A/N: Wow, I updated on time o.o Not necessarily a good thing ^^; I have gone through and revised and fixed mistakes and stuff, I'll upload it all tomorrow. X.x Tired now.

It would also appear I accidentally lied K There's going to be an extra chapter. Gomen.

Neko Gal: You can't wait to see what happens next?! Neither can I x_X Burn was suppose to be this minor character that didn't actually do anything … now I know what people mean when they say their characters write themselves ^^;

Zeheria: ^^; She was kinda mad, wasn't she? Vwahahahahaha …

**"Oh God .. Burn?!"**

His face kind of lit up at that, and he grinned.

"Good, you know! I'd hated to have to explain it all for you."

Sai stared at him, not moving. He stared back at her with an expression of mocking innocence. Finally, she said softly

"Is X-Brawn okay?"

"Wouldn't know," he replied flippantly, yawning "Don't really care. Oh, don't look at me like that, Sai, I - "

"Don't call me that!" she exploded, face scrunching up in anger, making her look disturbingly child-like. He smirked.

"Well, fine, if that's what you want. We have a lot to talk about before Scurge gets his play-time with you, y'know." He paused. "I don't understand his obsession, to be honest. But eh, it isn't like you have enough time left to really care."

She took a step back from the cage bars, glancing at Ultra Magnus. Her eyes widened again.

"Stop being so shocked at everything," said Burn angrily "What did you –think- was going to happen to them?" His eyes narrowed. "Did you think -I- was going to help them?"

Her eyes flitted to the ground, and she scuffed her foot in the dirt of the floor, fingering something in her pocket. The picture of embarrassment. Burn growled.

"I would have expected more from you, of all people. You know I was born a Decepticon, no matter what it seemed like, no matter who I awakened to, you CAN'T change the original programming of a true Decepticon spark."

"The Decepticons were Autobots!" she shot back angrily, lunging. She caught him by the shirt, slamming him face first into the bars. He looked startled, grabbing her arm and twisting. She held on, since it wasn't overly painful because of the angle he was on. He snarled, resorting to grabbing her shirt and pulling her into the bars, jus' not -quite- as hard. Hard enough to make her wince, though.

"Now, listen good." His voice dipped dangerously, matching his expression "The other Decepticons may have been Autobots, but do you really think they intended to stay that way? If they had been loyal to Optimus freakin' Prime, Megatron's spark wouldn't have affected them in the least."

"Don't be stupid, stop trying to make me doubt the Autobots loyalty," she snarled, eyes flickering to Magnus again.

"I could be lying," agreed Burn "But then again, I could not. How about we find out?" He gestured at Magnus on the wall. "He'll do as a nice little experiment, don't you think?"

A split second passed as what he was saying sunk in, then Sai pushed him back, grabbing the chain from his hand "NO! Don't touch him!" He shrugged, letting her have the lifeless ball.

"Then be a good little girl and come with me." Her jaw set, and she stepped back when he released her.

"Fine."

Magnus said not a word as Sai followed Burn out. Despite her agreement to play along, the new Decepticon wasn't trusting her, and it showed. Two thin energy ropes were wrapped around her wrists, and he held the knot in one hand. Neither of them glanced at him, even though they knew he was aware.

Sai was too ashamed. Burn just didn't care.

Silently, he turned his face to X-Brawn. The heap of metal twitched, a dull light glowing as the optics turned on. There was no other movement, no other indication his spark still lived.

"X-Brawn." Magnus waited a long moment, before saying "Sai's in trouble."

[I KNOW!] exploded X-Brawn in his mind, systems too fried to respond to his commands to boot up.

"You better be awake. We need to help her."

[Wow, really? Who'd've guessed?]

"These chains are loose," A tug, and one fell out of the wall. "They want us to escape."

[Of course they do! Megatron would want us to be around to see him triumph, to see Sai destroyed, wouldn't he?]

Another tug, and the other Autobot was freed. He thumped uncertainly over to the motionless figure. His systems were only marginally better than his ally's.

"This had better work .. "

Burn dragged Sai into a large room - literally. As soon as they were out of the chamber that held the Autobots, she had fought him every step of the way. He wasn't entirely sure why, she couldn't get free and she knew it. [Must be her pride]

Megatron's optics lit up at her entrance.

"Ahhh ... it's nice to see you again."

She let loose a stream of Cybertronian, Japanese and Spanish cursing at him ... with a bit of French, and Russian mixed in too. Burn looked startled.

"Well … isn't that interesting?" Megatron smirked, cocking his head to one side "I wonder where you learnt that."

There was a weak cough. "Touch her, Megatron, and you'll pay."

"Yeah … you'll pay." A frizzling, then both voices fell silent. Sai stared at the two figures in the corner ... Prowl, and Sideburn.

Another stood silently by their side.

At one time, he might have been known as Mirage.

The doubt Burn had planted about the Autobot's loyalty flared into life.

[And now the Autobots are as good as dead.]

A/N: -sob- I have such bad writers block! This chapter was ... strange. Very strange. oO I know what happens next, kind of, I just wasn't sure what happened in between ^^;

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