Soundwave looked upon the small human boy without emotion. It had been easy to kidnap him and knock him out, so there was no need to cage the organic. That had been the easy part. Arcee was already here, having picked up Ratchets attempt to contact her. He had quickly distorted the comlink waves, to prevent any intervention. Though he knew it take her some time to find them, she would. If her determination was anything like Solarlight's. He looked around the small cave. A small eroded hole in the limestone material allowed the last ray of sunlight to dimly light the interior. It cast am ambient mood around the small room, almost as though it was prepared for the very events it was about to host. There were two off-shoots, the one to his right, was where he had entered, the left, he didn't quite know were exactly it led too. Yet he had no time to contemplate such trivial matters.

He sighed. He looked over to his visor, which he had removed. It seemed more like a heavy weight when he wore it now. Yet, at the same time, he felt vulnerable without. Wearing it for all those years, only to find he could no longer shoulder the burden any more, made him feel suddenly weak. However, for some strange reason a part of his spark seemed to revel in it.

Light, quick footsteps shook him out of his reverie. She was here. His thoughts suddenly clashed. He had little idea of what to do...what to say- she was the problem, how do you deal with problems you wanted to be free of? His thoughts raced as to how he could tackle the upcoming situation....solve them...or... remove them from you life...you destroy them...

His optics shone brightly as they had done, even when she had first seem them. The sight of his face still instilled a sense of shock in her, but this time, she held it back. She walked forward, as confidently as she could. The light cast a strange colour on her armour, lighting it almost as orange-blue like colour. Her optics flicked around the cave, and she saw Jack lying on the floor unmoving. She gasped, and stepped to walk over to him, only to find Soundwave block her path.

" Get. Out. Of. My. Way. Now." She seethed, raising her blasters. Soundwave's own optics narrowed.

"Not until I'm done with you. You can rest assured, he is unharmed, only knocked unconscious." But he voice betrayed the dangerous look in his optics. It was somewhat softer, and meek sounding.

" Then spit it out." She spat, keeping her blasters in place. Soundwave paused, and looked away. He had no idea as to how to even begin. He looked back to Arcee. Her face was the same determination he had seem before, now laced with a death threatening glare.

" I haven't got all day." She said icily.

" Since our fight...you have plagued my mind...my very processors see you in replace of other things that shouldn't be. My very memories of those I loved-"

"Hah. What do decepticons know of love?" She sneered. But his very voice, his words, although she managed to hide it, sent a chill into her spark. How on earth could she plagued his mind?

" More than you have ever known, I'm guessing." Soundwave hinted, looking coldly back at her ignorance. Her optics narrowed as he hit a bulls eye. She herself, have never experienced love, only close friendship. Soundwave continued.

" My very memories of those I loved...have been corrupted by you. I have of yet as to figure out why, but this persistent plague ends here."

" How in the all-spark could I have plagued you?!" Arcee challenged. He was making no sense.

" I had hoped, by bringing you here, I might find an answer. But the only answer before me, since I can not solve this riddle, to save myself, is to destroy you."

He suddenly struck her, sending her backwards, and followed it up with another strike hard across the face, leaving a small scratch below her left optic. She fell to the ground, desperately fighting the pain as her optics blurred in and out of focus. She heard Soundwave's footsteps come closer, and as she managed to focus again, her optics fell on Jack. I will not be destroyed. She suddenly stood up, sending a kick into his torso, damaging a laser beak, and followed with a punch to the face, and another punch- He grabbed her fist and quickly bent it back unnaturally, causing her to gasp in pain. She felt small energon veins within her wrist burst. His tentacles suddenly wrapped constricting her throat, disrupting the energon flow. She quickly felt light headed, but contesting the dilemma, she raised up her right arm, unsheathing the blade, and struck at his face. He released her as he stumbled back, shocked as energon dripped from the fresh slice diagonally across his face. His long fingers tenderly traced the wound. Arcee looked up, her queasiness slowly dissipating.

" What's the matter? Can't handle a little scratch?" She toyed. Soundwave reacted violently, suddenly grabbing her by the throat with his two tentacles, and slamming against the cave wall.

" I've handled worse than a scratch." He said, but his voice had no anger. Again, it was sadness. He suddenly threw her to the other side of the cave, where small debris fell upon her. She breathed heavily as she tried to push herself up, but Soundwave strode across, grabbing her again and repeating the attack. The sound of her hitting the walk was like a crack of thunder, and on the third throw, she didn't get up. Her armour was slightly dented in several places, and she felt her back ache heatedly. She lay still, on her back, breathing heavily, one hand coming to rest across torso, the other lying limply to her side, sore where it had been bent unnaturally. Her small frame had been racked by the force of the hit, and she quickly slipped into blackness.

Soundwave approached imperially. It was time to rid himself of his problem. As he walked over, he froze in place. Arcee was no longer there...it was Solarlight. He tried to shake the image away, but he couldn't. The illusion of Solarlight refused to be destroyed. The past crept up slowly. This was how she laid when she was dead. When her spark had joined the all-spark. Soundwave closed his optics tightly, and shook his helm, and opened them again. The image did not turn back to Arcee. He stepped forward slowly.

" Solarlight..." he gently knelt beside her. " My Solarlight.." energon tears fell slowly down his face. The memories hit him like a tsunami, and he did not try and stop them, all the emotions they harboured.

Jack stirred. He felt a slight bruise on his head, and he rubbed in gingerly. As he sat up, he looked around an unfamiliar environment. He remembered walking home, when something had grabbed him...he had been walking through a nearby park, which was deserted. Now, he was in a dark, dimly lit, cold cave, but one that looked like it was ready to collapse at any time. As he, but he hadn't seen anyone else. He looked around, panic steadily growing within him, his heart stopped in his throat.

" Arcee....Arcee!" He cried out, his voice echoing in the cave. Soundwave looked up sharply, seeing the human running over. Soundwave turned to look down upon Arcee, and did not stop the human from rushing to his partner's side.

" Arcee..." Soundwave said, confused. Jack quickly ran to Arcee's helm, and looked up at Soundwave.

" What did you do to her?!" He spoke, tears hiding in the corner of his eyes. Soundwave looked upon the femme, when suddenly a crack could be heard over head. Both he and Jack looked up, to see the cracks race across the ceiling, and the roof begin to cave in, dust falling in anticipation.

Soundwave suddenly found himself in the past again. He had landed upon a large cybertronian buildings, as he scanned the battlefield for signs of Solarlight. He had seen the rocks fall on her...and he wasn't going to let it happen again. He couldn't let the femme he loved die...

Suddenly falling back to reality, he picked up Jack roughly, placing him on Arcee's waist, and picked up the femme, searched for a way to escape, dodging the falling debris, and seeing the very way he come in, he wasted no time in running towards it.

Jack held tightly to Arcee's servo. The world sounded as though it had erupted into thunder all around, and his closed his eyes tight praying for it to be all over. And it was. Silenced graced his ringing ears, as he looked up, he was shocked to see Soundwave, looking down upon Arcee with great sympathy.

Soundwave laid her down tenderly, and then stood up and walked over to look to the horizon. The sun had set, and dusk was fast becoming night as the stars began to appear above them. He smiled sadly. True Solar light. He thought, as he looked up to the stars above. Somewhere, light-years away, was Cybertron, and the distant memories of her. Soundwave spared a look at Arcee, and felt where his visor should have been. It was gone, destroyed. But he didn't need it anymore. His vow was broken. His love for Solarlight, the source of ambition to fight, had turned into a cage of silence. One, he realised, that had been broken by Arcee. He thought of their fight days ago. When she had been trapped, he had been compelled to save her for memories' sake. Then, he had seen her... everything she was...and he had fallen for her. Only his silence stood in his way, but as his thoughts slowly filled with the blue femme, it had been broken down, piece by piece, till there was nothing left, but the mech who had hidden behind his wall of silence.

Jack looked questionably up at the mech, the one who had attacked him Miko and Raphael at the observatory. Without his mask, he looked...normal. His emotions showed a side he would never have had expected from a decepticon. He seemed to be thinking of something, staring aimlessly into the night sky as more stars made their usual appearances above the planet. Jack still sat upon Arcee's waist, but wasted no time in climbing off as Arcee awoke.

" Jack.." She whispered lightly. She gently hauled herself up, sitting while leaning her weight forward on her knees.

" Arcee! Are you okay?" He asked, worried.

" I'm fine... What about you? What happened? Where's Soundwave?" Arcee gasped, but her words quickly became more frantic. Footsteps answered her last question, as the mech approached. Arcee quickly went to pull out both blasters, but only ended with one, her left hand to sore to transform. She looked up to Soundwave, her single blaster aimed as his spark chamber.

" You even think about-"

" There is no longer a need to fight." Soundwave spoke, raising one of his long fingered hands as a surrender.

Arcee looked at him, unsure of what he had just said. No decepticon would ever say such words to an Autobot...would they? Arcee watched as Soundwave seemed to deliberate something within his mind, and then made a gesture she had never thought possible. He outstretched his long fingered servo to her. She stared incredulously at it, and then back to his face. His optics...were different. Soft, kind, almost as though they no longer bared the weight of millennia. She waged war inside as to whether or not to take it, but it seemed a silent truce had been declared, and she was not about to start another fight.

Jack looked from Arcee to Soundwave, and found himself surprised as Arcee accepted it. Soundwave pulled her upright, and as she wobbled slightly, and he held her other servo tenderly. She looked at him, confused slightly, and pulled away, standing on her own, while pain shot up her back, which she ignored it out of pride's sake. Soundwave only looked down to the ground.

" All these millennia...I was trapped in silence. Because of what happened to her..." He spoke, as he looked to the stars. " Forgive me. I...am sorry for what I have done to you." He said, his voice genuinely filled with remorse.

" So you should be. Come on Jack. let's go home." She spoke harshly. She had had enough. It was time to get jack home, and relieve the rest of team back at base from their worries. As they walked away, Jack stared at her.

" What?"

" HE saved us. You could have at least have said thank you."

" Hey, I'm not the one who kidnapped you, and beat the crap out of me, am I?" She spoke tiredly, looking forward to getting back to base, and having a long recharge-

"Arcee."

Arcee turned suddenly as she heard her name. Soundwave approached, albeit cautiously.

" What do you want?" She asked coldly again. Jack shot her another look which she ignored. Soundwave turned to look at Arcee, and then he did something that shocked not only Arcee and Jack, but himself as well.

He pulled the femme close, and gently kissed her. She froze, feeling her faceplates heat up, and shock consume her. Arcee pushed herself away, quickly backing up. She looked upon him with shock horror. Unsure of what to do, she chose the only option she had. Run. She transformed into her vehicle mode.

" Jack, get on." Jack pause to look at Soundwave. He looked back at Jack somberly.

"NOW jack." Arcee demanded. Jack quickly climbed on, and Arcee wasted no time in reaching her top speed.

Soundwave watched as the femme drove into the forest, and he wondered whether he had made a foolish move. He felt recharge summon him, and for the first time in a while, he knew he would finally rest. He looked up once to the sky, now filled with the solar light of many stars. It was finally time to let go.

May you be one with the all spark.

Goodbye, My Solarlight...