Heatwave sighed, staring at the maroon armor he now donned. 4 years since he had started acting as the Decepticon named Wavesmasher and no one suspected him yet. But he planned to tell his femme eventually. He would get her back from the Decepticons, if it was the last thing he did.

However, at the moment, he had been sent to collect an item of interest to the Decepticons. And Megatron had made it extremely explicit that if he failed, he would be terminated. So, of course, he didn't argue, and went nearly immediately. Well, after he tried to talk Silverdust into coming with him. That failed, of course, thanks to the stupid silent mech that she was pretending was her sparkmate. And now he had to go on a mission with Soundwave. He growled softly under his breath as he waited with the vehicons on the flight deck.

Soundwave arrived to the flight deck a few minutes after Heatwave did. Without saying a word, as per usual, he opened a ground bridge. Heatwave, Soundwave and the vehicons disappear through it, appearing outside a small human facility. Heatwave watched as Soundwave showed the vehicon troops what Megatron required of them, and they immediately went to go get it, ignoring any humans who shot at them.

Heatwave and Soundwave waited silently, watching for the Autobots. Heatwave hoped they would get here soon. It was bad enough he didn't know what Megatron was trying to build, but the world was slowly dying off because of the Warlord.

Finally, he spoke up. "You don't like me, do you, Soundwave?"

Soundwave was silent, before a familiar voice rang out. Heatwave knew it was Silverdust, but he was shocked at what he heard.

"I think Wavesmasher is Heatwave!" Soundwave played. He wasn't sure how the dark red mech would react, but at the shocked look on his face, Soundwave knew that Silverdust was correct. His spark sunk. Now that he knew Heatwave was closer than imagined, Silverdust would get much more excited, and harder to contain. He feared for her safety.

Heatwave sighed. "It took her four years to figure it out."

Soundwave growled slightly, and actually almost spoke, but was interrupted by a ground bridge opening. He glared as the Autobots arrived, but was distracted by the vehicons appearing with the object of interest in hand. He quickly opened a ground bridge for them, which they quickly utilized, then transformed and flew up as the Autobots drove towards them.

He watched as Wavesmasher quickly shifted back to Heatwave, and pointed a blaster in his direction. Soundwave dodged every shot Heatwave fired at him, but as he was distracted, Optimus started shooting at him. Quickly, he engaged Laserbeak to keep her safe from harm, and to make sure Megatron and Silverdust knew what happened, though he informed the small mechanical bird to keep Wavesmasher's true form a secret. Before he could get a confirmation chirp, he was shot in the wing. 

Silently groaning in pain, Soundwave spiraled down into some power cables. It wouldn't have been too rough a landing if the power cables hadn't shocked him into obliviousness. Laserbeak stared silently at her master, but followed his final orders, and returned to the ship to inform the Princess of the Decepticons what had happened.

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"He's been WHAT?!" Megatron yelled angrily. Silverdust whimpered as she hugged Laserbeak.

"He and Wavesmasher have been kidnapped by the Autobots, Sire", she said quietly. "Laserbeak recorded it all."

What she didn't tell her sire was that Laserbeak had showed her the small clip of Wavesmasher transforming back into Heatwave. It was exciting news to be told that her theory was correct. She just had to hope that he wouldn't be an idiot.

Megatron growled, and slammed his servo down on the computer. "Send a message to the Autobots. Tell them that if they want to live, they had better hand over my communications officer."

The vehicons began frantically typing while Megatron stewed in his anger towards the Autobots. Silverdust began walking away when a ping sounded throughout the room. It was a reply.

'Meet me where we kidnapped Soundwave. -Heatwave'

Silverdust's optics widened. He wasn't planning on fighting Megatron alone, was he? Megatron grinned at his daughter. "It appears I will have a chance to slay the Autobot you've once before stopped me from harming."

Silverdust could stare back in fear, hugging Laserbeak tightly. Megatron walked out of the room, and Silverdust whispered to Laserbeak. "Follow him, and send me a visual feed through the computer in my berthroom."

Laserbeak started flying and followed Megatron while Silverdust hurried to her berthroom. On the computer in there, she could see Megatron flying above the clouds. She watched as he slowly maneuvered downward through the clouds. Laserbeak followed and for a moment she couldn't see anything through the cloud cover. A feeling of nervousness bubbled up within her. What she saw through the clouds nearly made her fall to her knees, her legs growing shaky as she watched in terror.

Megatron wasn't the only Decepticon there. There was what looked like the entire army of vehicons attacking the Autobots. They were horribly losing. Optimus was distracted by several vehicons and Starscream. Arcee was fighting back to back with Bumblebee with vehicons surrounding them. She recognized large shoulder pads to be Ultra Magnus, who was fighting alongside a red, green and white mech. She noticed three of the rescue bots that she grew to care for fighting against at least 30 vehicons. She searched the battle field for Heatwave but there was no sign of him. 

And then Laserbeak swerved to the side, and she saw him. She saw her mech storming through vehicons, charging towards Megatron. And then he yelled something, and Silverdust froze, knowing he would not survive.

"Megatron, I challenge you for the right to take your daughter away from your tyranny!"

Megatron watched as Heatwave ran towards him. He let Heatwave get close, which was a mistake on his part. Heatwave was better at fighting that Megatron last thought. Megatron instantly put up a fight once Heatwave got one hit in, creating a large gash on the warlord's face.

"Heatwave, fall back!" Optimus yelled. Heatwave ignored him, favoring attacking Megatron instead. It didn't take long for Megatron to get frustrated with the red mech who seemed to know his fighting style. Finally, he caught the rescue bot by his neck, and put his blaster to his torso, shooting him point blank.

Silverdust let out a scream at the sight, and lunged for the computer as she watched the light fade from his optics. She fell to the ground, hugging her arms as she started sobbing. Her sparkmate was dead this time. And there was no coming back.