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Optimus may seem OOC in this chapter but he's under a lot of stress and his best-friend, as far as he was concerned just came back from the dead
Chapter 6
Sky-byte looked through his binoculars at the group in the car. He counted four figures, three humans and a Minicon. This was what he was afraid of. Koji was going to be there when they attacked. He knew his Predicons wouldn't hurt Koji if he told them not to but Scourge and his Decepticons wouldn't be as considerate of the boy. Scourge might actually go out of his way to hurt the boy for revenge.
"Sky-byte, I think they're far enough from the base to attack them now. There's only one Autobot with them and he won't be able to take us all", Slapper said. Sky-byte looked over at Scourge who looked ready to attack. If he didn't attack now Scourge would and he'd have no control over weather or not Koji got hurt or taken, and Scourge would get all the glory!
"Alright. When we attack circle around and cut off his retreat to the Autobot base. And do not harm either of the Onishis. Only go after the Minicon and the other boy. And both of them are not to be harmed." This was all he could do to make sure there was no injury or death. Megatron might not care if Koji died at first but he would defiantly care when Optimus Prime stormed the base for revenge.
"Ok let's go".
The Decepticons and Predacons attacked simultaneously.
"What?" was all he said. It didn't even cover what he wanted to say. He had to have misunderstood. Koji would only be sixteen years older than Rad. Once, he'd talked to Dr. Onishi about the human concept of father and son he had asked Dr. Onishi when humans usually decided to have children (he'd wondered about weather Koji was old enough to have children. The boy had seemed a little too dependent on his father and mother but humans were strange) and he'd said that males usually waited till their late twenties to have children. If they had them before it was considered bad judgment or stupidity (AN: damn hypocritical bastards need to get a grip) two traits he'd never known Koji to possess.
"He's our oldest son" Koji repeated.
That dispelled any doubts he had about what he'd heard. "But how?"
Koji blushed and said, "I'd rather not go into detail about that".
"Wait if Rad is your son wouldn't he know about us and have told us where you were so wouldn't have been thinking you were dead for the past year" now every one knew Optimus was really upset. He was rambling.
"Would you have believed him?" T-Ai asked simply.
Optimus hesitated. Would he have believed it if one of the kids had out of nowhere told him that Koji was alive and that they were his son? He would have had trouble believing it. And if Rad had told him when they had first met he would have probably thought that he was working with Megatron trying to take advantage of his attachment to Koji.
Koji took advantage of this hesitation. "Can we please settle this later when we have Rad back because I really don't think that Sono and Axel are going to buy the old story about Rad going camping in the desert with Carlos again."
"Sono and Axel?" Optimus asked.
"The twins, Rad's younger brothers. They just got back from visiting dad and mom in Japan. They're already asking why Rad wasn't there when they got back."
"Twins? Like two siblings who look identical to each other?" Optimus asked.
"Yeah. They're a handful and if they're worried about Rad it'll only get worse. I don't think Dad will be able to handle them to much longer so we need to hurry up and get their brother back" Koji said.
BOOM! The road in front of Sideburn exploded. "What the hell!" Sideburn yelled as he swerved to avoid the ruined section of road.
Scourge stepped forward. "Autobot give us the Minicon and the human that came with it".
"Hey how do you know about that?" Sideburn asked.
"None of your business Autobot hand them over."
Sideburn tried to turn around but found that the Predicons had cut off his escape. He couldn't transform because then the humans and the Minicon would be sitting ducks. His best bet was to call for help then sit tight. " Koji can you call the base about this" he said in a low voice so the Predicons and Deceptacons didn't hear. He felt rather than saw Koji's nod.
"Why do want the human? I can understand you wanting the Minicon but why the kid?", he had to keep them talking or else they'd realize that he was stalling.
Scourge laughed at this question. "You mean you Autobots haven't already figured it out? That boy comes from the future and has a Minicon with him. He knows where at least one Minicon is and we're willing to bet he knows where a lot more are".
Through his sensors in his cab he saw Rad's face as this was said. Koji saw it too. "Rad how many Minicon do you know of that you know exactly where they're at right now?" Dr. Onishi asked. All of them Highwire answered instead. This time everyone understood.
"Damnit" was the last thing Sideburn could say before Scourge got tired of waiting and attacked.
"So now that we have the right time we just punch it into this damn thing and go, right?" Hot Shot asked.
"Pretty much but there are a few things we need to go over before we go" Optimus said.
"Yeah, like how come nobody's heard of us even though last time we were here we fought in the open and millions of people saw us?" Hot Shot said. Optimus was about to scold him for asking stupid questions but he wanted to know the answer to.
Koji shrugged, "The UN passed it off as an elaborate hoax".
"How?".
"It's the UN" Koji said simply.
"OK" the others didn't really understand but felt it was best not to push the subject.
"So anyway when we go back nobody is to give away anything major about the future, okay?".
"Optimus, who all is going back?" Jetfire asked.
"Myself, Hot Shot, and Red Alert and we have two protective shields so we can take two humans with us."
"I'm going" T-Ai said.
"No you can't T-Ai. Not in your condition" Koji said.
"The shield should protect me and the baby".
"Key word being should" Alexis said. T-Ai looked at her with a pissed look.
"You want to go huh? Why? So you can steal my baby boy away from me?" T-Ai's voice cracked on 'baby boy'.
"No I'm going because my friend is in danger and I want to help him. I know you're worried about your child right now but you have another one to take care of right now" Alexis said softly.
She and T-Ai stared at each other for a long moment. T-Ai looked away first. "Fine..but you still can't date Rad". Alexis didn't argue she knew a victory when she saw it.
"Ok Optimus, Red Alert, Hot Shot, Koji, Alexis are you guys ready?" Smokescreen asked. They nodded. "Ok now uuhh how do you work this thing?" he asked looking at the console.
"Move!" T-Ai said walking up to the console. Her eyes got a distant look to them and the Wrap gate started up (AN: T-Ai is still connected to the Autobot mainframe).
Just before his shield came up two smaller figures jumped onto Koji and clung to him. Before anyone could do they were all warped away.
Sideburn could barely stand anymore. He'd taken too much of a beating. But if what Highwire had said was true he couldn't give up. Rad had said the Minicon War wasn't supposed to start for another fourteen years. And if he got Rad, Megatron would be able to get find just about every Minicon before the Autobots even had a chance to start looking.
"Would you stop playing around and grab them already" he heard someone say. Then he heard Rad yell.
"Put him down!" Koji was apparently yelling at who ever had Rad.
"I'm sorry Koji but orders are orders" Sky-byte tried to explain.
"AAHHH" 'that was Koji' Sideburn tried to get up to help his friend.
"Scourge our orders were only to bring back the boy and the Minicon. So put him down." Sky-byte yelled.
"Megatron never said we couldn't bring this one back and he never specified which boy".
"You know—"
Sky-byte was cut off. Rad's eyes had lost their color. Then Dr. Onishi, Highwire and Sideburn were Warped away.
