Chapter 4: A Little Magic
After a few minutes, which seemed like hours, Jack was the first to break the ice.
"Umm… what just happened?" questioned Jack.
Arcee knelt down towards Jack and replied, "I don't know, Jack. I honestly don't know."
"Well, I did told you guys," stated Knock Out before he was cut off by the two-wheeler.
"Knock Out!" she shouted.
"What?" he replied innocently.
"We are sick and tired about you telling us that the girl is evil and all! We get it now, so just shut your metallic mouth of yours right now before I turn your mute button on!" said the tired motorcycle venomously.
Knock Out was about to retort when Miko cut in.
"I hate to say this, but I have to agree with Knock Out on this" she said awkwardly.
"You agree with muah?!" Knock Out said with a little French accent.
"Miko, what are you getting at?" asked Raf curiously at Miko's logic.
Miko turned to Steelex and said, "Hey, you! Could you go back to where the smoke started to cover the screen?"
Steelex nodded and rewind the footage. He started to play it at the moment the smoke covered the lens.
"Stop!" said Miko, "could you do heat signature on the footage as well as a side comparison of the original recording?"
The Vehicon turned back to the controls and tried to change the settings in the video to thermal imagery.
"Miko, what are you trying to do exactly?" questioned Bulkhead.
Miko turned towards Bulkhead and replied, "I saw something strange and I want to find out what it was."
"What did you see that was strange?" he asked out of curiosity.
"You'll see Bulk" she replied and continued to observe the screen on the computer closely.
Steelex turned to Miko and said, "It is ready, should I resume the footage now?"
"Yes, resume where we left off" Miko replied with a hint of authority in her tone even though she's a human teenager.
He pressed the resume button to play the side comparison of the video. The right side of the screen was the original while the left was in thermal imaging. Everyone can now see the girl better when the footage was reading the temperature of girl and the surrounding area. Miko's eyes were focused on every single movement that the girl was making.
In the footage, the girl was moving her hands in a rhythmic pattern in the air, which confused everyone except Miko. Her eye widened in shock of what the girl was doing.
"What in Uncle Sam's name is she trying to do? Sign language Megatron 'I hate you'?!" Agent Fowler exclaimed.
"Oh no" Miko said to herself.
Jack heard what she said and started to question her, "Miko, what's wrong and what on Earth is she doing?"
Miko sighed and said, "If I told you what she is doing" she paused for two seconds, "you guys wouldn't believe me."
"What won't we believe?" asked Bee.
Miko shook her head and sighed again. Her eyes were looking towards the ground as she mumbled, "Because she is doing sorcery."
The room was silent of a moment before everyone broke out into laughter, including the Cons. Steelex had to pause the footage for a moment so that they wouldn't miss anything important.
"Haha, magic and sorcery what a joke!" exclaimed Knock Out while wiping away a little lubricant from his optic.
"Yeah, what are we in? A 'magic' show?" Jack said sarcastically.
Everyone laughed even louder at the pun that Jack implied there.
"Ooo, ooo wait, we are like new students in Harry Potter attending Hogwarts to become wizards and witches to master sorcery and magic" stated Raf while trying hard not to laugh as he speaks.
Every human and the guardians, except Miko laughed at the mention of the book and the movie Harry Potter.
One trooper turned to the other trooper and said, "I don't get it." while the other trooper just shrugged in response.
Miko rolled her eyes and turned to walk out of the room, again.
"Where are you going, Kid?" asked Wheeljack out of concern for the young human girl.
"Miko, we were only making a harmless joke," said Jack as clearly as possible because he was trying not to laugh.
Miko turned around and gave him a death glare and retorted, "I told you and the rest of you guys that you wouldn't believe me but no. You guys wanted to know what the heck the girl was doing! And I gave you guys an honest answer and for what! For me to feel like a little girl who believes in magical unicorns flying on beautiful rainbows!"
Everyone shut his or her traps as Miko was on a rampage in proving that the girl was doing sorcery.
"Miko," said Raf after a short pause, " magic, sorcery, and mythical creatures (not including Predacons), are fake. There is no scientific proof that magic and sorcery even exist. Not alone all of those mythical creatures and artifacts!"
Miko's hands tightened into two fists as she shouted, "You want proof, I'll show you proof!"
Then she brought up her hands into a ball-shape like if she is holding a sphere and said in a strange language, "naur yassen e' amin naara, unleash your ferocity e' i' palm en' my quaare!" After she finished the incantation, a fireball formed in the circle where her hands were covering. She expanded her hands farther away from her, and the fireball grew and grew in size.
Everyone was dumbfounded that they thought that their eyes were playing tricks on them.
Miko smirked and said with some sassy attitude, "I told you soo...whoa!"
Everyone gasped when she was losing control of the fireball in her hands that they started to back away from her.
Miko tried to get the fireball under control but she couldn't, her only option is to throw it somewhere before her hands burn. She tossed it in the air while shouting, "Heads up everybody!"
Everybody started to dodge the flaming fast fireball that Miko pitched. The fireball flew towards Bee who managed to dive at the last second. The fireball hit the wall and bounced back up into the air. The fireball was then heading straight towards June, but Agent Fowler shoved them both out of the way. The fireball was now flying towards Arcee's path.
"Arcee!" shouted Knock Out as he sprinted to push her out of the way. He managed to save her from the fireball, but it was too late for him to get out of the way. His face was like 'oh scrap' because the fireball was in a direct path to his face, as he said, "Not the face!"
The fireball hit Knock Out's face with a little poof. His whole face was covered with scorch marks from the impact. Knock Out was petrified that he looked liked he turned to stone.
"My...my beautiful finish!" was all that Knock Out could utter.
Miko bit her lip for a second before she started to slowly walk out of the room while whistling.
Knock Out then sharply turned towards Miko and yelled, "You!" Miko stopped in her tracks and turned her head towards Knock Out's direction. "You will pay for this human!" he declared out loud. He stormed his way over to where she was, but to only be held back by both Arcee and Bumblebee.
He struggled in their grasp, as he demanded, "Let me go, so that I can teach that little pest a lesson or two!"
"Not until you cool down Knock Out!" retorted Arcee.
Knock Out growled and tried to squirm his way out of their arms when Bee had an idea to reason with the narcissist, "Knock Out, if you do something rash to Miko, then Bulkhead over there would put some dents into your finish." Knock Out calmed down when the idea of Bulkhead smashing and wrecking his beautiful motorized body to the scrap yard came into mind.
He turned his head towards Bulkhead and saw him narrowing his eyes as he transformed his right hand into a ball and banded it in his left hand. Signaling Knock Out that 'if you touch one hair on Miko, you'll be scraped."
He sighed and shrugged off the two Autobot's grasp as he slowly approached the human girl. Miko relaxed a bit and said her most sincere apology, "I'm sorry Knock Out. I really didn't mean for the fireball to get out of control like that." She looked up at Knock Out with big amber puppy dog eyes in apology for the incident.
Knock Out rolled his optics and said, "Alright you are forgiven." Miko's eyes lit up and started to walk over to June and the others to apologies to them too when Knock Out called out.
"But, you are not and I repeat not aloud to use whatever you did there when I am around, got it?"
"Crystal" she replied to him.
"Also I want you to do something for me" he said evilly.
Miko rolled her eyes as she mumbled, "I knew there was a catch." Then she looked up to the red bot and said, "What do you want me to do, Red? Clean your room for a week?"
Knock Out replied, "No, I don't trust you near any of my stuff with your destructiveness." Miko frowned and crossed her arms as she pouted at the comment. "Also, my room is quite organized thank you very much" he stated with a bit of snobbishness in his tone.
"Wait, you clean your room?" questioned the curious Japanese girl.
Knock Out rolled his optics and replied, "Of course I clean my own room. What did you expect? That I pay more attention to my body than my living space or laboratory?"
There where a few mumbles in the background about thinking that his corridors were messy. Knock Out's eyes were half opened half closed in a 'really' position.
He then turned his attention back at Miko and said, "I want you to dust and clean the vacant rooms on this ship. Starting tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. sharp."
"What!? That's cold man!" she retorted.
"Hey it's either that or clean the whole ship's floors and windows" he retorted.
Miko pouted with her arms folded before she had an idea. She smirked evilly to herself before stating, "Oh man, I just remembered something. We have to go back to school in a few days. I can't possibly clean all of the ship's rooms before school starts. So I guess I have no choice but be excused from doing that favor of yours, Knock Out."
He laughed loudly before replying to her, "Nice try you devious little creature. I know you are still on your summer break. You can't worm your way out of this one, girl."
Miko and the rest of the humans were shocked. Miko's jaw dropped before she said, "How did you know that I am still on break?"
Knock Out smirked before stating, "Arcee and them told me about you young human's schedule of going to school, being on break, etc."
Miko smiled evilly as she stated childishly, "Oh, so you and Arcee are dating."
Knock Out overheated furiously before retorting, "What! We are not dating! Primus, you humans and your inappropriate ideas!" He sighed angrily before stating, "Just because I have a chat with Arcee from time to time doesn't mean that we are having a 'love' relationship."
Miko leaned in a bit and said, "Chatting about what exactly?"
He grunted before sighing in defeat, "Let's just change the subject, please!"
Miko was about to say something before Jack cut in, "I think we had enough of embarrassing Knock Out for one day."
"But…" Miko stated.
"Anyway, what do you think the girl was doing earlier, Miko?" questioned Raf so that he can deter her from continuing the conversation of Knock Out and Arcee's relationship.
Miko blinked for a bit before stating, "Oh, she was just sign languaging a duplication spell."
"She was doing what?" questioned Wheeljack in confusion.
"It's a technique for a mute sorcerer to do when he or she wants to cast a spell," replied Miko.
"That does make sense. But why would she be using sign language to cast a simple spell?" Raf said curiously.
"Maybe she's mute?" she said.
June shook her head and replied, "No, she can talk alright. We all heard her speak after you ran out of the room."
"Oh, maybe she wanted to be stealthy, so she used that technique to be silent as possible" she replied.
"Miko," said Bulkhead, "how do you know for sure if she is doing a duplication spell?"
Miko rubbed the back of her head. "My friend kind of taught me a few spells here and there, so I know what that girl was doing. You could resume the footage and find out yourselves" she replied sheepishly.
Steelex then resumed the footage from where it was paused. Miko was right. The girl's body started to split in two. One of the duplicates went down the hall while the other sprouted wings and flew up and towards the camera. Everyone, including Miko, was shocked at the figure in front of the camera.
"Whoa, that is just freaky" she said in astonishment.
"You do know what she is right?" questioned the black and yellow bot.
She closed her eyes and shook her head, "I honestly don't know for sure. She could be anything really from a demon to a simple shape sifter."
Bumblebee nodded in reply as he turned to leave the room.
"Where are you going Bee?" questioned Raf.
"Huh? Oh, just going to get some energon." He said, "Anyone else want to come?"
Shortly afterward, the bots mumbled amongst themselves as they headed to the energon storage with Bee. Wheeljack turned and asked, "Hey Doc, you coming?"
Ratchet just shook his head and replied, "No thank you, I am very busy at the moment."
Wheeljack just shrugged while stating, "Suit yourself."
Rachet then said to the humans, "You all should go home and rest now. We can take care of things from here."
The humans nodded their heads at the idea of going back home to rest and recuperate. Ratchet opened up the spacebridge for Earth.
"I think I should stay here and keep an eye on her" Miko said to them.
"But Miko, wouldn't your host parents be worried about you?" replied June.
"I told them that I would be staying at your place for a couple of days" she replied to Mrs. Darby.
"What about food, water, and supplies?" asked Jack.
"Tich, I already got all that packed up and ready to go. All I got to do is go over to your place and get all of my stuff there and bring it all here" she said.
"What if you got to use the bathroom? I doubt the bots have one," said Fowler.
Miko was silent for a moment before replying meekly, "Hehe. Well… if I have to go I'll just spacebridge to one on Earth and come back"
"We have bathrooms here," said Ratchet calmly while trying to working on isolating the Tox-En from the girl's blood sample.
"What, you bots have to use the bathroom too?" questioned the Agent.
Ratchet rolled his optics and replied, " Of course we have to use the bathroom. How else can we filter out waste substances from our energon?"
"But do you guys don't have a toilet in human size, right?" asked Miko awkwardly.
A sigh escaped Ratchet's mouth, again, as he replied, "Yes, we have a couple in human sizes because Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead and the others thought that it would be a good idea to build a couple if you guys ever contacted us to come and visit Cybertron."
"So is it okay if Miko crashes here for a few nights, Ratchet?" asked June.
Miko turned to Ratchet and gave him the puppy dog eyes to convince him to let her stay here on Cybertron with them. Rachet looked at her for a while and said in defeat, "She can stay here, but only if she will listen and obey directions."
Miko smiled and said, "You got it Doc! Just let me go grab my stuff from Earth, okay. "
The five humans then walked into the portal and vanished in a blink of an eye.
Rachet returned to his work and murmured to himself, "This is going to be interesting."
~To Be Continued~
naur yassen e' amin naara, unleash your ferocity e' i' palm en' my quaare (fire with in me burn, unleash your ferocity in the palm of my hands)