A/N: Day two… okay, this song is "Wide Knowledge of the Late Night Madness" by Miku Hatsune, she is in a mental hospital here. There are 6 songs in this series so there are only 4 chapters left. Le sigh… Soundwave, disclaimer!
Soundwave: *sleeping*
Awww… ok, Megsy does it!
Megatron: *grunts* the author only owns the plot *mutters insults*
Oh, and for the anonymous reviewer who forgot to put their name, there is one pairing involving a two headed monster... go look up "Dark Woods Circus" on Youtube to find out why. I will put the links to the songs in my profile too, ok? LETS GO!
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Chapter 2
Wide Knowledge of the Late Night Madness
One day
In a clean white room
Rolling, rolling, rolling, the sound of the sterile wheelchair continuously played just like the calming music that filled the atmosphere when somebody had a mental breakdown.
Soundwave felt nothing anymore, only the pain remained. King Optimus finally rescued him and most of the other prisoners such as Arcee. Optimus, having noticed that some of them lost their processors, put them in Iacon's Home for the Mentally Unstable, completely unaware of the current treachery inside his very ranks. Soundwave had to admit, this place was quite relaxing; many 'normal' bots, usually Ratchet and Red Alert, came to visit him or check on his current state. They gave him his own room on a floor with familiar bots from Megatron's palace in Kaon; some weren't prisoners at all such as Knockout.
And what did the red mech do to get here you ask? Well, Megatron's anger and fear-striking glares had gotten to the poor mech and now he was very paranoid. The only thing that could keep Knockout from freaking out was learning to be a medic. Soundwave was ever grateful to Red Alert, for the medic femme had always kept Knockout in check and the same the other way around.
Soundwave sighed, his musical voice echoing sadly in the plain white room he sat in. It was filled with the scent of medicine and bleach with a lone window letting in blinding light onto the white carpet from the east, the walls were pure white like the comfortable berth and the computer Soundwave usually used. The room was numbered 308, a room for one on the third floor which had been labeled 'the abused floor.' The nearly-colorless room only made Soundwave's processor calm during the day time, at night he had horrible recharge fluxes filled with murder, energon from fallen allies, and screams of pain. Every night he would scream until his vocalizer went raw, the echoes and pure white loneliness providing no comfort.
They bring me here
Always
Eventually, the medical staff noticed and thus they sent them to a caretaker's home at which he stayed at during the night. The caretaker's name was Elita-One, the queen of Iacon and also Optimus's sweetheart. She was rather pretty with her rosy pink armor and gentle smiles, reminding Soundwave of his mother named Sonic whom he could no longer find. Her blue optics always twinkled with all of the positive emotions that Soundwave couldn't feel anymore. He tried to fake his smiles, it was still too painful, but he kept on smiling, the only thing he could give the femme in return for her hard work. His façade didn't last for much longer than a month…
One night he woke up from a horrible recharge flux in the temporary home of which he lived, this time he was the killer, and he still felt his spark frozen from the lives he had taken. Somehow, Soundwave wanted more of the energon fest, something he didn't like or love, it was an instinct really. He ran to Elita-One, hoping she would help him, but he was frozen to his berth listening to some sound that suddenly began.
A piano playing sweet childhood memories, Soundwave screamed.
Clean corridors
Many clean rooms
Elita-One had to take him back, she couldn't do anything more to the poor mech. She gave his the small boom box that held his favorite calming songs and kissed his frozen form on the cheek as a sad goodbye.
He was alone, in the white cold halls of his own mind's loss. He couldn't sing, he couldn't dance, and he couldn't talk for there was nobody to listen or watch. All his friends were taken in the midst of the night and now he would be taken as well to the place where they had gone.
Every night
One person is removed
Soundwave lay on his cold berth, silently staring at the little boom box in some sort of sick amusement. He was gone; his mind had left him with only negative things that he feared will also be gone. He pressed the play button on the little black boom box and wrapped his fragile body around it. "Only me and you," Soundwave murmured to the mindless machine and began humming softly to the easily recognizable song from everybody's sparklinghood. "Halcyon Melody" was the name, the song that all knew; he even caught king Megatron humming it after a rough interface with Soundwave, his baritone voice slightly distorting the sweet and carefree felling of the song.
Step, step, step, and step the sound of somebody walking down the halls echoed in Soundwave's audio receptors. Was he going to be taken away, just like Arcee and Knockout? The song still rang in his audio receptors as he sat up next to his friend, the black boom box. A mech came in with a crazed look in his faceplates, yet Soundwave showed nothing. He merely submitted to the mech and stood up, abandoning his small friend that was still playing the sweet melody.
Beautiful flower
In vivid
Red bloom
One flower garden room
A lovely sphere
Comes rolling down
Normal people would turn away. Normal people would scream of try to run. Normal people wouldn't smile at the sight Soundwave saw. But Soundwave wasn't normal, he smiled as the mech grabbed a chainsaw and sliced off Knockout's and Arcee's heads, kicking the femme's body away. The lithe blue body landed with a clunk at the pedes of some hungry looking mech- oh Primus, was that Starscream?
Pochi
Eats so much
Starscream smiled and quickly devoured the body leaving Soundwave to wonder how on Cybertron he managed to keep his seeker form. There was absolutely nothing left of Arcee's body except her head which was held in the arms of the extremely tall mech. Horrified, Soundwave shut his optics as the smell of energon poked at his intakes. He heard another tool, a melding one, as yet another rush of horrifying stench attack him. He felt trapped in the small black room with a tiny berth, he felt as trapped as he did in his mind, not being able to control a thing. Suddenly, he recalled a small sparkling legend that used to be considered fake, it mentioned unworthy sparklings being captured, deformed, and then being placed into a circus. Would he too become one of the oddly entertaining performers that hid their tears behind layers of rotting energon and skin?
With that thought, he quickly fell into the oblivion of recharge.
Tomorrow is my turn
I look forward
To going
Starscream was 4, Knockout was 3, Arcee was 2, and Soundwave was 1. He was next for the horrid process, he frowned deeply.
Tomorrow is my turn
I look forward
To going
The frown turned into a smile, maybe he could horrify all who oppose him with his new form
I...I...I...I...I...
I...I...I...I...I...
Was that the boom box, still playing its sweet melody?
I...I...I...I...I...
I...I...I...I...I...
It was oddly louder; did he unconsciously turn up the volume during recharge? Impossible, he was one of the mechs that wrapped his tentacles around his spiky form and stayed in place during recharge. Wait, tentacles and spikes?
I...I...I...I...I...
I...I...I...I...I...
Soundwave slowly opened his optics to pure horror. He was trapped inside a cage, his pure navy paintjob replaced with a sparkling purple. His used to be perfectly shaped body was covered in various spikes and tentacles that were let out from his chassis. He was terrified; they had changed him in his sleep. Looking up, he was even more horrified when he saw Arcee's head attached to Knockout's head and body. He also saw Starscream drooling while being held on a leash that had a black spider femme, Soundwave assumed this was the chairwoman.
"Hello my dears, I am Airachnid and I welcome you to the Dark Woods Circus," the femme smiled. Soundwave screamed.
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A/N: Finished with chapter two. I didn't have an idea for who the monster should be, so I decided to bash Starscream, yay. Next up, "Dark Woods Circus" Soundwave/Miku's life in the circus as the deformed diva/ singing chimera wonder. Halcyon Melody is a song I made up, Halcyon=peace, it has the music of "Wide Knowledge of the Late Night Madness" in the background.
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