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Rule of the Trines
Chapter X
"Chaos is a friend of mine"-Bob Dylan
Echo wasn't sure what she had been expecting out of this day but what she got was not exactly what she would have guessed. It started with an alarm going off during her monitor duty and refusing to turn off even though the only thing that had triggered it was Skywarp who showed up on the cameras for a fraction of a second before vanishing again. Soundwave couldn't get fixed either so that left Echo going out to attempt to manually reset it. Of course Starscream would have to be coming off night patrol while she was working on that particular system. "You could just blast it," he suggested, landing smoothly right behind her.
"It'll have to wait in line," she growled, tempted to just cut a couple wires and shut it off before Megatron came storming out.
"Behind what else?" Starscream asked and the temptation changed to finding a wall to throw him through. On the other hand she could throw him to Megatron when the irate warlord showed up out here.
"You and then Skywarp and then whoever wired this system," she replied as calmly as she could manage.
"Soundwave wired the system," Starscream informed her and she growled under her breath which made him laugh. Soundwave had officially made Echo's hit list and if she didn't get this fixed in the next two kliks he was going to have to rewire himself a new security system. "Why am I on the top of your hit list?"
"Because you're just an overall jerk," she informed him flatly, seriously considering just blasting the system now. Why wasn't Soundwave the one out here fixing this anyway. It was his system. That was when Starscream reached an arm around her and pulled something, abruptly silencing the alarm. She stared at the now quiet box with some shock for a moment before turning to face the mech who had shut it up. "Thank you," she said, surprised that she was actually sincere.
"I've had to do that more than once," he said with a shrug. "But you're welcome. Comm me if you have problems with it again." Then he was sauntering away, leaving Echo to study his retreating figure. Every time she thought she knew Starscream he did something like this and left her wondering what was going on in his processor. She let out a huff of irritation and then followed him inside, lost in her own thoughts as she kicked Soundwave out of his own office and settled back down for monitor duty again.