{...} Comm/call
Angel was at a loss for words, her father was alive and he was none other than the mech that killed her mother. He starred at her and her at him, as if they were both trying to peer into each others souls. She couldn't believe it, in fact she didn't believe it, her father died years ago, she saw his body in the morgue, she watched him get buried underneath the ground, she cried over his death.
He tried to reach for her but she backed away and he frowned a bit. He reached for her again but she did the same.
"Don't touch me." She said harshly.
"I just... It's been so long my little Angel.
"I am not your little Angel, not anymore."
"You've always been my little Angel, why would that change." He asked, a bit hurt.
"You killed my mother, countless others and have the tenacity to ask WHY!" She may of been small compared to him but her voice was stronger than ever "I should be the one asking Why! If you hate humans so much, then why are you here?" Angel yelled at him. turning into AngelWing so she could get into his face more. He backed up surprised at her transformation, but noticed the device on her wrist.
"Because I had no other planet to go to!..." He shot back, making her back up. "I was know throughout every planet, every solar system as a killer, earth was so primitive in it's thought and ways, it was the only place I could go for safety, I found it only made me hate humans and the cybertronians who chose their path even more." He said calmer now.
"Then why did you let mom live so long if you hated the species she chose?" He didn't speak and she looked at him. "You loved her didn't you?" His eyes never changed from hatred when he looked up to her.
"I never loved your mother!... I only let her live when she became pregnant with you, I may be a ruthless killer, but I will not harm a child, especially my own."
"You never left though." She said calmer... He held out his servos and sighed as if remembering a memory.
"I was going to, but when I got the call that your mother was in labor I decided to go along with it, and then... and then I held you in my arms, your radiant beauty reflecting everything good, you were a child born of me, evil. But yet you looked so clean and innocent. I loved you the moment I set eyes on you and I-I couldn't leave, not for a second." He retracted his hands and set them to his side while drooping his head.
"If you loved me you wouldn't of faked your death, nor would you have killed mother." She said venom, dripping from her words.
"I had to, I had my duties to attend to."
"YOUR Duties Of What!? Killing Innocent Lives, hurting people who just wanted to start over?"
"YES!" Tears threatened to fall but she held them back. "I am you father and I still love you." He said kinder but still with a harsh voice.
"My father died 8 years ago." She went to walk away but he grabbed her arm.
"You can join me, we can rule together, Father and Daughter side by side, ruling the planet.. the universe." She shot her hand back and glared at him.
"You had your chance, sixteen years you had it, but you failed and decided that doing what you wanted was more important than doing what you needed..." Sadness etched its way to his optics but it went away and turned to rage.
"DeathRay..." The mech nodded and grabbed AngelWing from behind.
"Let go!" She screamed and kicked at him but it was no use, he had a death grip on her and she was facing away from him so that her her kicking was weak. "SOUNDWAVE!" She screeched trying hard to escape his grasp. "SOUNDWAVE! HELP!... You can't do this, I have rights."
"Maybe with others, but not me... Take her to the brig... And take off that shifter cuff." DeathRay took her bracelet off making her human as he carried her down to a basement and threw her into a cell. He slammed bars shut and locked it up.
"Sad you chose this path, you could've been with your father and I could've been with you." She spit near his pede and glared at him. "No matter, I'll get you either way..." She looked at him curiously, but didn't let the anger fade. ''See you're a great bargaining chip. If I show your sire that I am willing to kill you he will have no choice but to give me what I want... Even though after I finish off the last of the humanforms, I will be getting a spot near his throne when he gets the universe, but with you, I'll get the throne and finally I can become the most feared mech in all the universe." Angel shot up from her spot and grasped her hands around the bars scaring DeathRay a bit at her tenacity.
"I will not become your bargaining chip."
"You will if I make you."
"You can try all you want, you will not lay a digit on me!" He smirked and walked off, leaving Angel to herself. When he was gone Angel backed up until she hit the corner of the wall, she then crumbled to the floor and let the tears freely flow down. "SoundWave, please save me."
SoundWave fell back with a thud, his head and body hurting from the sudden unexpected travel. When he opened his eyes back up he saw that he was right back were him and Angel began, his alt-form.
"No, nonononono." He shouted kicking his jet harshly gaining a sharp pain in his side. Even though he was trapped in his holoform he was still connected to his alt-form allowing any pain it endured to transfer to him. But at the time he could care less, in fact he kept banging and hitting the lone jet until he fell to the ground in pain tears threatening to fall.
He didn't know what this feeling was, but it was overwhelming, and just by thinking of Angel it got stronger. When his strength came back the Decepticon communications officer pushed himself off the ground and took in a deep breath. Before he could do anything else his phone rang and he answered it.
{SoundWave Where Are You! Megatron Is Having A Fit About You Not Deciphering The Coordinates!} he pulled the phone away at StarScream's screeching voice. {If You Don't Get Back Here Within Moments You're Going To Become A Pile Of Scrap!} The Decepticon SIC went on and on about the same thing and then eventually went into how if he didn't get back 'he' would be getting the brunt end of Megatrons anger issues. That's when SoundWave snapped, not caring about the recordings he shouted back.
{Go tell Megatron to crawl back to the pit he came out of! I'm Done, Through, FINISHED!}
{Wha- What do you mean?} StarScream asked taken back.
{Listen Carefully..." he said in a slow and shallow voice. {I QUIT!} Before StarScream could protest SoundWave hung up and threw his phone away from himself so that he wouldn't have to hear the ringing ever again. He thought about what he had just said, did he just really quit the Decepticon forces? After all these years of being Megatron's most loyal Comrade he just quit?
At least there was one thing he knew, if he ever went back to them he would be in a deep pile of trouble, maybe even offlined if Megatron was feeling generous that day. He sighed deeply and looked to the ground, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't go back to the Decepticons, and he couldn't even use his alt-form to save Angel, due to the fact that when a bots holoform is locked the ability to use their alt-form is prohibited as well. He leaned his head against the jet and then let his body go limp, he didn't know what to do, he felt lost, he never felt lost, he always knew everything, every little detail of everyone's lives, and right now, he didn't even understand anything of his.
A horn honked behind him and he looked to see a familiar looking girl getting out, he believed her name to be Macy. She had worry covering her face like a mask that you could not see through.
"Where's Angel, when I got told a lone jet was out here I came straight away." She said looking him straight in the eyes. He didn't answer though, he didn't even know where Angel was, so what was the point? "Talk to me SoundWave, I know you're not mute." He turned his full body towards her and sighed.
"I... do not know where she is."
"Do you have a guess as to where she might be."
"No." Was all he could reply.
"Sheesh, you look and sound like you just dragged through death itself."
"I feel like it." They stood there in silence not knowing what to say to each other, that was until Macy spotted something on the ground a few feet from SoundWave. She walked over and picked it up to see that it was a cellphone, most likely his.
"Can't you track hers?" She asked handing him back his phone and he looked to her with hope filling his eyes. He took his phone and glided his finger over it for a few moments before smiling and pressing down on a small button. A little circle started to blink and his smiled grew wider as Macy peered over his shoulder to see what made him so happy. "Is that little blip her?"
"Yes, and she's nearby."
"Well then what are we waiting for!" Macy rushed to her car and jumped in.
"What do you think you're doing?" He asked folding his arms and allowing his armor to sweep over him making him seem fierce and cold.
"Saving my best friend."
"I don't think so, the mission is too dangerous for a human." Macy laughed a bit letting out a subtle snort.
"For a human, what would you call yourself?"
"Highly advanced in skills you only wish existed."
"I'm still going, Whether you like it or not." She crossed her arms and glared down at him letting her sarcasm to disappear. They starred at each other for a while before SoundWave sighed and let his arms go limp.
"Fine, but I'm driving."
"Fine." She shot back.
"Fine." He also shot back. Macy moved from the drivers seat and allowed SoundWave to take over. When he got in he put his hands on the wheel and looked around. There was just one problem, he didn't know how to drive a car. After a few silent moments he figured out he had to turn the key to start the car, he then did a few more things before pressing on the gas pedal, a little to hard. The car jerked forward making him slam on the breaks allowing the car to suddenly stop. He did it again and again until Macy, who was now getting car sick, turned to him and raised a brow.
"You don't know how to drive a car... Do you?" He shook his head and she rolled her eyes at him. "Get out, I'm driving." He did as she said and got into the passenger seat, a bit embarrassed at the little accident. "Watch a professional." She flipped a switch allowing the sound of sirens to come on before pressing down on the gas and exceeding 70mph+.
"What do you want to do with her?" DeathRay asked his leader.
"I do not know at this point DeathRay, she is my daughter and I do not wish to harm her, I just.." Paxakon let out a deep sigh and looked at his subordinate with old weary eyes. "Maybe she was right, I should have never left her for power."
"Are you saying that you did fall for that glitch of a femme?" DeathRay said actually wondering if his master had fallen for a runaway.
"NEVER!... That femme was a thorn in my side for far to long, I should of gotten rid of her when Angel was born and then raised my daughter to be just like me."
"That would of been a good plan, yes."
"Do not mock me DeathRay, or it shall be your dead shell I have next."
"Yes Sir." DeathRay looked around not knowing what to say. "Paxakon. If I may ask, how do you plan on taking over the universe."
"A very different question DeathRay." The older bot walked to a covering sheet and pulled it off, revealing a sketch of Cybertron and the other planets around it. "In the heart of our now dead planet, and the others, dead or alive. There are certain relics, ancient relics created by each of planets species long ago when they all had communicated with each other peacefully. Each one holds the power to restore the planet to it's previous glory, unless it is far beyond repair, like out planet. But still the devices if all gathered and put together to form one become so powerful that whoever wields it has the power of the universe."
"Have you gathered the other relics?"
"Yes, why do you think I am banished from all other planets, I have stolen what they believed to be theirs." He pulled off another cover to show different objects that gave off a limited glow.
"Have you found earths?"
"No, nor Cybertrons... When the cybertronians who were under my command left I learned that one of them were carrying the relic of cybertron with them... That is why I am killing them, so that I may search for the relic and get rid of those cowards once and for all.."
"Killing two birds with one stone,"
"..Once I find the last two I shall put them all together and." He let out a deep chuckle as the red in his eyes shined brighter. "I shall rule the universe, with every being and alien working for me, trapped by my endless power." DeathRay joined in the laughter for a while before retreating back to his makeshift berthroom.
"Fool." He said to himself so low that not even he could hear it. "You think you are so smart, for I." he pulled out a metal box and opened it to reveal another lightly glowing object. "Have the Earth relic, all I need is Cybertrons and to acquire the rest and I shall finally retrieve what is rightfully mine." He let out a quiet but harsh chuckle setting the relic back inside the box and closing the lid until it was needed again.
SoundWave watched the little blip on his screen stay still, it had been thirty minutes since he had located her and not a single movement. As he did so, the silence between him and Macy grew larger, both really weren't in the talking mood, all they wanted to do was rescue their friend.
"It's kinda weird how a simple investigation turned into all this." Macy finally said trying to break the silence and SoundWave just nodded not taking his eyes off of the phone screen. "You know she's prbably not going anywhere, you can look somewhere else." He just nodded again. "Your not even listening are you?" Nothing. She let out an annoyed sigh and looked to the road, it was a long drive, long desolate drive to nowhere. "Soooo, we almost there?" She asked looking towards his phone.
"Left." Was his reply and by the way he spoke she could tell something was weighing heavily on him.
"Wanna talk about it."
"No." He shifted in his seat trying to get rid of the numbness that was forming in his butt. "Right." She took a sharp turn and looked back at the phone.
"By the looks of it, we're almost there." She said gazing at the blip.
"STOP!" Macy looked up to see that she moving way to fast and was about to hit an oncoming semi. She slammed on her brakes making them screech loudly which in turn made the semi stop abruptly. She looked out the window to see an african-american man in a nice suit getting out.
"What in Sam Hill is going on here?" He asked walking up to her and SoundWave, which he only needed to get one look at the man to know who it was.
"Sorry sir, we're just in a hurry." Macy said biting her lip. The man, also known and Agent William Fowler looked to SoundWave and raised a brow.
"Are you two going to a costume party or something, cause halloween is still a ways away."
"No... He's uh, he's... He's testing out a new suit from our facility... New ya know, not known to anyone yet. Ya." She pursed her lips and looked to him with the 'please believe me' look. Before the man could answer his phone rang and he answered it.
{What Prime?} He asked.
"Who's prime?" Macy asked SoundWave leaning over to him and the armored man felt his heart rate spike.
{He's Who!?} The man looked towards SoundWave and the former con reached his foot over to the drivers side, before Macy could react he jabbed his foot down onto the gas pedal making the car harshly push forward. Macy grasped the wheel and swerved out of the way before she hit the semi's cab.
When they were a ways away SoundWave took his foot off of the pedal and allowed Macy to take over.
"What the heck was that!? Were you trying to get us killed or something!?"
"No... But that was a government agent and one of his comrades Optimus Prime. Last thing I need is those two taking me hostage."
"What do you mean by that?"
"That's a matter for another time, right now we need to worry about rescuing Angel, and nothing else." He said harshly and Macy shut her mouth, there was just something about his words that said he was serious.
"We're here." He said calmer and she stopped the car. When they were out the two gaped at the sight before them. It was a large abandoned mill factory, large enough to fit a small clan of transformers. They heard weapons on-lining behind them and turned around to see a large black bot with one red strip running down his left side pointing two fusion guns at them.
"Oh-ho-ho, bad mistake." They looked at each other with worry before looking back at the two guns that were glowing a ferocious red, ready to obliterate them.