Chapter 23: Here He Is
So... I think I would upload all my chapters now. :) Sorry but the strain has put me off. See you next year.
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After the amusing role reversal, Megatron had managed to get his wax an cycle later with some silent curses and glowers thrown at her. But then again, it was all worth it when she started working on loosening his tangled circuitry. He was a 'puddle of goo' as the humans call it when she had finished. She even had the decency to go give him a full check up without his notice.
"Night, my Lord…" She whispered to the silent mech who was now deep in recharge with a smile on her face. The door hissed shut behind as she left to go to her other mech if he was still here.
She walked down the silent hallways, knowing that the others were also catching some recharge while the ones that were awake were outside the base for night watch. She hummed a small tune that had been filling and repeating in her head. It went dududududadah~ Something like that. (AU: PS. That tune is from Sweet Little Bumblebee.)
Her humming stopped when she heard a loud clang and crash coming from the room she had been walking by. Another crash and a curse later, she didn't hesitate to step towards it.
She was about to knock on the door when it hissed open and a pede was immediately in sight. It was in line to crush any ordinary squishy if they aren't swift enough to evade it… but she wasn't one of them; she wasn't an ordinary squishy to just get stepped on.
It was short of an inch when it had suddenly stopped and as soon as it was pulled away, she tilted her head to the side. She stared at the scientist who she had not seen since the last experiment he had subjected her into. She had no clue what had happened but it had seemed that the scientist had been avoiding her as often as he could, making her confused and hurt.
She won't let it get to her though. There was always a reason for different actions… that was another universal thing.
"Shock…?" She quietly called out to him as she stared straight at his optic with her neck craned up. There was a sensation of shock washing on her but she knew that it wasn't hers. It was his… Now this is another mystery.
Before she could get lost again in her processing, she immediately had taken noticed of the dents and sparking wires all over his frame that indicated that something had really happened. Whatever it was, she plans on knowing.
"What happened?" She asked as she tried to step closer to him. He only stared at her before backing in again. He was clearly attempting to avoid her again… only this time, it was face to face making something in her switched on.
"Shock" She said, more firm and stronger, wanting the mech to stop what he was doing and give her a logical explanation on his standing behavior. When he had just continued on backing into his lab, she put her foot down. This has got to stop.
"SHOCK! WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" She burst in anger as she stomps to him. That made the scientist freeze as he gave her a wary optic.
"Yes?" For the first time, the mech had spoken to her making her anger disappear in an instant and be non-existent. It was replaced with what she had felt earlier, worry and confusion.
"Shock… I am asking, what happened?" Shein had slowly said as she stayed there, in front of him but then, she had caught sight of what really had happened.
His lab was a mess… Much like the Lord's when she had seen it. She still doesn't know how the sire did it but it was like a scrap yard it there… Shock's was coming first though.
"Uhhh…" She blinked as she tried to get a view of her surroundings but then, she felt herself being picked up by the familiar servo of the scientist. She clung on to the digit and waited for him to do another move. Something must have change to get this reaction from him.
"Femme…" It was a little static than before and a little revealing on his emotion but she could tell that it was still him. He looked worn out and ready to tip over.
"Shock… what have you been doing to yourself until now?" Worry filled her voice as her expression morph to what she was feeling. Her hands stretched out to caress his face plates, trying to grasp the emotion she got from him. It was foreign to her but she wants to try and decipher why he was feeling like that.
The frantic feeling she got from him then stirred to shock…
"Shocky… you know that you can trust me right? We're in your lab… Tell me? Tell me what is wrong… maybe I can help." She pleaded.
Silence took them in its wake but then, she felt him shift and take her to the one part of that lab that he had given her. It was the part of his space where they would just sat there and talk things out.
No one had ever seen that side she had seen on the scientist other than his crazy and cold-blooded side. His popularity of being a stoic and cruel mech had been long standing… not that she hadn't done her part in trying to coax the mech into opening up to others more.
It was a blessing in disguise when she had agreed to being his test subject the first time they had met. That had given her an excuse to see who he truly was in his own sanctuary.
The mech was really fragging smart and analytical, if you ask her. He had made many things in his long life span and had contributed too vastly in the rise of the now dead planet, Cybertron when there was still no war or oppressions, just the freedom to invent and do what he had always wanted… to break the impossible.
But then, someone had gone and ruined that for him. Why do you think Shockwave is the mech he is now? How come he had turned to this kind of mech and had gone to work on the Decepticons side? What do you think was the cause of everything that had happened? Well… Shockwave didn't really explain it clearly but she has a little bit of knowledge of him.
The mech was a proud graduate of an Interstellar Science facility with honors and awards ranging from small ones to big ones. He always looks forward to things unknown or still not touched. With the help of the curiosity of a sparkling, he had reached higher ranks of acknowledgement from other scientist and guardians.
He had cracked codes, invented useful gadgets, unraveled mysteries… until; some mech took all his work for his own credit. Shockwave didn't reveal who that mech was but he had seethed in anger when he told her what happened.
When the government on their planet was established to bring peace and unity, the unknown mech had come up to him for a talk about what they could do about a new discovery that they had managed to cultivate. He thought that it was only a friendly visit… not until there was an announcement of directed officials to different sectors that were created.
Every scientist that had known him had boasted that he would be the one given the position of Head Director of the Science and Discovery Sector. In his spark, that was what he had dreamed about, to get a status that would give him free access to things that he could not before and be given the chance to expand even more.
He waited with great patience. He just knew it that his hard work would be cut off for him but when a designation was called; every one of those who had known him was in shock. Another mech had come up to that stage and got the title.
That mech was his friend… The friend he had entertained not a vorn ago. He waited patiently after that ceremony to ask about how come he had gotten the position and found out that his so called friend had submitted his works… every slagging research he had done with his own energon and energy… The officials had said that it had boosted the slagger's status above his that is why he was the one chosen.
The officials had said that the mech had the spark of determination, great skills and the hidden talent they all had been looking for, not knowing that they were praising the wrong mech.
When he had cornered his friend, he wanted answers for his insubordination… and when he had got them, it wasn't pretty… Shock was angry that he had betrayed his trust and had stolen away all his fine work. This led him to file an order on the mech that went down in the smelthers.