"We should go look for him." Arcee said from where she was pacing back and forth infront of the base exit.
"I know, this isn't right!" Sunstreaker agreed walking over to the door, ready to go search for the red youngling.
"We know this isn't right, but we need to let this happen, have to let it go" Prowl sighed from where he stood by Ironhide between Ratchet.
"How can you say that, Mirage means the universe to us, and you're just going to brush it off like this is nothing!?" Arcee snapped turning viciously towards the black and white officer.
"What we need to do is find Mirage, and tell him to call if anything goes wrong" Hound spoke walking in between the femme and officer, to prevent any furthur argument."
"Ok that's a start, but it's still not going to keep him safe" Arcee said calming down and backing away slightly from the officer.
"As much as we want Mirage back home and safe, I think it would do more harm, he would be in just as much danger as he would be out there" Optimus explained to the femme walking up beside her.
"Fine... Jazz the twins and I will go search for him right now" Arcee volunteered herself and the boys to go search for their adopted little brother.
"I will accompany you, Hound, Ironhide, and Ratchet you try and pick up any signs of his spark signature" Optimus ordered as he followed the four young adults out the door.
"He's an unpredictable youngling, he may have switched off his signature" Ratchet sighed fast walking down the hallway with the others.
In the cold midnight streets of Iacon Optimus and the others called out for their lost youngling friend, thier voices echoing through the streets.
"Aw man... I should have gave lil bro a map, so he has an idea on where he is" Jazz thought out loud mentally beat himself.
"Jazz, don't put guilt on yourself, we're going to find him" Sideswipe reassured his friend and adopted brother.
"I know, I just can't help it, Mirage dosen't have a clue on where is safe and what isn't, where to go and where he is..." Jazz replied with a sigh to the silver twin.
"I have conffidence that Mirage is a strong smart individual, that will do well on surviving" Optimus mentioned standing on some rubble from a building wall.
Not far from the search party was Mirage, Mirage on his way out of the base territory he was harassed and heckled by autobots, various dents, scratches, and plasma burns scarred his frame, as he walked through countless half destroyed hollow buildings, making his way to his waypoint.
"Optimus I have Mirage's life signature not far from you, sending it now" Ratchet voice came over the primes commlink.
"Thank you Ratchet, boys, Arcee we are locked on Mirage's corrdinates" Optimus announced sending the corrdinates to the others.
"I'd hurry you five, He's got company!" Ratchet warned the small search party a bogie was imbound of Mirage.
Soundwave awoke from his light slumber, with a message from a young bot in need of assistance, Soundwave took a deep breath and left his room into the dark hallways of the Decepticon base.
Soundwave continued to walk quietly down the halls passing through doors, towards exit of the base, as another door opened in the hallway for Soundwave to walk through, the mech he most definetely didn't want to see was standing on other side directly in Soundwave's way.
"Soundwave what are you doing up so late?" Shockwave asked in a calm non suspicious tone.
Soundwave quickly thought of a lie, and pulled up a sparking fried computer, that sat in one of the main energon locating rooms from earlier.
"Soundwave well done you have been trained well, make time for a break once in a while, you're going to work yourself into your grave" Shockwave praised the comunications chief, with pride proud of his teaching still having a good effect of his best student.
Soundwave waited as Shockwave walked away in the opposite direction, Soundwave waited until two doors shut behind the opticed mech before taking off outside.
Dark lifeless, quiet Iacon, only the crackling of fire and gunshuts in the distance filled the silence, Mirage sat on rubble off a fallen building, waiting patiently for his older brother.
"He's just past this building!" The twins called back to Jazz Arcee and Optimus, as they all headed past the building, eager to see the red youngling.
As the five approached Mirage's location, the sound of a jet engine made them pause and take cover behind some rubble, staying out of site, they watched as the jet came to a hover above Mirage who now stood watching the jet, the jet then transformed only to be Soundwave.
"I'm sorry if you were angry about me escaping the base" Mirage quickly apologized.
"I'm not mad at you, I wanna know why you aren't home, didn't you find it?" Soundwave replied looking around.
"Yes I got home, then kicked out of my home, now I'm a rogue" Mirage sighed looking up at Soundwave's visor.
"That's not good, something bad must've happened" Soundwave said knowing Mirage did something wrong.
"I killed three bots in one swipe, while I was attacking another..."
"I'm taking a wild geuss, and saying they deemed you a Decepticon pretty quickly" Soundwave shook his helm kicking some dust.
"Yeah... they threw me out, said I was to dangerous, and a threat" Mirage scoffed watching the wind catch the dust and take it away.
"Well, why don't you come back to the base" Soundwave offered wrapping a welcoming arm around Mirage, hoping his little brother would come live with him.
"No... It just wouldn't feel right, I mean I would love to be with you, but I'm not going to live up to the reason why I'm here in the first place, I just need a map of Cybertron, so I know where I am" Mirage shook his helm at his older brother.
"Fine, here, but if you change your mind message me, I have to go now, before Megatron and Shockwave figure out I'm not reparing computers in my recharge" Soundwave joked turning away from Mirage.
"Altight, thank you Soundwave" Mirage called saying good by after he recieved a holo map, as Soundwave took off into the night sky.
"What was that about?" Sideswipe whispered turning to Arcee and Optimus.
"I couldn't hear anything" Jazz complained moving closer to the twins and Arcee.
"I don't think any of us really did Jazz" Sunstreaker said, rolling his optics.
"Well lets go up to him and... Optimus where are you going?" Arcee asked catching the prime leaving in the direction of the base.
"Back to base" Optimus replied calmly, as he continued trough the rubble.
"Mirage is right there, why are we leaving?" Sunstreaker asked confused, following the prime.
"Mirage has help, and if that help from his brother ends, he knows who to call" Optimus finally gave the young adults a real answer.
The four didn't reply to the prime, knowing he was right, they did not need further questions, simply trailing behind the prime over the rubble, and through small fires.
"Optimus?" Mirage thought aloud, seeing the towering mech turning and walking away with the twins Arcee, and Jazz.