[ ] Soundwave's recorded dialog.
She stared at the blank screen, she had to write out the report about the murder scene but she just sat there. Her mind was in a dark abyss and her fingers barely touched the keyboard. Angel jumped out of her trance when Macy patted her shoulder.
"You ok?" She shook her head and looked to her friend.
"Yeah, just stuck."
"Want me to write out the report?"
"I can do it, it's just bringing back some unwanted memories." Macy sat down at her desk, since their desks were back to back they faced each other.
"I know you want to solve this murder but at least let me do some things, to help take some tension off."
"Fine, files in the folder I sent you." Angel exited out of the file and sat back while Macy opened hers.
Moments later the precinct phone rang and she answered. "Detectives Teraro and Fillington." She crossed her legs and sat back in the chair. "Of course, we'll be right down." Angel stood up and set the phone down. "Coroners found something interesting, said we should take a look for ourselves."
"If it beats paperwork." Macy also stood up and they walked down to the medical examination room.
When they walked in they were greeted by the Medical Examiner, he was tall and thin, he had sandy blonde hair with hints of blue highlights. He wore a doctors uniform with gloves and stilled white shoes.
"So glad you could make it." He said walking back over to the bodies.
"Whatcha got Danny?" Angel asked walking over to him with Macy.
"Well mainly that they died the same way from the case you've been working on, but the difference about this one is that there was a struggle."
"Explain." He unfolded the sheet from the woman and lifted up her arm.
"The woman had seen the killer coming or something around that. She fought with him if you can see the bruise marks here and here." He pointed to her forearm and wrists. "Most likely she was not strong enough for him or he was to fast, so he grabbed her forearms and then her wrists, afterwards he threw her onto the ground making her head hit the cement flooring and knocking her unconscious." He moved to her head showing them a slight crack on her skull, he then moved back to her hand. "and she had scratched him deeply from what I can tell." Macy went to speak but Danny cut her off. "That's not the interesting part though. From how much skin I found she had dug deep enough to get some blood." He held up a sample and the two looked at it oddly.
"It's a bluish color." Macy said puzzled.
"Yeah, I can't explain it, but if she had dug that deep blood was bound to be there and this was all I found."
"If you say so Danny, but I want you to look into this more and find out for sure. I don't want to have to be looking for a blue blooded killer." Angel and Macy walked out an back to their desks.
"You really think a person could have blue blood?" Macy asked leaning in.
"I don't know, that's why I told Danny to recheck it. Sometimes machines glitch. I mean she could have gotten coloring from a tattoo." Macy shrugged and went back to work.
He growled and watched as the two detectives walked back up from the coroners office. Last thing he needed was a pair of simple minded humans finding out it was him, or even finding out what he was. He snickered to himself, what was he worried about. He was the killer and he was in the parking lot of the detectives that were researching his case and they didn't even know. "You humans are so primitive, this has been like stealing candy from a baby. The sleek black car moved from the parking lot and re-entered traffic laughing to himself.
Angel noticed a car that seemed familiar pull our from the parking lot and leave, she felt a shiver run down her back but she shrugged it off unbeknownst to who it was.
After filing out a different report for an hour, Donaview came up to her. "The kids are here to speak to you."
"Kids, with an 's'?"
"Yep, they had two, a sixteen year old girl and a ten year old boy ." Angel sighed.
"What kind of horrible monster would do this?"
"Don't know. All I know is that these kids are severely shaken up." She stood up and followed Donview over to the waiting area. When she arrived she walked over to two children who were sitting silently in the chairs.
"Hi.. My name is Detective Angel Teraro. I would like to speak to you about what happened yesterday." The older girl nodded and stood up pulling her brother up with her. "If you would like to follow me, I have a room where we can talk." She gave a sincere smile and led them to a soundproof room. When they got there Angel pulled up two chairs and sat in another across from them. the siblings took the two chairs and sat down. "Can you explain to me what happened?" There was only silence. "I'll try and make this as easy as possible alright. How about we start out with introductions. Like I said I am detective Angel Teraro, but you can call me Angel." The girl nodded and held her brother closer.
"My name is Miranda, and this is my younger brother Zeith."
"It is nice to meet you both. I understand that you are scared and confused and I know how that feels."
"How could you possibly know how this feels." Miranda's eyes started to swell up with tears.
"Because my parents were killed the same way, and if I am correct, by the same person."
"I'm sorry, I-I didn't know." Miranda started to cry and tears leaked down her face.
"I know. You don't have to cry, we are going to find this person and bring them to justice." Angel paused form a moment before speaking again. "So the report says you came home yesterday and the house seemed empty, am I right?"
"Yes." the girl spoke silently.
"Can you tell me the exact sequence of events for me." She pulled out a pad and waited.
"We had just gotten home from a birthday party held by one of Zeith's friends." She sucked in a few breaths. "When we got in, it was silent, I mean really silent. We searched around for our mom and dad and found nothing, that was until we checked down in the basement. That's w-when we s-saw-" She started crying again and her brother held her tight. Angel stood up and walked over to them.
"I promise that we are going to do whatever it takes to catch this man. And when we find him we will give him what he rightfully deserves." Miranda shot up from her seat and hugged Angel.
"Thank you." she gave the best smile she could and wiped away her tears. After a few more minutes of talking and writing down notes the kids left, leaving Angel in the same place she was before, stuck. She returned to her desk and sat down.
"So any new leads?" Macy asked leaning in.
"None, it's the exact same story, nothing new, an not even a slip up."
"That bites." Macy leaned back in her chair.
"Bites doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. I mean this guy kills my parents and is done. but then eight years later he kills again? Seriously what's up with that."
"I wouldn't know, maybe he went into hiding and came back out when he knew the cops couldn't find him."
"Maybe, but this time he's not going to have a chance to get back into hiding."
Once night came Macy and Angel left the precinct. They walked off to their own cars after saying goodnight. Angel unlocked her midnight blue chevrolet impala and got in.
She drove out and went past her small townhouse, she was stressed and needed silence to think. And the only place she could think of going was a small hillside pasture thirty minutes out of town, her father had taken her there when she was younger and she found it to be a good place to think. When she arrived she parked her car in a empty lot and walked to a nearby hill. Angel sat on the hills top and she stared into the night sky, thousands of stars lit up the dark night and gently let its light cascade down. She looked back out to the pasture and thought silently to herself in hopes to gain a grip on the case.
Minutes passed and still she thought, but nothing came, before she could think anymore she heard the sound of an plane or jet in the sky. When she looked up she couldn't see anything, but upon further inspection she saw a small dark splotch moving around above the pasture. The splotch came closer and got bigger, she noticed it to be an 'MQ 9 Reaper jet'.. But what got her attention is how the jet transformed into some type of robot and landed on the ground. It took all her effort not to make a sound.
She watched him for a while but it only stood there silently as if taking in the landscape or looking for something. She saw it turn around and face her; since it was dark she could not make out any details but she could tell it was male by his outline, if it even had a gender. Angel slowly stood up and took out her gun, she held it close to her ready to get into attack position at any time. The being walked towards her and stopped when it was only a few feet away from the hill. What seemed like tentacles came out of it and worked their way over to her, she backed up and almost tumbled down the hill side. The tentacles came close to her but went around, she let out a relief sigh but then screeched when one grabbed her from behind. It wrapped around her arms and squeezed tightly making her gun drop from her hand.
The tentacle carried her back to the being and brought her face to face with it. When she got there she looked to the ground and then to the things face but she saw that it was faceless. "What do you want?" She asked in her interrogational tone.
[Angel?] She heard Macy's voice and she looked around to see no one else but her and the thing. [Are you Angel?] That time she heard a mix of voices and she looked to the thing.
"I'm not telling you anything." Then tentacle squeezed tighter. [Are you, Detective Angel Teraro?]
"Yes, yes!.. now can you... let up, I need... Oxygen." The tentacles loosened and she took in a deep breath. When she regained her composure she glared at the being. "What do you want?" She stared at his blank face of where she assumed his eyes would be.
[The murder that took place today is a resemblance of the gruesome murder that took place eight years ago.] She recognized the voice from the news show she watched the night before.
"What's got you so interested?" she asked sneering at him. He just stood there without a word or a recording, she didn't really care. "Ok better question. What are you?"
[I am a cybertronian from the planet Cybertron.] The voice was deep and calming to which she knew was another recording.
"Do you only speak through recordings?" He nodded once to her.
[Our planet was once thriving with life, but that was before the war.] again the calming voice. [we were forced to leave because our planet was no more inhabitable and our supply of energon was depleted.] She looked at him in shock and just listened. [we found energon on earth and have made it our temporary home.]
"So you're an alien not a man made machine.?" He nodded again. "What is your name, if you even have one?" Something in her mind was telling her she was asking to many questions, but she was in interrogational mode and she didn't care.
[Soundwave.] the voice this time was also deep but was darker and more violent.
"So you're interested in the murder case, why? Are you some kind of detective bot or something?" He just stared at her not answering.
"Fine, then don't answer me." She glared at him for seconds before speaking up again. "What do you call yourselves? Like you know, a group name or something." He looked at her seeming confused by her question.
"What do you call yourselves besides Cybertronians?"
[We are the Decepticons.] again the threatening deep voice.
"Decepticons." She pondered the name for a moment. "Decept as in shorter way of saying deception and con as in con man or bot... And you want to help with the case? For all I know you could be lying to me. So, why should I trust you?"
[Because I have information that can help you solve this case, without me you would fail.]
"Liar. Let me go." She kicked her heel back and shoved it into the tentacle. It let her go and she fell to the ground, thankfully he was standing next to the hill so she didn't have long to fall. Angel pushed herself up just as the thing came back for her, she rushed to her gun and picked it up. "Don't come any closer or I'll shoot." The thing stopped moving. "better."
[You are brave for a human, but stupid.] She turned around and shot a the tentacle that was behind her.
"I am not falling for that again." Before she noticed it, another tentacle came her way and picked her up from behind again. "And I just fell for it, didn't I." When she refaced the faceless con he nodded and she swore he was smiling smugly, whether she could see it or not. "Ok, so if I can't get away I might as well hear what you have to say." She let herself go limp as if showing she was defeated. A picture showed up where his face would be and she looked to it. Angel gasped at what she saw. "Hey I know that stuff, it's the blood we found under the victims fingernails."
[Energon.] the calm voice came back.
"What do you mean by energon."
[It is the lifeblood of all cybertronians, Autobot and Decepticon.]
"Why would that be found at the scene and even more puzzling how did it get under the victims fingernails?"
[Holoform.]
"And that would be, see I'm not one of you so I don't exactly know all about you and your problems." She was pretty sure he would have rolled his eyes at her comment, but instead he showed a CGI made video.
It was of a different looking bot, he shifted into a truck and stayed like that for a minute, later a human materialized next to him.
"So what you saying.. showing, is that a holoform is somehow a projection created from you guys. Sheesh you are getting weirder by the minute."
[A holoform helps us to maneuver around you humans unnoticed as alien beings.] it was the calm voice again.
"Ok then answer me this. Why would a being like you or him if he even is one, be using his holoform to kill humans and what reason would he have to do so? I mean what have we done to you to make you hate us."
[you inhabit this planet.] Angel growled and and she felt her face turn red with anger.
"Look buddy we have inhabited this planet long before you bafoons have, so no need to go rude on me." She tried to point a deadly finger to him but her arms were being held tightly. Soundwave dropped her onto the ground and looked down to her.
[Meet me back here tonight same time, I will then give you the information you need.] He walked off and transformed back into a jet shooting off into the night sky.
"Tonight?" She checked her clock and saw that it was three in the morning and she sighed.
Angel got off the ground and walked back to her car grumbling under her breath. Tomorrow was going to be a long and weird day, for all she knew she was dreaming and in her bed sound asleep. She got back into her car an drove off towards her house.
Soundwave walked to his berthroom and snickered silently. Humans could be brave at times, but it was their bravery that made them stupid. When he entered his room, he immediately went to the computers that he had. He quite frankly didn't want to help this human or any human, but after what DeathRay had done to him and his family he wanted revenge and when this human girl helped him find DeathRay he would exact that revenge, full force.
He leaned back in the chair smiling under his facemask. That bot had made him suffer for far to long, not it was his turn to make him suffer, slowly and painfully.