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Chapter 13
"WHAT?" Red Alert and Axel's head spun around to look at Koji's bunk. It was indeed empty.
"Oh shit!" Axel hissed realizing what had happened.
"Is there been a breech in security?" Jetfire asked, wondering how anyone could have snuck past them and grabbed the unconscious Onishi.
"No" Red Alert said. He understood what had just happened.
"Well how else does an unconscious human just vanish like that?" Jetfire asked getting annoyed.
"Koji was fully aware of everything that was going on around him the entire time he was here," Red Alert stated.
"Oh shit!" Jetfire echoed Axel's earlier exclamation. "Damnit! Axel, go guard the warp room. I've got to send out a search group".
Blurr was brought out of a blissful recharge by scraping coming from the bunk above his. At first he though he was going to have to ring Sideswipe's neck for waking him up. Then his memory bank kicked in telling him that Sideswipe was still on 'vacation' with Rad. The last three weeks had been unusually quiet without the bases two main pranksters. Blurr made a mental note to hogtie Sideswipe next time Rad needed an Autobot escort to go on vacation. The monotony of the past few weeks had been killer.
Another scrape brought him back to the present situation. Looking over across the room to assure himself that Smokescreen wasn't trying to scare him. Sure enough Smokescreen was lying still on his bunk, although Blurr was sure Smokescreen was as wide-awake as he was.
Blurr silently got up to see what was in the room with them.
"So we met over a million years ago in the bowels of a giant planet eating planet?" Rad asked. Yes, Highwire said.
"Ok" Rad said.
I know it's hard to believe- Wait did you just say that you believe me?"Yeah"
Huh?"I am the son of a hologram and a human, I grew up on Cybertron, and have worked on most of their 'classified' projects, there isn't any reason for me to doubt that I some how traveled back in time and talked to you" Rad shrugged.
"You live a weird life" Dovanski commented. For some reason he wasn't all that shocked about the miniature robot or it's revelations. Rad didn't ask why. It had been a long day. "Small robot transform like bigger robots?" Dovanski asked.
Yes, Highwire beeped.
"Then you carry Rad to town. He won't fit on my bike" Dovanski said.
"He has to scan something first" Rad stated. "You don't mind having a bike for a vehicle mode do you? We're a little short on sports cars right now"
Blurr and Smokescreen looked completely calm walking down the corridor towards the warp room. They were the only ones though. The entire sector seemed in a panic and they could both guess the reason.
"Nobody's allowed in the warp room" the young guard warned timidly. He was, as the humans said, still wet behind the ears. Fresh out of academy Blurr would bet.
He reminded Blurr a little of Sideswipe. Or what Sideswipe would have been like if he hadn't run with one of Cybertron's most notorious gangs for a few years. He'd had the timid parts of his personality beaten out of him in those years despite everything his brother did to shield him from it. Whatever innocence he may have maintained had been destroyed when Spinner's gang tried to sell him to the Deceptacons. Sure he was still cheerful and acted like a child at times but he didn't have the look most rookies had before their first major battle, their first major loss. Blurr had noticed that after sharing a room with him for a few months. Not knowing Sideswipe's story he'd written it off as his imagination.
During a particularly bad argument Blurr had hit a nerve, although which one he couldn't be sure, he couldn't remember half of what he'd said. It had mostly come out in the heat of the moment. He did know that Prime's oldest grandson's glares had followed him around for days afterwards and Hot Shot had set him straight on how Sideswipe was to be treated. The discussion with Hot Shot had mostly involved yelling and a well-placed punch but he got that Sideswipe wasn't somebody to mess with. At least not while Hot Shot was alive. Eventually he and Sideswipe had ended up in some weird peer mediation thing the humans set up. They'd worked through their issues and Blurr had finally found out about Sideswipe's past.
"Sir?" the timid young guard inquired.
Blurr realized he'd been staring into space for the past two minute. The upside was that his stare seemed to have unnerved the guard even more.
"Our orders are to go immediately to Sector 14 at Base 52" Blurr said, turning his famous glare on the young 'Bot. As the guard relented Blurr almost felt guilty. He didn't notice the young 'Bot's smirk as he watched them enter the warp room.
"No fun in intimidating the young ones, is there?" Smokescreen chuckled after the door to the warp room shut behind them.
"Shut up" Blurr hissed.
"How about you both shut up," Koji suggested knocking the grill off of the vent opening. "And help me get to the ground".
"We don't have to help you, you know" Blurr said a little irked at the way the human was talking to him.
"Yet here you are when you could have just called Jetfire and had me escorted back to the infirmary," Koji said with a smirk that reminded them both that he was Rad's father.
"You made a very convincing argument," Blurr muttered as he helped Koji to the ground.
"Plus if your anything like Rad nobody would be able to stop you. And I think we've already determined that Rad takes after you in quite a few ways" Smokescreen sighed.
Axel stared at the warp room door for a few minutes after he heard the warp gate start up and then shut down.
"I hope you know what you're doing Koji" He said before heading off to inform Jetfire that Koji was already gone.
AN: R&R
