Miko slowly woke up, feeling that something was different. She felt comfortable and painless. She fell she was in an unfamiliar bed. The sounds and smells seemed so familiar. When she opened her eyes and saw that she was in the Autobot base, relief filled her heart, she was at home!

"Miko." A voice called, right by her side. It was Optimus, who was also lying down, but now, his optics were the same brilliant blue she remembered. And his voice no longer resembled a undead. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, but I should be the one asking this question! After all, the one who seemed to be knocking at Death's door was you!" she replied.

"I'm fine now, do not worry." He replied, "I'm sorry for scaring you before..."

"Nah, don't worry about it. But just for you know... if you do that again... the screams I did before, will look like mere whispers compared to what I'm going to do! Do you understand?" she warned amazingly seriously.

"I understood very well. And I do not plan to make it happen again." Promised. Optimus wondered if Miko could actually scream louder than before. Well, coming from her, he should not doubt nothing.

Satisfied, Miko leaned back on the bed. Optimus took the time to look better at her. When Miko had found him, his optics were not working well, he was practically relying on his hearing sensors. Now he could see very clearly how much Miko had changed. She was taller, her black hair now reaching the waist, though now she does not have her characteristics pink strands. Her face was more like the face of an adult woman. Just like her body.

"Take a picture, Optimus. It will last longer."

Blinking, the red and blue mech realized that perhaps he had been looking too much at the girl. "My apologies, Miko. I did not mean to offend. It's just that you've changed a lot since the last time I saw you." he said.

"You did not offend me. And if you think I've changed, you have to see Raf! He's taller than me now!" she began to talk. But with that she ended up getting the doctor's attention.

"Miko! Finally, you're awake! You're sleeping for three days, I was getting worried!" He exclaimed, running to the side of her bed.

"Three days?!" thought in disbelief. It seemed she had closed her eyes only for a few hours. The doctor did not notice her surprise and continued to examine her. "Fortunately everything seems fine. Considering that this is the first time I make bandages on organic, I was worried," he said, almost sighing with relief. This made Miko remember her injured arm. It was not hurting anymore, but it was difficult to move it, probably thanks' to the bandages.

"Ratch... how did you do this bandage, considering our size difference?" she asked, very curious.

"That way," he said, leaning against the wall, his optics darkened, and on Miko's side, a human-sized version of Ratchet appeared.

"Cool! How did you do that?" She asked excitedly. On her side, Optimus watched everything in amazement.

"It's called Holoform. Unlike a hologram, a holoform is a solid image. Rafael and I, have been working on this in recent times, it will allow us to do minor jobs. We are also working in human-shaped holoforms... but we have no results yet."

"This is so awesome!" She shouted excitedly. Ratchet laughed, happy that she was still the Miko they knew. He was concerned that she had changed during that time. "And as for you..." said turning to Optimus "it's time for your medicine!"

Optimus made a disgusted look that Miko never thought she would see in his face. Ratchet deactivated the holoform and his real body returned to normal. He handed Optimus a cube of energon. But different from the normal energon that is blue, this one was a neon orange color. "What is this?" asked.

"It's super-concentrated energon. Optimus was – or, rather still is - with very low energy levels. This energon has several nutrients that will help him... but I admit it tastes horrible," he explained, looking at Optimus sympathetically.

Optimus tried to swallow, frowning with each gulp. Miko tried to hold back the laughter.

"Miko, may I ask you a few questions?" The doctor decided to take advantage of the fact that Optimus was distracted to interrogate her.

"You've already done one, but you can do more," she teased. "What is it?"

"When you were with Optimus ... did something strange happen?"

"Besides the fact that I had find the autobot leader who was supposed to be dead, almost to the point of dying (again), I have seen his spark with a lot of mini tentacles that started to play with me..."

"What?!"

"Yeah, it was so weird, I mean, all of a sudden there's a lot of bright tentacles coming out of Optimus' spark. But in a strange way they were kinda cute. And it made me feel good when I touched them." spoke, not noticing the doctor's shocked look.

If possible, Ratchet became more confuse to what Miko had told him. The reaction that Optimus' Spark had, only happened between "to-be-sparkmates" or bots that had a deep trust between each other. And although Miko and Optimus had a friendship, it couldn't be called "a great friendship". He could barely remember a time the two had a conversation when she was younger. Nothing seemed to make sense anymore. "I'll have to research that," he thought. "Alright, I have just one more question; what happened to you for spend a year without sending us any news?"

The reaction was automatic. The girl's body stiffened, her eyes widened, and her face, which was once so calm, was now pale, showing her fear. "I ... I had a l-lot of problems with my cell phone and my i-internet was not working. Tha-that's all." stammered. Even if Ratchet were not an extremely advanced alien robot, he would still be able to know she was lying.

What Miko had not noticed (but Ratchet did) was that Optimus had felt her panic. It was so strong and so sudden that made him choke with the medicinal energon.

The medic decided not to insist, seeing that this was a very delicate subject for the young woman. But he and even Optimus wondered what could have happened to Miko, who was one of the bravest humans they knew, to make her startled like that.

Finally I made the third chapter! shouldn't have take so long to post. But I guess, that's what's happen, when you try to write seven fanfics, once at time (Yes, SEVEN!) :O .

P.S: I'm thinking in re-writing my one-shot "How is the real me", to make bigger and fix any grammatical mistake.