Transformers A to Z

by FromHakaryou

Parts of a possibly on-going challenge. Challenge was to write a short fic using the first letter of the transformers name as a word for the theme of the fic. Hard to explain, you'll just have to read.

4. Soundwave

Seclusion (Soundwave)

1. Alone

2. In a state of isolation from others, be it physically, mentally, or emotionally.

I could hear them talking behind my back, and I already knew the rumors they spread. It was hard not to know when I had been exposed to them all my life. I was unknown to them, a foreign obscenity over which they could not wrap their central processors. In a society preened to be perfect, a minute glitch or a returning, persistent malfunction was unacceptable. To exhibit such behavior was to label oneself an outcast. Our society was supposedly so advanced that such system malfunctions made one less sentient. Less than good enough.

There was nowhere I could go for comfort, no place that I could find solace. I was alone in my own home for I was a disgrace to my parents. My birth had sullied their good name. I had brought nothing but humiliation and it seemed that it would never be any different. To my young central processor it seemed unfair that I was to be subjected to a function cycle such as this. All because I had the ability to store life within my chassis. I had no gender chips what-so-ever, and therefore I was expendable and disgraceful.

Unlike my peers my difference did not make me special - it cursed me to an endless cycle of seclusion.