Metalsound was awoken by the sound of power tools, groaning she tried her best to block out the sounds with little success, "What are you two doing?"
"We're fixing up the Ground Bridge," Danny replies starting up a power tool. Groaning again Metalsound stretched her limbs, she preferred sleeping in her beast form. Slowly getting up she went to look for Strongarm. She soon found her in another part of the scrapyard practicing her fighting maneuvers.
Leaning against one of the shelves she watched the cadet, "Nice moves."
Strongarm turned with a startle, "Metalsound! Didn't see you there!"
"Heh, I just woke up. Had to get away from the noise."
"Have a nice sleep?"
"Yep. Them working on the Ground Bridge is what woke me up."
"Oh, sorry about that. Been getting some downtime since there hasn't been any con activity lately so they've been working on the Ground Bridge to occupy themselves. Haven't had anything since Quillfire, it's rather nice actually."
"It is rather nice, just boring. How did you sleep?"
"Pretty well."
"Have any dreams about a certain bot?" Metalsound asked softly with a mischievous grin.
"Actually, I did."
"Anything I want to know about?"
"I doubt it."
Chuckling softly Metalsound looked towards where Danny and Fixit were working, "You never did tell me how you guys got here."
"Through a Space Bridge."
"Ahh, what made you-" Metalsound stopped when she heard the explosion, "The heck is going on over there?" She quickly made her way over to the Ground Bridge with Strongarm right on her heel. By the time the two made it to their location, the Ground Bridge was working, only there was another one a short distance away.
"Should there be two portals?" Danny asked in confusion.
Metalsound felt her spark's pulse quicken as she heard a faint engine of a jet. Soundwave came through and into sight.
"Uh, who's that?" Grimlock asked in confusion.
"Soundwave," Bumblebee explained, "One of the most dangerous Decepticons there is," Metalsound stood where she was while she listened to Bumblebee, "We have to send him back."
No!
Without thinking she took a huge leap. Bumblebee felt something clamp down on his shoulder followed by an electrical surge going through his body and he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Metalsound! What are you doing!?" Strongarm asks feeling both upset and concerned. Metalsound let go of the former scout with wide optics. What did she just do? Soundwave wasted no time attacking Strongarm and Grimlock.
Once they were knocked out he moved on to pick up Bumblebee but was stopped when Metalsound stood between him and the fallen lieutenant, "Leave them, they'll-Ahhh!" She felt the electrical surge from the silent mech, "Soundwave, please! Just leave them! There's another group of Decepticons near the lake, if you find it then you can get a message to Megatron."
She fell to the ground when he stopped, her body was shaking as she saw something move in the corner of her optic. Shuddering she shook her helm, Soundwave stood in front of her before pointing to the doors. Taking the hint she slowly got up leading him to the forest, towards the Decepticon's base.
Once they were gone Fixit made his way over to the others, "Lieutenant are you alright?" He asked in concern.
Bumblebee groaned as he started getting up, "Ugh, what happened?"
"Metalsound attacked you from behind," Russell explained, "But I thought she was on our side."
"Scrap, I shouldn't have trusted her. She and Soundwave have a long history so of course, she would have sided with him."
"Even though she was an old friend you still shouldn't have trusted her so easily," Russell tells him, "I mean she's been with the Decepticons all this time, the whole time she was here she could have been spying on us."
"I guess you're right, I just really hoped she would be a friend again. I won't be so quick to trust her next time."
"Is your shoulder ok?" Danny asked, "She shocked you pretty good."
Strongarm groaned as she slowly got up, "Is everyone ok?"
"Other than a sore shoulder, I'm alright. Grimlock?"
"It's ok Sludge I don't need a piggyback ride," the Dinobot replied, still dazed from the shock. Everyone started laughing.
"Are you alright Grim?" Russell asked still laughing a bit.
"I'll be ok. What happened?"
"Soundwave attacked you and Strongarm."
"And what about Metalsound?"
"She attacked Bumblebee and ran off with Soundwave."
Metalsound came to a slow halt, she could feel her optics starting to sting, transforming she leaned onto a tree, "Keep heading through those trees and you'll find the lake," Soundwave turned to her silently watching, "I'm telling you the truth, look for a bot named Steeljaw."
Soundwave walked up to her and pointed in the direction to tell her to continue walking. With a sigh she continued onward, absently she kept looking at her claws, where her wolf-like helm was located when she would transform. She still had some of Bumblebee's Energon on them. Soundwave looked at her curiously.
"Ok, Steeljaw's usually around here somewhere," she muttered to herself as she looked around. They heard some bustles through the trees.
"Metalsound, how nice of you to join us again," Saberhorn says stepping into sight along with Steeljaw and Thunderhoof.
"I found someone," she replied as she stood to the side to reveal Soundwave, "They're with the group of Decepticons I told you about," Metalsound said quietly to the silent mech. Taking a few steps forward Soundwave stood in front of Saberhorn as if he was studying the mech.
"'Ello chap, I believe you are Soundwave, I've heard about you."
Soundwave just nodded before turning to Steeljaw and Thunderhoof.
"I am Steeljaw and this is Thunderhoof, and we are so pleased to finally be able to meet you, we've heard so much about you."
Soundwave nodded again before turning back to Metalsound, who was no longer there. He released Laserbeak and watched it fly off to search for the traitor.
Metalsound was running deeper into the forest, hot tears of regret slipped past her optics as she ran. With her blurry vision, she slipped down a steep slope. She kept seeing what she had done in her processor whenever she closed her optics.
"Why did I do that? WHY?!"
She slammed her fist into the rocky surface several times before she felt a sharp pain in her servo. Gasping from the pain she looked at her now bloodied servo, no doubt she broke something.
Cradling her wounded servo she slid to the ground, hiding her face behind her knees before sobbing with regret.
Saberhorn, Steeljaw, and Thunderhoof lead Soundwave back to the island, "Welcome Soundwave to the island," Saberhorn says welcoming their new friend.
Soundwave followed close, seeing as how he didn't know his way around quite yet. Seeing a few Mini-Cons he looked to Saberhorn as he displayed the Mini-Cons' functions followed by a question mark.
"We overtook the Mini-Cons when we broke free and made them our servants," Saberhorn explained. Soundwave displayed a picture of Megatron before showing the communicator, "No, we haven't had any contact with Megatron. Do you want to contact him?"
Soundwave nodded.
"I'm gonna go look for Metalsound," Thunderhoof announced as he turned to leave.
"I'm gonna go with him," Steeljaw says turning to leave as well.
