Chapter 2
Shockwave patiently waited for the Rainmakers to do their jobs
and eventually they removed themselves from Shockwaves lab. After the doors
closed behind them and the dark reclaimed the room Shockwave fully reactivated
himself from his nearly dormant state. He slowly walked over to the examination
table and his single yellow optic looked down at Umbra, the Shadowcon femme
whose name Shockwave didn't know and didn't care for. While looking at her he
analyzed what he could see on the surface. Good armor, tough connection wires..
This one was definitely a good catch. Then he turned around and walked to a
nearby console to get a cutting tool. Then he returned and started to work on
the Shadowcon not caring for any sedatives or pain killer. On the contrary, he
liked the sound of the screams of pain and so he slowly started cutting open her
chest armor to reveal the secrets underneath. As soon as the chest armor was
removed Shockwave could see many mechanisms and circuits. It didn't take long
for him to find out which were the cloaking- and warping mechanisms. In order to
avoid her using them to escape Shockwave deactivated those circuitries. Now the
struggling Shadowcon female was fully delivered to his mercy, what wasn't much.
While Umbra was screaming Shockwave walked around her, changing tools and
running analyzes. He returned his attention to the specimen at hand and with a
needlelike tool he stitched into certain connections and read out information.
Then he turned away and went to a computer terminal to take a closer look.
Extracting the warping components would be a long exhausting procedure and the
Shadowcon most likely would not survive it. For a moment Shockwaves processor
was running to solve this problem and the whimpering in the background didn't
disturb him. It would be more efficient to use the original technology in its
original host. In that moment the idea of simply turning this Shadowcon into a
Decepticon and making her hunt down her own kind was germinating in Shockwave.
His optic became a slit. His flat head turned around to look at the female which
was frightened and still tried to fight the restrains. That was the idea.
Short time later Shockwave was preparing a new procedure. He eventually realized
that extracting the warping- and cloaking technology was an inefficient use of
resources. So he decided to reprogram the Shadowcon, make her a puppet for the
Decepticon cause. After setting up the surgical computer Shockwave took the two
connectors, each several inches long, and thrust them deep into her neck from
both sides, until the tips reached the very center were Umbras spark artery was.
But he was not finished. he turned around again and started the progress to
overwrite her operating system and pump her systems with Dark Energon. The new
operating system would make her think like a Decepticon, work like a Decepticon
and the Dark Energon would make her addictive and ensure her loyalty. Again
Shockwave could well abdicate the use of sedatives but the sudden massive input
of Dark Energon made her drowsy and 'drunken' anyways. While the reprogramming
process was going Shockwave put the chest armor back on its place and welded it
to the rest of the frame. Welding marks on both sides would always remember her
what happened here this day, if she would be able to remember at all after the
surgical computer reconfigured her memory banks. Though Shockwave had to admit
to himself that this procedure was never tested on Shadowcons, so far he never
got a volunteer.
The Shadowcons optics were closed after a while and the process was almost done.
Shockwave was merely supervising the procedure after he reattached the chest
armor and waited for everything to be finished. The wires the Shadowcon was
hooked up to had a glowing purple color showing that the Dark Energon was still
floating into her system. Eventually a beeping sound occurred and the Dark
Energon stopped floating into her. Shockwave went over to the surgical computer
and looked at the results. He was very pleased with what the computer displayed.
According to that it should have succeeded so Shockwave unhooked his specimen to
now activate it. At first one connector was drawn out of her neck and then the
second one. Shockwave placed them back to where they belonged and proudly looked
at his work before releasing the straps. Through the closed lids he could see
the red Decepticon glow. From all Shockwave could say the Shadowcon femme was
gone and a new Decepticon warrior was born.
Created on November 17, 2010 Updated on November 17, 2010 cascadia2008@hotmail.com