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Chapter 3
"Uncle Ben!" Rad yelled. Ben was standing at the exit of the Roswell Base (hehehe) waiting for his nephew.
"Hi Rad" Ben said in his helium voice. It was odd seeing a Five foot nine man speak with such a weird voice but Rad ignored it, figuring his Uncle had spent too much time around deadly chemicals. Probably C4.
"Hi Uncle Ben. How's it going?" Rad asked.
"Fine. Are you ready for the Saka hunting?" Ben smiled holding up a shotgun that both Rad and Sideswipe would have sworn wasn't there a minute ago.
"Yeah but this is more of a reconnaissance mission than and seek and destroy mission" Rad said sweat dropping at his uncle's eagerness.
"Aww, you never let me have any fun" Ben deflated. The shotgun, Rad and Sideswipe noticed, was now conspicuously absent from Ben's hand.
"If things get bad, you can go after Saka with a flamethrower" Rad conceded.
"Yaaaay!" Ben cheered waving a new weapon around.
"Umm… that's a rocket launcher," Sideswipe said, with optics widened.
"Oh, sorry" in the next second Ben was waving a flamethrower in the air.
Rad and Sideswipe sweat dropped.
'Well at least he isn't filling a water balloon with acid and chucking it at various world leaders… again. That poor Frenchmen' Rad lamented.
"We're traveling in style today" Ben laughed behind the wheel of a blue Lamborghini.
"Could you try not to touch anything, please?" Sideswipe asked the man. He really didn't trust this guy in his driver's seat but it would look odd if a thirteen year old was driving. Even though everyone on earth knew about the Autobots they didn't want anything to tip Saka off to who Rad really was. The media left Koji alone after a few years so no recent pictures of Rad had appeared on the news or in the paper so they were pretty sure Saka wouldn't recognize Rad on sight.
"Not that I'm complaining Rad, but why didn't you just tell Optimus about this if it's purely reconnaissance?" Ben asked after he was done pouting about not being able to drive.
"Optimus would send a group of Autobots to check it out. Saka would realize that they were on to him and run," Rad explained. "Plus I'm not certain this guy's Saka. He was the only match in the system but there is a three percent chance for error"
"Ok. How do you plan on proving its Saka?"
"Find out how long he's been in town, see if he has a son, find out how old his son is, and check out his record" Rad told him. Ben nodded. His nephew had thought this through.
"I'm guessing this town's founders didn't have very big imaginations," Ben said looking around. The main part of the town had a few trees and a little grass but other wise the place was dust and sand as far as you could see.
"No kidding. Good thing I packed sun block" Rad said shielding his eyes from the glare of the noon sun.
"I don't see what's so bad about it" Sideswipe commented.
"You have internal cooling systems so you don't feel the heat. Us on the other hand feel it full force and have to rely on external cooling systems," Rad explained.
"Huh?" Sideswipe and Ben said in unison.
"Humans sweat" Rad dumbed it down for them.
"Oh" Ben and Sideswipe said in unison again.
Ben looked around noticing the town was fairly small. The town sign had said the population was slightly above eight hundred. 'Not enough people to form a decent angry mob' Ben thought. And Sideswipe didn't have much trunk space so Ben had had to leave most of the C4 at the base. 'Oh well, at least I got to bring the RPG' Ben thought happily.
"So now what?" Sideswipe asked.
"Uncle Ben is going to find a hotel, you are going to act like a normal car, and I'm going to the middle school," Rad said.
"Why are you going to school? It's summer." Bed said.
"Saka works at the school. I have to check it out to figure out weather or not this guy really is Saka" Rad said.
"School's out" Ben said slowly.
"Teachers get one month off a year Uncle Ben. We have two months to get Saka arrested, so even if this is his month off we still have a month to get him", Rad said. " Now I'm going to check it out".
"Summer school sucks!" Rad was startled out of his slight doze by the proclamation. He'd been sitting on a bench watching the school while trying to figure out away to get into the school unnoticed. But heat and mid afternoon fatigue combined to make it nearly impossible to stay awake.
"Dude, you ok?" the boy who had been exclaiming his displeasure of school during the summer was now staring at Rad.
"Yeah. Just tired" Rad yawned. Maybe he should have gone with Ben to find a hotel. He really just wanted to lie down and sleep.
"You probably shouldn't sleep on a park bench," the red haired girl who was walking with the summer school reject, informed him.
Rad did a double take upon seeing her. She had red hair (duh), green eyes, and was wearing a skirt that came down to the middle of her thigh, flip-flops and an ankle bracelet. The one though entering Rad's mind was 'wow'.
Apparently the feeling was returned because the girl was looking him over with a blush.
"Alexis are you ok? You look like you're getting over heated" her friend said.
" I'm fine Carlos!" the girl yelled, momentarily forgetting Rad.
Rad sweat dropped. He could already hear what Sideswipe was going to say at this new development. 'You sure know how to pick 'em'.
AN: If you were expecting me not to have Rad and Alexis meet and fall in love on first sight you really don't know me very well. Rad and Alexis are the Koji and T-Ai of Armada.
