Mirage shook his helm, while his aggravation grew "Who the hell do you think you are, trying to tell me what to do, how to drive, and telling me I'm pazzo!?" Mirage snapped right back, in his thick italian accent, backing Bumblebe up.
"If the shoe fits, wear it..." Bumblebee scoffed over his radio, looking away from the angered red youngling.
"Che cosa la frag is a shoe!?" Mirage growled, waving his claws.
"Start speaking the main Earth language, you have an issue with everything I know, but what did I do to you, that makes you hate me!?" Bumblebee hissed getting up in Mirage's face.
"Have an issue with everything!?" Mirage cleched his claws into a fist. "I may have some issues, that dosen't mean I have all issues!"
"Oh wait I forgot, golden bot dosen't have a problem with anything, because rainbows come out his ass as he bows down to kiss yours!" Mirage snarled, poking Bumblebee in the chest with one of his sharp claws.
"Hey, what happened to us all, just getting along!?" Sideswipe cooed, grabbing both Bumblebee and Mirage, pulling them together.
Bumblebee sighed and rolled his optics, while Mirage squirmed out of Sideswipe's grasp.
"I'm going back to base, don't feel the need to, BEE, my escort!" Mirage snarled, before storming off, transforming and peeling off back to the base.
"Mirage hates me more then Sam's mom, when I blew up her garden" Bumblebee sadly sighed, watching the cloud of dust, follow the Ferrari.
"That's not true Bee, he just didn't get any recharge" Sideswipe simply shrugged.
"No he's always like this around me, recharge deprived isn't the excuse" Bumblebee shook his helm, at the silver mech standing beside him.
"I don't know, maybe he feels undermined, cuase he's younger then you, I don't know Mirage is impossible to read, he's almost always in a mood" Sideswipe sighed not knowing how to answer the scout.
"He's insecure?" Bumblebee whirred transforming with the silver Corvette.
"On this planet, basically" Sideswipe agreed, following the yellow and black Camaro.
Back at base Mirage sped past Ratchet and a few soldiers, nearly missing colonel Lenox, as he swerved past the hangers, under the wreckers and Optimus, and straight to the back of the base, backing up to the wall, shutting off his engine, not moving a singal gear.
"Mirage what the hell..."
"Ratch, you yelling at him is just bringing smoke to a fire" Sideswipe warned transforming at the base enterance with Bumblebee, quickly catching up to fuming Ratchet.
"I don't care, it's bad enough he drives like that on a freeway, in here in an enclosed area with lots of humans is unacceptable!" Ratchet replied to Sideswipe's warning.
"Bumblebee the patrol did go off the deep end quickly, what happened?" Optimus asked, as they all stood around infront of Mirage's parked form.
"Nothing out of the ordinary, Mirage hates me, didn't listen to the rules and warnings I gave him, and Mirage hates listening to anything I have to say, so instead of listening or just back talking, he caused trouble, almost causing multiple car accidents" Bumblebee reported, watching Mirage's unmoving form.
Sideswipe rolled his optics, sighing, and face palming, as Ratchet, continued to rant at the silent Ferrari. "And if any bot here knows, the safety of the humans it's Bumblebee, you need to be more like him, mature up and figure out what your doing wrong, before you get us kicked off this planet, Bumblebee knows what good from bad, unlike you, so start taking t..."
"Mirage may I speak with you alone" Optimus requested, interupting the medics rant.
The others quickly got the hint, and left the prime to speak with the troublesome youngling.
"Mirage transform please" Optimus firmly, but politely ordered the Ferrari, who hesitantly obliged.
"Mirage..."
*here we go... Mirage don't do this, you're being a bad youngling, you should be more like Bumblebee...* Mirage pouted predicting what the Prime was about too say to him.
"Would you like a hug from Sideswipe?" Optimus asked, shocking the hell out of Mirage.
"Come again!?" Mirage replied, wondering if those words really came from the towering mechs vocals.
"Sideswipe has offered to give you a hug if needed" Optimus replied with a smile, to the youngling that stared at him with a confusion.
"Riiiiii..." Mirage shook his helm, looking away from Optimus.
"But we do need to talk, no more hidding..."
"Oh ha ha that was a good one!" Mirage scoffed crossing his arms, interupting the mighty Prime.
"I fail to see what is so funny?" Optimus questioned, raising an optic ridge at the red youngling.
"...Oh... I thought you were making a joke... cause I turn invisible... Never mind, just continue on" Mirage mumbled, getting back to the lost conversation.
"...Anyway Mirage, no more hidding, something is triggering you to behave like this" Optimus continued on from where he left off.
"What are you talking about, I act like this all the time" Mirage nervously smiled, waving off the prime.
"Perhaps, but not all the time, something is upsetting you, and you try to forget about it by, you racing habbits, endangering humans on the freeways, please, youngling let us help you" Optimus spoke in a soft concerned tone, placing a servo on Mirage's shoulder.
Mirage didn't answer, he gazed at Optimus, before looking away, looking at Sideswipe with the other Autobots.
"And if you feel more comfortable, speaking with someone who is closer to you, I will request Sideswipe, to take the time to listen to you" Optimus offered.
Mirage knocks Optimus's servo off of his shoulder. "Sideswipe is my amico, he does not need to take a requested meeting, he always has the time to listen to me" Mirage scoffed watching Sideswipe.
"Very well then, perhaps you would like to speak with him, and I will listen as well, he is going to tell me anyway" Optimus said, waving Sideswipe over to them.
"Fine whatever, wait now?!" Mirage nervously asked, as Sideswipe approached them.
"Hey, what's going on, little buddy?" Sideswipe smiled, giving Mirage a small very light punch to the shoulder.
Mirage smacked Sideswipe, who laughed at him playfully, teasing him.
"Let us go speak somewhere in private" Optimus announced, taking Mirage and Sideswipe out back, where no soldiers worked, and no other Autobots lounging around.
"Alright sooo?" Sideswipe, still quite confused on why he was called over.
"Something is wieghing heavy on Mirage's conscience, and has taken a toll in his behavior, Mirage is going to share what's bothering him, so we can help him" Optimus finally gave an explanation to the silver mech.
"Alright, I'm all audios buddy" Sideswipe said, turning all his attention to the youngling.
Mirage stared blankly at the two, with bright, sky blue, inocent, youthful optics, not knowing what to say to the two standing before him, he didn't want to seem like a sparkling for being tramatized, by Que and Ironhide's death, scared that the situation when they were captured, could possibly happen again.
"Are the recent events that happened, bothering you?" Sideswipe asked breaking the silence.
Mirage's optics started to tear up, as he slowly nodded in response to the silver mech, who he saw as his big brother.
"Ok you want to tell what, exactly hit you the hardest?" Optimus asked in a soft tone, keeping the conversation going.
"...Ironhide...Que..." Mirage managed to mutter the names out, as he tried to hold back his tears.
"Mirage their deaths were not in vain, as their deaths hit all of us hard, they died helping us win the war, we would not have won, if it were not for their courageous efforts" Optimus reassured the sobbing youngling, as Sideswipe wrapped a comforting arm around him.
"You understand that right buddy?" Sideswipe cooed, holding back his own feelings of sarrow.
Mirage nodded. "But why did they have to go so earlie!" Mirage cried looking up at the two.
"Mirage, our fate, is unpredictable, can happen at anytime, Ironhide and Que's, just happened to be uncalled for, but they did it saving lives, yours mine Bumblebee's even Ratchet's, just like Wheelie and Brains, if not for them we would have all been scrap" Sideswipe tried answering in the most mature way he possibly could.
"What if we get captured again and they do the same!" Mirage cried out, as tears rolled down his face.
"Mirage it won't happen, for a long time, hopefully never, the war just ended, you trust me right?" Sideswipe reminded, giving Mirage's shoulder a reassuring squeeze.
Mirage took a deep breath and nodded at Sideswipe, who warmly smiled at him along with Optimus.
"So you going to keep troubles off the road?" Sideswipe cooed.
"Yeah" Mirage chuckled, as the last tears fell.
"Good, that's what we need to hear"
"Now Mirage, if anything else is bothering you, please do come to us" Optimus said, as they walked back int to the base, giving Mirage a suggestion worth taking.
"I Wil..." Mirage smiled.
Che cosa la= what the
Amico= Friend