Because everyone has to have an OoC Character at least once in the story. And I'm not talking about Ravage. Review answers!
Lightning Prime: is that a good or bad 'dang'? I'm glad you like Tetra-Shadow (Name will be explained in chapter) and that the story interests you.
Answerthecall: I'm just evil on cliffhangers =D Glad you liked it!
I do not own Transformers! I am merely using the characters for my story.
Warnings: Violence due to: blood, energon, war, torture, and stubborn factions. Sexual content can, but will not exclude: Sexual jokes, sexual tension, mentions of sexual activities, the 'Talk' for both humans and Cybertronians, extreme humor during chapter breaks if possible. Borderline 'T-M' rating.
Shadow felt tears streaming down her face as she felt the visor slowly retract into her head band. She heard growling and remembered faintly that Ravage had slunk into this corner to 'mope'. Her heart stopped as she slowly turned to see the silver Cybercat snarling at her. Finally, her human brain finally clicked all of her language training in as he stalked forward two steps before crouching down.
"HUMAN! MUST EXTERMINATE ALL PESTS!"
Shadow hit the deck just as Ravage jumped, making him faceplant into the metal all behind her. 'Go to the pit kitty! I'm not joining my human parents so soon!' She thought, debating on staying in that shadows or running out in front of the cassetticons. She never got the chance as Ravage pounced on her, sending them tumbling into the light. Ravage pinned Shadow down by her shoulders and she growled herself, kicking up with her legs and making him fly off her, but not without him scratching through her shoulders. 'Damnit!' She snarled internally.
"Whoa, she was human!" Frenzy's voice said. "oh...oh slag, RAVAGE LEAVE HER ALONE!" Shadow, meanwhile, was backing up while holding her shoulders. Her clothes – due to the fact that they were her armor – was stronger than human clothes, way stronger, but Ravage had been able to get a small scratch on her right shoulder. Rumble and Frenzy rushed forward to calm the Cybercat while Laserbeak swooped down, grabbed Shadow around her abdomen, and took her up to Soundwave's berth, a place so high only Laserbeak and Soundwave could reach. The Cybercat hissed and yowled, trying to get to his prey, but was unable to do so.
As soon as Laserbeak let go of Shadow, the human shrank into the corner to the berth, looking at the cassetticons with wide, frightened green eyes. "I won't hurt you." She heard the femme click, trying to approach the human, but stopped when she sensed the human's heartbeat double. The twins finally got Ravage under and Laserbeak transported both up to the berth as well. "She smells of fear and worry."
"Are you okay?" Rumble asked, slowly approaching the human.
"Please... if you're going to do it, make it painless. It's more than I deserve." She said, hiding her face in her hands and letting her shoulder shake. The cassetticon looked at his brother and sister before Frenzy went to her and removed her hands.
"Are you hurt?" He asked. Shadow looked up in shock and moved her red-orange hair out of instinct and showed the scratch, which was now more or less a large cut. "How is it not worse?" He asked curiously as both him and Rumble looked at the wound.
"Why are you doing this?" She whispered as Laserbeak took off, grabbed something, and returned to show the thing she grabbed was a couple of rags. The three looked at her, all wondering what she was talking about. "Why are you being nice? I'm a human, you're Cybertronian. We don't mix, especially if you're a Decepticon! Why am I getting the special treatment?"
"Would you like to be slagged by Ravage?" Rumble asked shortly, embarrassed about the true answer.
"No." Shadow replied in a quick and quiet tone. What was her real name, Frenzy wondered as he gently pressed rag to her shoulder. Where did her armor go?
"What's your name?" He asked after a klick of silence.
"Erm, my adopted family calls me Shadow, but my given name is Tetra." Shadow-Tetra, or was it Tetra-Shadow, answered, squirming a bit. "You.. you aren't going to tell Soundwave, are you?" She asked, sounding even more nervous than she looked.
"You'd have to worry more about ST-3V3 than Soundwave as long as you don't leave this room without your... armor." Laserbeak answered with a few clicks. ST-3V3... Shadow blinked and realized that this was the 'Steve' they were talking about, which made her start laughing.
"Oh primus, ST-3V3 is Steve?! This day is getting better!" She said with a wide smile. It instantly dropped though. "Why aren't you going to tell Soundwave though? Aren't I a serious breach in security?" Te twins looked away, slightly ashamed while Laserbeak clicked uneasily. Something was going on.
"We... we, uh, owe you." Rumble mumbled. "If it wasn't for you, we would be in stasis until a different fleshy freed us. You just stumbled on us, didn't you? How come you have Cybertronian tech if you're just human?"
"You smell familiar." Laserbeak added. "Almost like Flamefang." Shadow winced, knowing Flamefang was Froth.
"He betrayed us for the..." Frenzy snorted, but then dropped off. "You work for the Historica faction." Shadow flinched as she heard the common mispronunciation of her factions name. "Why is there a human among the Historican?"
"Historica is the plural." Shadow snapped. "And they raised me after my creators were killed. It's the only life I've ever known." They stayed silent as Ravage stalked around the berth, his red eyes desperately trying to find a way to get to the human.
"Do you know him? Do you know Flamefang?" Frenzy asked. Shadow nodded, her hand reaching up to grasp the two necklaces around her neck. One was the tracker that let Froth know her vitals and the other was one she had since birth.
"Yeah, but he's called by a different name." Shadow answered with a smile. "He's the second in command of the Historica. My adopted father too."
"Leave it to 'Fang to become a soft-spark." Rumble snorted. Shadow frowned and shook her head.
"Actually, he's really strict. Took me forever to get him to let me spar against anyone but him and Byte." She corrected. "So... when will Soundwave get back from where ever he went?"
"Soon." Laserbeak clicked. "Activate your armor." Shadow felt her heart drop and looked at her hand.
"I... Ravage messed up the retraction system. I can't activate my armor for 72 breems. Until then, I either have to stay hidden from everybot or show myself for Soundwave as a human. I don't know what would happen if I managed to bring the system back online before the self repair was done." Shadow answered sheepishly. The casseticons shared a worried and scared look as they went to stand a half a berth away, as she could obviously understand the Cybertronian Laserbeak was speaking.
~Hope For All~
"What do you think?" Frenzy asked as they formed a triangle.
"79% chance of offlining if Tetra-Shadow manages to get systems online before self repair is finished." Laserbeak answered. "Chances of being offlined while hiding: 69%. Chances of being offlined with Soundwave knowing of her true race: 46%."
"So it sounds like boss can protect her the best." Rumble mused. "Wonder how he'll take it."
"Not good." Frenzy and Laserbeak both said. "He'll definitely distrust her, but we have to make sure she has a good reason on having Cybertronian tech and wanting to join the Decepticons besides she's a Historican." Frenzy continued.
"What about the Autobots trying to save the town, but left them there? We don't have Tetra-Shadow's last name, so he can't trace her." Laserbeak offered, feeling it was wrong, lying to their owner like this, but they all owed Tetra-Shadow so much.
"No... We haven't attacked any human towns in the past... seventeen or so earth years." Rumble groaned. "Can't we just tell him the-?"
"Chance of Tetra-Shadow online after the truth is revealed: 0%." Laserbeak answered dully. The twins slumped as their younger sister said that and looked at the human, who was looking around Soundwave's quarters as much as she could while on the berth. "Chance of Tetra-Shadow online after misinformation is given: 62%."
"You're saying there's still a chance that Soundwave would offline her?!" Frenzy snapped, looking at her instantly. "She'd be offline before our debt would be repaid." They felt their symbiont bond grow closer and Laserbeak had the twins grab either side of her wings as she picked Tetra-Shadow up – getting a human noise in response, a squeak like a glitchmouse – and deposited under the berth, making sure the twins would watch Ravage and the human as she flew out and greeted Soundwave.
"Laserbeak: Report status on femme designated as Shadow." He ordered.
"Femme is not what we expected. She has a very good reason to join despite her... disadvantage." Laserbeak answered uneasily, speaking the truth.
"Ravage: state femme's location." Soundwave ordered.
"Femme is under the berth with Rumble and Frenzy. She's a liar master! Do not trust her!" Ravage yowled, making the two cassetticon twins and human wince as the Cybercat glared at them.
"Femme, Rumble, Frenzy: come." Soundwave said, to which Tetra-Shadow hesitated. Rumble and Frenzy saw this and gently tugged her hands, pulling her with them.
"56% chance of survival if you come with us Tetra-Shadow." Rumble murmured to her. "We have a life debt to pay off to you. If we don't, we're nothing. Honor is something most 'Cons have left."
"And to be without honor is thou's worst sin, for if you have no honor, you have no soul." Tetra-Shadow quoted quietly, remembering her favorite quote from her favorite book. The twins shared a look. How did she know the quote that they lived to? "I read." She simply said, smiling at their expressions. She paused just before they were in Soundwave's view.
"Boss, we have something to... show you." Frenzy called. "Shadow and Ravage had a disagreement and Shadow's armor retracted into her subspace for self repairs." Sondwave looked at Ravage sharply, who held his head high in pride. "She really does have a good reason to join us, she just didn't know if she would be accepted without the armor."
"Soundwave: wishes to speak to femme." The tall mech stated. Tetra-Shadow looked like she was about to have a spark-attack as she slowly stepped into the light. Almost instantly, Ravage growled and hissed, getting ready to pounce. "Query: Why join?" 'Moment of truth.' The cassetticons thought. Shadow held her chin up high and looked right at Soundwave's hidden optics. They all saw deep into her unnatural green eyes as she reached up, pushing a lock of her red-orange hair out of her face. The fear and worry within those eyes made Soundwave wonder what she had to hide.
"The Autobots killed my family. I want revenge on them and the people who helped them." She answered with a murderous glint in her eyes. It actually scared Laserbeak and she clicked nervously. "Disguising as a Cybertronian seemed like a good idea until somecons decided to ruin my subspace retraction." She scowled at Ravage and hesitantly looked at Laserbeak, Rumble, and Frenzy. They were the true culprits, but she wasn't going to say that.
"Femme: human, but wishes to be Decepticon?" Soundwave asked, a sense of unease waving off of him and going to his cassetticons through their bond. To think he was under the false thought of her being a symbiont! Tetra-Shadow nodded and the elder twins relaxed their frames slightly. "Armor, destroyed?"
"No. My activated subspace has a 72 breem lock. By now, it's can't activate for another 69 breems." She answered. Soundwave quickly paused the recording he was keeping to make sure his cassetticons had nothing to do with the breem lock or if it was just a system glitch. When he turned the recording back on, he was less than pleased. "Femme: plan to offline Autobots?"
"As many as I can." Tetra-Shadow confirmed, making the three cassettes who knew her true reasons to why she was on Nemesis share a concerned look, wondering if she knew what it meant.
"Femme: Recording will be sent to lord Megatron as soon as armor is online." Soundwave finished, making all of their sparks stop. Megatron would no doubtfully offline her if he was doing a visual recording.
"Is... is the recording visual?" Tetra-Shadow said in a raspy tone. Soundwave looked down at her, his visor hiding his facial plates, which held distrust and slight revulsion as the human addressed him.
"Human: Will talk when addressed." He stated shortly. Tetra-Shadow flinched back and looked at the ground. She felt... extremely scolded, and only Froth could do that.
"But it's not a visual recording, is it boss?" Rumble asked for her.
"Negative. Vocal only." Soundwave relented. He should sell her out. He should kill her now.
So why wasn't he?
As I said, every story needs an OoC character. I just so happened to choose a main character. Anyways, review and tell me what you want to possibly see in this story, or just to say you like it!
