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AN: I hate spirit week. Red, White, a Blue Day is over. Now there's only Crazy Hat Day, Twin Day, Mismatch Day, and Braves Day left. Of course I have to participate in all of them since there's a challenge that's been issued in ROTC amongst the flights.

Chapter 12

Light coming through the attic widow woke Koji. He'd fallen asleep while contemplating the pointlessness of his life.

'Damn I get depressed after fighting with Sideburn,' he thought.

After thinking about it all night he knew he had to talk to Sideburn as soon as possible. The guy could guilt as bad as Optimus if he was left alone to long. And nobody wanted another Bot on a guilt trip,one was bad enough.

After a quick shower and an even quicker breakfast Koji was out the door. He'd thought about waking Axel but after what happened yesterday decided he decided to let him recharge. Dealing with him after one of his arguments with the Autobot brothers wasn't an easy thing to do. Besides it was only four blocks to the base. What could possibly happen?

"Why can't T-Ai do this?" X-brawn asked. He really hated monitoring the surveillance system.

"Elita says there's some health risk to T-Ai if she doesn't stay in her physical form," Prowl, who was stuck working with his brother, said.

"This is the kind of thing I'm suppose to be able to push off on my younger brothers," X-brawn moaned.

"Well we can hardly put this all on Sideburn when he's emotionally distraught," Prowl said. "X-brawn?" X-brawn wasn't standing beside him anymore.

"I said brothers. You know, plural," X-brawn said from the door. With a final wave he was gone.

"X-" Prowl wasn't able to finish his sentence due to the Deceptacon alarm going off.

BOOM!

"Augh," Koji had managed to dodge most of the debris from the explosion, but a small piece of cement had lodged itself in his upper back.

"Watch it Starter! Scourge wants the kid alive," Armorhide yelled.

'Oh great, they want me alive. This isn't going to be pleasant'. Koji wondered when he'd started to become so sarcastic that he did it all the time, even when he was in mortal danger.

"Aww crap," Koji hissed as he came face to face with Rollbar.

"I don't suppose this is yet another plot to kill Optimus and take over Cybertron by chance?"

"Nope. Just revenge," Rollbar said

"I had a feeling it wasn't that easy," Koji sighed before being grabbed off the ground.

If this had been one of their usual plans he'd have a chance of being rescued. If it was just revenge he'd probably be dead before his friends even started looking for him. His only chance now was for one of the Autobots to show up out of nowhere and save before the Deceptacons got him off the planet. 'God I hate playing the damsel in distress,' he thought.

"PUT HIM DOWN!" Axel yelled.

'Not exactly who I was hoping for, but beggars can't be choosy,' Koji thought.

"What are you going to do?" Starter laughed. Apparently he hadn't heard the expression about big things and small packages.

BOOM!

"AHHHH!" Starter screamed as his leg was blown away. As usual the person who made fun of Axel's size was met with the wrong end of his photon cannon, which was designed to tear through the toughest alloys like they were paper.

"Retreat!" Armorhide yelled deciding that he wanted to keep all his appendages intact.

CLANG

"Ugh," Armorhide fell to the ground after Ultra Magnus slammed his fist into the back of the Deceptacon's head.

"You might want to put the kid down," Magnus said with his most intimidating glare.

Rollbar just started to laugh manically, startling the Autobot. He'd expected fear, terror, or even indifference to his threat, but not amusement. When Rollbar opened his free hand they saw why he was so amused. He had a warp remote.

"Say bye bye Autobot," Rollbar said laughing, before warping out with Koji.

"The trip wasn't a total loss sir, we got the kid," Rollbar said feebly. Scourge wasn't the least bit happy that he lost two men on what was suppose to be a simple kidnapping.

"I know we have the kid. That's the only reason you haven't been sent to the incinerator!" Scourge said. Not only had he lost two men, but now he Autobots had two hostages who could tell them some of his future plans. Armorhide was one of his inner circle. Every future attack and battle plan, Armorhide knew about them all. Some of the plans had taken years to come up with and perfect. Now they were useless.

Scourge smirked. There was a way for him to vent his anger though. "I'm going to see the prisoner."

AN: Sorry about the shortness but like i said it's spirit week. that's enough to depress anybody