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First Overture

...And I find that this is not the world I intended to find when I woke.

Though I suppose benefits can be found. I AM rid of the Maximals, at least. However, there is a certain lack of... GRANDEUR I should say to this current organic form. Ah, well... such a thing cannot be helped I suppose.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am "The Tyrant". I have come here at the cusp of my victory. You face a man proud, so to speak. And in this illustrious new home, I remain as such. And they wish to make a hero of me? I say no other title is MORE appropriate at this very moment in my personal history.

I am a hero. Hero to my people. And soon, a hero to you all as well, yesssss...

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And it's illogical. All of it!

I can't get you out if you don't SHUT UP.

Perhaps I want to stay here for a little while. Perhaps I want to make you suffer. To experience chaos.

You know, Shockwave, if I didn't know better I'd say you're being a little...

Emotional.

I'd say that right now

In this moment

You hate me.

How's that for logic?

SILENCE!

No, I don't think I'm going to be silent. In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy this.

[cackling laughter]

You're enraged! You're filled with fury, your very spark burns with hate for me and what I've done!

So GO ON AND HATE ME, Shockwave! Let that hate consume you, let it overturn and burn through all that precious logic you've so carefully cultivated

Act on instinct. On impulse. Let's see your perfect facade of reason be undone.

[ooooohhhh he's only semi-monotone noooow, and clearly trying to keep it together]

I will not do something so illogical.

Will you?

These memories are interesting. We're not so different, you and I. Both of us dream of a Cybertron united, ruled not by Megatron but by one qualified for the position...

But the difference is that you are ruled by logic, and I by passion. By ambition.

Such a shame, you know. If you hadn't decided to do something to make me so very angry we might have been great.

As it is, I think I'm going to do the illogical thing and continue to torment you~

It will never happen.

[back to being completely monotone]

And that's precisely why you never gained control of Cybertron.

[hi, have the nastiest headache you've ever had in your extremely long life as he starts screeching at you]

CIRCUMSTANCES I AM ALWAYS THWARTED BY CIRUCUMSTANCES MY TIME WILL COME IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF PATIENCE

[Primus on a turbofox he's loud - and what's worse is that you're getting cascading streams of conflicting thoughts. The loudest is the one saying that EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY FINE HE WILL RULE and then there's a tiny thread of I fragged everything up if I'd just SIT DOWN and THINK maybe Shockwave's right I can be better than this if only I wasn't so slagging chaotic that gets instantly drowned out by more EVERYTHING IS FINE, NOTHING IS RUINED, I'M GOING TO WIN AND RULE CYBERTRON AND IT'LL BE *AWESOME*, along with I AM NOT A FAILURE]

[all in all just. Primus. So loud.]

GAAAAAAAAH

[he's just screaming now]

...don't do that again.

can't think...

[keeps going for a while before he finally runs out of steam]

I will not if you refrain from mentioning such things.

[head is still ringing]

insufferable

Denial will get you nowhere.

Clear thought. Stop being so rash in your actions.

And pure logic will only take you so far. You think like a human-manufactured machine, like a sparkless drone. There's not a truly creative circuit in your chassis. Look at you now - you can't even think through static and noise becuase it does not compute for you. You are incapable of thinking obliquely, you freeze when confronted with situations that do not fit your carefully constructed paradigms. You are incapable of true improvisation.

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...

I am not incapable of improvisation.

Really.

Your memories say otherwise.

If you're so capable, Shockwave, why don't you prove it to me.

Surprise me. Do something...

Unexpected.

Do they? Are you sure?

~~Do they...~~ no.

Check again.

There was the time that the me that you know (how curious he is similar to me how strange that some things are constant across all worlds) informed you that Megatron had come back online and you ignored me (like a certain former commander of ours!) simply becuase it seemed illogical. ~~amusing since I made a very similar mistake once~~

Or myself, for instance. My actions. For all that you say you can calculate what I'm going to do, you didn't expect this, did you? Didn't think I'd do something so...

Rash.

Well, no. You thought I'd do something rash, but you didn't know what. And now, I'm the one pulling the strings, aren't I? I had to tell you how to get me out of here.

And what of the one time you felt fear, facing down that beast. Did you factor that creature into your calculations or stare dumbly as you simply thought does not compute? (though really, taking the Matrix of Leadership itself? Truly, you are talented, far superior to the Shockwave I know)

A truly talented Decepticon would have had six plans in under three point five seconds then. None of them logical, but all of them something. It's an advantage the Autobots have always had as well. Rashness. Unpredictability. A willingness to do the unexpected.

So many situations, Shockwave. So many where you've created some grand, glorious plan, like perfectly oiled clockwork, and the moment you have one little bit of dust in the works the whole thing comes springing apart.

The difference is, I've seen that so many times that I know how to take what's left and salvage something out of them. It makes me wonder, oh yes, what did happen after you said goodbye to Prime? What would have happened...? The best laid plans of drones, Shockwave, the best laid plans...

Hn.

fear

[obviously that's a sore subject]

Uncontrollable. No, I did not factor that in. I did not factor in the Great Shutdown. I knew where Cybertron was heading, but that exact event... No.

When I awoke from stasis, I had not expected to be attacked. ~~disorienting~~ My energon levels were too low to hold them off for long, the logical outcome... Then he showed up.

So you know I am not as incapable of feeling emotions... Lack of logic is not something I favor. Emotions are not something I favor. To allow myself to-

[a string of thoughts in Cybertronian]
it could- logical... it was all logical... illogical? there is a possibility that- illogical.... just-

There is a way to process it. A method- so much supposition.

I can salvage what is left of my plans, should they go wrong... However it is not always instant.

Should I ever leave this place and come back. I'll let you know.

[smugness]

[just endless smugness]

[he's just going to be thinking about logical and illogical methods now, thanks]

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