Chapter 3
Soundwave entered his room, glad that his shift was over for the day. He was unusually busy as of late. The intelligence officer had three times as much paper work to do, suddenly had to take tally of the energon stock pile by himself, do head count of the troops because there had been even more conflicts with the autobots lately, and go through the entire data base to do updates. The poor bot barely had enough time to look for the heir to the Decepticon Empire. He looked around the room only to see that a certain young femme was missing. Peering into the closet that he had cleared out for Magma Fire so that she would have a little makeshift bedroom, he saw that she wasn't in there either. It was barely big enough to fit a berth and a computer in it. Then he realized that she must be in her special spot.
He crossed the room to his desk, where right next to his chair was a little cubbyhole the he figured was latched from the inside. He knocked on the door and heard faint sounds of someone moving about inside before the inner latch clicked, signaling that the door had been unlocked. Then the lava orange optics he had become accustom to seeing peered out of the little crack the now slightly agar door had created.
"Hey Soundwave." The now teenage Magma Flare greeted. Compared to a human she would be at least 13 years of age.
"I figured that you would be in here since you were not in your room." Soundwave said as he removed his face mask. She came out of her cubby and stood up, she was now as tall as the silent mech.
"So, when are you going to go take me flying?"
"As soon as we drink our evening energon." Sound wave told her as he went over to the energon cabinet and took out two medium sized cubes. They quickly drank them down, and once Soundwave had done a quick scan of the ship they made their way to the runway on the top. It was a fairly good sized runway, about the size of a human air ship carrier. Once on top the two transformed and took off. The two of them did multiple different maneuvers and at times they would lock themselves into a spinning climb (where they are climbing higher and higher into the atmosphere as they spin around each other).
When they finally broke that formation and evened out, both of them were laughing happily. Then something that they didn't expect to happen, well, happened. A cybertronian space craft came out of nowhere and began to shoot at them. Soundwave and Magma Flare immediately split up and flew in completely different directions. The ship turned in the direction of the teen and continued its assault. She did her best to avoid the laser blasts, but they were getting closer and closer to hitting her by the second. Just when Magma Flare thought that she would be history Soundwave blasted the space craft and flew up to meet her. He then released Laser Beak and began to attack the ship again.
The pilot knew that it was out numbered even though it was only being double teamed. Not long after the fight ensued it ended, with both Soundwave and Laser Beak blasting the fuel tanks. The ship exploded and a lone femme came hurtling from the wreckage. Somehow she was able to grab onto one of Soundwave's rear stabilizing wings. The more he tried to shake her off the tighter her grip became. That was when he noticed the slight resemblance to Megatron, although the femme was not a flier but a ground based cybertronian. He immediately flew off towards the Nemesis.
"Where in the pits of Chaon are you taking me you pit spawned fragger?!" The femme yelled as she began to beat on the rear end of Soundwave's alt mode. Megatron was right when he said that she could be quit resilient. Soundwave thought as he continued to fly. Once he made it to the Nemesis he transformed, making the femme let go and tumble across the runway. Soon after Soundwave had transformed and landed Magma Flare did the same.
"Is your name Nova Fire?" Soundwave asked the femme.
"What's it to you?" She snapped back. She looked over to Magma Flare who had been staring at her since she had landed. "And what are you staring at?"
"You look a lot like my sire."
"I don't even know who your sire is."
"Her sire is Megatron." Soundwave said. Apparently something clicked in the femme's helm because she had a slightly startled, slightly surprised, slightly shocked, and a 'finally realization just hit me' look on her face.
"You are my brother's daughter?"
"Sire had a sister?! Wait a second, is she the decepticon that you've been looking for over the past few years?"
"Upon Megatron's death I was to get his will. In it it stated that I was to look after you and find his sister, Nova Fire, because he had stated her as the heir to the Decepticon Empire."
"Ok, my big brother had a daughter, who is my niece, that I never knew about and I'm the heir to the throne. This day just keeps getting better and better." Then it looked like she finally caught something that was said. "Did you say upon Megatron's death?"
"I am afraid so."
"I can't believe that he's dead. He was so strong... how did… who did… when?"
"When I was 18 years old." Magma Flare said. That would have been at least 4 vorns ago (1 vorn= 2 human years)."
"What's a year?"
"Soundwave will tell you. I'm not even supposed to exist."
"But didn't Megatron actually want you?"
"What I mean by that is I'm not supposed to exist to the crew of the ship."
"Oh."
"I will take you in the morning to gain your post as lord of the decepticons." Soundwave told his new mistress.
"Yeah, that would be fine. I do kind of need some sleep. So who is the commander right now?"
"Starscream."
"That girly mech? Ugh, I can't stand him."
"So you know him?"
"More than anyone. I used to date him until he left me for scrap on a mission we had together. I haven't seen him since, and oh how I would like to put a few dent's into that chassis of his." Well this sure is going to be interesting. Soundwave thought as he scanned the ship to see if it was safe to bring the two femme's aboard.
