Hidden in the Dark

Chapter 5

Laserbeak sat up and yawned, stretching her wings and her limbs. Soundwave just sat up and got off the bed. Current Decepticon mines popped up on her visor. Laserbeak yawned and examined the mines.

"Which one is easiest to get into?"

"This one," Soundwave said through the bond and a red dot appeared at one of the mines. The information on the side tells us that the mine is almost drained off energon and there were stacks of them waiting to be moved.

Soundwave opened up a groundbridge and both ex-Cons disappeared through the swirling green mass. The appeared behind a pile of rubble, ducking just in time to avoid a vehicon on patrol. They slid silently through the shadows, weaving between the piles of rubble, machinery, and vehicons. At last, they came to the storage room filled with stacks and stacks of distilled energon. Soundwave and Laserbeak wordlessly started to load cubes of bright blue energon into barrels that they found next to the stacks.

They were filling the barrel with energon cubes when the next vehicon patrol came around the corner. When they saw Soundwave, they froze and pointed their guns at her. Soundwave stood up straight and motioned them to come close.

"Soundwave?" one of them asked hesitantly the other positioned it's gun at her helm. Soundwave nodded so they relaxed and walked closer towards her. She pulled out her tentacles and protruded both of them int their spark chambers. Laserbeak appeared next to them and cut off their comm links.

Soundwave protruded 2 more tentacles into their throat, crushing and damaging their voice boxes permanently. Energon was spewing out of their necks and spark chambers and the vehicons went limb and dropped to the ground. Soundwave opened up a groundbridge behind her and pushed the barrel of energon through with Laserbeak sitting on the handle.

Once they got back to their base, Laserbeak let out a sigh of relief and got two energon cubes, handing one to Soundwave. Soundwave held the energon cube delicately in her servo. She examined the rich electric blue color of the cube carefully before looking at Laserbeak who was waiting patiently.

"As the humans put it," Laserbeak held her cube in the air, "Cheers!"

"Cheers," Soundwave said softly before removing her visor. She set her visor delicately on the energon cubes before looking at Laserbeak with a dangerous smirk. She swirled the contents of the cube slowly before bringing the energon cube to her lift and began to sip it slowly. Laserbeak followed suit, savoring the sweet blandness of the energon.

"Feels good to go back to normal," Laserbeak said once she finished her energon cube. Soundwave nodded, smirking widely as the past ran through her processor. Days of living on the streets of Kaon, meeting Laserbeak, joining the gladiator fights in the Pits. She pushed any memories past those days from her processor.

They moved to their berth and sat down, facing each other and leaning against the walls. Laserbeak had her arms laid limply beside her frame and her legs were spread comfortablely apart. Soundwave laid her legs straight beside Laserbeak with her arms laid on her lap. Her back was straight against the wall.

"We're on the run again," Laserbeak said contently, "From Autobots and Cons alike,"

"Once he finds out," Soundwave said softly and slowly. It truly has been a long time since she had a real conversations. In the Pits, she was known as the deadly and silent mech, after all, Soundwave is a mech's name. She was the shadowy underdog whose past was unknown of.

Laserbeak was the silent creation that Soundwave "made", assisting Soundwave in his battles. Since Laserbeak was a "creation", she wasn't counted as a person, therefore allowed to assist Soundwave during her fights.

Everybot just thought Soundwave controlled Laserbeak, in some ways, an extent of her will. It was partly true as Laserbeak followed her orders but she wasn't an extent of Soundwave's will. She was a strong willed individual that has her own opinions and thoughts which she likes to express, sometimes too harshly.

"Hello! Earth to bossbot!" Soundwave jumped and looked around frantically. Laserbeak giggled and started to laugh hysterically. Soundwave frowned.

"You should've seen your expression!" Laserbeak said through feats of laughter, "It was priceless," Soundwave pretended to pout and she crossed her arms.

"Aw c'mon!" Laserbeak whined, "You have to admit that was funny!" Soundwave slowly let the frown fall and she had a ghost of a smile on her face.

"Affirmative," she said. She got up and brought her visor back, starting to put it back on.

"Soundwave," Laserbeak called. Soundwave paused and looked at her younger friend, companion, and partner in crime. She lowered the visor and placed it on her lap.

"Could you please not wear the visor?" Laserbeak asked with a sweet voice, using her puppy dog look and pouted. Soundwave took one look at those eyes and she instantly melted. After all, seekers of Vos are well known for being great caretakers and have a soft spot for sparklings.

"Affirmative," she agreed, a small smile was on her face plates.

"Soundwave," Laserbeak mock scolded, "You're too formal," Soundwave smiled widely, laughing through the bond. Laserbeak jumped up and punched the air.

"Yes!" she celebrated, "I got you to smile!" Soundwave shook her head at Laserbeak antics. She always got her to smile, no matter what.

"Go to recharge now," she scolded through the bond. The cave was filled with darkness now, the only light in the cave were the light that came from Laserbeak's blue and green tie-dyed optics, and Soundwave's red, blue, and green tie-dyed optics.

Laserbeak crawled on top of Soundwave's chest and snuggled comfortably in her chest slot. Soundwave softly smiled and let herself relax and she slid until she was lying flat on the cold stone berth. She placed one servo over Laserbeak as a blanket before going to recharge herself.

If you looked carefully before, the red and blue part of Soundwave's optics seemed to lose ¼ of their space to the green section of her optics.

Same with Laserbeak, the blue part of her optics also lost ¼ of their space to her green part. The red in Soundwave's optics shone less intently than ever before.