Author's Note: Thanks for the epic reviews. I'm working to create several more chapters in this story and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with this thing plot wise. A speceal thanks to the girlwhocriesoverantmanleavinngtheavengersonthetvshowandissuperexitedaboutthemovie. You've been the best help with ideas. I don't own Transformers Prime, and if I did Soundwave would have come back from the Shadow realm in the movie.

Raf loves weekends. Most High Schoolers do. All day Raf had been thinking about the other person he had met at the telescope. He fervently hopes that they'll be online by the time he gets home. Carefully he considers not going racing with his model car. He shakes his head.

'I've already gone one day without testing the new wiring I put in. Besides I have all weekend to be online and wait for Hack.' After an hour of testing out his model car, Raf decides it functions well enough and hurries home. His computer whirrs to life and Raf quickly clicks through to the website he had told Hack about. Raf knew that, yeah, maybe meeting up online with someone who had hacked into NASA is probably a bad idea all around. Raf grins slightly. His mother had said the same thing about hacking the US Military, except she was especially firm about it being a horrible idea. His punishment for that act was a week without tech and a long tirade about why he really should not be hacking into places that could come after him and murder the whole family in their beds. He shivers slightly, hoping Hack has no plans to kill him or his multitude of family members.

Raf waits in one of the empty chat rooms, humming a song softly beneath his breath. A few minutes later someone else enters the room. Raf notices the username, Lazerhack. Interesting, but not necessarily a dead on hint that this is Hack. Raf waits for the other person to speak first.

-Soundwave, Decepticon-

Soundwave has had another boring day. He reported his most important findings about Earth to Starscream, while keeping silent about this human is seen as a threat, well bye bye to to the only interesting thing in the universe to Soundwave and hello another couple hundred vorns of boredom. Soundwave feels a shudder run through his frame at the idea. A nearby vehicon backs up, unused to any outward signs of emotion from Soundwave. The object of fear continues down the corridor to his quarters without noticing. Soundwave can not wait to get on his personal terminal and find the human. Lazerbeak watches on, interest for her master's excitement driving her curiosity. Soundwave pets Lazerbeak on the head and focuses his attention on the screen. He searches through the chat rooms available on the website Raf had told him to go to. Giving each one a few seconds to yield results, Sound wave quickly runs through the website.

Ten minutes in and Soundwave finds him. Excitement buzzing in his spark chamber, Soundwave types in the code words that reveal him as Hack. Quietly he waits for Raf to reply.

-Hi Hack!-

Soundwave returns the greeting a slight pause drifts into the online conversation. Feeling the impending boredom slinking slowly towards him, Soundwave barely hesitates as he types in a question, hoping for a positive response.

-Can you set up another defense system around something so that I can hack it? I want to hone my skills.-

The honing was a lie. He just needed another challenge before his processor become so bored it shut down.

-I don't believe your skills need honing. Mine do though, so give me a minute.-

-Rafael, Human-

Raf searches for a place to hack into then defend from the inside.'It needs to be a place that's easily hacked into in the first place and a place no one will notice. Oh I know!'

A few strokes of the keyboard and he's inside the system for a Middle school in the next state over. He quickly starts sets up a weaker barrier at the entrance of the system, partially to confuse Hack and partially to allow any one who was checking on the system in more easily. Then he sets up a barrier around the principal's file, trying to make it more complex than the one from yesterday. After setting up both of the barriers he sends a message to Hack, informing him of the school and that the goal is to take the principal's file.

Three minutes later his outer defense is torn down. Raf grins as he works on keeping up the defenses of the second barrier while trying to create a third and final barrier.

-Soundwave, Decepticon-

This human provided an excellent challenge for non complexity of the first barrier did disappoint Soundwave, that is true, but the second wall of defenses provides him with an interesting challenge. The complexity of the barrier makes Soundwave halt some of his less meaningful searches . His optics behind his mask glitter madly, showing his excitement. But to all other cybertronians, if they could see him, that is, since he is in his quarters, he looks completely like normal. No emotion escapes from behind the mask he wears, nor do they escape through his frame. He notices the defenses deeper into the barrier are increasing in complexity and are adapting slightly to his hacking.

'An adapting system? Fascinating that Raf is able to detect a pattern in my hacking. Very fascinating. Not something I can't counter, but still….'

Soundwave begins to subtly change his hacking style so he slips past the adapting wall. He starts moving faster through the layers of code, making sure that each time he broke a code line he changed his style slightly. After breaking through the second barrier, his optics widen fractionally at the sight of a third wall.

'My initial scan only showed two barriers. Raf was able to create a third wall while defending against me! Thats a bit of a shock.'

Soundwave sets about breaking past the final barrier. His scans show that there is not one beyond, but perhaps the human would use the same technique twice. Soundwave sifts through the coding, trying to work his way in. His first attempt to enter the final barrier ends in failure, surprising the silent mech. He tries entering again with his scanners focusing on the movement of the code in reaction to his entering. He is once again unable to enter, but this time he can see why. This barrier was created from data collected about his hacking from the other two walls of code. This is very similar to a technique used by some of the best code makers on Cybertron. The familiarity of the firewall pattern stalls Soundwave for an astrosecond.

Its not exactly like those Cybertronian defenses; those had hundreds of layers of firewalls, each taking information about any hacker in the system and transferring it to the next firewall. By the time most mechs or femmes got to the tenth wall, the system knew their style of hacking very well and was able to block them completely. Soundwave was one of the few on Cybertron that was able to completely change their style of hacking in the middle of a system and break past the firewalls. This ability had helped elevate him to his position in the Decepticon army.

Less than an hour later Soundwave has gotten through the final barrier. The data about the principle is collected and then he backs out of the system. Both hacker's return to the chat room they had previously been in.

-Wow! You broke through those firewalls like a wrecking ball smashing into a building. I never had a chance.-

Soundwave tilts his helm slightly, allowing the compliment to sink to his spark chamber. Then he types in his response.

-If I am a wrecking ball, your buildings made out of a magnesium based alloy. It was a really well built defense system.-

-Sure it was.-

He tilts his helm again, confused as to why the human always is putting down their own skill. Such actions were unhealthy when continuously applied and where actually believed by the beings processor. Gently he taps his servo against his personal terminal. It is a shame that he was unable to force this smart creature to accept its abilities.

-They were the most difficult walls I have hacked through in a while.-

Sometimes adding a bit more truth can help the other believe in your compliments. Soundwave pounders how he could further convince Raf of his skill level. Meanwhile he starts up a few of the searches he had halted during the competition.

-Have you tried the Pentagon? The base of the coding is far simpler then I had expected from the military, but some files are more difficult to get into.-

-Which ones?-

Soundwave is curious to find out what had stumped the other hacker. He silently wonders what Raf's age is and where he learned to hack. He felt a sharp tug from his curiosity that is just begging him to hack into Raf's systems and find out everything about him. Soundwave shoves the feeling away, frowning beneath the mask. The human would likely be offended that Soundwave had hacked his system and would refuse to create any more challenges. That would be completely unacceptable.

-Well the one labeled E.T.A.I. I was interested by the strange acronym,but the coding for it was WAY beyond my level. *-* -

Soundwave's optics widen slightly, wondering how he could have missed such a strangely titled file. He knew the autobots probably had contacted the United States Government when the arrived on this world. He knew from the trajectory of their ship they had landed somewhere in the USA. Perhaps this file has some sort of connection to the Autobots. He increases his hacking of the Pentagon, trying to figure out the location of the file. Most of Soundwave's attention stays focused on Raf.

I might have to test it if you say it's difficult.-

-Yeah be my guest Hack. Tell me if you spot anything that is interesting. I gotta go. I'll be on tomorrow morning. Lets friend each other on this website so we can find each other faster tomorrow.-

-I'll be here then Raf. See you.-

-Bye Hack.-

Soundwave accepts the friend request sent to him, noting that it alerted him whenever Raf gets online. He logs off and starts up more of his searches. He wants to to get his report for Starscream over with as early as possible. A sigh passes through his systems as he thinks of Lord Megatrons power hungry second in command. Hopefully Lord Megatron would return from deep space and replace Starscream as leader of the ship soon. Settling in for a long period of boring research, Soundwave locks his leg joints and lets himself fall into the world of code.

-Rafael, Human-

Raf awakens with a groan, weariness biting at the inside of his eyes. He had been up really late last night with Hack. His hand grabs his glasses and he pushes them over his cinnamon brown eyes. Crossing his arms beneath his head, Raf stares at the dull white ceiling above him. His nose detects the smell of pancakes being made in the kitchen. Rubbing his eyes once more, Raf gets up and sleepily stumbles to the kitchen. Deciding to wait till after breakfast to get online and talk to Hack, Raf sits down at the large table. Raf pours maple syrup all over his food while smiling, as two of his sibling start to squabble over who had more pancakes. He yawns once more, content to be among family and glad of the promise of a new friend.