Hey guys! I'm back! Glad y'all enjoyed the first chapter, here's the second one! Please review and tell me what you think! This chapter gets a little intense towards the end, nothing too serious I think but Just letting you know. Enjoy guys! :)
Soundwave stiffened when he heard Megatron approaching from behind him. "Well, well, well. My audios don't deceive me. I heard some mechs in the hall speaking of their being a femme amongst the new recruits. I wasn't sure if it was true or not. She's from Kaon? And she's a cage fighter at that? Quite the little delinquent we have here. Seems she will be a nice addition to the Decepticon cause..." Megatron trailed off as he walked away. Soundwave sat confused, yet relieved, and a little worried.
Megatron is pleased with her records, so she won't be off lined or anything. But at the same time Soundwave got an unsettling feeling. Shaking it off he rose with the files downloaded on a data pad for Megatron and left for the meeting in the recreation room.
Walking through the doors Soundwave scanned the room, he saw Megatron standing at the front with Starscream and his trine on his left, and a space for Soundwave to stand on the right. Without hesitation the bots in the room quickly cleared a path for the mech to walk through. Astrolyte sent amusement through the bond and Soundwave sent back a feeling of dominance and amusement. Once standing at the front of the room Soundwave located Astrolyte. She was sitting at a table by herself towards the back. She smiled a little and flickered her door wings in a sign of acknowledgement, like waving at him.
"All right newbies! To the front!" Starscream screeched. Soundwave handed Megatron the data pad and the leader skimmed through as the new recruits made their way to stand in front of everyone. Whispers resounded through the room as Astrolyte walked through, her helm up, door wings lifted high and stiff on her back. Soundwave watched her closely as she moved by the mechs, scanning their processors with his telepathy to make sure no one was going to touch her. Thankfully no bot was foolish enough to touch her out in public, but the thoughts Soundwave found in their processors made him want to rip every single one of them apart. She was his femme. No one else can have her, ever. He ached to have her stand next to him, while he held her close. Of course she can handle herself just fine, but still.
She stopped right in front of Megatron, a smug look on her face. "Hello there little femme. And what brings you to the Decepticons? I thought all the femmes stayed on Cyberton, to keep the place cleaned up. Raise the sparklings and such." Motor master teased. Extreme amusement radiated through Astrolyte and Soundwaves bond. Astrolyte crossed her arms across her chassis. "Are you stereo typing me?" She snapped at the mech. "Are you really gonna keep her around? I mean what's she gonna do to contribute to the war besides being a nice piece of aft walking around for enjoyment?" Ramjet asked. Soundwave tensed with rage.
Astrolyte laughed, a full hearted laugh. It bounced off the walls, echoing through the empty halls. "What's so funny?" Ramjet asked. His question was ignored and Megatron proceeded with the meeting. The leader handed the data pad back to Soundwave and sighed heavily.
"Welcome new recruits. I am your leader, Lord Megatron. Your presence here is appreciated so we can all work together to defeat the Autoscum and take over Earth, Cybertron, the Galaxy, maybe someday even the universe. If you have any problems...work it out yourselves. These are the commanding officers", Megtron paused to motion at the mechs next to him, "if they tell you to do something, you do it. No questions asked. If you're injured, fix it yourself or go find Hook, the medic. Long meeting short, don't bother me unless absolutely necessary. And you should really ask yourself if it's necessary before proceeding with bothering me." Megatron concluded.
"You can now all mingle and catch up with each other and what not. Hook will be in the medical bay, you can go see him to get your Decepticon insignia." Starscream said as the bots started to disperse.
Megatron reached out and grabbed Astrolyte's arm. "Why don't you join me and the officers for energon." He commanded more than asked. Astrolyte nodded, her arm still in Megatrons grasp as he, Starscream, Soundwave, Skywarp and Thundercracker walked out of the room. They walked down the hallways in silence, coming to a stop outside a large door. Megatron typed in a code and the door opened, revealing what looked like a private recreation room. There was a couch, a large TV, a Cybertronian sized pool table, and a bar with all different brands of high grade. On the counter at the bar were boxes of energon treats and oil cakes.
Megatron walked Astrolyte over to the bar and sat her down on a stool. Skywarp sprawled out on the couch next to Thundercracker, Starscream sat across the room in a chair, his face plates buried in a data pad. Soundwave sat down at the bar, one seat away from Astrolyte and Megtron walked behind the bar.
"So, femme, tell me about yourself." Megatron demanded as he grabbed three glasses, and a bottle of fine aged high grade from the shelf. "First of all, my name is Astrolyte. With a 'y' not an 'i'. And uh, what do you wanna know? Where are we?" She questioned him. "Also, you didn't even ask if I drink high grade." She stated.
Megatron chuckled lowly as he placed the glass in front of her. "Looking at your files and records, I wouldn't pin you as a no high grade kinda femme." He smirked. Astrolyte's doorwings flickered a little and she sent panic across the bond. Soundwave sent reassurance in return and watched Megatron closely.
"You looked through my records? Ever heard of privacy?" She snapped at him. Megatron smirked again, "a cage fighter, huh? Didn't know femmes were cage fighters. How many fights did you lose?"
Astrolyte growled a little, "I don't do that slag anymore. I quit fighting a long time ago. Femmes can do anything mechs can do. Except we can do it better."
"Oh?" Megatron raised an optic ridge.
"Yep. Wanna know how I know? Because I never lost a fight. And I was the only femme cage fighter in all of Kaon." She smirked. "I see. So, you fought mechs? And beat all of them? And how many mechs did you frag to make sure you won every fight?" Megatron asked. Astrolyte's engine revved loudly, rage coursing through her. She slammed her hands on the counter, throwing the glass cup across the room. Leaning over the counter she grabbed Megatron by his chest plate and pulled him to her face.
"You listen here. I'm not a dirty femme. I don't frag bots to get my way. I get what I want by getting it myself. I worked hard. I trained every waking moment of my life. And I fought. I fought to keep myself and my family Alive. I fought for money that would buy us energon. It wasn't some hobby." She growled lowly. Megatron chuckled and grabbed Astrolyte by her neck. He yanked her across the counter and pinned her against the wall.
"No. You listen, femme. I, am lord Megatron. Leader of the Decepticons. You joined my faction. Which means you do as I say." He paused, using his free hand to trace her transformation seams softly. The others in the room were watching closely, fear and shock on their faces as they stood there motionless. Soundwave stood on the other side of the counter, fear, anger, and confusion coursing through him.
Soundwave was scared of what Megatron was going to do to Astrolyte. He was scared of what would happen to him if he intervened. He was scared of what would happen between him and Astrolyte if he didn't intervene. Would she be angry at him for not stopping him? Soundwave stood there frozen. Then he was angry at himself. Why isn't stopping him? He might be my commander but no one messes with Astrolyte, he as Soundwave was stepping around the counter Starscream beat him to it.
"But Lord Megatron...as much fun as it would be to take her now and make her YOUR femme...Maybe you should pursue her, let her come around to you. A femme like her at your side could be very useful. She could infiltrate the Autobots, you know how they are. They couldn't turn away a femme. But if you do this now, and harm her, she'll be useless. The first chance she gets she'll run." The seeker whispered in Megatrons audios. A wicked smirk spread across Megatrons face and she dropped Astrolyte to the floor. Soundwave could feel the relief radiating off the others in the room.
"Of course it might take some time. But trust me. You want a femme like this to come to you." Starscream purred and walked away. Skywarp rushed over to Astrolyte and helped her up. Her engine was sputtering and her doorwings were bent. They all left the room except Megatron. He stayed and had himself a few bottles of high grade. Scheming on how to get Astrolyte to be his.
Once they were all in the hallway and around the corner Soundwave immediately took Astrolyte in his arms and Skywarp transwarped them into Astrolyte's room.
"What the frag was that Astrolyte?!" Starscream snapped. "This isn't like back at home Astrolyte. You can't get all cocky and go around trying to rough up any mech that crosses you." Thundercracker explained. Soundwave sat her on the berth and unsubspaced his basic medical tools. His mask and Visor retracted and he reached out, taking off her visor, staring in to her optics. She looked back into his, she recoiled a little bit when she saw anger and hurt in his optics.
"I'm sorry.." She mumbled, looking down at the floor.
Soundwave sighed and gave the three seekers a look. Starscream nodded and led the other two out of the room, giving them privacy.
"Astrolyte?...sweet spark? Are you alright?" Soundwave asked softly. He held her chin and picked her face up to look at him. Filling their bond with love. "I..I didn't mean to do that. I got angry...I'm sorry." She apologized softly. Soundwave leaned forward and kissed her nose ridge softly. "Maybe we should work on your temper.."he chuckled earning him a giggle from the femme. She smiled at him but the smile quickly turned into a look of pain as she tried to wiggle her doorwings. "Let me fix them. It's going to hurt though." Soundwave instructed. Astrolyte nodded and turned away from him, she grabbed on to the berth tightly and prepared herself for the pain.
Soundwave examined her bent doorwings and sighed. They were folded down in half, meaning Soundwave was going to have to unfold them.
He rubbed a comforting servo up and down her back before placing his hands on one of her doorwings. "Ready?" He asked. Astrolyte nodded a quick 'yes' and gritted her denta to hold back a scream as Soundwave quickly bent the doorwing back in place. Her body shuddered with pain and she whimpered softly as tears gathered in her optics. Soundwave placed a soft loving kiss on her doorwing, rubbing her back some more, giving her time to recover.
"Alright, almost done. " he said taking hold of her other doorwing. Astrolyte whimpered again and her engine heaved as Soundwave bent the second door wing back into place. A small cry of pain erupted from her vocalizer and Soundwave immediately pulled her into a hug. She cried softly against his chassis. "Shhh, I know. It's okay, it's over now." He hushed. Opening his first aid kit, Soundwave retrieved a bottle of soothing cream made for wings. Pouring some into his hand he began rubbing it across her doorwings lightly. A few moments later, Astrolyte was done crying, she looked up at Soundwave with a tear stained face.
"You should rest." Soundwave suggested, pulling her further into the berth and laying down next to her. She curled into his chassis, her engine purring softly. "I missed this.." She mumbled as she traced Indistinct patterns across his frame. Soundwave smiled and held her close, kissing the top of her helm. "Me too." He mumbled. All he heard in return was a small 'hmm' as he felt her drifting off into recharge. Hearing his cassettes enter the room had Soundwave smiling again. They all made themselves comfortable, soon the room was silent. Except for the small hums and light whirls of their fans and engines.
~Astrolyte dreaming~
"Stop eating all the energon goodies! You fat aft!" Astrolyte teased. The femme next to her giggled and closed the box. "Right, sorry. They're for the sparklings." She giggled back. Astrolyte rolled her optics and gave her friend a gentle push as they walked down the streets of Iacon.
Astrolyte was in Iacon visiting a close friend of hers. Metalina, they met at a house party Soundwaves creators threw. They instantly became best friends, though they didn't get to see each other much. Metalina came from a noble family. And well, Astrolyte was from Kaon...a very unlikely pair of friends. Surprisingly enough they were very similar. They had weekly outings together, sometimes in the high society cities, other times they were in Astrolyte's side of Cybertron hitting up bars and having a good time. Today was the day they visited the orphanage though. They did this once a week while Soundwave and Metalina's soon-to-be spark mate had a mechs day out.
Walking into the orphanage Astrolyte's spark filled with joy as her favorite sparkling tottled over it her. "Astrolyte!" The young femme greeted. "Stella!" Astrolyte greeted in return. She picked up the sparkling and hugged her close. "How are you?" Astrolyte asked, rubbing her nose ridge against Stella's, earning her a giggled from the sparkling. "I'm otay. Jus' playin'. Waitin' for you to come visit!" Stella giggled.
Astrolyte smiled and held up an energon goodie. Stella cheered and happily took it from Astrolyte's hand. She took a small bite and held the candy up to Astrolyte's mouth, Astrolyte smiled and took a small bite. "Sharing is caring!" Stella stated proudly. "That's right Stella! You should always be nice to other bots." Astrolyte smiled.
She placed Stella on the ground and watched her run off down the halls, yelling over her shoulder about having a present for Astrolyte. While waiting patiently for Stella to return the orphanage went black.
"Stella? Metalina? What's going on?" Astrolyte called out, looking around frantically. The ground started shaking and a menacing laugh erupted from the darkness. Astrolyte's spark was beating rapidly against its casing. Sprinting through the dark Astrolyte kept calling to the other femmes. The laughing seemed to grow louder and louder from every direction. Astrolyte let out a frustrated scream and punched a wall close to her. The wall seemed to crack and then crumble to dust on the floor. Behind the wall Astrolyte found herself staring at the orphanage from the outside. It was burning. Bright orange and red flames erupting from the building, scream could be heard. Astrolyte felt tears streaming down her face as she screamed in horror.
"Help! Somebody help! Please!" She cried out as she ran towards the building. As she kept running it seemed the orphanage was getting farther away from her.
"Stella! Metalina!" She screamed, running as fast as she could. Her intakes and fans working rapidly.
Suddenly the building crumbled and in its place was a very abnormally large Megatron. He laughed wickedly holding Stella in one hand and Metalina in the other. His optics glowed an evil ruby red, and his denta were all sharpened to a point. He growled lowly, staring down at Astrolyte.
"Let them go!" She screamed at Megatron. She charged at him but suddenly the ground disappeared and Astrolyte was spiraling down into darkness. She screamed and flailed helplessly as she fell to what she assumed would be her death. "Soundwave help me!" She cried out desperately.
~End Dream~
Astrolyte shot up from the berth screaming and flailing wildly. "HELP ME!" She screamed. Soundwave jumped out of recharge grabbing Astrolyte tightly and holding her close. "Astrolyte, calm down. It's alright. It was just a nightmare, I'm here." Soundwave soothed. Astrolyte moved away from him, breathing heavily. She stood up from the berth and moved over to her desk. "I have to call Meta." Was all she kept mumbling as she rummaged around for the call device.
"Sweets park, it's the middle of the night. You just had a nightmare. I'm sure Metalina is fine. Come back to bed. You can call her in the morning." Soundwave said a little more demanding as he rose from the berth and walked over to his distressed spark mate. At this point all the cassettes were awake and watching the scene.
"N-no. It can't wait until morning. I have to call her now." Astrolyte growled as she rummaged around furiously. Reaching the bottom drawer she pulled out the call device with a sound of excitement. "Astrolyte." Soundwave said in a threatening tone. "I have to check on Stella." She growled back at him as she started to call Metalina.
She waited silently for her friend to pick up. Her optics lighting up with joy when she heard her friends voice on the other end of the line. "Meta?! You're okay?! I need a favor! Can you check on Stella for me tomorrow? Make sure she's okay?" Astrolyte asked desperately.
"Yeah I'm fine. Did you have a nightmare? Stella is fine, I saw her earlier today. I tried calling you but you didn't answer..." Metalina trailed off. She sighed heavily as Astrolyte began rambling about her nightmare.
"Astro, listen. I have something I need to tell you..." Metalina said slowly, the seriousness of her voice stopping Astrolyte cold. "What is it? Is something wrong?.."Astrolyte asked, starting to panic. She felt Soundwaves worry as she moved in front of her, looking in her optics for an answer to her sudden panicked state.
"It's your carrier...she's really sick...your sire said she probably won't make it. She's old, ya know? The elder get sick real easy now..."Metalina said sadly.
"W-what? When did this happen? What's going on? I'm coming back." Astrolyte said, quickly hanging up the phone before Metalina could protest.
"I need to get back to Cybertron. Right now." Astrolyte demanded, looking at Soundwave. He stared at her in confusion. "What? Why? What's going on?" He asked. "My carrier. She's really sick, Meta said she's going to offline soon. I have to get back to see her." She pleaded. Soundwave felt his spark drop into his tanks. He hesitantly nodded to her.
"Cassettes will stay here and keep out location hidden from Megatron and the others." Soundwave instructed the cassettes. They all gave Astrolyte and Soundwave quick hugs before they all exited the room. Soundwave grabbed Astrolyte's hand and they quietly snuck out of the base, avoiding all the security cameras. Once outside the base the two headed for the space bridge. When they reached it Soundwave plugged into the space bridge, transmitting the coordinates of Cybertron into it and starting it up. He made sure to redirect everything as to not alert Shockwave.
Lights flashed, and gears turned as the space bridge powered up. Once read the two entered,
Arriving back on Cybertron in a matter of minutes.
Looking around and scanning the perimeter, Soundwave determined Shockwave was no where to be found in the lab that harbored the other end of the space bridge. The two quickly found their way out and headed for the hospital.
