Mutagen, Energon and Scrap metal Chapter 1: The Return
Miko sniffed as she sat in the autobots old base currently Ratchet's home.
He was called to Cybertron to attend to Ultra Magnus' wounds. No big deal right? Well usually that'd be correct. But Miko was afraid he'd never come back after all they'd need a medic on the newly revived Cybertron. At least she hoped life was once again flourishing there.
It's now been the third day's since he left and Miko struggled to eat the food that Jack gave her. Raf and Jack were worried as well but didn't appear to be taking it as hard as her.
Her cellphone rang the tune of one of slash monkeys songs a favorite of her's Bulkhead liked it too.
"Hello?" Miko asked out of habit since the song gave away who was calling.
"Miko, did you eat the food I gave you?" Jack asked concerned.
In moments like these you couldn't help but see the similarities between mother and son.
"Yes, mom" Miko replied making sure to draw out the word mom as she rolled her eyes.
"Good, I'm almost done at my volunteer shift at the hospital in the meantime can you operate the ground bridge? Raf wants to hang out." Jack asked as he ignored Miko's jab.
"No problem, just tell him to text me his coordinates." Miko grinned as she got off of the coach and made her way to the ground bridge controls.
"Will do and Miko?" Jack started to say.
"Yeah?" Miko replied using the human sized terminal that Raf and Ratchet worked together on in case of emergencies. Miko thought this qualified.
"Take care of yourself." Jack finished.
Which caused Miko to reply with"Of course, if I have to remind you I was the one to sniff out Hardshell!" Miko gloated.
"Ugh, Miko I've heard that story too many times.. I'll make sure Raf texts you. " Jack grunted in annoyance leaving Miko to hear the beeping signaling a disconnected phone call.
Miko shut her phone and stuffed it in her shorts back pocket and couldn't help smiling fondly at who she considered one of her best frien-, no family Miko corrected herself.
Three minutes later she got a text from Raf and not a minute to soon Miko was beginning to get bored.
She punched in the coordinates and the swirling green portal came to life once again. Not even a moment later Raf walked through and Miko shut down their ever faithful companion.
Raf was a twelve year old boy with brown hair that seemed to defy gravity. With brown eyes to match framed by brown rimmed glasses.
Raf was wearing a orange sweater vest on top of a white shirt with cuffs and a collar. He wore a simple pair of jeans too big for him. No doubt a hand me down from one of his older siblings.
"Hey, Miko. So Movie marathon or good old fashion video games?" Raf asked as he climbed on the couch and deposited his backpack on the floor there was no one here to care after all.
"Well I just got hooked on this old cartoon show. It's called Space Heroes The Next Generation starring Captain Ryan and his crew." Miko said as she turned on the TV and put on Season one episode one at Raf's shrug.
One hour later Jack walked in too find Miko and Raf passed out sleeping on the couch as the TV was dim to lack of use.
Jack had short black hair and blue eyes with pale skin he was wearing a grey t-shirt with blue jeans and sneakers.
Jack just grinned and got the blankets for them in storage and placed them over his sleeping comrades.
He sat in the chair across from the coach and plugged in their racing game and muted the volume. Jack smirked as he overid Raf's high score.
Jack just couldn't bring himself to beat the score above his though. In bright yellow letters was 'BmbleB'.
He looked at his flip phone and saw the time in bright blue '9:30 PM'. Just then he heard the unmistakable sound of the ground bridge. Ratchet walked out with a grim frown on his face plate.
"What's wrong Ratchet is Ultra Magnus okay?" Jack asked openly concerned Ratchet may be grumpy but he never was this serious. The only times Jack can remember Ratchet like this were when things was at there worst like when Bulkhead was unable to wake up or his guilt of misusing the synth energon.
"He's fine, do you think you could get June and Agent Fowler here? It's an emergency." Ratchet asked as he tinkered with his medical tools.
"No problem" Jack instantly responded as he called his mother and Agent Fowler in a group call.
"Mom, Agent Fowler can we ground bridge you here, Ratchet says it's an emergency." Jack asked they responded with varying answers of yes and was in the base minutes later.
"Jack, can you wake up Raf and Miko?" Jack nodded and shook Miko awake leaving her to wake Raf.
"Now that your all here and awake, This is going to be hard to hear but Optimus is offline" Ratchet stated to the disbelief of his human friends.
"What he's dead?!" Miko cried out in horror.
While Raf and Jack stared in silence Agent Fowler was flabbergasted and June was speechless.
"Let me tell you how it happened... " Ratchet began as he told all that transpired on Cybertron from Unicron's possession of Megatron to Optimus' final sacrifice.
"Now I know this is sudden but tomorrow would you like to go to Cybertron, I believe Optimus would want you to see how our planet has already begun to heal its self."
"Hell, yeah!" Miko answered for everyone as they too would like to see the newly revived Cybertron.
"Kuso ̄!*" Miko exclaimed
"Miko!" Raf shouted at her choice of words. After spending enough time with Miko both Jack and Raf know enough Japanese to get by.
"I'm sorry it's just that my host parents are going to freak!" Miko explained.
"No need to worry I texted your host parents and Raf's mom that you're sleeping over my house." Jack chimed in.
"Thanks Mommy Jack" Miko replied snickering at Jack's appalled face.
"MIKO!" Jack yelled as he threw a couch pillow at her successfully aiming at her face.
*Kuso ̄ is Japanese for damn