The weeks passed and most days were spent at the Autobot base. While Jayce became quick friends with everyone Jemina was more reserved and almost melted into the shadows most of the time and very rarely talked. However, she knew quite a bit, often when Jack or Miko got stuck on a problem in homework, especially in math, she knew exactly how to solve it. She always had her nose stuck in some book, whether that was a school, fiction, or an art book it didn't matter, but was very observant. Quite often both all of the 'bot and humans forgot that she was around but that was fine with her, she would observe and watch but not very often get involved. She was, in a sense the Autobot's Soundwave.
Throughout the weeks Jemina noticed how her 'touch' with technology only got worse. Whenever she was sad, scared, or upset the technology she was around would begin to fritz out, or whenever she was happy, angry, or just living life the technology would begin to 'charge' in a sense. She often could feel energy just humming around her. One time Raf was playing a computer game and Jemina came over to see what he was doing. She was a bit upset, having just reread the MIA papers, and his computer stopped working, "What's going on?" Raf looked at his computer, picked it up and began flipping it around. Jemina took a few steps back and the computer began working again. "Huh," Raf set it down and began playing again and Jemina stepped closer to the computer, it stopped working again, strange. "Really? What is going on?" Jemina walked away from the computer and it was fine, stay away from Raf's computer, Jemina made a mental note. But it was incidences like that that were occurring all the time around her.
Fowler came in, having decided that it was time for an update from the 'bots, "Hello Prime," He offered as he walked in.
"Hello Agent Fowler. Do you need something?" Optimus was confused as to what the man's purpose here was.
"Just a report, how are things going here?" He looked around, they had cleaned up pretty well since the infestation.
Ratchet answered for Optimus, "Since the infestation and eradication, nothing to raise attention."
"Well that's reassuring, how are the kids? Speaking of which, where are they?" Fowler asked looking around.
"Miko and Bulkhead are out dun-bashing; Bee, Raf, and Jayce are out racing RC cars, and Jack's at work." Arcee informed, walking into the main room.
Fowler raised an eyebrow, "And where's the other one, Jemina?"
Jemina looked down from the platform at Fowler, though he didn't see her, and said nothing. After giving him a onceover she turned around and went back to the book she had been reading. "She's…here." Optimus replied, sensing her obvious vibe of not wanting to speak to Fowler.
"She still doesn't like me huh?" Not that Fowler had done anything to try and get the girl to like him.
"Hmm…well, you heard our report, nothing has happened since the Scraplet infestation. Is there anything else you need?" Optimus asked.
Fowler looked up at Optimus, "Yeah, I just want to hear from the kids how things are going here. Need every side of you know."
"I understand, though it could be a while before they return." Optimus informed.
"I can wait." Fowler then began walking up the stairs to the platform top and took a seat on the couch to wait.
"So what is it that you want to know?" Jemina asked a couple minutes later.
Fowler hadn't seen Jemina sitting in the far corner, and so jumped off the couch and nearly fell over the homemade coffee table and let out a small yelp at her question, "Who…wha…" He clutched his heart when he saw Jemina move to put down the book.
"I asked, what is it that you want to know?" Jemina repeated the question.
Fowler looked at her with eyes wide, "When did you get here?"
She replied coolly, "I've been here."
"You scared me half to death!" He was still trying to calm his heart down.
"Yeah, so?" She got that a lot from people.
:She'd make a great scout.: Bee informed.
"That she would, if you can sneak up on Fowler then you're golden." Arcee agreed, "When did you guys get back?"
"A few minutes ago, long enough to see Jemina scare Fowler." Raf laughed.
"It's not funny!" Fowler retorted, "Have you ever had this girl scare you before?"
"Well, not on purpose. But she's given us all an unintentional scare at least once, it kinda comes with having a quiet nature." Raf shot back.
"I didn't mean to scare you Fowler, all I did was ask a question." Jemina had her head in the book again.
"Intentional or not, it still scared me half to death. As for my question, I wanted to know how things are going here for you guys?" Fowler had finally calmed down.
"It's been fine for me, glad the Scraplets are gone though." Raf answered.
Jayce piped up, "I've been great! The 'bots are really fun." Fowler nodded and looked at Jemina for her input.
"I'm fine." Jemina got up, closed her book and started descending the stairs to the platform.
Fowler looked at the girl as she walked to the platform, "Look I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot but you don't need to shun me." He was a bit peeved.
"I'm not trying to shun you," Jemina turned around and looked at him, "I merely need some time to think."
"Think about what? What could be so heavy on your mind that you act like…like that?" Fowler gestured to Jemina.
"Many things Fowler, many things…like how to provide for my brother to begin with." Jemina turned around and continued to walk.
"Provide for your brother?" Fowler looked down at Jayce. He in turn just looked at the floor like he knew something but he didn't want to tell. "Aren't your parents supposed to do that? Where are they Jemina? If you tell me I might be able to help you."
Jemina stopped and the lights almost went out, "I'm sorry Fowler but I can't, at least not right now." She turned her head and blinked her eyes a couple of times to keep the tears from flowing, then continued walking and stepped off the platform entirely.
"Prime, can't you keep the lights on?" Fowler all but shouted.
"Primitive human technology, I swear that I've changed the bulbs at least twice and yet they still are having issues!" Ratchet began running diagnostics to try and find the problem, "I don't understand it. There's nothing wrong, wait. It says that there was a slight power drain that caused it. What could have caused the power drain? The Scraplets have been eradicated and I've run scans throughout the entire base, so it couldn't be them." Ratchet became lost in thought.
"Did the readout say where the lost power went?" Raf asked thinking maybe they could track it.
"That's another thing that is weird, it says that energy stayed here in this room. And what's really frustrating is it keeps happening." Ratchet continued typing away at the computer. The lights came back on and everyone looked around to see what happened.
"Now that's just creepy." Fowler said as he looked around.
Optimus looked around and noticed that there was a person missing. He walked out of the main room and down the corridor to find her walking down the hallway. "Care for some company?"
Jemina turned her head and saw Optimus, "Hu, oh hi. Sure."
"What is on your mind? It's just us, you don't need to be afraid to say what it is that you're feeling."
Jemina sighed, she didn't really want to talk about her parents. "I'm just worried is all, and kinda creeped out."
"May I ask why you are 'creeped' out?" He had heard that expression used by the kids but had yet to use it himself.
"It's the lights, well, any technology that I get close to really. It just seems to get worse."
"Ratchet is working on the lights, they should be fixed soon if they're not already." Optimus didn't understand why the lights flickering would creep someone out.
"No, it's not just the lights. Any technology I get near, especially when I'm emotional in a negative way, just goes on the fritz. It's annoying to begin with but now it seems that the lights decided that they need to apart of the party." Jemina just shook her head, this was crazy.
"I can have Ratchet examine you to see if there is an anomaly of some kind, though to be honest I don't know what we would find." He looked down the hallway they had turned into.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt." The lights in the hallway dimmed and almost went out, "See? This is what I'm talking about! I can't catch a break!" The lights suddenly brightened and nearly blinded the two. "This is sooo annoying."
Optimus observed the lights behavior and Jemina's emotions before speaking again, "The lights seem to brighten and dim according to your emotions…I do not believe that is common in humans."
"You're right there. Frying tech sure, my mom did it and unfortunately I inherited that from her, but not having lights dim and brighten according to your mood."
"I will have Ratchet look into it. Jemina," Optimus stopped which made Jemina stop and look at him, "I wish to know what happened to your parents. I know that this is a touchy subject but…"
Jemina cut him off, she was making a terrible habit of that, "I get it, there never home and I said that I'm basically providing for my brother…look before I tell you anything promise me you won't say anything to the other 'bots or any of the kids kay?"
"I promise you that it will stay with me." Optimus gave her his word.
That seemed good enough to Jemina as she nodded her head then told him, "Their MIA, it happened a little over a month ago."
"Does your brother know?"
"Yeah, I told him about a week after it happened." The lights began to grow dim again, "O' for crying out loud, can you just stay lit?"
The lights brightened and Optimus laughed. "I'm sorry but if I may ask, why haven't you informed agent Fowler?"
"Because if he couldn't find them in the system before I doubt he could even if he knew they were MIA. Besides all he would do would be to ask questions that I don't feel like answering. But maybe…no, not right know." Jemina shook her head as though to shake out a thought. By the time she finished they had circled back to the main room.
The lights dimmed in the main room as Jemina entered, she just rolled her eyes, and walked up to the platform. "Whoa, doc. Bot you seriously need to get the lights change." Miko jumped up from the couch at the sudden loss of light.
"That's what I've been trying to do Miko but I can't isolate the problem." Ratchet was thoroughly peeved.
"When did you guys get back? Fowler gone?" Jemina asked as she reached the top.
"About five minutes ago and, yeah, he left shortly after we got back. Where've you been?" Miko crossed her arms accusingly.
"Walking, why?" Jemina took a seat at the table and picked up her book.
"No reason, you wanna play a game?" Miko handed Jemina a remote controller.
"Probably not a good idea right now. Sorry." Miko shrugged and handed the controller to Raf.
Optimus walked over to Ratchet and asked in the quietest voice he could, "Ratchet, please scan Jemina for any…anomalies. Specifically energy fields."
"Sure, but may I ask why?" Ratchet replied equally quiet.
"She and I believe that she is somehow involved with the lights."
"Involved with the lights? Explain." Ratchet gave Optimus a stern look.
Optimus explain what happened in the hallway with the lights and what Jemina had said had been happening. "I believe that she might have some kind of unusual energy field that can cause the lights flickering."
"I'm sorry Optimus, but you're saying that a human is causing these disturbances? Not even a Cybertronian could cause this without some kind of machine. If it's Jemina causing this I will personally eat my wrench! But I'll run a scan anyway, don't know what you hope to find." Ratchet muttered the last part as Optimus thanked him and turned away. "Jemina! Come here please."
Jemina looked at Optimus and he gave her a nod so she got up and walked down the off the platform. "Yeah Ratchet?"
"Optimus asked me to run a few scans on you, so if you don't mind…" He offered her a hand, which she accepted, and lifted her up to his workstation. "This shouldn't hurt, in fact you shouldn't feel it at all." He pressed a few buttons on a device and began the scan, it lasted about five minutes before it finally ended. "You can go now." Ratchet turned away to proses the information, or lack thereof, the scanner had collected.
"Um, Ratchet?" Jemina stood on the workbench still.
"What? Oh…" He helped her down and she went back up to where the kids where racing.
Nearly an hour passed before Ratchet gave up on the scanner, "Gah, I give up!" Ratchet threw his hands in the air and left the scanner on the table.
"Is there something wrong Ratchet?" Optimus asked.
"Yes, it these scan readings. They make absolutely no sense!"
Optimus looked somewhat confused before hiding it, "Why?"
"Because, well look!" Ratchet pointed to the readings.
"I see some kind of energy field that expands and contracts but nothing more."
"Where to begin. First off a human shouldn't have these kind of readings."
Optimus nodded his head, "Yes, but I figured there would be some kind of anomaly with Jemina considering the light patterns and how they correlate with Jemina's emotions."
"But this," Ratchet gestured to the reading again, "This should not even be present in a Cybertronian. It's something I've never seen before. I mean look, at that influx right there. What do you see?" Ratchet pointed to a tiny speck on the monitor.
Optimus squinted his eyes so that he could properly see what Ratchet was pointing at, "It almost looks like, Energon?"
"Yes, Energon. But the next second it converts to static electricity."
"Ratchet, could it be possible that a human would be capable of converting one form of energy into another?" Optimus was now also very confused.
"Maybe…in another dimension, but certainly not this one. At least there's no way that I can see."
Optimus nodded his head, "Hey, Ratchet, Optimus. Find anything?" Jemina leaned on the rail and looked over at them, she had actually heard the entire conversation but thought it would be better to ask.
"I think that we might have. Have you noticed any kind of energy field around you?" Optimus asked.
"Yeah, come to think of it. I wouldn't call it an energy field but for the past couple of weeks I've been able to, well, feel energy around me." Jemina looked down at her feet, "Why?"
"Ratchet found through his scans, energy influxes and changes surrounding you. It's very odd, we've never actually see it before." Optimus explained.
"Sooo, you're saying that I can change energy form one form into another?" Jemina asked skeptically.
Ratchet nodded his head, "Yes, though as to how you are able to I don't know."
"Do you realize just how crazy this sounds, even from you?" Jemina didn't really know what to think.
"Yes we do but we have no other explanation." Optimus agreed.
Jemina seriously was questioning her sanity, "Fine, let's just say I can convert energy to different forms of energy. How does that explain the lights?"
"When your mood takes a negative, or draining, turn you subconsciously take energy another source, the energy for the lights bulbs in this case, to fill the loss." Ratchet explained.
"And how do you know that?" Jemina raised an eyebrow.
"It's an educated guess, I do not know for sure but it's the best I can come up with."
"Uh-hu, and I've officially lost my mind." Jemina turned to walk down the platform.
"Where're you going?" Miko asked, "You just found out that you're some kind of super human and you're just going to walk away?"
Jemina shot back sarcastically, "No, not walk away. I'm going to retrace my steps and try and find my sanity that I'm pretty sure got lost in the tunnel. Maybe I'm dreaming this whole thing and I'll wake up to find everything the way it should be."
"Jemina I know this is hard to accept, even I have trouble believing it, but we want to help you." Optimus tried to console the girl.
"How? How are you going to help me? I'm some kind of freak that can't even keep feeling hidden from others because there are lights, and you know how inconsiderate they are." As though to prove her point the lights brightened. Jemina in return just growled, "Where would I even begin to control…this?" She waved her hands in the air. They all just stood there for a few minutes in silence, even Miko, as Jemina tried to collect her thoughts.
"We start at the basics," It was Ratchet that spoke, surprising Jemina.
"Yeah. First we, you, learn how to control the lights and we go from there." Raf really wanted to help in this endeavor. I mean, how often do you get to help a girl with electrical powers?
"I guess it wouldn't hurt to try…where do we start?" Jemina asked with a new look in her eyes.
Optimus answered her with a grin, "Right here, right now."
Aaaalright, chapter 11 is done! Sorry for the wait but life happens and you all know how that is. Soooo...a great big thanks to all you who have favorited, followed, and reviewed, you guys are AWESOME! Speaking of reviews...now that I'm in the canon I need ideas on what episodes I should use as I am not planning on using all of them. Also I greatly appreciate any and all reviews, I really enjoy seeing just what exactly people think and it prompts me to write faster, hint hint, so please review and tell me what you think, or ask me questions. Until the next chapter!