Silver: So this isn't actually a full chapter, I just needed something to post real quick. This has actually started to die already, T.T and I really liked it too. So now I'm looking to suggestions and requests and whatever else you want me to write about relating to everyday occurrences on the Nemesis.

As soon as I have enough for a real chapter I'll get this beta read and replaced so anyone out there who actually wants to see more of this, HELP ME.

6. If threatened by an officer, hide behind Soundwave

While Soundwave was by no means compassionate and had even killed a few Vehicons himself, he was considerably nicer and infinitely more fair than many others (mostly Starscream but he was a pain to just about everyone). In the time they had spent on earth, Starscream seemed to become even more snappish than usual, taking his anger out on the nearest Vehicon (poor Steve) whenever he so pleased.

The first time it happened, it had been any other day on the Nemesis. Megatron was on his throne, overseeing the bridge, Starscream had been complaining about one thing or another, and Soundwave was pretending to listen while continuing to perform his duties (pretty much everything else). There were various Vehicons scattered around the bridge, helping Soundwave in his seemingly never ending list of responsibilities, when Starscream finally seemed to have enough.

It wasn't Soundwave he was mad at for ignoring him (it was rather hard to tell either way, Soundwave reacted the same whether or not he was actually listening) or even Megatron for refusing to just roll over and die so he could become the new leader, but at the countless slights and humiliations he'd suffered over the years (it didn't seem to count most of them were deserved or self-inflicted).

There was no real push or last embarrassment or any kind of visible trigger, but Starscream's anger built until it broke, and the closest thing to take it out on would undoubtedly be the nearest, most easily smashed living being. Of course it was no surprise that turned out to be Steve (though he did earn several sympathy cringes from those who thought Megatron wasn't looking).

Fueled by basic protocol and the need to not be blown into a pile of scrap, Steve took cover behind the strongest, least likely to kill him for doing so thing in the room, i.e., Soundwave. He quickly darted to the other side of the silent communications officer, putting Soundwave between himself and a murderous Starscream.

Even in a rage, Starscream wasn't stupid. There was no way was going to push his way around Soundwave (who'd proven he was more than willing to kill Starscream if he thought he could get away with it), and so the only option seemed to be ordering Soundwave to move (because the damn drone using the TIC as a shield was not going to).

"Soundwave," Starscream put was much authority into his voice as possible, "As your superior officer, I command you to step aside and give me that drone."

For an instant, Soundwave stopped typing, and all movement ceased. The drones and even Megatron were all watching closely to see what would happen next (though Megatron knew his TIC well enough to have a pretty good idea). The moment lasted only a second, maybe less, but it felt like forever, and Soundwave returned to whatever he'd been working on without so much as a hitch to signify he'd ever stopped.

All that did was make Starscream angrier. He'd moved way passed pissed and right into cornered stray cat, looking like he could start spitting acid and breathing fire any moment. It didn't seem to matter anymore that Soundwave was very well capable of relieving him of his spark before he could realize the communications officer had gotten that close, or that anything that might happen to him (whether or not it actually ended in death) coming either from Soundwave himself or Megatron because it was Soundwave he was threatening was not worth a drone that hadn't even really done anything wrong.

Thankfully for Starscream, Soundwave was either in a good mood that day or was feeling particularly lenient, because the only thing he did was activate a Space Bridge right below Starscream's feet, sending the fuming seeker through the floor and to some especially remote corner of the globe where he could cool off without attracting the attention of the Autobots.

While not a particularly dramatic ending to the incident, apparently the drones present that day had read more into it than they probably should have. Not long after the shift changed, there was an unrealistically popular rumor circulating among the Vehicon troops. When in danger, Soundwave makes an effective shield.