20 hours of racing through Kaon, finally Mirage got out of Decepticon territory, not meaning he was safe though, he still had know clue on where he was, Mirage didn't care though, just kept driving through small firefights, and battles not thinking of to ask fellow autobots where he was, it was dark now night had fallen, and everything was somewhat quiet.
Mirage could hear gun fire in the distance, most sensible mechs would stay away, but Mirage drove towards the sound, hoping to find someone he knew that would take him home.
Closer and closer the louder the explosions and gunfire got, Mirage sped up going way faster then he should have been he flew over a hill and drove down at lightening speed as a large blue ped appeared suddenly infront of him, Mirage slamed his brakes but was to late, he transformed hoping it would slow him down better, only resulting in getting fired at by a decepticon, making him trip, tumble and slide on his face stopping inches away from the ped.
"Soldier are you alright!?, regroup autobots!" the mech belonging to the ped asked taking out the last decepticon.
"Freaking...peachy..." Mirage groaned painfully, as he weakly tried to pick himself up, but was to tired to want to move.
"Mirage!" The familiar voice of a silver twin shouted.
"Ah!" Mirage gasped as he was suddenly picked up and hugged to death by the silver twin.
"We thought you were killed!" Sunstreaker said taking Mirage from his brother and giving the small red mech the same death grip hug finally falling limp in Sunstreakers arms.
"Dying..." Mirage gasped trying cycle his vents.
"Twins that's enough, we need to get him back to the base right away, Ratchet needs to take look at him" Optimus told the twin mechs.
"Yeah you took quite the tumble down that hill bud" Jazz chuckled at Mirage as he was placed down.
"Optimus decided to step infront of me... I just got in the way of a lucky shot by that con..." Mirage gave a small exhuasted laugh.
"Well you've obviously been travling a while, you look super exhuasted" Arcee said walking over beside Jazz.
"Yeah... for once I just want to recharge..." Mirage sighed tiredly to the femme.
"Let us go back quickly so we may let you rest Mirage" Optimus announced walking back towards the base.
In the base
"Alright Mirage I'm just quickly scanning you" Ratchet told the red youngling sitting infront of him on the medical berth.
"K..." Mirage bearly answered trying to stay awake.
"Can you stay awake just for a few moments?" Arcee asked with a small chuckle, as Ratchet scaned Mirage.
"Mhmm..." Mirage nodded as Ratchet finished his scan.
"He's completely alright except for his shields recharging from the blast, and the scratches and dents from his tumble, he's alright" Ratchet announced leaning against another medical berth across from Mirage.
"So can I recharge?" Mirage asked tiredly waitong for the go ahead.
"Twins help him to his room so he can rest" Ratchet sighed waving them towards the door.
"And if he ends up recharging in the middle of the hallway, don't leave him there, take him into his room" Ratchet called after the twins leaving the room.
"So we don't have a clue where he was, if was still alive, and weather he was held captive, or just lost" Ratchet asked turning to Optimus, Jazz, and Arcee.
"We definitely know he was captured, the rest know clue" Jazz mentioned with a shrug.
"Well just let him rest up, then we will find out his story" Arcee sighed looking at the door.
"You think he found his brother?" Ratchet asked looking at Arcee.
"Most likely, but I wont be able to tell until he's all rested up" Arcee replied to the medics question.
"Yeah hard to read him when he's tired" Jazz sighed understanding what Arcee ment.
"Ok we shall wait and see" Optimus agreed with the two.
The next day
"Seems like you are all rested, dosen't take long for you does it?" Sideswipe laughed, walking down the hallway with Mirage.
"Nope I only recharged for about an hour" Mirage chuckled as they made their way into Optimus's office.
"You're crazy!" Sideswipe teased shaking his helm at Mirage.
"I was born crazy!" Mirage gigled as they approached Optimus, who was overly joyed to see Mirage smiling and laughing.
"Mirage good to see you up to health" Optimus said after the two settled down waiting for him to speak.
"I'm glad to be back here with you guys" Mirage replied greatfully.
"We are to, but we must know what happened to you, the twins Jazz and Arcee said you were captured during a successful data capture, is that true?" Optimus asked bringing out a data pad.
"Yes it was true, Megatron caught me off guard and knocked me out good" Mirage admitted nodding his helm.
"You were with the decepticons for a while, did anything happen during your capture?" Optimus continued asking his questions.
"Ummm... I..." Mirage stuttered looking around the room, at Sideswipe then at Optimus.
"It's ok Mirage, we wont hurt or blame you for what happened with the cons" Sideswipe reassured his nervouse little brother.
"Well... Soundwave and I kind of refreshed our relationship a bit, I couldn't get any data from the con. with out getting caught, I almost got into twenty differen't fights, I did not do any missions for Megatron, and Shockwave was going to use me for more updates" Mirage explained his long winded experience with the cons.
"Refreshed your relationship, let's talk about that" Optimus told the red youngling sitting infront of him.
"Nothing much to be said, we bonded for a couple of days, then... whatever... nothing important...it didn't seem like he cared that I left or anything..." Mirage sighed looking at the wall and floor.
"Ok, so the decepticons had no influence on you at all?" Optimus asked in an emotionless tone.
"No that I know of, I'm pretty damn stubborn, and hard to influence" Mirage replied sharply with a smirk.
"Alright thank you Mirage, I'll talk to you later" Optimus smiled thanking the youngling for his time as he and the twin left the office.
"I hate having to answer questions..." Mirage complained to Sideswipe as they walked down the hallway owards the rec room.
"Aw Mirage it's not that bad, it's just a little briefing, it's better than wrighting reports" Sideswipe replied with a chuckle.
"I suppose you're right..." Mirage sighed, wishing he could be back with his brother.