Mind over Matter

Soundwave and Shockwave were now heading towards the house of Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. It was a bit of a walk from the school to their home but they didn’t care now as nothing else was in their way to distract them.

“Why couldn’t most of the day be this peaceful and quiet?” Shockwave asked.

“Maybe because its getting close to the hour for them to go into stasis so it would make sense for it to be quite.” Soundwave replied as Shockwave sighed.

“You fail to grasp my meaning, again. Back on our primeval world not all Decepticons went into stasis. Remember Thundercracker’s accident.”

“Don’t remind me. He was the reason why most of our weapons failed during our missions.” Soundwave proclaimed.

“What I’m trying to say is that I’m so used to hearing gunfire and explosions during the war, the sound of metal being pierced and Autobots screaming in pain. This is completely out of normality.”

“In a good way or a bad way?” Soundwave asked curiously.

“A bad way, while I don’t mind change, this change is illogical and shouldn’t even be possible.”

“Shockwave just deal with it for now. We can’t afford to break our charade now.” Soundwave reminded his partner.

“Coming from the bot thats getting too friendly with that cyan pegasus.”

“I am not! It’s just… um collecting info for the mission.” Soundwave tried to say with a sheepish grin

“Sure it is. I bet all those races and jokes you two have make great data, especially when you have a day’s worth of it.”

“It’s better than spending an entire day talking to children who could care less about your teachings.”

“I’ll have you know Soundwave that they loved on what I teached as I told them a small fracture of the world of science and logic.” Shockwave said with a hint of pride.

“Speaking of which, what did you teach them anyways?”

“Nothing much when compared to what I usually teach. You wouldn’t understand it anyway Soundwave. You may be Lord Megatron’s second in command but that doesn’t mean you comprehend everything handed to you.”

“Ok first off; you don't teach you spend all your time experimenting on anything you can get your robotic hands on, second off I am only his communication officer but I still get more respect than any other Decepticons probably more than you, and third off if I can't comprehend everything handed to me how come I could have foreseen your space bridge failing….. miserably?” Soundwave stated with a sly grin as Shockwave cocked an eyebrow but grinned, gladly taking the challenge.

“Atleast I didn’t end up being a footstool for Lord Megatron. You follow him everywhere he goes and if you could, you probably follow him to the bathroom. And that monotone voice. I thought Starscream was annoying but you… you somehow beat him by the tiniest margin and to make it worse, you have those annoying companions that just love to hear themselves whenever they fight. News flash to you and those annoying scrap parts. You talk as if everything is boring.”

“Oh really? Well atleast I actually make some contribution to the Decepticon cause, unlike you who spends his whole time huddled up in his little tower, tinkering with his little toys and books. As for my companions, at least they actually do something unlike your pet bugs who only manage to creep other bots out and crawl around your little lair.”

“At least they are loyal. Tell me, how has your little bots serve any purpose except being nothing more than stomping ground?” At this point both Decepticons stopped dead in their tracks and stared straight into each other’s eyes, getting right up close to each other's faces as the tip of their snouts were touching.

“They did a lot more things then you could ever do.”

“Is that so hm? You were tasked with keeping Zeta Prime under our control and instead of doing that you tended to your weak and fragile little scrap toys. While that is the worst you can do it is far from the actual worse. The actual worse you ever did was allow Starscream to take over the Decepticons when even you could have defeated him. All that shows is that you prefer to kiss Megatron’s butt until the day his spark gives out. Oh wait it did and you still kissed it!”

“Your just mad that Megatron likes me more than you.” Soundwave retorted which caused Shockwave to cock both his eyebrows.

“Oh really because I don’t need Megatron’s approval to wipe my servos or look to power our armies but you you need every approval from him just to walk. I bet if it wasn’t for the fact that we’re far away from him. You’d still be at the starting point of our mission waiting for him to say walk.”

“Humph...Thats interesting.Tell me Mr. Smartass if that was the case, how come he never asks you to fight along side us? How come whenever we go to fight the Autobots its always me he asks to fight alongside him and not you? How come whenever there is an important task that must be completed its always me he asks, you wanna know why…..Its because he trusts me more than he does with you. While I’m fighting for our cause, he only asks you to sit in your tiny lab all day making useless scrap that we don't even need. So while you sit on your tailpipe all day playing with your bugs, i’m actually doing something worthwhile.” Soundwave finished as he could see Shockwave starting to get mad.

“Simple you no eyed soundboard, he’s hoping they strike you through the spark! Think about it, he put you on the frontline against Omega Supreme, against Optimus, against even lesser Autobots and yet Starscream has never had to go out constantly. He wants them to rip that monotone, emotionless, eyesore of a head off your body and to be honest, Kickback or Hardshell could do the task better and show emotion. You think Megatron would proudly say that he won the war thanks to a living tape recorder?”

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“Better that than thanking a stupid cyclops.”

And from that the two stared down into each other's eyes, staring daggers at one another as both of them were ready to pummel each other. At first nothing happened, but then a silent chuckle can be heard from Soundwave, a few seconds later Shockwave was also beginning to chuckle. And then out of nowhere both Decepticons bursted out into laughter as they were holding on to each other so neither of them can fall down. A few seconds later, the two Decepticons got their composure back as they try holding back a few left over chuckles.

“See I told you this was fun.”

“I’ll admit I needed that Soundwave. Now I see what you and Dash were talking about, that is a bit fun.” Shockwave said.

“Told you, I’m just glad to see that you are in a good mood.” Soundwave said with a smile.

“Yeah...Ummmm no hard feeling on what I sa-” Shockwave stopped to see Soundwave raising his hoof up. “-Um, what are you doing?”

“It’s something me and Rainbow Dash did, it’s called a brohoof.”

“Whats that?”

“I’m not sure but apparently its a gesture that ponies make, showing that everything is cool between them and that there are no hard feelings.” Soundwave explained as he kept his hoof up. Shockwave looking back down at his hoof, smiled as he raised his own hoof and lightly touched Soundwave's hoof. “Brohoof!”

Shockwave slightly chuckled at Soundwave’s pronounce of the word but decided to play along with it. “Brohoof.” After exchanging brohoofs, Shockwave and Soundwave decided to start walking again.