Of Drones and Logic

alone time with J

But there was one thing that didn't make sense to shockwave: Tarantulas' body was never even FOUND. Shockwave tried to come up with a logical explanation but megatron declared that everything that involves tarantulas will count as treason. Even mentioning the spider's NAME is forbidden so Shockwave dropped all traces of the explanation of why Tarantulas' body was never found.

But after seeing those insecticons, Shockwave has enough evidence to come to a logical conclusion, a logical conclusion that Shockwave hopes is completely wrong: Tarantulas is still alive.

Some how, Tarantulas survived the fall and hid from both factions and sneaked out of Cybertron during the exodus and at this very moment, Shockwave's former science partner is continuing his work somewhere out there.

Shockwave is looking through his maps on the planet and checked all the locations for hybrid insecticons with his scanners for life signals. He noticed one of the locations on his map beeped.

Shockwave immediately sets the coordinates on the terminal of his newly built groundbridge and activates it. The groundbridge creates the familiar green vortex before Shockwave revealed his wings and took off into the portal.

Shockwave flew out of the portal and lands on his feet and just as he was about to proceed, he heard someone else jump through the groundbridge behind. The former 'con shook his helm before turning to the one who followed him to reveal J.

"Hi Shockwave. I, uh, thought I might j-join you. If you're fine with it, I mean." The femme murder drone said nervously. Normally Shockwave would've ordered her to go back but a part of him pushed that thought down and wanted to spend time with her, despite how illogical it was.

"I suppose there's no harm in it." Shockwave replied, much to J's relief. J gave shockwave a rather small smile before walking. Shockwave immediately felt his tail wagging like a dog when J smiled at him and Shockwave tried to stop the tail from waging but to no avail.

Shockwave mentaly sighed and walked with J. The two walked alongside each other in silence. It remained silent until J spoke up.

"So... what do you do to clear your thoughts?" The murder drone asked.

"Usually, I would go outside for a bit and go for a walk. Never been able to get chances like this during the war." The scientist replied.

"What was the war like?" J suddenly asked, surprising the cycloptic cybertronian-turned-murder drone. After taking a deep breath, he answered.

"Horrible. Everything about it was horrible and tragic. Innocents lost their lives, watching your close friends die in front of your very optics and brought trauma to many soldiers."

"Sorry to hear that." J apologised. J may be a killing machine, armed to the teeth with weapons and grenades, and was programmed to slaughter and devour many rouge drones but she wasn't a monster, even she felt sympathy for killing her victims sometimes.

"Remember when you said that you agree with N's theory of the drop pods are the company's way to dispose of us? Why did you agree with him?" The female murder drone asked curiously, something J was meaning to ask Shockwave for a while now. Shockwave suddenly halts in silence, causing J to halt as well.

"Because I've seen it before... with Predaking."

"Predaking?" J repeated, never hearing of that name before.

"A Predacon, a species of Cybertronian that has been extinct since most life began on Cybertron. They were actually responsible for starting all myths, legends and folklore about dragons."

"Extinct? Dragons? You mean dragons are cybertronian dinosaurs?" J asked in shock and Shockwave nodded in reply.

"Sooo... what are Dinobots?"