[challenge] Backstory Challenge

[ajremix]

So it's JUST slow enough for me to put this up. It'll be the first of my (hopefully) monthly 24-hour challenges. If I can recall to do this on a monthly basis it'll be (idealy) on the first or within the first week of the month.

So this month's challenge is going to be backstory. Pick a character- whatever character you know (or think) I'm familiar with and I'll write a short drabble depicting their past however I see it. Because I probably won't be able to get to these as quickly as my previous challenges, you're free to pick three characters at a time. After I've finished all three of your challenges, you may pick another three. If someone else has picked a character you wanted to see a story of, you can still ask for them and I'll just do a different scene.

CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED BECAUSE GOOD GOD I HAVE SO MANY PROMPTS I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH MORE^^;;

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Shockwave

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It was almost disappointingly simple to hack into his mentor's files. Was he seriously not supposed to do so? Was he really expected to not want to understand his mentor's background- the amount of information determined classified even to his high clearance by the Security Force, the almost non-existence of a mech Shockwave knew to be far older than him?

He scrolled through the files and texts, not reading them but capturing their information for perusal at a later date. Shockwave wasn't certain how long it would be until his mentor returned, but his need to know and understand had led him to this and would not let him rest until he found it all.

And then a file caught his attention. And all the files that one led to. All of them based on the teachings and research of his mentor's mentor: Jhiaxus.

Shockwave found himself absorbed, processes hungering to know more, to understand how his mentor was connected to a mech that was lost so long ago he was almost forgotten.

"What are you doing?"

Shockwave turned, almost surprised to have been caught. "I am reading your files." He said simply- no use in denying it now.

The larger mech strode up, snarly. "Why?" He hissed. "I told you it was none of your business!"

"Why did you not tell me you were Jhiaxus's assistant?"

Thunderwing stared at Shockwave long and hard. He reached beyond the younger mech and disconnected him from the terminal. "Because you are too much like him. And that makes you dangerous.