[TF] Despicable Me - 08

Despicable Me
Chapter Eight

In the dim silence of the medical bay, it occurs to Megatron that this is perhaps the first time he’s perched at the berthside of one of his injured Decepticons. How many times has Soundwave occupied this very seat while Megatron recovered? Not only as a Decepticon, but in his gladiator days as well.

Megatron had been injured often, frequently badly enough to need medical attention, or time spent in a CR chamber.

The steady beep of the equipment monitoring Soundwave brings Megatron no comfort. It’s a cacophony of noise. The whooshing hiss of the manual-ventilators pushing air through Soundwave’s overheating systems. The gurgle of the intrafunial drip as it carefully and sluggishly eases medical-grade energon into Soundwave’s lines. The discordant chimes of both the spark and cranial monitors -- tracking Soundwave’s sparkbeat and his neural activity.

Megatron doesn’t need to be a medic to read the hopelessness of Soundwave’s condition. Without the Synth-En formula and the cybermatter which had powered the Omega Lock, there is no hope for the Soundwave Megatron remembers. He’ll be a newspark in everything but frame.

Is it selfish to want the Soundwave he remembers? Would it be better for Soundwave to forget?

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