A Mute Friendship

Bad News

June got off the phone with Jack, wondering if she should've mentioned the necklace. She couldn't bring herself to do so, and was afraid of what would happen to the youth if they discovered he had a Decepticon symbol with him.

Shaking her head, June decided that she wouldn't say anything about it until she deemed the time right, and was around to make sure nothing happened to Tegan.

June sighed as she rolled the cart of food down the hall, putting on a smile as she entered a room to serve the patients inside.

Tegan remained home from school the rest of that week, waiting for his fear of the outside world to die down and making the excuse to his grandmother that he wasn't feeling well.

But today was different. Today it was Saturday, and Soundwave had contacted him. Everything was ready for his 'surgery' as he liked to call it. It was kind of disconcerting knowing that the tall, silent human was going to conduct his surgery... especially since Tegan had no idea if Soundwave even knew anything about medicine.

'But he is a Cybertronian.' Tegan mused as he walked inconspicuously down the sidewalk towards the outside of town. Why Soundwave wanted to meet outside the town limits, he had no idea. But he was going to do everything the large alien ordered. He was his chance. The chance he had always hoped for.

Reaching the outskirts of town and the open emptiness of the dusty country, Tegan began to run. He loved running, but he wasn't able to do a lot of it, due to him constantly running into things. But out here, there was no danger of that, and he let himself go.

Tegan was actually very fast, he could do a lot of things that normal humans couldn't. He had more endurance, was faster, stronger and smarter.

Something Soundwave had once told him had stayed with Tegan. He loved it so much that he actually wrote it on his arm in pen. It was: You see, Orion? You were never meant to be normal.

Breathing heavily, Tegan slowed down, just as something passed so close over his head that it nearly knocked him down.

Catching his balance, Tegan looked up just as something enormous landed a few meters away, sending up a large cloud of dust.

Tegan covered his eyes and coughed as he stood back up, looking through the smoke to see a huge Cybertronian slowly stand from where it had landed.

The fright in Tegan's heart quickly died away when he saw the Decepticon symbol on it's thin shoulder. Fright now changed to excited curiosity, Tegan ran over, staring up at it.

It was tall and a dark, navy blue with purple biolights. A visor concealed its faceplate and it had something of a crown connected to it's helm. An intricate piece of chassis armour was in place.

Tegan stared up in awe at the silent Decepticon. Who're you? He asked, inadvertently using sign language.

The long, thin digits began to form an answer, much to Tegan's surprise. Soundwave.

If Tegan had been surprised before, he was now shocked. This huge, visored Decepticon was the human Soundwave? He grinned.

Soundwave pointed to his wrist, where the cast was. Tegan looked up at him. Autobots. He motioned.

The tall, silent Decepticon straightened. They did this to you?

Tegan thought that over for several moments before responding. I was on my bike and ran into the camero. I flipped and hit my head and broke my wrist. He explained.

The Cybertronian's form relaxed slightly. Come. We must move quickly to do the procedure. Soundwave motioned, holding out a servo, which Tegan climbed onto. Where are we doing it? He asked curiously.

The dark, cold visor turned to look at him, and Tegan felt a shiver run down his spine at the one word that Soundwave gave him. Nemesis.