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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2023 14:44:14 GMT
Characters Appearing: Starscream & Soundwave Location (s): Compound Timeline: February 4th Plot Summary: Soundwave made a decision that is now backfiring
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2023 15:20:50 GMT
Starscream didn’t think much about Soundwave’s absence, he was busy trying to manage the new flow of Decepticons that somehow heard, and assumed, that he was offering them safe asylum in the compound. He hadn’t shared his insane plan of finding a way to leave Earth and the stupid Autobots behind on it. Yet, his former camarades were finding ways to invade everything he had tried to build to get away from it all.
When he finally noticed, the Seeker dismissed it as Soundwave being busy, he wasn't worried, the mech could hold his own perfectly well. He did, however, miss the Cassetticons' antics. It had gotten really quiet without them around.
Getting a comm to let him know that the Spymaster would be back shortly a few days later was a relief. Starscream sauntered out of the main hangar to wait for the mech’s arrival arms filled with goodies. He had energons cubes and treats for everyone, knowing some spoiling could go a long way with the cassetticons.
Starscream shut off the proximity alarm as he saw the familiar form get closer, trying not to let a huge grin overtake his faceplate. Soundwave’s rational and calm presence would be such a relief after the recent chaos.
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 3, 2023 21:34:11 GMT
How frustrating these last several days had been.
Soundwave had avoided the compound, but he felt that he had good reason to do so. He had taken young Nick captive to study him out of curiosity. The child exhibited an Autobot signal, something that did not seem normal for human fleshbags and so he felt it was his job to find out what was going on. Of course in doing so, as the child had predicted, Bumblebee had been angered. It was curious to see why a Cybertronian wished to adopt a human as a sparkling, but the Autobots had always been known to favor their human pets. To think that they were considering them children now..
But that wasn't Soundwave's concern. The fact that the Autobots, or even the humans, had figured out a way to perfectly replicate an Autobot signal was dangerous. That wasn't a good thing at all for the rogue Decepticons, and so Soundwave kept to himself in a cave far away from the compound. It was the least he could do to keep Starscream and his adopted sparkling safe.
Once things had gone awry and the human child had been liberated by the Autobot menace, the Spymaster took flight with his Cassettes and once he had made certain that he was not being followed he reached out to Starscream to let him know that he would be back shortly. Once he arrived Soundwave transformed with a thud, spotting Starscream waiting right by the entrance. He approached the other, letting his face mask fold away as he began to speak. "I apology for my unannounced departure and lack of recent contact. I was dealing with a matter of importance and could not risk interruption. I trust that you and Nightshroud have been well, Starscream?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2023 2:58:18 GMT
It was a relief to see that Soundwave was fine, even if he never worried about his capability, Starscream didn’t wish any harm on him at all. He didn’t spy any new marks or dents, which meant he shouldn’t have met resistance of any kind.
Starscream smiled as Soundwave’s mask disappeared, resisting the urge to kiss those pretty lips of his. He pushed an energon cube in his hand, waiting pointedly for the purple mech to take a sip.
“Yes, we’ve been doing well. I’ve managed to synthesize more treats, I need your little brats to taste run them.”
The nickname had stuck to the Cassetticon bunch, even if none of them was near sparkling age, it was a delight to call them brats.
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 10, 2023 0:39:29 GMT
"AW YEAH! Did someone say treats?!"
Soundwave sighed as his tape deck opened, Frenzy launching herself out with grabby hands. It seemed even the insulting nickname of brats didn't even bother her, though Soundwave was growing to ignore it as well. If it didn't bother the Cassetticons then it didn't bother him.
"You shall have your treats, Frenzy.. as shall Laserbeak and Ravage." Soundwave ejected the other two cassettes, looking to the both of them as they gazed up at Starscream. "Take your treats and relax within the confines of compound. Starscream and I have much that we need to discuss and catch up on. I have important research that I need to deliver." He didn't want to keep Starscream waiting forever, but he knew he would get nowhere until the Cassetticons got what it was they were wanting. The sooner they got their treats the sooner they could have some privacy to discuss what Soundwave felt was so urgent. He just hoped that Starscream would understand why he did the things that he needed to do, but what other choice did he have?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2023 3:22:41 GMT
Pretending he didn’t care about the Cassetticons was getting harder and harder as time went by. As they all transformed and crowded him demanding treats, he quickly made sure none of them seemed hurt or scratched too much while he distributed the treats. At the end of the transaction, the seeker was happy to see they were all fine and the cassetticons were happy to have treats.
Watching them leave to go about their business, Starscream waited for them to be out of sight before quickly planting a kiss on Soundwave’s cheek. He wasn’t in the mood for a mission debrief after having to keep everything running smoothly with the rag-tag ‘Cons staying at the compound. He would have rather go out for a leisure flight with the blue mech but his tone seemed to imply that what he had to talk about was urgent.
Heading back inside the main hangar, Starscream slipped back into his… head of operation role. He still hadn’t found a better title…
“I wasn’t expecting you to be gone for so long.”
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 13, 2023 1:14:08 GMT
Soundwave walked along with Starscream, kissing the seeker back on the cheek. He did miss his 'silly rabbit', but that needed to wait for now. The news he returned with was extremely important and he needed to make sure Starscream knew as soon as possible. He had valid reasons for his concerns. It was just a matter of whether the former second in command thought the same or not.
"Believe me my intentions were not to be gone for as long as I was. I had simply taken a flight to stretch my wings when I noticed something highly unusual: an Autobot signal, but there was no Autobot in sight even with my scans." Maybe it had been someone like Mirage who could make himself invisible, but it was the next part that would show why the Spymaster found things so interesting. "Instead there was simply a human child, but it was he who bore the Autobot signal. It emitted from him."
Soundwave sighed, continuing with his tale as the two walked. "Naturally I grew curious. Why would a human emit an Autobot signal? I took the human to a cave far away from where this very compound is located, and so it turns out apparently the Autobots have decided to not just keep the humans as pets but to.. adopt them as well. This human claimed the signal was proof of his bond with Bumblebee, though I do not entirely understand it's workings. He claimed to suffer when he could not sense Bumblebee, but I could gain no concrete answers." The Spymaster looked to Starscream, light concern on his faceplate. "If the Autobots and humans can replicate Autobot signals and place them upon humans, what is to stop them from replicating a Decepticon signal in an effort to lure us out? To tick us into believing we are meeting with one of our own only to be ambushed?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2023 4:31:14 GMT
Starscream let out a pleased hum as Soundwave kissed him back, listening about the leisure flight turned Autobot encounter. Turned into a… child encounter…? Starscream was slowing down as he was coming at the entrance of the crate fort, listening and getting stunned more and more by what he was hearing. Human children kidnapping?
Right after they escaped from G.H.O.S.T., when it is very well known that Autobots are fragging stupid when it comes to their human pets. Soundwave, the daft glitch, had kidnapped one of them.
Starscream came to a full stop as it fully hit him. Did Soundwave really do something that stupid?
“Let me make sure I got the full picture here. After you realized the Autobot signal you picked up was coming from a child, your brilliant plan was to kidnap said child. Therefore attracting the attention of the Autobots, G.H.O.S.T. or Primus forbids Megatron and Optimus Prime. While you had the Cassetticons with you, might I add.”
Starscream was shaking with fury, optics narrowed. With servos clenched, he slowly turned to face Soundwave.
“You did all of that and gained absolutely no new knowledge on the signal anyway after this whole ordeal. All you have is a theory that the signal will be used against Decepticons. Did I understand you correctly?”
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 18, 2023 13:09:32 GMT
Of course Starscream was stuck on a singular point of Soundwave's report, getting mad at him. This too made Soundwave angry, visor glowing a slightly darker shade of red as he clenched his own servos. Did Starscream just not trust him to keep them all safe? Did he not hear the part of why he had taken the kid hostage to begin with?
"And you would disregard why I chose to do this? You would disregard the fact that this simple human bore an Autobot signal that resembled Bumblebee's? Does that not concern you in the least?" Soundwave growled a bit, standing his ground. "I may not have understood the significance of that signals implantation nor why the Autobots are choosing to adopt humans as their own sparklings, but you miss the points. Humans can now carry these signals and could be easily masquerade as typical Decepticons to trick us if they were smart enough to realize they have the ability to do so. The Autobots use these humans as mere pawns, as do G.H.O.S.T., and once they realize that level of deception is within their grasp they will attempt to lure us out using these humans as a decoy."
If the seeker still didn't understand his concerns by now, then the Spymaster didn't know what else he could say to persuade him. "I kept them from this base. I took all the safety measures possible to keep you and your sparkling safe, and I am fully capable of protecting myself and the Cassettes. What is your malfunction, Starscream?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2023 13:40:50 GMT
Starscream was riling himself up for a fight, about to tell Soundwave that…
“What is your malfunction, Starscream?”
The seeker turned cold, stopping on the spot. Clenching his servos, Starscream stood straight up, opening his intake to reply but…
Nothing?
Fury, he was used to, good old friend that kept him motivated through the war, burning like an inferno in his spark. Rage and anger had fuelled him for so long they had become his trademark.
The moment Soundwave said those words, unwanted traumatic flashbacks reminded him of how many times Megatron said those words to him. How Skyfire had said it, and now Soundwave.
Instead of being furious, he was… indifferent?
On the grand scale of things, it did not matter. What matters is going back to Cybertron, his spark screams at him, pulling him away from his feelings. Drowning him with the urgency of making it back to Cybertron.
What was left, when Starscream pulled himself out of the drowning pull, was a new kind of anger.
Cold and glacial anger were relatively new to him.
As cold as Skyfire.
Who also thought he was malfunctioning.
Maybe he was.
“You are right. How stupid of me to worry about that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to be somewhere else, since my malfunctioning is such an inconvenience to you.”
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Post by Soundwave on Oct 18, 2023 14:45:54 GMT
Ah yes there it was. How typical of Starscream to spin the situation to make it about him. It was what he was good at doing during his time serving under Megatron, and just as Soundwave was about to respond his thought process was distracted. His sensitive audial receptors picked up the faint noise of pedes shifting. Of course Starscream's sparkling was listening in on their conversation. This was only going to make things worse between the two, not that Soundwave had honestly made any progress with Nightshroud as it was. Any that had been made was surely going down the drain now.
"Starscream, you know that is not what I meant. I am only trying to help you."
Now he'd done it. It was just a matter of how much the former air commander was going to snap at this point. "Do not be like this. You know that I have the best interest for us in mind."
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