Waves of Starlight (TFP fanfic)

Chapter 44

Soundwave froze and collapsed to his knees, breathing heavily and holding his spark as he looked up and around. “Estrela–” He mumbled hoarsely, stumbling to his feet and trying to get to his sparkmate, reaching out to her through the bond. Radio ran into the room, looking at her dad with a frightened face as she had also felt the impact.

“I’m sorry, Shockwave. I’m weak, pathetic. Now I am even sparkless.” She muttered, as she looked down at the floor. “Soundwave should have never loved someone like me.” Her body looked weak, as the blue in her body was all, but replaced by the dark energon’s purple glow.
“Don’t say that!” He yelled at her. “My brother would have loved you no matter what happened! Are you going to just give up now and never see them again?! Soundwave, Steve, the Autobots, Predaking, your own daughter Radiowave! Are you just going to give up?!”
“My powers are gone. I made a promise to Silverstream that I would love Soundwave and Radiowave with everything I had, until it risked their safety. He was going to crush them before my very eyes, whether I chose to obey him or not, he would still corrupt me. Primus has  been ripped from me. You wanna know what he did with my spark? He took it and shoved it into the core, where his own spark is. My spark is gone along with any bond I had with you guys, including Soundwave.” She spat, as her eyes flickered between colors. “I can’t even shift out of this form to escape. It is either me being killed with you guys, or me being killed and you guys are left alone.”
“Stop saying that!” He roared, straining against the chains. “Stop saying that you are alone in this! For Primus sake, what makes you think Soundwave’s bond with you only existed in your spark?? Do you still love him right now?  Do you wish for him to hug you close and kiss you?”
She looked back at him tearfully. “I want him to be safe, happy. I want to see him smile forever. To see his ruby eyes sparkling full of joy.”
“Then there’s still a bond between you two!” He cried, looking at her determinedly. “So give him that and fight against this illogical scrap head!”
She looked at him as she smiled firmly, to have a very small white light appear in her eyes with the purple and blue. She took a deep breath before pulling at her chains. To see electric purple shocks hitting her, causing her to scream through her muffling lips. She pulled and pulled, but the chains never gave through. She stopped, as heavy smoke flew off her frame. Her panting exhausted her. She looked at the ground as she hung there limply.
But something then snared onto the back of her mind, a little dull hook that gently pulled as though someone was testing the strength of the connection. She then felt worry flow through to her and a single word entered her mind. Mom?
Baby. She muttered through her head weakly. I’m alive. I’m with your uncle. Whatever you do, I need you guys to get to Cybertron and wake up Primus.
Where are you? What happened? Radio asked, as panic filled the connection.
I can’t tell you. Your life is at great risk if I do. Get to Cybertron. Primus is the only way, and tell your father I love him.” She begged, before pushing the connection away. She sat there panting some more before she just resumed hanging limply. “Have hope, right?” She lightly joked, looking over at Shockwave.
“It’s all we can do now.” He replied, looking up at the ceiling. “All we can do now.”
The time went by slowly, before the sound of feet approached them. Though different from the many times Unicron came to give her dark energon. She looked up to see Megatron walking toward them. His arm finally repaired to see him raising his blade above his head and slicing the chains around Shockwave. “Help me catch her, while I break the chains.” He ordered as he looked at Shockwave, slicing some more of the chains off the Wave brother.
The scientist watched him break through them all, before he fell to the ground, falling to his knees, looking up at him. “Why are you here and…how?” He asked, staring at Megatron in the eye.
“To make things right. While Unicron had control of me, I was able to see into his mind. I knew roughly what he was planning, but I didn’t know how or when he would do it. When she saved me, I had too much guilt to even process.” Megatron explained, stepping away from Shockwave. “We need to hurry. The corruption process is all, but complete. The Estrela you guys knew is all, but gone.”
“Right.” He nodded, getting up as the two hurried over. “You cut, I’ll catch.” He spoke to Megatron, though he was looking up at Estrela. Estrela’s eyes having just the smallest speck of blue left, as she looked emotionlessly down at the floor. Her body hung weakly. Megatron started to cut the chain wrapped around her neck first, as she gave very little response to what was going on. “Hold on, Estrela.” Megatron muttered, but as he cut the purple shocks came back hitting both him and Estrela, causing the two to gasp in pain. Ignoring the shock, he grabbed the chain with his two hands and broke it, ignoring the heavy shock in his hands as she fell free.
Shockwave lunged forward and grabbed her, catching her in his arms as he stood up and looked down at her. “Gotcha.” He spoke quietly, looking down at her in his arms. She didn’t even look up at him as she sat in his arms, staring into nothing. Her body was incredibly lighter than it should have been, and the spirit coming off her was not her own. It felt dirty, impure, and malicious.
“Hurry, I got a groundbridge still open to get us out of here.” Megatron ordered softly.
“Right.” Shockwave replied, the two running out to the bridge to get away safely. “It’s okay, Estrela.” Soundwave spoke, looking at her. “You’ll be better soon and maybe we will celebrate your creation day properly now.”
Though before they could even get through the bridge, she started to twitch, the speck of blue in her eyes was gone. Replaced with complete orbs of purple light. Her hair changed where it was also completely dark purple. She shoved Shockwave’s chest and landed in front of them in a fighting stance as faint glowing purple flames were coming off of her eyes and dermas. “You are already too late.” She muttered. Her voice emanated nothing, but pure evil. Swinging her arm to punch his eye.
He ducked with amazing agility and caught her hand, twisting it behind her back and forcing her to her knees, not wanting to hurt her too badly. He could feel his spark aching as he looked at her, feeling the painful emotions coming from his brother and niece as well.
She instantly vanished in his arms and reappeared behind him, kicking him and sending him flying, only for Megatron to rush and catch him. “We need to drain her. All the energon inside her needs to be drained.” He spat. “But we can’t do it here. Unicron could show up at any moment.”
She rushed towards them, only for Megatron to shove Shockwave through the open bridge, running in right after him.
“Will it even be possible to drain the dark energon from her?” Shockwave asked as they hurried through. “I sense it is basically her life blood right now so we’d have to get something to replace it as we drain it.”
“If you put any fresh energon into her blood right now, it will only become corrupted by the amount of dark energon that is in her.” Megatron explained. “Weird for me to be the smart one right now, I know. We need to get to Soundwave. She could show up anywhere. WE don’t need her trying to attack anyone innocent or cared for. How did you get the stuff she used to clean me? It wasn’t regular energon, if anything it cleaned all the dark energon in me, it could do the same for her.”
“We didn’t get it.” He sighed, looking around for any sign of her. “It just appeared in her hand after Primus spoke to her. I…don’t know if obtaining another is possible.” He clenched his fists to stop them from shaking, not letting his fear show.
Megatron spat in disbelief. “Like we can get ahold of Primus. He’s dead. He wouldn’t speak to me.”
“I don’t know who he will talk to!” He cried, before looking down. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know.”
“What do we tell your brother?” Megatron asked. “He is gonna go in a rage, and he isn’t exactly fond of me either. I still remember what I did while under Unicron’s control. If it is anything like me, her mind and being will be at the back of her mind, trapped, but the fact her spark is gone may make it difficult.” He shook his head sadly. “I don’t know.” As he stood there in groundbridge control on the Nemesis with Shockwave, no sign of Estrela anywhere to be seen.
“I’ll call them over.” Shockwave replied, going over to the controls. “Hopefully someone will be there to answer.” He pushed a few buttons, connecting to the computer he knew she had back at the base and waited for them to pick up.