"Hey!" Mirage called hurrying over to the five walking away from him, knowing they saw him with Soundwave, he hope they didn't get the wrong idea.

"Did you hear someone?" Sideswipe asked looking to his brother as they continued to pass through torn buildings.

"It's probably the voices in your head Sides" Sunstreaker sighed rolling his optics, and walking ahead of his brother.

"Hey!"

"No wait I here it!" Arcee said grabing Optimus's attention, as she turned around and stood with the twins waiting

Mirage stuggled to catch up as he climbed up and over, under through, rubble to get to the five, he finally got to the spot where they were waiting, standing on a broken wall above the five bots waiting.

"Thanks for waiting..." Mirage panted walking towards them and missing a step, falling onto the ground next to the twins.

"You ok!?" Sideswipe gasped helping Mirage up to his peds.

"Oh yeah..." Mirage answered standing up on his own, shaking off the fall.

"Hey don't wreck yourself out here" Sunstreaker jokingly warned punching Mirage in the shoulder.

"Yeah... thanks for the tip..." Mirage gave a small uneasy chuckle, wathcing Optimus like a hawk.

Optimus stood calm and quietly while the others greeted the youngling, Optimus knew by the look on the younglings face, that there was a million things going through Mirage's mind.

"Look Optimus if you saw me talking with Soundwave, it's not like that, I just wanted a map, he offered for me to join the cons, but I refused!" Mirage sputtered surprising the autobot leader.

"I am not upset with you youngling" Optimus soothed, stopping the younglings panick.

"You're not?" Mirage asked tilting his helm in a confused manor.

"No, I'm glad you are seeking help from others, I only wish to tell and ask, if it alright that if we get in a difficult tight spot, we can call you for help, and do a few missions?" Optimus explained what plan he was thinking to the youngling standing before him.

"Oh, uuuh, yeah I'd be fine with it" Mirage shrugged with a small sigh.

"You may no longer have a file saying you're an autobot, but you'll always be one in our books" Optimus smiled proudly at the young spy, who gave a small short smile in return.

"You want one of us to stay out here with you, and make sure you're alright?" Arcee asked wrapping an arm around Mirage.

"No I can make it on my own, thank you for the offer though..." Mirage replied pulling away from the femme.

"Alright, just promise you'll be safe" Arcee sighed letting Mirage go.

"Can't promise you that, but I can promise I will stay alive" Mirage promised, backing away from the five Autobots.

"Hey, just make sure to maintain that awesome balance!" The twins called out sarcastically as Mirage jogged backwards.

"Ha ha very funny, you know I have good balance when I want too!" Mirage called back in a chuckle as he turned and ran off.

"I would never let a youngling leave the safety of the base" Arcee sighed watching the ground as they walked back to the base.

"Arcee the base wasn't safe, you heard the others, they wanted Mirage terminated" Jazz reminded the femme in tow of Optimus.

"True, but what is Mirage going to do out on the streets of Cybertron, with both cons and bots aiming at him?" Arcee asked walking into the base with the others.

"And worse, his brother could persuade him into joining the cons!" Sunstreaker panicked, recieving a smack from his brother.

"He would never do that, Mirage is better than that!" Sidswipe growled after smacking his brother.

"I'm going to ki..."

"I or any of us cannot predict Mirage's future, nor can we control him, he is rogue, and whatever he chooses is his decision, if chooses to go with his brother, I and the you four will be a mix of anger and sorrow, but Mirage will be guarded by his brother" Optimus sighed interupting and preventing the twins from beginning skirmish.

A few days past a new day was starting, and Mirage was currently under the Iacon highways, the war was still going, Mirage kept in the shadows and watched the opposing teams battle, he knew that Air raid and the Autobots he didn't know wouldn't think twice about shooting him down, and most cons knew who he was, and didn't really care to much about him when they were in firefights with Autobots, but Mirage knew he had to keep a low profile and away from trouble, trying to stay away from trouble.

Just as a cloud of thick black smoke started to dance through the air, Soundwave in his jet mode, flew through it, before he hovered infront of Mirage before transforming and landing.

"Took you long enough, what Megatron needed the base polished?" Mirage teased Soundwave, Soundwave just sighed shaking his helm at his immature brother.

"No I have something that I need help with, and you're the bot that can get an objective done just as well as I do" Soundwave said sending Mirage the imformation coordinates and the objective.

"Wait what, you want me to do Decepticon missions?" Mirage gasped looking at his brother in shock.

"No not Decepticon missions, I'll do that, I just need your help" Soundwave lied, mentally beating himself for lying to his brother.