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Chapter 14
"Uhg" Rollbar groaned. He felt like he'd been hit with a hand blaster. The he remembered that he had been. "Those damn traitors" he hissed. He should have known better than to trust neutrals. Neutrals, when forcibly drawn into the war, switched sides like politicians switched stories. Oh they'd pay once he got his hands on them. Especially their lost one.
"What do you mean he's already gone?"
"He's already gone," Axel answered simply.
"How?" Jetfire asked, despairing.
"He managed to sneak in some how. Probably through the vents" Axel theorized.
"AUHH. I have to tell Optimus that he's going to have company," Jetfire moaned getting up and trudging out.
"Odd" Red Alert commented.
"What's odd?"
"That Koji managed to sneak by his old partner in crime. I don't believe he's ever done that before" Red Alert monotoned.
"He did that time in Tokyo. Right before he got kidnapped by Scourge" Axel pointed out.
"No he didn't. He just figured he'd let you recharge some more after dealing with the Autobot brothers while they were pissed off. Koji's never snuck past you while you were fully conscious" Red Alert said.
"I was never standing in between him and his sons" Axel said.
"And you weren't today" Red Alert said. Then he grinned slightly at Axel's disbelieving look.
"You probably should have told Jetfire that Koji disabled the Cybertron to Earth communication network before he left" Red Alert commented after Axel recovered from his shock.
"How'd you know?"
"I wasn't created yesterday. I've been around to watch both Koji and Rad grow up. Who do you think was in charge the repairs from all their stunts?"
"That went quicker than expected" Rad commented on the speed of the trip to town. They'd made it into the outskirts of town just as the sun was setting. Luckily Highwire didn't have to be peddled or else Rad would have been screwed. His ankle was still messed up pretty badly, his body hadn't replaced the lost blood cells yet, and he probably had a mild concussion.
"Tiny robot quick. I have to ride hard to keep up", Dovanski laughed.
Thank you… I think Highwire said.
"Is there a hospital in this place?" Rad asked. He hadn't seen one or heard one mentioned in the three weeks he'd been there. But he hadn't needed one before, he probably didn't need one now but he could earn more sympathy points toward a lighter punishment if he went.
"No hospital. But rescue squad and pay phone" Dovanski said.
Rad sighed. It would probably be best if he just called Sideswipe to pick him up and take him to the nearest base with an infirmary. Medics always over diagnosed things when there wasn't a war on though. A little pity would go along way to reducing whatever punishment he was going to get from this but if the medics exaggerated his injuries… well he'd have four Autobots and three humans who wouldn't let him out of their sight till he was his grandfather's age.
"Let's find that payphone," Rad finally decided.
"I don't think you'll be needing that," Saka said standing behind him.
"Koji?" Smokescreen asked.
"What?" Koji came out of his thoughts as he rode in Smokescreen's drivers seat.
"Why were those humans looking at us funny? We're in vehicle mode. We shouldn't standout that much" Smokescreen said.
"How should I explain this? Well for 1) you just spoke and 2) you're in Cybertronian vehicle mode" Koji said as though explaining something to his younger sons.
"What's the difference between Cybertronian vehicle mode and earth vehicle mode?" Blurr asked.
"For starters Earth vehicles have wheels" Koji said sweat dropping.
"Oh. Hey isn't that Rad?" Smokescreen said.
"Huh?" Koji said looking around from his seat in Smokescreen's cab. He spotted his oldest son struggling against a an older Asian man while what appeared to be a heavily bearded man and a small robot tired to pick themselves up off the ground. Koji saw red.
"Smokescreen"
"What?"
"Let me out now", the man said in deathly calm voice.
BOOM!
"What the hell!" Optimus yelled as he shielded the humans, sans Sono and Ax, with his body.
"That's what I'd like to know" Magnus yelled back as he tried to protect the Onishi twins from the next attack.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" A crazy helicopter with a Deceptacon insignia laughed as he shot at them from the air.
"Deceptacons? When did they get here?" Magnus asked.
"Ooops" Sideswipe said grinning sheepishly.
"Sideswipe. Did you know they were already here?" Optimus asked.
"Maaayyybbbeee" Sideswipe admitted slowly. Everyone that hadn't been around during the first Deceptacon attack of the story face faulted.
"It doesn't matter now, now does it?" Rollbar chuckled stepping out of the darkness (again. He really spent too much time watching those stupid b-movies).
"Ok. Two against nine. I can live with those odds" Magnus said summoning his gun from subspace after pushing the twins toward some rocks that would act as cover.
"What makes you think there's only two of us?" Rollbar smirked. Several more Deceptacons came out of hiding. Two were jets, one looked like he was a tank in vehicle mode; one was just plain huge with lots of guns, and the final one was a huge shock to Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, and Hot Shot.
"I know I was wrong about Sunstreaker being dead but I know this guy was dead," Sideswipe said.
"Miss me kid?" Spinner laughed.
"Uhh, no" Sideswipe glared at the Mech that had nearly killed his brother.
"Does anybody stay dead around here?" Sunstreaker said looking really pissed.
"Nope" Spinner laughed.
"So the odds are now nine against seven. Still in our favor" Magnus said.
"We're not here to fight. We're here for revenge," Rollbar said smirking at Ratchet and Sunstreaker.
"You still have to go through us if you want to hurt them" Magnus said.
"Do you really think we're that unimaginative?" Rollbar sound slightly offended. "We're not going to hurt them physically. We figured that since they've been looking for their lost one for so long they can do without him for another few years"
To late the Autobots realized that one of the jets had gone invisible and snuck up behind Sideswipe.
"Ahh!" Sideswipe cried out as the Deceptacon grabbed him.
"Let him go" Sunstreaker hissed.
"Don't worry. We'll give him back eventually. But by then I don't think you'll be able to recognize him" Rollbar laughed as the Deceptacons warped out with Sideswipe.
AN: R&R. I'll update soon if Sideswipe doesn't kill me for having Squid head kidnap him.
