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[cavycaptain]

In The Hyacinths

01 - Loyalty - MegaSound Week 2023

“Pledge your loyalty to me”

If he’d bared no mask, Soundwave would’ve smirked. If his optical receptors were visible, he’d have rolled them in a perfect circle. Instead, in the middle of the open field of hyacinths, as he later learned they were called, where the Earth’s sun was at its highest peak in the blue cloudless sky, he uttered the most unfathomable word his lord and master least expected:

“No”

He wished he could have seen the look of disbelief, pure shock, from the ferocious Megatron as he quickly turned his back to him.

“Pardon me?”

Soundwave playfully crossed his arms, gazing out towards the untamed field as the flowers swayed against the breeze. The petals as blue as the energon running through their war-torn bodies flew from their stems to dance within the gentle current. He could feel Megatron walk closer to him, the heat of the larger body standing ominously, but not quite, just behind him.

Soundwave shrugged, not even bothering to give him a glance as he continued to be interested in the organic debris floating about.

“Are you defying an order?”

The last word came out with the hint of a purr; a rumble of the engine that powered so much strength and brought upon so much authority its what drove an army into submission. And when Soundwave finally bothered to give him a side glance, to hint at what he desired, he felt his spark leap with excitement when those piercing red eyes lit up with matched emotion. 

Before he knew it, they were sparring. Well, more like tumbling. Rolling around like the pair of young sparklings that existed all those millions of years ago. The flowers were either stuck in every crevice of their bodies or flying above them in an explosion of color, their plating smeared with grass stains, crumpled petals, and wet dark mud.

Soon he had Megatron on his back, or so he was made to believe, while interlocking one small hand with his leader’s and placing the other against his broad chest to keep him down. Megatron feigned defeat as his spare hand practically encapsulated Soundwave’s waist before traveling down to stroke and pet at his thigh.

“Do I have your loyalty now?” he laughed aloud.

Soundwave chuckled and let out a fake exasperated sigh, “Yes.”

It was sacrilegious to ever ask the same in return.