Title: Challenge
Universe: G1
Rating: K+
Notes: what is with me and odd kinda, but not really pairings?
They were oddly beautiful in their movements. Not like those on the field or even in normal moving; no, no he found them fascinating when their chassis were completely still. It was their cpus that he marveled at. Each attempted hack easily deflected by a new firewall procedure, a virus summoned and modified to get past the antivirus protocols, the sheer amount of code processing happening in rapid fire sequence as they fought one another on a battlefield few on either side could acknowledge and appreciate.
It was a fierce battle on Cybertron, both more then likely wired and attached to various pieces of equipment to speed up the process as they attempted to take one another down while protecting themselves as well. Building and rebuilding, destroying and deleting, finding and hiding information packets, and all of it happening in less time one normally consumes their ration of Energon. The quickness of the attacks leaving one breathless if they attempted to watch, but going unnoticed by the majority as both combatants seemed reluctant to tell about these skirmishes if it was not a clearly won battle by one side. For most of these meetings were deadlocked, neither side able to gain much but superficial data. Enough to please their respective commanders, but never anything that would truly tip the war in the favor either faction.
Then the Ark mission happened, leaving one part of the battling pair on the surface of Cybertron to harass Shockwave, and the other to earth and making due with piecing Cybertronian technology with that of the organics upon the planet and what could be gained from the cassetteicons' missions. Until contact with Cybertron had been acquired after all that time, and new soldiers were shuttled down to bolster the numbers of each side. Tentative attempts began to happen, picking up in earnest once everything had settled down from the Negavator incident. Their battle waging once again becoming more and more intricate and elaborate as the cassetteicons were added into the equation more. Almost becoming a game of a brutal and war altering one if either side slipped up just enough.
For now it was a challenge and liberation from the rest of the war and the pitfalls it brought, if the brightness of optics and faint smile of accomplishment he noticed Red Alert's faceplate a time or two after a particularly complicated assault happened. That didn't dampen but heightened a little when both had the rare opportunity to be on the battlefield at the same time. Soundwave managing to watch the security director, even as he fought against Blaster and something no one else could see passing in a brief moment as blue optics locked with red optical band.
Prowl often wondered if having to meet one another in such closeness as the security networking system over and over for such a long span of the war, if they had developed a private channel between one another. Though tactically it wasn't such a bad thing as, so far neither could out predict the other based on this as well.