Soundwave's Family

Chapter 1-Love Ones Lost Long Ago.

 His optics fluttered open under his visor as his alarm system awoke his from recharge. He got off his berth going over to Laserbeak whom was in his bipedal form in a deep recharge from flying around yesterday. Soundwave pinged at the mini-con until he awoke from his recharge and stretched.

 Laserbeak reattached to Soundwave's chassis, making sure no one was near the area Soundwave through the cameras he opened the door of his room and exited. He roamed the halls of the once great starship, the Nemesis, now but a mere tourist attraction of Cybertron. Of course civilians couldn't enter, there was a force field surrounding the ship but others loved to take pictures in front of it. The only ones allowed to be on the ship where high ranking officers and Team Prime, well Soundwave didn't really abide by those rules. Afterall, no one can see you when your trapped in the Shadowzone.

 He was merely a ghost, someone there but at the same time not there at all. He was... a con' without a purpose. Megatron left the decepticon cause, announcing how it was to be over, how the war should be over. It was at last over yet the factions still existed and so did Soundwave. The silent mech could only watch as history went on without him.

 He... did had theories of how he could escape this realm, but that would the point be? No one wanted him, his loyalty would forever lie to Megatron alone, this somehow was probably for the best after all. Soundwave wouldn't bother anyone anymore he just remain in his own zone with Laserbeak forever. There's nothing to go back to, the cause was to be over.

 Ravage, Frenzy, and Rumble offlined long ago. All three of them had gotten caught in an explosion, the autobots located a decepticon base, and what did they do? They blew it to smithereens. Only a few survived... all of them telling Soundwave that they hadn't seen his mini-cons in the wreckage, their fate was obvious. He never picked up their signals again....

 "Hey!" A femmes voice called out, Soundwave turned to see Arcee. "Smokescreen where did you go?"

 A mechs voice chuckled, "Right here!" Smokescreen walked through the wall using his phase shifter.

 "C'mon, Kid, Ratchet and Ultra Magnus asked us especially for this assignment..." Arcee chuckled back as she gave the rookie a playful slap on the shoulder.

 Smokescreen smiled, "I know Arcee, I was trying to find his quarters on my own, but this place is huge!"

 "That's why I did the smart thing and asked Knockout to tell me." She replied to the rookie.

 The two continued to walk down the hall, deciding he had nothing else to do Soundwave followed. However not even he could've calculated that the quarters they were looking for... were his.

 "This would be it!" Arcee stated, entering the code.

 Curse Knockout for giving the passwords like flipping Christmas cards to every autobot on Team Prime, Ugh. The two autobots entered as did Soundwave to make sure they didn't make a mess of his room. Although Soundwave got rid of any information that the autobots might find useful long ago he didn't want them messing anything up.

 His room was quite bland, it had the same setup as all the berth rooms on the Nemesis minus the fact he had several monitors and a private washroom. Both autobots looked around trying to find anything of use he supposed, they would find nothing that was crucial to the decepticons.

 "Hey, Cee'? This cabinets locked." Smokescreen stated out of nowhere.

 Aw scrap....

 Arcee pushed the rookie away, "Watch a professional at work, Kid." Instead of trying to find a key Arcee broke the lock with her blaster.

 Of course they have to make a mess, that's what autobots do! Soundwave watched as Arcee peered inside pulling out anything she saw inside. His optics locked on a scrap pad, Arcee got up looking, perhaps curious of why Soundwave would have such a thing.

 Smokescreen tilted his helm in confusion, "What's that?" The curious rookie asked.

 "A scrap pad, wow! I haven't seen one since before the war... There like datapads except instead of carrying data they carry photos, you know like that scrapbook Raf showed you of his family one time." Arcee explained before activating the device, "...To Soundwave; For being the bestest  da boss bot ever!... Love Frenzy and Rumble?"

 Arcee flipped through the photos. The first photo was of Soundwave with Laserbeak on his shoulder pad, Rumble, Frenzy and Ravage were next to him the thing surprising Arcee was that Laserbeak was in bipedal form. There were more selfies like that in the device from photos taken of Soundwave fighting in the gladiator arena of Kaon, to silly things like pranks the twins pulled. The last photo in the device was Frenzy, Rumble, Ravage, and Laserbeak surprising Soundwave with a group selfie while he seemed to be working. Both twins had huge grins on their faceplates... and Soundwave had a smiley emoji on his visor.

"Who are those mini-cons?" Smokescreen asked, having no idea who the con' were.

Arcee sighed, "I heard rumors that Soundwave had a bunch of mini-cons in the war, but I never saw them..."

"But he only had Laserbeak, right?" Smokescreen reminded her, his expression quickly went to one of despair as he remembered that many had perished in the war.

She put the scrap pad on the desk of the monitor in the room, "Many in the war weren't lucky, I also heard rumors that one day... the rest of Soundwave's mini-cons weren't in battle and were never seen again..." Soundwave thought he saw fluid form in the femmes optics but she quickly blinked. "There's nothing here. Tell Ultra Magnus and Ratchet that the room is as empty as Soundwave's visor...."

"What about the scrap pad?"

 "... Take it, I doubt there's code hidden on it. Besides not like Soundwave is using it, if Ratchet doesn't find anything we'll return it." Arcee stated before swiftly exiting the room with Smokescreen following behind.

As the doors shut Soundwave walked over to the desk of the monitor that had the scrap pad on it. Laserbeak ejected and perched on his master's shoulder as he activated the device using a tentacle. Soundwave scrolled through each photo contained in the device... when he came to the last photo he reached his digits out to touch the faces of his fallen mini-cons but was met with his digits just going through.

Laserbeak watched as Soundwave shook at seeing the faces of his mini-cons before stopping and deactivating the scrap pad. He walked over, sitting on his berth going into deep thought. After a few minutes Soundwave got back up, having Laserbeak reattach to his chassis. He is a communications officer and surveillance Lieutenant, his job is to monitor everything including autobot activity.

"Ah, shoot sorry Cee'!" Smokescreen apologized as he re-entered Soundwave's room and grabbed the scrap pad.

"I told you to take it! Good thing I noticed you didn't have it..." The femme shouted from the end of the hallway.

Wait... That isn't theirs! Soundwave tried to grab the scrap pad forgetting for a moment that he couldn't touch it in the Shadowzone, he was met with his digits going through the device. No.... No. No. No. No! That's all he has left of them!

The young rookie exited the room and Soundwave tried to follow behind with Laserbeak gliding next to him. Soundwave wouldn't let the autobots take something he found precious again! However he was too late, the autobots made it faster past the forest field than he did. There was another reason Soundwave had not chose to leave the Nemesis. Ever since those bots put up the force field he hadn't been able to leave, he tried to hack its systems but alas the controls were on the other side of the shield.

Soundwave did not panick though, his deletion of his emotions did not let him have that pleasure. Arcee stated if Ratchet did not find anything then they would return it, the scrap pad was simply a scrap pad with photos, Soundwave never thought it nessarcy to store back up data in it since he had his own hard drives and Laserbeak.

He just had to wait.... wait again when he thought Frenzy, Rumble, and Ravage would come back.