Author's Note: Here I go again, making random drabbles in the middle of the night.
Anywho, I want to point out that Soundwave's voice in the last chapter and in this chapter (and in any following chapter) sounds British. Don't ask me why, but I believe that he would sound awesome in a British accent. So when Soundwave talks, just imagine him speaking with a British accent.
"Soundwave, I need your help to take down the Autobot council. Do you trust me?"
Said communications officer looked up from his console and locked optics with Megatron through his visor. "I trust you Lord Megatron. What is it you require?"
Megatron studied him for a few moments before explaining his new plan to his most trusted leiutenant, "I need you to get captured by the Autobots..."
"I don't know about this. Something doesn't seem right."
"I know what you mean. It's one thing for an ordinary Decepticon to surrender, but it's something else entirely when a high ranking officer surrenders."
"Yeah...just keep close optics on him."
Both bots looked back at their newly captured prisoner Soundwave. So far, he hadn't shown any resistance, but he had startled them all by removing his mask and visor. Proof of surrender? They didn't know. Nearing the council doors, the guards stationed there did a double take and followed the small group inside, all of them just as surprised to see an unmasked Soundwave. When they reached the center of the court, the guards locked the stasis cuffs in place and saluted as Zeta Prime stepped forward.
"Soundwave? I find it hard to believe that Megatron's most loyal soldier would surrender so peacefully, let alone willingly. You do realize though that a cooperative surrender will not save you from punishment for the numerous crimes you have commited."
After a few seconds of silence, Soundwave smirked and locked optics with the Autobot leader, "Yes of course. But I'm afraid you won't be able to concede with my punishment Prime."
Both of Zeta's optic ridges raised, "Oh? And how do you figure?"
Soundwave relaxed his shoulders and glanced around at the council, "Let me put it for you simply. Every bot that I'm looking at right now is going to die. None of you are going to make it out of this arena alive. And do you know why?" He swept his optics over every mech before looking up at the night sky. "You Autobots chose the perfect place for me to launch an attack. Out in the open, no one else around...possibly the worst placed building you Autobots have. But it works in my favor, so I'm not complaining."
The guards strated fidgeting with anxiety, but Zeta Prime stood his ground, "Your words are empty Soundwave. You have no way of moving, therefore no way of hurting any of us."
Soundwave's smirk never faltered, "That is where you're sadly mistaken." With that said, his visor went back down over his optics as he muttered one last word.
"Shoot."
With the slight tilt of his head, a bullet whizzed by and struck one of the guards directly between the optics, killing him instantly. Before anyone could process what just happened, another precise headshot struck the other guard, their only form of protection aside from Zeta Prime offlined. Now all they could do was scramble to the nearest exit and hope to Primus that the enemy sniper wouldn't target them next.
Trying to escape out of the arena was useless however, as the doors had been hacked and locked, making them impossible to reopen in time.
When a loud battle cry was heard, few Autobots turned around in time to see a charging Rumble make quick work of the mass of council members with his pile drivers, leaving nothing but parts, scrap metal, and a lot of energon fluids behind him.
Through all the chaos, Ravage had seemingly come out of nowhere and started Firing missles and pouncing on any stray bot that managed to escape Rumble's charge. Laserbeak and Ratbat flew down from where they had been perched and joined the fray, Laserbeak shooting and divebombing Autobots while Ratbat landed on Soundwave's wrists and began chewing through the stasis cuffs.
By the time Ratbat managed to chew the cuffs off, the only surviving Autobot was Zeta Prime, who unfortuantely had gotten trapped under falling debris of the arena, courtesy of Rumble.
Soundwave unsubspaced his gun, allowed his flying creations to land on his other arm, and calmly strode over to where the fallen Prime lay. With Ravage, Rumble, and his sniper Frenzy at his side, he placed his Concussion blaster on Zeta's forehead and said the last words the Prime would ever hear, "With you out of the way, this war is as good as ours. The Autobots no longer have a leader, and with the last Prime not willing to take up the title, your troops will be in disarray." The blaster charged up and Soundwave casually put his finger on the trigger, "It's been fun, but it's time for this war to be won. Goodbye, Zeta Prime."
The next shot offlined the Autobot leader permanently.
Author's notes - More abrupt endings to go with random drabbles. I SWEAR 'No Mercy' will be finished eventually, but in the meantime, let's just enjoy Soundwave and his creations in all their Decepticon glory :)
Oh, and this Soundwave is mostly based on the Transformers War for Cybertron version, hence Zeta Prime being included in the story.
