A/N: I own nothing

6.

"Alright Grindor, I think we bought the others enough time, now it's our turn to get away." Rad said.

"Best idea you've had so far." Grindor beeped.

"Yes, why must you always come up with such self-sacrificing strategies, Rad." Highwire beeped in agreement.

Rad frowned slightly. 'I never told them my name, so how is it Highwire knows what it is?'

"You're not getting away that easily, fleshling!" The red and white jet screeched, firing at the blond.

'I can't keep this up much longer, my arms are starting to get tired.' Rad thought.

Just then more fire came from the opposite direction and the red and blue, and blue robots from earlier appeared. 'Finally, some help.' Rad thought in gratitude.

After driving the Decepticon off, the Autobots, minicons, and human(as far as they knew anyway) companions had gone back to the crashed spaceship. Once Rad had arrived, Alexis thoroughly chewed him out, explaining all the reasons why hunting animals was wrong.

Rad had remained silent through it since he decided that it was better to let her get it out, even though her words had no effect on him. Once she was finished, the three teens and three minicons went to an upper rail to be on optic level with the Autobots.

Carlos looked over at Rad. "First off dude, where in the world did you learn to shoot like that?" he asked in awe.

"By shooting animals I bet." Alexis muttered grudgingly, any awe she might've felt for him long gone, but she still wanted to hear his answer.

Rad glanced over at Carlos. "My mother and sister's taught me." A slight smile crossed his face as he thought back to the first time he'd ever held and fired a bow.

The blue robot broke him out of his thoughts by spaeking up next. "From the way you held off the Decepticons; I must say, I am rather impressed with your skill."

"It was rather reckless of you to take them on at all." The blue robot chastised.

"Well I wasn't about to let either of these kids or minicons get captured, so I did what I had to do." Rad shrugged. "I knew they would underestimate me, so I used that to my advantage. It's like I always say: Think before you shoot, but shoot before you're shot."

None of them noticed how the yellow robot flinched slightly. 'That's exactly what he used to say.'

"Oh, where are my manners. I'm Alexis, and this is Carlos." Alexis gestured to the dark-haired boy.

There was an odd space of silence when Alexis had stopped talking and Rad felt three pairs of optics looking at him questioningly. 'Oh, right.' he thought. "We'll, my name's Rad."

All three of the Autobot's optics widened slightly at the name. It waas probably a coincidence they told themselves. Alexis raised a brow at the name. "Who name you that?"

Rad glared at her. "My mother." Alexis flinched and looked away.

Carlos looked between them both before looking up at the Autobots. "So what are your names?"

"I, am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots." The red and blue robot said and looked at the other two robots. "Autobots, roll call."

"I am Red Alert." The blue robot sais in a cool tone.

The yellow robot grinned. "I'm Hotshot! And I take no prisoners." his grin faltered when he looked at Rad.

"Tell me Optimus, why do you want the minicons?" Rad questioned.

"The Decepticons would only see and use the minicons as tools. We want to help them." Prime answered.

Rad looked over at Highwire and the minicon nodded. "It's true."

"Well, we'll help you in any way we can." Carlos said.

"That won't be necessary, we can handle it." Optimus answered politely.

"But I'm sure we could-" Alexis began.

"No." Rad interrupted. Both younger teens looked at him in disbelief. "We would be more of a hindrance than a help. Look how small we are compared to them." Feeling he had thoroughly discouraged them of any ideas of getting involved in the transformer's war, he looked up at the Autobot leader. "Optimus, I leave Highwire in your capable hands."

Optimus nodded and Rad made his way to the exit.

A/N: I was making subtle hints to a transformer also named Rad (what are the odds?), that supposedly had died in an explosion. This will tie into my later on explaination as to the big revelation the transformer's get. Also I wanted to clear up any confusion as to when any of them refer to 'our' or 'other' regarding the Cybertronian Rad as the story progresses.