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AN: tired. This is the chapter that refused to be written, so I had to beat it out of my head.
Chapter 17
Sideswipe wasn't quite sure where the Deceptacons were taking him but as far as he was concerned as long as it wasn't back to Spinner and the cone head it was all right with him. Plus neither of them was acting really threatening or being rough with him. Hell the black one with a slashed Autobot symbol was practically carrying him since his legs had been damaged in his earlier secession with Spinner. The other Deceptacon seemed to be on alert for anybody they might come across in this back hallway.
Sideswipe then slipped back into a blissful unconsciousness.
Koji stared at the kid he hadn't seen since before Rad had been born. Yama had, as expected, grown up to look like his mother. Hopefully he didn't inherit his father's personality, Yama didn't seem to have inherited anything else from his father.
"EEEK!" the shrill scream came from Misa Saka. She'd apparently just recognized Koji and figured out exactly what had happened to her husband.
"Mom?" Yama asked turning toward his now hysterical mother.
"YOU!" Mrs. Saka hissed.
"What? No hug for your favorite stepson?" Koji asked sarcasm lacing his words. He had no love for the woman who had brought Hao into his house every time his father had been away on business.
"You…." Misa was quivering with rage now. Koji raised an eyebrow. "You hurt Hao" she accused.
"Yes and now we're even," Koji said.
"You hurt my husband and then call it even! You son of a Bitch!" Misa yelled as she tried to slap Koji. Koji caught her hand with no effort what so ever.
"That's not nice, calling your old best friend a bitch," Koji said.
"That WHORE was no friend of mine!" Misa shouted.
Koji's expression went from reasonably calm to dark fury in less than a second. "You damned lucky it was only Hao that ever hurt me or you wouldn't be still standing" his voice as dark as his expression.
"Is that a threat? I guess that's just another offense we can add to the list" Misa said sneering.
"List of offenses? Why don't we start with your husband's?"
"Huh?" Yama asked turning to the woman that had spoken. She obviously hadn't been there long, considering she and the two men with her both seemed out of breath.
"Let's see child abuse, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, conspiring with an enemy power" The woman counted off on her fingers. "Did I miss any?"
"You got just about all of them Aunt Xandra" Koji said.
Misa's face had gone white as snow by this point.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yama asked not liking the things this woman, Xandra, was saying about his father.
"Your father is wanted for several crimes committed over the course of eight years. One of them consisted of severe child abuse" Koji stated.
"Child abuse? My Dad's never hurt a kid in his life" Yama said.
"Yes he has. Koji's got the scars to prove it," the younger of the two men who were standing next to Xandra, said.
"What?" Yama asked getting more confused by the minute. Nobody got the chance to answer as a loud explosion shook the ward.
"Umm…Sir?" Thrust said, uncertainly. He really didn't want to be the one to deliver this news to his leader but he and Spinner did rock, paper, scissors and he lost, stupid paper losing to rock. Next time he was sticking with rock.
"Yes Thrust?" Rollbar seemed to be in a good mood. That was good.
"The thing is…WAIT A MINUTE! IT'S PAPER COVERS ROCK! NOT ROCK CRUSHES PAPER!"
"What?" Rollbar asked, annoyed at Thrust's out burst.
"Ummm… the prisoner's missing" Thrust meeped. As Rollbar unleashed a new depth of pain on him, Thrust's one thought was that Spinner would pay for this.
"We need to go after them now!" Sunstreaker insisted once again. He was getting tired of all these setbacks. First Prime said they had to come up with a plan, then that got put on hold when Prime's grandson was taken to the hospital. Damnit! He needed to go after his brother now!
Spinner was working with the Deceptacons. That was the one thought he couldn't shake. That and the shape Sideswipe had been in when he'd finally caught up with Spinner's gang.
It had been a big shock when Spinner's gang had taken Sideswipe and run. Sunstreaker hadn't believed it at first, Spinner was his friend; Sunstreaker had thought that maybe Sideswipe had just run off for a while like he always did for one reason or another. It had taken nearly a week for Sunstreaker to realize Spinner actually had taken Sideswipe, the time following that passed in a red haze. The haze only cleared when he found the gang. When he saw what they'd done to his brother.
Sideswipe had been badly beaten, over exhausted, and undernourished. He' also been dragged behind one of the gang members while in robot mode. Those bastards hadn't even given Sideswipe a can of wax!(1)
After taking in his brother's appearance Sunstreaker had become very calm and proceeded to systematically tear just about every one of those gang members to shreds until he himself had been badly injured. He'd managed to crawl over to his brother and just lay there thinking that at least he could die with his brother next to him if nothing else. He hadn't died of course. He'd woken up a few days later in a Neutral med bay. As he was recovering Ratchet had shown up after one of his colleagues had recognized his work in Sunstreaker's design and called him. After being thoroughly berated for taking Sideswipe and running off to be rebellious and whatever else young 'Bots ran off to do, Sunstreaker was told that by the time the Neutrals had found him, a unit of Autobots had already come through and that Sideswipe had apparently been taken by them. For the next four years he'd searched tirelessly for his twin, even joining the Deceptacons, who were very interested in his skills as a warrior and Ratchet's skills at building transformers.
Then, finally the Deceptacons had enabled him to hack into the Autobot mainframe and discover Sideswipe's location. After imagining for years that his brother being mistreated Sunstreaker was surprised that his brother was listed as being on Earth as an escort to Prime's grandson. Being a babysitter to some human brat was below Sideswipe but it was hardly the torturous work he'd envisioned his twin going through. Then meeting his brother on Earth and finding out Sideswipe was actually loyal to the Autobots and had actually been accepted as an adopted brother by on of them (even if Sunstreaker felt the irrational urge to tear Hot Shot apart) had changed his perspective on the Autobots completely. So here he was following Prime's orders putting complete trust in his twin's judgment to trust the Autobots, Ratchet also trusting Sideswipe's judgment since he was following along too.
"What the hell!" Hot Shot yelled at the front of their little convoy as he swerved to miss the group of three that just warped into the middle of the road.
"MWHAHAHA!" Ben laughed at the fire that had resulted from him setting off a small unit of C4 in Saka's room. It had only hurt the heart monitor but the look of total terror in Saka's eyes made up for it.
Then the door opened and two cops rushed in, guns drawn. One cop looking strangely familiar to Ben.
"Hey! It's that escaped nut job!" the familiar looking one yelled.
Ben then realized that it was the guard from the jail. "Bye-bye" he said jumping out the window.
AN: (1) I couldn't resist.
