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[#154] Would you pay the price? (Transformers Bay!Verse/ Current Times Crossover)
Theme Prompt: #154 - Atonement
Title: Would you pay the price?
Fandom: Transformers (Bay!Verse)
Rating/Warnings: T | war-time setting | mentions of war crimes (not in detail) |Sequel to There Is Still Hope
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Deepdive meets Wavecrasher after the war
AN: For visual references see the AN in the prequel.
Headcanon is that Deepdive had always been affiliated with the MI6. - Makepeace and James Bond have a little cameo as well in this.Had to mention the DJD once more.
“What’s it worth to you?” Deepdive repeated the question, this time with particular emphasis. With a stern expression she looked up to Wavecrasher, whose impressive size was intimidating. He towered over her, looking down at the Autobot-submarine with his remaining optic. The weapons he wore where just a fraction of what he carried with himself. Besides from the missiles and torpedoes, the most dangerous part of him were his nuclear reactors.
Compared to him she had next to nothing to offer. Sure, her Cybertronian weapons could somewhat compete with his, but her arsenal of torpedoes and mines was a laughing stock. It didn’t helped much that thanks to the MI6 she had got her deck guns back. They still looked like the old ones she did had once but they were improved according to modern times and featured settings that were MI6-exclusive, thanks to Q.
Wavecrasher laughed and shook his head. “I won’t apologize for what I’ve been part of.” The way he spoke the extra emphasis on the word ‘won’t’ made Deepdive shudder. Not even a spark of regret for all the lives and the chaos this war caused. Wavecrasher was probably one of the coldest Decepticons she had meet. He would really rather die than accept the chance to make up for his war crimes.
Deepdive knew that deep inside she would rather see Wavecrasher die a horrible death, one that could be attributed to the DJD but on the other servo she knew that a death sentence would be what Wavecrasher wanted and by Primus, she knew that this Decepti-Scum had to suffer endlessly for what he had been part of.
Therefore she had agreed to track down Wavecrasher once more, after Makepeace and the MI6 had a couple of fruitless attempts of convincing her that Wavecrasher would have to pay for what he had done. He was among the few high-ranked Decepticons which had remained on Earth after a war which didn’t had a winner.
It was during the war that she met Makepeace, an Autobot who was no stranger to her as well as his current human partner, who she only knew as ‘James Bond’, the same name his previous partners had as well.
“We’re offering you to continue your miserable existence.” Deepdive forgot her manners, but the longer she looked at Wavecrasher, the more it dawned on her, that she would rather attempt to kill him on her own than parting once more, and hopefully forever with him.
“I didn’t begged for it.” He pointed with his massive pointy digit at her. “You came to me with this silly deal you and the humans came up with.”
“Hate brought the last war to us all because we couldn’t put old prejudices to rest.” In that moment it dawned on Deepdive, that she was still having ‘old prejudices’ as well.
‘Decepticons will never change. Even if Wavecrasher would say the price he’s willing to pay for what he had done, he surely is busy with plotting the next strike against humanity and Autobots.’
The crooked smile on Wavecrusher’s face caused her to glare at him out of half-closed optics. She felt her servos tickling to slap that expression off his face and punch him, even she knew that this wouldn’t be wise and ‘lady-like’.
“Some things will never change, Deepdive. Spare me the pathetic explanations you have on the tip of your glossa, will you?”
The audacity with which he talked was outrageous and revealed that he would never change. In a moment of awful clearness it dawned on her, that if the DJD would still exist, he would definitely be a member of this most feared fraction. ‘Atonement was a word that didn’t existed for the DJD, as well as for Wavecrasher.’
“I would start the war again.” Wavecrasher remarked with a cold voice, lifting his head, turning it from side to side to relax the tensed up cabling. “With it serving the Decepticon cause in the first place or serving the ruler.”
‘He would fight for this man once more?’ Deepdive was perplex from what she just heard, subconsciously she hated that part of herself, which admired Wavecrasher’s loyalty. He wouldn’t pay the slightest reparation.
Too bad his death was off the tables since it had been agreed on that letting him have his existence was probably the worst punishment. But somehow Deepdive wasn’t so sure about this anymore.
Wavecrasher knew that he had nothing to lose.
“Admit it, Deepdive. If you were in my place, you’d act the same.” Wavecrasher remarked, not bothering to look down at her.
She pressed her lip-plates tightly together. “What leads you to this assumption?” Her voice was barely audible and a tad static. His remark had shaken her up more than she wanted to admit and she cursed herself for not having herself under control.
“Intuition. Experience. Eons of war and billions of soldiers I’ve met.”
Astro-minutes of silence passed. Wavecrasher relished the silence he had caused, now and then he glanced down at Deepdive, who appeared to be lost in thought.
Indeed her processor was busy with trying to deny the truth Wavecrasher’s words contained.
At the end of a war the winner would always try to do everything in their power to put down the loser, force them to agree to treaties and much more.
She knew too well that the Autobots weren’t free of their share of atrocities in the last eons. ‘At least we didn’t killed innocent humans.’ She thought but the truth was, that they’ve dragged humanity into wars without intending to do so.
When she had finally managed to end the conversation which she didn’t had much hopes in to begin with, she prayed to Primus that she would never see Wavecrasher again for as long as they exist.
The way back home wasn’t an easy one, she got the nagging impression that she’d failed her friends, country and peace itself. But what else could she have said or done?
Title: Would you pay the price?
Fandom: Transformers (Bay!Verse)
Rating/Warnings: T | war-time setting | mentions of war crimes (not in detail) |Sequel to There Is Still Hope
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Deepdive meets Wavecrasher after the war
AN: For visual references see the AN in the prequel.
Headcanon is that Deepdive had always been affiliated with the MI6. - Makepeace and James Bond have a little cameo as well in this.Had to mention the DJD once more.
“What’s it worth to you?” Deepdive repeated the question, this time with particular emphasis. With a stern expression she looked up to Wavecrasher, whose impressive size was intimidating. He towered over her, looking down at the Autobot-submarine with his remaining optic. The weapons he wore where just a fraction of what he carried with himself. Besides from the missiles and torpedoes, the most dangerous part of him were his nuclear reactors.
Compared to him she had next to nothing to offer. Sure, her Cybertronian weapons could somewhat compete with his, but her arsenal of torpedoes and mines was a laughing stock. It didn’t helped much that thanks to the MI6 she had got her deck guns back. They still looked like the old ones she did had once but they were improved according to modern times and featured settings that were MI6-exclusive, thanks to Q.
Wavecrasher laughed and shook his head. “I won’t apologize for what I’ve been part of.” The way he spoke the extra emphasis on the word ‘won’t’ made Deepdive shudder. Not even a spark of regret for all the lives and the chaos this war caused. Wavecrasher was probably one of the coldest Decepticons she had meet. He would really rather die than accept the chance to make up for his war crimes.
Deepdive knew that deep inside she would rather see Wavecrasher die a horrible death, one that could be attributed to the DJD but on the other servo she knew that a death sentence would be what Wavecrasher wanted and by Primus, she knew that this Decepti-Scum had to suffer endlessly for what he had been part of.
Therefore she had agreed to track down Wavecrasher once more, after Makepeace and the MI6 had a couple of fruitless attempts of convincing her that Wavecrasher would have to pay for what he had done. He was among the few high-ranked Decepticons which had remained on Earth after a war which didn’t had a winner.
It was during the war that she met Makepeace, an Autobot who was no stranger to her as well as his current human partner, who she only knew as ‘James Bond’, the same name his previous partners had as well.
“We’re offering you to continue your miserable existence.” Deepdive forgot her manners, but the longer she looked at Wavecrasher, the more it dawned on her, that she would rather attempt to kill him on her own than parting once more, and hopefully forever with him.
“I didn’t begged for it.” He pointed with his massive pointy digit at her. “You came to me with this silly deal you and the humans came up with.”
“Hate brought the last war to us all because we couldn’t put old prejudices to rest.” In that moment it dawned on Deepdive, that she was still having ‘old prejudices’ as well.
‘Decepticons will never change. Even if Wavecrasher would say the price he’s willing to pay for what he had done, he surely is busy with plotting the next strike against humanity and Autobots.’
The crooked smile on Wavecrusher’s face caused her to glare at him out of half-closed optics. She felt her servos tickling to slap that expression off his face and punch him, even she knew that this wouldn’t be wise and ‘lady-like’.
“Some things will never change, Deepdive. Spare me the pathetic explanations you have on the tip of your glossa, will you?”
The audacity with which he talked was outrageous and revealed that he would never change. In a moment of awful clearness it dawned on her, that if the DJD would still exist, he would definitely be a member of this most feared fraction. ‘Atonement was a word that didn’t existed for the DJD, as well as for Wavecrasher.’
“I would start the war again.” Wavecrasher remarked with a cold voice, lifting his head, turning it from side to side to relax the tensed up cabling. “With it serving the Decepticon cause in the first place or serving the ruler.”
‘He would fight for this man once more?’ Deepdive was perplex from what she just heard, subconsciously she hated that part of herself, which admired Wavecrasher’s loyalty. He wouldn’t pay the slightest reparation.
Too bad his death was off the tables since it had been agreed on that letting him have his existence was probably the worst punishment. But somehow Deepdive wasn’t so sure about this anymore.
Wavecrasher knew that he had nothing to lose.
“Admit it, Deepdive. If you were in my place, you’d act the same.” Wavecrasher remarked, not bothering to look down at her.
She pressed her lip-plates tightly together. “What leads you to this assumption?” Her voice was barely audible and a tad static. His remark had shaken her up more than she wanted to admit and she cursed herself for not having herself under control.
“Intuition. Experience. Eons of war and billions of soldiers I’ve met.”
Astro-minutes of silence passed. Wavecrasher relished the silence he had caused, now and then he glanced down at Deepdive, who appeared to be lost in thought.
Indeed her processor was busy with trying to deny the truth Wavecrasher’s words contained.
At the end of a war the winner would always try to do everything in their power to put down the loser, force them to agree to treaties and much more.
She knew too well that the Autobots weren’t free of their share of atrocities in the last eons. ‘At least we didn’t killed innocent humans.’ She thought but the truth was, that they’ve dragged humanity into wars without intending to do so.
When she had finally managed to end the conversation which she didn’t had much hopes in to begin with, she prayed to Primus that she would never see Wavecrasher again for as long as they exist.
The way back home wasn’t an easy one, she got the nagging impression that she’d failed her friends, country and peace itself. But what else could she have said or done?
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