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Summary: Shockwave's revenge - based on Marvel's Shockwave who despises Megatron {In the series Shockwave appeared to care for him}
Author's notes: One breem = 8.5 earth minutes .... Now for a little indulgent history lesson ... :) I wrote this on a school ski trip - wonderful at first, but four days of snow and bitter cold took its toll. As luck would have it, I hurt my knee on day 4, skiing down a hill. It was better soon after, however, sick and tired of snow and ice, on day 5, I pretended my knee was still sore and the teachers fell for it. And so ... pretending to be cold and cranky, I sat all day in a small cafe and wrote this badass fic ;)
Features in Overlord II, issue 11, 1993 - Please note "Tanya Dean" was Seawave's old human name ;)
Rating - PG
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THE WRATH OF SHOCKWAVE --
PLANET -- EARTH
TIME -- 2300 HOURS
LOCATION -- CLASSIFIED
MY NAME IS SHOCKWAVE -- DECEPTICON MILITARY OPERATIONS COMMANDER. LOGIC
DICTATES THAT I WILL FUNCTION AS A
INTERROGATIVE - WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?
HYPOTHESIS - I AM TO TAKE OVER FROM MEGATRON, WITH FORCE LEADERSHIP OF THE DECEPTICONS --
CONCLUSION - AT LONG LAST UNDER MY LEADERSHIP - THE DECEPTICONS WILL WIN THE WAR AND GAIN CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE --
I NOW TAKE OFF FOR DECEPTICON HEADQUARTERS TO CONFRONT MEGATRON -- I OBSERVE HIM STANDING IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER VIEWSCREEN.
"Megatron --"
HE SPINS.
"SHOCKWAVE!!! WHA??? NO... NO... IT CAN'T BE ... YOU'RE... YOU'RE ... DEAD ...!"
"Illogical, Megatron. How can I be dead if I stand before your very optical sensors?"
I EXPECTED THAT REACTION WITH 99.95% ACCURACY. AFTER ALL - HE HAS NOT SEEN ME IN OVER FOUR MILLION EARTH YEARS. I WAIT, PATIENT UNTIL HE REGAINS HIS COMPOSURE.
"I have observed your progress, Megatron, and I can see why we Decepticons have not yet won the war."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
HE GLARES AT ME.
"It obviously means that your tactics and methods are failing. The Decepticons require a new leader."
"I thought we discussed this over a battle about five million years ago, Shockwave. I am the only suitable leader for the Decepticons."
"Five million years, six months, twenty-six weeks, nineteen hours thirty-seven minutes and 35.55 Earth seconds, to be exact, and if you are the only suitable leader, explain why we have not yet triumphed in over nine million years -- "
OBVIOUSLY WHAT I HAD JUST STATED CALLED FOR MEGATRON TO THINK. I TURN AWAY FOR A MOMENT. FOOLISH OF ME AS MEGATRON BLASTED ME IN THE BACK. I SHOULD NOT HAVE LET MY GUARD DOWN. FURIOUS WITH MY MOMENTARY LAPSE IN LOGIC, I THROW MYSELF TO THE SIDE AS MEGATRON FIRES AGAIN. I WARD OFF HIS BLAST WITH ONE OF MY OWN.
"You are a fool to attack me," I STATED.
"I have greater power than you, Shockwave ..."
"You are not at full strength, Megatron -- I observed when you last recharged -- 250 Breems ago. I calculate rapid energy loss."
"I can still destroy you!" HE SCREAMS.
I BLAST MEGATRON'S FUSION CANNON, THEN AGAIN IN HIS MIDSECTION. HE HIDES HIS PAIN WELL. LOOKING DOWN AT HIM, I STATE, " You are losing power. I calculate a complete power loss in less than five minutes."
"I will destroy then, you in those five minutes." HE BEGINS TO STAND, THE HEROIC FOOL.
"Illogical, Megatron. By every measure, I am your superior. That is why you shall lose this battle. That is why I will lead the Decepticons -- "
"NO!! I am Decepticon leade ..."
I BLAST HIM, AGAIN IN HIS MIDSECTION, THEN TRANSFORM INTO MY 10 METRE LONG SPACE BLASTER MODE, APPROXIMATELY ONE CENTIMETRE FROM MEGATRON'S FACE.
"Do you yield, or do you wish to feel -- THE WRATH OF SHOCKWAVE? --"
"I yield ..." HE SAYS, GRUDGING.
"Good" I SAY, TRANSFORMING. "I see you do have some logic in your circuits after all."
I ALLOW HIM TO STAND, THEN BRIEF HIM ON MY LOGICAL, EFFECTIVE AND FOOLPROOF METHODS OF DEFEATING THE AUTOBOTS, CONTROLLING CYBERTRON AND THE UNIVERSE.
"Commander Shockwave," HE SAYS, "we must also terminate the humans. Those Earth Germs ally themselves with the accursed Autobots. They underestimate the power of the Decepticons. For that they must die -- "
"Why do you bother yourself with petty revenge on pathetic creatures, Megatron, when logic dictates otherwise? Why illogically waste time and energy on the fleshlings? If they stand in our way, we will crush them, otherwise they will not concern us. Is that understood?"
"Affirmative, Commander."
HIS SARCASM IS NOT LOST ON ME.
"Good, - and, Megatron, keep on full alert for Autobots. I don't want those fools ruining my plans."
"Yes, Commander Shockwave."
I WALK TOWARDS THE EXIT, THEN TURN.
"Megatron, you will obey my every order -- Fail to do that and I can assure you, your fate will not be pleasant -----"
"I will obey your every order, Commander."
HE SPITS OUT THE LAST WORD. I PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE. "Logical conclusion." WITH THAT I LEFT.
"I must obey Shockwave's every order ..." I HEAR MEGATRON SAY QUIETLY TO HIMSELF. "For now ..."
AS I EXPECTED. OBVIOUSLY MEGATRON CANNOT BE TRUSTED. LOGIC DICTATES I MUST NEVER LET HIM CATCH ME UNAWARE. HE MAY BE ILLOGICAL, BUT HE IS ALSO MERCILESS.
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TIME PROGRESSES. UNDER MY COMMAND, THE DECEPTICONS GAIN VICTORY, WHICH WAS MORE THAN MEGATRON HAS EVER DONE. I HAD PROGRAMMED MY SHUTTLE WITH THE FLIGHT PLANS TO CYBERTRON. AT LONG LAST, THE DECEPTICONS, UNDER MY LEADERSHIP, EMERGE VICTORIOUS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THIS WAY AEONS AGO - IF I, NOT MEGATRON, HAD BEEN DECEPTICON COMMANDER.
I READY MY SHUTTLE FOR LAUNCH, LOADED WITH ENERGON CUBES, FOR MY RETURN TO CYBERTRON. THE AUTOBOTS, ON A 'WILD GOOSE CHASE' AS THE FLESHLINGS SAY, IN ANOTHER SECTOR OF SPACE, ARE OUT OF THE WAY. THEY HAVE NO CHANCE IN THE UNIVERSE OF STOPPING ME NOW. I BOARD MY SHUTTLE.
"Countdown -- T minus 5 seconds ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Zero -- BLAST OFF --"
MY SHUTTLE SOARS BEYOND THE STRATOSPHERE. THE SENSE OF VICTORY IS OVERWHELMING. NO FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE CAN STOP ME NOW --A BLAST SHAKES MY SHUTTLE.
"WHAT??!! It can't be the Autobots! That's impossible!!!"
TOO FAR UP TO OBSERVE MY FOE, I REGAIN COMPOSURE AND ACTIVATE THE VIEWSCREEN.
"MEGATRON!!!"
RELENTLESSLY HE BLASTS MY SHUTTLE. LOSING POWER, IT BEGINS TO PLUMMET TO EARTH AT AN ALARMING RATE.
"He's illogical ... And crazy ..."
HE DOESN'T CARE IF WE WIN OR LOSE THIS
INSTANTANEOUSLY RESUMING MY SPACE GUN MODE, IGNITE POWERFUL JET THRUSTERS
AND BLAST MYSELF FROM SHUTTLE, EXPLODING IN THE TIME I PREDICTED. THE
AFTER SHOCK SENDS HURTLING ACROSS THE NIGHT SKY. THE LAST THING I SEE AND HEAR
IS MEGATRON SHOUTING ABOUT HIS VICTORY. FOOLISHLY HE ASSUMES I WAS
DESTROYED IN THE EXPLOSION. YOU SHALL YET PAY FOR THIS EGREGIOUS
ERROR, MEGATRON -- WITH YOUR LIFE --
I CRASH-LAND IN A
HOWEVER, I SHALL START OVER AGAIN. I SHALL LAY LOW UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT. FIRST BY REPAIRING MYSELF ... THEN MY REVENGE -- FIRST BY DESTROYING MEGATRON. A SERVICE TO ALL DECEPTICONS. I HATE TO ADMIT MY ERROR IN JUDGMENT. WAS FOOLISH. I SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED MEGATRON WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE. I SHALL NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN ... UPON HIS DESTRUCTION, I WILL RESUME MY DESIRES AS PLANNED. THE AUTOBOTS WILL BE ERADICATED AND THE DECEPTICONS EMERGE VICTORIOUS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF
-- SHOCKWAVE
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I CALCULATE AN 88.7% CHANCE OF VICTORY. IT IS ONLY LOGICAL.
PLANET -- EARTH
TIME -- 2300 HOURS
LOCATION -- CLASSIFIED
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