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Chapter 12
"Baby bro!" X-brawn yelled before running to his little brother's side closely followed by Prowl.
The other Autobots were snapped out of their stupor. Optimus looked around for any sign of Koji. He didn't know weather to be relieved or not that he didn't see any sign of the boy. It meant that Koji wasn't lying in dead in the main room but that's all he could tell.
"Bro?" Sideburn was waking up.
"Where's Koji?" Optimus asked before Prowl or X-brawn could say anything.
"Scourge got him" was the only thing Sideburn could say before passing out again.
"Ok the infirmary backup program's coming online" Prowl said.
Everyone stood back as T-Ai's hologram platform started to hover. T-Ai's form appeared slowly but surely.
"T-Ai?" Optimus asked.
"Yeah. Thank primus I was still connected to this mainframe when Scourge decided to blowup Teletram1" she said.
"What exactly happened here?" Optimus asked.
T-Ai's face took on a saddened look as she thought about what had happened. "Scourge broke down the main gate about an hour after you left. He didn't even stop to make sure that there wasn't anyone here to shoot him. He just went straight for Koji," she said sadly.
"If he went straight for Koji how'd Sideburn get so beat up?" X-brawn asked sitting on the edge of the recharge table his little brother was lying on. Something, he ridiculously noticed, that seemed to be happening a lot lately.
"He tried to stop Scourge from taking Koji" T-Ai said.
"Why the hell would he try to take on Scourge? The three of them weren't able to take him on when they were together and in supercharge mode" Wedge asked concerned. Sideburn was one of the guys he could compete with for fun.
"He thinks of Koji as a younger brother. We all do" Prowl said. Everyone was surprised by this admission. The brothers cared greatly about each other. It said a lot about how they felt about Koji that they considered him family.
"Why did Scourge destroy the mainframe?" Wedge asked deciding that a change of subject was needed.
"Why not? We can't use the spacebridge with out it and we rely heavily on it for tracking, information, and communication" Optimus said. His face had taken on the usual look that he wore during a crisis. "T-Ai supervise the reconstruction of the mainframe. Build Team do whatever T-Ai says. Spychangers I want you patrolling everywhere within a ten by ten mile radius of the base. Team Bullet your on standby. Don't leave unless someone needs backup. Magnus I'd like for you to come with me" he ordered.
Everyone hurried to do their assignment. "What about us?" X-brawn asked.
"You two can stay with Sideburn until he regains consciousness" Optimus said.
They nodded looking grateful. They knew that they wouldn't be able concentrate on an assignment anyway.
"Magnus, come with me please" Optimus said walking toward the door.
"Where are we going?"
"To get Koji back."
"Shouldn't it be making some sort of sound? Or at least moving?" Rollbar asked staring at the unmoving human.
Koji hadn't made a sound since Scourge had dumped him in the corner and walked off somewhere obviously not expecting the boy to try anything to escape. He wasn't disappointed. Koji had just kneeled there with his head down neither making a sound of moving a muscle.
"As long as it's not fighting us or trying to escape don't complain. Do you really want to sit here and listen to one of those speeches about the joys of being on the side of good that the Autobots are always spouting?" Armorhide said/asked.
"The brat isn't going to try anything. He knows that nobody's coming for him. He's just like those stupid friends of his. Nothing without hope haha" Mega-Octane laughed.
"You might want to stop talking like that Mega-Octane or we might start to think you reverting to an Autobot" Armorhide said.
None of the Deceptacons could see that Koji's brown eyes (AN: KristalShaga was right Koji has brown eyes not blue) were blazing with fury. They had no right to talk about his friends like they were. Optimus had promised that he would take care of him and that was good enough for Koji. He trusted Optimus to keep that promise even if he hadn't been able to keep the one about Koji's father. That one Koji took full responsibility for. He had been to afraid of Hao to tell his friends what he'd over heard, Koji conveniently forgot that he hadn't been able to move for a few days after that.
As much as Koji wanted to yell at them to shut up and that his friends would come he knew the best thing to do was sit there and not draw attention to himself. Hao Saka had taught him that much.
"Oww. Why do I keep ending up here" Sideburn said when he woke up and realized he was in the infirmary. 'Damnit! T-Ai just cleared me to go back to work' he thought miserably.
Sideburn looked around and saw that both his brothers were present and looking very upset. 'Wonder why—OH SHIT!' he thought remembering what had happened.
"Shouldn't we take some back up with us?" Ultra Magnus asked, not really surprised. By this point he'd realized that his brother was a completely different person when it came to Koji.
"Omega Prime can take care of this and he doesn't needed to be held back," Optimus said not even looking back.
Magnus smirked. He knew what his brother was trying to say. Optimus would never be able to say it in plain terms. Scourge had pushed him to far.
"Welcome to the Dark-side bro."
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