Miko: Sup!

Megan: Heya!

GW1234: *stares a Megan, looking like this= O.O*

Megan:….What?

GW1234: How…the fuck…..are you still alive?

Megan: *raises eyebrow* Come again?

Miko: I think she means Ratchet *snickers*

Megan: Oh, yeah, easy. Anyways, the author doesn't own anyone except from her OC, which is me.

GW1234: YOU BITCH!*tries to stop the disclaimer, but failing* I WANNA KNOW HOW YOU GOT AWAY FRO- *disclaimer closes*

Chapter 7:Scraplets

Yay, Saturday! I was the only one up, since mum had already gone to work. Snickering, I crept into the kitchen and got a bucketful of ice cold water and tip toed into my twin's bedroom, effectively tipping the water over his head.

He screamed and sat up, shivering slightly. I laughed when he glared at me.

"I told you, if you weren't up by 6:30, then I'd force you get off of your lazy ass." I shrugged, my eyes twinkling in amusement. He gave a sarcastic laugh and stalked away to get changed. We both knew that 'Bee was coming to pick us up, since our guardians were busy. Probably planning a mission.

Not long after Jacks wakeup call Bumblebee came and picked us up, speeding towards the base. We got there in record time, even though Bulkhead was already there. I climbed out of 'Bee and waved.

"Miss us doc bot?" I asked cheerfully. Ratchet sighed and turned towards Optimus.

"Shouldn't they be in school?" He asked irately. Miko walked up next to me and tutted.

"On Saturday? We have the whole weekend off... To spend with you." I snickered at how enthusiastic she sounded, and Ratchet just glared at her.

"I wasn't expecting a car pool. What gives Arcee?" Jack asks, walking towards his guardian. Arcee places her hands on her hips as she briefly explains.

"Tag-team, Jack. It's my turn for exploration duty."

"Huh... too bad. It's a beautiful day out for a ride. Would hate for you to feel guilty for leaving me indoors..." Jack pouts, attempting to persuade her. It wasn't working.

"Arctic exploration duty." She states.

"Indoors where it's warm." Jack says as cocks his fingers into the direction of the sofa, and quickly walking towards it. I laugh and shake my head at his antics, only just catching Ratchet's eyes on me. He quickly turned away, though.

Raf walked up to Optimus, hope gleaming in his eyes. "The Arctic! I've always wanted to see snow!" Prime shook his head sadly.

"I would invite you to join, Rafael, but the conditions are much too extreme, even for we Autobots." He says. He boy deflates slightly but still nods in understanding.

"I... I understand." Raf sighs, disappointed. I walk over to him and ruffle his hair, which he smiled at. Prime and Arcee were about to leave but Optimus turned back to Raf.

"But, I will bring you back a snowball." He says, a smile playing on his lips. That was not something you'd expect a 30 foot alien robot to say. I grinned as Raf brightened up.

"That would be awesome!" He exclaimed. Boss bot nods to him before walking through the groundbridge

"Transport complete." I hear Ratchet mutter, shortly followed by the sound of a small explosion. I slowly turned around to face Ratchet, who was staring wide eyed at the groundbridge lever, which was sparking.

"By the allspark…"He trailed off. I simply shook my head and walked away to where Jack, Miko and Raf were.

They were too occupied in the racing game they were playing to notice me. Sighing, I decided to explore the base again.

"Hey, where you going" I spun around to see Raf. I smiled and shrugged.

"I dunno, im bored," An idea suddenly popped up in my head ", wanna play artic exploration?"

Raf grinned and for the next half hour we 'faced a snow storm' and 'struggled to survive'. It was actually fun.

"Temperature sub-zero and dropping!" Raf says as he 'attempts to walk through the strong wind and snow'. We stopped when we heard something drop onto the floor. Curious, we looked around. We heard the noise again and turned around, gasping at what we saw.

It was a small, round, metal creature with huge purple eyes. It looked adorable, but I was suspicious.

As the thing walks closer to us, I feel the bad vibe radiating from it, but ignore it as I stare at the thing.

"W-Where did you come from?" Raf stutters. The thing only blinked at us and walked closer.

"The Autobots never said anything about pets." I state as Raf picks up an over-sized bolt which just about fit in the palm of his hand.

"You wanna play fetch?" Raf giggles as the creature cutely nods and starts running in circles and jumping around.

Raf throws the bolt and the thing chases after it. "Good boy! Go get it!" The thing gets closer to the bolt and starts eating it. "No! Don't eat that! You're going to choke!" The thing then turned back around, the bolt gone, and it seemed fine. "Or... Not."

I wasn't sure about the creature. The cute ones were always the deadliest. Mind you, Megatron isn't a picture you want to look at.

"Raf, im not sure about this…." I started, trailing off. The thing then skipped over and started rubbing against the boy's leg.

"Awww, come on Megan, it's not going to hurt anybody!" Raf protests. I sigh, but agree.

My suspicions of the thing grew as the lights started to flicker as we walked back into the main room. Raf was petting the thing, which had snuggled up into his arms.

"Hey guys, look what I found!" He says excitedly, holding the thing up in full view.

"We're busy!" Ratchet snaps, but when he looked up at him, suddenly yelled in shock. All the bot's backed away warily as they pointed their weapons at Raf and the thing. Jack and Miko run over to us.

"Hey, hey!" Miko shouts, attempting to calm the Autobots. She placed herself in front of Raf, along with Jack. "What's with you guys?"

"Scraplet! Scraplet!" Bulkhead screeches, actually sounding terrified. I tell you, any other moment I would be laughing my ass off at them, but this was serious.

"What's a scraplet?" Raf pipes up, jumping slightly to see over the two teens.

"The most dangerous vermin ever to crawl upon the face of Cybertron." Ratchet says. I turn to Raf and give him a look.

"The most 'dangerous' vermin ever, Raf, is what you are currently hugging." I say sighing and shaking my head. Miko stares at the 'bots wide eyed and Jack just gives them a confused look

Miko and Jack then look back at the scraplet. "This...?" he finally asked. "Are you kidding me!"

"Your giant robots! Scrappy here is... Tiny." Miko exclaimed, pinching her fingers together for emphasis.

"You have no idea how much damage that tiny thing can do!" Bulkhead retorted.

"Awww, he wouldn't hurt anything." Raf said. Oh, how wrong can you get? The thing focused on the bot's and stared at them, as if analysing them. Suddenly its mouth opens wide and it reveals chainsaw-like teeth as it charged towards the bot's. They shot at it repeatedly but the scraplet dodged and jumped onto 'Bee's leg. All I could do at the moment was watch in horror as it started chewing away at his armour. 'Bee finally shook the scraplet off, but it got ready to charge again.

It was stopped when I ran over and kicked it over to the wall. Hard. I was amazed it didn't hurt, and im pretty sure the others were too. Raf let out a battle cry and raced towards the already-dead scraplet and whacked it multiple times with a crowbar he had found.

I just folded my arms and looked on in amusement as the scraplet turned into a pancake. It took Jack to stop him.

"Easy there, killer." He said. I snickered at the remark, but sobered up when Raf ran over to 'Bee worriedly.

"Im so sorry, 'Bee!" Raf apoligizes.

It's not your fault, Raf Bumblebee replied, attempting to soothe the boy's nerves. It only worked a little bit. Raf looked up to Ratchet, who was examining 'Bees leg.

"Is he going to be okay?" I asked. Ratchet turned to me and nodded.

"Only a mesh wound. He'll live." Ratchet assured us. Raf breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now do you believe me!" Bulkhead exclaimed "All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal! Especially living metal!" That was very unnerving. Jack then walked over to where I was.

"Well, bug squashed, game over... Right?" He said unsurely. I facepalmed and winced, hitting my forehead harder than intended. That's what siblings do to you. Ratchet must have noticed me flinch because he shot Jack a glare.

"No!" Ratchet stated firmly "When it comes to scraplets, there's never just one. And I fear I know how they got in here."

Ratchet stood up and walked towards the corridors, gently grasping me in the process. I looked up at him.

"What was that for?" I asked. He glanced down at me.

"Don't you want to know how the scraplets go in here?" He retorted, sounding slightly irritated. I kept silent after that. We eventually got to the room in question and Ratchet placed me down on the floor.

He walked forward and examined this giant metal egg container, which had a hole in the side, with his wielder. "It's a trap. A scraplet trap." 'Bee cowered behind Ratchet, which I found incredibly adorable.

"An empty scraplet trap..." Bulkhead stated the obvious, and I had a hard time trying not to roll my eyes at it.

"Most likely injected into space eons ago. Only to wind-up in the Arctic where the Arctic temperature kept them in stasis." Ratchet explained. Jack took a step forward.

"Until we brought the thaw." My twin said anxiously. Miko looked from me, to him, to Raf.

"Now their wide awake and ready to brunch."

There was a short, almost awkward, silence. That is until Raf broke it.

"Sooo..." He trailed off.

"How many are we talking about?" I finally spoke.

"Thousands." Ratchet replied, turning towards me. My eyes widened.

"Holy crap!" I exclaimed. Ratchet then transformed his hand back.

"With the power malfunctions and ground bridge damage, a sure sign that their infestation is well under way." Ratchet picked me up again and quickly ran back to the main room. When there he desperately tried to get a hold of Optimus or Arcee, seemingly forgetting that I was still in his hand.

"Ratchet to Optimus! Do you read me? We have a situation!" The screen glitches and switches off, causing Ratchet to growl in frustration "The scraplets have gotten into the com-link system! If we don't eradicate these creatures immediately, they will reduce the entire base to a scrapheap." I look up at him and flail my arms.

"Ummm…hello?" I asked. He finally noticed me and places me onto the platform next to Miko.

"Well I say we bug out of here and let them keep it!" Bulkhead exclaimed. 'Bee chirped in agreement.

"Evacuation is not an option. If we don't get the ground bridge back online stat, Optimus and Arcee will perish." Ratchet states. Mine and Jacks eyes both widen.

"They will...?" Jack asked, now worried. I placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, which earned me a small smile from my twin. Miko, however, looked extremely pissed as she marched over to where Bulkhead was currently standing.

"Bulkhead! You never run!" Bulkhead looked down to her, his expression deadly serious.

"Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a bot. I have. They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, till there is nothing left, and I mean nothing! Not even your optics." I shuddered.

"Thanks for the nightmares." I muttered.

CLANG!

Bulkhead yelped as a wrench came into contact with his head, leaving a dent. The wrench dropped to the floor with another 'clang'. Jack, Raf and Miko all glared at me. I held my hands up in surrender.

"That weren't me!" I yelled. Bulkhead, however, looked behind me.

"What was that for?" He asked, annoyed. I turned around and ended up facing a smirking Ratchet, whose arms were folded. He shrugged.

"For giving Megan nightmares." Ratchet simply shrugged. I giggled, covering my mouth and he looked down at me briefly before walking over to pick up the wrench he threw. Jack suddenly stepped forward.

"Okay, back to the situation at hand. You have to let us help." He said bravely, and I found myself nodding my head in approval.

"We're not made of metal!" Raf stated. Miko then leaned on me.

"Ya, they can't harm us!" She claimed.

"Typically I find your fleshiness your least engaging quality." I rolled my eyes at Ratchet's words. "But it would appear to provide an advantage, under these extremes."

"Okay, good." I say, partially relieved that we can help "So, we pair off. One bot one human. I'll watch your back while you repair the ground bridge." Ratchet nods "Jack, go with Raf and 'Bee."

"Good idea." My twin agrees.

"Let's go on a bug hunt." Miko announced, punching her fists together. Bulky and 'Bee both shuddered violently.

Once they had all left, Ratchet started working on the ground bridge, and I just stood by, watching.

When there were no signs of any scraplets I quickly got bored, pacing around, arguing with myself on what to do. I settled with sighing and sat on the floor. Ratchet turned to me, his eyebrow raised, before shaking his head at my antics and continuing his work.

I think I just about jumped out of my skin when my phone rang. My ringtone was 'Poison' by DJ Cammy so I danced around for a couple of seconds before actually answering.

"Sup" I greeted.

"Hey, how's it going?" I groaned when I heard my brother's voice. I had put it on loudspeaker and could tell that Ratchet was listening in.

"Uhhhh….." I turned to Ratchet "How's it going over there?"

"Ive repaired the damage conductors and rerouted the central conducts, but the ground bridge still won't receive any power!" I had held my phone up whilst Ratch' was explaining.

"Okay. Megan, have you been irritating again?" He must have noted how frustrated Ratchet sounded.

"Dude, I want to back over your head with a pick-up truck." I warned. Ratchet snickered and I could just about hear Raf and 'Bee laughing as well.

"Okay, im gonna go now." He abruptly disconnected the call. I rolled my eyes.

"I can't believe he's my twin." I grumbled. I suddenly heard tiny footsteps and I looked up and, on the wall, a bunch of scraplets were crawling along the wall. I grab the nearest thing to me, which happened to be a metre long metal pipe. My eyes widened at how many there were.

My eyes literally popped out of my head when they started FLYING towards Ratchet.

"They fly! You never said they could fly!" I cried as I attempt to hit them with a pipe. Ratchet fell over as the scraplets attacked him, showing no mercy.

"RATCHET!" I yelled desperately as I ran over, kicking and hitting the scraplets with all the power I had. There were just too many, though, and I was losing hope. Ratchet then looked to my right.

"The fire extinguisher!"He exclaimed. My brain switching back on, I sprinted over to said object, picked it up, aimed it and sprayed the ice-cold foam onto the metal demons.

"DIE YOU LITTLE MIDGET BUGGERS!" I shouted and eventually managed to kill them all. I then shiver, the foam dampening my clothes. Ratchet groaned as he slowly stood up, his armour literally covered with scraplet bites. He looked battered.

'Bee and Bulky when came limping in with Jack, Miko and Raf, not looking much better than Ratchet.

Bulkhead was holding his right arm "Ratchet, get the patch kit. We're leaking energon like- Woah!"

We all looked up to see hundreds of scraplets flying around our heads. They looked at the 'bots and started attacking again. I sprayed Ratchet again while the others repeatedly hit the scraplets. It only took one his to knock the little buggers out, so it didn't take too long to kill them all.

The autobots ended up sitting on the floor, exhausted from the struggling and the injuries that they had received from the scraplets.

"Did we get them all?" Jack asked. Ratchet shook his head and we suddenly heard metallic gnawing down the corridor.

"Hardly, these were just scouts."

Primus hates us! 'Bee exclaimed as he collapsed backwards, now lying down. I snickered at his comment and Raf was giggling as well.

"So, the rest of them know were in here?" Bulkhead asked nervously.

"And if we allow ourselves to become their next meal, Optimus and Arcee will never make it home! We must get the ground bridge operational!" Ratchet yelled urgently.

"Then we can use it to send the scraplets anywhere on Earth." Jack stated. An idea suddenly popped into my head.

"Why not back to the Artic?" I suggested "We already know they don't do cold." I held up the extinguisher.

"Not a bad idea, Megan. Given the body mass of the scraplets, sub-zero temperature should freeze them on contact. So, think Ratchet, think!" It was amusing watching him scold himself, I must say. "If the ground bridge is still down here must be a breach in the energon fuel line." I giggled. He looked so proud of himself, his optics widening and brightening up.

Were slagged. Bumblebee moaned. I started laughing, but laughed even harder at Raf's puzzled face. I quickly calmed down and Bulkhead spoke up.

"If we weren't breaching, one of us could get back over there and fix it."

"Where do we find it?" My twin asked, gently hitting the pipe he found on his palm. I placed my hands on my hips.

"And how do we fix it?" I asked. Ratchet then went on to explain what we needed to do. We then headed off in search of the breach. Raf eventually figured that the pipe above us should lead us too it. As we continued to follow the pipe, we had to step over and dodge many scraplets.

"Remember, we're okay, we're not metal." Jack assured us. I looked forward and spotted a pool of a bright blue substance, which I quickly realized was energon.

"Guys, I found the breach!" I exclaimed, running over to it, the others following closely behind.

"Come on. We have to work fast." Jack said and we got to work, Miko and Raf held the metal in place whilst Jack kept an eye out and I wielded the piece on.

It didn't take too long, and when we had finished, the scraplets went crazy again, heading towards the main room.

"Their getting ready to feed!" Raf exclaimed, and we all sprinted back into the main room.

"GUYS!" I shouted, and they all turned to me. "FIRE IT UP!"

Ratchet weakly stood up and activated the ground bridge before collapsing again. Now all we had to do was get the scraplets out. But how?

I suddenly came up with an insane idea. Picking a large piece of scrap metal up, I waved it at the scraplets, who, to my surprise, zeroed in onto it.

"You want the main course?" I teased, now running into the groundbridge. "Come and get it!"

I faintly heard Ratchet calling my name as I rushed through and into the freezing temperatures of the Artic. I moved off to the side as they swarmed through. I noticed Optimus and Arcee in the near distance. They too looked incredibly weak.

"GET DOWN!" I screamed. They looked at me briefly, shocked, before focusing back onto the scraplets.

I yelped when Bulkhead suddenly limped through, falling into the snow. He turned to me, concerned.

"Are you alright?" He asked. I nodded, though I was now freezing my ass off.

I looked back over to Prime and Arcee, who were now giving Bulkhead pointed looks. Said mech rubbed the back of his neck.

"I'd invite you in, but the place is a mess." I would have chuckled, but was too cold to do so. I stiffly entered the groundbridge, knowing that the others would follow.

Once out of the groundbridge vortex I collapsed onto my hands and knees, only just truly feeling how cold it was. I felt someone hug me tightly and I looked up to see none other than Jack. He quickly pulled back, though.

"You're freezing!" He exclaimed. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Well, duh, I was in the artic for about a minute." I retorted. I vaguely heard Miko laugh as I made my way towards Ratchet, his optics softening when they landed on me.

"You don't look so good." I grinned. He shook his head in amusement before looking at me seriously.

"You shouldn't have gone to the Artic." He scolded. I bowed my head.

"I know, but you're my friends. Im just, me." I said. I gave him no time to reply as I walked over into the direction of the med bay, gesturing to him. We all, 'bots included, dragged ourselves to the medical bay.

Jack, Miko and Raf were all rapidly typing into a computer. I had already done my part, so I folded my arms, watching with interest.

"Report bio circuitry stats?" Ratchet asked Jack. My twin looked up to him, smiling.

"Levels are rising."

"Excellent. Rafael, keep a close watch on Bumblebee's electro pulse monitor. Miko, check Bulkhead's interface patch."

"It's steady." Raf informed Ratchet, who nodded.

"Lookin' good!" Miko winked and gave him a thumbs up. I somehow found what Miko said disturbingly wrong. My brain strikes again!

"Perhaps you should get some rest yourself, old friend." Optimus said to Ratchet "You saved quite a few lives today."

"As much as I hate so say it, he's right, Ratchet." I joined in, grinning at Prime, who had obviously spotted the humour in my statement since his optics were shining in amusement.

"It wasn't all my doing." Ratchet said, smiling down at us, though he was looking at me. I instantly thought to myself that he looks a lot better with a smile on his face. It was so warm and comforting. "We're just fortunate that this infestation happened…on a Saturday."

I smirked up at him, my head tilted sideways so that my fringe covered half my face. My hands were also on my hips. I think I was Ratchets smile twitch slightly wider. But I wasn't going to get my hopes up. It was a miracle in itself that he was nice, let alone for him to smile!

"Our human friends maybe small, but they are strong." Optimus stated, gazing down at us all. Suddenly Miko screamed. Everyone looked to her in slight panic. Heck, Jack and Raf both rushed over, crowbars in hand. They stood in front of her in a mini battle position.

"Scraplet?" Jack said.

"Spider!" Miko shrieked, rushing around, generally looking like a complete retard. "Is it on me! AAGGGHHH!" She then ran away, trying to swipe the 'spider' off of her back.

"Did she just scream like a little girl...?" Bulkhead asked, confused. Everyone exchanged glances.

"Meet Miko." I sighed, walking over to where she ran off. I looked around the corner to see that she wasn't in sight. I turned back around, my expression blank.

"I ain't going after her….." I dead-panned, walking over to Jack and leaning on his shoulder. He chuckled, quickly twisting and pulling m into another embrace.

"I know what to buy Miko for her birthday." He whispered into my ear. I burst out laughing. Oh, she was going to love us. Raf then walked over, curious. When I grinned deviously at him he shook his head.

"Do I want to know?" He asked, now unsure.

I wanna know! Bumblebee piped up.

"What happened to having super hearing?" I jokingly asked. The yellow mech just shrugged.

"I wanna know too!" Bulkhead pouted. I was about to speak when Miko walked back in.

"Wanna know what?" She asked. I smiled sheepishly and ran over to Ratchet, hiding behind his leg. He glanced down at me before smiling and turning away, leaving my shocked. He smiled, again?

"Oh, we were just going to but you loads of spiders for your birthday." Jack shrugged casually, not knowing what would happen. Miko turned and glared at me. I glared at Jack, who now looked lost.

"Well done, douchebag!" I called. Miko came charging at me, seemingly thinking that it was my idea. She had a good reason, I did it before. Never shall I do it again.

As she neared me I was pretty sure that I was about to die until I felt a hand gently pick me up. Miko growled, frustrated.

"Put her down, I just want a chat!" She said. Her eyes narrowing said differently. Ratchets hand curled around my only slightly. It was barely noticeable, but I clearly saw and felt the action.

"Not until you calm down, Miko." Ratchet simply said, sounding rather smug. Well then, I was going to be here for a while…

GW1234: I just HAD to add the beloved wrench, even if a little random!

Bulkhead: Yeah, it hurt….

Ratchet: Oh shut up, you'll live *twirling another wrench*

Bulkhead:

GW1234: Anyways, please R&R!

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GW1234: Oh yeah, if you have watched the series, you should have now seen a pattern in what im writing ;) so *HINT* in the next chapter, you will not just see the return of one, but FOUR 'bots, Again, if you've watched the series, you will know who the first one will be, but see if you can guess the other 3 in your reviews. Any who get at least one right I will mention in the next chapter :D