Walking down the corridor with the unusual blond in the lead, Jack and Raph listened to Mitzi's humming.
"So you've really lived here?" Raph finally asked as Mitzi stopped in front of a wall.
"Mm hmm, yep. It was boring most of the time, I had to stay pretty quiet so I wouldn't be heard. Give me a second." She asked them, and pulling a beret out of her hair started slowly unscrewing four bolts that kept a section of wall steady. Carefully pushing the wall aside she stepped through and motioned the two boys in. Closing the wall behind her, the trio were encompassed in darkness. "Oh yeah, light please." Mitzi called out, and bulbs hanging over them clicked on as Mitzi turned to screw the bolts back in from the opposite side. "Crit helped me with this. The wall is slidable, not one of those that can be taken off so all I have to do is unscrew, slide, step through, and rescrew. Not to complicated right?" Mitzi smiled as she started walking down the hallway behind the wall.
"Where's your room?" Raph asked as he followed the once again humming blond.
"Oh, down the hall aways. There's a lot of room back here, and besides my room I have other rooms to play and hang out in. I'd get pretty bored if it was simply my room back here." The girl replied with a laugh, and after a minute of walking stopped to slide a wall aside. "The wall back there is the one in the real hall, but this section is unknown to any of your friends. Crit and May helped me make it, and this is my room. Light please." Mitzi called out again, and the room burst into brightness. A large silver bed took dominance in the corner, a simple little red vanity table across the room, a gold bar hanging from the ceiling with hangers of clothes split the room in half, a green table and chair piled with books in an odd script, and the room itself was awash in shades of blue. "This is my room, sorry it's such a mess." Mitzi chuckled as she ran her fingers down the wall of clothes, stopping to pull out a pair of pajama shorts and a pink top.
"We'll wait in the hall." Jack told her as they stepped out to let her change.
"You can come back in." Mitzi finally called and the boys stepped back in as Mitzi was pulling her locks into a pony tail. "Before I hit the hay, do you two have any questions? I probably would be swamped with questions if we swapped places."
"How is it possible you understand Bee? I'm the only human on the base that can." Raph spoke up hesitantly.
"Oh, that." Mitzi sighed. "That actually would take some time to cover. Um, grab a chair or sit on the bed if you want. This is sorta my story, so it might take a while."
"We have time." Jack replied gently.
"Well, I don't remember the beginning. I was just a baby back then, so I'm not sure if it matters when my guardians found me." Mitzi began slowly, a small smile on her face as she sat down on the bed. Jack dragged over a chair, and Raph made himself comfortable on the ground. "All I know I remember is this, Crit and May have been with me forever. We're a family, as dysfunctional as we are. When I was little and still learning how to talk, Crit and May would converse in clicks and beeps because really, that was how they always talked to each other. So, the whole speech learning thing threw me for a loop, because when I was little my first words were in Cybertronian. It wasn't until later that they taught me English, so my first language was a stem off of Cybertronian." Mitzi explained with a shrug. "English is my second language, Raph, and don't I speak it great?" She laughed with a gleeful smile.
"You can speak that nonsense?" Jack asked surprised.
"Of course." Mitzi replied matter of factly.
"So can you read it too?" Raph asked eagerly.
"Duh, I learned how to read Cybertronian first too. I might appear human, but I'm rooted in the Cybertronian customs. I can speak different dialects of it, read it, and I know the all the customary rituals and customs of the race.
"Cool!" Raph exclaimed in surprise.
"I know, right?" Mitzi laughed in reply.
"So, you're practically Cybertronian, but how did you end up in those 'bots care?" Jack asked carefully. He wasn't sure how or why, but he felt something off about this Mitzi.
"I'm honestly not sure. May never told me, she said she would explain everything when I was older. I'm still waiting." Mitzi sighed sadly. "I know I look human, so I have to be human, right? And humans are born from human parents, so I have to have parents. But who they are or where they are, I just don't know. May and Crit are all I've ever known. They were my parents when I had none, they took care of me when I got sick, they tucked me in at night, they read me stories. Cybertronian stories, actually, but they were bedtime stories all the same. Crit and May have always protected me, they taught me everything I needed to know. The core subjects like kids my age were supposed to learn, and all the survival methods just in case. Crit also taught me Cybertronian subjects, just so he could pass along the knowledge I guess. But oh well, now I know a lot of stuff." Mitzi let out a yawn, and let herself recline on the bed.
"What was it like? Living with the 'bots? I bet it wasn't ever boring." Raph asked curious.
"Nope, but sometimes yeah." Mitzi replied cryptically as she sat back up. "To you, I guess it would sound like fun, but to me that was regular life. Getting up, avoiding getting killed every other day, living life on the run most of the time, traveling all over the world, that was part of the day in and day out for me."
"I bet it was fun." Raph finally smiled.
"Mitzi, you told us that prophecy about Middia, but what does Miko have to do with anything? Why was it her that was taken?" Jack finally asked after a moment.
"Middia could have chosen whoever she wished, she just decided upon Miko for some reason. I actually think Miko is having a fun." Mitzi replied easily.
"How could you think that? She was abducted!" Jack demanded.
"This is Miko we're talking about, I'm sure she thinks this is a grand adventure."
"You're probably right." The boys agreed after a moment.
"I usually am. You might want to get going soon, your parents are probably getting worried Raph." Mitzi said, sliding off the bed and grabbing her beret. "Let's get you back to the 'bots." Leading them out of her room, Mitzi led them back to the real hall. "See you later, I'm bushed." Mitzi yawned, and shut the boys out of her unusual domain.
"Well, I think today qualifies as the most unusual yet." Raph commented as they headed back toward their friends.
"You think? I know." Jack replied with a shake of his head.