OTA

[decepticonpeacemaker]

Who: Soundwave and you!
When: The 21st through the end of May, pretty much.
Where: Around the Moria.
What: "Taking stalk", AKA robo-sulking. Feel free to find him anywhere he might fit in his armored car mode.
Warnings: Ehh none currently, will add as needed.


Given the turns his life had taken lately, Soundwave supposed being stuck on a small ship where he hated his job and almost everyone else around him was par for the course. Years of being Decepticon high command and literally conquering worlds to struggling to stuff tiny packages for organics into mailboxes without mangling them. Or on other days, cleaning up after said organics. All while surrounded by a bunch of Autobots, Megatron, murder happy organics, and Tarn. Who may have single handedly restarted the war if Riptide’s screams the other day were anything to go by. Maybe he should have checked into what happened more thoroughly, but honestly? He was tired. Of a lot of things. And he didn’t need to know the details.

If he hadn’t felt comfortable sleeping in what passed for a room occupied by Autobots before, he certainly wasn’t going to do it now. Instead he kept to his schedule of finding various deserted areas in the ship, transforming into an armored car, and sleeping like that. Some days he was in the cargo bay - now as far away from the Rodpod as physically possible - other days it was the garden, and sometimes it was in the middle of one of the larger empty hallways. Never the observation deck though. The view was nice but the noise was unbearable. Really, the noise throughout the whole ship was starting to grate on Soundwave’s nerves. He was starting to really miss Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Rumble, and Frenzy’s incessant chatter. Even if their conversation topics were optic roll worthy, they had been something grounding for him to listen to.

Here he was alone.

Well, he did have the odd - what did humans call them? - plush version of Laserbeak that had just shown up in the cargo bay the other night. Though since it didn’t do much apart from sit there, it hardly counted as company. Soundwave had nearly tossed it out one of the airlocks when he first got it, but now it was taking up the driver’s side seat of his alt mode.

No matter. He’d been through worse before. He would just wait. Today he’d wait in the cargo bay, tomorrow in a hallway, the next in the gardens. If the captains wanted to get the organics home within their lifespan, it wouldn’t take that long to get home.

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[decepticonpeacemaker]

Tailgate you will never get far in the Decepticons if you slack off so much.

Soundwave turned as Tailgate approached, staying in his alt mode for the moment. That certainly was a new purple badge on the tiny bot... It was hard not to be curious about it, given everything about Tailgate screamed 'overly friendly Autobot'. Especially how chatty he was. No matter. It wasn't an unwelcome distraction.

"I had planned on recharging for a while," He explained, "The room I was assigned to is... not to my tastes."

[daintylegs]

"Oh, yeah, you're supposed to stay with Rodimus, Riptide, and Sideswipe, aren't you?" He, very faintly, remembered someone complaining about that some time ago. Was it Rodimus? Or Riptide? Oh well, he couldn't remember. "Sorry about the wall I guess, that was pretty much my fault. I was trying to build something and it exploded. Strange it hasn't been fixed yet."

Despite Soundwave's obvious indication that he wanted to be alone, Tailgate was more than keen to stick around and keep chatting. After Cyclonus, Tailgate was very used to holding up every side of a conversation.

"Why don't you just room with Megatron? I think he has a room all by himself ever since Ultra Magnus left. I think he might be lonely. I mean, I sure would be."

[decepticonpeacemaker]

"Yes, we were assigned to the same room." He'd rather have a room to himself, but if that couldn't happen, he would at least wish for people who hated him on principle just a little less. Not that it wasn't expected. And at this point, he wasn't sure who he would trust living with to apart from his cassettes. At Tailgate's next words, he gives the tiny bot a skeptical look. Or as skeptical as a car can look anyways. "It doesn't seem strange at all, actually." Given how gladly Tailgate dropped his work to come talk to him, he's not surprised the hole never got fixed.

Soundwave bristles noticeably at the mention of rooming with Megatron and huffs. "I am perfectly fine here," He really did try not to let too much irritation leak into his voice, "Regardless, if Megatron desired company, it would not be mine." That had been made abundantly clear when he was left behind, like all the other Decepticons. And again when Megatron couldn't be bothered to contact him here unless it involved Tarn getting into trouble.

Which has nothing to do with Soundwave being a passive aggressive aft. Nothing at all.

[daintylegs]

The more Tailgate talked to Soundwave, the more he picked up on the bitter salt that made up the Decepticon's being. The more he looked at it, the more intensely curious he became. Did Soundwave and Megatron have an intensely bad breakup? It probably had something to do with Megatron's betrayal (as Tarn put it). On the one hand, it wasn't any of Tailgate's business. On the other, he was a very nosy person and everyone's business was his business.

"Oh... well if you say so." He would have to grill Megatron about it later. "You could always share my room! My only roommate is Cyclonus, and he won't bother anyone. He can be a bit scary sometimes, but you don't seem like the kind of person who gets scared, so I think you'll be fine."

[decepticonpeacemaker]

Well, if Tailgate didn't bring up a bunch of people Soundwave hated all the time, maybe he would sound a little less bitter. At least a little. Really he was in a place in his life where everything was going to hell and nothing seemed to make it better and the majority of the people around him were terrible and untrustworthy. It was hard not to get a little bitter about everything.

But Tailgate should absolutely ask Megatron about it to make his life as awkward as possible.

"Cyclonus?" He would have thought someone like Tailgate would drive someone like Cyclonus nuts, but then he did make a point of mentioning how important the Autobot crew of the Lost Light was to him... "I spoke with Cyclonus briefly after I arrived. He seems reasonable enough." Soundwave wasn't the type to get scared, but he also wasn't sure he could be in a room with Tailgate for an extended time and stay sane, "Your offer is very kind, I will consider it."

[daintylegs]

"Well, us Decepticons need to stick together, right?"

Tailgate is still not entirely sure about this whole thing, but that definitely won't stop him from trying wedge his way into Soundwave's business. He already considers Soundwave a friend through the fact that they exist in the same general area together. It's how he befriended Cyclonus, and that worked like a charm.