Chapter 2 Waking Up

Miko's head was pounding, it was like a drummer was just going nuts in her head. She promised to herself she would never jump in mysterious portals ever again. Unless she had too. Miko slowly opened her eyes, she was blinded the moment she opened them making her shut them and roll onto her back clutching her head in pain.

Again she tried to open her eyes with better results, as the pain and brightness subsided she found herself staring at a white stone and gold metallic ceiling. She frowned at this, she now knew she was somewhere new, and new meant danger.

Fun.

She rolled onto her side to see she was in a large room that was larger than meant for her. The furniture was meant for Cybertronians and she lay on a padded berth. She was surrounded by pillows and blankets and the room was draped in colorful sheer fabric that crisscrossed everywhere. Everything was finely made and nothing seemed old, it seemed like it was just barely made.

She stood up only to notice she was wearing different clothing!

Now she wore a white dress that was a sleeveless that went to her feet, she wore a sheer fabric like a cloak around her neck, arms and back and around her neck was a finely made necklace of blue and gold with the symbol of the Autobot on it.

Her head felt different too, she reached up and touch her hair which was now all down, dreaded and caped with gold on the ends and a band of gold around her head with a jewel in the center and a snake protruding from it.

She looked like a classic ancient Egyptian.

What kind of world is this!? She thought to herself as she looked for a way down.

She saw some blankets and after making a makeshift rope outta them she tied it off and began to climb down, which was hard in a dress by the way. She finally made it down to the cold floor to which she realized she had no shoes, great.

She quickly made her way to a large doorway only for it to open automatically, carefully she peered out both ways to see a similar constructed hall of the same material with the same drapes everywhere. At one end she saw it went into some sort of courtyard and the other way lead deeper into the building. Taking her chances she headed further into the building as the door behind her hissed shut.

She past many doors as she made her way down the halls which seemed devoid of life. She twisted and weaved through the many halls becoming dazed and completely lost. She then came to the end of a hall with a massive door that silently slid open, she quickly went inside to stare in awe of the room.

It was a large room, open to the blue sky, supported by whitestone and gold metals in interaget designs with sheer drapes everywhere and the floor seemed to be made of a blue gemstone.

But what caught her attention was the sky, sure it was blue but instead on one sun, there was two.

She definitely wasn't on Earth anymore.

"What are you doing here, young one?" A voice shattered her thoughts as she froze.

She slowly turned to see that there was a large opening in the wall and in front of it was a large gilded throne and sat upon it was a figure familiar yet different to Miko. He was the same red and blue bot of her world yet he wore golden necklace with a sheer cloak coming out of it and draping on the floor, his optics had black paint around them and he wore a cloth crown you see in egyptian drawings, with the egyptian bread as well and holding a long blue and gold staff.

He was Optimus Prime, yet not all at the same time.

"Uh…." Was all the little human girl could mange before Optimus did something she thought he was incapable of, he smiled.

"This is just as strange for me as you, Miko Nakadai." He said as he stood from the throne and walked down the steps and coming down to her eye level.

"I can't believe it…" She muttered as he smiled more widely.

"Neither can I, so tell me, how did you come back to life?" She stared dumbfounded at the Prime before her.

"Back to life? I was never dead to begin with!" She seemed to take offence to the notion of her death which surprised and intrigued the Prime.

"Hm, but you have been dead, for 1,000 years." He said like it was fact.

"Well I never died, I just walked through a portal in the Base and now I am here! Looking like this!?" She was thrusting at herself, confused and angry.

The Prime thought for a moment, "A portal you say? Tell me, what planet were you on when you entered this portal?"

"Earth."

"Alright, is the war between the Decepticons and Autobots still going?" She nodded, "I see, hm, maybe Ratchet can enlighten me to a growing theory I have, one which you are from another dimension." He put his hand down and she climbed onto it.

"Another dimension? So cool! So what is is planet called anyways?" He lifted her up and began to walking out of the Throne room.

"This is Pharatron, basically a new home for Cybertronians as our world can not be saved. We came here after the war with the Allspark and created a new Cybertronian homeworld but named it Pharatron." He explained as they headed down many halls, she could now see more bots as well.

All of them had a ancient egyptian theme to them and what was surprising about all of this was the fact that some, even Prime, wore cloth that was sheer like clothing just like humans. She watched with fascination at the other bots before Optimus arrived at a metal door, it was different as the other doors were made of stone.

It slid away to reveal a laboratory similar to the one of the Nemesis but less scary and far more equipment. They walked in to see a hunched figure over a microscope looking at something, Optimus cleared his throat and the figure jumped.

"Primus! Don't scare me like…." He trailed off as he saw Prime and what surprised Miko was that he made a deep bow.

She could recognize Ratchet any day, but this one had gold instead of orange paint and blue instead of white, a sheer cloak draped over one shoulder, also black paint around his optics and what seemed to be a pendent of a bluestone scarb around his neck.

"I am so sorry, Pharaoh, no disrespect." He said while still bowing.

Optimus or Pharaoh as Miko liked to differentiate, smiled, "It is alright, Ratchet, I know how much you get lost in your work."

He stood straight from his bowed position with a sheepish smile before noticing Miko in his hand, "Wait, is that…."

"I believe this isn't our Miko but one from another dimension, could you confirm my theory or come up with a different explanation." He handed her to Ratchet who took Miko to her surprise.

"Of course, my Pharaoh." He said as Pharaoh nodded and headed out.

"Wow, didn't take Prime as being a King." Miko mused out loud.

"Is he not in you're world?"

"No, he is just a Prime." Ratchet seemed to nod to this before beginning to scan the young human.

There was a long silence as Ratchet took down notes and scans before he broke it, "So, how did you come to this world?"

She went on to telling him about the Groundbridge, and the two voices, one of a female praying and the other a male urging her to go.

"A champion you say, and our hour of need." He mused, "What could that mean, I mean we have no problems at the moment." She stared dumbfounded at Ratchet.

"Wait, but that prayer, it was a clear cry for help, how could this be possible?" She noticed the bluestone scarab around his neck. "Also can I call you Scarab, I want to differentiate from my world."

"I don't see why not, but from these scans you are definitely not from this dimension, you are different on a atomic level." He said pulling out the data that she didn't understand.

"I guess we have to inform Pharaoh about this?" He nodded and picked her up and started making his way to the Throne room.