Back at base after a slow silent angered drive lead by Optimus.
"What were you thinking!?" Ratchet yelled, making Sideswipe cower, and Mirage fold his arms and roll his optics.
"Oh wait you weren't thinking, on the way back to base did you see all the human vehicles you ran off the road!?" Ratchet continued to scold the two young mechs.
Sideswipe looked apologetic and felt stupid for what he did, he know he could have killed someone.
Meanwhile Mirage didn't really seem to care, he had other things on his mind, this planet was clearly not built for his type of life style, how do the others adapt?
"Luckily, no one was seriously hurt from this" Optimus sternly told the two, reading Sideswipes apologetic body language, Optimus knew someone was absorbing his and Ratchet's words.
"Sorry Optimus, it wont happen again" Sideswipe finally stepped up and apologized recieving a nod from both Ratchet and Optimus, before he could cower away, to go help with the damage they caused.
"Mirage is anything sinking in, or are you just ignoring everything we say to you?" Ratchet scoffedturning his attention to the careless spy.
"Mmhmm..." Mirage ignored the medic and kept his gaze fixed on Sideswipe helping the human soldiers, while Bumblebee walked over to Optimus.
"Clearly not, Mirage you are causing grave danger to the native life forms of this planet, and you need to start coping with the fact that you live here now, and there are a differen't set of rules here." Ratchet sighed with frustration, Mirage didn't seem to care for what he or Optimus were trying to explain.
Mirage's body language was practically unreadable, Optimus knew Mirage hid his feelings very well keeping himself and hiding everything in the dark, Optimus could clearly see that Mirage didn't care for what he and the medic said to him, so Optimus had differen't plans for the mech.
"Mirage you have failed to try to tone yourself to Earth customs, I'm assigning Bumblebee to mentor you, and remind you of the way we should behave around humans" Optimus said gesturing to the yellow teenage youngling.
"What!?" Mirage gasped snapping out of his daze, and looking the camaro up and down.
Optimus knew Mirage was a mere teenage youngling just as Bumblebee was, and Bumblebee was definetly the bot that clould relate to the restless spy.
"Bumblebee is very fond of the humans, and takes protecting them very seriously, and I think you could learn from him, I don't want any further comments" Optimus sternly rold the annoyed spy.
"I hope you freaking learn something!" Ratchet scoffed before turning and walking away with Optimus leaving the two younglings be.
"You, me, and a whole lot of learning!"Bumblebee enthusiastically chimed through his radio.
"Cazzo..." Mirage muttered drooping his doorwings, looking at Bumblebee standing there with a giant goofy grin.
"It'll be more fun than you think" Bumblebee reassured his fellow teammate.
Mirage just rolled his optics and walking away from Bumblebee, he made his way over to go see Sideswipe who was helping the humans, Bumblebee followed to no surprise.
"They could go on forever with lectures, huh amico?" Mirage joked giving Sideswipe who was holding up a platform getting welded, a playful nudge.
"Sure Mirage I'm kind of busy helping, we can talk later" Sideswipe said, maintaining his balance, trying not to struggle with the platform.
"Or or, you could pitch in and help the humans too" Bumblebee suggested, nudging Mirage, and gesturing to Sideswipe and the humans.
"Ridicolo" Mirage threw his arms up and left the scene.
Bumblebee sighed in defeat, shaking his helm at the racing red mech walking away.
"It was worth a try Bee, Mirage is just a little shy" Sideswipe said from over his shoulder, knowing what the yellow mech felt.
Bumblebee nodded, and took off trying to catch restless mech.
Mirage walked through the air hanger, past many humans and military vehichles, and past Optimus, as he approached the hanger door, he could hear peds catching up to him from behind.
"Come on Mirage, you don't know if you like or not if you don't try" Bumblebee hummed, stopping behind the red mech who halted a step before he reached outside.
Optimus lifted his helm, brining his attention away from Lennox, and brining his attention towards the scouts radio static words.
"Please amico, just leave me alone..." Mirage sighed taking a deep breath, before transforming and driving off, leaving the scout and the team behind.
"He's a stubborn one isn't he?" a small chuckle came from behind the yellow camaro.
"You can say that again" Bumblebee sighed over his shoulder , to see Lennox and Optimus.
"Mirage is a very hard one to read my friend, and I fear something that is bothering him, is leading to his racing excursions" Optimus said, placing a servo on Bumblebee's shoulder.
"If you're upset, why not tell someone?"
"Mirage is not know for admitting he's upset about something, making him a very difficult young mech to deal with, because we don't know weather he's just in a mood, or something is wrong" Optimus sighed watching the hanger door with Bumblebee.
"He eventually comes around to telling you right?" Lennox asked looking up at Optimus.
"Mirage could hide things for ever if he had everything his way" Optimus sighed shaking his helm at the human.
"So I'll take it as a yes, he eventually does"
6 Earth hours later, 12 midnight, most of the human soldiers were asleep except for the guards, and a few maintenance workers.
The hum of Mirage's engine came in earshot of the awake soldiers, as Mirage drove cautiously into the base, the sound of transformation came next, as Mirage transformed and continued walking through the hanger, walking past all the resting Autobots in their vehicle mode, Mirage was not one for recharge, he liked to be alert at all times.
The sudden sound of a transformation, made Mirage jump and swirl around, to see it was the silver corvette that had transformed, the mech smirked at Mirage, who standing in a cautious stance.
"Scared ya didn't I?" Sideswipe chuckled giving Mirage a playful poke on the shoulder, pushing the lightweight red mech slightly back.
Mirage shrugged and sighed, frowning and staring at a wall to the right side of him, looking away from the silver warrior.
"Hey buddy, I was just joking around with you, you know that" Sideswipe cooed placing a servo on Mirage's shoulder.
Mirage turned his helm being optic to optic with Sideswipe, and tried to give the mech a smile, but ended up sighing lowering his helm, and drooping his doorwnings.
"Mirage is something wrong?" Sideswipe asked, concern could be heard in his tone and read on his faceplate.
"Whatever..." Mirage rolled his optics as he turned back around, and left the silver mech.
"Mirage, come on, talk to me buddy" Sideswipe begged following the red mech through the hanger.
Mirage shook his helm and picked up his walking pace, making Sideswipe skate faster.
"Something is upsetting you clearly, why don't you tell me?" Sideswipe said pulling up beside Mirage.
Mirage then turned invisible, and exited the room, with out anyone or Sideswipe catching him.
"I will be there for you when you want to speak..." Sideswipe sighed rolling back to his resting spot between Ratchet and Bumblebee.
"Mirage I know I say this to you every night, but it's time to power down or whatever you bots do" Lennox's voice came to Mirage's audio receptors, after passing the human.
"...Yep..." Mirage sighed rolling his optics, before transforming and backing into a space far away from the others.
"Thank you" Lennox thanked the Ferrari, giving Mirage a small pat on his hood, before starting to walk away.
Mirage sighed and listened as Lennox's footsteps faded as he left out of the hanger, as soon as he no longer heard the footsteps, he transformed back into robot form, and sat leaning against the wall.
Mirage looked to the side down the row of military vehichles and Autobots quite a few feet away from him, he knew by the atmosphere in the room, that everyone was recharging peacfully, even Optimus, Mirage then turned his helm back and started staring off into space, his mind filling with the recent terror that had happened.
A few hours later, Mirage shook his helm, shaking the memories off his mind, looking at his internal clock, read 5:30, soon the humans and the team would be waking getting, back to the repairs on the base.
Taking a deep breath, Mirage stared up at the steel cement ceiling, his incredible optics catching a spider crawling across the support beams back to it's web, another bug was captured and struggling to get out of the hold of the sticky web, the spider took it's time and crawled slowly to the bug, the deadly spider did a few circles around the bug, to Mirage it looked like it was teasing it's victim, but the spider was actually looking for a moment to strike the struggling bug, the bug soon got tired, and that was the moment for the spider to strike, like lightening the spider clamped onto the bug filling it with it's venom, paralizing the bug, the spider then continued his work, starting to wrap the half dead bug in it's web, a few moments later the spider finished wrapping the helpless bug, and started to suck the life from the bug, ending it's life.
The scene of the spider and the bug, sent chills through Mirage, it reminded him of the captured situation he and the others were in, back in the Chicago battle.
"Get off of me!" Ratchet cried as he was tossed to the ground by a Decepticon soldier, and kicked, before being violently pulled onto his knees.
Mirage winced and turned his helm towards Bumblebee, who was being held captive by Barricade, who was currently playing with Bumblebee as though he were a puppet, before kicking Bumblebee hard in the back, throwing Bumblebee violently to his knees.
Mirage couldn't stand there and let that happen, Mirage violently lunged forward towards Barricade, almost pulling his wrists out of the Decepticon soldier grip, Mirage was quickly ripped back and backhanded across the face, Mirage went limp and hung his helm for a few moments, before turning and seeing Sideswipe taking everything very camly, trying to talk the cons out of their violence.
"Come on, take it easy, we surrender" Sideswipe said, attempting to calm Soundwave's soldiers agression towards them.
The Decepticons ignored Sideswipes words, as they continued to push and shove them into the ground, as the human working for the Decepticons approached Soundwave.
"Prisoners, you're keeping prisoners?" Dylan snapped taking a good look at the Autobot prisoners.
"Yes" Soundwave replied to the human, in a venomous tone.
"You need to teach them about respect, this was all bussiness, but now it's personal, do you understand me?" Dylan hissed to the silver SLS.
"I understand, no prisoners only trophies" Soundwave snickered evilly before reloading his weapons before making his way towards the Autobots.
"Bee I think they're going to, kill us" Wheeljack gasped, overhearing the cons conversation.
Bumblebee gave a robotic whine in reply, as he was grabbed by the con holding him, meanwhile Soundwave came up from behind Wheeljack.
"You, your times up!" Soundwave hissed, grabbing and throwing Wheeljack in the center of the Autobots vision.
"Wait wait wait, we surrender, we're your prisoners!" Wheeljack stuttered as he tripped and stumbled over debris.
"Move it!" Soundwave growled his order, giving the old mech another shove.
"Can't we talk this over, we're all a bunch of goo chaps..."
The echo and the vibration of the shots killing the old mech pierced Mirage's spark, as much as it did with Bumblebee.
Mirage violently jolted out the small recharge that he had fallen into, to see Sideswipe standing over him with a concerned puzzled gaze.
Cazzo= F*ck