Of Drones and Logic

Heartbeat

Shockwave carefully ejected a small droplet of nanite acid from his tail as he gripped it, the yellow liquid welding two pieces of metal together.

He and Uzi were currently repairing the communication relay of the ship that he and the other murder drones arrived to this planet in.

"Can we kill the worker, now?" The voice in the scientist's head asked.

'No we can not.' He replied in his head.

"Ok... Can kill her now?"

'No...'

"How about now?"

'No.'

"Now?"

'No!'

"Pretty please with a cherry on top?"

'NO!'

"You're no fun." She pouted.

Shockwave inwardly sighed in annoyance; the voice in his helm is relentless, telling him time and time again to kill Uzi no matter how many times he said no. He and Uzi gained a mutual understanding with each other when it comes to engineering and she even became his assistant. he honestly didn't care at first but over time he grew fond of the worker drone, you might even say he formed a... companionship with her. Speaking of Uzi...

Shockwave was snapped out of his train of thought when he heard the mirror shatter with Uzi starring at her reflection. Though briefly, he saw her right eye has morphed into THAT symbol before it glitched into a regular eye.

"Are you... sure you don't want me to examine that eye for you, Uzi?"

"Bite me." the worker replied immediately. Shockwave should've expect that answer from her, honestly.

"This is probably you weirdos' fault."

"I've never seen that symbol before." V, who was currently sitting on a command chair, blowing bubbles, admitted. a creepy grin formed on her face afterwards.

"Wanna do an autopsy to find out?~"

"V... what have I told you?" Shockwave questioned the murder drone, changing her grin to a frown.

"Be nice to Uzi..." she groaned and Shockwave nodded.

"Good girl. Be nice or my little friend, Mr shock collar, will give you a little 'chat'." he continued, holding up a remote control, the activation device for V's shock collar Shockwave putted on her in case she got out of line. As the Decepticon turned murder drone placed the controller back into his subspace, V mutters under her breath.

"Jackass..."

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

Shockwave eyed her suspiciously before going back to his current task. J, who watched the whole scene, slowly moves herself to Shockwave's side as N came into the room.

"How exactly did you manage to put that collar on her?"

"Frankly, I don't exactly know how I achieved it either, but if I had to choose between getting shot once again in the optic by an Autobot and left stranded on a dead planet for a few years or try to get that collar on V again, I'd choose being shot in the optic, hands down."

Shockwave didn't care if Arcee shoots his eye out again or if Grimlock rips his arm off once more by the jaws of the Dinobot's t-rex mode, there was no WAY he would go through the trouble of getting that stupid collar on V again.

"So, did you find out how to get rid of that program in my head?" J asked, changing the subject. Shockwave paused his repairs and looked towards his fellow murder drone, knowing what she means by that. the scientist was about to answer before N suddenly spoke to Uzi, interrupting Shockwave and J's private conversation.