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anon: Something for TFP StarWaveWave conspiracy AU you talked about on tumblr?
I would like to personally thank this ko-fi commissioner for ensuring that I was incapable of thinking about anything else at all today; and secondarily thank @kurxo for accidentally indirectly inspiring this by drawing Starscream being friendly with Soundwave and Shockwave. Fic based on that fanart and some posts I made a few days ago about a potential Starscream + Soundwave + Shockwave conspiracy to overthrow Megatron; this fic is a setup for how such an alliance could come to be. The related posts are tagged #starwavewave conspiracy
If he’d stopped to think about it beforehand, Soundwave would have expected the hardest part of starting a mutinous conspiracy to be convincing himself that he wanted to help Starscream to overthrow Megatron. Certainly, that was the slowest part. Convincing Shockwave had been much easier. But no—it turned out that the trickiest bit of the whole thing was convincing Starscream that he wanted to overthrow Megatron.
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“Thank You For Listening, Soundwave”
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“Legend tells that it holds the power to revive the dead,” Starscream said.
Megatron replied, “We require only a cadaver to be certain. Are you willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?” and Starscream cringed away from him, laughing nervously, deflecting the question.
Soundwave recorded.
Soundwave hadn’t realized until that moment that so much of what he disliked about Starscream was how he shrank and shriveled and cowered in fear.
He hadn’t realized until that moment that—even faced by the most highly-trained Autobot guerrilla force in history, by energon shortages and hungry soldiers, by carving out secret strongholds for the Decepticons on an alien world—he hadn’t seen Starscream cringe once in the last three years.
Until now.
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