As we finally pulled up into the Autobot Base, we were met with everyone waiting for us by the computers. As Optimus came to a stop, we all piled out but not as fast as me. Once we were all out, Optimus changed back into his normal form, he joined the group and began to have a discussion. I could tell it had to do with me from the glance I got from the Autobots. Turning away, I walked over to the couch and took a seat on the floor. Jack, Miko and Raf were sitting on it with the same looks the Autobots were giving me. "Do you still want to play that game?" Jack asked but I shook my head, "Not really. You guys can if you want." They all shook their head. "Jack, we need to get you home." We turned to see Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead waiting behind us. "You to Miko." Bulkhead spoke and Bumblebee beeped for Raf. "I guess I'll see you guys later then." I said as they left for their guardian. "Yeah, see you later Juliana." Raf waved goodbye as he climbed into Bumblebee and drove off with the others. For a while, I just sat there watching the spot where everyone drove in. That was until someone called my name. "Juliana, could you come here please." Turning over to the voice, I saw Optimus and Ratchet waiting by the computers for me. "Sure." Standing up, I quickly walked over to them. as I was walking up the stairs, Optimus spoke again. "Juliana, why did that man go after you today?" I stopped at the top last step. I didn't want to tell them that I was a lying thief; they were giving me a place to stay and they were all being so nice to me and all I was doing was lying to them. "Remember I told you guys that I had no place to live?" Ratchet and Optimus nodded as I finally made it to the entertainment area. "Well, that also entitles that I have no money. And since I had no money I had to … take things." Optimus and Ratchet had puzzled looks on them, they must not get human terms all the way. "That means I had to take things … without asking." For a while none of us spoke but I could tell that things weren't looking good for me. "You mean you stole things. You stole from that man?" Ratchet asked. I nodded but I didn't look them in the eyes, I didn't know if I could take in their disappointed looks. "I know it's wrong but what was I supposed to do." I said quietly. "Stealing is wrong yes, but there are better ways to obtain things Juliana." I shrugged at Optimus' words. "A lot of them I couldn't do. People won't give me a job because I don't have a home, I have nothing worth selling, and I don't have any other relatives to take me in." I sighed and stood away from the railing. "I'll understand if you want me to leave. I wouldn't want to live with a thief and a liar either." This took both Optimus and Ratchet by surprise since they didn't answer right away. "No, we don't want you to leave Juliana. It just took us by surprise to hear this." Ratchet spoke as he waved his hand in the air. "You are still permitted to stay with us but we would really appreciate it if you would no longer do such things." Optimus spoke and I could sense that he meant it. "I can promise you that Optimus. you have my word." I placed my hand over my chest and raised my other one in the air in a goofy matter. Optimus gave a smile but it disappeared very quickly. "Juliana what happened to your arm?" looking at my arm that I held in the air, I saw that the whole area of my wrist was all black and purple. "That guy that I stole from grabbed me there and wouldn't let go. I guess he did more damage than I thought he did." Pulling my sleeve up I saw that it went all the way down to my elbow. "Let me see it." Ratchet asked and I showed him my arm. He pulled out his arm and he began to scan my arm. After he was finished, he had this sad look on his face. "Does this hurt?" he asked as he gently rubbed his finger over my arm. Bur as his finger touched my skin, a hot pain came from his touch. "OUCH!" I shouted, a little bit louder than I had intended. "Just as I thought, it's sprained. If that man would have held on any longer he would have most defiantly broken your arm." I cursed in my head, thanks a lot fat man. "you'll need to keep that wrapped up. Wait here, I think I still have some human tools from nurse Darby." Ratchet walked off and left me alone with Optimus. "Nurse Darby? Is that Jack's mom?" I asked. Optimus nodded, "June is Jack mother. she left some things here just in case anyone got hurt." I nodded. Soon Ratchet came back and he handed me some medical cloth. "Wrap it around your arm but not too tightly. Just enough as to where it's snug." I nodded and began to wrap up my arm. "I never thought I would be doing this again." I said with a smile. "What do you mean by this Juliana?" Optimus asked. "I once had gotten hurt so bad that I had to something close to this. But that time, it was on my back and it was much harder to bandage." I said as I finished wrapping my arm and handed Ratchet the cloth. "You mean that scar on you back?" he asked and I nodded. "let's just say that I don't handle fire well." Ratchet looked confused but he nodded. "It's late. I believe you should get some rest Juliana." Optimus spoke as he held his hand out for me. "So now I have a bed time? Haven't had one of those in ages." Optimus smiled and took me over to the couch. Sliding off his hand, I laid me head down on the cushion and pulled my blanket over my body. "Night you guys." I said and closed my eyes. "Good night Juliana." Optimus spoke and I could hear him leave. "see you in the morning Juliana." Ratchet said as he shut off the lights and he too left. After a while I was soon in a deep sleep.
Opening my eyes, I could hear something going off. Looking over the couch, I saw Ratchet by the computers working on something. Placing my blanket around my shoulders, I walked over to Ratchet to see what he was up to. "Morning Ratchet." I shouted and I must have startled him because he nearly fell back. "Oh, good morning Juliana." I smiled, "I didn't mean to scare you." Ratchet nodded and turned back to his computers. "you didn't. I'm just not used to anyone being up this early." walking up the stairs I saw the time on the computers, 5:30. "I didn't wake you did I?" Ratchet asked as I made it to the top. "No, I usually wake up at this time. What are you working on?" I asked taking a look at the computers. "oh just some Cybertronian codes that I'm trying to decode." I nodded, "Can I help?" Ratchet smiled but shook his head. "Unless you're fluent in Cybertronian, I don't think you can be of much help." I shrugged, "True." Taking a seat on the railing, I watched as Ratchet continued to work. "Juliana, can I ask you something?" I turned to Ratchet and nodded. "Why is your hair blue? I know it's not a normal human hair color." I shrugged, there was no harm in him asking about it. "I really don't know. Ever since I was little my hair was always been blue. My mom and dad never told me anything about but just said keep it hidden and don't let anyone else see it. Besides them you guys are the only ones to see my hair color." Ratchet looked really intrigued by my story and nodded. "Interesting." I smiled, "if that's what you want to call it." For the longest time Ratchet and I didn't say anything to each other. Then I heard something coming from the long hallway not too far away. Looking over, I saw Bumblebee and Optimus coming over to us. "Morning you two." I waved with a happy smile. Optimus returned the smile and Bumblebee gave a few beeps. "what are you guys going to do today?" I asked. "we have to patrol today but Raf and Miko will be here shortly." Optimus told me and I nodded. later on Bulkhead and Arcee joined us, but just as soon as they were here they all left. "That was a quick morning." I said. "it's usually like that. They get up and leave." Ratchet said but he never took his eyes away from the computers. "Why don't you go with them Ratchet?" I asked jumping off the railing. "I'm just the medic. I usually stay here working on anything that needs to be worked on." Ratchet paused a moment before he continued on with his work. Soon boredom came over me and I thought of something. Taking my blanket off my shoulders, I placed it on the floor and stepped back a few feet. Getting myself ready, I thought about how this would be so cool if this worked. Running off at top speed, I rushed over to my blanket. Just as I was only few inches away from my blanket, I jumped and landed on it. As soon as my feet made contact with the blanket it began to slid with me on it. Letting out a happy laugh, I watched as I continued to slide towards Ratchet. "What are you doing?" he asked. But before I was able to answer him, I was rammed into the railing and sent flying over. "Juliana!" soon I landed in Ratchet's hand with a thud and I was still laughing up a storm. "Are you alright?" he asked me worryingly. "That's not how I envisioned it but yeah, I'm fine." I said as I rubbed the back of my head. "do you know how dangerous that was? What if I hadn't been able to catch you in time Juliana?" my laughing stopped but I still had a smile on my face. "Sorry Ratchet, I was just bored. And when I'm bored I do some stupid things. Well, they don't seem stupid when I think of them." Ratchet groaned and plopped me onto the entertainment area. "You need to be more careful, you could have hurt yourself." I continued to smile as I pulled myself up. "Why do you care? You out of all the Autobots seem to care less about stuff like that." Ratchet was quiet for a moment and if I didn't know any better I would have said he was blushing. "I don't care. Just don't do that again!" my smile disappeared and I picked up my blanket angrily. "Alright Ratchet, don't need to blow a fuse!" I began to walk away when Ratchet stopped me by placing a hand in front of me. "Juliana, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shout. You just had me worried when you fell over. Just promise me you won't do anything that dangerous again." My smile returned and I shrugged, "I can only keep that promise if I have something to do." Ratchet smiled and picked me up. "how about we work on that blaster again. And this time put the red wire where it's supposed to go." I smiled and nodded. "Sounds good."
"can you give it a test run." I asked as I stepped out of the blaster. Ratchet pressed a button on the blaster and it hummed to life. "Finally. At least it didn't blast me with goop this time. Miko would have killed me if I ruined this outfit she bought me." Ratchet chuckled as he turned off the blaster. "true but you still got some of it in your hair." Placing a hand on my head, it came back completely black and greasy. "Ick! There wouldn't happen to be a place for me to wash this out would there?" I asked. Ratchet pointed over to the long hallway, "go all the way to the end and there is a human facility. It was here before we were but it still works." I nodded and rushed off to get this yuck out of my hair.
Ratchet's P.O.V:
As Juliana rushed off to clean herself up, I turn to the blaster we were working on. It was amazing how a human could understand something as complicating as this but Juliana did. And it was so much easier to get into the smaller parts with Juliana, and it was quite enjoyable to have Juliana helping me. A smile came across my face but I quick lost it. Juliana was a human, a human child, and I was a Cybertronian, this was nothing more than a working friendship. A very nice friendship. Soon my thoughts were interrupted when I heard the familiar sounds of someone pulling up. Turning around, I saw Bumblebee and Bulkhead pull up. Soon Miko and Rafael stepped out and they had many thing with them. "What are those?" I asked. "they wanted to make Juliana's stay here more comfortable so they brought a few things for her." Bulkhead answered as he and Bumblebee turned back to normal. "what things would that be?" I asked. Miko smiled and pulled out of one of the bags a bright pink dress. "she needs more than one pair of clothes." Seeing the dress, I suppressed the urge to laugh out loud. I could never imagine Juliana in that dress from what she came back in yesterday. "You're not going to leave her be until you put that dress on her are you?" Rafael asked as he put down the two boxes he was holding. "I am determined to put this on her. Even if I have to pin her down and force it on her." Miko said with determination. "where is Julie anyway?" Rafael asked. "Who?" I asked. "Juliana, Julie. Same person Ratchet, it's just a nickname to call her." Miko explained but I shrugged. Why call her by something she's not, just like how they call Rafael Raf. "we were working on that blaster there and she got some of the oil in her hair. I told her where the facilities were and she went to wash up." I said and I watched as Miko rushed off with the pink dress. "Miko NO!" Bulkhead shouted but it was too late she was already gone. "Julie isn't going to like it this." Rafael said shaking his head. "I have to agree Rafael. Julian isn't going to be very pleased at all." I said as I turned to the boxes that Miko and him had brought. "What else did you bring for Juliana?" I asked. Rafael opened one of the boxes and pulled out a book and a comb. "Just stuff to keep her busy and what not." I nodded, "Anything to keep her out of trouble is by my means, useful." Rafael looked at me puzzling as well as Bulkhead and Bumblebee. "I'll explain later." Just as I had finished my sentence a loud shout came from down the hallway. "Miko!" and then Miko came running back with Juliana's old clothes. "Now she has no choice but to come out in that outfit." Miko placed the clothes in the box and Rafael shook his head. "She is so going to get you Miko. You know she said she hates pink." Miko only shrugged. "She'll thank me later. Now we just wait for her to come out." We waited for about five minutes before another shout came from down the hallway. "Miko, if you don't bring back my clothes you are so going to regret it!" But Miko just stood her ground and took the box with the clothes in it in her arms. "Come on Raf, let's find an empty room for Julie to stay in." Rafael nodded and picked up his boxes and followed Miko down the hallway. "Miko better be a fast runner. When Juliana comes out she's going to be running laps around here to get her clothes back." Bumblebee stated as we watched the two of them leave. "Indeed … Bulkhead, could you do me a favor?" Bulkhead shrugged. "What is it." I pulled out the blaster and attached it to his arm. "next time you go out test that out for me." Bulkhead moved his arm around to inspect the blaster. "Neat." "Hey, how come I don't get to test it out?" Bumblebee whined. "Because last time I had you test something, you nearly blew up one of my computers." Bumblebee shrugged his shoulders, "Wasn't my fault that it malfunctioned." Then a loud door slam came from down the hallway. "Miko you better have my clothes with you!" turning around, we saw Juliana standing there with her arms crossed. I stood there shocked, Juliana actually did look good. The dress was a two piece that broke at the middle, showing Juliana stomach, the top was strapless and it was a little bit tight, and the bottom half of the dress just stopped at her ankles. "Where is Miko?" Juliana asked. None of us answered, we just stood there in silence. "You, um, look…" "Finish that sentence and you'll wish you did." She shout out at Bulkhead who quickly did what he was he was told. "She went looking for you a room with Rafael." Juliana sighed at my answer. Turning around, Juliana stomped off in search of Miko. "She sure is touchy isn't she?" Bulkhead asked. "maybe but remember Bulkhead she hasn't lived with anyone for quite some time. She might not be completely open with stuff like that." Bulkhead nodded. "Miko you better give those clothes back!" looking down the hallway, we saw Miko coming in fast with Juliana's clothes and Juliana coming after her. "Boost me up Bulkhead!" Miko shouted and Bulkhead did as such. As Miko was raised up onto his shoulder, Juliana finally caught up. "Miko, toss down my clothes." She ordered but Miko didn't listen. "you look nice in pink Julie." Miko said but it only made Juliana angrier. Soon Rafael joined us and stepped next to Juliana. "Miko, I think you should give them back to her now." He tried to reason with her but she only shook her head. "Bulkhead, lift me. I need to get my clothes back." Bulkhead was just about to when Miko butted in "No Bulkhead. She looks better in that then these." Bulkhead pulled back, "Bulkhead!" he bent down, "No Bulkhead!" he stood up, "Bulkhead!" "No Bulkhead!" "Bulkhead!" Bulkhead!" Bulkhead now looked really confused as to who he should listen. "I want to be up there right NOW!" Juliana shouted. Then there came a swirling noise and two screams. Looking down where Juliana and Rafael were stand, I saw nothing but a green portal disappearing. "Rafael!" "Juliana!" I shouted with Bumblebee but the portal closed completely. There was nothing left, they were gone. "Where did they go?" Miko asked but none of us answered.