Greetings! Chapter 6 up!
Answers to the last chapter's reviews:
adelphe24: Yes, dentas are equal to their teeth. Glad to know you are enjoying the story :)
Eyrmia: Yes the autobots will appear shortly in a chapter or two. They are an important part of the story as well ;)
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Knockout sighed as he carefully removed the scratches from Bassdrop's chest. He shook his head at Starscream's unnecessary violence when he thought back of what he had tried to do to the sparkling.
Bassdrop on the other hand seemed to have forgotten all about the event and was simply giggling at the sensation he was given at the touch upon his chest. He then turned his large-optic gaze to the faceless bot who was still standing silently in the med-bay. At the feeling of optics on him, Soundwave turned his gaze to the sparkling. Finally having his attention, Bassdrop cooed and stretched his arms out at him. Knockout raised an optic-ridge at this.
"Well-well-well, it would seem that he has taken a liking to you, Soundwave." Bassdrop continued to keep his arms stretched out in anticipation. Behind his screen, Soundwave also had an optic-ridge raised at the sight.
"So-Sonwave," Bassdrop smiled. This caused the communications officer to blink rapidly behind his screen. Knockout let out a chuckle.
"I have no idea what he sees in you to be so happy." Feeling kind of uncomfortable, Soundwave mentally shook his helm and turned around to exit the med-bay. He heard the sparkling whine behind him at this but he continued to walk until the doors slid shut behind him. Once out, his mind moved on to an idea that would make their work a lot easier.
The doors to the "comfortable" brig opened and the great communications officer stepped in. His screen-like face moved around in search for the red armored femme-bot. He eventually found her lying right beside his right leg. She had been leaning against the wall beside the closed door. He noticed that her knuckles were worn and scratched. He turned his gaze to the now closed door and realized that she had been trying to use force against it. Scratches and small dents were visible. Indicating that she had used a lot of her power. Hence why she was now lying passed out on the floor.
Soundwave went down onto one knee to inspect how deep in recharge she was. He pulled her helm leaning on the wall down onto the floor as well. She did nothing. She was out cold. Satisfied with that, he stretched a clawed wire out and had it waiting patiently above her forehelm while he used a servo to make her face face upwards. Once done he paused when he noticed that her cheeks were covered in coolant. He starred at her pained face longer than he thought of doing before he scoffed and pressed the wire onto her helm and forcefully pulled copies of her memories out. The femme's face squirmed a little at the weird feeling within her passed out mind but remained still.
Once done, the communications officer retreated the wire back into its place and stood back up. Thinking of leaving once more, he paused to give the femme-bot one last look. He pondered if he should carry her back to the berth to avoid any pain that could harm the sparkling. But he then thought against it and left.
Starscream trudged through the hallways of the Nemisis with a grim expression. Vehicons passing by noticed this and wearingly stepped faster and further away from the jet-bot. Noticing this, Starscream's frown got replaced with that prideful smirk. Now filled with positive thoughts, the second in command stomped towards the control room. There he found Soundwave working on one of the computers. His long digits moved smoothly and professionally over buttons and switches. He then noticed that one of his wires was set into the computer. Probably uploading something.
Starscream remained silent while watching the third in command for a while. Waiting for the perfect moment to announce his presence. Hoping that it would startle him. "Soundwave," He boomed. However to his dismay, said bot didn't even flinch. Meaning he probably already had been aware of him being close by. The second in command silently grunted at this but continued to pace forward and let his curiosity out.
"What are you uploading to our main computer's memory?" Silence. "Soundwave-"
"When did you enter earth's atmosphere?" Starscream blinked at the recording of his voice. It had been a question he asked the obnoxious femme-bot. Then up on the screen he saw a few numbers. He was confused at first but then he understood.
"Ah, so she arrived a month ago. I assume you downloaded her processor memories?" Without even removing his screen-covered optics away from his work, Soundwave gave a small affirmative nod.
"What did you work as on cybertron?" Was Starscream's second question. On the screen appeared static but then a cybertronian bar came on.
"A bar? What did she do there?" Starscream muttered. An old memory video popped up. They were looking through Mentora's perspective. Before her optics were two other femmes. An icy blue and a pink. They were both wearing revealing armor with extra colors here and there to seem more entertaining.
"Okay girls, lets get out there!" It was the sparkling's mother speaking. They walked off onto a small stage. There were many rough-looking mech bots sitting around tables with glasses and bottles containing different kinds of high-grade.
"Welcome, you bad boys!" Mentora sang seductively.
"She was a bar entertainer?" Starscream asked, somewhat shocked. Soundwave too was surprised. He had not expected her to have a job like that. By her name he assumed she had been a teacher or something.
"Floorslide, notice me Floorie!" A mech called out. (Note I am reffering to the ever so amazing quote: Sempai NOTICE ME! LOL!)
"Floorslide, I love you baby!" an other mech called. "Floorslide! Floorslide!" Ah, so she had been re-named.
The screen before the two mechs changed again to reveal a memory video again. This time, the femme was looking over a classroom filled with young students.
"H-hello everyone. My name is Miss Mentora and I will be your teacher and mentor. I hope we can get along well together and I promise that I will work hard for you all to succeed." The communications officer nodded at his previous suspicion being true. So she had changed her way of living.
"Well, I guess she saw the light. Though I believe the low life of a bar entertainer suited her better," the second in command mumbled. "Now, what about her mate?" At the question, Soundwave searched through the memories until he came to what they had searched for.
They saw Cybertron before them, just as the war had begun. The femme-bot was being dragged across a large garden by a bulky maroon colored mech. Suddenly, a missile was in sight. And the vision before them went blurry as the femme flew across a large part of the sight. She then seemed to scramble up as her partner's frame was all but demolished by the weapon impact. Not really into seeing drama, Soundwave stopped the memory there.
"Alright, so she indeed lost her mate." the second in command muttered. "Alright then. Well done Soundwave! I will be going to my quarters for a long needed rest. I'll see you at dawn." and with that he simply left. Soundwave remained still for a while but then pulled his clawed wire out of the computer and let it slide back in place. After that he decided to walk back to the med-bay, it was about time the sparkling returned to his carrier.
"Ah, Soundwave." Knockout smirked and lifted the sparkling up from the med-berth. He stretched his arms out as if expecting the communications officer to grab the sparkling. At the sight of the faceless bot, the tiny bot chirped and cooed all the while stretching his arms out in anticipation as well.
Soundwave just stood there, motionless. At his comrade's not to very active responding, the medic sighed impatiently.
"Could you please take the future decepticon secret weapon back to its carrier?" Silence, it was a stare down between red optics a screen and large blue orbs that watched the silent bot with excitement. "I would take him myself, but I am rather busy at the moment cleaning up my supplies. It took a while but I finally managed to make up for the lost growth the sparkling had." Thats when Soundwave noticed that the sparkling indeed had grown a slight. Or upgraded. He had grown a few inches and his color was a bit stronger.
Behind his screen, Soundwave sighed and reached his left arm out with an awaiting open servo. Smirking, Knockout carefully placed the sparkling into it, Soundwave then brought it to his chest for better support. The sparkling cooed and nuzzled his face into the warmth of Soundwave's chest. He rolled his optics behind his screen at the action.
"Awe, well isn't that cute." the medic mocked. His comrade however ignored him and stepped out of his medbay. As always, he kept silent. However this time within his presence, it wasn't. The bundle that was cradled in his long arm continued to coo and giggle, enjoying the company of the silent communications officer. Out of all the large bots that he had witnessed in the very short time. He found a larger liking to the screen-faced bot. There was just something about him that made his stomach bubble happily. Kind of like how it did when he was around his mama.
Vehicons walked past and discreetly watched the scene before them. The oh so very intimidating third in command passing by, emotionless as ever with a sparkling nuzzling his chest. What made them wonder more was the fact that he wasn't doing anything about it.
Once the annoying vehicons were out of his sight, Soundwave sighed and tried to concentrate on where he was going, only to abruptly stop and look down at the tiny bot in his grasp. He had managed to seat himself onto his knees and was now caressing his chest-plates, staring at them in wonder.
Soundwave watched as the sparkling cooed and tilted his helm upwards to stare into his hidden optics with pure innocence. The sight startled him slightly. He hadn't seen such an expression since Rumble and Frenzy had first onlined. Thinking for a while, he finally came to a decision.
Mentora groaned and pushed herself onto her elbows. She looked around in confusion, her mind feeling somewhat scrambled, as if she had renewed all her memories. She sat up properly and placed a delicate servo onto her helm and hissed at its throbbing pain, only to hiss at a second pain. She glanced down at her knuckles. They were horribly scratched and dented. Suddenly she remembered and all her physical pains were gone.
"Bassdrop!" she gasped and desperately tried to quickly stand up but wobbled slightly. She ignored her body's obvious exhaustion and was about to resume her door banging and scratching when it suddenly whooshed open to reveal the faceless bot. She stopped mid-step and took a step back to get a better look at one of her captors. She just reached slightly above his abdomen. He was taller than what Shadowstep had been, and around him she had always felt small. But this con made her feel tiny and uncomfortably vulnerable.
Mentora tried not to seem scared but failed miserably at his intimidating quiet behavior.
"Mama?" The mother bot snapped her attention to the communication officer's bent arm. There sat her child, seeming happy as ever, if not more.
"Bassdrop!" she cried out in joy and sprinted right back to the faceless decepticon. Forgetting her previous fearful emotions, Mentora daringly reached up to grab her sparkling. Soundwave did nothing to prevent it and remained himself watching the femme as she all but attacked the baby bot with hugs and kisses and everything that was considered loving. By the sight of it he could tell that she wasn't just happy. For he could feel that she was overjoyed, to say the least. Bassdrop was also feeling happy and giggled as his mother gave him countless smooches all over his tiny face. While this went on, the communications officer took it upon himself that it was his cue to leave. He stepped out of the brig, all the while feeling happy emotions all over his mind. But it wasn't his joy. It was the mother's and sparkling's.
The screen-faced con looked down at his chest plates. Light was emitting through them more than ever, thanks to the temporary powerful emotions that he was now forced to feel. However he ignored it and proceeded to walk back to the control room where he would continue his search for the autobot base.
This was all for the sake of the plan, he mused to himself. All for the sake of the plan. Nothing else.
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