#m8-te

Oh. Well. Maybe Soundwave should have seen this coming, but honestly, he hadn’t expected it. He hadn’t talked to M8-TE since Megatron returned and he’d broken things off with Tarn, had honestly more or less forgotten about the drone in all the hurt he’d felt. He hadn’t thought M8-TE would contact him. And he had no idea what to even reply.

Or, well. He had. Because visiting right now? Was a bad idea. Soundwave wasn’t sure he could keep his promise about not allowing harm to come to the drone.

“Affirmative.”

If there was amusement in M8-TE’s voice, there was ice in the one Soundwave picked - and that was merely a recording. He didn’t appreciate the ridiculous circle of exaggeratedly large organic flowers resting on his helm, but the magic kept replacing it whenever he attempted to rid himself of it. Even crushing the flowers while still wearing the ridiculous thing did nothing, they just mended themselves like nothing had ever happened.

Soundwave had told M8-TE to come meet him by his quarters. He had expected the drone to show up and knock on his door, so Soundwave could go meet him outside. He hadn’t thought M8-TE would actually come inside, and certainly not without first announcing his presence and asking for permission. He didn’t like people entering his quarters without his approval.

Soundwave was honestly shocked by M8-TE’s behavior, especially since the drone had never been anything but polite and considerate. Then he realized that M8-TE was standing stiffly, his entire frame screaming out that something was very wrong, and his surprise made way for concern. Carefully, he made his way over, bending his knees until his visor was level with M8-TE’s optical band.

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“Correction: promise was that designation M8-TE will remain unharmed should he cooperate. Statement: he is not. Therefore: promise nullified.”

The ping startling him from his work made him tilt the comm device to read the senders ID and the first few words of the message. Well, it was nice to be called Sir and this must have been Evac asking for assisstance. Wonderful. He’d be happy to-... wait what?

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Was it wise to step through a portal into another ‘Verse, one which he knew very little about? No. No, it wasn’t. Was Soundwave going to do so anyways? Yes. Exactly because he knew nothing about this ‘Verse, and he wanted to. Besides, from his encounters with M8-TE, he had concluded that the drone was trustworthy and wouldn’t deliberately lead him into an ambush. And even if the worst should happen... Soundwave was confident in his own ability to fend for himself.