Hazel

At dinner, all of the campers went to the dining pavilion. With the Roman campers there, it was considerably crowded. Even more so with the giant blue alien robot. The alien, named Soundwave, sat with the Apollo campers. Apparently, by Camp rules, he has to sit at the table of his demigod siblings, despite the fact that he clearly wasn't a demigod. But, he was claimed by Apollo, and rules were rules.

It seems everyone, even Mr. D, or Bacchus, the godly camp director, wanted to watch the spectacle of the massive blue robot. We had no idea what we were going to do with him due to how massive Soundwave was. Apollo campers tried to clear a big enough space for him, but since he was bigger than the table itself, he had to sit on the ground near the table.

Chiron announced, "Alright everyone, settle down. Tonight, we welcome a new camper, Soundwave. He has been claimed by Apollo, so he should be treated as such. He means no ill will toward us, and had the approval of three of the Olympian gods. Now, Soundwave, if you may command your minicons to exit for the meal?"

Soundwave obliged, "Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Lazerbeak: eject."

Four rectangles that looked like cassettes shot out of his chest, transformed, and landed near him. I still struggled to understand how four smaller "minicons" could fit in his chest.

"Now, Will Solace and Soundwave have a few announcements for us."

Will announced, "Thank you Chiron. Hello, everyone. As you know, Soundwave is not exactly from this galaxy, or this universe, and won't be able to get home. Until he can find a way to return, he will stay with us as a camper."

Mr. D declared, "I personally do not mind the appearance of this Cybertronian, so Soundwave can stay."

'Weird. He never says anyone's name right.'

"Anyhow," Will interjected, "I want to make sure nothing bad happens while he's here. Got that?"

Everyone nodded in agreement. We knew from this morning that we couldn't do anything to them if we tried. He was on par with some of our gods, and our weapons just bounced off of him, only scratching his paint at best.

"I also have an announcement," Soundwave declared, "since I was sent here to discover my past, I am as such a sovereign traveler, and thank you for your hospitality. That is all."

"Good, now, let dinner begin!" Chiron announced.

Immediately, as our food was getting passed out, we all wondered what Soundwave and his minicons were going to eat, if they even ate. We thought we got our answer when a group of Hephaestus campers came in with some gasoline. However, instead of them putting the gas into their fuel tanks, they put it into a generator and turned it on.

Next thing we knew, five holographic cubes came out of the square on Soundwave's chest, and each of his minicons took one. Then, six tentacles emerged from Soundwave's back.

"You have tentacles?" yelled an Aphrodite camper.

"Affirmative." Soundwave answered before resuming his task. One tentacle attached itself to the generator, and the other five attached themselves to the holographic cubes. A weird neon pink began to trail through his tentacles, coming from the generator. Then, the neon pink substance began to pour into the five cubes. It filled the cubes, glowing with power.

Rumble yelled, "Energon, all right!"

As the cubes filled, the pink liquid, I guess energon, stopped flowing through Soundwave's tentacles. Then, the tentacles detached from the cubes and the generator. Interestingly, the generator stopped running, probably because Soundwave used the energy to make energon.

A Demeter camper yelled, "What is that??

"This is energon. It is the source of sustenance for Cybertronians." Soundwave explained.

"And it's the best thing in the galaxy! I feel sorry that your bodies can't process it, 'cause you're missing out!" Frenzy hollered.

Another camper yelled, "Well, if it's your food, you should burn it as an offering to the gods."

"Primus no! Do you really expect us to waste perfectly good energon?!" Rumble shouted.

Clarisse bit, "If you want to keep your favor with the gods, then you have too."

"Negative." Soundwave answered.

"Why not?" Clarrise retorted.

"Energon is explosive, so burning will result in explosion. Also, energon is poisonous to non-Cybertronians, and will make an insufficient and dangerous offering." Soundwave explained.

Before anyone could say anything else, the twins began chugging the liquid. Rumble started, with Frenzy yelling, "Chug, chug, chug, chug!" while he drank. Frenzy did the same, with Rumble yelling. Ravage drank the energon like a cat drinks out of a bowl, and Lazerbeak sipped out of his cube. Soundwave lifted his energon to his face, as if he would drink it, but a tentacle attached itself to the cube and began absorbing the energon.

We all just stared at them for a bit, shocked at the spectacle. It took as a while to snap out of it and get on with eating our food. I spared a few glances at Soundwave while I ate, and he seemed to be talking to the other Apollo campers. Nico was looking at him too.

"Hazel, we of all people should understand Soundwave the best. We've both felt alienated, being brought to a strange land."

"I know, it's just, he's so strange and alien, literally."

"He's just as alive as the rest of us. He deserves to be treated equally, at least. Didn't you hear them say that he was like a god?"

"I did, and I'm struggling to believe it. But, he is massive, and he wiped out the campers attacking him like it was nothing. The effort to strum a guitar took out an army."

"Look, you know his minicons?"

"The smaller ones sitting next to him?"

"Yeah, those. He shares a psychic bond with them all, meaning he can feel their emotions and broadcast his thoughts if he wanted to."

"That's strange, but impressive. Why'd you bring it up?"

"I brought it up because he has a fifth minicon back at his home."

"Wait, that means he has a connection with his home world? Great!"

"Yeah, it is! One small issue, that minicon is in a coma, and won't wake up for a while."

"Oh dear! What happened to him?"

"He and the rest got attacked by a clone of Soundwave, and that minicon, Buzzsaw, got pretty banged up. Needed to go into induced stasis lock, which is essentially like a coma."

"Oh, so that means he has to wait for Buzzsaw to wake up before he can contact his home."

"Right. Besides, you heard him. He can't go home until he finds out his past. Until then, let's watch out for him. The Apollo campers can't always stay by him to quell antsy campers, and we don't really have much to do."

"Okay, but, why do we have to watch out for him? As far as I can tell, nothing we have can hurt him?"

"I know, it's more for the safety of the other campers, you know, not giving Soundwave a reason to attack anyone?"

"Okay."

We offered some of our food to our father, praying for Soundwave's safety, and ate. I knew Soundwave was a person, but I couldn't help but stare. Occasionally, he'd look back at me. But he mostly spoke with Apollo campers or looked at Annabeth. Besides that, nothing.