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(AN: inside joke. happy Ben?)

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Chapter 5

"Kid wake up" Magnus said gently poking the boy's shoulder. He wanted to get the boy to eat before they went back to the base so his brother wouldn't blow a gasket. Plus he was pretty sure that all the crying Koji had done had dehydrated him. The information he'd gotten at the base about human health said that dehydration led to major problems and often death in humans. He'd also like to get some answers about why the kid said Scourge during a flashback that had been about his step-mom's lover beating the crap out of him.

"Hey it's time for you to eat something kid." Koji just rolled over and continued sleeping. "Koji get up." The kid opened his eyes at this and looked surprised.

"What?" Magnus asked.

"Did you actually just use my name?" Koji asked.

"Uhh yeah. So?" Magnus didn't see what the big deal was.

"I've never heard you call anybody by their name."

"I call Prime by his name." Magnus said defensively trying to think of another person he'd called by their given name.

"You've never called him Optimus when you weren't trying to trick him or something to get the Matrix" Koji said.

"I did when we were younger." He didn't mention that when he said younger he meant the first three months after they were created.

"You haven't since you came to Earth" Koji said matter-of-factly.

"How would you know?"

"Optimus said so."

That surprised Magnus. His brother had talked to the kid about their issues. He wondered if his refusal to use his brother's name bothered Optimus. It must have if he'd mentioned it around or to the kid- no Koji. Magnus found that he liked using Koji's name. It suited him better than 'kid' or 'boy'.

"Well Koji" he emphasized the name "it's time for you to eat and drink something and then we need to talk about what Scourge has to do with your step-mother."

Koji visibly paled.

"What the HELL are they doing here!" Magnus yelled at his brother incredulously.

When he'd agreed to take the kid back to the base he hadn't expected to find five Predicons there to. He vaguely wondered if his brother had lost his mind.

"Well sorry but our base has been taken over by those back-stabbing Deceptacons and we need assistance retaking it" Megatron said condescendingly. He hated asking his enmies for help but his Predicons had been too easily over powered for him to even think of trying to take his base back without help.

"Why would help yall after wha'cha did ta Dr. Onishi?" X-brawn asked.

"That was acciden—" Megatron was cut off.

"An accident! There was barely anything left of him!" Sideburn yelled but regretted it at the whimper that came from the ground near Magnus. "Koji-"

Koji just leaned against Magnus' leg as the tears flowed down his face freely. Magnus looked uncomfortable but didn't move a way from the boy. If Koji trusted him enough to confide in him about what had really happened the last few months he should be able to give him some support… well as long as Koji didn't start calling him Uncle Magnus or something like that.

"As I was saying it had nothing to do with us. A malfunction cause one of our main computers to explode" Megatron said. "Now will you help us get our base back from those traitors or not?"

"Not" Optimus said. "Your carelessness led to the death of an innocent man and left Koji an orphan. Now you have the nerve-"

"Optimus" Koji said bring silence to the room and drawing every eye to him. He shook his head.

"Koji they're responsible for your father's death. Do you really want us to help them?" Optimus asked his friend softly.

Koji looked up at Ultra Magnus who nodded. This seemed to give Koji some confidence.

"They're not the ones that killed my father."

Miyamoto sat listening to the transformers talk through the bugs he'd left in the main room. He'd known the minute he walked in there that the Autobots were lying. The kid hadn't run-away, at least not with out help. There were things the kid had taken from his house that were nowhere to be found at the base. The kid's food, water, clothes, books, father's diaries, and a family album to be exact.

So he'd left a few bugs in the all access rooms and started recording the Autobots conversations. At first he hadn't understood what they'd been saying but after a while they'd started speaking a language he understood. The first words he'd understood was the head Autobot ordering one of his flunkies to bring the kid back to the base.

Now that he'd heard the kid's voice he knew for certain that he was at the base and he could send the uniformed cops he'd stationed out side the bases main gate to pick him up. The head Autobot wouldn't be happy about it but they were trying to stay here peacefully so they couldn't very well fight the police force.

He also decided to call the kid's legal guardians to tell them he'd found their charge. They'd want to pick up the kid immediately and more than likely file criminal charges against the Autobots for kidnapping and holding their kid against his will.

"Thank you Inspector" Hao Saka said before he hung up. He smiled as he dialed a special number he'd been given. He waited for the other end to pick up.

"What?" a harsh voice on the other end answered.

"We'll have him within the hour"

"Good"

AN: remember read and review ok. I will stop this story if you don't review or I'll just borrow Ben's flaming hammers of doom.