Morning was slow to come.
Orion kept falling asleep on Megatronus as they were going over the notes, over and over. Megatronus wanted to get everything right so he could impress her and take down his rival at the same time. "Megatronus," Orion yawned and stretched "She doesn't love you, she's in love with Soundwave, long before you met her."
"Things can change!" He growled. Orion sighed, it was pointless to get anything through Megatronus' thick helm. "Do you think she'd like me more if I was the next Prime?" He asked. Orion fell from his seat "What???" "Yeah, if I was someone really important, she'd fall for me right." He asked. Orion sighed and answered sarcastically "Yes, exactly, she'd leave Soundwave and love you." Too bad Megatronus didn't catch the sarcasm in his answer "Perfect! Thanks bro!" And took off before Orion could stop him. "Oh no, what have I done?" He asked himself as he got up and went to stop is brother.

Soundwave was awake and making breakfast when Echo wandered in tiredly. "Good morning, Sweetspark," he said and gave a smiley face to her. She blushed under her mask every time he called her that "G-good morning," she didn't have any nicknames for him and felt bad about that but Soundwave didn't mind. She was all he needed. He flipped the pancakes "How many do you want?"
(A/N: their food is like ours but made from energon)
Echo slowly made her way over to see what he was making "Can I have two?" He nodded "Of course." He already knew how many she wanted but he was just being polite. He flipped them a few more times before they were ready and put them on the plates and gave her, her plate with some butter and syrup. She smiled more and grabbed a fork and walked over to the table and sat down to eat. Soundwave cleaned up and bit and turned the stove off and then walked over with his own plate of pancakes and sat down to eat. It was a nice peaceful calm between the two of them then there was a knock at the door. Soundwave frowned and excused himself from the table and went to answer the door. At the door was a cherry red mech, who was very shiny, he had a serious look on his face "Soundwave?" Soundwave nodded and looked behind him to see a blue burly mech who look kind of like he was a bodyguard. "What can I help you with?" Soundwave asked. "You've been recruited by Megatron." The cherry red mech replied and handed him a datapad that had all the information on it, like where to meet and his ranking and everything "Megatron...?" "Megatronus has declared war on the new Prime: Orion." Burly mech said and looked at him "Cybertronians are already choosing sides." Soundwave nodded and closed the door after bidding them farewell. He walked into the dining room looking at the datapad. Echo looked up "Who was that?" "I've been recruited. War is about to break out." He replied and looked at her. "War?" She asked worried and walked over to him. He pulled her close and nodded, showing her the datapad, "I go in tomorrow." She looked up at him, she couldn't help but let tears fall "B-but..." She whimpered softly. He set it down and pulled her closer to him, wrapping his slender arms around her body pressing her against him to reassure her. She rested her helm on his chest and listened to his sparkbeat calm her down "Sweetspark, I want you to stay far away from the war, I will come and find you when you need energon," she looked up at him and nodded slowly knowing that she wouldn't be any help in a war, she didn't know how to fight.

~next day~
After Soundwave took Echo somewhere safe he left to get to role call on time. The only reason he was on Megatronus' side was because they were friends, even though they were fighting over the same femme. He flew over and landed, transformed, and joined the group of mechs and some femmes. Megatronus was in front of the crowd boasting out orders and rankings. Soundwave was ranked Third In Command, Communications Officer. He didn't really care. He knew this war was really a fight between Megatronus and himself over a femme named Echo.

The cycle Cybertron went to war because two mechs wanted a femme and dragged in a brother who became Prime and the other brother was jealous. This war was going to destroy so much and no one knew this. No one knew that their planet would be destroyed or that their war will go on for eons eventually heading to a planet called Earth.

Soundwave groaned under his vent and rolled his optics as battle tactics were already being handed out. Megatronus led him over to the computers and the recordings that he was supposed to use. A light grey mech, who rocket boosters looked like heels and that he was more feminine shaped, walked over with his helm high in the sky and barking at anyone who ran into him. That there is Starscream the Second In Command.
Soundwave looked around gathering more info on all the "Decepticons" as they were now called. The cherry red mech and the big, blue burly mech was going around checking everyone's health. Megatronus wandered over and looked at Soundwave but patting his shoulder hard "Perfect!" Then went to talk to the two who appeared to be medics.
After that the two medics went around giving all the Decepticons a symbol that looked a lot like Soundwave's face and helm.
Weird.

Echo looked around in the safe place. She was scared- no frightened. She was alone and shivered from the cold. She wished Soundwave was here to keep her warm. She clicked softly for him, but he never came.
She sighed.