Soundwave had not been amused.
Not by a little bit.
After he completely disabled the autobot treat that designation known as Wheeljack, he got a SOS call from Laserbeak that her location had been compromise and been captured. He didn't have time finish his job with that white red autobot scum nor he want to lose his time while Lasorbeak might be in danger. Soundwave shifted to his jet form and flew away to her location immediately.
When he got there he saw Laserbeak in plain sight….in the center of jungle….on the open field. At first it seem too much suspicious…like a scraplets trap….but he can't put his mind to that theory right now. He coped his damaged velvet blue symbiote in his arms and pay no attention to his skeptical surrounding and lay off to the decepticon base instantly.
He didn't report his success retrieve of the relic to his commander when he onboard but got his precious birdbot to repaired by the medic firsthand. Knockout didn't have his trust in loyalty to his leader from him but his medical skill is true. Laserbeak was back to her shape in mere second and that make him respect about the medic's skill even more…but the doubt about his loyalty was still the same, he will not get a few favor to affect his judgment.
He watched Laserbeak try to move her wing and successfully fly up in to the air. She chirped happily above his head and Soundwave gave her a relieve smile trough their bonds. He didn't want to interrupt her cheerfulness but it would be best for him to stop her before she accidently fly into some medical tools in medbays and made some complication to him and Knockout so he told her to land on to his chassis.
But something clicked in Soundwave's mind about the way he found Laserbeak in the first place. A little bird symbiote…damaged…on a plain sight to view. Soundwave didn't earn his trust and commotion from lord Megatron by always look pass this informations. He need…have to be careful about everything include his little friend here. When Laserbeak connect to his chassis, he didn't connect his mind to her immediately. He sent a scan protocol through her system for any unusual activity. He actually found something suspicious enough in her system. It's a virus that not only look like her normal data and easily to overlook but cleverly enough to try to attack on his system when it had been found. His firewall not even been dent by the assault and grab the foreign code then store it in quarantine zone for him to examine.
The virus code almost seem…familiar. Like he been interacted with this kind of code before. Then it hit him, he had seen this code try to interfere with his hacking data from the human's server room. That insolent code gave him problem enough to had him to deal with the code's source directly and if he surprise when he found out that the problem was actually a kid. A human kid that had brown wavy hair named Raf or Rafael if Soundwave recall it correctly. Normally he wouldn't pay a mind about his enemy's identity but to have such a skill at this early age, this human is a true genius even with his standard and all of decepticon officer known that his standard is not easily reach. It's a shame that if he not run a scan on Laserbeak's system, this virus would have easily bypass his security system through their connection and sent the data about iacon relic location to the autobots without him even noticing. Soundwave deleted the virus and connect to his symbiote fully and about to walk to his commander for reporting about his success retrieval.
BAM!
At first it felt like a heavy push on his chest and then a sound came after it in a millisecond. A blast sent him fly and crash to the wall. Warning shown on his visor like a mad text. The data shown that his chassis was heavenly damaged but his spark was still safe and sound.
"What happened out here?" Knockout followed the sound from his medbays to found the spy master lay down on the ground with his burning chassis. "Oh scrap! Soundwave!" The medic immediately do what his job has to do, treating the patient.
Soundwave let Knockout doing his job. Right now his system still force in and out of emergency recharge because of the damage. Even by a very skillful Knockout, it still take almost hour to restore his body to let him out of emergency recharge. When he snap out of it, he found that he slept on a medical bed. Soundwave look around to determine the situation and found that Knockout was still fixing his chassis.
The pain on his chest is too much and that made him falling in to a recharge again but he felt like something missing….something very important to him. He try to remember what had he overlook but when he know what was wrong he almost wish that he should forget instead.
Laserbeak
He couldn't feel her present anywhere. In medbey…On decepticon carrior…Or even he sent the scan through the entire planet he still couldn't find her. It felt like his spark have a hole in there and if he can't find her soon he afraid that hole will torn apart his spark soon.
"Knockout…" Even his mind went through hell right now, his voice was still the same emotionless like ever. Because he will never let anyone saw his weakness…even lord Megatron.
The medic stop his work and look at his way when he heard the sound. "What are you doing? Don't you see that I am working here? So if you please be helpful and let the recharge embrace your spark, it would be a lot easier for me to doing my job."
Soundwave paid no mind for Knockout's request. "Laserbeark….location"
Then the face of moody medic change into a frown. It's not helping Soundwave to calm down his mind at all. "Look Soundwave, this is not the right moment to discuss about this. Your body need a fully medical treatment before anything else."
"Laserbeak: Location"
Knockout sighed "Fine, if you want it that way. She's not around here anymore."
"Laserbeak: Where?"
The red con bit his lips "Dude, I don't know that you are ready for this"
"Laserbeak: WHERE?" Even his emotionless voice, his last word still sent a thrilled down to the medic's spark.
"She's not on this world anymore…She's dead" Knock said with sad expression.
…..
…..
Silent.
That was that come after the medic's sentence. Knockout had guess what to expect from letting the news go but the silent is not one of them. He not sure that he should continue doing his job while the bot remain still or should get out of here before the rampage began.
But the rampage never came.
So Knockout grab the tool and continue fix the communicator's chassis.
Still only silent.
But in Soundwave's mind is another thing. When he heard the news, his hole in his spark disappear. But it took something in his spark to gone with it too and the missing part made the feeling hurt even more. He screamed in his mind, try to not believe in those words but it still came back and stab him like a missile through the chest. The pain on his body is little thing when look at the pain inside. The pain of his loss, The pain of loneliness it stuck him and almost drive him to madness.
She's dead.
Why? Why she has to die? Why not him? How could it happen? Sounwave recall the video comlink through his harddrive. It saw like the blast come from inside Laserbeak herself and that made her blast off in to pieces. The pain growing each replay he had seen. And he found only one explanation to this incident.
Autobot.
They will pay.
