So, the funniest thing happened to me. I was in chemistry and had to connect my laptop to my phone and my hotspot is named Soundwave. So, I turned it on and a guy in my class stood up and yelled "Who's the Decepticon! Show yourself imposter!" and he was wearing an autobot tee so the whole class ended up laughing for twenty minutes when my teacher who was beside me stood up with me and yelled "You're the imposter here!" and kicked him out of the class for the day.
Chapter 25
"Who?" Soundwave and Knockout ask having never heard of him before. Madelyn turned her attention from arguing with Fowler to the 'people' that asked that question
"Silas, leader of the terrorist organisation MECH" she explained nicely with a smile before rounding back on Fowler and arguing her point further. Fowler didn't want to send Madelyn on this dangerous mission and was arguing against it.
"Introductions Fowler?" Ratchet asks as he picked up a wrench.
"In a minute" Fowler said, "Madelyn no! you're not going on this mission"
"I say let her. She wants to do it, if she dies it's her fault. She also seems skilled enough form her field reports and skill assessments" Soundwave told Fowler just to stop the argument.
"Thank you" Madelyn said pointing at him, she paused for a moment, "I think" she mumbled.
"You think?" Soundwave says sarcastically.
"yeah..." she said slowly, "Fowler come on! I can do this mission" she pressed. Fowler turned on Soundwave, "Stop helping her! she has enough of a death wish without you supporting her!" Fowler then turned to Madelyn, "Do not think about doing that mission or you're grounded" he said pointedly with a hard look.
"Well that's not fair I already thought about it" she said crossing her arms and pouting.
"Well why don't we go with her then?" Soundwave says and Bee smacks him in the back of the head. "OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Soundwave demands.
"Because that's dumb! Fowler obviously doesn't want her to go" Bee explained. "Wait how can you ground her? Aren't you her SO?" Raf asked.
"Then he'd tie her up and lock her away until she changed her mind, but he's not going to do that because the idea has merit" soundwave hissed. "Technically I'm more like a nanny" Fowler replied.
"You're an uncle and a guardian not a fucking nanny" Madelyn deadpanned to Fowler then she turned to Soundwave, "Please don't give him any ideas cause he will go through with it" she begged.
"Honey, I'm telepathic. I know what he's thinking before he thinks it. And stop thinking about my sister that way! You're dating Arcee!" Soundwave replied. The last bit was directed at smoke for thinking about bee.
Smoke backed out of the room quickly, he was glad that Arcee wasn't around. "You're actually thinking about that?" Madelyn turned to Fowler with a glare that he flinched at a little bit.
"Thinking about it and approving it in his head sweetheart" soundwave chuckled. Madelyn took a cautious step away from Fowler. "I don't trust you" Madelyn stated, directing it directly at Fowler. Fowler gave Soundwave a glare, "Why are you taking his word for it?" he asked.
"Because she knows it's true. And no, I didn't read her mind to know that. I just looked at her face" Soundwave says as he leaned back against Knockouts chest.
"He's not wrong" she whispered, "Also you wouldn't be able to read my mind" she laughed off.
"I know but I really don't care if I can't" Soundwave says "I get all me blackmail from the security cameras. Speaking of which, Bee did you know that smokescreen is stalking you now?" He asks as he pushed Knockout further back on the desk he's sitting on, so he could sit between his legs.
"Little glitch" Bee cursed quietly.
"He does what?!" Optimus hissed. He was infuriated that smoke does something like this.
"Okay let's go for a walk" Bee suggested calmly, she turned to Madelyn before pushing Optimus away to say, "Nice to meet you", then they left.
Now that they're gone, I still say that we go with you on this mission!" Soundwave said.
"See Fowler I have a team now!" Madelyn beamed hoping that she was wearing down her uncle's resolve.
"We won't stop until you say yes now" Soundwave added. Madelyn nodded and pointed at him with a grin before morphing her face into a pout and puppy dog eyes that always worked on her uncle. Soundwave did his adorable puppy dog head tilt thing too. Fowler uncrossed his arms and his face soften. He opened his mouth and said,
"NO" before walking off.
"Dammit! I'm so bored!" Soundwave whined to knockout and Madelyn.
"How are you bored already? We only just lost the fight!" Madelyn asked, she was frustrated that she couldn't get the importance of the mission across to her uncle.
"He joined the fight because he was bored" Ratchet replied.
"Oh..." Madelyn understood, she stood for a moment before hitting herself in the head, "I'm so dumb, you know who I am, but I don't know who you are" she said to the three mechs still in the room.
"I'm Ratchet, the red head is Knockout and the one that's trying to kill the teddy bear is Soundwave" Ratchet replied. No one had any idea where Soundwave got the bear, but they didn't want to ask.
"Nice to meet you" she said, she found the names odd, but she grew up on army bases and nicknames instead of actual names were usual. The others took the confused look as just confusion for the teddy bear. Soundwave went from killing the teddy to biting knockouts neck in a nanoklick. Biting hard enough to draw out energon, which, of course, he drank not caring that the new girl seemed freaked out.
"What the fuck?" she asked wide eyed, she took a few steps back quickly.
"Soundwave!" Ratchet yelled. Not that Soundwave listened, he was 'snacking' on Knockout as he yelped in surprise.
"Soundwave, detach now or else what we had planned won't happen" KO threatened him, KO could see how freaked out Madelyn was.
Soundwave pulled his fangs out of Knockout with a pout but a thin stream of energon dribbled down his chin.
"Yeah, this is possibly the first time I'm glad that I have training" the girl stated as she turned to leave. Suddenly the alarms started blasting as bee and optimus skidded around the corner.
"What's going on?" Bee asked as she slipped from the skid.
"How should I know?! Wait... don't answer that!" Soundwave says as he checked the security cameras as, speak later f the devil, they showed M.E.C.H.
"Wait is that Silas? Here?" Madelyn asked as she moved closer to the screen showing the activity.
"The creepy blonde dude?" Soundwave asks.
"Yes, that's him" Madelyn said her gaze hardening.
"Hey prime? What's the plan?" Knockout asks.
"Gather the other bots if they are here then we need to be ready for a fight" he said as he grabbed his gun and loaded it. Madelyn had snuck away while they had talked of a plan. She was going to look at the situation and report back, she was hoping to get somewhere high to get a view point of MECH.
"Where's the new girl?" Soundwave asks. Bee looked around before realising that Madelyn had slipped past without them noticing,
"Oh scrap" she cursed quietly. "Didn't Fowler want her to stay away from MECH?" Optimus asked.
"Yep" soundwave says cheerfully.
"Scrap" they all /except Soundwave/ cursed. Madelyn had found a high view point and was watching and listening to MECH's plans. Soundwave appeared beside her and sat down quietly. She didn't flinch or acknowledge that he was there, but she knew. Her eyesight was trained on Silas and MECH but even with her advanced hearing she couldn't hear what they were saying.
"there talking about how to get inside" Soundwave whispered to her.
"Mm" She hummed back, "I thought as much but I need to know their plan to get back to Fowler" she whispered.
"They want our energon to make more powerful weapons" he said with a frown.
"What's energon?" she whispered back.
"Very powerful liquid that knockout and I feed on. It goes directly into our blood and acts like food or us" Soundwave replied.
"Right" she whispered, "We can get that info back to Fowler, but we need to know how they plan to get in, can you hear?" Madelyn asked. He nodded. "They want it to use the tunnels under the base" he replied.
"Oh! I know them!" Madelyn said a little bit louder then she should have.
"Sh!" Soundwave hissed.
"Shit" she cursed quietly, no one from MECH had heard her luckily. "Alright, I'll go watch the tunnel entrance from within the base, you go let Fowler and your team know" Madelyn said moving before Soundwave could stop her. Soundwave informed the others and then disappeared into the control room. Madelyn had made it to the tunnels and flicked on her communicator to change into what she dubbed her spy outfit. Soundwave had found her on his internal screens and was diverting all the power to the lock down systems. Madelyn bought up a screen on her communicator and hacked into the comms, so she could hear what was going on.
"Soundwave shut it down!" Optimus demands
"I've got no power to the controls!" Soundwave replied
"plug in and do it manually!" Optimus demands again
"I'll drain myself! My feeler can't sustain the flow of energy!" Soundwave snapped
"SOUNDWAVE!" Optimus yells
"FINE!" Soundwave shouts back.
"Jeez" Madelyn said to herself quietly, "Hey guys I hear movement down here, most likely MECH" she said into the comms.
suddenly all the bulkheads between Madelyn and M.E.C.H lock themselves and the M.E.C.H agents were forced to retreat as water started to full the tunnels.
"Well that works" Madelyn said to herself. After M.E.C.H had left, and Fowler told optimus to keep an eye on Madelyn was when bee and knockout realized that soundwave wasn't there.
"Scrap!" they cursed in sync and ran off to the control room. Soundwave had collapsed against the control panel and slid to the ground. His feeler was still plugged in and it and the socket was smoking. Bee and KO tried to remove the feeler, but it burnt them at the touch, Madelyn came in as she had followed them and quickly removed it her hand becoming burnt. With KO's help they laid him out away from the console. Soundwave had fried his systems and burned the energon out of his veins. He was so close to off lined it wasn't funny.
"Does he need, uh... energon?" Madelyn asked quickly.
"I don't wanna know how you know that but yes" knockout says as he connected him to an energon IV.
"He talked about it while we were watching MECH" she said as she reset the computer systems and cooled them down.
"Huh" Knockout muttered as he wiped Soundwaves head with a wet cloth.
"Yep" she said as she typed a few things to get the systems running.
"Ow!" Soundwave moans as he opened his eyes that where glowing a vivid purple.
"Sick eyes" Madelyn mumbled.
"I feel like I just got hit by the nemesis" Soundwave muttered without thinking.
"Well you didn't" KO said, "Yeah dude. Your systems shut down after initiating the lock down, your feeler was still in the system and we almost burnt our hands trying to get it out" Bee explained.
"That would explain the pain in my feeler" Soundwave commented as he held onto Knockouts arm.
"We are fortunate that Madelyn followed us, she was able to get it out when we couldn't" KO said placing his hand on Soundwave's.
"Thanks" Soundwave mumbles sleepily.
"Perhaps he should go and get some sleep" Madelyn suggested as the computers lit up, she was still typing away.
"I totally will when smoke and Arcee stop going at it. Please don't change anything on there by the way" Soundwave says to Madelyn.
"Oh, I'm not! Don't worry there's nothing to change this base has the most enhanced system I've seen" she said ignoring the first part of the sentence.
"Thank! I'm proud of it!" Soundwave says with a grin.
"You should be" she replied. Soundwave turned to Knockout "I can't get up but I'm really cold" he says with is puppy dog eyes and head tilt. So, KO threw a blanket at his face making the girl and the femme laugh.
"Awesome!" Soundwave says as he smuggled into it.
"right well have fun with that" Madelyn said as she got up to leave.
"Bumblebee? Optimus is looking for you" soundwave says out of the blue when Madelyn was about to leave. Confusing her because there was no way to know that without using the coms or computer, and he did neither. She was going to question it but thought better of it. Fowler had warned her that this team was unlike every other soldier or agent she had been around, and Fowler had said that he would explain things in time, so she kept walking. "Okay, where is he?" Bee asked.
"Third floor, seventh corridor and half way down it" soundwave replied freaking Madelyn out more. Madelyn left the room completely without the others taking notice, one thought on her mind, 'what the fuck sort of team is this?'. Bee had made her way to the 3rd floor and was walking towards the 7th corridor
"Bee!" Optimus shouts and grabs her around the waist. Bee yelped at the sudden action but giggled afterwards. "What's up? Soundwave said you were looking for me"
"Just making sure you are OK" he said.
three weeks later and Madelyn was getting very suspicious about this so called 'team'. Fowler had left to deal with an emergency and he had been gone for a week so far. Fowler hadn't explained anything like he said he would. Optimus had been assigned her guardian and that had made her even more suspicious, but she had kept quiet for the week till she couldn't take it anymore. She had to find out what was going on. Soundwave was in the control room with Bee, Optimus and Knockout when he caught her sneaking around on his internal screens. He let her go wondering what she was doing so he watched. She wasn't so much sneaking more like she wanted to get to the med bay to talk to Ratchet before anyone stopped her. Ratchet was cleaning when she came in.
"Hey Ratchet" she said smiling.
"What do you want?" He asks suspiciously.
"No need to be suspicious, I was gonna come right out and ask. What is this team? Fowler said that he would explain things, but he hasn't, and he's using the emergency as an excuse not to tell me" she said/asked.
"You should ask optimus or soundwave. Their more likely to tell you" ratchet replied.
"Yeah but they're probably busy, I saw them in the control room like 2 minutes ago" Madelyn sort of whined.
"Probably just talking" Ratchet replied. Madelyn glared slightly at the back of his head, 'he's such an ass' she thought. "Fine I'll go ask them and be a bother to them" she sided as she walked away.
"We have incoming!" Soundwave shouted as optimus stashed the papers they were looking at and the doors opened. Madelyn had heard the shout from outside the door and it just added to her confusion. "I'm interrupting something aren't I? If I am I yelling at Ratchet" she asked/stated as she crossed her arms.
They just laughed "No but we thought you were Fowler for a second. We were reading some confidential information. don't tell him we did that" optimus said.
"Secrets safe with me, and Fowler isn't gonna be back for like another week at least" Madelyn said.
"So, what's up?" Soundwave asks.
"What's this team? Fowler said he was going to explain things, but he didn't and Ratchets being an ass so can someone fill me in?" she asked.
"Sure. We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Or sentient living robotic beings, mostly originating from the planet of Cybertron, which to humans means they're robotic aliens from another world." Soundwave replied
"SOUNDWAVE! WE ARE NOT MEANT TO SAY ANYTHING!" Optimus yells.
"So you're aliens, cool! It actually makes a lot more sense" Madelyn mused unaffected by the news, she had seen and heard weirder.
"Now that that's done and dusted, someone please put a leash on smoke and Arcee?" He said to optimus.
"Don't change the subject Soundwave" Optimus said frustrated,
"Damn" he muttered.
"You weren't meant to find out Madelyn" Optimus said, "what Soundwave failed to mention is that our race is spilt apart by a civil war that has been raging on for eons. We the Autobots fight for peace and freedom while our enemies the Decepticon's fight to bring Earth and Cybertron under the rule of their leader Megatron. If Megatron finds out you know of us, then you are in danger" he explained. Madelyn took a minute to process what he had said before saying, "Now I know why I have a guardian, and why Fowler didn't want to tell me... but know I can take care of myself"
"And she has you" Soundwave says. Optimus gave an unimpressed look to Soundwave while Madelyn nodded, agreeing with his point.
"What did you expect me to do? I'm still a con I just don't like their leader!" Soundwave defends. Madelyn raised an eyebrow at his statement. 'he's a con? but he's somewhat nice' Madelyn thought to herself.
"And to be far, knockout, Starscream and I tried to kill megaton so many times it's not funny. That guy just doesn't die!" Soundwave complained.
"Right well thank you for telling me" Madelyn said as she turned to go call Fowler.