Disclaimer: I own the Sakas, the plot (I write these cause nobody else does so I know the plot belongs to me). Ben owns himself. Transformers belong to Hasbro.

Chapter 5

"Hey!"

"Shit" Ben hissed hiding the nail file he'd been using to try and chisel through the bars.

"What happened to these bars?" the guard asked.

"Rats?" Ben suggested weakly. The guard glared at him.


"I can't believe your teacher comes over for Friday night dinner" Rad shook his head helping Carlos set the table.

"The teachers don't do that where you come from?" Mr. Lopez asked. "What?" he asked at Rad strange look.

"There are five hundred plus students in my class; Four thousand in my school. The teachers wouldn't have time to go to all their student's house in five years. Plus my teachers don't want to spend any more time with me than absolutely necessary to receive their paycheck" Rad said.

"Four thousand students! Where the hell do you go to school?" Mr. Lopez asked.

"Rad lives in the city Dad. Of course he's gonna go to a big school" Carlos told his father.

"Oh"


"I swear he tried to cut through the bars with something," the guard told his superior.

"We took all his weapons at the crime scene, there's nothing he could have used to cause this amount of damage" the sergeant sighed.

"Then where did they come from?" the guard yelled pointing at the chisel marks.

"Rats maybe" the sergeant theorized.


Splash!

Rad ducked before the water balloon could hit him. It was a habit he developed after Ben started using acid balloons. Carlos on the other hand…

"Dude! Watch it! Do I look like a football player to you?" Carlos yelled, sopping wet.

"Sorry man. I was aiming for the other kid," the new arrival laughed. Rad took in the other boy's appearance. The boy was around fifteen or sixteen, most defiantly of Asian descent, and greatly resembled Misa Saka. Rad was certain he was staring Yama Saka right in the face.

"Rad isn't a football player either" Carlos grumbled.

"Oh. Sorry about that. Throwing water balloons at people's a habit I picked up when I was two and a half" the new boy grinned.

Flashback

"I my child rearing experience before you came along consisted of teaching the little kids in my high school's daycare how to throw water balloons at jocks Rad" Koji laughed.

"Why don't you teach me that?" three-year-old Rad asked.

"The only reason I taught them was I hated one of those kid's father" Koji shook his head.

End Flashback.

'Definitely Yama' Rad thought.

"Oh yeah. This is Yama by the way" Carlos introduced them.

'Saka didn't even bother to change his son's name' Rad thought incredulously.

"Mr. Miyamory! Over here. Rad this is Mr. Miyamory"

Rad turned toward the approaching man. He was met with the face of the man who had spent years abusing his father. There was no longer any doubt in Rad's mind as to weather or not Mr. Miyamory was truly Hao Saka. The dark hair and eyes were the same. On the surface Rad saw a friendly goodhearted man, but looking deeper into Miyamory's eyes he saw something darker and crueler.

Plus the guy had a scar on his neck from when Koji had gotten a hold of the whip before Saka had started tying him to the post. Saka never made that mistake again. After that Koji had been tied to the post before Saka brought out the whip.

"Mr. Miyamory this is Rad. He's in town until his uncle makes bail" Carlos explained, tactlessly.

"Sorry to here about that" Miyamory/Saka smiled. The smile didn't reach the man's eyes. Could he know who Rad was? No, Rad didn't look like his father…too much. He had always been told that e looked like his deceased grandmother.

"Rad's an unusual name. It almost sounds Cybertronian" Saka commented.

'Shit. He suspects something' Rad thought. "It's short for Bradley" Rad lied quickly. Actually Saka was right. Rad had been named after one of his mother's old friends, an aerospace engineer he thought. His parents had named him and his brother after Autobots. Ax had been named after his father's best friend, Axel. Sono was the only one who hadn't been named after an Autobot; he'd been named after their ancestor.

"We're not gonna start the old 'The Autobots are out to get us' thing are we?" Carlos sighed.

"I just don't trust things that come from space and run off microchips and batteries" Saka said.

"Here, here" Mr. Lopez agreed.

'These guys don't know jack about the Autobots' Rad thought at the two's ignorance. Saka he could understand. He probably preached the evils of the Autobots to any one who'd listen. He probably held a grudge against Optimus for 1) messing up his deal with Scourge 2) threatening to kill him.

"Dear have you see my-" a woman Rad had to assume was his step-grandmother/ Mrs. Saka/Miyamory stopped short at the sight of him.

Then she fainted.