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Warning: Minor Child Abuse
Chapter 8
SLAP!
"I knew it! I freaking knew it!" Saka yelled as he continued to pound on Rad. Koji may have looked just like his father but Rad looked just like Eris. He'd known on some level that Rad was somehow related to the Onishi family but when he'd over heard Rad's conversation with Optimus he'd known for sure.
"Get up you little bastard", Saka hissed. Koji could have at least taken twice as much as what he'd just given Rad and stay standing.
Rad kicked Saka's feet out from under him. The only person that could get away with calling Rad a bastard was Jetfire, and even he didn't get away with it often.
"Oww! You son of a bitch!" Saka punctuated it with a kick.
Rad grimaced in pain. Now he understood his father's nightmares a little better; this wasn't exactly something you'd want to remember. He felt so…helpless.
Then Rad noticed that the blows had stopped. He looked up at Saka and watched the sickening grin spread across the man's face. Rad's last conscious thought was 'This is not going to end well'.
Then Hao Saka's foot connected with his head.
"What do you mean Rad's been kidnapped!" X-brawn yelled. He and his brothers were not taking this so well. But they weren't completely freaking out like they had when Scourge kidnapped Koji for the last time.
"Rad was speaking to me when the signal between our communicators died. I have not been able to regain contact with him" Optimus explained.
"That doesn't mean he's been kidnapped. He might just be out of range," Magnus said.
"The communicator that Rad carries has a range greater than the distance between earth and Cybertron at any point in either planets orbits" Optimus said. He took another deep breath. "We also have reason to believe Hao Saka was in the vicinity of where Rad was staying.
"What?" a low, almost desperate voice asked.
Optimus turned to see Koji standing in the doorway. Koji had brought the twins up the week before since summer school had ended.
"What?" Koji asked again.
"Rad mentioned knowing where Saka was right before the signal died" Optimus said calmly.
"Oh my god" Koji slid to the floor, finding his legs could no longer support his weight.
"Koji!" Optimus yelled as his 'son' lost consciousness.
"Almost there" Ben whispered to him self. "Bingo!" the door of his cell fell to the floor and Ben was gone leaving nothing behind but the empty cell and a chain saw.
"Hey where's Rad?" Carlos asked finally waking up from his nap.
"In the house changing" Yama said dismissively.
"But that was an hour ago. What could be taking so long?" Alexis asked. Yama rolled his eyes. Now they would go inside and probably find Rad conked out on the couch or something.
"I'll go see" He sighed getting out of the pool. The sooner he went in and made sure the kid was napping the sooner Alexis would shut up about him and get back to having some fun. Preferably involving the shed in the back yard and lots of making out.
"Rad? You in here?" Yama called. No response. Yama wondered where the hell Rad could have gotten off to. The sound of movement in the garage gave him a slight clue.
"Rad? You ok?" Yama asked, opening the garage door.
"What's wrong with him?" Optimus asked worriedly.
"He's in shock Optimus. It's not surprising. He did just find out that his son was kidnapped by an abusive nut job," Red Alert told them.
Optimus sighed. "I have to contact Sideswipe. He's suppose to be with Rad. He'll need to be informed of what's going on"
"Where was he when Rad was attacked?" Sideburn asked bitterly.
"If Rad was purposely looking for Saka then he would keep Sideswipe at a distance so not to raise suspicions"
"A lot of good that did him" Sideburn said, bitterness still lacing his voice. He was defiantly having a nice long talk with Sideswipe when he got back about how to properly protect his 'nephew'. A talk that would involve a lot of punching and maybe a little kicking.
"Did you find him?" Alexis asked Yama as he came back outside.
"He left. Something about his uncle" Yama said smiling. Alexis noticed that Yama's smile didn't reach his eyes. She wondered about it but didn't ask about it.
After Carlos and Alexis left Yama headed to his room and collapsed onto his bed. 'What the hell is going on here?' he thought to himself. He just didn't understand what was going on. Other than the fact that he was trying to take Alexis away from him, Rad didn't seem all that bad… but his father wouldn't hurt an innocent, would he?
"Ok, I want you three as back up while Magnus and I speak with Saka" the undertone Optimus used on speak didn't escape the notice of the four Autobots he was speaking to, though they didn't comment on. "Is that understood?"
"Yes sir" was the unanimous reply.
"Optimus!" Jetfire yelled running in the door. "We've got a huge problem!"
"What now?" Optimus asked, wondering, not for the first time in his life, if the cosmos threw multiple catastrophes at just to make his job harder for it's own amusement.
"Deceptacons managed to hack into the mainframe" Jetfire announced.
"What were they looking for?"
"We don't know but whatever it was, once they found it they sent a unit off to High Desert in a hurry" Jetfire said.
'Damnit now I have two people to worry about now instead of just one' Optimus thought. Then to Jetfire he said "Get Hot Shot. He's going to want to be on this mission too".
AN: If the last part sounds off it's because I'm suffering from minor blood loss. Next time I give blood to the Red Cross, I'm demanding to be sent home. I didn't pass out exactly but there are some blank spots in my memory between being in the lunch line and being wheeled to the nurse in a wheelchair.
