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AN: Sorry for the delay but I've been really busy. Good news though, I finally have my learner's permit! this chapter maybe a little boring but things are going to pickup soon

Chapter 10

"They're out there again, aren't they?"

Axel looked to his friend then back out the window. "Well there's a blue sports car parked next the Ishiza's red Camero, the Miyamoto's seem to have acquired an SUV, and there's been a cop at the Yagami's for the past hour."

Koji dropped his head into his hands and groaned. His 'brothers' hadn't been more than three hundred yards from him since they found out Hao was working at the high school. So much for normalcy. Everything had been totally off since he'd gotten back. Ultra Magnus was actually following orders, Optimus was threatening humans with a slow and painful death, Axel refused to do anything illegal, and the three biggest supporters of giving him his space were never out yelling distance.

"I need to get out of here. At least for a few hours anyway," Koji said.

"Koji it's my job to protect you now. If Optimus-"

"Optimus didn't order them to do this. They're acting on their own. Besides I already have permission from Optimus to go out today," Koji looked so desperate to get away that Axel had to give in.

"How do we get out with out them seeing us?"

"The same way every other kid does when they're sneaking out. Go out the back" Koji smiled. For some reason nobody ever tried to monitor his back door for some reason. It was probably because the walls were fifteen feet high and almost impossible to get over. Key word being almost.

When he'd been younger Saka had tried to corner him in the backyard a few times and like they said necessity was the mother of invention or something similar to that anyway. To escape a particularly bad beating he'd ended up finding several conveniently placed niches in the corner of the wall allowed him to, if running, jump up the wall.

Ok start running, jump up, up, grab top, pull up, roll over, pray the Miyamotos haven't moved their dumpster, and land perfectly on top of the closed dumpster. Thank god they never leftthe lidopen.

"Show off," Axel said climbing quite ungracefully over the top.

"You're just jealous you can't move like that," Koji laughed feeling better being out of his house.

"Optimus?" a sickly sweet voice said behind the Autobot's fearless leader.

"I didn't do!" Optimus said recognizing Elita's tone.

"Didn't do what?" she asked innocently. She'd heard about Optimus' trip to Koji's high school and she wasn't impressed. They'd both agreed, as Koji's 'parents', to give him his space and let deal with his problems on his own. Optimus had not only gone against their agreement, he'd done it with out consulting her.

"Uhhh…"

"You mean you didn't go behind my back and do something stupid like try to fight Koji's battles for him again," she'd perfected the fake sweet voice to the point Optimus couldn't help but shudder.

"I know you thoroughly understand why Koji should fight his own battles and that you can control your protective urges. I know you would never threaten a human even if he was the asshole who use to knock Koji around for fun because that would be an invasion of Koji's privacy and you wouldn't do that," Elita sounded angry now. Optimus sighed. This wouldn't end well.

"Enjoy sleeping in your office to night," she said with a fake smile before turning and walking out.

"T-Ai?" T-Ai turned to see Elita standing behind her. "Shouldn't you be in your physical form?" Elita asked.

T-Ai shook her head. "Optimus ban me from using it for a week," she said softly.

"Optimus also doesn't know the health risks that being out of your body at a time like this could cause," Elita said. T-Ai's eyes widened. "For both of your health stay in your body," Elita said.

"Is it just me or does it seem a little too quiet?" Sideburn asked.

"We can't hear anything from the house from this distance," Prowl said.

"I meant that I haven't seen Axel come to the window for at least an hour," Sideburn said.

"He's right. Didn't Koji say he was going somewhere today?" X-brawn asked.

"Yeah, the skate park."

"So? He has to leave the house to go anywhere and we've been watching the front door the entire time," Prowl said.

"What about the back door?" Sideburn asked.

"Have you seen those walls? They're three times Koji's height. There's no way he could get over them" Prowl said.

"Well could you at least check Axel's signal to make sure he's in the house?" Sideburn asked.

"Fine," Prowl said immediately running a search for the younger Bot's signal.

"Well?" Sideburn ask after a minute.

"They're at the skate park," Prowl grudgingly admitted.

AN: again sorry for the delay. Writers block sucks.