Brontide
By SMYGO4EVA

The Decepticons have fallen, and Megatron, their tyrannical leader, was no more, having plunged into the cursed planet he had aimed to conquer. Soundwave knew that all too well, and so did Shockwave. The sounds of battle were nothing like the planet Earth's thunderstorm. Roars and battle cries were unlike thunder, footfalls unlike the pouring rain of the wretched planet. The signals of oncoming blasters in a firefight, and the crumbling sounds of armor were distinct and unmistakable.

Soundwave watched the flashes of lightning eclipsed from upon the Nemesis, from the spacebridge portals' pulled back. The eyes and ears of the Decepticons counted the seconds until the thunder rolled in, seeing Shockwave's extended servo from the other side of the portal, and never admitted to himself that he was waiting for a roar to erupt. But that was not before Soundwave took Shockwave's servo with his own, pulling him out of the Shadowzone that the accursed human children put him in, and acknowledging the scientist as his savior.