I have no excuse for this except that I was watching Scrapheap and got inspired. As far as my mind will tell me, Miami is apparently a Prime'd pretender, like Alice from the movies, only she was created by Ratchet? Anyway, she looks like a people, except her back, joints, and stomach area aren't covered with fake-skin. Mobility. I guess? I don't even know, just-

"So, if... When We get the ground bridge open, do we get the creepy-crawlies out, bring our bots in?" Bulkhead groaned. Miami watched all of the bots carefully, crawling over Ratchet's chilled frame and poking around in any armor breaches to double check for iced scraplets. Her heart beat furiously in her chest- she was so close to losing them. So close to watching more people she cared about getting killed.

"Optimus and Arcee will be fresh meat. If we bring them in first, the scraplets will have no reason to leave." Ratchet answered. Mia paused, leaning back to look up at him.

"...So, we need... bait."

"Where are we gonna get bait?" Bulk growled back angrily. "The scraplets already helped themselves to everything in here!"

Her hands shook. She hid them by delving into another hole, feeling around carefully and pulling out a couple of scraplet teeth. She knew what this meant.

She eventually finished her search of Ratchet, and moved on to clear out Bumblebee. He seemed to be the best off of the three. Before she could move any closer to Bulkhead, the grates on the vents burst out, releasing a swarm of scraplets into the air. The massive bot dropped to the ground with a very un-manly squeak, and Miami's blood ran cold. Her heart pounded into her ribcage, even as the children stormed in, shouting for them to open the bridge.

Inspiration hit her in a wave of adrenaline as Ratchet lurched up and flipped the ground bridge controls. He imediately fell back to the ground, nearly crushing her under his shoulder and causing a rather large chunk of mauled armor to fall off. They weren't the only mechanical beings on base. Feeling an odd sort of numb, she seized it and hauled it towards the swirling vortex, beating it against the concrete and shouting, ripping off her over shirt to expose the techno-organic circuitry over her torso. The swarm swirled in air and came towards her, following as she dashed into the green-blue light, metal held over her head.

She could feel the vibrations of them gnawing on the metal before she was out the other side, and felt the absolute terror the bots must have felt. These things ate them alive. She could feel their teeth digging into her flesh as they easily ate through her sheild and continued after the metals inside her, searing pain through her neural net.

In seconds she was on the other side, still feeling the vibrations when she stumbled and dropped the armor shaving. She rolled over in the too deep snow, glancing outward to see their missing bots moving closer. She screamed, but couldn't hear her own voice, ripping a pair of scraplets from her legs and shoving them into the drifts around her. She clawed at the ones slowing on her back and added them to the pile.

She was already shaking with cold when Optimus scooped her out of the ice and snow, shaking so hard in fact that he nearly dropped her again, not that his coordination was very helpful at the moment. As they started through the ground bridge again, she collapsed into a ball in his palm, the newly exposed circuits and wiring of her back sparking. Before they were back into the base, she was unconcious.

Optimus lightly pet the technoorganic's head, offering her to Ratchet before accepting any help for himself. "She is brave, this one. You should be very proud to call her your own."

The medic smiled, exhaustion etched into his entire frame. "Believe me, Optimus... I am."

also, to those who saw this episode- DO YOU REALIZE HOW VIOLENT AND GOREY THIS WAS?!