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AN: I hate headaches and school.

Chapter 9

Scourge was very happy. His men hadn't seen they're this happy since…never. Well, with the exception Armorhide and Rollbar, who had seen Scourge four years ago when they'd finally gotten a hold of Onishi's brat. Then of course Omega Prime had shown up, destroyed most of the Decepticons, and rescued the boy. So Scourge hadn't stayed happy for long. But now they knew where the Onishi kid was. Prime had taken him back to earth, where he would be an easy target.

They would hopefully swoop in grab the kid and be gone again before Prime knew what hit him. They'd hide the boy and blackmail Prime and get whatever they could for him. Then Scourge would make the kid's death slow and painful. Finally they were going to send what was left of him back to Prime.

Scourge was definitely very happy. He was going to get his revenge on the Onishi boy and Omega Prime all at once.

Hao looked over the faces of the students in his fifth period. Koji hadn't attended once since he'd arrived, which was all right with him. He didn't have to see the boy and if the boy got caught he'd be expelled.

He knew the boy wouldn't be attending school much longer either. The Decepticons were coming soon and there was no doubt in his mind about what they intended for the boy. It would painful and final. Best of all he couldn't be linked to it. Koji would die and it wouldn't endanger him, Misa, or Yama. When the Autobots went looking for vengeance they'd go after Scourge and never even think about him. Hell they probably already forgot completely about the man who had made Koji's life a living hell for so many years.

Optimus looked over the crowd exiting the school. He knew he shouldn't be here and that if Koji found out… well he'd rather deal with every Predicon in existence than Koji if the boy found out what he was doing. Hopefully football practice, which Axel had been ordered to make sure Koji attended, would keep him to preoccupied to notice that a fire truck was sitting in the teacher's parking lot.

All the same Optimus hoped it wouldn't take to long to accomplish what he was there to do. He really hoped Saka wouldn't dally to long before getting into his car to go home.

He breathed a sigh of relief when Saka left the building shortly after the rest of the people did. Saka seemed preoccupied while walking toward his car. He didn't notice Optimus anyway, at least not until it was too late anyway.

"Transform!" Saka nearly had a heart attack when the fire truck he hadn't noticed turned into a very familiar, very big, and very scary robot. Luckily the daycare aide had taken the kids down to the football field and hadn't brought them back yet, that being the cause of his preoccupation, because he would have dropped Yama if he'd been holding him.

"YOU!" he remembered the Bot from four years before. It was impossible to forget what he looked like; literally, the guy was on the news every other night.

"Yes. The last time I checked I was me," Optimus said thinking he'd been spending too much time around Koji if he was using sarcasm.

"What do you want?" Saka sneered.

"To make sure you remember why you're not going to fall back into old habits," Optimus said.

"What old habits?" Saka asked even though he knew exactly what Optimus meant.

"Well last time it involved my son, a whip, a whipping post, and you yelling various obscenities," Optimus said.

"So." Saka knew as soon as he said it that that was the wrong thing to say. Optimus' optics got harder and his stance became rigid.

"So if there is a repeat of that incident, in any way, shape, or form, you will learn what it feels like to have you're molecules torn apart very slowly," Optimus said in a low, dangerous voice.

Saka only let the fear he was feeling show for a second but it was enough for Optimus to know his message was received the way he wanted it to be.

Optimus was about to transform and leave when a small streak rushed by his foot and latched onto Saka's leg.

"Daddy! Koko take us to throw water boons at jocks!" the little boy said proudly.

"Koko?" Optimus said getting a bad feeling that that name sounded familiar.

"Yeah. The kids can't say my name right remember," Koji said from behind him.

"Uhhg," Axel said watching the humans tackling each other.

"Humans consider playing this fun?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"Yeah. I think it has something to do with it allowing them to relieve the stress and anger that build up over time," Axel said.

"You're suppose to pick Koji up from school and protect him, not do his psychology homework for him," Ultra Magnus said.

"But it's so interesting. The human mind has so many dimensions, it just amazing," Axel said thinking of everything he'd read in Koji's psychology book.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" they heard someone who sounded a lot like Koji yell from the parking lot. They were both on their feet and running without a second thought since the school was listed as a danger zone for Koji.

"Shut up," Optimus said to his snickering brother.

"Come on even you have to admit that that was hilarious," Ultra Magnus said breaking down into a fullblown laughing fit.

"No, I don't," Optimus said seriously.

"Well you do know you had it coming right?"

Optimus just glared at him and walked off in the direction of his office.

"What happened?" Sideburn asked after witnessing the exchange.

"Koji caught Optimus in the act of threatening Hao Saka with certain death if he even thought about hurting Koji again," Ultra Magnus said.

"Oh," Sideburn turned to go then stopped. "HAO SAKA'S HERE?"

AN: R&R