A present for the director of solitude

((May I jump in? Bored outta my mind))

[[I would love for you to. ]]

((A'right!!))

There was some noise coming from under a pile.

Shockwave turned to the pile and pointed his laser cannon. "Come out or I'll frag the scrap you are hiding in until it is molten metal!"

The noise turned into a soft groan "who....the hell...iss that?"

"I am Shockwave. guardian of Cybertron!" Shockwave announced.

"Oh....heey papaaah....its lil'Tori...can you get this freaking wall off of me? I'll tell you what happened...I think" She sounded exausted and weak.

Shockwave lifted the wall off and he saw the chaos dragon. though something seemed different about it.

Stormshadow had strange red marks all over her. Feathers were everywhere. Her color wasn't its usual brilliantly jet black, even her red eyes were dulled. All the signs of being halfway dead.

Shockwave also noticed she seemed smaller. "Agent Techsound. you have medical experience in many fields ranging from machines to organics. perhaps you could help her and tell me what is wrong," Shockwave said.

Techsound nodded, "Yes, sir." She walked over to her and then looked over her, "She is internally and externally injured from the wall from her. Ranging from internal bleeding and external scratches." Techsound said, more to herself to anyone else.

"I got in over my head again didn't I?"

"Seems that way" Shockwave said.

"Mannn...one minuet I'm walking down the hall eating some icecream, next thing I hear is a sharp clang and then I am over here getting pummled by shadow people...or...whoever those weirdos were..."

Techsound took out some rags she kept in her arm compartment and took out some solvent, "This isn't the best kind of stuff for organics but it's still good for keeping away infections." She began gently places it on her wounds.

Stormshadow raked her claws into the ground, she pounded her tail and gritted her teeth at the stinging pain.

"Your appearance is also different Agent Stormshadow, minus the physical injuries you still do not look the same as when I last saw you," Shockwave said. Tori was smaller, as if she had been hit by some sort of change.

"I know it hurts, I'm sorry. But it's for the better..."

"What do you mean Shockwave?"

"Your voice is higher, you seem smaller, but your personality remains,"

"Yanno I do feel like a few years got shaved off..."

"I would like to run a diagnostic with Techsound. I think many years have been shaved off,"

Stormshadow tried to stand. "What do ya mean? How could I get younger? THAT DEFIES LOGIC!!" She yelled in her quiet yell.

"Well it is possible that the assailants who attacked you had a modified version of DEL-Bot's device and they used it on you to reduce you to nothing more than a hatching. only it seems the effect of the device is taking time," Shockwave said.

Tori stood on her hind legs, she only stood at six feet. "Least I am still taller than Del. BUT WHY AM I A HATCHLING!? Its going to take years to get back to my full size, I'm USELESS!!" She got down into the fetal position.