The team came back, depressed, beaten, and exhuasted. The children were being tended to by their guardians. And Optimus was informing Ratchet of what had happened. Ratchet instantly started his complaining, and Smokescreen instantly started to argue with the old medic. "Soundwave, we are waiting for you outside the base" Megatron's voice came over the younglings comm. Soundwave saw that everyone seemed to be distracted. And easily slipped away, quickly getting to the topside of the base. Where he saw a enormous Cyberformed building, and the Nemesis casually orbiting it.
Soundwave quickly caught site of Megatron patiently waiting for him just above the flight deck. Soundwave transformed quickly and took off towards the Nemesis, Only taking moments to get to the warship. Soundwave was flying full of excitement, happy to see his father again. Flying a little to excitedly Soundwave transformed and went to step lightly only a few feet away from his master. But misreading his speed, he ended up slipping onto his aft, sliding right up to Megatron's peds. Megatron rolled his optics and sighed at his clumsy youngling. But the warlord could not resist the younglings adorable behaviour, and promptly picked up his youngling, bringing him into a tight embrace. Soundwave squirmed at first, wriggling until the grip on him loosened. At that, Soundwave had no hesitations to return the hug, wrapping his arms around his fathers neck, he held on tightly. "I missed you sooo much!" Soundwave cried. "I missed you greatly youngling, I'm sorry if I ever hurt you. You've proven today, that your youngling manners do not get in the way of your work. I won't be so crude when you behave like a youngling should. I'm not reserving our relationship for later, it starts now. For real this time I promise" Megatron holding his youngling out, he apologized and promised. "The entire time I was gone I didn't recharge, because I missed you to much!" Soundwave said as Megatron brought him in for another hug. "Soundwave you need recharge!" Megatron scolded. "It was hard there was too much on my mind, plus my roomate wasn't helping!" Soundwave scoffed. "Well you can rest after the main event" Megatron grinned, placing Soundwave down, as the armada of Decepticons came onto the flight deck.
"Soundy!" Knockout cried out rushing over to hug the youngling. Soundwave gasped as the medic hugged him tightly. "Knockout!" Soundwave hugged the medic back. "Big day today, for us Decpticons!" Knockout let go of youngling. Soundwave nodded in agreement, still unaware of what was just about to happen.
A small evil chuckle came from Megaton as he turned himself away from the Autobot base and too his armada of soldiers. Soundwave wanted to know what his father was laughing at, and turned to see the Autobot audience topside on their base. "Soundwave what are you doing?" Soundwave was clearly visible to his cousin. Soundwave just stared he hadn't the spark to reply. "Our opportunity to revive Cybertron has been lost, due to the treachery of Optimus Prime. But from our fortress of new Kaon. We will instead sieze control over this world!" Megatron's speech brought Soundwave's attention back from the Autobots. "Decepticons! Transform and rise up!" Megatron ordered. And Starscream quickly lead the seeker armada to attack. "I'll let them play with the Autobot's for a bit, then I will obliterate them and their precious base, with the warship!" Megatron cackled, watching the beautiful battle from the warships deck. Soundwave threw his helm back in surprise, this was all happening right now. /Get yourself and the team out of there, we are going to blow your base to scrap!/ Soundwave sent a warning to his cousin. "Isn't this great Soundy, we are going to rule this planet!" Knockout smirked. Soundwave gave a small nod. "Hey Bubblewave" Shockwave gruff deep voice came from behind. "Are you going to call me Bubblewave for the rest of my life?" Soundwave rolled his optics from behind his mask. "That's highly illogical" Shockwave scoffed. "Starscream fall back, it's time!" Megatron hissed, as the ship hovered over the Autobot base. Soundwave could hear the humming and hissing of the warships cannons charging. Soundwave quickly ran to the edge of the ship to watch. "Soundwave!" both Shockwave and Knockout called as the youngling ran past to the edge. "Leave him, let him watch!" Megatron snapped, stopping the two from retrieving his youngling. Soundwave watched as the red laser, completely demolished the mountian, the base was. Soundwave felt a faint pain in his spark, of one of his bonds fading in pain. Soundwave could tell it wasnt his cousins. "Soundwave, Starscream and I are going to go scavenge what is left of the Autobot base. Knockout is going back to Cybertron to retive some of the relics the Autobots left behind. You stay here with Shockwave, and check out Darkmount" Megatron gestured to the huge structure behind them. Soundwave gave a silent nod and approached Shockwave for further instructions.
"What?" Shockwave looked at Soundwave as if he wanted something. "What now?" Soundwave asked, with a sigh. "We are victorious, what else are we supposed to do?" Shockwave scoffed. Soundwave just shook his helm and walked past the scientist, to the citadel. Soundwave explored the fortress and swore it was so big even if he scaned the mapping of the tower, he would still get lost. After an hour of exploring he did get lost. No Eradicon, or Insecticon soldiers in site. The hall was empty, cold and almost pitch black dark. Soundwave actually found it quite frightening. For some reason he didn't trust the hallway, perhaps it was because it was a very young younglings worst nightmare, cold, pitch black, creaking, hallway, anything could happen! Fear began to flood his systems, the violet youngling walked warily down the hallway, his systems over running with fear. *How did I get here!* Soundwave trembled with fear. Soundwave then heard a loud thud directly behind him. Soundwave whirled around, only to hit what was behind him, knocking him onto his aft. Soundwave then looked up, in fear. "What are you doing!?" A giant monster with a single red glowing optic snarled. "AAAAAH!" Soundwave screamed. "Don't offline me, it's dark I didn't see you!" Soundwave wrapped himself protectively in his tentacles. "Soundwave hey!" Soundwave now recognized the gruff voice. "Why didn't you just turn on the light you derp!" Shockwave turned on the light revieling the trembling Soundwave wrapped in tentacles. "Oh..." Soundwave lifted the end of one of his tentacles from his visor, were his optics were. "I feel dumb" Soundwave himself unraveled himslef. "You should have seen how adorably frightened you looked, it was hysterical" Shockwave teased, as Soundwave picked himself up. Soundwave was about to say something but was interrupted by a call. "Soundwave monitor all Earth based transmissions for any sign of the Autobot communication, with eachother, or their human counterparts" Megatron ordered in a lowly growled. Soundwave obliged, and Shockwave led him to the Nemesis control room, were he was reunited with all the computers he could again play with. Soundwave eagerly put himself to work on the monitors. Soundwave puased his work to the sudden sound of and tremble of railguns charging. Soundwave switched his surveilence to the outside of the citadel, and saw that the humans were attempting to attack. But were quickly disposed of by the cannons.
Days went past and Megatorn was busy chatting up the humans with lies, while Starscream made witty comments. Shockwave was bored out of his mind, but seemed to keep himself busy by searching for something in his logs. Soundwave sighed, after a few days, the surveilence was getting tiresome. Starscream was now hovering around him, but at least he was being quiet. Suddenly Soundwave picked up a text from one of the human boys, he pulled it up for Starscream to see, and the seeker instantly contacted their lord. "Soundwave I want a live feed!" Megatron ordered through the comm. Soundwave acknowledged and sent Laserbeak to do the task. It only took moments for Laserbeak to start brodcasting the humans demise. "Master we have a visual" Starscream announced, as Megatron approached from behind. After a few moments Megatron grew impatient. "How long does it take to exterminate, one lone Autobot and her human pet!" Megatron hissed. "Well in my experience..." Starscream started to boast. "Not a riddle, Starscream!" Megatron shut the seeker up. "Sorry" Starscream apologized with a nervous laugh. Soundwave almost laughed at that, but held it together and smirked from behind his mask. The Autobot got smart and ended the battle with a large explosion, engulfing the two soldiers and Laserbeak. *Ah Laserbeak!* Soundwave cried in surprise, While Megatron growled in frustration. Megatron was upset, but only for a few moments, as he noticed his youngling was greatly upset over his pet being blow up. "Starscream take Soundwave to retrieve Laserbeak!" Megatron sighed. Soundwave sadly turned to Starscream. "What!? He was lost in the explo..." Starscream started to complain. "Nu uh uh!" Megatron waved his servos, standing behind his depressed youngling, telling the seeker to say no more. Starscream watched Megatron sign for him to shut up, and gave an odd gaze. Soundwave followed the seekers optics and turned around. "Ahem, if we recover Laserbeak now he can possibly show us where the Autobot headed" Megatron cleared his vocals. "Of course master. Come Soundwave let us retrive your pet" Starscream sighed leading Soundwave to the battle scene.
After scavenging through the firey wreckage, Soundwave retrieved Lasebeak, of course Starscream didin't help one bit, standing uselessly off to the side. Soundwave quickly bridged them back to Darkmount and quickly started Laserbeak's repairs. "Well did any of the surveilence data survive?" Megatron questioned. *I just started repairs, give me a freaking minute!* Soundwave growled in annoyance over their bond. Megatron rolled his optics and shut up, and continued to watch the repairs. "Ashame, we could have at least figured out the direction of which Arcee and the human fled" Starscream sighed. "Clearly we need to improve our methods of hunting Autobots" Megatron hissed. "Lord Megatron I'm ready to return, with the thing we've uncovered" Knockout sighed over the commlink. "Soundwave, set up a space bridge" Megatron ordered, pausing Laserbeak's repairs. Soundwave did as he was told, with no argument. Knockout and the Eradicon soldiers came back with a few relics, nothing much. "Lord Megatron!" Shockwave called as he entered the room. "Shockwave I do not have time to watch you mix energons together, I am in need of an Autobot hunter!" Megatron sighed resting a servo on his helm. "No, my liege I have just came to suggest instead of interrogating the Autobot Wheeljack, we use a cortical psychic patch" Shockwave explained. "I've been questioning him for days, certainly if he new something he would have spilled it by now. Megatron ignored Starscream. "Hmm, lets put that into play shall we Shockwave" Megatron growled with interest. /Ha ha ignored!/ Soundwave teased the seeker, as Megatron and Shockwave talked. "Shut up runt, your bird is dead!" Starscream growled. /No he's not!/ Soundwave smacked Starscream into Megatron. "Why you little!" Starscream hissed. Megatron turned around to see his youngling and his seeker ready to battle against eachother. "Starscream, Soundwave, enough!" Megatron scolded. "Primus it's like dealing with two younglings rather then just one!" Megatron threw his arms up. Knockout snickered in the background while Starscream and Soundwave apologized.