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Well, since in the canon Ratchet had to have scanned Smokescreen many times before they ever knew of the keys existence but never picked anything up...I'm assuming they have a cloaking devise or something like that. Yes, you are correct :) Her world is about to be turned on end...again :p

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Jemina and Optimus raced through the desert, Jemina laughing the entire time, slowing once the base was in sight. Optimus transformed and both Jemina and him put on a façade, keeping their laughter inside. Jemina reached the top and saw Miko and Bulkhead watching a monster truck rally, nothing that wasn't common, "Jemina, come here please." Ratchet called.

What'd I do? "Yeah?" She called out and uncertainly walked over.

He picked something up he had been working on, "I want to know if this fits."

"If it fits?" She asked, eye eyebrow raising uncertainty.

"Yes, now come here." She walked over and he activated his holoform, fastening something to her waist before pulling up some kind of coding.

Optimus walked over, "What are you doing?"

"I have no idea," Jemina shrugged, "He keeps mumbling something about fitting and bio-code."

Optimus' optics widened in realization, "Ah."

"You know what he's doing?"

"Yes, I asked Ratchet if he could build it a month ago."

Jemina looked questioningly at him as Ratchet spoke up, "There, the bio-code is locked in and it should be fully functional."

"Can I ask what it does?" Although she was almost afraid to know what it did.

"Certainty," Ratchet pressed a button on the belt and a second later she was encased in metal. Ratchet looked it over, "Well it works there, how does it feel?"

"…Cold and…what the frack just happened?!" She yelled at Ratchet, she bent her figures and looked at them through the visor. They were gauntleted in a silver-ish grey metal; there was about half a centimeter of room between her hand and forearm that was covered in a darker blue almost black mesh, the mesh was covering everything that wasn't protected by a solid piece of metal…so every joint. Certain pieces of the armor where a blueish/gray, as if to offset the larger amounts of the greyish metal.

"It is armor, made from some left over Cybertronian metal. With all your, encounters, Optimus believed that it would be best I you had some more external protection."

"That's, great. How do I get it off?"

Ratchet leaned forward and touched a very small section of the armor, "If you press here just a pit it will deactivate. I have set it so only Optimus, you, and myself can deactivate it."

Jemina nodded, "Uh thanks, I think."

"It was a fun project." Ratchet shrugged before returning to his computers.

Jemina walked down the platform towards the training room, fiddling with the belt most of the time, only to find Optimus already there. Opps, she turned to leave, "I was waiting for you."

"You were?"

He nodded, "I figured you would want to get used it."

"It is awkward…" She messed with it more, "Dare I asked how often you want this on me?"

"Probably not." He smiled. She thought it strange, he very rarely smiled or showed much to any emotion around the others yet when it was her, he didn't even try and hold anything back.

"Oh goody." She replied sarcastically.

"So what were you planning to do?" Optimus asked activating his holoform.

"When I was in the mine with Megatron," She stopped for a second to compose herself, still a little horrified by the incident, "There was something that happened with my powers but I have no idea what happened or even what I really did…"

"So you're trying to figure it out?"

She nodded, "Mhm."

"Well let's see what we can figure out." Jemina smiled and they got to work.

Ratchet stood at the computer console trying to find anything of interest, such as exposed Energon of something else of the like. What he wasn't expecting, or anyone for that matter, was a deafening boom as the base seemed to shake, "We're under attack!" Bulkhead shouted.

Ratchet ran a quick scan and found the origin of the blast, "It came from the training room!" Ratchet shouted as all 'bots and humans ran to said area.

As they rounded the last corner they heard voices, "Optimus! Are you ok?!" It was obviously Jemina.

There was some groaning, "I believe so, scans show no damage beyond a few dents."

"Oh my gosh, I am never doing that again! Are you sure you're ok?"

There was a laugh, "Yes Jemina I am fine. I think you were more traumatized by it than I."

"You're dang right I was! I thought I killed you for a second."

The 'bots and humans entered the room, Fowler spoke after taking in the practically demolished room, "What in the name of Sam Hill, happened?!" He was calm in voice, until the last word which he shouted.

"Um…" Jemina looked down at the floor as if ashamed.

Optimus spoke for her, "Jemina was trying to figure out how one of her abilities worked."

"I hope you did." Ratchet looked at the girl, she still hadn't met anyone in the eye yet.

"We learned what it was…we still need to work on controlling it."

"Not with anyone in the room I'm not." Jemina growled.

"What was it?" Jack asked

"It…uh…well…help?" Jemina looked at Optimus, not even sure herself.

"It was something akin to a sonic blast."

All eyes just looked at Jemina as she kicked the floor, "The attention really isn't helping." She mumbled to herself.

"A sonic blast?" Ratchet asked baffled, "But, how? How is that possible?"

"How is anything I do possible?!" Jemina asked Ratchet.

"W-well…" He was at a loss for words.

"Exactly." She looked around the room as if for the first time, "That's going to be fun to clean up…"

Ratchet scanned Optimus, "You're fine, though I don't suggest being hit with anymore, waves."

"Yeah, not preferable on either account." Jemina nodded.

They began cleaning the room, the 'bots doing the heavy work while the kids, Fowler having left, brought them tools. Shortly it was cleaned and Jack and Raf left the base to work on a computer project they had due. Optimus, Bee, and Arcee had left a short while ago to find some relic Ratchet had located. Miko and Bulkhead returned to rally and Jemina sat down with a paper and pencil and began thinking. She wrote down some things before staring off into space, Ratchet noticed and asked, "What are your gears turning for?"

"Hm? I was trying to think about what the connection is to all my, abilities is."

Ratchet looked at her paper, it was a list of the abilities she had uncovered thus far, "Energy shield, energy conversion, electrical bolts, energy pulses, sound blasts. You're just a human arsenal aren't you."

Jemina just glared at Ratchet, "If I could I'd slug you for that." Then her face suddenly changed and she read over the paper again, "Wait."

"What? You find something?"

"Yeah, all of them are related to energy, some of them are electrical like the shield, bolts and the pulses I use to control technology. But like the sound blast is a different energy…still energy, but different."

"Hm, manipulation of energy…for anyone else I would say that's impossible…"

"Not impossible, only improbable…and I tend to find the improbable's a lot."

"It makes sense." Ratchet nodded, "I wonder what else will derive from this."

"Well I'm not stopping here." Jemina smiled and Ratchet grinned.

"I hope not." He continued monitoring.

Jemina stood then quickly sat down with a grimace, her hand clutching her chest. She look over at Ratchet, he hasn't noticed, good. She quickly got down off the platform and speed walked out of the room. Once safely away she leaned against a wall and took in a shaky breath. She didn't know what happened, one moment she was fine and the next…she felt like something was stabbing her heart. She was fine now, maybe I just needed a walk…she didn't realize that the key was pulsating once again. She walked for a while before circling around and coming back around to the main room, she entered in to Ratchet and Miko talking, "…Wait, where are you?"

"*D'oy! I'm with the thingamabob.*"

"Thingama…the data cylinder!" Ratchet cried out.

"*Yes. Can you bridge it out of here?*"

"I'll reactivate arrival coordinates."

Jemina held a look of really, though Ratchet missed it, "You might want to bridge it closer to Miko."

"*Dude, can you open it any closer?*" Miko yelled.

Ratchet huffed, "Supply coordinates."

"*Um…fifty yards?*"

"Precise coordinates."

"Ratchet we don't have computers built inside of us. I'd be surprised if Miko even knew what continent she's on." Jemina deadpanned while Ratchet glared at her, "You may as well go through the bridge and grab it if you can because I think it would likely be pretty big compared to Miko given the general size of everything Cybertronian."

Ratchet grumbled something about making logical arguments before he turned to her, "Man the ground bridge."

"Ay'y captain." Jemina saluted halfheartedly and made her way up the stair as Jayce tried to run down. She caught him, "And where do you think you're going?"

"Out with Ratchet." He answered.

"I don't think so."

"But Miko did!" Jayce argued.

Jemina huffed, "Miko would do it if Unicron was rising and the world was a radioactive waste land."

"It's not fair!" He shouted.

"Sure, trying to keep you from being squished in an alien war is being unfair."

"I mean it's unfair that you guys get to do all the cool stuff, you went to Cybertron for crying out loud!"

"I thought I had died when I went to Cybertron!" Jemina yelled back just as loud. Jayce's eyes went wide and she knelt down and griped his shoulders, "Look Jayce, I'm sorry. It's just I don't want to see you hurt because of me getting us into this mess. I've already been hurt, a lot, and I probably will be more." She thought about what Alpha Trion said about her changing because of the key, though she had absolutely no idea what that meant. She just hoped it had something to do with her character or something, "I just, I can't bear the thought of you being hurt. You're my brother, my little brother and I love you, I don't want to lose you."

"And I want to lose you?" He asked in his high pitched child's voice.

She smiled lovingly at him and pulled him into a hug, "No." She ruffled his hair and he whined, "Sometimes I think your older than you are…then there are other times I swear you're a three-year-old."

He glared at her before Ratchet's voice came through the com, "*Jemina, we need a ground bridge.*"

"On it." A second later she had opened the ground bridge and the team came through, no cylinder in hand. Uh-oh, "Uh, did the Decepticons..?"

Optimus nodded, "Unfortunately."

Ratchet began an examination on Bulkhead as he protested, "I helped lose that thing. I want to help find it. I need to get back in the field with Optimus."

"Eh, eh, you're under my watch now. Optimus' orders. And running a full scan of your neural net would be a wiser use of your time."

"Come on doc. There's nothing up there to scan."

"He seems fine to me." Miko piped up.

"Jemina, help me out, you're the escape artist with Ratchet."

She held up her hands and backed away shaking her head, "A good magician never reveals her secrets."

"Ha!" Ratchet laughed, "Escapee yes, magician…"

"Whatever." Jemina huffed.

He sighed, "Well, if you insist on making yourself useful, you can help Miko, Jayce, and Jemina tidy up."

"Jayce, clean? That's funny, let me know when it actually happens." Jemina waved her arm goodbye.

"Where do you think you're going?" Ratchet asked.

"Practice my powers, they need work and I have to clean my entire house at least once a week." She shouted back leaving the room.

"Aw! He's made with power and Jemina totally ditched us!" Miko groaned.

Bulkhead laughed, "That's Ratchet, no vector squared alright."

Jemina's breath hitched in her mouth as she heard Bulkhead faintly in the hallway, it happened. She shook her head, she really couldn't worry about this, there was nothing she could do…well there was but...she felt a headache coming on from thinking about it. Just go practice, there's nothing I can do anyway for a while. Maybe if I can keep Miko in the base with Ratchet, Optimus could get the cylinder back and the information out of Bulkhead. She began experimenting with different sound wave frequencies, learning very quickly to not point them towards herself even when trying to figure it out. Also high frequencies were down right annoying in sound, though it shattered the lightbulbs pretty effectively. But then we'd also be handing Megatron the formula for the synthetic Energon. Uhg, why do I have to know all of this! She sent a low frequency flying towards wall, it seriously denting the metal and ricocheting off the walls, not as loud as the first time but enough to show her frustration. You know it's a good thing my more dangerous powers aren't as affected by my emotions, I'd be horrible at controlling them like Storm. She eyed the wall apologetically, even though she knew it didn't have feelings.

She spent another hour practicing her new ability before Arcee and Bumblebee walked in, "Since you're here you want to practice some more?" Arcee asked, sensing Jemina's need to blow off some steam. Though what for she had no idea.

"Sure," She shrugged. She worked with Bee most of the time, picking up on the maneuvers and only slowing a bit when they came to a completely foreign topic, but even that she learned quickly compared to most.

Optimus came in a while later, "Arcee, Bumblebee I am in need of your assistance."

They nodded and left, Jemina however just stayed in the room. Minutes after they left the pain returned for a second and she clutched her chest and clenched her eyes closed. She really should tell Ratchet about this but she didn't want to. It only lasted a second anyway, probably just strained a muscle, nothing to worry about. She leaned against the wall and took in a breath, her mind was currently a mess, "Jemina?" A small but high pitched voice asked.

"Hey Jayce."

"You ok?" He walked over.

She smiled and nodded, "I'm fine, just lot's to think about." He nodded and yawned. Smiling she picked him up, still just small enough so she could carry him. He didn't resist like normal and instead just laid his head on her should and fell asleep, his soft, even breaths echoing in her ear, "You're up way past you bed time mister." She laughed quietly. Wandering through the halls they eventually came back to the main room. Carefully walking up the steps she set her brother down on the couch, he's so young yet he's been forced to endure so much. I wonder if he even remembers mom and dad very well anymore past the nightmares he has. She stoked her had through his hair and gave him a kiss on his forehead. She jumped up instantly when she heard the ground bridge, "Miko!" She hissed.

Miko and Bulkhead went through the bridge and Jemina ran after then while looking for Ratchet, who was nowhere to be seen. She went through just before it closed and heard a Miko, "Look! You love monster trucks. Remember when we snuck in here after the show last week?"

"Mass times diffusion rate squared is constant." Bulkhead blabbered on.

"Miko!" Jemina shouted, "What are you doing?!"

"Trying to get Bulkhead to remember me!"

Jemina sighed and answered Miko calmly, "He's not going to remember you or anything else until he gets that formula out of his head."

"And when will that be?" Miko snapped.

"I don't know Miko, but we need to get him back to base before the Decepticons track the energy signal."

"Too late for that I'm afraid." A voice snarled behind them.

Both Miko and Jemina jumped at Knockout's voice, "Follow me right now, or these guys are gonna…steal the formula!" Miko shouted at Bulkhead.

Jemina grabbed Miko's arm, "Get Bulkhead hidden, I'm going to see if I can get Ratchet." Miko nodded and Jemina ran through a large tunnel meant for the cars.

Bulkhead looked distraught, "Come on, come on!" Miko shouted.

Jemina was currently weaving through the monster trucks, she still couldn't reach Ratchet! She then heard Knockout and Breakdown walking through the parked cars, "Okay then, fun and games."

Not sure how this classifies as fun…she carefully and quietly moved from one car to another, making her way towards another exit when Breakdown suddenly blocked her path. She dove under a car and relieved to find he hadn't actually seen her, "Come on." She whispered quietly and harshly to her phone, still not receiving a signal.

"Come out, come out wherever you are."

If there was ever to use the title of world's best hider for hide-and-seek it's now. Jemina thought quietly to herself. She saw Miko underneath the cars as Knockout came too close for comfort.

"Bulkhead…is that you?" She watched as Miko made a run for it but made the mistake of running into the 'con's line of sight. He went to grab her when Knockout stopped him, giving Miko the time she needed to disappear again.

"Breakdown, forget the human. Games are only fun to play…when you're winning." He activated a scanner and Jemina focused all her energy into frying it. It went up in sparks, "She's here to?!" He growled, "Well, we'll just have to bring you with us Jemina."

Hey, at least he's using my name know and not calling me human or squish all the time. Jemina shrugged but made no move or noise.

They played this game, the humans trying to escape but always having to retreat because the Decepticons would get in the way, for another five minutes before Knockout actually found Bulkhead, "En3 divided by the square root of the propulsion factor equals…" Bulkhead painted the answer on Knockout's chasse before turning to make his getaway.

"You painted my paint job! Prepare for surgery!" Knockout yelled.

"Well, there goes the 'keep Bulkhead hidden' plan." Jemina mumbled as she ran towards Bulkhead, who was a considerable distance away.

She saw as Breakdown slugged Bulkhead, Bulkhead having lost his fighting skills with the formula takeover, and fell to the ground, "Heads, you lose." Knockout laughed.

Jemina ran to where Bulkhead had fallen, seeing Miko not too far behind. Just as Knockout's blade came close to she let out a subsonic wave that threw Knockout off of Bulkhead. She took in a deep breath and continued towards Bulkhead, training for most of the day and then using your powers to fight off Knockout is not recommended. Jemina thought to herself, there's only one option left…she ran towards Bulkhead and Breakdown tried to shot her away, the ensuing shockwave from the blast threw her against Bulkhead's helm but did nothing.

She shakily stood then ducked as Miko missed Breakdown's retreating hand and she too hit Bulkhead's helm, though this time his optics shot open and a red energy shot out of them and into the sky, "I did it again?" Miko asked as the two 'cons took cover.

Jemina nodded, "Uh-hu." Why didn't it do it when I hit him? I defiantly hit him harder than Miko…she watched as Knockout scanned Bulkhead with his arm scanner.

"Dead battery. Megatron will peel our paint for losing that data."

Breakdown transformed one of his fists into a hammer, "So we're gonna have to peel you."

"Or peel out of here." Knockout said quickly seeing the Autobots come through a ground bridge then transforming and driving away.

"Bulkhead..?" Miko cried.

Jemina walked over and placed an arm around her, "He'll be ok once Ratchet checks him over."

The 'bots took them back through the bridge and Ratchet began scanning him, "The data has been fully expelled, but Bulkhead remains completely unresponsive."

"Because the energy took Bulkhead's mind with it, lost to the stars." Miko said mournfully, "It's my fault you'll never know the rest of the formula, and it's my fault Bulkhead's gone forever."

"If we hadn't gotten the data out it would have happened anyway." Jemina whispered to her.

Optimus spoke up, "Miko, your quick thinking prevented the formula from falling into Decepticon hands."

"If anyone would have backed that play, it's Bulkhead." Arcee said, Bee nodding in agreement.

Ratchet walked over, "It's simply too early to know the extent of his condition. Something as simple as a familiar sight or smell, perhaps even a sound, could trigger Bulkhead's awakening."

Miko suddenly perked up, "Sound?"

Jemina smiled, "Play it loud Miko, 'cause it's the only time I'm not going to complain about it."

Miko ran up the platform and plugged in her guitar. She hit the strings and the sound echoed throughout the room, starling Jayce awake as Jemina held him close. They all stared at Bulkhead for a second until a monitor started beeping, "Bulkhead?"

Bulkhead sat up and imitated Miko's guitar, "I love that song! Miko."

Miko all but dropped her guitar to run to Bulkhead, "You're ok!"

Jayce yawned, "Tell Miko to be quiet…I'm tire…" Jayce fell back asleep on Jemina's shoulder.

"I should get you to bed, Ratchet, can you bridge us out?" He nodded and she walked through carrying her brother to bed.

Sorry for the bit of mushy-gushy between Jemina and Jayce, i just had very little of them bonding recently i thought it needed to be here. Review you awesome readers!