The next Morning Soundwave awoke to a very rude call. "SOUNDWAVE HOW DARE YOU LEAVE THE NEMESIS WITHOUT MY SAYING AGAIN, YOU DISOBEYED ME ONCE AGAIN!" The roaring voice of the warlord screamed, almost piercing Soundwave's audios. *Megatron!* Soundwave gasped, looking around to see nothing. Realizing the warlord was on his commlink. "SOUNDWAVE GET BACK ON THIS VESSEL IMMEDIATELY!" Megatron ordered. *Why!?* Soundwave snapped through their bond. *So you can scream at me and tell me I'm stupid!* Soundwave hissed. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!" Megatron bellowed. *You don't want me there, you said so yourself!* Soundwave scoffed. *You said I wasn't your son but Optimus's!* Soundwave growled. *You said you wanted to build a bond, but all you've done is create a painful rollercoaster!* the youngling continued. *You're nice one moment then and aft the next, you're like a femme on her cycle!* Soundwave cried. "FUNNY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING SIDING WITH THE AUTOBOTS?" Megatron sneered. "THAT'S RIGHT BETRAY YOUR OWN FATHER!" Megatron tried to make Soundwave feel guilty. "I'm not joining, I said no!" Soundwave said aloud. "I told them no because, I didn't want to betray anyone" Megatron calmed his tone. "Nice to hear you are still loyal" Megatron snorted.
Bumblebee was just walking into the old silo, when he over heard echoing of sobs. "Optimus and Bumblebee treat me like a real bot, not a glorified slave!" Soundwave spat. Bumblebee pressed himself against the wall and listened to Soundwave's voice cry. "Oh they do, so you are with them!" Megatron snarled. "I have emotions, and Optimus was nice enough to notice, and didn't offline me when he had the chance!" Megatron laughed. "Of course he didn't you're a youngling, he would never kill a youngling he dosn't have the spark!" Tears started to shead from Soundwave's optics, pooling at the bottom of his mask. "No, Optimus has a spark!" Soundwave defended. "SOUNDWAVE YOU ARE MY SON NOT HIS, I WILL COME RETRIEVE YOU MYSELF IF I HAVE TO!" The warlord threatened. "I wish I was Optimus's son, and not yours!" Soundwave cried aloud. "I WISH I NEVER ADMITTED YOU WERE MY SON, YOU ACTUALLY ACOMPLISHED THINGS!" Megatron spat back. "I still do, I just have a personality!" Soundwave hissed. "I LIKED YOU BETTER WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONALITY!" the gunmetal warlord hissed. "I've always had one, but I hid it!" More tears fell from his multi coloured optics. "I'M BRINGING YOU BACK, DON'T YOU THINK I WON'T!" "THE WORST MISTAKE WAS LETTING YOU BE A YOUNGLING!" Megatron screamed ending the call.
Soundwave released his visors sealed locks. Removing his mask he let his pool of tears drain. Placing his visor on the ground beside him, Soundwave curled up into a ball. And let himself cry. So many tears were shead from his optics, even he couldn't count them if he tried. "Hey... Waffles" Bumblebee warily approached Soundwave. Soundwave was facing the opposite direction. "You ok?" Bumblebee beeped with concern, standing beside the crying youngling. *I...I'm fine, thank you* Soundwave replied. Looking over his shoulder to see the scout holding two energon cubes. Bumblebee's optics went wide at the site of Soundwave maskless. He did have a face. And his optics were like nothing he had ever seen before. Maybe Ratchet was right. He was no ordinary Cybertronian. "I brought you some energon" Bumblebee ignored his urge, to ask about his cousins face. Handing the troubled drone, an energon cube. Bumblebee sat down beside his cousin. Soundwave sobbed and sat upright, beside the scout.
*Thank you, I really appreciate it* Soundwave thanked his older cousin. "I heard you yelling, did Megatron call you?" Bumblebee asked, as Soundwave took a sip of his energon. "Oh... then I geuss there's no point in talking through our bond, and keeping my voice a secret to you..." Soundwave sighed. "You seem really upset" Bumblebee bleeped ,worried. "Megatron is on the hunt for me" Soundwave closed his optics. "Do you want to go back with him?" Bumblebee asked taking a sip of his own energon. "I do, but a certain part of me is telling me not too Bee" Soundwave looked at Bumblebee, with those striking, multi coloured optics. "We are not forcing you to make any decision, the only one forcing is Megatron" Bumblebee mentioned. "Yeah true enough" Soundwave shrugged.
"Soundwave you have amazing optics!" Bumblebee couldn't hold back anymore. Totally changing the subject. Soundwave's optics went wide in surprised. Soundwave looked down seeing his visor beside him on the floor. "Sorry I had to say something" Bumblebee apologiezed with a smile. "They're not that interesting" Soundwave scoffed with a nervous smile. Feeling quite awkward without his mask. "Dude they're insanely awesome!" Bumblebee blurted, bearly containing his excitment. "You're a goof, you know that?" Soundwave playfully pushed Bumblebee. "No seriously Waffles!" Bumblebee smiled. "You have my cyan blue, Optimus's sky blue, and Megatrons blood red" Bumblebee bleeped. "No one else has multi coloured optics?" Soundwave questioned. "No dude, I've never seen anything like it!" Bumblebee continuesly beeped exitiedly. "Hmm, hey Bee shouldn't you be hanging out with the human childeren?" Soundwave questioned. "Naw, Raf always hangs out with Ratchet, and Jack and Miko hang out with Cee and Bulk" Bumblebee scoffed. "Dosn't it bother you, that your human ignores you and spends more time with the old doc bot?" Soundwave questioned. "A little" Bumblebee admitted. "But fun and adventure isn't really him, staying at the base and being on the computer is more him" Bumblebee buzzed. "Ok, so what do you play with the others?" Soundwave asked curiously. "The others are to busy, with Miko and Jack" Bumblebee shrugged. "Do you wrestle?" Soundwave smirked. "Sometimes with Bulk, why do you?" Bumblebee smiled. "A couple times" Soundwave admitted.
"Alright lets see what you got Waffles!" Bumblebee challenged. Placing his energon cube down, and standing up. "Challenge excepted!" Soundwave smiled getting to his peds.
Meanwhile on the Nemesis Megatron was fumming, and he wasn't the only one. "Lord Megatron I warned you on what to say to him!" Knockout growled. "Look doctor I care not for your whining I just want him found!" Megatron hissed, in the Medics face. "Miss him good!" Knockout scoffed. "No the ship is missing him, it needs his attention!" Megatron lowly growled. "Ok, I give up, you completely hate your son!" Knockout threw his arms up. "No I do not!" Megatron snapped. "The only thing I hate, is that little youngling processor of his" Megatron scowled. "He's completely turned into a stupid youngling that gets into everything!" Knockout just laughed, at the warlord. "You wanted to bring him back into your life and you did" Knockout snorted. "You treated him like a youngling should be treated" Megatron was listening. "Soundwave trusted you as your most loyal servant, and trusted you to be a father for him" Knockout sighed. Now he dosn't trust you at all!" Knockout spat. "You saw an immature little sparkling"
"I saw a youngling willing to do anything to please his father" Knockout shook his helm at Megatron. "I understand he is quite the trouble maker, but the trouble he got into was smaller then the entire ship doing a nose dive into the ground!" the medic gave an example. "And that was not his fault either, that was Starscream who didn't do proper calibrations!" the red mech hissed looking off to the side. "I don't know I'm just trying to talk sence, if anything got through I hope for the best for both of you" Knockout finally ended his ranting. And left the warlord to ponder in his own thoughts.
Giggling echoed through the cave, as Optimus approached the broken enterance to the small abandoned silo. Optimus was looking for Bumblebee. The youngling left that morning, to give Soundwave some energon, and hadn't returned in quite a few hours. The closer to the enterance he got, the louder the giggling got. Optimus stopped at the broken doors, and peeked through a small opening between the broken doors. And what he saw couldn't have put a bigger smile on his face plate. The two younglings were playfully wrestling. Autobot and Decepticon playing together. It reminded the prime of a movie the human children once watched at the base. It was a cute movie, a fox and a hound dog, sworn enemies, became best friends, not knowing they were supposed to be enemies. Optimus thought he would never see the day, Bumblebee would finally have another youngling to play with.
"Pinned you!" Bumblebee bleeped. Holding Soundwave down with one arm on his cousins chest. "That's what you think!" Soundwave giggled. As Lazerbeak divebombed Bumblebee. "Ah!" Bumblebee lifted his arm off of Soundwave, covering his helm, and ducking. Soundwave took that as his que. He retracted one of his tentacles, and wrapped it tightly around Bumblebee. trapping the scouts arms, Soundwave slamed Bumblebee to the ground. And held the scout there pinning him. "Hey no fair!" Bumblebee squirmed. "I should have saw that coming" Bumblebee rolled his optics. "Yeah you should have" Soundwave giggled, releasing Bumblebee. "I didn't even see you release Lazerbeak, how'd you do that!?" Bumblebee buzzed, getting to his peds. "When you keep your opponents attention focused on something, you wouldn't believe what you can acomplish, just from a simple distraction" Soundwave smiled. Reattaching Lazerbeak. And retracting his tentacle back into his chest. "I'll remember that the next time I go into battle" Bumblebee chuckled. Soundwave gave a small smile. Enjoying his time with his older cousin, another youngling. Although Bumblebee was three years older, it was nice to have someone around his age, to play with. Soundwave sighed, before turning his smile into a frown.