Soundwave turned away from Slipstream. His cracked visor was starting to annoy him. He touched his visor, feeling the several cracks on it.

Slipstream walked over to Soundwave, looking at his visor. "It looks pretty banged up. You don't have any medical stuff on you by any chance?" she asked, observing the cracks on the visor.

Soundwave said nothing, and kept walking towards the direction he wanted to go in.

Slipstream scoffed and fell into step next to Soundwave, "You're just going bear with it? Did you forget to de-frag your hard drive or something?"

Soundwave just looked at her, and kept walking off at the same direction.

Does he even know where to start? Slipstream thought in confusion. She placed on hand at the back of her neck, and followed Soundwave. A few minutes later, Slipstream broke the silence between them. "Do you even know where you are going? Or are you just improvising?" she hissed, crossing her arms in anger.

Soundwave stopped and looked at her. He could barely see her face through his visor. He looked down at the ground, which is all what Slipstream needed to know what he meant.

"At least you came to your senses." Slipstream nodded one time, and looked around the area, "I know this place well sort of. I've been hiding here for a while, so I think I know where we can take refuge. Follow me." She walked off the opposite direction Soundwave was heading. He had no idea where he was, so he followed her. He was wondering where she was taking him, but he did not argue; nor did he want to.

Slipstream led Soundwave to a crahed ship known as the Harbinger. She looked at the ship, and walked inside. Soundwave slowly followed, unsure what to think of it. As Slipstream walked deeper into the ship, Soundwave discovered a used cloning room. There were five slots where protoforms were supposed to be in, but they were gone. He wondered if someone has been in the Harbinger before. He walked into the cloning room, searching the area. He looked at the cloning equipment, and observed it. He would've scanned it, but he could barely see. Before he found the button to turn it on, Slipstream called him over.

"Soundwave, come here!" Slipstream cried, and Soundwave looked at the cloning equipment one last time until he left the cloning place and walked into the room where Slipstream was. "What were you doing?" she crossed her arms in curiosity.

Soundwave said nothing.

"Fine, be that way." Slipstream growled, and turned to a medical berth. "I think I found the right tools to patch up your visor. I'm not a medical bot, but I think it's easy enough."

Soundwave hesitated to get onto the berth, but he told himself he had nothing to lose. He already lost his T-Cog and Lazerbeak. The only thing that he can lose is his spark, but now, he's starting to not care if he loses his spark since there's really nothing for him to live other than serve Megatron. He lied down on the berth, looking up at the ceiling.

Slipstream rummaged through a tool box, and got out a lighter of some sort. She turned it on, and flames blew from the nozzle of the lighter. "Don't worry, Soundwave. It's probably going to hurt…A lot." she said, and moved the flames closer and closer to Soundwave's visor.

But Soundwave wasn't an organic that leaks from their optics when they feel pain. He just laid there, ready for the fire to spread onto his visor. But when the flames touched his face, it didn't hurt at all. In fact, he felt numb. He looked at Slipstream, wondering if she was doing the procedure incorrectly. When he looked at Slipstream, from the corner of his optic, he noticed that she was leaning on his chest where Lazerbeak used to be. He wanted to push Slipstream off of him, but she had a lighter with her; one false move and it can get onto one of his servos. So, he just laid there motionless.


He must've fell into stasis because he didn't have any memory of what happened after that. He looked through his visor and saw that the cracks that used to be there were gone. Slipstream must've fixed it. He looked around to find her, and noticed that she was in stasis in the corner. She was curled up into a little ball, enjoying her stasis nap. Soundwave silently walked out of the Harbinger, and looked at his surroundings. He began to think it was time to move on. He walked back to Slipstream, and held her shoulder. He gently shook her to wake her up.

Slipstream's optics opened, and she looked at Soundwave. "I see you enjoyed your stasis nap." she said, and stood up from where she was sleeping.

Soundwave looked towards the entrance to the Harbinger.

Slipstream already knew what he was thinking. "Leave? Now? Soundwave, I think you should recharge your circuits here for a solar cycle or two." Slipstream explained, stretching out her servos.

Soundwave didn't favor this one bit, but it would give them some shelter if any Decepticons came to the area to find him or Slipstream. He nodded one time, and walked off into a room he didn't explore before. It was a simple quarters with a berth and everything in a regular quarters. He quickly walked back out of the room. He walked out of the Harbinger, and looked around once again. He scanned the area with his visor. He was glad to see things clearly once again.

Back inside, Slipstream entered the cloning room. She looked around the place. The one thing that caught her eye was the empty protoform pods. Imagine, she thought, my brethren came from here. She looked at the cloning equipment from a good distance. She can clearly imagine Starscream turning on the cloning machine to make five more of his clones. As if more than eight clones were not enough for him, Slipstream thought, and felt the Decepticon keyboard with her fingers. As she was about to turn it on, Soundwave walked in. She quickly turned around to look at the Spymaster. "I was just…Tinkering with the cloning equipment." she said, looking back at the keyboard.

Soundwave just stared at her red optics. He recorded her last sentence, and repeated the recording back to her, "I was just…Tinkering with the cloning equipment."

"What do you think I was doing? I don't really have the energon or the protoforms to make my own clones, you know?" Slipstream hissed, crossed her arms, and looked away from Soundwave. She couldn't help but glance back at him to see what he was doing.

Soundwave just stood there motionless. His visor was blank…As if he was thinking of something.

"What are you doing now?" Slipstream asked.

In Soundwave's mind, he was thinking about Starscream. Slipstream just kept on reminding him of the rogue Decepticon. The same eyes…The same wings…The same personality: Sassy. He could tell she was Starscream's clone, but she felt different from Starscream; besides the fact that she was a femme and Starscream was a mech.

"Would you stop standing there? Why don't you go and listen to some Autobot transmissions? Isn't that what you do?" Slipstream asked, and turned her back on him.

Soundwave actually did what Slipstream said, and he began listening to Autobot transmissions. A few minutes later, he found a com link that was currently connecting Arcee and Bulkhead.

"What should we do with this thing?" Arcee asked to Bulkhead.

"It's Lazerbeak, Arcee. Soundwave must be trying to find his mini-con by now. Maybe we can put it to some good use." Bulkhead replied.

"How? It's not like he'll go out of his way just to find this stupid drone that doesn't look like it's even online still." Arcee groaned.

"Trust me, Arcee. Lazerbeak and Soundwave go way back. Ratchet told me he went to save Lazerbeak even though he was about to rip Wheeljack's spark out." Bulkhead explained.

"Huh. Well, what do you think we should do?" Arcee asked in curiosity.

"Maybe we can put a virus into it like what Ratchet did. Then, we can gain information on every single Decepticon activity straight from the Nemesis! I'm sure Soundwave will return back to Megatron as always." Bulkhead answered.

"Well, that wrecker is wrong, isn't he?" Slipstream asked. Soundwave turned his head to look at the seeker. "Now that you know what they're planning to do to your precious mini-con, how are you going to save Lazerbeak from the Autobots without receiving the virus?" she asked, crossing her arms. "It doesn't even seem wise for you to rescue your drone. I'm sure you can build yourself a new Lazerbeak."

Soundwave ignored Slipstream's last comment, and exited the Harbinger.

Slipstream softly scoffed, and quickly followed the Decepticon. She tugged on Soundwave's arm in astonishment, "You're not going to find the Autobots, are you?"

Soundwave turned around to look at Slipstream. He nodded one time, and walked off. He began scanning the area to find out where he was. A few minutes later, he started walking towards the certain coordinates he set.

Slipstream sighed, and followed Soundwave. "Hey, you still need to help me find my missing wing tip!" she shouted, clenching her fists.

Soundwave didn't stop walking to reply to Slipstream.

Slipstream groaned in anger. Her wings drooped, and she kept on following Soundwave down the path, wondering if he chose the right decision to attack the Autobots without his weapons. Should I even unlock them out of stasis? I still cannot trust him. But, I could use him to my advantage, she thought, and fell into step beside Soundwave. She looked at his visor, reading the coordinates. "You don't even know if that is the right place to find even one Autobot!" Slipstream grunted, and looked away from him.

Soundwave rechecked his coordinates, and looked at Slipstream. He nodded his head, and looked at the rocky ground beneath his stabilizing servos.

"Whatever. It's not like I have anything to do besides find Starscream and rip out his spark." Slipstream replied.

At least we have something in common, Soundwave thought.