Rocks crumble and fall to the ground as Arcee move the rocks to free Soundwave. She's not sure what is compelling her to free this 'Con but she's doing it. She keeps digging and shuffling through the rocks as more and more of Soundwave's body come into view until Soundwave's body is out far enough where she can pull him out from under the pile. She uses all the strength she can muster to drag Soundwave over to one of the nearby rock piles and gently sets him up against it. Once he's set up she takes a look at his body to examine the damage, he is out cold but is still online which makes her feel relieved. But why is she feeling relieved he's still alive? I mean he has saved her, from Knockout twice and just now from the rocks, but he's still a 'Con. So why is she so concerned? Must be the Autobot in her, she's very tough and can be mean but she also can be very kind and caring.
She continues to examine him and sees dents and scratches all over his body, and a deep gash on the top of his left arm. The piece of armor sticking out from his right shoulder is bent in and she notices another deep gash going across his right shoulder to the end where the armor connects with his neck cables. She looks to his helm and only sees scratches and a couple of small dents, nothing that can do serious damage to his processor. She sees there's a big crack on his visor and a bit of it chipped off. She starts feeling a bit bad because she knows he got all this damage because he saved her life, he pushed her out of the way and got buried under the rocks. Why a Decepticon would do such a thing for an Autobot was beyond her, but she knew she had to return the favor and do whatever she could to save his life.
With that in mind, she gets her small medkit out of her subspace and begins with stopping the Energon leaking out from the gashes. Once the Energon stops leaking out she moves on to the wires sticking out and sparking slightly. She grabs her flashlight from the kit so she can see better and she carefully sets the wires back into place, she knows with one wrong move or the slightest misplacement could cause a malfunction in his right side where he will have trouble using that arm and shoulder. Once she's done with the wires she grabs the wielder from her medkit and starts wielding the metal back together.
When Arcee gets halfway through the wielding Soundwave jolts awake causing Arcee to stop wielding and pull back before she accidentally wields her hand to his shoulder. She then pushes Soundwave back against the rock pile as she saddles him, trying to hold him still to keep him from moving so he doesn't worsen his injuries.
"Soundwave, I need you to hold still!"
Soundwave looks at her then looks at his right shoulder, he does an internal scan and finds all sorts of injuries. He notices the state his visor is in but he's not too concerned with it right now. He then hisses when he feels a really bad pain and some burning on his shoulder, he looks and sees Arcee wielding his wound.
"What happened?" Soundwave asks in a voice that Arcee doesn't recognize. Arcee stops wielding and looks at him in surprise, "What?" Soundwave asks in confusion.
"You're using a different kind of voice. Is that your voice?"
Soundwave is shocked at the realization that he used his own voice. He didn't even know he was, he hadn't used his real voice in a long time. The last time he spoke was before the war, once the war started and he changed his body form he vowed to stay silent until the war ended. But he just broke that vow in front of the femme he loves, "Yes, it's my voice."
"Huh, I have to say I like that one more than your fake ones." The words slipped out of Arcee's mouth before she could stop herself. She just widened her optics in shock and went back to wielding, hoping he would just forget she said that.
But Soundwave wasn't gonna forget something like that. He just got a compliment from the femme he loves, he's for sure gonna treasure this moment. He decides not to say anything in fear of ruining this moment and just watches her finish wielding his shoulder.
"To answer your question, you were buried under a pile of rocks after you pushed me out of the way to save my life."
"Oh yeah, now I remember. It was all a bit fuzzy but I remember now." He says as he looks down and finally comes to the realization that she's sitting on him right over his cable area. He feels a blush creep onto his cheeks as he wonders why he didn't notice before that she was sitting on him like this. He should have sensed it, especially seeing that she's so close to him. Is he paralyzed?
He starts moving his legs and once he feels them move he feels relieved that he is not paralyzed. It must be because his processor was all fuzzy and he's still trying to comprehend what's going on. He's just glad his visor is still covering his face enough to where Arcee can't see his blush. He notices his spark rate picking up and his helm starting to spin as he watches Arcee work. He wants her so badly it hurts. He would never want to hurt her but since Megatron gave him the demand to mate with her he'll have to do it.
The moment he was so much enjoying was soon over as Arcee finished wielding his shoulder and she got up to move over to his left side. Sure she was still really close to him but he still hated that she moved. He continued to watch her as she started working on the gash on his arm, "What are you gonna do about your visor?" He heard Arcee ask which brought him out of whatever trance he was in.
"Huh?"
"What are you gonna do about your visor? It seems really damaged."
"I'm gonna fix it myself."
"Can you even see?"
"I can see a bit but not all that well."
"Want me to help?"
"I appreciate the offer but I rather fix my visor myself."
"Fair enough." Arcee says not wanting to push it. She's been slowly learning how Soundwave operates and one thing she's learned about him is that he doesn't like any bot messing with his visor. Her attention was taken from the gash on his arm to his face when she heard a clicking sound and she sees him beginning to remove his visor. Soundwave is hesitant but he manages to bring himself to take it off. Arcee gets her first good look at his faceplate and she's astonished at what she sees.
This mysterious mech that always hides his face behind a visor has such a smooth and beautiful face. Makes Arcee wonder why he hides it behind that visor. Soundwave looks over at her and she sees his optics which happen to be purple, she's surprised as she thought his optics would be red like the other Decepticons. Though come to think of it not all of them has red optics, Breakdown's optics are yellow and Airachnid's optics are pink. Now she knows that Soundwave's optics are purple, and a beautiful shade of purple too.
She looks away from his face and back to the wound she's working on as she realizes she was staring too long. She just hopes Soundwave didn't notice and that he doesn't notice the little blush that started tinting her cheeks. She's starting to see Soundwave in another way and she's kicking herself for that. HE'S STILL A DECEPTICON! Arcee yells to herself as she shakes off whatever feelings she might be getting for this mech.
Soundwave did notice her blush and the way she looked at him but decided not to say anything and just looked at his visor to see how he can fix it. He tried to focus on his visor but his processor kept drifting to the femme next to him and he started wondering how she got into the war, "Arcee if you don't mind me asking. How did you get into the war? What made you become a soldier?" He asks out of complete curiosity. He wants to get to know her more and sees this as the perfect opportunity to, hopefully.
Arcee looks up at him for a brief moment then looks back to his arm. She starts debating with herself if she should answer the question. Why would he ask that? No doubt to get dirt on her that he could use later. But he's the eyes and ears of the Decepticons so he could easily find out anything. All she can think about is what kind of game he's playing and why he would want such info.
"I know you don't trust me and I don't blame you, we're enemies after all. But I give you my word, I'm asking out of pure curiosity and just wanting to get to know you better. I won't reveal anything we say in this cave." Soundwave speaks up after a moment of silence.
Arcee looks at him suspiciously, she has trouble believing that. But after looking at him for a moment and studying him she sees that he is sincere. Though she also knows the Decepticons are really good at faking sincerity. But no matter how hard she tries she can't get rid of this feeling that she should tell him everything, just tell him her whole life story. Even though she doesn't fully trust him. She shakes her head, "Not to seem rude but I'm not telling you anything of my past. Not even my comrades know the full story of why I joined, so I'm sure not gonna tell a 'Con." She states as she finishes with the mending.
Soundwave gives a slight nod, "Understood..." He's disappointed she won't tell him but he's not going to push it. After all, she sees him as her enemy and nothing more, so he figured she wouldn't say anything but he thought he'd ask anyway.
"All done. Are there any other injuries that you can detect that I might have looked over?"
"There is but it's nothing serious."
Arcee just gives a nod of understanding then puts her medical supplies back into her medkit and puts it back into her subspace, then she sits next to him against the rock pile.