Too Useful To Waste.
Summary: Both the Autobots and the Decepticons know how resourceful and inventive Sam Witwicky was. When Soundwave finds him dying after a battle, he wonders if he has a way to save Sam so his skills are not lost.
Warnings: Character death, minor blood and gore.
Rating: T for safety.
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro and DreamWorks/Paramount. I make no claim to the contrary.
Please read first! Before you accuse me of plagiarism, I want you to first know that I have asked for, and received, permission from LittleMewLugia to continue the snippet. This is a project we're doing. We both have a common start off point, but we want to see where we'll both end up. If you doubt me, please PM LittleMewLugia and ask. Thank you for you consideration.
Chapter 6; Frenzy
Frenzy stared at his new little brother who, so far, had seemed content to stay in Soundwave's cupped hands.
He didn't quite know what to think of the Casseticon, or what his creator was thinking, bringing a new sparkling into their group after such a long time.
Speaking of which, how did he get the sparkling in the first place? The AllSpark might have only been destroyed several orns ago, but the sparkling here was barely a joor old.
Something didn't add up.
He sent his speculation over the spark-bond he held with his twin. Sending a message over the spark-bond wasn't the same as sending one over a com. For the first thing, it was almost impossible to do except for twins; and for a second, it wasn't words that were sent, it was more akin to feelings, the only downside was that it could only be done in close-quarters. It was also Soundwave proof.
What do you think?
Frenzy had to only wait a Spark-beat before Rumble answered.
No clue. Let's go and introduce ourselves. Let him know who the cool-cons are.
The twins smirked at each other, but they made sure to hide them before they approached the little sparkling. No need to scare the little guy. Not yet, anyways.
The moment they moved closer to the sparkling, he stared at the twins and tried to hide deeper in Soundwave's hand.
Their creator countered this by opening his hand to reveal more of the Cassette. Discord gave a stare at the larger mech before turning his attention to the approaching twins.
They stopped, however, once they reached the edge of their creator's hand. Through trial and error - mostly error - they had learned that approaching scared, young sparklings when they were newly sparked was potentially dangerous to ones paintjob and optics, as they had learned when they had startled the then newly sparked Laserbeak and Buzzsaw.
Soundwave had left them scratched, dented and mangled, Frenzy's optic had almost been pulled out by a territorial Buzzsaw, for an entire orn before he decided that they had learned their lesson.
Discord certainly didn't seem as dangerous as the younger twins had looked, he certainly didn't have a large beak for a primary weapon, but who was to say he didn't have other weapons at his disposal, like a blade hidden in his arm or even a gun?
While Ravage most likely thought otherwise, sometimes Frenzy and Rumble did use something called 'common sense'.
Once they had stopped their approach, the sparkling stared at them for a few astrocycles before leaning closer.
An encouraging sign for the little sparkling, it had taken Ratbat almost a full Joor before he felt comfortable enough with his siblings to approach them from within Soundwaves hand, and look at how cowardly he had ended up being.
Frenzy stared as the sparkling edged closer and closer to him and his twin, until he was within touching distance.
He glanced at Rumble before turning his attention on Frenzy. The sparkling tilted his head and chirped.
Frenzy looked over at his twin.
I think he likes me.
Rumble vented some air, a Cybertronian version of a snort.
Yeah right. He doesn't even know you. Besides, he's just newly-sparked, I doubt if he's even aware of what his name is!
You're just jealous that he likes me more then he likes you.
Am not.
Are too.
They argued for several breems before Frenzy decided that this argument wasn't worth his time. He turned to the sparkling, only to find that he wasn't there. Neither was Soundwave.
He looked to his twin, who shrugged.
He looked around and noticed that Soundwave had left the room. But he had left the sparkling on his berth, in the care of Ravage.
Above the Frenzy and Rumble, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw tried to hide their laughter.
"What are you laughing at, you piece of scrap?" Demanded Rumble.
"You two, obviously." Replied Buzzsaw.
"If you two didn't notice Soundwave leaving, you're both stupider than I thought."
"Why I-" started Frenzy, but stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see that it was Rumble.
"What?"
Ignore them; we'll get back at him later. We have more important things to worry about. Like Ravage. We need to do something before he turns the sparkling against us.
Fine. Plan F34?
Hmmm, how about G12?
Oh! Good that's a good one. Think maybe we can get the sparkling to help us?
We won't be able to if we let Ravage influence him.
The twins then made their way to the recharge berth.
When they finally got to the berth, they say Ravage lounging on his side while Discord leaned back against his side.
"What that?" Discord pointed to a datapad on the edge of Soundwaves' desk.
"A datapad."
"What it do?"
"It holds information."
"Why?"
"Because that's what it was built for."
"Built for?"
"It's purpose."
This went on for awhile, with Discord pointing and asking, Ravage answering.
Frenzy and Rumble looked at each other.
"Is it just me, or does he have a glitch?"
"You mean the fact that he's talking like that idiot Grimlock?"
"Yeah."
"Let Soundwave deal with it. It's probably just a glitch in the language program he downloaded. Easily fixable."
"Hopefully this is his only glitch."
"Yeah. Now, enough about his glitches, we need to run interference."
"Fine."
They approached Ravage and the sparkling; Ravage gave them a cursory glance, but the sparkling stared at them again. He raised an arm and pointed it at them.
"What them?"
Ravage snickered.
"Who, not what."
"Who them?"
Ravage vented some air in a sigh.
"They are your older brothers, Rumble and Frenzy. Also known as the Glitch Twins."
"Hey!" The twins said in stereo.
"G-glitch?"
"Something you'll understand when you're older."
Frenzy and Rumble snickered, Ravage glared and Discord tilted his head and chirped in confusion.
Just as Frenzy was about to…request…that they be allowed to spend some time with their new little brother, Soundwave came back into the room. His optics immediately fell upon Frenzy and Rumble.
"Prepare for a mission."
"Frag."
AN - First of all, I'd like to apologize for the quality of this chapter, especially after that last one. I've learned one important thing; the twins, Frenzy and Rumble, are a terror to write when they are together. From now one I shall avoid doing so, unless I absolutely must.
The good news, next chapter should be from an Autobots POV! YAY! I won't say who, though. *Evil grin*. Now I'm sure that a few of you are wondering why I haven't spent much time with the Autobots, with the exception of a cameo by Ironhide. There is a very good reason for that. It's called angst. All I could think of when I thought about an Autobot chapter was that they would all be going
'Noooo, Sam's dead….." Cry.
Not exactly the best story, is it? Plus lots of angst depresses me and a depressed author = unproductive author.
I can't promise a long chapter though, but since I'm in the mood, I might finish it ahead of schedule.
PS, I've downloaded a trial version of Word 2007. All I can say is AWESOME. If I get enough requests, I might put up a review on my Livejournal.
BN - Hi all! This is the beta reader, Dealing With It Now, saying hello. I wanted to apologize to both readers and the author for getting a beta'd version back a little late on the last couple chapters, but otherwise just taking up space at the bottom here, near that convenient review button. It's real convenient; you know you want to press it…
Authors work better with reviews than alerts, although both are great.
PS, I have an important questions for you readers. Because of the holidays, we, Dealing and I, are having a little difficultly because we are both so busy, her with shopping, me with school.
Now, either I can post un-betad chapter, filled with embarrassing errors, on the weekends and then replace them with beta'd chapters afterwards, or we can wait for the corrected version and you can get a lot of chapters at once in a few (three or four, max) weeks.
I'm ready for either, so it's up to you guys to decide.
Error-filled chapters weekly, or properly checked chapters later?