(Transformers) Soundwave's secret

Chapter 10

If her memory banks were going to be watched then there must be nothing that could work against her... At least Decepticons wouldn't scan the time before she was taken hostage.

Soundwave was sitting on the medical berth following all Ratchet's movement, while he was standing his back turned at her and preparing something on his massive table. Then, by the wall, Soundwave noticed a small gray one with tiny wheels and an orange tray with some metallic tools on it. She could have used Autobots' own 'weapon' to defend herself but unfortunately they wouldn't give her opportunity to reach it in time.

By his desk Ratchet typed something in his data pod, looked at Soundwave and made his way to that table. As he walked, Decepticon turned her visor not taking attention from the him, and, when the medic started pooling the table, Soundwave suddenly started moving back making warriors revive. Before Ironhide could react the femme slide over the berth and landed by his side. Although she was barely on her peds, Soundwave prepared the sharp digits and started slowly walking back facing Ironhide and ready for the attack.

"Have you lost your processor?!" Ironhide roared looking at her with wide optics.

Blurr left the doorway and was already by his side as the twins slowly moved to Soundwave surrounding her. With a sudden, Sunstreaker managed to grab her left servo but was sent flying at his twin knocking him from his peds. This moment Blurr tried to catch her from the back, but Decepticon somehow managed to release herself diving out of his grip and jumped away. Soundwave felt as losing her strength and leaned on a bureau trying not to fall down, her peds going weaker but the support with a loud rumble slid away as all the tools were knocked on the ground belling as they hit the floor. This caused Soundwave to fully lose her balance and collapsed on the ground. She tried to stand up leaning on her servos but the peds failed her not wanting to listen to nay command, so after two unsuccessful tries the femme managed to crawl to the white wall. She turned her back to the wall and tried to stand up again leaning her right to it and not taking her attention from Autobots.

It was her limit. She didn't even have to speed her breath to cool her engines as they hadn't had enough energy for heating.

Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were on the floor, Sunny still sitting on his brother, his chassis up and rubbing his helm with left servo. Ratchet was by Red Alert's side, who was leaning his servos to the berth, where Soundwave had been sitting, their optics wide in disbelief, while Ironhide and Blurr were standing at twins' right not sure of what to do.

"And I though her energy was minimum..." Ratchet marveled looking at Soundwave. She might have appeared to be a femme, but it was the same bot as before, and the fact that she managed to get this far was more then amusing not only for him. During his life Ratchet had seen lots of transformers and it was clear that Soundwave was the one, who never surrenders. Even right now she was hardly standing but ready for defense... The only thing he still couldn't understand was why Soundwave had reacted that way...

"Tell me about it! She nearly collapsed on the floor when we were leadin' her here!" Sunny reminded turning to him.

"Yeh! How're you doin' that!?" Sideswipe glanced at Soundwave, who was now trying hard to stay on her peds. How was this femme dealing with them again and again?! It started getting on their nerves! And hurting their ego too.

Ratchet slowly walked around the med berth and stopped next to Ironhide and Blurr, who made a step closer to Soundwave, what caused the femme to jerk again preparing her only weapon, so Ratchet put up his servo showing them to stop.

He watched Soundwave for several clicks and suddenly realized the reason of her actions. He looked at his tools and back at the femme still not sure if he was right. "Soundwave... You didn't think that I was going to use them against you, did you?" Soundwave turned her helm at the medic, so did the others. Did she really think that way!? The warriors exchanged looks, as Ratchet raised his voice in disbelief, "Primuse! Soundwave this is a med bay. Bots are healed here, not damaged!"