*Soundwave was fine, physically. Mentally and emotionally? A different story.

A critical battle against the autobots left me without any of his usual cassetticons. All of them, gone and he mourned but it wasn’t enough.

He needed a way to cope. Shockwave theorized and what better way to cope than to encourage him to…borrow one of the cassette bots from the autobots.

Shockwave easily took you while you were on scouting duty, right under Blasters nose and presented you to Soundwave as a ‘coping gift’

Unfortunately for you, Sounwave was quick to latch onto you. Petting you, feeding you, scratching out your autobot symbol for a decepticon one and always trying to get you to return to his cassette deck even if you didn’t exactly fit for him.

To him…you were his cassetticon and he won’t listen to otherwise..even as he stood there petting your helm and just staring into space..*