Disclaimer: I own nothing. Dovanski belong to Fallen Archangel Ben.
Minicon language is in italics
Chapter 12
Sorry! The little metal creature cried, quickly climbing off of Rad's already battered body.
"Oww" Dovanski groaned as it stepped on his outstretched hand.
Sorry, it said again.
"It's ok. Got a name, Minicon?" Rad asked, sitting up gingerly.
How'd you know? The Minicon asked.
"The Autobots have been our allies for seventeen years. I read about Minicon in some of their history books" Rad explained.
Oh. My name is Highwire, the Minicon said. Highwire stared at Rad's face for a little while, as though he was trying to remember where he'd seen him before. Rad?"So what exactly are we looking for again?" Carlos asked.
"Lazerbeak. It's a little black and blue box that turns into a mechanical bird" Optimus described as he watched the Ben and Carlos go through Rad's bags. Alexis had helped until she ended up finding a pair of Rad's boxers. She'd started blushing and ended up sitting down next to Sunstreaker who was stretched out on the ground watching the proceedings with casual disinterest.
"Why are we looking for this thing again?" Carlos asked. He'd been through these bags twice and hadn't found anything that resembled what the Autobots were describing. He'd found various items that just screamed Cybertronian technology, one had actually turned out to be a holographic photo album. It had turned on when Carlos picked it up and Optimus had identified the first picture as being Rad's family's most recent group photo. The man and woman in the picture were apparently Rad's parents and two identical children were Rad's younger brothers.
"Lazerbeak acts not only as a visual recorder but and audio recorder as well" Optimus explained.
"Meaning?"
"Rad is very organized. He would have used Lazerbeak to keep notes on what he found out about Saka" Optimus said.
"How's that going to help us find him?"
"It won't. But if we find solid proof that Miyamory and Saka are the same person we might be able to get Saka to return Rad in exchange for leniency" Optimus said.
"How can you promise leniency in court?" Alexis asked.
"I'm not promising leniency in court, I'm going to promise that I'm not going to kill him on sight."
"You'd actually kill a human?"
"Normally no. But Saka has hurt to many of my friends, my children, for me to continue to over look it any more"
"Yeah!"
Everyone froze and looked toward Sideburn. "Sideburn, please tell me your shield(1) has learned to talk" Optimus said, almost pleadingly. "And that I only imagined it sounded like two children who are still on Cybertron so I won't have to ground them until their my age"
Sideburn lifted up his arm and looked in the small space between his shield and his arm. "Umm…"
"Sideburn" Optimus said.
"Ooops" Sideburn grinned sheepishly.
"Sono. Axel. Get out of there" Optimus ordered. Two small humans slid out from under Sideburn's shield and dropped to the ground.
"Hey, Sideswipe and I are suppose to be the only twins in this group," Sunstreaker complained at the sight of the identical humans.
"Shut up Sunstreaker" Ratchet ordered clearly annoyed.
"May I ask why you two decided to tag along?" Optimus asked his 'grandsons'.
"We want to help Onii-chan," they said simultaneously. "Are you really going to ground us until we're fifty-eight million?"
"I'm considering it" Optimus said.
"You said until they were your age. I thought you were only thirty million," Ben pointed out. Optimus glared but otherwise ignored him.
"You two need to go back to Cybertron. We will find your brother" Optimus told the Onishi twins (AN: they're going to be called the Onishi twins because other wise it'll get real confusing).
"How?"
"We aren't completely incompetent in rescuing humans when they get themselves kidnapped despite all the protective measures we take to keep them safe" Optimus said somewhat bitterly. This was the fourth time he'd had to rescue Rad from something like this. Though the first two times couldn't really be considered Rad's fault. He'd only been three. The third time however he'd been twelve. Rad ditched school to hang out at the mall the same day that a group of anti-Autobot terrorists that were against the alliance with the Autobots, rolled into town. Needless to say a lot of chaos and violence followed. The conflict was solved, oddly enough, by Ben…and a few acid filled water balloons.
"You can't even find Lazerbeak. How you going to find our brother?" Sono asked. Then his eyes widened when he realized his mistake.
"Hand it over" Optimus ordered. The two guiltily handed over Lazerbeak.
"How- When? – What?" Hot Shot stuttered not getting how the twins could have swiped Lazerbeak without them noticing.
"They are Ben's nephews" Optimus sighed.
"Damnit!" Saka swore. The kid was gone and from the look of it there'd been a cave-in.
'Great. Now how am I going to get my revenge?' Saka thought. Rad was his ticket to getting back at Koji. Plus if the kid was dead now that meant that if Prime came after him there was nothing standing in between Prime's foot and Saka's small, frail, human body.
"Still no change?" Jetfire asked entering the infirmary.
"No" Axel said dejectedly. Koji was still just lying there staring unblinkingly at the ceiling. "What are the chances of T-Ai letting the twins try and get him to respond?"
"Nonexistent since the twins are missing now too" Jetfire sighed.
"Damn. Can't this family have a normal week" Axel said.
"Normal, for the Onishis, went out the window when the Colonel was killed" Red Alert said dryly.
"How do you figure that?" Axel asked.
"Think about it. If she hadn't died Dr. Onishi would have never married Misa Saka. If he'd never married Misa Saka he'd probably still be alive living happily with his wife and spoiling his grandchildren. Rad, if he was still Koji's son, would have grown up on earth with no real reason to know us other than his father use to be friends with Optimus Prime" Red Alert said.
"But Optimus-"
"Only stayed to take care of Koji. If Dr. Onishi had lived, Koji would have been raised by his father."
"Umm guys?" Jetfire spoke up.
"What?"
"Where'd Koji go?"
AN: (1) that wierd thing on Sideburn's arm.
