Megs returns!"
Ravage stopped its bathing to place its paws protectively over Soundwave, encompassing the little kitty as it hissed at the humanoid pair. Clearly, Ravage was not about to surrender its new kitten any time soon.
A purple flash happened and Skywarp appeared just behind and over Ravage with a struggling Thundercracker in his grip.
"Come on, Thundercracker," Skywarp grunted. "Why can you handle yourself around Ravage but not a kitty Soundwave?"
"Kitty Soundwave is covered in fur!" Thundercracker snarled. "And—"he stopped when he saw Soundwave so close and started screaming.
His jets activated in full throttle, breaking away from Skywarp and crashing his back into a wall, knocking over crates of supplies as he went. Ravage leaped to its feet, standing protectively over Soundwave, and snarled at Thundercracker, releasing the rocket at its hip at the Seeker. Screaming, Thundercracker flew out of the room, making Rumble and Frenzy dive out of his way. Soundwave bounded away from Ravage, dropping down from the crate and running out of the room. He decided to go talk to Dr. Arkeville directly about fixing this problem.
Running by Thrust, Dirge, and Ramjet as they walked the halls, the Seekers watched the fluffy kitten run by then exchanged looks.
"Was that Soundwave?" Dirge asked.
"Looks like it," Thrust confirmed.
"Wanna shoot him?" Ramjet asked, drawing out his gun. "We can say we thought it was a pest!"
"Alright!" Dirge cheered.
"Let's do it!" Thrust agreed, drawing his own gun.
Then they chased after Soundwave, but Rumble and Frenzy had over heard them as they chased after Soundwave.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Rumble exclaimed, "That's Soundwave!"
"Yeah, you'll be charged with murder of a fellow Decepticon!" Frenzy added.
Now they were entering a main hall where many a Decepticon was, milling about and on their various duties. Soundwave ran right into it, thinking of accessing the elevator from here to go up to the floor with Dr. Arkeville's lab on it. Thundercracker was ahead of Soundwave and ran into a large Decepticon trying to "escape" from the kitten. An argument sprung up between Thundercracker and the victim and his friends as the cone headed Seekers and Cassetticons entered with Ravage bringing up the rear.
"Organic in the base; Target practice!!" Dirge bellowed.
Soundwave skidded to a halt, sitting down hard, as every Decepticon in the room turned to look at him.
"Slag," he cursed.
An instant later, Soundwave found himself leaping all over the place as a hail of laser fire rained down on him. When laser fire started hitting fellow Decepticons, fist fights broke out and only escalated when Frenzy and Rumble tired getting people to stop shooting their boss. Ravage started mauling people for daring to attempt to damage his new kitten. Soundwave found himself sitting on a make-shift bench of energon cubes, watching the all-out chaos as Decepticons broke down into a fighting mass. His left ear twitched, unfazed, as Skywarp was flung through the air beside him to land with a crash, upside down, against the wall. Skywarp cussed as he slid down the wall and crashed to floor.
"Time slot for inner violence: Expired," he said aloud. "Desire to return to Transformer form: Maximum. Mode of action: Rash and excess. Reason: Only way."
Soundwave sat straighter and took a deep breath. Then he opened his mouth.
A sonic screech let loose over the assembled Decepticons, knocking the closer ones off their feet and making the air quiver. Audio receptors were sent out of whack and everyone froze to seize their heads or look around for the source of the unbelievably loud screech. When the source seekers saw that Soundwave was causing it, their shoulders slumped, jaws dropped, and optics widened in a dumb Are-You-For-Real look. When stillness reigned, Soundwave closed his mouth and fixed his visor on Rumble and Frenzy. Both were standing on the chest of Dirge and Ramjet with their hands wrapped around the cone heads' necks.
"Order: Return me to my Transformer form now," Soundwave growled.
"Sure, Boss, here ya go," Rumble said, drawing out Dr. Arkeville's gun from his person and shooting it at Soundwave.
A bright flash lit the scene and Soundwave the ever feared and awed Decepticon Transformer stood where the kitten had been. Soundwave walked over to Rumble and Frenzy, picking them up by the grooves on their helmets. Both writhed and grasped at his hands, shouting protest, as he picked them up like so and marched towards the exit of the hall.
"Punishment: Required," he growled to them.
Ravage spat out the leg it was chewing on and whimpered up at Soundwave as he passed by. Soundwave stopped and looked down at the cat. He threw the two Cassetticons in hand, screaming, high in the air and knelt beside Ravage and patted him.
"Live and learn," he simply said. "Someday you will have your own off spring, but not now."
Thus speaking, he stood up, still looking down at Ravage, and caught Frenzy and Rumble as they fell back down to the ground, catching them by the grooves on their helmets. Then he turned and marched out of the hall, leaving the rest of the Decepticons exchange looks and wonder what the blast had just happened.
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"Aww man, I can't believe we have to stay out here and watch nothing as punishment!"
Frenzy whined.
He and Rumble were sitting on a cliff ledge over looking a small canyon in the middle of the desert where not even Autobots or Decepticons came; punishment set by Soundwave. If they dared move from this post without battle orders for the next three days, Soundwave would tell Megatron about their little adventure, and who knew what he would do.
"Yeah, well, at least Megatron didn't assign it," Rumble said. "Can you imagine how much trouble we would have been in if he, Dr. Arkeville, and Starscream weren't on a mission to Cybertron? Besides, it was worth it."
After a moment, Frenzy's face quirked up in a smile.
"Yeah, it was," he snickered.
"Hey, what's that?" Rumble asked, sitting up.
Sure enough, they could hear a car engine approaching. Looking down, they saw an emergency van, a green jeep, and a yellow punch buggy drive into the small canyon. These vehicles transformed into Autobots.
"Come on, Bumblebee, what's the point of being out here?" the green jeep groaned. "I want to get back to base and enjoy my day off."
"Just a minute, Mirage," the punch buggy 'Bot replied, kneeling on the ground. "I think there're some metal deposits here that we can use…"
"Let's make it quick, Bumblebee," the emergency van said sternly, "I want to get back to base before Sunstreaker kills someone or something."
"Sure thing, Ratchet," Bumblebee replied, digging into the ground. "But be patient. I already told Optimus we might be gone well past sun down."
Rumble and Frenzy exchanged silent looks. Frenzy grinned and drew out a small pack of cat nip from his person. Rumble's face broke out in a huge grin as he drew out of his holster not his laser gun, but a certain purplish-grey and deep blue gun.