WARNING: SPOILERS!
Please take note that extended time in solitary confinement can cause serious mental issues, in this story Soundwave will most likely suffer from:
Persistent and heightened state of anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, lethargy, nightmares, heart palpitations, confusion, social withdrawal, violent fantasies and deterioration.
This fic will be dark so only read it if you are okay with it.
It was desolation.
It was the same dreary, maddening scene that glared mockingly down at Soundwave. A dark atmosphere would have been all right for Soundwave, but not when it was his home, his work place and his master's flying kingdom.
For too long he had been stuck in this place and the darkness all around him was beginning to take its toll. Even the darkness buried within his conscious was tearing at Soundwave's soul, bringing back awful memories of when he was a pit fighter and slave. Though when that darkness had engulfed him then, Megatron, or Megatronous, had pulled him out of it and given him a hope Soundwave thought nothing could vanquish.
But Megatron wasn't here anymore. Soundwave wasn't fully here either, the brightness of his life had moved on without him, leaving his body to stay and rot in this hell the human youngling had called 'Shadowzone, dude.'
'Human femme,' Soundwave thought wearily, his optics onlining, or where they already online? 'Miko' he corrected himself, claws lightly scraping against the ground in which he was lead on. All bitterness of the human children had fled long ago, now all it brought was sadness, fear and the dreaded hopelessness that the dark purple mech radiated.
At first he had been fuming with the children, with the Autobots and everyone. Soundwave had yelled and screamed, cursed and prayed. His episode had lasted for hours and he only managed to sit and reclaim his eerie calm when Laserbeak sent him a fearful ping, requesting that he stop yelling. No. Laserbeak hadn't requested him to do anything she had begged him.
He thought it was clear then that all he had to do to escape was activate a ground bridge and escape, but it didn't work. All it did was let Soundwave fall through it like he did to all whom walked through him, it was the same for a space bridge but the toll on his systems left him exhausted and shaking. Even walking through the fragging door had been useless; he had literally ended up back at the front of the room every single time.
Soundwave gently stroked his symboit's helm with his claws, humming a sparkling song calmly to her as she was roused by the memories that continuously haunted Soundwave's overworked processor. He tried so hard to recharge, for his sake and for Laserbeak's; but when the Communications Chief felt the presence of recharge it was chased away by some demon of Soundwave's soul.
The TIC, if that rank was still his to claim, curled in on himself and Laserbeak, wrapping his arms around the symboit as the spymaster quietly cried to himself. All he wanted was to feel again, to talk to someone...
To be free...
If you are wondering why the ground/space bridge didn't work it is because he didn't know it had to be in the exact same place as one of the bridges that sen him there. But even if he did figure it out he doesn't have the energy.
If you wish this to be the end of the story then okay, but I will be writing more shortly. (;
