Autobot Base

Six days later

I woke up and saw I was in a thick sleeping bag. I tried to sit up but found I couldn't. I saw that for some reason I was restrained. I tried harder and harder, but I couldn't break free. I heard metallic footsteps and saw a giant white and orange robot approach me. My mind couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. I had flashbacks of being held tightly in a giant metal hand and being dropped from a great height. I put two and two together and realised that it was a robot that tried to kill me. Now here was one coming to finish me off. It came closer and closer and leaned down towards me. I started to whimper with fright and started to cry.

"P-Please don't hurt me!"

It backed right off and another giant robot came running into this massive cave of a room I found myself in. This new robot was different. It was pink and silver. For some reason I had different flashbacks. Ones with me being wrapped up in a duvet as it held me in its arms. Not maliciously but lovingly. This one had cared for me before. I could only come up with one reason as to who this one was so I called out to it "Mummy!"

She looked at me confused then looked at the first one.

"I hoped this wouldn't happen" The first one said to the second.

"Ratchet, why is he calling me 'mummy'?" She asked Ratchet as the white and orange one was called.

"It's to do with the cold. I had seen the study by Portsmouth University. It found that prolonged exposer to the cold can cause short term memory loss and also effects metal capabilities. Humans have such fragile minds"

"Please stop slagging off humans and tell me what's going on" She asked while coming to my bedside.

"Simply he is suffering from amnesia and most likely for the time being has the mental capacity of a toddler. Obviously he seems to remember you. Although he can't remember everything, he seems to think that you're his mother. Right now he needs you more than ever. He certainly calmed down when you came in"

"He thinks I'm his mother?" She thought the whole thing was strange but she could see how. I looked at her desperate for her to come closer. She leaned right to my bedside and rested her head on the bed and stoked my head softly saying "Mummy's here. Your safe now" She kissed me softly on the forehead.

Ratchet gently nudged the Pink robot to one side trying to get at me. I saw he was holding a syringe. I didn't like needles one bit. I can't remember much but I had be held down before as I was forcefully injected with a drug with bad effects. I thought it was going to be a repeat of last time. I was terrified. I did the only thing I could do.

"MUMMY!" I cried for her to save me.

She quickly pushed Ratchet away "What do you think you're doing? You're scaring him"

She calmed me down, stroking my head. "Ratchet, what are you trying to do?"

"I was trying to get a blood sample. I believe the blood in his arms and legs have become very de-oxygenated and it will have thickened as a result. If it is then we will need to get that blood out of him, otherwise if it reaches his heart he will have a massive heart attack and almost certainly die"

"Then get June to do it. It's quite clear that he scared of you right now"

He grunted and moved off.

"Thank you" I said to her.

"Anything to keep you safe. Michael, can you tell me what happened?"

I thought hard "No" I looked away, ashamed that I couldn't answer a simple question.

"Hey, hey it's ok. You're here now and that's all that matters"

"Where am I?"

"Why, your home sweetheart. With your family"

"Family?" I did remember I didn't have family apart from her.

"Well, sort of family. Are you hungry?" I nodded very enthusiastically.

"Good. I'll be back in a moment" She kissed me on the forehead and headed away to where ever.

I spent the time familiarizing myself to my surroundings. I could see lots of different medical type stuff. Many of which I had no idea what it did. I also saw familiar and not so familiar equipment, only they were massive. I saw other stuff such as a giant computer screen displaying a weird language I had no hope of reading. The roof was made of rock like the whole room was a cave or something similar.

After a while I ran out of things to look at so I had a go at trying to identify the medical equipment, but I just couldn't remember. Why couldn't I remember? So I worked on that. Why? I remember being held tightly in a metal hand. It wasn't Ratchet's and it certainly was Mummy's, so who? The hand was big and silver. I remember a gigantic cannon thing mounted on the forearm. Then the bicep, if that's what it's called. The shoulders were the shapes of big spikes. Clearly this robot has fighting designed in mind. But the face was a bit of a haze at first. One thing was clear, the eyes were red. That was my starting point. With that slowly the rest became clearer until the whole head was in perfect clarity. I had the mug shot of the whole who tried to kill me.

"Very clever" A voice said. I heard metallic footstep, only they were heavy, thumping and slow. I looked in the direction of the only way into the massive room I was in. I shadow appeared on the far wall of another robot which was much more massive than either Mummy or Ratchet. The shadow got slightly smaller as the robot in question moved from the light source, but as it did the shadow became clearer. The outline was exactly the same to the one I had a mental mug shot of. Then he appeared. The one I now feared the most. I quivered badly. I was more than scared, or even terrified. I was petrified.

He grinned and slowly made his way towards me with his arm extending to grab me.

I shrieked in utter terror. He still slowly approached. He enjoyed hearing me scream in fear of him like it was a drug. He got closer and closer and closer. I tried to break the bonds holding me to the bed, but as hard as I might, I couldn't. He was one step away to finishing me off when Mummy came bursting in and came running to my bedside, completely dismissing the evil robot.

"What is it? You alright?"

I whimpered "He's going to kill me, save me"

"Who's going to kill you?" She asked. How could she not see?

"Mummy he's right behind you" She turned around and looked right at him and then looked back.

"There's no one there"

The evil one manoeuvred around Mummy getting as close as he could. I stared right him, too scared to even make a noise. Then Mummy placed both her hands at each side of my head so I couldn't see except for only straight up. All I could see was her face.

"There's no one there sweetheart, I promise" She said calmly. She removed her hands and the evil robot had gone. It was just a figment of my imagination.

The emotions were too much to bear and I cried my heart out.

She placed her head right beside mine and as best I could I nuzzled her cheek affectionately.

"There, there my sweet little child. Your home now and no one will ever harm you here. Mummy's going to keep you safe"

We stayed like that for a few minutes until she moved back a bit and said "I'll get that soup" She stood back up and was turning around to leave again. I started to panic.

"Don't leave me" I cried. I didn't want to be on my own. She came back and stroked my head soothingly.

"Arcee! Could you come here for a minute?" She called out into the entrance of the room. Moments later another robot appeared. She was considerably smaller than the others. However I did recognise her from before.

"You're the angel" I said to her.

"Excuse me?"

"You're the angel, you saved me from the metal demon"

"Metal demon?" Mummy asked the one called Arcee

"I think he means Megatron" I shivered at the name. So that was the name of the one that tried to kill me, for a second time it turns out.

"Ratchet told us Michael was suffering from some sort of brain damage, like his mind had been scrambled. I thought he was joking with his dry humour"

"No, he wasn't. Could you keep him company for a few minutes? He hallucinated that he saw, I believe to be, Megatron right here. I think he's a bit scared to be left alone"

"Sure"

Mummy looked back at me "I'm only going to be a few minutes" She kissed my forehead and left. Arcee came to my bedside.

"How are you?"

"Ok" I said, slightly nervously.

She chortled "This is very similar to when we first met, remember?"

I shook my head "No"

"Well, after we got you back hear you were unconscious for days. When you woke up and you saw me and Optimus you were trying to hide under the sheets. Remember that?"

I shook my head again "No"

"Is there much you can remember?"

"Not really"

"Let's start with the basics. Your name?"

"Yes"

"Do you remember what your job is?"

"No"

"You drive ships, remember?"

I saw snippets of visions of myself on the bridge of a ship, then another. I nodded. "Yeah, yeah I remember. I remember" I said with some conviction.

"Good what else do you remember about yourself?"

"I remember a flag. I can't remember which country though"

"Can you describe it?"

"Yes, the top is white and the bottom is green with a red dragon in the centre"

"Hang on" She got up and went to the giant computer screen and typed away until an image of the flag I described showed up. "Is this it?"

"Yes, yes that's it"

"That's the flag of Wales. That's where you're from"

"I am?"

"Well, you were actually born in the Falkland Islands, but you did spend the majority of your life in Wales, remember?" I nodded slowly.

After a few minutes of talking, I started to remember the important details about my past. But it was cut short with mummy returning with the soup she was preparing.

She came to my bedside.

"I think I can manage, can I please be untied?"

"I'm sorry, it's for your own health for you to remained tied"

"Please?" I asked more desperately. I tried to break free, however as much as I tried I just couldn't but I could feel the straps were straining.

"I forgot how strong you can be at times. Please you need to stop that, you're going to hurt yourself" I gave up and relaxed against the straps. "Now you need to eat, open wide" So I did and she guided the spoon with tomato soup to its target. She waited for my approval of the soup before continuing, and it was good so she continued to feed me. I wasn't happy about this situation but I could tell there was a really good reason as to why it was happening, so I just accepted it.