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AN: sorry if this is a little strange but i wrote it at 11pm. I'm trying to finish this before school starts and i still have AP homework to do

Chapter 14

"So you were lying to Megatron when you said you didn't know where it was" Scourge chuckled, stepping out of the shadows (dramatic isn't it). "So where is it?"

"None of your business" Rad said.

"How about you tell me and I don't kill you and your friends" Scourge snarled.

"You're out numbered Scourge. Don't make hollow threats" P Hot Shot said.

Scourge must have moved faster than they could see because next thing they knew F Hot Shot had been thrown to the ground and Scourge had a hold of Sideswipe's arm and his gun to the smaller Bot's head, with his arm around Sideswipe's neck. "Now what were you going to tell me boy?"

Rad's shoulders fell in defeat. "He's under that boulder" Rad pointed to a large rock.

Scourge, not even letting his eyes leave Rad, lifted his gun a blasted the rock across the room. Where the rock had once lay sat a small object that emitted a soft green light.


Sideburn drove looking for any sign of the missing transformers and kid. So far none of the Autobots had had any luck. He checked his cab sensor to see how Koji was doing. The boy in the drivers seat was watching the passing landscape with unseeing eyes.

"How ya doing Koji?" he asked. The boy just shrugged.

"It'll be all right. We'll find Rad soon."

"What if it's already too late?" Koji asked dejectedly.

"We're not going to be to late. Wouldn't you sense it if we were to late?" Sideburn asked, still a little confused as to what the boy could and could not do.

"Yes and I can sense that he's in a lot of pain and very scared" Koji said with an undertone of sadness. Sideburn knew this was hard on the boy. Yesterday Koji had been just a kid now he felt a responsibility to a son who he hadn't even had yet.

" Relax Koji. Let your future self take care of Rad. He's been a father for thirteen years. You've barely been around that long" Sideburn tried to convince the boy.

"If I grow up to be a such a good dad why is Rad in this mess." It wasn't a question. He was finally admitting what was bothering him.

"Koji some things are just out of our hands. Rad was at the base or what will be the base. Your future self was at work. You can't be with someone at all hours of the day you have other responsibilities. There's nothing you can do about it short of watching him round the clock which he wouldn't be happy about."

"I guess" Koji still didn't sound convinced. "Hey what's that?"

There was a huge hole in the ground that didn't look natural in the least. "I don't know but I'm calling Optimus about it" Sideburn said.


Scourge looked at the Minicon with greed in his optics. "You" he pointed at F Hot Shot "bring it to me and no trying anything" He put his gun back up against Sideswipes head.

"Bro don't" Sideswipe tried to say but Scourge clipped him in the back of the head, knocking the bot out.

Hot Shot was forced to comply. He walked over to the Minicon then carried it to Scourge.

"So this is the powerful Minicon" he said looking it over. "Now activate!" he demanded.

The Minicon didn't respond. He tried again. Still no luck.

"Why isn't it working?" he yelled at Hot Shot.

"I don't know" he said hoping he hadn't made Scourge mad. He was very aware of the gun that was still pointed at Sideswipe even though Scourge's hold was a little more awkward trying to hold so many things at once.

"Skyblast knows you want him to fight. He doesn't like fighting so he won't come out" Rad said. His eyes were starting to get an unfocused look to them but Starscream had a feeling that it was because he starting to shut down because of the pain rather than him lying again. Actually Starscream believed the boy was telling the truth.

"Fine bring the boy over here. See if it works for him"

"No" Starscream said. Scourge tapped his gun against Sideswipe's head.

"Why would I care what happens to an Autobot?" Starscream asked.

Rad suddenly vanished from Starscream' arms and reappeared on Scourges shoulder. The Deceptacons looked slightly shocked but then Scourge laughed. "A demon."

"Rad if you could do that why didn't you just do earlier to escape?" F Hot Shot asked.

Rad looked dizzy. "I can barely go twenty feet much less three thousand miles. Besides I was still tired from warping Highwire, Grampa, and Sideburn. Besides I'm not suppose to use them. It's our punishment"

"Now boy activate this thing" Scourge said handing the Minicon to Rad.

Rad held it close to his chest and it began to glow brighter and to everyone's so did Rad.

"What are you doing boy?" Scourge asked, fearfully.

Then Rad reached out and touched Sideswipe. Then he teleported away with both the Minicon and Sideswipe.

"What! Where did he go!" Scourge asked.

"Don't worry about what happened to them. What you should be concerned about is what's going to happen to you." Scourge spun around to see both Kojis and Sideburn standing behind him. F Koji raised his arm and Scourge felt a strange, painful feeling. As though he was being ripped from his body. The last thing he was able to do before everything went dark was let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"What was that!" Sideburn asked being the first to recover from his shock.

"Told you didn't want to know why my clan is called the Soul Stealers" P Koji said.

"Wait can you do that" he asked P Koji.

P Koji smiled sheepishly and said "Only under extreme circumstances. It's forbidden otherwise"

"Wait were's Rad and Sideswipe—" F Hot Shot was cut off by a loud crash behind him. Sideswipe and Rad had just reappeared.

"Rad!" F Koji said running to his son.

"Daddy" Rad was barely able to open his eyes.

"Come on, we need to get Rad back to the base" he said tossing the Minicon to the side before teleporting out with his son.


"So Rad tapped into the Minicon's power to save Sideswipe and the Minicon" P Optimus asked the Spychangers and P Hot Shot. F Hot Shot was in the infirmary with Sideswipe.

"That answers a question we could never quite answer" F Optimus said.

"What?"

"When Skyblast was first activated he was scared of the other kids but he hid behind Rad. Then he went to the battle and saved all our lives because Rad asked him to. We couldn't figure out why he trusted Rad from the beginning. Now we know."

"How?"

"Skyblast sensed that Scourge would make him fight so he refused to come out. He also sensed that Rad wanted to protect him. So he lent Rad the energy to teleport them away from Scourge. When he was activated in the future he recognized Rad as the person who had protected him."


"How is he?" P Koji asked his older self.

"He'll be fine. I'd say he's been through worse but you'd probably run away and become a monk and forget about ever having children." F Koji laughed humorlessly.

"Has he been through worse?" P Koji asked a little worried.

" He grew up in this family and hangs out with the Autobots. What do you think?"

" I think that I'm going to start dyeing my hair at thirty" he sighed.

"Actually I think the twins are the ones who are going to make me go gray" F Koji chuckled.

"Oww. Be quiet Daddy" Rad moaned cracking his eyes. "All four of you."(Rad's seeing double haha)


"So how you doing" F Hot Shot asked his past self.

"Ok I guess. What you doing out here? I thought you were going to stay with Sideswipe."

"Uh Red Alert got pissy and threw me out" he said sheepishly.

"Uhh I'm going to turn into an idiot in the next few years" P Hot Shot groaned.

"I'm not an idiot. I just like having some fun occasionally" F Hot Shot laughed. "You need to relax a little."

"What do mean?"

"Your still mourning Wheeljack even though there was nothing you could do about what happened" he said. "You need to move on and try to stop living in the past."

"I almost was but him coming back from the dead, being a Deceptacon, and apparently blaming me for what happened kind of sent me back to square one" P Hot shot said.

"He doesn't blame us. We're actually on pretty good terms when he's not trying to kill me. Kidding, kidding" he added seeing the look on his younger self's face.

"Hey you" one of the build team members pointed to F Hot Shot "they're about to go back, so unless you want miss your ride home I suggest you get moving."


"Ok everyone here" F Optimus asked.

"No" F Koji said.

"Who's missing?"

F Koji didn't answer. He just looked at Ultra Magnus with a raised eyebrow.

"What?" Magnus said with fake innocence. Koji raised his eyebrow again.

The twins shimmered into existence on Magnus' shoulders. And then teleported to their father. "We like him he doesn't get mad if we throw things at people" they said in unison.

"Ok, now do we have everyone?"

"Yes"

"Then let's go"

With a final wave they were warped back to their own time.

AN: there's going to be an epilogue