Chapter 21: Miko's Birthday-Part 2

It has been four days until the big day and both Jack and Raf had kept Miko distracted doing those days until the Autobots had everything ready for the girl's surprise birthday party. Miko was again wondering what they were up to as she was still thinking about her mom was up to this particular situation. She didn't quite know what but felt that she would soon find out.

"Is the party ready for the birthday girl?" Jack asked in a low whisper, talking on his phone with Arcee.

"Almost, Jack. Just need to add some chocolate syrup to her cake and double check the decorations before we let the birthday girl have her day. So just keep her busy for just an hour, please," Arcee said while adding some chocolate syrup onto the twelve layer lemon pound cake.

"Alright. Bye," he said, hanging up his phone and going to his room where Miko was currently watching TV.

"So what are we going to do today, Jack Rabbit?" Miko asked with a smile while using his nickname that she had given him.

"Well we're going to have some fun, like playing some video games and and take a nice drive," he said, smiling at his girlfriend.

"Um, okay, Jack Rabbit, whatever you say," she said, giving him a playful wink.

As the two begin to do what they had planned, Raf was currently at the base and on his laptop, downloading music for the party since he didn't have the chance to do if he was hanging with his cousin. He was now currently waiting for the laptop to finish downloading all the music that he requested and also couldn't wait to see the machine that Jazz had put together for Miko since this was requested by Arcee, but he didn't have the slightest idea of what it was nor what it could do.

"Don't worry, sweetie, you will know what it does when Miko arrives here," Windblade said, getting her son's attention when noticing his eyes on the machine.

"Uh, yeah, Mom, I've been wondering know for a while," Raf replied b after seeing the download was completed and shut down his laptop down to rest. The two heard Arcee coming in with two types of cakes for the party as which was one normal cake that was decorated so colorfully, indicating it was Miko's cake while the other cake that was about her size was the Autobots. The tall cake that Arcee had baked specially was completely made out of a mixture of normal and Synthetic Energon dipped deep with fresh oil for flavor. "Wow I didn't know you guys can eat like us. In fact I never seen y'all eat at all," the boy said in surprise.

"That's because our bodies are built to last forever without the need to eat Energon or drink oil all the time, but it all depends if we are either bleeding out or our blood cells are running low from using our blasters," Arcee explained sweetly while putting the cakes down on different tables.

"That is the only way we need Energon, sweetie. On our planet, we mine Energon or grow our Cybertronian vegetables and fruits," Windblade said, remembering how the food tasted back home.

Raf was amazed on learning that the Bots do eat just like them only they can survive without the needs of eating or drinking, in which that was quite interesting to a human standard. In truth, Raf wanted to see Cybertron with his own eyes and get the chance to live on it for just a week, to have his dream come true about going to another planet, but sadly it couldn't happen since both he and Miko were human. Sometimes he wished that they were half human and half Cybertronian, but what were the chance of that happening?

"Unless...the Allspark," Raf thought to himself.

Time flew by and, getting the text from Arcee saying that Jazz was coming to pick them up and also telling him to blindfold Miko when coming to the base, Jack did exactly what had been asked and didn't hesitate on blindfolding his girlfriend, right before helping her get into Jazz and drove off. "Why do I need to be blindfolded Jack? What are you up to?" Miko asked, being serious about this, but also curious.

"Now if I told you, then it won't be fun," Jack said, making sure not to spill out information about her surprise birthday.

"Alright you two, put on your seatbelts, cause I don't want to get pulled over by a cop," Jazz informed, remembering one time he had to outrun a cop for accidently driving over the speed limit, and made a good getaway escape. Optimus had asked him to be more careful next time, to which he had promised to be.

It didn't take long for Jazz to drive back to the base and Jack went around the car to help get Miko out and allow Jazz to transform back. Smiling brightly, he then took off her blindfold to allow Miko to see a lot of balloons, confetti, and so many the banner saying "Happy 15th Birthday Miko" on it, before everyone in the room shouted loud and clear.

"Happy Birthday!"

The only person that wasn't there was Optimus since it was a known fact that Primes don't party. But instead of smiling for her birthday party, Miko had a blank pointed look on her face that was directed at Arcee, who could see that her daughter wasn't the least bit happy about the party and could tell that she was going to be upset about the whole thing.

"I thought we agreed that I didn't want a birthday party, much less celebrate. And yet, you do it anyway, Mom." Miko said, bitterness in her voice.

"Look, little girl, I've worked so hard to put this together and I wanted you to have your very own party. So why don't you smile and be happy?" Arcee, who was hurt and upset on the inside knowing that those foster parents had really messed up the girl's head with so much lies and bring so much abuse in her life, said.

Before Miko could open her mouth for a argument, she was then met by Windblade, who picked her up off the ground and headed towards the machine that she had Jazz build.

The teenager looked and saw it was two separate chairs that were hooked up to the computer and got put down on the chair table, not even arguing with her aunt when she plugged a heavy duty cord to the back of her head as she was confused about this, something her aunt saw.

"Miko, since you've refused to give your mom all the information about your past and only giving her a little bit, she came to me and Jazz to build this machine that is called the psychic patch. This device will help us see what you're hiding in that brain of yours and see what happened to you over the years before you even met us," Windblade explained when putting the other cord to the back of her head, going over to start the machine while Arcee was so desperate to know about her baby's past, and got so tired of getting a little bit of information and so this was the only way of knowing absolutely everything.

"Mom, is this going to hurt me?" Miko asked, scared, but then calmed down by her mother's soft hand rubbing her cheek.

"It won't hurt, sweetspark I promise. It's just like playing a virtual game, pumpkin. That's all," Arcee said, smiling sweetly at her baby sparkling.

Before Miko could say anything else, she was then gently knocked out with her eyes wide, but then relaxed, closing them and was officially in a dream-like state while Windblade begin working on the memories that were in the girls head while everyone in the room was looking up at the screen to see Miko's private memories being exposed to their sight, watching on to learn more about the Japanese girl they were so fond of.

"Where should I go first, Arcee?" The femme operating the machine asked.

"Let's start when she's just a baby sparkling, Windblade. Let's start form there," Arcee informed, seeing the image of her little girl being played for their eyes to see.

"Cybertron technology is so much more superior than Earth technology," Raf said in amazement.

"You have no idea, kid. No idea indeed, buddy," Grimlock said.

The room became quiet as the first memories were played before them.

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