When Silence Is Loudest chapter 8
During the accident that cost Soundwave his gladiator frame, he also lost some of his memories.
He's admitted to Megatron before that most of his sparkling and youngling memories were gone. But he mostly remembered his 'teenage' years and his time in the gladiator rink in Kaon. Especially his time in the gladiator rink in Kaon.
But Soundwave did have a happy childhood.
So Megatron witnessed a few more memories. All but one involving Microwave and Soundbarrier.
Soundwave wasn't very popular among other younglings.
But still mostly good memories.
He was glad Soundwave had such good memories of his childhood and especially his parents.
There were a few memories of his sire teaching Soundwave symbiot language. She promised it would prove to be useful one day ('If only you knew' Megatron thought with a grin when he heard this). Not that Soundwave was adverse to learning it. He soaked up any bit of information and learning that he could garner.
He fondly looked at another memory of his carrier teaching him to fight.
"Haha! Good job my little spy!"
Megatron wondered how that endearment came about. But the memory seemed to be lost.
It seemed like Soundwave lived with Soundbarrier, while Microwave visited.
It was a good plan.
In Kaon no one would wonder why someone wouldn't admit who the other parent was. Children born with only one parent wasn't unusual. In fact it was more of the norm than sparkling born to both parents.
But then another memory came.
Soundwave now looked like an older youngling, almost going into his teen years.
Megatron found out why they called him 'little spy'.
"My co-workers are starting to suspect something." Microwave admitted. Soundwave stood behind the slightly cracked door and listened.
"Do I cut a few visits here? Do I not come for a while?" she continued. By her tone of voice it was obvious that was the last thing she wanted to do.
"I don't know how much longer we can keep doing this." Soundbarrier said.
Microwave sounded about ready to cry.
"What can we do?"
"I don't know. I just don't know."
Whether or not they ever found out about Soundwave's spying remained unclear.
The next memory was horrible.
It started pleasant. Soundbarrier and Microwave teaching Soundwave.
Then the Cybertronian version of the 'police' came.
They droned on for a few minutes about them breaking laws and then said the sentence was death.
Microwave wasn't a fighter. She tried her hardest but with one mistake she had a spear in her chest.
Soundbarrier was harder to kill. He was experienced in battle. But for one terrible moment he turned to scream at Soundwave to run and hide the policemech took that moment of weakness and speared him.
Energon was everywhere.
"What should we do with the youngling?" one asked turning to the other one.
"Leave the inter-caste bastard to die." He spat.
And they left. They started talking about some bar fight while they left.
Soundwave crawled over to where his parents' bodies were. He shook them for a moment and then stopped.
"Stupid Soundwave." He muttered to himself while his bottom lip started to quiver. "They're dead."
And that's when the sobs started.
Megatron has never seen Soundwave cry before.
And now he heard these terrible cries that could only come from a child going through great grief.
The almost teenager hugged both his parents' necks as he cried.
The warlord was even sure how long Soundwave sat there hugging his parents' dead bodies crying.
The only thing Megatron could think was 'So that's what happened to his parents.'