A/N: Okay, you may want to read "Void," the companion story, before reading this... it'll make more sense. Anyway, I just had to take Shockwave down a peg. Haha.
"I'll get it," Lockdown called over the annoying buzz of the communicator. Void made an uncaring sound; Lockdown was always the talker, in case it was Megatron on the other end. A moment later, Shockwave's Autobot face appeared on the main viewscreen. "Ah, Longarm Prime. Been a while. Autobot business? 'Course, they never pay enough. Might want to mention that to Ultra Magnus for me, yeah?"
"No Autobot business. Allow me to speak with your partner."
Lockdown and Void exchanged glances. Void shrugged and took his place before the viewscreen.
"Longarm Prime. Lockdown's told me all about you."
"There's no need for the act… Starscream." Shockwave/Longarm leaned forward. "I wonder," he said softly, the Autobot face as expressionless as his voice, "what Megatron would do if he learned the location of the traitor."
Lockdown shifted uncomfortably, but said nothing. Void cycled an intake, sneering at the viewscreen.
"I wonder," he retorted coolly, "how much the Autobots would pay if they learned that their chief intelligence officer is a Decepticon spy."
Longarm's optics narrowed. Lockdown chuckled approvingly in the background.
"If you are Longarm Prime, Autobot intelligence officer, then I am Void, bounty hunter," Void went on. "We will protect each other."
Longarm continued to glare for a cycle before saying, with frosty courtesy, "This is acceptable."
Without another word, he closed the connection.
"Think he'll keep to that?" Void asked.
"He'd better," Lockdown said lazily. "I bet Megs wouldn't be happy if all those stellar cycles of work went to waste… because even if he got you unawares, I think I'd be perturbed enough to 'accidentally' let something important slip to the Autobots."
Void chuckled once. It was as close to Lockdown admitting that he liked having the Seeker around as he ever came.