Mirage nervously examined the room he was in, fear flooding within he knew exactly where he was, in the laboratory of Shockwave an evil psychotic scientist.
"I have seen through your memory banks, you have not achieved well in the ranks of the autobots" Shockwave broke the silence in the room, making Mirage jump and give him a surprised look.
"If you are wondering how I got your memory banks, I have updated my scanners, and easily achieved your memories within seconds" Shockwave told the red bot, knowing that's what the youngling was thinking at the moment.
"I want to go back to Soundwave, I don't want to stay in here" Mirage ignored the towering mechs comment and went straight to complaining.
"You will later, Soundwave is a highly capable mech on this ship and is of great value to Megatron and is doing hard work, he needs to be left without distractions" Shockwave responded to Mirage quite calmly as he fidgeted with a few surgical tools.
"I will stay in his room" Mirage insisted on trying to get away from his old crazy scientist.
"No, I have completely missed most of your training, and you need to be able to socialize without causing conflict" Shockwave shook his helm at Mirage and approached.
"I don't need to be socialized, and if you want me to socialize without conflict, a decepticon base is not the place for me to do that" Mirage scoffed backing away.
"You will learn, or else I will reprogram your processor!" Shockwave threatened, making the smaller bot cower and nod in submission.
A few minutes went past and they were now in the crowded hallways on the base, filled with thug like mechs all of them being much larger and stronger than Mirage, they did nothing but continue to tease him as they walked past, Mirage knew this was one of Shockwave's twisted tests.
"Pah he's nothing but sheet metal"
"Scrap him down for parts"
"What is that walking piece of scrap doing out of the junkyard!"
"Alright fraggers!" Mirage snarled whirling around and slicing one of the brute mechs face.
Shockwave quickly grabbed and pulled Mirage away from the three hecklers that he attempted to attack.
"Keep your sience project under control Shockwave"
"Yeah before I pound him into the ground"
"He'll be know as the latest failed experiment!" The three brutes yelled as Shockwave dragged Mirage down an empty hallway.
"Clearly something is ailing you, you don't have a social circut in you" Shockwave growled shoving Mirage into a wall.
"Clearly something is ailing you, if you think I would be social with those giant idiots!" Mirage spat looking away from the towering black mech.
"Fine we shall try another mech, one that has nothing better to do and is quite talkative with every decepticon" Shockwave sighed escorting Mirage into the rec room.
"Knockout!" Shockwave called seeing the red doctor try and worm his way out of the room, to avoid him.
"Shockwave hey... I was just off to get some supplies for your lab" Knockout nervously greeted the one opticed mech.
"I am in need of an assistant, and you are the most logical candidate" Shockwave told the now even more nervous mech.
"Oh... and what may that job be?" Knockout dared to ask what the scientist was implying.
"My youngest student escaped his training, and did not get the full lessons, and my biggest worry is his social ability, it is very poor and is going to get him killed at somepoint" Shockwave gave Mirage a slight push infront of him, and explained what the task was.
"Sooo, you want me to sparklingsit, to increase his social ability, why me?" Kmockout asked looking Mirage up and down.
"You would be the best example, you seem to get along with most on this base" Shockwave replied.
"That's nice of you to say, but I've already been attacked by this little guy, and do not wish to deal with this paint scratcher again" Knockout refused the scientists task.
Shockwave growled and stared Mirage down with an angered disappointed look, Mirage gave a small nervous smile and quickly looked away.
"Just give him back to Soundwave, you're most certainly not going to get anywhere with this youngling" Knockout told Shockwave in an annoyed tone.
"Nonsense I have separated the two and created magnificent warriors!" Shockwave scoffed gesturing at Mirage.
"Yes but you remeber they were much younger and didn't know any better, now they're older and much much more stubborn, maybe that's the defect and not socail ability" Knockout mentioned before walking away.
"Perhaps he is correct, you are completely stubborn and...Damn it!" Shockwave growled with great rage as he noticed his student had dissapeared.
"Soundwave I shall be back, keep up the pace, I have to go check on the rest of work drones" Starscream sighed leaving the room.
Soundwave sighed with relief after the door hissed shut, he and the other eradicons could now work with no further distractions.
"Soundwave!" Mirage called popping up infront of his older brother.
Soundwave jumped back in surprise the sudden appearance of his little brother.
(Mirage what the hell are you doing here, did you escape Shockwave!?) Soundwave gasped through their bond.
"Yeah of course, why?" Mirage laughed at his brothers jumpy reaction.
(If you can escape him, escape this place!) Soundwave growled mad that his brother didn't do that in the first place.
"I will, I just came to say goodbye, who knows when we will meet again" Mirage explained, calming his older brother.
(Well you are waisting time, you have to leave now, Megatron and Shockwave are on their way) Soundwave sighed showing on his visor surveillance of Shockwave and Megatron storming their way down.
"Alright, bye to you to..." Mirage replied in mixed feelings of anger and sadness.
(The quickest route is through the air hanger) Soundwave said giving Mirage the coordinates of a route.
Mirage didn't reply, he vanished as soon as the doors hissed open, as Megatron and Shockwave approached Soundwave viciously Mirage slipped past and out the door.
"Where is he Soundwave!?" Megatron shouted waiting for the faceless mech to reply.
Soundwave replied with old suveillance of Mirage coming down the hallway towards the main control room.
"So he's heading towards here, excelent we shall wait for him to appear, then dish out a much needed punishment" Megatron hissed watching the door with Shockwave, and Soundwave.
Mirage just bearly squeezed through a small opening in the aircraft hanger, onnte other side he was at the edge of Kaon, everything was destroyed and filed with fire and smoke, it was a waste land.
Mirage didn't waste any further time, he kept his spark signature off just incase of detection by the cons, he transformed and peeled off driving as fast as he could through the ruins, he had no idea where he was heading but hoped it was somewhere to safety.