Chapter 4

The next Morning Soundwave woke up groggily to someone shaking him awake. At first he thought that it was Magma Flare waking him up to tell him he fell asleep at his desk again, but it was just a tad too rough for it to be her. He on lined his optics and looked up to the ground based femme standing next to him. He was confused as to who she was until the memories of what took place last night flooded back to him. He slowly sat up as she spoke.

"Are you ok? You fell asleep at your desk last night."

"I am fine. I just had a really busy week." He hadn't realized that Magma Flare was awake until she placed a cube of energon in front of him. "I hadn't realized you were awake as well."

"Yeah well, it's just about the time when you wake me up. And you were asleep at your desk again and aunt Nova Fire was trying to wake you up when I walked in."

"Call me aunt Nova. Aunt Nova Fire just seems way too formal."

"Yeah, you're right. Soundwave come on, hurry. You'll be late for your shift if you don't drink your energon now."

"No he won't. He doesn't seem like he could get tired very quickly, which leads me to think that his 'busy week' was at least three times more busy than normal, which also means that the rest of the crew is also over worked. So when I go and literally kick Starscream's aft out of his post and back down to cyber-rat I will cut everybody's shifts back down to normal."

"Cool, oh Soundwave. Don't forget to get a video for me to watch."

"You know that I won't young one." He said as he removed his face mask so that he could drink his energon.

"Huh, I was right that is a face mask."

"Hey aunt Nova."

"Yes?"

"There are a couple of things that you should know about Soundwave. He doesn't usually speak out side of this room unless there isn't anybody around, and he is the communications officer. He also controls the security footage on the ship and the data base updates."

"So Soundwave was the only other bot on this ship that my brother trusted besides his beloved daughter? I could see that happening because Soundwave seems loyal."

"Should I bring up a few recordings of Megatron's voice and slice them together well enough to make his will more authentic?" Soundwave asked.

"Yeah, Megatron usually put things on recording along with paper work to make things more authentic. It should work."

Later when Soundwave and Nova Fire are on the bridge…

As Soundwave and Nova fire neared the doors to the bridge Soundwave could pretty much see the gears in Nova Fire's head spinning as she continued to think of ways to beat the scrap out of Starscream. He actually seemed a bit intimidated by her. Once the doors to the control room opened Starscream spoke up.

"Soundwave, you are late." Soundwave looked at Nova Fire and nodded.

"Hello Screamy." She called. He immediately went rigged and turned around very slowly.

"Nova Fire… I didn't know that you had found your way to the Nemesis. How are you doing?"

"Still pissed that you left me on that planet to find my own way back to Cybertron."

"But that was vorns ago."

"Remember who my brother is and what his reputation is?"

"Oh, I had forgotten about that."

"You are so lucky that he didn't find out about your little blunder. But now that I have found you, you are not so lucky." She heard multiple weapons simultaneously activate around the room. "Is this how you welcome the sister of Megatron?" She called out. All of the vehicon's in the room looked at each other in shock. Although their weapons were lowered they were still activated.

"I did not see that coming." The red mech standing not too far away from Starscream said.

"And you would be?"

"I am Knockout, the chief medical officer on the Nemesis. Although I am a lot better at breaking them than fixing them." He said with pride.

"But you can't stand your paint getting scratched can you?"

"How did…"

"It's written all over your paint. It's shinier the paint job's on all the other mech's on bored, now, back to business. You'll have one heck of a job after I'm finished with little ol' Screamy here" She said before flinging herself at Starscream, Soundwave recording the whole event. After about five minutes of beating the slag out of Starscream, Nova Fire got bored and tossed him over to Knockout's feet.

"I guess she really is the sister of Megatron." He said in fear. Starscream groaned before he sat up.

"You have no idea, this was just her going easy on me."

"Really?"

"During the war for Cybertron she was Megatron's go to femme when he needed info from an autobot. Some of the troops started to say that she was far worse than her brother when it came to punishments, yet far more fair when it came to rewarding the troops. I should know. I used to be her partner."

"That is until he left me to die on that planet. I heard that some neutrals moved there and made a government system completely based off of racing. If I remember correctly they called it Velocitron, the speed planet."

"Sounds like my kind of planet," Knockout mused.

"You will be my muse to rake my claws on if you don't fix me right now!" Starscream threatened as he stood back up.

"If you do anything damaging to one of the troops then you will get a month in the brig, only be fed once a day, and tortured three times a day anyway I see fit," Nova Fire threatened the seeker who cowered in fear at her gaze, one that would even intimidate the all mighty Unicron himself. Soundwave found himself taking a subconscious step backwards. He realized that not only would she be a much farer leader than the two before her, but she would be able to keep the troops in line much better than her brother and ex-partner.

"Ah, what's wrong wavey? Are you scared?" Nova Fire taunted. She would also be much, MUCH easier to get along with. The rest of the day he watched her very closely. First she cut back the amount of work that the crew had once she found out that there extended schedule had been going on for over a month. Then she had maintenance fine tune the engines to her specifications. Now not only will the engines be more efficient, but they will allow the ship to fly much faster than before.

He then continued to watch as she slowly moved the current mine workers out with fresh ones, allowing the old ones to get some much needed rest. Something neither Megatron nor Starscream thought to do. This femme was truly the light in there darkest hour.