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AN: Spirit Week is over! Now it's time to get ready for Halloween!

Chapter 13

"So Koji's been kidnapped," Optimus said in a deathly calm voice.

Axel and Ultra Magnus looked at each other nervously. As scary as Optimus was when he was yelling, he was even scarier when was speaking calmly when he should be yelling.

"Ummm… yes," Axel said, certain he was about to be fired. Koji had gotten away from him. If nothing had happened to Koji, Optimus might have given him a second chance but since Koji had wandered straight into the Deceptacons Axel would be lucky to be an energon miner after this. 'Why do I have the crappy luck?' he thought to himself.

"How?" Optimus asked, apparently.

"Uhh, Optimus I think that's kind of obvious," Ultra Magnus said.

"How did the Deceptacons even know he was here?" Optimus asked.

"Well it's not exactly classified. Anybody could see him walking down the street, hanging out at a club, going to schoo-" Axel stopped looked at Optimus and Ultra Magnus. From the look on their faces, or in Optimus' case what he could see of their faces, Axel could tell they'd figured it out too.

"He can't say I didn't warn him," Optimus said getting up and walking to the door.

"Hello human," Scourge said smirking. He was going enjoy taking his frustrations out on the brat. The kid's screams had always been music to his audio receptors.

The human was just sitting in a way reminiscent of the last time he'd been kidnapped by the Deceptacons. Scourge was vaguely reminded of the transmitter that the boy had had concealed which had ultimately brought Omega Prime straight to them. Not this time though. They'd check for any signals that could let Prime know where the boy was. In the years of peace Prime had gotten lax on the boy's security.

"Are you going to answer me boy?" Scourge didn't like that the boy could still just blow off his authority. The brat should be too afraid of him to even think of disobeying him.

"Boy, I'm losing my patience," Scourge said with a harsh undertone.

BOOM!

Scourge was thrown back by a small blast from the mini photon blaster Koji was made to carry by Optimus.

The Deceptacon leader just sat there and stared at the boy in shock. The he looked at the hole in his good arm (good arm meaning the one that Omega Prime didn't tear off. Then he looked back at Koji. Then launched himself at the boy.

"Optimus," Sideburn said catching Optimus before he managed to get out the back exit of the base. Optimus had been hoping to avoid the questions his men would have. Rumors spread fast in the base, especially since they'd had their first Deceptacon alarm in four years.

"Where's Koji?" Sideburn asked. If the Deceptacons had been on Earth there was no doubt who they were after and Sideburn had probably heard that Axel had come into the base without Koji.

"Optimus," Sideburn sounded desperate now. Optimus felt sorry for the young Bot. Koji and he had argued the day before. Now Sideburn had to be feeling guilty.

"I'll talk to you and your brothers when I get back," Optimus said before hurrying out.

SLAM!

Scourge slid the door shut behind him as he fled from the boy's assault. He was going to have Rollbar's tailpipe for this. He was supposed to check the boy for this kind of stuff.

Who the hell gives a teenager that kind of firepower anyway? 'Prime does apparently,' he thought bitterly.

"Are you sure?" Prowl asked.

"Yeah. After the alarm Axel showed up with Ultra Magnus and two prisoners with Deceptacon insignias," X-brawn said. "Sideburn, what did you find out?" he asked his youngest brother who'd just walked into their room.

"Nothing," Sideburn said glumly.

"What?"

"Optimus wouldn't tell me anything. He was in a hurry to go somewhere."

"Damnit, we get our first Deceptacon attack in four years and nobody will tell us where Koji is," X-brawn said, frustration clear in his voice.

"It's not that hard to figure out," Prowl put in. "There's only two possibilities. Optimus put him in hiding or--"

"No," Sideburn interrupted. "Both Axel and Ultra Magnus were at the fight. Neither of them would let a Deceptacon take Koji," Sideburn said trying to convince himself as well as his brothers.

"I really hope you're right," Prowl said.

AN: For those worried about Koji, don't worry. He has a whole bunch of stuff like that blaster stored away somewhere.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!