A/N: I do not own Transformers Prime

"Incoming transmission," Ratchet barked to the four Autobots standing around Raf and his laptop. "Who from?" Arcee walked over to join Ratchet at the main computer.

He hit a button and they then heard a voice, "Hello Autobots." Jack and Raf gasped and turned to look at the screen. "MEAGATRON!?" Bulkhead screeched.

"Are you kidding me, that's who took Miko?" Bumblebee beeped and buzzed. Optimus trudged over to the monitor, "Megatron, if you lay a hand on the girl I swear -"

"Do not bother to complete your threat Prime, I know you could ramble on forever-" "YOU'VE GOT THAT RIGHT!" another voice said from behind Megatron. He rolled his eyes, "Do you know when to stop talking fleshling?"

The camera pulled away to show Miko tied to a chair, hands bound behind her by rope. Her hair was down and straight, her shirt slightly stretched from Soundwave picking her up before.

"I have not harmed the child nor will I, as long as you agree to meet my demands. "What are they?" Jack questioned him, hands clenched into fists

"Only that no Autobot shall dare to interfere with my plans. Once they are completed, the girl with be returned to you." Arcee frowned, "Two questions: one, what do you need her for? And two what is your plan?" "Incompetent two-wheeler! Do you really think I'll just reveal my plans to you because you request it?" She growled at the two-wheeler remark, getting sick and tired of hearing that nickname.

Just then a clone's voice came from Megatron's left, "We are approaching the relic now." Megatron face-palmed and Miko began to crack up, "Slag you're dumb!"

"So that's it! A relic?" Bee beeped out. Raf pushed his glasses farther up his nose, "So what do you need Miko for?" Megatron smiled evilly and began the story. "From what Soundwave tells me the story begins in the year 2004, where in Tokyo a little 8 year old girl lived in the suburbs with her two parents, grandmother, four sisters and three brothers. Her parents fought and sometimes if she tried to intervene, they would hit her-"

Miko who was listening intently caught Jack's gaze of horror on the monitor. She dropped her eyes, and began to listen again.. " - so she would escape to the woods where she would sit under a willow tree and sing a song called Koroko.

One day she decided to venture farther into the woods and came across a piece of metal with strange markings on it. She placed her hand on it and a holo form scanner appeared. It scanned her and from what I have heard it was not.. Pleasant."

Every bot and human turned and looked at Miko who closed her eyes and winced, as if remembering the pain. Megatron focused his eyes back onto the screen and continued. "Anyways, it was such a powerful scanner that it knocked her out for a couple of hours. When she came to, she did not realize it, but it had made a marking on her body." Miko's eyes widene as Meagtron used a digit to lift up her right sleeve to expose her shoulder. The Autobots had seen that scar before, and now that he mentioned it, I did look very Cybertroinian.

"I... I thought I got this when I was 12. I fell and wrecked my bike so badly that I was knocked unconscious. When I came to my older sister Nia was holding my hand saying that I had undergone surgery because there was a number of rocks in my arm, I never would have guessed-"

"- yes, yes, anyways she opened the pod and began to explore it. Soundwave would have just been able to hack in if it wasn't for the ignorant human." Megatron nodded to his right and Soundwave came on screen. In a monotone voice he began; "Correct. If this human designated 'Miko' had not hit the keypad inside and triggered the alarm system, she would not have began to sing as she did."

Everyone in the Autobot base stood frozen with horror, their mouths agape. Arcee and Jack were the first to break the silence. "YOU CAN TALK?! Jack roared as Arcee said coolly, "So you're talking again 'Wave?"

Raf wrinkled his nose in confusion. "Okay, I'm confused. Arcee how do you know Soundwave used to talk" questioned Ratchet. Arcee hung her head, "Well.. He's kinda sorta.. My brother." The Autobot base along with Megatron erupted, "WHAT!?" Arcee and Soundwave both smiled at each other (imagine his screen thingy looking like a smile).

"Back to the human, you see Miko sang when she became upset, or nervous so she began Koroko again. The old, out-of-date system took it as Cybertroian and set it as the new passcode. It let her through to the next door but her new scar slowed her down.

She could feel herself getting weaker and weaker as she went through and eventually had to head back. It drained her strength as it wouldn't drain ours. The relic was made for a Prime to find, not a human." He paused and stepped back so Megatron could take the screen,

"So here is my proposal, we keep the girl so we may get through the doors, and then when she is no longer needed, we will return her to you, no harm done. Deal?" He didn't wait for a reply.

"Say goodbye for now fleshling." Miko was shown and managed to squeeze out a faint "Help!" before Soundwave approached her with and gag. After he tied it she tried to scream through it. "We will be in touch". The screen went black.

The Autobots looked around at each other and then at Optimus all with the same question. "What now?"