Disclaimer: I don't anything or anybody

AN: Axel's alternate form is a motorcycle

Chapter 3

"So who's my security detail?" Koji asked.

"He's here somewhere."

"K-man!" a Bot who was only about six inches taller than Koji yelled running into the room. Koji smiled as the small Bot reached him and they bumped fists.

"Axel how's it going?" Koji asked.

"Awesome. I'm your new security detail." There were a few disbelieving looks at this annoucement. Not only was Axel not the best warrior, he was also only a teenager by Autobot standards. In the past he'd been the one to help Koji escape his security detail. Koji and him were more likely to spend their time getting into trouble than avoiding it.

"Really. That explains why Optimus didn't try to avoid telling me about security detail," Koji said smiling.

"Yea. So what's first on the agenda?" Axel asked.

"Your taking Koji home so he can rest," Optimus said before Koji say anything.

Koji's head whipped around at what Optimus said. "Home?"

"Yes. Your house. It's been opened, cleaned, and made livable," Optimus said.

Koji looked shocked for a moment then another look replaced it, one they all knew very well and usually ran for cover when they saw it. It meant hell was going to break lose.

"WHAT!"

Several Autobots including the hardened warriors turned and ran.

...In Some Supply Closet...

"Well all things considered that actually went rather well," Sideburn said wondering if his audio receptors were ever going to return to normal.

"I'm just glad I'm not Optimus right now. I bet Koji's really laying into him," Prowl said.

"Maybe," Optimus said.

"Optimus? Wha' cha doing in here?" X-brawn asked.

"What? Since I'm the leader I automatically have to sacrifice myself. I do have a sense of self-preservation you know," Optimus said.

"I can't believe he's making me stay there," Koji growled as he and Axel rode through rush-hour traffic. He hated that house and the memories that went with it.

"He wants you to face your problems head on. You've been running from a lot of them four the last four years," Axel said. "You sure you have your helmet on tight enough?"

Koji rolled his eyes "Yes Mother." Then he froze feeling a sense of déjà vu. He could almost feel rough cotton on his face and felt an overwhelming sense of sadness.

"Yo K-man, you okay," Axel's voice brought him back to reality.

"Yeah. I'm …fine," he said.

"You sure? You were letting your grip get really lose." Koji tightened his grip on Axel's handlebars.

"Are you sure?" Axel asked concerned.

"Yeah."

"Ok," Axel didn't sound convinced.

"This is your house? I thought your dad was loaded," Axel said looking at the medium sized home dubiously.

"He was, but he put most of it in savings," Koji said walking through the front door.

"What happened to his savings? That Saka bitch didn't get it did she?" Axel asked ducking his head slightly to fit through the door.

"No. Dad was smarter than that. He put it in his will that I get everything as soon as I turn twenty-one or graduate college. Whichever comes first."

Koji stopped before he reached the hallway that led to the kitchen. "I thought the Sakas would have burned these."

"Huh?" Axel looked around the hallway. It was full of pictures. Looking closer he noticed that all the pictures had a young boy and a man he recognized as Dr. Onishi. The boy he figured was Koji. The pictures went in decreasing chronological order. The ones at the beginning of the hallway must have been taken shortly before Onishi's kidnapping. Moving down the hall the Koji in the pictures got younger until he was what Axel had heard described as a baby. The last three pictures had not only Koji and his father but a woman too. In one picture she was holding Koji on her hip. In another she was holding a newborn Koji in her arms while Dr. Onishi stood with his arms around her, smiling down at his son. In the final picture the woman was dressed in military fatigues and kneeling down hugging a three-year-old Koji who had his face buried in her chest.

"That was the last time I saw her," Koji's voice brought Axel back to the present.

"Huh?"

Koji didn't answer. He just took the picture off the wall, walked into the kitchen and threw it in an empty drawer.

"We need to get out on the town," Axel said after they had sat and watched TV for three hours straight.

"Where?"

"I've been hanging around here for a month and have been to every teen night club with in the city limits. I think I can find a place," Axel said mock indignantly.

"Teen nightclubs?" Koji asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm your security detail now. If we do anything illegal, 'Daddy Optimus' will bust me down to energon miner," Axel explained.

" 'Daddy Optimus'? Why do I feel like putting on a red wig and singing 'Tomorrow's Only a Day Away'," Koji sighed.

"Huh?"

"Don't ask. Ok let's hit a few clubs," Koji said.

"Actually only one club is in my budget," Axel said sheepishly.

"Have you learned nothing about me in all the years you've known me? Since 'Daddy Optimus' insisted I come back to Earth, 'Daddy Optimus' can pay for my entertainment while I'm here," Koji said with an evil smirk.

"You know Optimus is going to kill us when he get's the bill for this," Axel yelled over the music.

"He should have known better than to give an unsupervised teenager access to his credit account," Koji yelled back watching the dance floor. There was a mixture of humans and small Autobots dancing, one of the main reasons they'd chosen this place. If they'd gone to an all-human club Axel would have stood out and might have been recognized as Prime's adoptive son's security detail and they'd have been busted. That had happened once or twice on Cybertron except on Cybertron there weren't any teen clubs since Koji was the only human under the age of thirty on the planet. So they'd resorted to a bar where the scientists went to relax after a hard day's work. They'd gone for weeks without getting caught. The only reason they had been caught in the end was because some drunk had thought Koji was a woman and had tried to feel him up. Axel still didn't see why everyone had freaked out so bad. He only punched they guy once to get the message across that his friend was to be treated better than that. Plus the guy's jaw healed... eventually. Koji had gotten it worse though. Optimus was not happy about his adoptive son being dragged home from a bar with alochol on his breath.

"Let's hit the floor," Axel yelled knowing Koji loved to dance. Koji didn't answer. He just got up and walked toward the floor.

Once in the crowd they were quickly separated. Koji was completely at home in the crowd. Even though he would never admit it to Optimus, it was nice to be around humans his own age. Though he wasn't so sure about the girls who were trying to dance to close. He had a girlfriend, even if she wasn't same as these girls.

He didn't have to worry about the girls for long. His cell phone started vibrating. He ran to bathroom to answer it.

"Why aren't you answering your home phone?"

Optimus. Busted.

"It's my first day back, do we have to start the overprotective thing already?" Koji asked.

"You start school tomorrow. You need to be in bed."

"T-Ai managed to transfer that quick?" Koji said in surprise.

"Yes- Oh Damnit!"

"I knew it! You were going to send me to a private school!"

"Just go home- how are you paying for this little outing?" Optimus asked.

"Uhh-"

"I'm going to be getting a interesting bill on my credit account aren't I?" Optimus asked, resigned.

"That would be a good time to remember that you love me."

"Get. Home."

AN: Read and Review