The next day

Soundwave woke up, and in surprise, looked to see his brother up before he was, no other bot in the decepticon army woke up before Soundwave.

"Mirage you're up early?" Soundwave said clearing his throat.

"I didn't know you recharged?" Mirage replied, getting up from where he sat on the floor.

"I do every now and then, why, you don't?" Soundwave shrugged getting up from his berth and stretching.

"Nope, haven't in months" Mirage replied joyfully, as he copied his older brother by stretching as well.

"Hmm, may I ask you one question?" Soundwave asked walking over to the smaller bot.

"Sure" Mirage nodded looking up at his older brother.

"Who the hell taught you that the floor was better then a berth?!" Soundwave gave a slight chuckle while asking his question.

"Oh, ha, the twins and Jazz did" Mirage giggled in reply to the faceless mechs question.

"Twins and Jazz?" Soundwave tilted his helm.

"Yeah we were all orphaned, they're older then me but they adopted me as their younger brother, along with Arcee who lived on the base already" Mirage explained the four adopted siblings he left behind.

"They must be the goofy type" Soundwave snorted looking to a wall.

"Yeah you could say that, but very skilled in other things" Mirage shrugged and laughed.

"Uhuh, well lets go, we've got the whole day ahead of us" Soundwave said walking towards his door to the hallway.

"What?" Mirage kinda stuttered turning and follwing the larger mech.

"Mirage we have signals and codes to hack, monitors and computers to rid of bugs and defects, malfunctions to the base and warships" Soundwave listed off, as they walked through the clear quiet hallways.

"But Soundwave I can't do all tha..." Mirage jumped running into Soundwave, at the sound of a door hissing open.

Soundwave could feel Mirage was still tense and slightly frightened in the hallway from the other day, Soundwave put a protective servo on Mirage's shoulder, and pulled his little brother closer to him as the mech that opened the door revealed himself to be Megatron.

"Excelent Soundwave, good to see you and the youngling up and ready for work" Megatron's gruff voice spoke to the faceless mech.

Soundwave nodded in reply to the warlords words, and kept his gaze on the towering mech.

"I shall call you, if I have an important task I need you to do" Megatron told Soundwave as he walked down the hallway in the opposite direction.

Soundwave would have rolled his optics, but instead shook his helm and continued to escort his brother down the hallway into a communications room.

"Alright, some soldiers said the computers were malfunctioning, and not responding to attacks in Kaon, ok you work on that one and I will work on this one" Soundwave explained pointing Mirage to a offlined computer.

"Soundwave I never got to learn thi..."

"It all get's fixed within a spark beat, simple" Soundwave scoffed after already repairing two monitors.

Mirage just stared his broken monitors with a puzzled look, he didn't want to touch anything, knowing he would probably break it even more.

"Is something wrong?" Soundwave asked seeing his brothers slightly drooped doorwings, and confused expresion.

"I don't know how to repair them Soundwave" Mirage finally admitted to his older brother.

"Whatever do you mean, you got the training, did you not?" Soundwave asked approaching his small brother.

"No I didn't get to that part of training, I never finished, I just specialize in combat and now spying" Mirage replied with a shrug to his brother.

"Oh, well that's alright, you can stay with me so you don't have to deal with the others" Soundwave replied in a nice tone to his young brother.

"Why don't you test the ones I fix, and see if they're working properly" Soundwave suggested pointing at the fixed monitors.

Mirage walked over to the monitors his brother had fixed and tested them, getting excellent results from the signals it picked up.

"Good, now everyone can get back to work" Soundwave sighed watching all the computers flip through data, as the eradicons entered the room, ready to go to work.

The eradicons nodded in thanks to Soundwave, and Soundwave then escorted Mirage down the hallway into the main room of the base where all the important things were, and mechs worked hard to keep Megatron happy.

As the door shut behind them Soundwave sighed in annoyance, seeing that Starscream was the one in command for the moment, as Megatron was most likely busy with other things, Soundwave knew from the moment he brought his brother in, watching all the hard working eradicons turn and stare, he knew trouble would be stirred up, and Starscream would be the first one to cause it.