25.

After school, Miles met up with Trent just outside the boy's locker room and the other blond handed Miles his bands. "I don't feel that much different." He mused.

"Kyuubi told me you'll really notice it when you start to run." Miles answered calmly as he felt Kyuubi's chakra start to seep through his hands into the bands until they were noticeably heavier than before. "I'll keep these with me until tomorrow, something tells me you're gonna wanna enjoy the breather moment of not having to wear these."

Trent rolled his eyes and walked over to the door, only to almost step into the door because his feet had moved too quickly and he blinked. "Okay, I think I'm starting to notice the change."

"You gonna be okay?" Miles asked and Trent looked over at him with a smirk.

"Of course, who do think I am?" he huffed going into the locker room at a much more careful pace.

Miles shook his head before walking down the hall toward the exit and as he walked down the street, he felt his cell vibrate in his pocket.

'How was your day?-S.'

Miles blinked and figured that it was Skywarp as he would have known if it was Sam's number. 'Fine, how about you?'

'I've been stuck in your garage all day, just get back here so I can recharge on your chakra.'Skywarp had texted back, and Miles could almost hear the annoyance in his voice.

Miles smiled slightly before texting back 'okay' and wondered if he could move as fast as Trent seemed to. 'Can I take the weights off and head home faster?'

'Go ahead; I'll just heighten the weight later.' Kyuubi said after a moment of thought.

Miles took off his weights and felt the chakra Kyuubi put in them drain out and back into him before he started sprinting back home, his pace slow at first to get used to not being restrained by the weights, and then faster until he was sure he was practically a blur and he made it back to his house into almost 8 minutes.

"That…was…so cool." Miles said stopping outside the garage and while his heart pounded in his chest, it was more from excitement than being tired.

'See what ninja training can do?' Kyuubi asked smugly.

Miles rolled his eyes as he pushed the garage door up and sat in the cabin before releasing his chakra and felt the car around him move on its wheels a bit. "Getting ansty?"

"It's not as bad as I expected." Skywarp replied as he used the chakra to start fixing up his transformation cog so he could finally be able to change back to bi-pedal mode.

What he didn't voice was the fact that their Trine leader had contacted them. It would just as likely end badly for all of them if Starscream knew about Trent and Miles.

(1 hour earlier)

Skywarp had been contemplating the fact he'd been captured by the Autobots, and how he'd been rescued; which was in an admittedly evil genius sort of way. The fact though they had all banded together to rescue him was nothing short of touching since they could have just forgotten about him.

In some way he'd thought he'd deserved to get caught because he'd put the safety of an organic above his own, but Miles was his…friend, and it just felt weird and wrong to have let him get caught too.

He wasn't surprised when his comm. link went off, but he was surprised by who was on the other line, as it definitely wasn't TC. :Yeah?:

:Skywarp, where the slag are you and Thundercracker?:

Skywarp had started when he'd heard the screeching voice of his Trine leader. Sure, neither he nor TC liked the mech very much, but they still had to listen to him as he was their leader. :Starscream, what a pleasant surprise.: he drawled sarcastically. :We're currently repairing ourselves, so it's going to take a while until we can meet up with you or the like.:

:I do not care for your excuses, you have one earth week to fix yourselves or else.: The mech replied.

:What?: Skywarp yelled into the comm. link. :We can't leave-er, get fixed in only one week, can't you make it an orn instead?:

:One week.:

Skywarp heard the turn off and the line go dead before he turned his off. Sure, one week would be enough to heal themselves completely, but it also meant that he and TC just got a deadline to how long they'd have to spend with their organics before they had to leave them.

(Present)

Skywarp had commed Thundercracker after the call and told him about what Starscream had said and one week really didn't seem like enough time to say goodbye, knowing they'd never likely see their organics again.

Trent's legs were starting to ache from all the hustling he did across the field as Coach had seemed to think his now rather quick feet were good for catching touch downs. No one asked how he got so fast, but even then he'd told them that he'd been working out in case they got suspicious of him using drugs of some kind.

He walked down the steps and winced slightly. He had no idea how he was going to be able to make it home with how tired he felt, but he could persevere for the sake of getting TC his dose of chakra for the day and began walking home.

And while it took half-an-hour too finally make it home, he immediately opened the garage door and got into the hummer's cabin before releasing his chakra. "Hey, TC."

There was no immediate reply and when TC finally did reply, he sounded more morose than usual. "Hey Trent, how was your day?"

Trent blinked as he took the sparkling into his arms. "Uh, fine, and I totally owned the football field at practice after school."

"That's…good." Thundercracker replied dourly.

Trent frowned. "Hey, are you okay? I mean, there's nothing to worry about right? Well, I know that's not exactly true with those Autobots after you and 'Warp, but it's not like you'll have to leave or anything, right?" he said jokingly.

Trent's smile started to fade when there was no answer from the hummer. He passed it off though as TC merely not being in the mood to talk. He wouldn't really leave him, right?