Author's note. With thanks to Sevara for her character of Novablaze, Jovianokamigirl for Rouge and Shadow,
Big news, someone recently did some art for Breaking Free and it's just fantastic. If you want to check it out, go to my profile page, the links are there.
Oh, you will notice how Megatron is being surprisingly lenient with Shockwave, after all, if another of his soldiers had let the Autobots get past him, thereby ruining the plan, they would have gotten the slag beaten out of them. Well, in this story, Shcokwave is the closest thing to a best friend Megatron's got, so he gets a bit more leverage.
Shockwave is the perfect follower, he's smart and powerful but has no desire to take over. He absolutely loyal and thinks whatever Megatron does, no matter what, is fine.
Enjoy and please review.
Elita's POV.
"And then Skywarp burst back into the room with this poor human femme," Chromia laughed over Teletran's link to Cybertron.
Elita laughed as well, it sounded just like the kind of thing Skywarp would do. The Femme Commander was relaxed as she talked to her Second, the link was secure which she had set up while she had been at the Autobot base.
"I hope she was okay," Elita said, as she finally managed to stop laughing, Chromia knew how to tell a funny story.
"Don't worry," Chromia chuckled. "It turns out they met when Skywarp was searching for Starscream, and he's seen her since then. So it looks like the Elite Trine is going to be Autobots."
"That is very good news," Elita said. "It will make things much easier for Starscream as he recovers, and they are three less soldiers for Megatron to use against us."
"Too right," Chromia said fiercely, she was on fire to get to grips with some Decepticons, it had been too long since she'd last fought most of the ones that had ended up on Earth.
"By the way, Elita," Chromia continued in a much gentler tone. "Optimus apologise for not telling this to you himself, but he was suddenly called away for something important, but he said he'd call later."
"That's alright," Elita said she knew how much responsibility her mate had. "At least I was able to enjoy some time with him. Speaking of which how are you and Ironhide doing?"
Chromia's smile widened until it was a huge grin.
"Very well, we had a good morning together, though I made Hide beg for it first,"
Elita laughed at her friend's antics, the blue Femme was interface mad, she knew the two bond mates would have gone at each other like petro-rabbits.
"I'm glad you had a good time, I know I did when I was on Earth," Elita chuckled softly.
Chromia smiled but her face suddenly took on a more serious look.
"We're going to Spark Bond tonight, after I've finished talking to you," she said softly. "Hide's worried about the strength of our Bond, he wants to make sure it's still there."
Elita nodded, she and Optimus had done the same thing when she had arrived on Earth. It had been wonderful to feel him properly for the first time in four million years. She decided to wrap up this conversation, she didn't want to keep her best friend from her beloved nay longer than necessary.
"Well, I hope you enjoy yourselves," Elita said with a smile. "I'd better get on with things here, since Shockwave is temporarily out of action, we've got some raids planned."
"Swell, shame I can't be there to help you out," Chromia said mischievously, she loved tormenting the guardian for Cybertron.
"Ah well, maybe next time," Chromia siad with a shrug. "I'll speak to you soon Elita."
"Have a nice night," Elita replied and closed the connection with a sigh.
She had a lot of organising to do, as well as paper work to take care of.
"Elita," a shy voice said timidly.
Elita turned around to smile at her visitor who was peeping shyly around the door.
"Nova, come in," Elita said with a kind smile and she indicated the seat beside her.
Novablaze came into the room and carefully made her way over. She had to walk carefully because of her wings. She was a pretty little Seeker with black coloured armour that included violet highlights on her forearms and lower legs. Her wings seemed too big for her body and this indicated her youth, Seekers wings tended to grow faster than the rest of their body and was sometime known as the Butterfly stage.
For once her silver visor was down, hiding her beautiful violet optics, which were quite rare among Transformers though Elita did know a couple of others with similar optics. She normally only had her visor down if she was fighting or on patrol thus protecting her lovely coloured optics.
Elita was quite fond of this young Femling, she was about Bumblebee's age, and like the yellow scout had been raised by the Autobots. It was unknown whether or not her Creators were still online but it was assumed they weren't.
"I hope I'm not disturbing you ma'am," Novabalze said, her silver face turned slightly, indicating she was looking at the now blank screen.
"Not at all, Nova," Elita said gently. "I just finished talking with Chromia, we were discussing possible candidates for transferring to Earth."
"To Earth?" Novablaze said curiously, Elita and Chromia were the only Femmes who were aware of the situation with Starscream, so natural the black Femme was interested. However Elita wouldn't be able to this information with her Femmes, apart from a very select few who would be going to Earth, Starscream deserved privacy.
"Yes, me and Optimus feel it would be a good idea, after all Earth is currently overrun with Mechs. We can't have that, can we?"
"No ma'am," Novablaze grinned, looking much more at ease now.
"Who were you thinking of sending?"
"Well, so far I've decided on Shadowlight and Red Jack, but I need to have a think about any others," Elita said simply.
Novablaze nodded but then frowned slightly.
"Ma'am, you said you wanted to send Femmes to back up Optimus Prime," she said slowly.
"That's right, Nova," Elita said, giving the young Femme an encouraging smile.
"But your sending Red Jack," Novablaze pointed out softly.
Elita nodded, please at the black Seeker's perception.
"There is another reason I am sending those two," she said quietly. "But I'm afraid it's classified, needless to say I chose Red Jack as I don't want to lose any of our Femme Medics, we have too few of them."
Novablaze looked very thoughtful and then she said.
"Shadowlight and Red Jack are going to help someone, aren't they?"
"Yes Nova," Elita answered gently. "But as I said, I can't elaborate, I have to protect that someone's privacy."
"I understand, ma'am," the young Femme said.
Elita smiled before her expression turned curious.
"Now, what was it you came here to see me about?"
"Oh," Novablaze said, now blushing as she remembered. "I almost forgot it's about Rouge and Shadow ma'am.
"What have they done now?" the Femme Commander asked with a sigh.
"Raided the Decepticon Femme base and um....painted it," Novablaze said quietly.
"What?" Elita exclaimed before sighing.
"Those two, I swear they will be the death of me," Elita said heavily before asking. "What happened?"
"Well, is seems they were caught in the middle of doing it and are now being chased over Kaon by the enemy Femmes," Novablaze explained.
"We I guess we'd better go and rescue them," Elita said before adding wistfully.
"Shame Chromia isn't here, she the only one they really listen to, ah well. Lead on, Nova."
And the two Femmes rushed out of the room, preparing to engage their enemy counterparts. One good thing was that Shockwave was unlikely to bother them, not when he had himself to worry about.
Shockwave's POV.
Shockwave lay on his berth reading several reports, just because he was injured did not mean he could slack in his duties. Patches had ordered him to remain in his berth until he was recovered, and Megatron had informed him he was to follow the Medic's instruction.
He didn't deserve the attention Megatron was kindly giving him, not after letting those Autobots get past him. But Megatron realised that he had done everything and was having everything done to make sure Shockwave got better as soon as possible.
Yes, he really was lucky to have such a leader, especially as he could have been delayed medical care but that just showed how clever a Mech Megatron was. While other, lower Mechs would have deserved to suffer, Megatron could see how Shockwave was just too useful to waste.
He'd make sure that his leader's faith in him was not misplaced, he was going to find a way to fix Megatron's 'problem' and get that ungrateful whore back as well. Not to mention some Autobots were going to pay dearly for this outrage, in particular that trigger happy Ironhide.
It was thanks to that pit-spawn that Shockwave had been so badly injured when Optimus Prime and his team had come through to rescue that brat Starscream and had been unable to warn Megatron.
Of course that illiterate fool had lost his temper because Shockwave just happened to mention his interest in a certain blue Femme who also happened to be said fool's mate.
Shockwave paused in his reading, he had to admit, he didn't really know why he held this interest towards the Femme Second in Command. She was nothing like him, and defiantly nothing like his previous partners. She was like.....a diamond in the rough.
He normally didn't allow himself to dwell on sickening nostalgia but he couldn't help it in this case as his mind drifted to an incident a few millions years ago.
When he had first met that Femme........
Flashback.
"A break in? Impossible," Shockwave said calmly into his comm. as he rushed towards the fifth storage room.
He had just gotten a report that rouge Autobots had infiltrated the base and were headed for the storage rooms. Each room contained different thing but the fifth one contained Energon stores and at the moment that was more valuable than weapons.
But when he got there, he saw that they didn't seem to have reached them yet for which he was grateful. He was just going to send for more security when he was hit from behind by a stun ray.
He was sent flying and crashed heavily to the floor. He weakily raised his head as several Femmes appeared out of nowhere and went straight for Storage room five and started trying to get in.
"Foolish...Femmes," he managed to choke out. "You will....never get away......with this."
"Well now, I don't know about that," said a very cheerful voice from right behind him.
He felt a foot place it's self on his shoulder and tip him onto his back so that now he could see how had spoken. His one optic flashed in shock at the sight that was before it.
There, holding a smoking gun with a lot of loving affection, was a sky blue Femme with a generous chassis and a devilish glint in her blue Autobot optics. It was obvious that she had been the one to hit him but somehow his processor couldn't process that fact properly.
Proper thought seemed to become even harder when she suddenly walked forward and sat down on him, literally straddling his prone form. He spluttered slightly as she leant close to his face and smiled.
"Well this is a funny situation to be in, isn't it?"
"Madam, I, I....you, I..." Shockwave stuttered incoherently, hardly able to believe this was really happening and to him.
She chuckled and suddenly her hands were all over his body. And he was utterly powerless to stop her doing exactly what she wanted. The thought froze him and for a moment time seemed to stand still. Was this Femme, someone who he had never met before about to.....take him, right there on the floor.
This thought both terrified and....thrilled him.
But suddenly, the probing fingers stopped, leaving him oddly unsatisfied and she sat up with a look of triumph. Before he could say anything, she twisted her body and tossed something to a watching Femme who was smirking.
"Here ya go, the key to that ole storage container,"
Shockwave gasped, she'd been looking for his command key, not feel.......well, not what he'd been thinking.
He stared up at the Femme currently straddling him, unable to speak. He was quite honestly flabbergasted, no one had ever done anything like this to him before. He remained like this, not able to move as the Femmes raided his precious Energon supplies.
"You got the Energon?" she eventually called over her shoulder as she leered down at her captive.
"Yes, ma'am," a jade coloured Femme had called back as she loaded some other Femmes with the stolen Energon. After doing this, she transformed and they roared off, leaving just Shockwave with this extraordinary blue Femme all alone in the storage room.
"See you around, guardian," she said in a sultry voice, and leaning down, licked his light bulb.
She then leapt up, in one amazingly fluid movement, to her feet and she charged after her fellow Femmes. As she ran, she shot out several cameras, and then smashed the control panel to the door with her fist, thereby sealing him in.
He stayed lying there at least ten breems after she had left, unable to move or speak.
End of Flashback.
He had later found out that her name was Chromia, bond mate to the Autobot Ironhide. After that he had always held a special interest in her, with the hope that one day he could apprehend her and.....question her.
Unfortunately he had not managed to do that, though he had met her several times since that first meeting. He had however, mentioned his interest to Megatron and his leader had graciously said he could have her.
Megatron really was a good leader who deserved loyalty, he gave so much and wanted little in return. All you needed to be was competent and know how to fight, and follow orders. He could easily do all that and that was why he was rewarded. But he couldn't deny he had failed recently.
He vowed then and there, as he reclined on his berth, he would get that ungrateful Seeker brat back for his master. No matter how long, no matter how much planning he had to do, he would accomplish his goal.
One way or another.
Author's note. More Cybertron and a brief appearance of Soundwave. Also, is there anyone who fancies Shockwave 'consoling' Megatron? You know what I mean, wink wink. Till next time.