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AN: I'm trying to steer this story towards an ending but so far it been difficult. Oh and T-Ai's like four months along

Chapter 18

"You two know where he is?" Elita asked when she saw them enter the infirmary. She'd been staying with T-Ai, who had woken up and was now looking hopefully at them while rubbing her stomach which Optimus noticed had become slighty rounded.

"Scourge took him to Cybertron."

"That's suicide! Megatron hates him and last time you fought him you were shooting to kill! Is he nuts?" T-Ai asked.

"No, he's smart," Ultra Magnus said.

"Huh?" T-Ai asked, clearly confused.

"Cybertron's the last place any of us would have thought to look for them. Like you said Megatron hates him and would tear him apart. Megatron might even have helped Koji… well he wouldn't kill him anyway," Ultra Magnus explained.

"So how long until you can go retrieve him?" T-Ai asked.

"We need to get a decent idea of what we'll be going up against. I'm going to speak with our Deceptacon-ahem- guests about that now," Optimus said heading for the door.

"Actually General Sparter's here and he's demanding that you speak with him immediately," Elita told. Optimus could be seen flexing his hands like he wanted to wrap them around someone's throat. He was getting tired of all the interruptions. They'd already wasted enough time.

"I'll speak to him later," Optimus said trying to continue to where the prisoners were being kept.

"I think you'll want to hear what Lieutenant Sparter has to say."

Optimus stopped. "Don't you mean General Sparter?"

"No. Lieutenant Sparter. General Sparter's daughter"

"I'll speak to them," Optimus decided. His interest was peaked.

"Hello Prime," General Sparter greeted the Autobot politely, but anyone who had eyes or optics could tell he wanted to be as far away from there as possible.

"General," Optimus nodded a greeting. He studied the General's daughter. Something about her seemed familiar. Her eyes somehow reminded him of Koji despite the difference in color.

"We came to offer our help," General Sparter said reluctantly.

"I'm not exactly sure what you can do," Optimus told them studying their faces very closely.

"We felt it was necessary to offer," General Sparter looked like he was going to take this opportunity to leave.

"Why?" Optimus asked, truly wanting to know the answer.

"We both knew Koji's mother very well," the Lieutenant spoke for the first time.

"You served with Colonel Onishi?" This did surprise Optimus. Sparter hadn't mentioned it once when they were discussing Koji four years ago, before the official meeting with the UN. Then again Sparter had inquired about Koji's health or general well being occasionally so it made sense.

"Not exactly," the General was giving his daughter a death glare that could probably scare Ultra Magnus.

"She and I grew up together," Lieutenant Sparter informed him, ignoring her father's glare with ease. "We were still close up until she married Dr. Onishi."

"So you were her best friend?" Optimus asked getting the feeling that he was missing something that was staring him straight in the face.

"Back when she was Colonel Sparter, yes"

T-Ai was walking miserably down the hall toward the Autobot brother's room. Hopefully one of them would give her a ride to Koji's house. She didn't feel up to walking but she felt like she needed to be somewhere close to Koji. And since he was halfway across the galaxy, his house was the best she could do.

"T-Ai?" T-Ai jumped in surprise. She'd almost walked right by Sideburn without even seeing him.

"Oh, hi Sideburn," T-Ai said.

"Are you ok?" Sideburn sounded very concerned.

"Yes…No… I need to go to Koji's. Could you giveme a ride?" she asked softly.

"T-Ai. You do know Koji's not there?" Sideburn tried to tell her gently. From her manner he could tell she knew something about what was going on.

"Yes. But I just need to be there," her voice had started to tremble.

"Alright."

As Sideburn watched asT-Ai open the door and went into Koji's house. She hadn't cried although he could tell she wanted to. They said love was often tested but Sideburn doubted that most humans went through this kind test. But T-Ai and Koji loved each other so he was pretty sure that they'd make it through.

T-Ai had only been inside Koji's house once before when it was being fixed up for Koji to move back in. Back then it had been neat and clean, now it was messy and felt … homey, like the family had just gone to the store and would be back any minute.

Her stomach growled reminding her that most of her lunch had come back up and her son wanted nourishment. She smiled slightly despite the circumstances. While Red Alert had been running test to make sure the baby was fine (how he knew about the baby she had no idea) he'd run a scan to find out the gender of the baby. He'd announced right before she left that he was 90 percent sure that she was going to have a son.

From what she remembered about the layout of the ground floor of the house the kitchen was just down the hallway from the entrance hall. She didn't remember all the pictures on the hallway walls but she had been busy that day. Now she had time to stop and look at them. She watched in wonder as the pictures showed all the stages of Koji's life going from twelve to newborn. One showed Koji laughing; holding a good-sized bass while his father seemed to be dripping from a dip in the river. Another was of Dr. Onishi trying to cook something that looked like a fish shaped piece of charcoal over a campfire. Then Dr. Onishi and a two and a half year old Koji covered in flour, with a caption at the bottom that read 'Why I never let Hisao come anywhere near my kitchen'. She guessed that Koji's real mom had written that since she really couldn't picture Misa writing something like that. The picture that caught her attention the most didn't have Koji in it at all. It was of Dr. Onishi and a woman who T-Ai guessed was his first wife. The two were dressed formally and holding hands, staring into each other's eyes while a man stood in front of them reading from a book. It took a moment but T-Ai finally realized the couple was exchanging their wedding vows.

Her stomach growled again and she felt a slight pressure that had nothing to do with hunger. Red Alert had given her some information about the stages of pregnancy. He'd warned her that the baby would start kicking soon and it would feel like her kidneys were being used as soccer balls.. She continued into the kitchen in search of food.

AN: I have no idea when babys start to kick since I have never been pregnant myself but I went to a site that said the start moving around at 26 weeks. I couldn't really stay on that site very long because if my mom found out she'd freak and thinkI was looking for information for my self or something.