"Turn It On."

"Turn it on."

The little mechs optics widened in fear and his spoiler pressed against his back. His wings ached in sympathy, because that had to hurt. Looking closer he could see them shaking and he wished he could pet them to soothe the little bot.

The container he was inside started making a loud noise. The little bot frantically turned in a circle. As though he was waiting for a threat to appear. His spark was pounding and he watched with one hand pressed against the glass. He tried going through it, so he could at least be by his side.

Except he couldn't go through the glass. He tried punching and kicking it in an attempt to free the little bot, but the glass didn't even make a sound.

He was forced to watch as the little bot was attacked.

He onlined his optics and looked around his barren room. The morning alarm was going to go off soon signaling first meal.

He sat on the edge of his berth and waited silently. Staring at the gray walls until he heard a loud.

~BEEP!~

He could hear footsteps coming down the hallway and he made sure to stare at the wall.

"Put your servos where we can see them."

He held them out in front of him and continued to stare at the wall.

He heard a familiar click and then the door was opening. He didn't move. He knew better than that.

"Let's go."

He got up and walked to the edge of his small room. It was barely bigger than a closet, and in a few short steps he reached the doorway.

They stasis cuffed him and put him in a line with the others. They didn't say anything or even look at each other. Instead they all stared forward waiting for their next orders.

"Let's move!"

They marched forward in a line. Their optics facing forward. He knew what happened if they looked around. He felt a phantom pain throughout his body. A reminder of what happens when you disobey.

They were lead to a large cafeteria. Where they stood in line waiting for first meal. As soon as they stepped inside their cuffs disengaged. He followed the line grabbing an empty cube. In from of him he could see the despenser filling each cube with their ration.

When it was his turn the despenser held out a servo.

"Cube."

He handed it over and watched it get filled.

"Here."

He took the cube and sat in his designated seat. He didn't talk to anyone around him or even look at them and they didn't talk to him.

He drank his flavorless ration and ignored how bland it was. He hated it, but if he wanted to survive he would drink it.

After he finished he got up and put his cube in the recycle center. He accidentally bumped into Skywarp which was a big mistake. His optics widened and he backed away in fear.

Skywarp glared at him and snapped.

~Continue~

Looking around he thought about somewhere where he felt safe. Somewhere where he could spend the night. His thoughts immediately jumped to Starscreams house or at least his basement. He never liked Starscream and always thought he was annoying. However his basement was one of the coolest places in town, because his parents were never home and he was always throwing parties. He went to the basement door and carefully opened it...

"Sunstorm and Soundwave the scientist will see you now."

They glanced at each other as footsteps neared. Soundwave quickly put his mask and visor back on, which he was a little disappointed about.

Soundwave felt it through the bond and said.

"It's just for you. No one else."

"I hope you'll make an exception for our future trine mate."

July 14

Soundrod Prompt Week November 12-18

Hello everyone this is Soundrod prompt week 2023. We have some guidelines here for how it will run this year and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

We are accepting art and fics. We are also accepting playlists (3-5) songs per day and GIF creations (3-5). We are also accepting edits 1 per day. Just make sure we know it’s part of this event. Make sure it incorporates the prompt that day and focuses on Soundrod.

When tagging use the tag #soundrodweek2023. If you are posting it on AO3 make sure you submit it to Oceanoasis collection

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Soundrod

We can’t wait to see what you do. Even if you can only do one or two days we would love to see it. If you can’t do it at all just make sure to support others. This is a fun event where we can celebrate our love of Soundrod and have fun.

For some rules:

You can have other ships besides Soundrod as long as they are in the background.

This will be 18+ and could potentially have sensitive/ adult content. Please tag appropriately otherwise we can’t accept.

You can have ocs (For example if you create a fic where Hot Rod and Soundwave have a sparkling) As long as they are not the main character.

No Hot Rod/reader/Soundwave or any ship that combines Hot Rod and Soundwave with another person. (Ex: Hot Rod/Soundwave/Megatron)

Late date acceptance will be the 23rd and we will not accept any submissions after that. However, you can still post them and we will reblog them.

We will be doing prompt submissions and voting soon.

He grabbed his old tattered bag and put it on. He needed to go back to his old house and check to see if his brothers had arrived.

He walked towards the door only to be stopped by Whirl who asked.

"Where are you going?"