1 month later
"That was so funny, did you see the way those cons ran!" Sideswipe laughed as he entered the base with his twin and two others.
"Yeah they turned around real fast when they saw Mirage come flying out of no where with his swords bearing and everything!" Jazz added to Sideswipe's excitment.
"Yeah Mirage you were awesome!" Sunstreaker complimented the spy as they walked down the hallway.
"Hmm, thanks..." Mirage bearly replied to the golden twin he kept his look fixed to the ground as they entered the rec room.
"Something wrong buddy?" Sideswipe asked after his brother gave him a small nudge with his elbow and nodded at Mirage.
"No" Mirage answered the silver mech and sighed as the twins and Jazz grabbed some energon.
"Here I grabbed you one" Sunstreaker said trying to hand an energon cube to Mirage.
"No thank you, I appreciate the offer though" Mirage refused the energon cube and leaned against a counter staring at the ground.
"Mirage you haven't had any energon or recharge in months, are you sick?" Arcee asked over hearing the boys chatter, walking over from the couch.
"No, I'm just not hungry, or low on energon" Mirage replied to Arcee's question and concern.
"While I'd like a second opinion, we're going to Ratchet right now" Arcee told the red mech and pulled him off the counter, and dragged him down the hall by his servo into the med bay with the twins and Jazz in tow.
"And she's on a roll" Sideswipe snickered to his twin recieving an angry glare from the femme.
"Whoa, and what should I expect from this lovely visit, please tell you idiot twins didn't find some con to piss off, and blow your arm off or something" Ratchet said as he approached the five young bots.
"Nothing to do with us Hatchet" The twins answered recieving an even angrier glare from the old medic.
"And what seems to be the problem?" Ratchet asked, gathering his examination scaners.
"He won't have any energon, or I haven't seen him go to recharge for months now" Arcee told the medic the issue, while he scanned the uncomfortable spy.
Mirage was not comfortable with being scaned or examined for anything, he had a fear of medics and scientists thanks to Shockwave and his constant surgeries, and reprograming to make him the ultimately advanced cybertronian, even though he knew Ratchet very well, and new the medic would never do any experiments on him or intentionally hurt him, he still got scared, and worst of all his big brother wasn't there to comfort him during and after the check ups.
Mirage gave a slight jump when the feeling of a servo touched his arm in a soothing way, he turned to see it was Arcee, she could see the fear in his optics, the twins and Jazz noticed Mirage always got tense and uneasy when he had to go see a medic, so they stood by closely and gave reassuring smiles to their adopted younger brother.
"Well despite a few new scars from the latest battle, he is in perfect condition, nothing is low and he is in tip top shape" Ratchet announced after finishing reading his scans.
"What?" the three boys and Arcee questioned in a puzzled tone.
"So I can go, I want to go talk to Optimus?" the eager spy with an italian accent asked, hopping off the medical berth and backing out the door.
"You may" Ratchet nodded waving the mech to leave, which he did not hesitate to do.
"What do you mean he's perfectly fine!" Arcee asked in confusion, after Mirage left.
"Look you three were to young, and imature to know about Mirage's past, and where he came from, so we never told you" Ratchet sighed folding his arms, and leaning against one of the medical berths.
"What I thought he was abandoned on the streets like us?" Jazz and the twins asked with great curiosity.
"No, more like escaped itno the streets" Ratchet corrected, putting his tools away.
"What are you getting at?" Arcee asked leaning on a medical berth with the boys, across from Ratchet.
"Look, before the war started to begin, there was a facility run by a psychopath scientist named Shockwave, Megatron consulted him to make the facility, and creat super soldiers for him for his to be let lose war" Ratchet started, as he cleaned one of his surgical instruments.
"That sicko!" the twins growled knowing what horrible things came from that mech.
"I've heard bad stories about that dude..." Jazz shivered shaking his helm.
"I heard about that place, it was looked for, but found accidentally during an ambush" Arcee said cutting the tension.
"You are correct Arcee, it was found, and Mirage was the lucky enough to escape thanks to his brother Soundwave" Ratchet continued getting mixed feelings from the young bots when he mentioned Soundwave.
"So Mirage was in the facility, but he was just a sparkling" Arcee gasped in great horror.
"Yes and he nothing but a mere test subject to add to the sience project, they recuited younglings only, Mirage must have been found with Soundwave for him to be captured, Soundwave being the youngling at that time" Ratchet continued.
"So I'm guessing since he was a test subject things weren't like a normale doctors visit?" Sunstreaker commented.
"Nothing to do with a regular check up, I know you four notice Mirage get very tense and fidgety when he is brought in here, he would have the fear of comming here because of Shockwave, that kids programing is beyond all of ours, he new how to kill befoore he could walk or talk, so many additions were added to him, he had no choice but to grow up with his ability to turn invisible, since it was implanted inside of him, he has non stop stamina and can go months or even years without recharge or energon, his traing his abilities, everything that Shockwave surgically put into him or trained him on, made Mirage into the..."
"Ultimate super soldier" Arcee finished the medics sentence.
"How could somebody do something like that to a sparkling, or youngling!?" Sideswipe growled in anger.
"A really sick mind" Jazz answered the silver twin.
"Well know that we understand why Mirage acts wierd all the time, it just makes me want to protect him from harm even more" Sunstreaker said lookingn out the med bay door.
"Mirage you want solo missions, they are very dangerous, I do know you are a very capable mech, but you might want to speak with Hound Ratchet or Hide, because they might disagree on sending you out on your own" Optimus told the red spy who sat infront of him.
"I'm not a little sparkling anymore, I don't need their permission" Mirage sighed shaking his helm in frustration.
"No but you are a very young mech, and are still a kid in our old optics and even though you are a young adult, I would agree you speak with someone else before you make me let you out alone, at least speak with the twins, Jazz, and Arcee about this" Optimus told the ambitious young mech.
"Fine whatever... this is stupid... you know I can handle the missions" Mirage grumbled as he left the primes office.
"Young mech... is to eager to throw hisself at danger" Optimus sighed going back to his work.