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Hello Benji the Fallen Arch-Angel you better be reading and reviewing this or I'm asking for a transfer to guard cousin Luke after I take away your flaming hammers of doom.

AN: in the base the barracks have code locks

For those who have never been near a military base Barracks are where the troops sleep

Chapter 3

"Hello Inspectors" Optimus greeted the two men who had been sent to check the base for clues.

The inspectors, both brown haired and dark eyed men, nodded in greeting. The older inspector, Inspector Miyamoto, stepped forward "We would like to do a through search of the base for any evidence of where the boy might have gone" he said.

A few of the Autobots present shuffled nervously at this. The younger inspector, Inspector Samuels, took notice of this. "Is that a problem?"

"There are certain areas of the base that are highly classified. Only I have access to them," Optimus said.

"Alright then what rooms would Koji have had access to?" Inspector Samuels asked.

"Any all-access rooms and one semi all-acess room."

"Which room would that be" Miyamoto asked.

Prowl answered "Our room. Koji slept in our barrack".

The inspectors nodded. "Why don't we start there? It's the most likely place he'd leave any clues."

"Would you get down from there" Magnus snapped.

"No", the object of the rogue's annoyance said simply.

Once he'd woken up and stopped cursing Optimus in two languages (much to Magnus' surprise, he hadn't thought Onishi would have let his kid hear that kind of language) the boy had crawled up the side of the cave they were staying, sat on a ledge sixty above the ground and refused to come down. Magnus was fairly sure that it was time for the boy to eat or at least drink something.

"Get down here now. You do not want me to make you come down." The boy just stared at him with the stubbornness Optimus and the others had come to recognize as being a defense. Ultra Magnus hadn't come to see this yet so he didn't know this was time to switch tactics.

"Uggh" Magnus kicked the wall under Koji's ledge. The ledge consequently collapsed.

"Ahh" Koji fell into Magnus' open hands. The boy screamed louder when his back came into contact with the metal.

"What?" Magnus was confused. The kid didn't land that hard. Then he remembered that the kid had slept on his stomach and hadn't leaned his back against the backrest of the seat once. He put Koji down quickly.

"Pull up the back of your shirt" he demanded. The boy was in enough pain he complied immediately. Magnus drew in a deep breath. The boy's back was crisscrossed with scars and deep cuts that looked to be infected.

"Damnit! Did you tell any of them about this?" he asked the boy.

Koji just shook his head.

"Why the hell not!" He winced when he saw the boy's eyes fill with tears. "If your step-mom did this we can stop her if you'd just tell us what she did" he said trying to be gentle as his brother called it.

"It's wasn't her" Koji said looking at the ground.

"Then who—" Magnus remembered Optimus saying something about the kid's step-mom getting remarried only a few days after Onishi's funeral. Quick even by human standards. "It was that Saka guy, wasn't it?"

Koji nodded not looking up.

"He and your step-mom?"

"They've been having an affair since she married Dad. Maybe even before. He only came over when Dad was away on important business. They were afraid I'd tell him and she would be 'shamed' and gossiped about. All she cared about was her damn reputation" the boy's body was racked with sobs so bad that he couldn't speak for a minute. "It wouldn't have mattered anyway. Dad knew that they were together. He just didn't care" the boy said quickly with tears streaming down his face.

"Why didn't he care?"

"Daddy believed that we're only entitled to one true love in our lives. His was my mother. He only remarried because his father was insistent that he have a 'respectable' 'gentle' 'kind' woman for a wife" the kid finished still crying heavily. Magnus just sat and watch the kid not knowing what to do to comfort him.

"So that's just about every place Koji had access to" Optimus said.

"Ok this should be sufficient. Thank you" Miyamoto said.

"We would like you to contact us immediately if the boy comes back" Samuels said.

Optimus nodded and Prowl escorted the inspectors out.

T-Ai looked at him clearly upset. "Those men aren't fools Optimus. They are going to suspect or already suspect something" she said in a Cybertronian language Optimus had ordered them all to use incase the Inspectors had left any bugs.

"I know but hopefully by then we can prove that Mrs. Saka is an unfit guardian for Koji."

"Wouldn't it be alright if he got decent foster parents?"

"T-Ai, I have a responsibility to Koji. I promised get his father back safely" he sighed "I swore I'd look after him until his father was able to. I will get custody or I will take him away from here."

"You can't seriously be thinking of taking him to-" T-Ai was cut off by an income transmission.

Ultra Magnus showed up on the screen. "Prime I think you might want to hear this".

"Scourge?"

"Is everything ready?"

"Yes sir."

"And the humans?"

"They should be able to get him soon. They've asked for another day."

"We don't have the time. We start tomorrow. Spread the word."

"Yes sir."

Scourge went to the small window he had in his room. With out the brat there was no guarantee that Prime wouldn't interfere but they didn't have the time to wait for those idiots to get him. Megatron was already getting suspicious. Hopefully Prime would be caught up enough in whatever was going on with his pet to have any interest in interfering with his plans.

AN: Sorry for the wait but school started and I had writers block