"Soundwave what happened, did you get the imformation!?" Megatron hissed as soon as the faceless mech approached him.
Soundwave nodded and pulled up cybertronian information on his visor, letting Megatron glance at the encrypted codes to be decoded.
"Good, go get your wounds repaired, then go decipher the codes and come back to me when you are done" Megatron growled seeing the deep slashes from a blade across the spys chest and a good stab in the side, waiting for the spy to make a movement.
Soundwave was off in his own thoughts, thinking about his younger brothers attack that happened earlier, he saw how the one aerial bot treated Mirage, after he got away from Mirage, Soundwave hoped his little brother was alright, he did not mean to make the autobots suspicious of Mirage, but he threw Mirage off so hopefully that showed a little hint that he was not being let go, but what if the autobots thought it was an act, and thought Mirage was a spy for them, he could be thrown out onto the streets or killed off, Mirage would not want to go in the Decepticon army, and he would be killed off as a neutral if found by cons.
"Soundwave!" Megatron snapped making Soundwave jump out of his thoughts.
Soundwave lightly shook his helm and looked up at Megatron, showing the warlord he had his attention.
"Something on your mind?" Megatron asked interested in why his top soldier wasnt doing what he was told.
"Get your wounds repaired" Soundwave played a short recording of what Megatron told him to do, making the excuse that his wounds were troubling his thought process.
"I advise you to get repaired then, I wish for you to have nothing to distract or delay your thought process, I need those codes deciphered" Megatron told the dark violet and black mech as he pointed to the door leading to the hallway.
Soundwave nodded and left for the med bay knowing he would just have to put aside his little brother again, practically having to eliminate Mirage from him completely, Soundwave had done that for the first few years of the war until now he had forgoten his brother, now he had seen how well, strong, and healthy his brother looked growing up with the autobots, he couldn't erase Mirage from his mind he wanted to get to know his brother again, but Soundwave knew that would probably never happen.
Autobot base
"Mirage you should have kicked his ass!" Sunstreaker complained folding his arms.
"No, I just snapped for a moment, I didn't need to aggravate the situation more" MirGe shook his helm at the larger golden mech.
"But look at the horrible reputation he gave you, now no other Autobot will look at you and say they can trust you except for our little group, everyone in this base sees you as the traitor, because you stopped and didn't kill the Decepticon spy, so now you're seen as a con spy!" Arcee told younger bot.
"It does not matter to me, I do not wish to make friends with everybody, my social ability is to the ground anyway" Mirage shrugged at the femme.
"But Mirage, we just don't want you to feel like an outcast bro" Jazz said in a caring tone.
"I do feel like one and am one now, thanks to Air raid, but that's something I can deal with, I do not need to be babied, I can handle things on my own now" Mirage told the four adopted older sibblings.
"We just care for you Mirage, keeping you safe and away from hurtful assholes like Air raid" Sideswipe spoke up to the red mech.
"There's going to be assholes, there are a lot of them in the universe you can't stop them from being born, but you can stop from feeding them your attention, they thrive off of you reacting to them, the only time they get a kick when you don't respond to them, is when they have a small group with them" Mirage explained to the four.
"That couldn't be anymore true, but that dosen't mean what they do is right" Optimus said as he approached the five bots in the rec room.
"Yeah I know" Mirage sighed looking up at Optimus.
"Mirage, I want to thank you for not completely loosing it on Air raid, and backing off from pouring oil onto troubled water" Optimus praised the young mech for not stirring the pot, and possibly seriously injuring or killing one of there soldiers.
"Well, I knew it was wrong to even go there, and I usually do not like to use my decepticon fighting skills for stupid reasons" Mirage replied to the prime.
"I understand, and I am thankful you think that way" Optimus nodded.
"Yeah and I'm sure old Air raid is secretly thankful you didn't hand him his aft!" Sideswipe snickered with his twin.
"Yeah that's it righ there" Mirage gave a small chuckle, shaking his helm and rolling his optics.
Nemesis
"Soundwave have decrypted the codes yet?" Megatron gruff evil voice came from behind the slim dark spy.
Soundwave turned and shook his helm at Megatron and mad a small cowering movent, waiting for his master to scream at him.
"Soundwave I asked for those codes five times now, obviously something happened during your mission and it has been troubling you and is effecting your performance, so what is it!?" Megatron hissed getting impatient with his spy.
Soundwave looked away for a moment then looked at Megatron, and showed him the video of Mirage attacking him and letting him escape, then the aerial bot punishing Mirage for his mistake.
"Uh, you met with your brother I see, I know he has kept his skill and training in check, if it weren't for you letting him escape, he could be with you here, and not being treated like a traitorous scrap drone by his own teammates" Megatron scowled and blamed Soundwave for setting his brother free.
"If you want him back with you, I will gladly set out a hunting team and bring him to me, I could use another super soldier" Megatron hissed thinking out loud.
Soundwave knew Mirage was adapted to his autobot life and was raised by them, and he wasn't going to take that away from his little brother, he had a new life and he living it with friends that loved him, Soundwave was not going to ruin that for him.
Soundwave simply shook his helm at Megatron and went back to working hard on his computer.
"Fine, but I might just change my mind, and want him back" Megatron evily smiled, leaving the room, and leaving Soundwave to worry even more.