"Hey Mirage is back!" Jazz pointed out a small window seeing Mirage's speeding vehicle.

The four ran to the door and opened it for the young mech, Mirage speeding in to fast, transformed tumbling into the wall, landing with his back against the wall he sat and panted catching his breath for a few moments.

"Either you were running from something, or that was the worst transformation ever" Sunstreaker joked getting a laugh out of everyone but Mirage who shook his helm and got to his peds.

"Whoa Mirage I didn't mean it!" Sunstreaker apologized following their distressed little brother.

"It's not you, I don't want to talk right now" Mirage said as he continued to fast walk down the hallway with the four.

"What's the matter, what happened Mirage?" Jazz and Arcee asked as the mech entered his own room.

"I'm sure you'll hear about it!" Mirage practically cried, shutting and locking his door.

"Something must've happened on his mission" Arcee said to the three mechs in the hallway.

"Well all I know is he had to do the mission with the aerial bots, the only thing I can see wrong, is he can't fly" Sideswipe shrugged unclear of what to think of.

"I don't think it would be that, obviously something more serious" Arcee shook her helm at the silver twins suggestion.

"Well I geuss we'll have to wait to hear it" Jazz sighed as they walked away from Mirage's door, letting him cool off.

A few hours later

"Twins, Arcee, and Jazz, please report to Ironhide in the medbay for weapons upgrade" Ratchet's voice came over the intercom in the base.

"Weapons upgrade, that's wierd?" Jazz thought out loud as he followed the others to the med bay.

"Yep, but I'm not going to question it" Sideswipe shrugged as they entered the med bay to see Optimus, Prowl, Ratchet, Hound, and Ironhide standing waiting for them.

"Ok so what did you really call us hear for?" Sideswipe asked being the first one to clue in on something was going on.

"We called you like that so Mirage wouldn't get suspicious" Optimus replied to the silver twin.

"We have something very serious to discuss, reffering to Mirage's last mission with the aerial bots" Ratchet started.

"All we know is he's upset bout aomthin" Jazz said to the older mechs.

"We know, and we are going to tell you why" Ironhide said in his usual gruff voice.

"During his succesful mision on clearing out simfurs information temple, he came across his brother Soundwave" Optimus started to explain.

"Oh no..." All four young bots gasped in fear.

"Mirage was attacked by him, but Mirage being able to handle a situation like that, turned the tables quickly and had the chance to terminate one of most feared and top on the kill on site list cons out there, Mirage was being watched by all the aerial bot..."

"Oh no he choked!" Sideswipe gasped in horror.

"He choked like a decepticon on cheap high grade" Ironhide sighed nodding his helm.

"Allowing Soundwave to escape termintation, or being brought to justice is a..."

"Capital offence, and you get the automatic title of traitor" Arcee finished the prime's sentence shaking her helm in shame.

"It's already went around the base, you all know Air raid" Hound sighed.

"Yes, Air raid was very harsh with Mirage after Soundwave got away, that's why he came back upset" Optimus finished explaining.

"So you for being the older sibblings, need to..."

"Watch his back you got it!" Sideswipe nodded, interupting Prowl.

Mirage finally after a few hours, grew the courage to step out of his room, and get some energon for the first time in months, from the rec room, as soon as he stepped into the rec room, where Air raid and a bunch of drone aerial bots were having energon, all optics were on him.

"Nope, changed my mind!" Mirage thought out loud swirling around back to walk out the door, only to have slam shut in his face.

"Change your mind, going back to the cons?" One of the drones asked standing over Mirage threateningly.

"I... I...I just came to get some energon, but decided I don't need any right now..." Mirage stuttered as he was backed into the middle of the room where the aerial bots surrounded him.

"Yeah is that all traitor, did you have seconds thought's when it came to Soundwave too?" Another aerial bot asked poking Mirage's chest backing him into another drone.

"Look what happened, happened... I don't want any trouble, I would just like to leave and go find..." Mirage started to speak clearly.

"Go find Soundwave?" Air raid snickered finally joining in.

"No, that's not what I was going to say!" Mirage hissed.

"No what then, what were you going to say, traitor!?" Air raid snarled picking Mirage up by the shoulders and pinning him against a the wall.

"Please let me go, I'm not a traitor!" Mirage pleaded as he started to squirm.

"What youd did is a capital offence, you are considered a traitor by autobot laws!" Air spat hitting Mirage against the wall.

"AIR RAID, PUT THAT AUTOBOT DOWN THIS INSTANT, THAT IS AN ORDER!" Optimus stern demanding baritone voice boomed through the room.

"My apologies sir..." Air raid said dropping Mirage and leaving with his aerial bots.

"Mirage are you alright?" Arcee and the boys asked running up to Mirage sitting on the floor.

"I've been better..." Mirage sighed getting up, with his wings pressed against his back.

"Did you come in here looking for a fight?" Ratchet asked in an angered tone.

"No, I came to get some energon, I went to turn around and they shut the door on me and cornered me" Mirage answered not impressed at all with himself.

"And why didn't you fight back, you could all their ass's in a second?" Ironhide scoffed

"I didn't want to add more fuel to the fire..." Mirage sighed walking out of the room with drooped dooriwings.