Chapter 24: Truth and Mending Bonds
Not an interesting chapter it seems... or am I just thinking in between the lines too much? *turns to look at the door behind me* You guess it... I am sneaking again. XD I can't help it.
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He had lost his title and license of being a scientist, got banned from his own lab, got blamed for plagiarizing something that was originally his, got banished for being blamed about the inhumane experiment that had been uncovered from the slagger.
When he had told her about that, Shein had cried buckets load. In between wanting to kill the shitty mech that made had ruined everything for him, and worry for him that he had not felt since that happened. She didn't showed pity… she didn't pity or treated him like a broken sparkling… She just stood there, in front of him, crying out for him and giving him love that he was hesitant to reciprocate.
She was all he could ask for that one time when he spilt his spark out.
His processor couldn't take what had happened so he broke. In that broken state he was in, he did nothing but to follow and prove what he was not. He attempted for the first time to experiment on another… And when that had finished… it was like a chain reaction.
Added to his cruelty… or the Decepticons' cruelty and bad behavior was the effect of the Fallen on them. He was a really bad influence on all the mechs that she had to turn to different techniques and styles on how to reprogram their logic circuits.
Currently though, Shockwave was who he is because of what had happened. It had engraved itself into his processor that he couldn't stop even if he wants to. That is until he had met her. She was like the pill he had needed… the solution and answer… a remedy for the broken mech.
After the fallen had been off-lined, thank Primus that his hold on them and his reign had stopped.
It took her time a long time… pit… she had endured being placed on a slab and be poked and prodded as her insides were played with along with her humanity by Shockwave to cure the mech… Did she break? No. She had not. And that is why they have this strong bond of test subject and scientist that Hook was talking about. She had started working on every mech, making them better.
"I think you are due on giving me an explanation for avoiding me, dumping me after the last test and currently, staying silent as you stare at me like I am the ugliest thing in the world and you want to prod me." She pouted at him as she flop down the slab she was always placed on. It was… as to say, the cleanest part of the room like it hadn't been touched but always had been kept clean.
Shockwave sighed heavily, not even giving her joke a thought… He was then, allowing his defenses to go down for the first time as she waited patiently for him to spill out whatever it was bothering him…
"I…" The mech started making her perk up at his voice. It needed a good maintenance but she would do it later… and maybe she could take him to see Hook for his maintenance.
"…How are you?" He had changed the approach but she just got a long with it.
"I am fine. I had just finished giving the Lord my apology for not giving my greetings on his arrival. The big mech now is currently recharging like a sparkling…" She tried to enlighten his mood.
"It is given, for the Lord had been really busy for the past 2 of your human years…" Shockwave answered as he slowly cleans whatever he could grab onto while the femme watched him.
"Yeah, and I can see that each and every one of you is in a stressed state…" She sighed and folded her arms in front of her.
Shockwave didn't say anything after that. It took him half an hour to clean the lab but when he was done, it was good as new. He then sat at his chair near the sleeping femme and stared at her for a while.
"Avoidance was my answer… as confusion and fear crept into my systems." He suddenly let out a startling forced laugh. For someone who had locked his self in his own sanctuary, this was a progressing first.
"How unfitting of me to have those emotions to process… but I had come to accept that a long ago with you prodding me for those unseen by others optics…" With a sigh, his vocals suddenly started working. His courage to explain his self was building up.
"As always, this should have been one of those times you stare at me unrelenting but even with those optics of yours earlier, I can't find it in my vocalizer to tell you." His optic looked lost as if he was seeing another thing other than her.
"I will start from the beginning as to not confuse your small organic brain as you always say… If that 90% water-filled processor of yours can still remember the time you had first managed to pry for who I was, that was the beginning of this hidden oath I had come to established." He hadn't meant his sentence to be demeaning but she understood. He didn't even notice the shift she did as to get closer to his servo to give him some hidden comfort. He was so lost in trying to reason as always when she was there.
"As soon as I had created that oath, the sooner I had come to break it." He sighed again and saw that she had moved closer to his servo. Deciding that she must have been trying to find a comfortable spot, he scooped her up and let her sleep on his hand, curled in a tight ball with his thumb-like digit acting as her huggy pillow.
"I had come to fear of what you would perceive of me once you had found out what I had done to you. The trust you had given me was clearly in a string that I am not willing to break." He used his other servo to pry her body to a more fitting resting position.
"The want for it had overcome the moral I had gained again… for the first time, with a clear processor, I had wanted this…" He brushed his digit on her falling arm to tuck it back. He sighed heavily again. Trying to ask forgiveness from the femme when he knows that he wasn't worthy for it.
"You have done so much, youngling… so much. And here I was, reciprocating it with something you wouldn't have liked." That was all he could say before his frame jerked in surprise when she latched onto his servo that was moving her and latched into it even with the claws.
"You know, I can't still wrap my head around the fact that you are another chatter box if you want to." She giggled as she smiled up at him with sleepy eyes. Shockwave on the other hand had turned to a stone rock again. Yeah, way to break the mood but this was their unique relationship.
"Back to your insecurities about me going bonkers… you already did, you know!" She pouted. Her outburst caused him to query on how come which made her even more pout.
"The 'duck face' you call is still not befitting you…" Shockwave pointed out making her smile. She ignored it and continued.
"You had already made me bonkers, Shocky… You had made me worry most whenever I get a chance to think for myself; that maybe, I had done something to make you so sensitive of me that you avoid me like a plague." She answered him while she shrugged to the side.
"Whatever that you had done, I'm okay with it as it always had… Whatever it is, you did it with a reason… Whatever it is, I accept it as if it was my birthday gift…" She gave him a grin which was returned with a deadpan look from him.
"You had gained all my trust as you trusted me with your own secret." She nudged him to take her closer to his face plates and he did.
"Even if you are a gazillion times older than me… You are my friend, now and forever. We may have ups and downs sometimes but with sincere talking and an understanding ear or audio receptor… I know that this will go all the way." She then, looked up at him with the warm smile he had missed.
"But be warned though… I think Hook is planning on taking your spot since he saw our fall out… he had been jealous over our secret relationship for so long that he wouldn't think twice of jumping at the opportunity to replace you…" She snickered with mirth.
"Something about replacing you as the scientist our relationship." she patted the mech when he raised an optic ridge in ridicule.
"He has his own bond with you, why would he want mine?" The mech played along, the tension in his frame was now gone making her quite happy that everything has been resolve. She won't let all her hard work on him be just a fluttering feather…
"You tell me… you are the scientist here…" She grinned at him which he shook his head in mirth.
"Always?" He assured… Maybe he just wanted to hear her but he knows that she would.
"Yep… Always!" She confirmed. With that, they were happy again but she just had to give the mech a whack in the helm as she threw her flip flops at him which he accepted wholly.
Yeah, what a weird bond they have created, huh? …But a bond nonetheless.
"Now… have you got a call from our dear Communications Officer?" Shockwave composed himself to his stoic evil scientist figure but a little less than what he shows others. He opened the subject about Soundwave making her quirk in curiosity as to what were the two talking about these days without her knowledge.
When the femme had started connecting them, forming bonds between and among the whole Decepticon faction, Shockwave and Soundwave got a long although both mechs talk in silence. It was an odd relationship, but a relationship nonetheless…
"Uhm… None as of now… Why?" She asked as she saw his optic dim in the light, meaning that he was in contact with the other said mech.
Since Soundwave was needed on the planet, she hasn't seen her since he had gone, although, there was that time when she had met Gould in pure coincidence, still a horrifying memory that she likes to repeat in order to terminate him. She was so close last time if the Lord hadn't been watching them.
"I think you wouldn't be just fixing and clearing bonds… but also reassuring others…" The Con chuckled making her even more puzzled. What was with these mechs until lately? Soundwave could have given him a text or something if he had really wanted to…
"Uhh… ok… tell him, I'll be there… just let me take my recharge…" She told him which he nodded to.
She started to walk to the door after a goodbye. She was now happy that everything was fixed now with her and him. But before she could forget… a smirk made its way on her face.
"I'll be pinning Hook of your well needed maintenance, Shocky!" She called out before the door closed. She giggled when she heard the said mech curse.
Yeah… everyone on the base just loves their medic…
Shocking revelation that Shock has a dark past in my fic. I say that all villains, psychos and creeps have a somewhat tragic story that they hadn't been able to handle because of certain facts and certain transcending events. XD
I always wanted to take Psychology... -_- but I pursued something different.