VIBRATIONS

The aqua and black form snuck into the Deceticon main base of Vilnacron. The figure kept close to the shadows as she moved along cautiously. A hint of light splashed across her revealing the form of a female Autobot. It is the Autobot known as Vibe, Gammacon's chief of communications. Vibe located the computer rom that held the Decepticons main computer database. Sneaking into Vilnacron was easy, especially when the Decepticons were throwing one of their victory parties, which left a few, very bored looking guards on duty.

Entering the computer room Vibe slid into one of the chairs in front of the terminal, and began to access the files. It took her less than ten minutes to hack through the computer's defenses. They need a better encryption code, Vibe thought smugly to herself, or otherwise people like me can get in.

Elsewhere in the Decepticon base at the celebration Soundwave was growing restless. He wasn't much for parties, he kept having the feeling like something was going on. Looking around, seeing that no one was looking at him, Soundwave slipped away from the party unnoticed. He began to walk down to Vilnacron's central computer to check the monitors to make sure that everything was alright. The walk to the computer room only took him twenty minutes.

Inside the room Vibe's sixth sense kicked in warning her of danger. Ejecting the disk she walked over the the door and flattened herself against the wall. The doors opened and Soundwave entered, he noticed that one of the computer terminals was on. He was about to turn around to go sound the alarm when something heavy hit him form behind sending him sprawling to the floor. Jumping up he saw a aqua/black shape near the door, the Decepticon dove for the shape and tackled Vibe. They both crashed to the floor, Vibe managed to wriggle out of Soundwave's grasp. Soundwave tried to use his audio disruptor waves on the Autobot intruder.

" Nice try, Soundwave," Vibe spoke harshly, she was unfazed by his attack," but I'm immune to those waves, because I also use them." Her synthesized voice spoke through her silver battle mask as she leapt at Soundwave who was blocking her exit. The two traded punches, till one of Soundwave's punches got lucky and connected with Vibe's battle mask knocking it off her face. The mask skittered across the floor.

" Now you've done it," she cried as she tried to cover up her partially scarred face. Soundwave stared in shock at the Autobots scarred face which reminded him of his own scarred face. " What are you starin' at?" She snapped angrily as she placeed the mask back on her face. Soundwave was about to say something when one of the guards happened to walk by. Noticing the intruder the guard sounded the alarm." Just great, there's no way I'm gettin' caught." Vibe knocked Soundwave out of her way as she ran out of the room and down the corridor to the entrance of the base.

Outside, she ran tyring to put some distance between her and Vilnacron, then she heard the Seeker jet approaching behind her. Vibe activated her transmitter. High above, Starbolt was alerted to Vibe's signal. Heading down he was just in time to see several Seeker jets let loose a volley of heat seekers at Vibe. Luckily, she managed to dodge them as she leapt into an alley, and returned fire. Firing her laserphoton rifle Vibe saw Starbolt approaching, in the meantime she was able to hit afew of the jets. Starbolt soared through the pack of Decepticons making them scatter. Transforming out of jet mode to robot mode Starbolt kept the same pace and grabbed Vibe's outstretched hands lifting her off the ground. With the extra weight Starbolt's speed was reduced somewhat, but he pushed it to the limit so they could out distance the 'Cons and land as close to Iacon as they could. On approach to Iacon Starbolt began to fall just as Iacon's defenses pounded away at the Decepticons forcing them to retreat.

Both Vibe and Starbolt hit the ground, hard. Starbolt was completely burned out from the stress of the flight. " Did you get what you needed?" he asked as they laid there on the ground.

Vibe checked the compartment where she had placed the disk and found that it was empty," Slag," she hissed angrily punching her fist into the ground." I must have dropped while I was tangling with Soundwave."

Starbolt hoisted himself up onto his left elbow and looked at Vibe," I busted my thrusters hauling you out of there and you lost the disk," he spoke bitterly as he glared at Vibe.

" Hey! Next time I go and you're assigned to me," Vibe spoke angrily jabbing a finger towards Starbolt, " you go in instead of sticking your head in the clouds." Starbolt gave her a nasty glare, which Vibe galdly returned, and the highflyer backed down. Optimus Prime, Ratchet, and a few others arrived on the scene. Ratchet checked out Starbolt while Vibe explained what happened to Prime. Optimus was just glad that both of them were alive and they returned to base.

Over at Vilnacron, the Decepticons were assessing what the Autobots were after. Megatron talked to Soundwave, since he was the one who had tangled with the Autobot intruder.

" Soundwave, what was the Autobot after," Megatron asked. Soundwave managed to destroy the disk before Megatron had arrived. He just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, and said that there was nothing missing. Finally, Megatron and the others left leaving Soundwave alone. Eventually, Soundwave went to his quarters. There he sat down at his computer and began to hack his way into Iacon's vast database of files, but he was looking for one thing. He wanted to find out everything about the Autobot, but he didn't know her name. Soundwave scrolled through the numerous filed until he came to the right one. He then began to download copies of everything that was connected to Vibe such as; battle stats, profile, etc.

After getting out of Iacon's database, Soundwave then opened the files that he now had. As he read through each of them he found it to be very interesting reading, especially what was in her medical file.

MEDICAL REPORT ON VIBE, COMMUNICATIONS CHIEF

REPORT WRITTEN BY RATCHET, AUTOBOT CHIEF MEDICAL DOCTOR

' Vibe, the Communications chief over at Gammacron refused treatment to heal massive cut to the left optic ans left side of her face. If not treated cuts will leave scars.'

Soundwave read the next entry which was dated two days later: ' Vibe requested to be fitted with a removable battle mask to cover her scarred face. Her request was granted. I asked her again to let me heal the scars. Her reply was that it was a reminder of her quest for revenge to avenge the deaths of her team.'

Soundwave was becoming more and more interested in Vibe as he continued to read through her files. Next, he read a mission evaluation done on the same day as the first medical report.

The report read: Vibe and her team were captured by an unkown group. Vibe described the treatment that they received. At that point she touched a partially healed scar on her face. I saw the look of pure hatred in her one good optic as she continued with her report. Out of the group of eight, only two survived, Vibe and Switchback.

When he was done reading Soundwave brought up three image of Vibe. One before she had the scars, next one with the scars, and the last one was with the battlemask on. He left the first two lined up together on the monitor and put the last one below the first two. The Decepticon stared at the pictures, thinking.

Over on the Autobot side of Cybertron, Vibe was busy going through a mountain of paper work in her office in Gammacron, the all female Autobot base. She was shifting through the stacks of files on her desk. Elita-1 wanted everything updated and a new encryption added, because someone broke into the mainframe computer during the night. Vibe was frustrated, everyone was asking her to do a million things at once. Suddenly the monitor on her desk began to beep, an image of Steelheart appeared.

" Vibe, I need you to update the new recruits files,"