TF: Prime One Shots-

Yeah I know it's not the most creative of titles but this is just a random idea. I guess I could take some requests if I run out of ideas but this will be updated only once in a while when the plots bunnies have a random idea. So I hope that you like this! Enjoy, review, and thanks! - Rin

Chapter 1: Soundwave the Emoticon

Knockout was extremely miffed about Soundwave's latest achivement. While the communications officer had succeeded in his mission to retrieve the relic, he had been beaten by those fragging Autobots. It had taken weeks to get every scratch out of his paint job and then another few to repaint and buff the finish. Now he had lost the respect of Megatron and was reduced to doing drone work.

The doctor muttered curses as he organized the files on his medical database and scanned through different human networks for anything useful. Knockout's optics flicked lazily through the different files that flew through the screen when a particular word caught his attention. Pausing the feed he scrolled back through until he came across the word and for a moment he was confused.

The feed was from a human web site called Wikipedia and the particular page it featured was called "Emoticons". At first the medic thought that the site was refering to a type of Decepticon but to his knowledge there was no rank called an Emoticon. Curiosity getting the better of him he scrolled down and saw a whole list of different symbols and marks that seemed to be part of the English language. Knockout continued to scroll down the list and saw that each of the symbols added up to create small faces.

He read that humans used these to communicate feelings or facial expressions while talking electronically.

'Soundwave could use a couple of these...' he thought dryly as he saw the faces for bored and straight faced.

It did unnerve Knockout at how emotionless the Decepticon spy was. He never communicated on his own, only through other bot's speech or recordings. That's when a sly smirk crossed the medic's features as an idea came to his processor. Quickly he downloaded each and every of the Emoticons into the Decepticon database and rerouted them to the communication officer's personal console. Then he disguised the file as an emergency file that Soundwave had to dowload. Then Knockout was able to rewrite it so that it seemed that the Emoticons were just empty files.

With the tap of a button the scheme was complete and Knockout stood back with a satisfied smirk.

'Let's see if the cold hearted Soundwave really doesn't have emotions.'

It had been a few hours and it was the time that Soundwave did his daily systems check on the ship. He usually just checked for any tracking signals, spyware, or viruses that may have corrupted the Decepticon database. He scanned over the saved files, medical documents, status reports from energon mines, and...there was one file that caught Soundwave's attention. It was a high priority file that had been directly sent to him from an unknown source.

Quickly he decrypted the file and downloaded the contents, careful to check for any malware within the files. But to him all the files were empty, there was nothing of importance at all within the file. Quickly he scrubbed the file for any signs of viruses and tracking beacons from the Autobots but found nothing. He double checked the systems for anyhing that may have snuck through while he downloaded the file but Soundwave found nothing out of the ordinary.

So, dismissing the empty file, he proceeded to the bridge to try and decrypt more of the Iacon database for Megatron.

The bridge's doors hissed open and Soundwave made his way over to the large moniter that scrolled the Iacon database across the large screen. He then began the long task of going through each symbol and trying to decode it.

"Soundwave have you made any progress in decoding the coordinates?" the rumbling voice of Megatron came from behind Soundwave about an hour later.

The Con turned and shook his helm but he stopped when Megatron frowned at him and raised and optical ridge.

"What is that on you're face plate?" he growled slowly.

Soundwave hadn't posted anything on his faceplate but he checked his systems and, for the first time in his life, the Con was surprised. Displayed on his faceplate were a series of three humanoid symbols. He quickly deleted the symbols but as soon as they disappeared a new set took their place.

For several minutes Soundwave deleted dozens of the symbols but found that dozens more popped back to take the deleted one's place.

"Soundwave what is going on?" Megatron demanded his optics narrowing.

The communications officer shook his head again, not knowing what these symbols ment. Megatron gave a growl of displeasure as he saw Soundwave struggling to stop the flow of strange symbols that sped across his faceplate.

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"Knockout!" he finally shouted into a comm station, his patience wearing thin.

After a moment the medical officer answered smugly, "Yes, Lord Megatron?"

"Get down to the bridge immediatly!"

"I'll be there at once."

Back in the med bay Knockout smiled to himself and grabbed his debugging equipment. The procedure was simple enough but why should he relieve Soundwave so quickly? There were plenty of different Emoticons left in the sequence that had infected Soundwave. So, he would poke around, delete a couple and perhaps leave the rest to filter out themselves.

'Besides,' he thought to himself, 'a little emotion never hurt anyone.'