Mirage left the four to think by himself for a while, Mirage sat on his berth and stared at the the floor resting his helm on on of his servos, he was loved going out on missions with Arcee, Jazz and the twins, but thier missions were just way to easy for him, he didn't want to grow distant, he just wanted better missions, at that thought a knock on his door came.

"...Come in..." Mirage sighed looking at who walked into his room.

"Mirage, Optimus and your older sibblings told me about what you wanted" Hound said sitting next to his adopted son.

"Yeah, and I bet you dissagree with the idea too" Mirage scoffed turning his helm away from the green mech.

"No, I give you my full approval" Hound said, shocking Mirage.

"Wait what, you don't care?" Mirage asked in confusion, wondering if the mech was sick.

"Mirage of course I care, I just know you are a very capable young mech, and can handle a lot more then anything four of us put together, and I think if you say you're ready, then go at it" Hound said continuing to shock the red spy.

"Thanks, at least you understand" Mirage happily said getting off his berth to go talk to Optimus.

"Mirage, I may approve, but if anything happens to you I will always take the blame for it, and regret letting you go, but I have to let you grow" Hound told Mirage before he left.

Three week later

Mirage mulled over what Hound had said, as he walked through the hallway towards the base exit ready to go on his third spy mission, walking past Arcee, Jazz, and the twins.

"Hey buddy where you off to?" Sideswipe greeted playfully punching Mirage in the shoulder.

"Heading towards my third Spy mission" Mirage answered returning the playful punch.

"Ow, geez another mission, what is it like your twenty third?" Sideswipe asked rubbing his shoulder as he and the others followed Mirage to the exit.

"It's my third, Sideswipe" Mirage corrected, rolling his optics and shaking his helm.

"It just seems like it's the twenty third to us" Arcee sighed with a small smile.

"Yeah we miss you bro" Jazz said recieving a smile from the red spy.

"Well, I can come on your missions still when I come back from mine" Mirage replied to the four.

"That's a lot of work though Mirage" Sunstreaker reminded the younger mech.

"No it's not are you kidding me?" Mirage chuckled, their were to easy for him.

"Alright well then we look forward to it then, we have one comming up" Sideswipe challenged the red mech.

"Yeah I'll be back here, looking forward to it, I promise!" Mirage said before transforming and leaving the base.

"He better come back..." the four sighed.

Out in the ruins of simfur

"Hey, Target's here" Air raid anounced to Jetfire and silver bolt, as Mirage transformed and walked over to the three.

"Hey Target you ready for the next hard core mission you wont handle?" Air raid teased putting an arm on Mirage's shoulder.

"Yeah sure Air raid..." Mirage sighed irritaited by the name the aerial bots gave him.

"Alright, Mirage the cons have been attacking the main information temple and we need you to go find wnere they are getting in, and smoke them out, and we will assist, from the skies" Jetfire explained showing Mirage a holo map.

"This is a little differen't but ok" Mirage shrugged taking the coordinates and nodded at the aerial bots.

"Alright Target see you soon, we'll be watching form the skies" Air raid said before taking off with the others.

Mirage rolled his optics and transformed speeding off to his destination, he quickly scanned for energy signals and found many life signals of Decepticons, and climbed the temple finding the enterance at the top.

"Alright, time to smoke out the rats" Mirage said in his head as he dropped in smoke bombs, making the cons panick and blast out of the temple.

The aerial bots didn't hesitated to dive in and take down cons surrounding Mirage, the smoke made it hard for them to see, so they ended up fighting on the ground.

"Is that the last of them?" Silverbolt asked seeing Jetfire, Mirage, and Air raid in the smoke.

"I've got one more signal, I got this one!" Mirage announced as the decepticon flew in dive bombed Mirage past the aerial bots, tumbling into rubble.

"Come on!" Jetfire gapsed waving the aerial bots to follow the dust.

Mirage couldn't see who or what he was fighting as dust added to the smoke, as him and whoever he was fighting tumbled down a small hill, Mirage could feel that his opponant was much larger them himself, and didn't want to get pinned beneath, but Mirage was smart and hooked his blades into the bots arms, and threw the mech unerneath him, as the dust settled Mirage held the bot down with by digging his sword into the chest of the enemy, Mirage raised his sword ready to terminate his opponant, but the dust settled enough and revealed the mech he was about to slaughter.

"Soundwave?" Mirage said bearly in a whisper as he stared the mech in the pitch black dust covered visor, both of them non moving, in shock to see eachother again, alive.

"Mirage has Soundwave pinned, finish him off kid!" Jetfire announced as they got closer and closer to the two brothers.

Mirage was still in a trance, but the voice of the aerial bots made Soundwave turn his helm in the direction of the sound, at the site of the aerieal bots, Soundwave pushed Mirage off of him into the rubble.

Mirage landed on his aft, and Soundwave jumped onto his peds and stared down at Mirage for a moment, Mirage looked up at him with his confused innocent optics and watched Soundwave turn and transform taking off into the sky.

"Mirage!" The Jetfire called as he ran over to help, as Silverbolt and Air raid fired at the fleeing con.

"Are you alright?" Jetfire asked helping Mirage up to his peds.

"You better be hurt or disoriented Target, because you had a very clear chance to snuff one of our worst enemies!" Air raid growled pushing the smaller red bot back to the ground.

"Air raid!" Silverbolt warned.

"I... I..." Mirage couldn't think of an excuse as he picked himself back up.

"You were what, confused at what to do, I've seen you slaughter cons before, what changed your mind about this one?!" Air raid continued to snapp at Mirage, backing the red mech into a wall.

"Air raid that's enough!" Jetfire growled his warning.

"I just... he... Soundwave...I couldn't..." Mirage painfully answered looking away from the angered mech.

"You couldn't kill him, what are you a con, deciding to switch sides now, is this why you wanted solo missions, you trading imformation with the Soundwave kid!?" Air raid continued to intimidate the smaller bot.

"No!" Mirage whimpered pressing his doorwings against his back, and shrank shaking his helm.

"Air raid that's enough, what's done is done!" Silverbolt hissed pushing Air raid away from Mirage.

"Kid get back to base, the missions finished" Jetfire sighed waving Mirage away.

Mirage didn't waist anytime time he transformed and sped off quickly.

"Yeah run traitor!" Air raid yelled after Mirage left, the words echoed down to the speeding young mech, Mirage just drove even faster.