Decepticon

Across the skies of Michigan, a falling shape appeared, burning the upper atmosphere. The object seemed to gain velocity as it fell, the spikes on the edges overheating as it passed over the town of Pontiac. If anyone had looked up just then, they would have thought a meteor was descending from the cosmos.

The object hit an outbuilding at very high velocity, shattering the human construct into pieces of dust and rubble. Somewhere in the street at its side, a car alarm went off. A tree cracked and fell as wires broke and snaked across the street, sparking. There was the far-off sound of sirens, and a human voice talking over a phone, and then silence.

From the ruined mass of the building, a silver Mercedes SUV with a strange number plate pulled out, reversing. There was no driver to be seen at the wheel of the vehicle. The SUV stopped at the end of the street, and waited.

Unseen to the human or physical eye, a message was being sent from the Mercedes SUV to Dylan Gould of Hotchkiss-Gould Investments. The message simply read:

"Soundwave has landed. Proceeding to objective location."

The SUV pulled away at an incredible scene as emergency services reached the building it had emerged from, and red lights disappeared into the darkness of the suburbs.


Detroit City, Michigan.

The very same Mercedes SUV 2011 made Its way through the daytime traffic of Detroit city. The buildings rose high on either side, some of old French design, due to the many French settlers. But the population of the city had began falling. The SUV slowed as the stoplights changed to red. The wait.

The lights converted to amber, and then to green, and the SUV continued its progress. Far overhead, the faint sound of thunder reverberated through the sky.

The thunder became the roar of engines as an F-22 Raptor crossed Lake Huron at an incredible speed, tearing the air in two. The F-22 Raptor had strange markings on it's upper body, some resembled Arabic letters, while the others resembled Cyrillic letters. Underneath all of these alien designs, was an American Air Force symbol.

The afterburners roared as it began descending, passing over the highway the SUV was traversing. The SUV took a sharp turn and descending into a sea of office buildings that had been abandoned for security purposes.

The SUV paused by a carpark, and slowly began folding and twisting into a humanoid robotic form, spinning around on its hands like an experienced break-dancer. The faint sounds of radio music were heard as the chassis of the car covered the frame, and the Transformer stood.

The front wheels of the SUV folded behind his head and the arms were long, nearly reaching the ground. The armor was silver and durable. On the Decepticon's forearms were slightly glowing blue sonic disks, a powerful weapon if charged. Below the spiked design and four piercing red optics was an almost-human mouth.

The Decepticon drew his gaze up as the F-22 Lockheed Martin circled above the multistory car park and then dropped out of the sky, shifting out of a vehicle into a humanoid form. The Decepticon landed and rubble hit the pavement below. The Decepticon had a triangular-shaped main body, long arms and sinister-looking red optics. The markings on the upper body of the F-22 alternate form now became tattoos on the Decepticon's body. The afterburners were stowed on the Decepticon's back.

The Decepticon shifted and spoke in a slightly-electronic strained English accent. "Soundwave!" The other Decepticon below answered flatly. "Starscream." Soundwave's voice was very bass heavy, deep, seeming to travel through the ground.

"Megatron has ordered a two-fold assault on Detroit. Mixmaster is in charge of one of them..." Mixmaster was one of the surviving Constructicons. "...But I am to lead the other, an attack on the closest NEST facility. You are to create a diversion."

NEST, Non-Biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty was the human/Autobot special forces organization that worked to eliminate Decepticons hiding on Earth. They had done a good job of it so far: Override, Sideways, Demolishor, Duststorm, even Prowl had been eliminated, from what he knew.

"Explain this diversion."
"You must create chaos and wreak havoc in the adjacent industrial park." Starscream inhaled viciously. "And if any of Optimus Prime's inner circle show up...neutralize them."

Soundwave froze; he had been waiting for Starscream to act above himself. He raised his arm to the second-in-command Decepticon. "You are not authorized to give this order."

Starscream paused, and then slammed his arm into the building: his patience had deteriorated in the past months. "The order comes from Megatron! If you doubt my word...you can take it up with him directly!" Starscream yelled.

This, however, failed to have the desired effect on the communication's officer, who just retorted with "The order will be validated...later."

This annoyed the already irate Starscream even more. "You just wait, Soundwave. You'll regret talking to me that way when I lead the Decepticons!" Revealing his traitorous ambition, Starscream jumped off the carpark, flipping into F-22 form and powering the afterburners. Several windows in building shattered and Starscream disappeared.

Soundwave transformed back into the Mercedes SUV, folding into vehicular form in distorted radio tunes, and drove away at high speed towards the industrial park adjacent to the NEST base.

It did not take long to reach the industrial park. The entrance was a plethora of brown and red-brick buildings that rose up from dusty ground. Soundwave kept his back to the NEST base, and transformed, using a close building as a cover. He paused and looked out into the courtyard.

The courtyard was devoid of life. No strange organic forms or humans that Soundwave had observed for so long. He gaze upwards, mouth closed and optics revolving as he looked up at the radio tower that was there. He jumped onto one of the lower buildings, and climbed up under the tower. He was going to bring the Autobot and NEST forces straight to him.

He seized both left and right supports of the radio tower, and tendrils of black and red snaked out under his armour and penetrated the steel of the tower, sending glowing wires into the wires within. Blue energy surged through the sonic disks and he scanned through the matrix of communications, landing within NEST's network.

And there, he planted a virus.

A NEST operative sat in a leather chair, keeping a close eye on the monitors. His name was , he was a technician for NEST. Nothing of interest had happened in the past couple of months, the sightings on Decepticons had dramatically declined. One-by-one, they had hunted down Decepticons hiding in Australia, Japan, China, the States, and Western Europe, one-by-one killing them off and sending their corpses to rest in the Laurentian Abyss.

But suddenly the monitors flickered and static resounded through the room. From the office behind, the door opened and General Morshower stepped out. "Status?" He asked authoritatively.

"Sir, our systems are down!" Kruger said, getting up out of his chair and looking all around the room. Everywhere, the expensive displays were static.

"Give me a sit rep now. I want to know why we have the latest in gear from our government, and it just shuts down like this." Morshower ordered curtly.

"A very powerful grade-11 security breach has been performed via a virus that is unknown on Earth. The signal emanated from an abandoned industrial facility in Detroit City. Should we mobilize, sir?" Kruger said, stood at attention in the eyes of his commander.

"No, it could just be solved from-" the commander was cut off as the monitors flickered back into life, all of them showing a silver-armored Decepticon loomed over them, glowing in blue. The Decepticon revealed what looked to be a plasma version of a Skorpion vz.61, a Czechoslovakian sub-machine gun.

"Sir, do we have permission to contact and mobilize Michigan-based NEST forces?"
"You have the green light to engage." Morshower said.


Soundwave had converted back to SUV form, and was waiting amid a contingent of stationary trucks and service vans. He dulled his Energon signal, and within the confines of the SUV he observed a map of the industrial park. It looked like he was going to have to get to the other side of the park, where a lot of construction had taken place. But first, he would wait until the first NEST team showed up to search for him.

It didn't take long. Several NEST humvees pulled up at the entrance to the carpark he hid in. He scanned the map and found sound of a lot of other unarmed vehicles, but these were the only NEST vehicles in the area. His sound sensors picked up the faint sound of Mixmaster, transforming in plain view.

He could hear the NEST soldiers, taking up position. Their backs were to him, they were focused on a grey sportscar on the other side of the carpark, in the shadow of the office building. Minutes passed...

Soundwave converted, breaking out of the SUV form and spinning on his hands. The NEST soldiers exclaimed and took cover by the humvees as the gunners opened fire. All of the shots missed and Soundwave spun around and punched a van, sending it through several of the NEST vehicles. They exploded into flames and Soundwave went on the run, throwing the vehicles out of the way and sprinting through them. The devastated NEST unit didn't even have time to turn, let alone pursue.

He heard them calling for reinforcements as he sprinted over into the power plant section. He wondered at what reinforcements there were, but then was visually answered as two of the vehicles he had scanned transformed...into Autobot soldiers. They took on the form of special law enforcement vehicles.

He supercharged the sonic disks on his arms, and released the energy. The blue wave of plasma surged through the ground, ripping the earth open, and sending the Autobot soldiers into pieces. Parts of exoskeleton clattered across the ground, and Soundwave converted once again, accelerating away from the charred tarmac.

Inside, he projected a map, and located several stacks that could be attacked to gain attention from the Autobots. He located one very close by and went into Stealth Form. The wheels extended outwards and a multitude of miniguns flipped out from the roof, doors, and bonnet. Soundwave open-fired, sending a stream of missiles into the stack. Cracks ran through the stonework, and the stack began leaning to one side.

Soundwave drove through the falling rubble onto the next fuel stack, kicking up dust. He could detect more Autobots incoming from the direction of the smoke stack, and transformed once more, rolling across the floor in a shower of sparks and drawing a Skorpion. He was looking onto a road under an overpass. Two Autobots appeared in the overpass, one rolling out of vehicle form to be met with a furious hail of plasma rounds.

He got past the other Autobot easily and sprinted past a dusty area of towers, transforming back into the SUV as several helicopters past overhead. Soundwave guessed they were NEST and went into a secure area, where wires and pipes connected the buildings on either side of him. Another stack was sending pillars of smoke reaching into the dust-coloured sky above.

"This will be appropriated." Soundwave said, basscore voice booming. He could sense a lot of NEST vehicles and reinforcements coming his way. He left the shadow of the road and drove into the other office sector of the industrial park. There, he spun out of vehicle form and climbed the nearest, shattering several of the windows. Below, humans exclaimed and ran to their vehicles.

He knew exactly what Mixmaster was doing: He was bringing the Constructicons back online: Long Haul, Scrapper, Hightower, Overload, Rampage, Scavenger. With them, they would combine to create Devastator: one of their most powerful weapons. The other version of Devastator would be impossible to make, as the components Demolishor, Skipjack, Scrapmetal, and the other Constructicons had been put permanently offline.

Soundwave jumped onto the pylon connecting him to the other building across the river flowing into Lake Michigan, and then slid down across the wires, sparks raining into the water below. On the other side, he definitely jumped off. He looked over his shoulder to see NEST and law enforcement helicopters circling the area had been in moments before.

His optics revolved and he hacked into the soundwaves resonating from every crevice. "The Decepticon target was last seen here..." "His alternate form is a Mercedes SUV 2011 model in silver. Keep close eyes." He jumped off the building, and upon impact, he converted, accelerating towards the exit.

There, he stopped, and got into contact with Starscream. "Objectives completed. Diversion set. You are free to engage NEST facility." He sensed Starscream was overhead, in the skies, but there was no reply.

His attention was seized by several 2011 Cherokee SUVs as they screeched around the corner of another power-plant and transformed, opening fire. Soundwave rolled backwards, Skorpions already in both hands, and let the energy loose.

The Autobot nearest him took the hits and dived back into cover. Soundwave sensed three of them, armed with plasma machine guns and sabot round cannons. He heard them speaking in Cybertronian and English; none of Optimus Prime's 'Inner Circle' were present. These were just Autobot soldiers. This meant well for Soundwave; he did not have to play to Starscream's wishes.

He charged up his sonic disks, this time for a different attach. The air became charged, dense, and then it exploded, deafening the Autobots. One of them stumbled out of cover, bleeding Energon out of his sound sensors. As soon as he saw Soundwave, he raised his weapons.

Soundwave disposed of all three Autobots, damaging the power-plant in the process. Smoke raised up to the sky, as if to bring it down, and fires raged around the remains. The flames lit Soundwave's back as he transformed: the diversion had been set.