When Silence Is Loudest chapter 19
He found more energon-like cubes almost immediately after parting with the memory version Soundwave. And based on their slight discoloring, it has a more pinkish hue, it wasn't memories.
So he picked up the cube.
It wasn't colors and images really. It was just pure information. Spoken knowledge. Language.
It was Soundwave's knowledge and understanding of symbiot language.
Why it wasn't back with his TIC's earlier memories made no sense to Megatron. But can a mind be so truly impeccably organized?
Not even Soundwave was perfect.
It was hard to decipher the information and knowledge, so Megatron still didn't know the language, but at least he could now understand some symbiot gibberish. And it was still mostly gibberish to him.
He'll have to get Soundwave to teach him the language. While he's still healing so he doesn't go into a boredom induced coma. Or that he goes back to his ridiculous To-Do list and workload too early. Both are likely to happen. While the former may not have actually happened yet, it did once become dangerously close to happening (Knockout insisted it was medically impossible but Megatron was sure it could happen with his communication officer). The latter is much more likely.
That would be a good much-needed distraction.
Soon Megatron found himself in the bustling new version Iacon again.
And he searched for more cubes.
He found more on the ground.
The cubes had the distinct feeling of loyalty, fierceness, some humor, a touch of pain, and exhaustion.
Wasn't this quite the adventure? Note the sarcasm.
The colors blurred in a now familiar way.
The colors settled and the scene formed. Megatron couldn't help but smile.
Soundwave's first capture by the Autobots.
He remembered that, he was worried at first, but when later told the tale (much, much later and well into their romantic relationship) he found it very humorous. And his later capture on the humans' dirt ball.
Of course he toyed with them for a while. It was hilarious to see it firsthand. He hadn't laughed that hard in ages. Soundwave made it look so easy.
The colors blurred.
It was a battle. It harsh and intense. There was fire everywhere in Megatron's line of vision and the bodies of both Autobots and Decepticons littered the ground.
Memory Megatron and Soundwave fought side by side.
Their movements were perfectly in-sync. They both used their strength and different fighting styles to their and each other's advantage.
It was very successful.
Megatron has had few chances to truly see Soundwave fighting.
He remembered watching the surveillance video with his TIC's 'battle' (the term used very loosely) with Airchnid.
He defeated her in just a few short moments!
Soundwave settled so nicely into his new frame. The thought was somewhat late, but no less true.
He spent a lot of time relearning to fight in this new frame. It had to have taken a lot of time learning the advantages and disadvantages of a smaller and thinner frame. Especially if you were used to fighting in a certain way in a larger bulker body. He watched as he saw countless memories of Soundwave retraining. He unashamedly laughed at those first awkward moments when Soundwave would trip and fall or stumble around like he's overcharged on cheap high-grade. He's honestly surprised that he didn't shatter his mask or get a dent in his face. His TIC would probably slap him for laughing about his blunders.
But back to the present memory.
The battle was soon over.
And Megatron smiled in exasperated fondness as Soundwave went right back to computer monitor work.