Chapter 20:
Soundwave's POV:
The Scraplets were removed from the ship rather quickly and the repairing started right after that as well. Starscream and Airachnid disappeared right after our little encounter. I let this not bother me more than necessary and turned my attention to the work at hand instead. I coordinated the work of the Deceptions and supervised the repairing, with a little help of Shockwave.
Everything went smooth, more or less. The only problem at the moment was the Sparkling. It looked as if the incident with the Scraplets took its toll on him as well, because there was barely a night he would recharge through. Actually there was no night he would recharge through.
He would wake up in the middle of every night and start to cry, probably from a nightmare, and he would not stop crying. No matter what I did, he would not stop and would not to back to recharge either. I played him lullabies, like the first time it happened, I told him stories – these stories were actually records from back on Cybertron, but some of them sounded so unbelievable, the could also be a fairy tale (like the humans call it) – I even rocked him and showed him movies for little human children in my visor, but to no avail.
He would keep going for the rest of the night till exhaustion got the best of him and he would fall in recharge at the beginning of a new earth day.
The result of this was accordingly no sleep – at least not much – for me either. And believe me, you do not want to deal with me when I am not recovered enough.
Thankfully Shockwave took care of Megatron too. Some nights Shockwave and I would change chambers, so I could have at least one or two nights of full rest. Although I believe he only does that, because he does not want to face me in a bad mood…
Unfortunate, Starscream and Airachnid were not smart enough to leave me alone. On some days I would honestly prefer the Scraplets before the company of these two.
Yesterday however I did not hear a single thing from Starscream or Airachnid and neither did Shockwave, but there far more important matters at hand than these two.
I was as usual at the control bridge, watching over every activity onboard, till Shockwave entered that is.
"If you do not take this little nag, I will throw him out of the ship!"
With that he shoved the little Sparkling in my arms and stormed of. Megatron looked up at me with innocent eyes as if nothing had happened.
Under normal circumstances I should be alarmed that Shockwave has threaten our leader, but since I knew Shockwave is even a worse morning con than me… give him time to fully awake or to fully recharge (that depends) and he will be his old self again... hopefully…
I just shook my head and absently patted the Sparkling's head. After a while he started sucking at my fingers – a habit he sadly accustomed to – and I was able to go back to work.
Shockwave eventually dropped by again later that day. He was just about to tell me something when a jolt went through the whole ship. We shared puzzled looks – even though he could not actually see my puzzled look – as the ship jolted once again and countless alarms popped up on the monitor.
"Commander, what is happening?", some drones entered the control bridge. "Is everything all right?"
"Probably not…", mumbled Shockwave.
Before anybot could say something else the ship started to tremble violently and a loud explosion could be heard in the distance, before the ship tilted and we had to grip on something solid so we would not fall.
"That sounded suspicious like our engine room blowing up!", Shockwave stated.
"But how could that happen? I mean the drones are working on it, are they not?"
"They are-"
"And why are we crashing then?", Starscream entered the bridge at this moment, closely followed by Airachnid.
Great! These two did just miss…
"Maybe some of our workers made a mistake! What do you think, Commander Soundwave?", one of the drones suggested.
How nice, they are actually defending me!
"Commander Soundwave? I am second in command!"
"Oh, actually we selected Soundwave to our new leader for the time being…"
"How dare you?!"
"Enough! We have more important matters at hand than the commanding Decepticon! If you have not noticed it, we are crashing on these human planet!", Shockwave almost shouted.
Starscream went absolutely silent while I stepped forward and gave my orders:
"Preparations for crash-landing… search for a fitting landing place… alarm the troops… accede navigation!"
"Yes, commander!", the drones salutes and went to their tasks.
Some of them left for telling the troops and making other preparations while the remaining looked for a possible place to land and two of them tried their best to navigate the ship.
To my utterly surprise Airachnid even helped looking for a landing place and since time was short, her help was appreciated. This time!
This chapter is a little bit late, but I was busy at the weekend... hope you can forgive me!
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