Mirage thought about it for a few moments, he didn't know what to do, he loved his brother and had always trusted him, but he didn't feel his brother was trust worthy at the moment.

"And what is this help?" Mirage sighed giving in, he was bored and had nothing better to do then hide, but deep down he had a sick feeling about the action soon to come.

"Ok what I'm going to do is break into the secret underground temples that store the imformation, while I'm distracting the guards you get the data, simple enough right?" Soundwave explained to his brother, what was going to happen.

"It sounds simple but it wont be" Mirage shook his helm as they entered an underground tunnel.

"Nothing to worry about, the worst you'll have to deal with is a few workers and a couple guards possibly, not a big deal they're easy to take out"

"Easy to take out, what you're saying I have to kill, they are Autobots aren't they?!" Mirage hissed at his brother, stopping in his tracks.

"No they're traitors, Decepticons, but with that invisibility of yours, you shouldn't have a problem with getting spotted" Soundwave reassured his young brother quickly before making matters worse.

"Yeah... lately that's been glitiching on and off, plus it dosen't last long" Mirage admitted continuing to follow his brother down the dark damp tunnel.

"What your invisibility is failing, maybe you should get that fixed?" Soundwave replied in slight concern as he kept his radars on high for any activity.

"Maybe I would get it fixed, if it wasn't buried in my important biomech, it grew with me and is literally impossible to remove or fix!" Mirage growled in frustration as he and Soundwave approached a door in the tunnel wall.

"Well I'm sorry to hear that brother, I geuss Shockwave screwed up, now I'm going to enter, you go invisible behind me, and download all the data you can find, ready?" Soundwave replied scaning the door and what was on the other side.

Mirage nodded and waited as Soundwave took out his weapons and prepared for battle.

As Soundwave charged in unexpectedly Mirage vanished and snuck over to the computers, the autobots scrambled as the battled with Soundwave, to secure the data, but it was all to easy for the taking, as Autobots scrambled around the invisible mech, Mirage simply collected the data and sent it all to Soundwave.

"Our systems are being hacked!" One soldier announced.

"How, Soundwave's occupied!" Another shouted firing at Soundwave.

I don't, know but we have to find the source fast!"

Mirage's cloaking deteriorated, glitching making him visible again, the scrambling bots quickly turned their attention to the one whom hacking their systems.

"He hacked our systems, take him down!" the Autobot officer in charge ordered taking the first shot at Mirage, who dodged the round with ease.

Mirage quickly leapt over the officer that fired at him, and swung his wrist blades, slicing the office in half, the other Autobots cringed and gasped, Mirage didn't waste time he took them down aswell and quickly looked at the door to see Soundwave waving him out the door.

Mirage ran his way but ended up getting tripped by a half alive mech, Mirage gasped and quickly stabbed the mechs chest, making the mech release his ped, Mirage looked at the arm of the mech and saw the Autobot insignia.

"Autobots, liar, Decepticons my aft!" Mirage hissed jumping to his peds and rushing out the door into the middleof the tunnel, only to be grabbed and pulled back by Soundwave.

"You wan't to get caught, stay close to the wall!" Soundwave growled at Mirage while holding him back.

"You lied to me!" Mirage snarled pushing away from Soundwave.

"What do you mean!?" Soundwave whispered seeing shadows heading their way.

"You told me they were traitorous cons, these are Autobots!" Mirage yelled, shoving Soundwave into the wall.

"Yeah exactly, traitorous cons, they are new to the Autobots, they don't care!" Soundwave lied pushing Mirage back.

"They will care!" Mirage argued.

"Why do you care, you are no longer an Autobot!" Soundwave shouted getting pissed off at his brother.

"There they are!" The Autobots shouted, comming after the brothers, firing their weapons.

Mirage and Soundwave quicly shot down the one's infront of the Autobots chasing them and turned to run.

"No, I was trusted to be an Autobot rogue by Optimus prime, now I'm doing this, I'm sorry Soundwave but I have to leave!" Mirage growled as they started to run down the tunnel.

"Mirage they kicked you out, not promoted you, now we only have two more places to hit!" Soundwave argued, making Mirage get even more pissed off.

Mirage didn't answer, he took down two more Autobots then, instead of answering Soundwave, as soon as an escape route out of the tunnel presented itself, he jumped into the small escape hole, escaping the autobots, and his lying brother.

"Mirage!" Soundwave called catching Mirage escaping.

"Get him, he's escaping!" the Autobots in chase behind Soundwave yelled.

Soundwave growled and retracted Lazer beak to take the Autobots down, Sondwave would finish on his own.

Mirage back on the surface, where fire and wartorn building littered the streets, Mirage continued to run as far away as possible from his brother, who he trusted.

A few hours later, Soundwave returned to Megatron with the imformation he gathered, after searching Mirage for a couple hours.

"Soundwave you return with only half of the information, what happened!?" Megatron growled this being the first time Soundwave failed him.

*Mirage!* Soundwave rembered that Mirage was the one that downloaded thefirst set of information.

"Hmm, perhapes Soundwave is not as perfect as you thought master" Starscream remarked, smirking at Soundwave.

"Shut up Starscream, your comments aren't needed!" Megatron hissed shutting the seeker up.

Soundwave thought to himself, knowing that information would be impossible to gather, if there was one thing Mirage was good at, it was hiding, plus he lied to Mirage, and he knew his little brother would make an extra effort to stay away from him.

Back in the streets, Mirage was to upset to think straight, he didn't want anything to do with brother, or anything to do with the boys and Arcee, especiallynot Optimus, knowing they probably know about the attack him and Soundwave did.

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"Optimus I'm worried, we haven't heard from Mirage in days" Arcee told the leader with great concern.

"I am also worried Arcee, but you know Mirage and his personallity, he likes to be alone, little communication is normale from him, give Mirage time" Optimus told the worried femme.

"Yeah, plus Optimus called Mirage the other day and told him he could visit the ba whenever, the others may not like it, but Optimus said he woulddeal with them" Sideswipe reminded the femme.

Two months later, Mirage still didn't get any calls from Optimus, or officers tracking him down he had also heard that Optimus and Elita were expecting a sparkling, Mirage knew it was time to come out of the shadows and visit his adopted family, and maybe someday he would forget about the incident with his brother, and find him one day aswell.