I'm not part of your machine... | Transformers Prime | Soundwave Centric

6 - We'll Sink at Any Moment

Breem = about 10 minutes

Orbital Cycle = about a month

Vorns = 83 years (more used in a" for a very long time" way)

Nano-cycle = about a second

Groon = about an hour

Food restriction, mentions of starvation

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     A lot of bots spend their free time talking to their friends, recharging, planning outings, or simply relaxing. But with Soundwave and Lazerbeak? Soundwave considered his forced breaks (primarily enforced by Lazerbeak) his free time. Lazerbeak, though, considered any of her time not doing anything explicitly ordered for her to do her free time.

     Thus this is where they're found. They were standing in a cafeteria waiting to grab Lazerbeak her ration and get the frag out. While Lazerbeak enjoyed the room's loud, energetic aura, Soundwave could barely stand it. Lazerbeak understood this and went ahead to get her portion.

     Soundwave was livid when she returned with a cube filled an 8th of the way. They took the cube away from her and without a word briskly stormed off to have a chat with Megatron. Lazerbeak quietly followed after Soundwave, mostly because she was the Cybertorian equivalent of hungry and she wanted to see how this played out.

     With the slam of a forcefully opened door and a replay of Optimus screaming "Megatron!", the whole room was now wholly aware of Soundwave's presence and anger.

     "Soundwave— what in the—" Megatron fumbled, knowing exactly what he did.

     Soundwave puts up a servo before walking up to their leader. Then, wordlessly holds up the empty ration as if to say 'Mind explaining?'

     "Ah! You're wondering about the rations? Well, we decided to ahead with the plan since you were one of the few that objected." The fumbling giant of a leader attempted to explain. Lying to the faceplate of one of his most loyal and hardworking bots.

     Sound wave knew for a fact there were at least 3 other high command who disagreed. The medic, the scientist, and the no-longer-practicing scientist. Despite personal desires, those three bots would still say the same as they did. Soundwave presented an unimpressed emoji on their visor.

     Megatron seemed to get the message. "I should have informed you of the change. But it is done."

     It took everything in Soundwave's metal body not to throw the ration at the gladiator in front of him. Instead, they slammed the container on the nearest flat surface and walked out without another word. After all, they have a young Cybertorian to take care of.

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     Soundwave looked away from the console for a nano-cycle to check for any other bots for the umpteenth time that night. They made the decision to reprogram all the ration dispensers on the ship before somebot died from Megatron's irresponsible and inconsiderate behavior. Soundwave would let Optimus take over the Nemesis before he let any of the younger bots on the ship starve. He'd be damned by the All Spark if any of those bots died because of the ration cuts. They'd even give up all the information on and about the Nemesis to the Autobots before they let another bot die from currently preventable starvation.

     Soundwave audibly sighed as they stepped away from the console, the ship-wide update now pending upload. Being able to manipulate the whole ship with no one ever noticing had its perks.

     They stood by the console until the system finally took the update and then erased all evidence of their late-night presence.  Eventually, they turned away to sort out a few other things before returning to their habsuite... if it wasn't light by then. After all, Soundwave never stops working for the Decepticon cause, even if its leader did... a very long time ago it seemed.

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