When Silence Is Loudest chapter 11
Megatron finally returned to the mental landscape.
It didn't look as innocent as before.
Those defiantly weren't memories.
He shuddered.
And he walked.
Good to know that it wasn't just memories here (Insert sarcasm). All though it would have been nice to know before he saw all of Soundwave's interfacing fantasies.
Megatron grumbled to himself for a while as he now stomped through the landscape.
He quite literally tripped over the memory 'cubes'. He quietly grumbled to himself as he inspected the cube's color. Oh thank Primus, the color indicated that it was in fact memories.
He let the emotions attached to the memories wash over him.
Pain, humiliation, annoyance, hope, and loyalty. In that order, and not at the same time.
He grabbed the cube-like object and the colors blurred.
Once his head stopped spinning he looked at what was going on.
It was Soundwave. In the gladiator pits. Signing up if Megatron's assumption was correct.
When he signed up, a mech behind him gave him this unpleasant and creepy slag-eating grin.
"Look what the cybercat dragged in." he said, but then his awful grin widened when he saw Ravage. "Haha accidental pun." He added.
Megatron had the sudden and unexplainable urge to punch him in the face.
"But I have to give it to you Freakwave, you picked a pretty good way to cleanse us of your inter-caste presence."
Soundwave sharply turned his head to stare at him.
"Why I outta…!" Rumble said before Frenzy held him back.
"Rumble stop. Warblazer is not worth it." Soundwave softly said.
'Warblazer's' face turned red in his fury.
"What did you just say to me?!"
"Well not you, Rumble remember?" Frenzy said.
"Soundwave: superior. Warblazer: inferior." Soundwave said slowly, like he was saying it to a simpleton.
So that's where his Third-In-Command's infamous phrase came from.
Warblazer's face turned a deeper shade of red in his anger.
"Just you wait, you inter-caste fragging slag-eater acid-face Primus reject freak! I'll kick your aft!"
Megatron found his attempts of insult pitiful.
"Ha! I'd like to see you try!" Rumble said.
"Are you so weak you have your drones defend you?" the crude mech said next."
Megatron was offended on all of their behalf. To call a symbiot, minibot, or cyberanimal a drone was very insulting.
"We defend each other! It's not a weakness, but a strength!" Frenzy said crossing his tiny arms with absolute conviction. "And we are not drones!"
The other three symbiots expressed their agreement.
Warblazer gaped for a few moments. It was obvious he wasn't use to being stood up to.
"He's unreasonable, we'll have to kick his sorry aft." Rumble said grinning evilly.
The rude mech was finally snapped out of his shocked state.
"I look forward to it." He harshly spat out.
'He wasn't the only one.' Megatron thought grinning.
And the colors blurred again.
A punch to Soundwave's side.
The purple blue mech reared back but returned the favor with a punch of his own.
Soundwave was an exceptionally fast learner, and he quickly learned the die or not die rule here.
Megatron looked in awe at Soundwave as he used both his large body and intellect to fight.
He honed his skills here.
He doesn't quite have the grace that he will fight with later, he doesn't make it look easy yet.
Yet.
But he can't not look at Soundwave with pride. It happens whenever he sees him fight. The first reason he wanted him to join his Cause, before finding out about his tremendous loyalty.
When he saw the recording of Soundwave's 'fight' with Arachnid he had this ridiculous warm feeling in his chest.
He was glad he got to him first before the Autobots could poison him with their sentimental promises. Then again, Soundwave wouldn't have believed such lies. He knew far too much about what was actually going on from his past. He scoffed at their ideas.
Going back to the memory he saw Soundwave's victory and the crowd's screaming cheers of "SOUNDWAVE! SOUNDWAVE!"