Intermezzo, Chapter 8
I'm a bit belated in posting the notification to LJ/DW--real life has been kicking my butt lately. But after an age and half, we finally managed to write ourselves back out of our corner in Intermezzo. Soundwave finally has his moment in the spotlight--though maybe not quite in the way he wanted. :)
Title: Intermezzo, Chapter 8
Author: fractalserpent, hopeofdawn
Rating: PG-13/T+
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse, with some G1 additions
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Soundwave, Megatron, Ravage and other ensemble characters/OCs.
Warnings/Notes:Soundwave-centric, this fic is the immediate sequel to 'Crescendo' in the 'Sound and Fury' series. It takes place in the same continuity as 'Giants of the Earth', but is set hundreds of thousands of years earlier, on prewar Cybertron. The character designs, for the most part, are movie-verse with the addition of G1 colors and minor modifications as needed. Warnings for canon-typical violence for this chapter.
Dropkick’s fisted talons thumped the scarred table. “More to the point -- who? Who fragged up the system this bad, and why?”
“Why, indeed,” Schism said, lifting his plating in a gesture that most mecha would have recognized as a shrug. “Aside from the loss of Fastlane, and the disarray of most of the city’s rebel units, we seem to have lost no data to enemy hands. Given this, my analysts and I feel that incompetence is more likely than sabotage.” The room echoed with grinding gears. “As to who -- unfortunately, I believe I have the answer to that, as well.”
Schism cleared his vocalizer and stood, slowly, hands flat against the holographic tabletop. “I regret to inform you,” he said, “that the leak originated within my own front. We have tracked the codes to one mech. My newest tribunus -- Soundwave.”
Cross-posted to tf2007fun and transficsation
Title: Intermezzo, Chapter 8
Author: fractalserpent, hopeofdawn
Rating: PG-13/T+
Verse: Bayverse/movieverse, with some G1 additions
Characters/Pairing: this chapter--Soundwave, Megatron, Ravage and other ensemble characters/OCs.
Warnings/Notes:Soundwave-centric, this fic is the immediate sequel to 'Crescendo' in the 'Sound and Fury' series. It takes place in the same continuity as 'Giants of the Earth', but is set hundreds of thousands of years earlier, on prewar Cybertron. The character designs, for the most part, are movie-verse with the addition of G1 colors and minor modifications as needed. Warnings for canon-typical violence for this chapter.
Dropkick’s fisted talons thumped the scarred table. “More to the point -- who? Who fragged up the system this bad, and why?”
“Why, indeed,” Schism said, lifting his plating in a gesture that most mecha would have recognized as a shrug. “Aside from the loss of Fastlane, and the disarray of most of the city’s rebel units, we seem to have lost no data to enemy hands. Given this, my analysts and I feel that incompetence is more likely than sabotage.” The room echoed with grinding gears. “As to who -- unfortunately, I believe I have the answer to that, as well.”
Schism cleared his vocalizer and stood, slowly, hands flat against the holographic tabletop. “I regret to inform you,” he said, “that the leak originated within my own front. We have tracked the codes to one mech. My newest tribunus -- Soundwave.”
Cross-posted to tf2007fun and transficsation