Thanks for all the views and reviews people, this is the final chapter of this story now and i thank you all for reading. As i have made aware i still have paragraphing problems with the software so its still just the line bars to break up paragraphs. I would like to give a heads up to the final few parapgraphs as i had a hard time finishing this story up.
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*Flashback*
The decepticons were bruised and battered as they began to run away from the battle field in retreat, only Menasor, Steeljaw and Thunderhoof were the decepticon's smart enough to run as the remaining cons were quickly rounded up and placed into stasis cuffs. Soundwave had however disappeared in the mist of the battle, annoying Miko very much as the minicon made her anger known as she sliced straight through a rock jutting out of the ground standing at over ten foot tall, causing it to collapse onto its side on the sand.
"This has been a very good day today teams. Let's get these cons back to the base and into stasis chambers to be escorted back to cybertron to prison." Optimus spoke up. The combiner Ultra bee, disassembled and returned to their normal individual frame modes as Bee called Denny and have him open a now safe bridge back to base.
"Nice timing there partner, and might I say, that's a good look there for you. So how's things back home?" Arcee asked as she and Jack escorted a few prisoners off the beach. Sierra was helping Smokescreen in moving captured cons.
"Jackson, Mrs Sierra and Miko, thank you for your quick help today. How did you find us so quickly though?" Optimus asked as Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack and bumblebee's team made their way through the ground bridge with the cons, whilst drifts two minicon students Slipstream and Jetstorm appeared through the bridge along with Fixit and Ratchet to meet the new arrivals. The two minicons ran over and began to inspect Miko, asking her a barrage of questions which she answered in less time. The two minicons were stopped when Bulkhead shooed them away and picked Miko up to give her a hug.
"We discovered that Soundwave had been hiding and covering up any of your tracks when he attempted to raid Miko's workshop and forge for most likely weapons and energon earlier in the day." Jack sighed as they escorted the last few decepticons through the bridge.
"It took me years to finally settle down in New Zealand and build that forge. Thankfully I had just moved all of my finished blades to the main base, even the new one I had placed on my anvil, and I thankfully already had the guard, tang and handle already built. The only way I got it all out was using my temporal distortion, that way I got to finish the blade and move everything of value out of there before I used the self-destruct. Can't let them get any valuable information." Miko sighed as she jumped onto Bulkheads shoulder. She then pulled out her hologram chip and brought up various images of her finished base to her former partner as they were the last ones to enter the ground bridge.
"Looks amazing, Miko, so you built this? It's a lot nicer than our base back in Jasper and I built it… well expanded what was already there." Bulkhead complimented as he looked at the various images Miko was showing him as they walked through the ground bridge.
"Yeah well, I chose a very restrictive, remote and hard to reach area of the New Zealand countryside were I had been lucky enough to find an active volcanic cave and have a lake nearby. After that I just levelled it off, created an area for a drive way, a depot for fuel and oil. I isolated a lava fall and bricked it off with some large concrete slabs and used it as a natural forge. Oh it was lovely, I had some great views and had it all open planned, I would have loved to have had you all come and visit me down there some time." Miko sighed as she told him about her construction job.
"Sounds amazing, I had been doing something similar design wise on cybertron. I got a great job as head of construction and architecture in Iacon recently and encompasses some earth designs such as balconies, porches and open planned living." Bulkhead chuckled as the pair exited the closing ground bridge.
"So how long are you guys here for? There's a rise against concert the next city over tomorrow night if you wanna join me." Miko chuckled, "There a lot like the slash monkeys, it's not as loud but it's still good." The minicon informed him.
"I'd like that. Just like old times, thankfully we'll be here for a few more days, we'll be leaving for cybertron again sometime next week, maybe the week after." Bulkhead replied as he let her jump off. Miko landed right beside Fixit, Denny and Russell who were in awe at her.
"WOW, cool another Minicon. What's your name?" Russell asked as he looked all around Miko.
"I'm Miko or Solarstorm, depending on which name you want and I'm not a full minicon." She sighed as she transformed into human mode, Drifts two minicons came running over the second she transformed before they continued to bombard her with questions.
The bombardment continued as the evening passed on as the last of the Decepticon prisoners was placed into the stasis pods on the ship ready for transportation back to the prison compounds on cybertron. Jack and Sierra took a ground bridge back to their main base back in Nevada whilst Miko followed them but only to transport her weapons to the base were bumblebee and the others had set up shop. Within minutes Miko had her Weapons all on racks and decided to let them all chose one piece of her work to use if they were going to track down the remaining decepticons. It was only really Arcee and strong arm who took advantage of the offer as they each took a weapon from the rack which Miko announced was her signature and best weapon to date. Arcee took a collapsible Urumi, were it was one solid blade which could disassemble into the deadly whip like blade and a small matching shield for it. Strong arm had taken a decorative halberd with a hollow grind axe head attached to it, a spear head and a short scythe blade on it.
"So Sis, what happened your optics?" Wheeljack asked as the rest of the bots gathered around her later in the evening, even in her human mode her irises were now blue with a band of gold and the whites were a shade of very light blue but it was still noticeable. It was easier to hide them with a light gold white, as it was nearly just white, the only way one would even notice it was gold was from the slight glow given off.
"I had preferred to keep this a secret from you because I would have at least preferred to have been twenty one vorns when it was publicly announced but I don't have that problem anymore." Miko began. "I had met Solus Prime in one of my inter-dimensional travels, and as some of you know, that's how I got pink diamond and how my hammer can turn into a grenade launcher. Solus Prime had given me her matrix to carry, and it wasn't until Optimus told me that I found out I was a prime." Miko sighed. Within seconds everyone around her, bar Optimus, had quickly moved down into a bow.
"Autobots, whilst we may be primes we are also your friends and family and would prefer it if you didn't bow to us." Optimus informed.
"And I'm no prime, not anymore." Miko sighed, looking down to the ground.
"What happened Miko?" Optimus asked as the rest of the bots stood back up in shock.
"After Unicron had left earth's core in Megatrons revived chassis, Unit E under orders of the U.N who know about us, ran continuous scans upon the core for six months straight to make sure that with his essence gone the planet could sustain itself without that power he provided. The scans came up negative, there had been no change in the planets core… until early last year when we began the follow up scans." Miko informed them.
"What was wrong?" Ratchet asked.
"The planets core had begun to destabilize, the inner core had nearly froze over whilst the outer core had dropped nearly a thousand degree's and the mantle had begun to cool as its temperature had dropped nearly five hundred degree's." the Technorganic explained as she brought up a diagnostic of the planet and how it had been just the year before. "It was playing havoc on the weather system and caused natural disaster in places where they had a low occurrence.
"Hah, I knew those conspiracies were correct." Denny cheered as he interrupted the sombre tone before quickly re-establishing himself.
"Of course they were, that's the government's way of breaking the news to people without causing a mass panic of the public. The more conspiracies the people believe the calmer they'll be as the government explain the situation. The conspiracy that the titanic was swapped with its damaged sister ship Olympic another good conspiracy which is true too, it was just an insurance scam gone horribly wrong. Now where was I?" Miko asked as she deactivated the hologram chip. "Ah yes, well with Unicrons essence having been the power behind the core we needed a replacement to keep the planet warm and alive. I tracked down Galvatron and asked him if he had any idea considering he does run of dark energon and if he would be able to provide some form of help. After much debate with the government we came to an agreement, he would be granted stay on the planet for one week as well as a fresh supply of dark energon for him, if he helped guide me to the core of the planet through Unicrons dying body." The Technorganic admitted, the others were in shock and anger.
"Why would you let him back on the planet?" Ratchet shouted at her first.
"He will however be captured and charged for attempted genocide of the entire planet if he breaches his parole and returns to earth without proper consent of both me and the U.N, so calm down. Well to make a long story short, the only thing which could provide the necessary energy to restore the planet was my matrix of life and the majority of the power from my hammer which could forge anything, just like its larger counterpart. It is now the essence keeping earth alive and unlike Optimus, I kept my memories as I didn't lose it as quickly or traumatically as him." Miko retorted back to the cranky old medic.
"So what was the light show you did earlier, you know hitting Soundwave with those lightning bolts?" Wheeljack asked, curious at his sister's power.
"Oh that, just a side effect of being a prime, Solus was known for her stormy temper when she got pissed. When she got really angry she could conduct an entire lightning storm, I could do it with the matrix but without it I can only do a few bolts at a time. My optics whoever became fully golden when I received the matrix and when I gave it up they returned to the normal mixed blue and gold they had been after I first discovered my Technorganic form." The Technorganic sighed as she jumped onto a large stack of tires, sitting down on it, before showing off a little, conducting her golden electricity up and down her chop sticks in her hair.
"Sounds like you've had a busy decivorns here then." Ultra Magnus added.
"Not really, this had been probably the quietest decivorns of my life considering I don't have head hunters, scraplets twice my size, dinobots, terrorcon's, evil versions of yourselves, Unicron, the fallen or armada's, or Galvatron, to run and hide from just to survive or fight off single servo. I've never been so relaxed in my life and I hate it. The only real reason why I was still on earth was because of my forge but now that fragging gone." The femme swore as she pulled out a cube of high grade energon. "I mean sure, Jack's kid Savannah loves it when her "Aunty Miko" comes to visit but it's not like there's anything to do here now. I've taken out nearly all M.E.C.H insurgents to the point where Jack and his team can take out the remaining groups. I would have preferred to have been informed of your operations here on earth though first being the designated U.N representative for alien operations and communications… so why as I left in the dark?" She asked as she eyed out Bee in the back ground.
"I would rather have not had any contact with humans, meeting Denny and Russell was more of a coincident they were looking for scrap from the crashed prison ship. I didn't want an incident to occur again where they'd be hurt because I wasn't careful… that and I though you would have been busy and I did not know about the U.N thing." Bee informed her, awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck cables in embarrassment.
"For the love of Primus, I'm not a sparkling if anything I'm just younger than Bee there and have literally walked through the pit's and out the other side multiple times with slag you would never believe if I didn't have video and images. You guy's need to stop leaving me out of this before someone gets hurt, or worse Killed, and I will not allow another incident like Jasper happen again as long as I hold that post in the U.N." Miko sighed as she took a sip of her high grade cube. Everyone just looked at each other before realising that she spoke the truth, she wasn't a sparkling and she did have a right and a duty to be involved and informed in their operations back on earth. They felt bad for leaving her out of their operations now considering what she said.
Before they could continue their conversation the computer console began to flare to life behind them as the scrap yards alarm went off. The bots all jumped into action as Fixit, Denny, Russell and Miko all ran up to the consol.
"Fixit status report!" Bee ordered as they pulled out there weapons.
"Were being hacked!" The mini medic told them only to be pushed aside by Miko whose buns had begun to glow blue.
"Its Soundwave, he's trying to deactivate the stasis chambers. I'm doing my best to keep him out, but I have his location, he's on the far south east corner of the scrap yard." She informed as her semi metallic fingers split open as she got to work hacking into the computer and trying to protect the sensitive files on the computer. Within seconds the bots began to run to apprehend the intruder, with Drift deploying Slipstream and Jetstorm being told to remain with the humans. After a minute or two Miko's buns had stopped glowing as she retracted her digits back into their normal state.
"What's wrong Solarstorm?" Fixit asked as Miko transformed back into her minicon mode hastily.
"Soundwave's left the system, he's stopped hacking." She quietly spoke. Shock on her face before quickly being replaced with horror as what Soundwave was doing dawned on her.
"Well that's good isn't it?" Russell cheered as he looked at the console, throwing his arms up in joy.
"Not with Soundwave it's not. Boys get your weapons ready, Fixit take Denny and Russell and find somewhere to hide until I give the all clear. Slipstream Jetstorm, you two are with me." She instructed as she pulled out the sniper off her back. Flipping it into its scythe mode, as the twins got out there nunchucks and naginata. Russell just whispered out a quiet wow as he looked at the scythe wielder, only thinking it was possible in anime.
"Why what's wrong? Soundwave's gone, the bots will be back here in a minute or two when they give the all clear." Denny said.
"No, if Soundwave can't use the advantage point he's at when hacking he goes straight for the source, now go run." She ordered. Within seconds her fears had been confirmed as the Blue Decepticon drone came flying into the square, transforming and activating lazerbeak came flying into the area, going straight for Jetstorm and slipstream. Leaving Miko with Soundwave.
"Miko, we cannot find any intruder, can you locate them anywhere on base?" Optimus asked as he opened a comm to the minicon femme.
"NEVERMIND THAT HE'S HERE AND WE NEED BACKUP!" Miko screamed in both anger and fear, down the comm as she jumped out of the way of one of Soundwave's tendrils, firing of her scythe to help her move and avoid the attack from the con. The bots in the distant began to run the second they heard the gunshots being fired off, only stopping when one of the tendrils had been sliced straight off and landed right beside them, nearly hitting Ultra Magnus in the face. As the group neared the fight they found Miko on top of an old crane mast firing upon Soundwave whose tendrils couldn't reach her. The Decepticon spy had gotten fed up of it and pulled out a bomb, activating it and throwing it towards the diner were Denny and Russell were hiding in. The bots stopped in there track and stared as Miko threw her scythe behind her, activating her sky boom shield as she used her micron boosters, launched herself off from the crane mast, using herself as a living shield to protect the two humans inside the old diner.
*boom*
The bomb went off… with Miko right in front of it, reflecting the blast away from the diner. The diner was intact as the bots stood in shock as the dust settled, only then did they notice Wheeljack had keeled over, clutching his spark chamber before he looked over to the diner.
"Sis no." the mech groaned in pain as his sister's pain radiated through their family bond. Bulkhead quickly noticed this and ran to his best friend's aid as Smokescreen, Grimlock and the now assembled Ultra bee combiner jumped onto Soundwave and Lazerbeak, arresting the mech and bird, quickly placing them in stasis cuffs and throwing him into a nearby stasis tube. As the dust settled from the explosion the bots began to search for Miko, only to be met with a horrible sight.
The femme had been thrown into a huge pile of scrap in the blast and was severely leaking energon, her right servo had been blown off from her shoulder down from the force of the explosion. Part of her helm had been blown off, leaving her right side of her faceplate cracked and nearly revealing her processor. Her right hand side bun and chopsticks had been blown off and her metallic kushi combs had been bent and warped in the heat of the blast. The worst damage however had been to her middle section as her breast plate had been warped and shrapnel from her shield was sticking out around her spark chamber and stomach area, her blue orb on her Brest plating had begun to dim as various large cracks showed up on it, with a small amount of glass missing from the middle of it. Her peds just missed the majority of the damage as there was only burns and small lacerations to them with only a few leaking energon, until her left ankle which looked like it had been broken from force. Her winged back struts had been bent and warped from the force of her impact into the scrap with the left one having been completely damaged beyond repair as it hung on by a thread, a single thin wire. It was a miracle she was still online at that point.
Ratchet and Fixit quickly rushed over to the minicon to begin stabilising her, rushing her into the medibay on the frigate ship and kicking the others out of the medibay. It wasn't for another hour and a half before Ratchet appeared again into the scrap yard were everyone was, leaving Fixit to monitor Miko. Denny took Russell away, as Drift followed taking Slipstream and Jetstorm with him, they were young and did not need to hear what the conversation that was going on.
"How is she old friend?" Optimus asked first.
"She's stabilized for now but her situation is still critical, there's nothing we can do for her. I'm afraid the damage done to her frame is terminal, it's too great to be repaired, even if we had the parts for her. It would take at least an earth year and a half before we had all the proper pieces to repair her due to her technorganic status with but she doesn't have that long, even if we were to put her in stasis she wouldn't last a breem." The medic grimly told the group.
"So what… my baby sisters just going to lie there on in that medical bay slab until she terminates?" Wheeljack growled, in anger and in pain. He wasn't ready to say good bye to the family member he gained less that fifteen years ago.
"No, Fixit and I have a backup in plan but I need Wheeljack's permission to do this risky operation. I need family verification as there's a seventy percent chance that this won't work depending on her spark integrity and processor integrity considering how damaged she is." The medic told the group. Wheeljack just looked up a small bit of hope in his optics as he quietly whispered.
"Do it… anything for family. I don't want to lose her, I've only had her for fifteen years, and I want her to be around a few million years longer." The mech painfully sighed.
"Ratchet what's the operation?" Optimus asked.
"A processor and spark transplant into a blank protoform, it's the only way we can be sure she'll survive. She'll lose a good portion of her weapons and mods but if she'll survive it'll be the better outcome." The medic informed.
"And you just happen to have a blank protoform lying around?" Arcee scoffed, she was bracing herself, not believing that the operation would work and she would lose another bot dear to her.
"We collected and stored the spare blank protoforms from the crashed ship when we discovered it in a way to prevent the decepticons from using them, but there all just seeker models remaining now." Bee informed as he got up from where he had been sitting.
"Just do it, I don't care if she's a flyer or not, I can feel her slipping away through our bond every second your out here. JUST DO SOMETHING." Wheeljack shouted out, distress lacing his voice as he cried out.
"Well, pray to primus all goes well and there's no damage to either her spark or processor." Ratchet said as he quickly made his way back into the medibay.
That was the last time the medic was seen for over five hours as the bots kept a silent vigil outside the ship. Russell even tried to stay awake with the bots as his dad wrapped a few blankets around his son and tried to lead him to bed as it was nearing four in the morning but he refused and continued sleeping on Sideswipes lap. It wasn't until eight in the morning when the other bot's had all fallen into recharge on each other did Ratchet and Fixit come out of the medibay. Ratchet simply kicked over a barrel full with scrap metal, resulting in it ringing like a bell, waking everyone up. Just then did a ground bridge open and out walked three humans, Jack, Sierra and Savannah.
"Morning everyone… what's going on?" Jack asked as they looked around at the tired bots.
"Yay, daddy look all bots are here!" Savannah cheered as she waved her hands about with her large gauntlets, tightly strapped to her arms, even if the light metal plating overlapped.
"Aww, Jack, who's this little sweetie!" Arcee squeaked as she rushed down to see Savannah for the first time.
"Arcee, guy's this little angel is Savannah. Our daughter. I did promise her for her birthday that she'd get to meet the other half of her family."
"Hello aunty Arcee!" Savannah smiled as Arcee picked up the four year old, giving her a hug. Savannah had just accidentally activated her blade, flipping it out and the dull, training blade dragged across Arcee's servos, scraping her slightly.
"Aww you're adorable, Jack you knew just how to cheer us up." Arcee chuckled, "And what's this, Aww, you wanna be like your aunty Arcee with these adorable gauntlets, my you're the sweetest thing ever." The blue femme squeaked in joy as she looked at her human niece for the first time.
"Aunty Miko give me them for my birthday." The toddler smiled, "Were is aunty Miko?" the girl asked as she looked around the bots.
"Sorry it's a little early but someone couldn't wait to see her extra-terrestrial aunt and uncles, she was up at the crack of dawn just to see you guys for the first time. Raf would have been here too but his wife Sari was only discharged from the hospital with their new born triplets last night. So where is Miko, she'd want to know Sari was alright?" Jack asked, before he noticed the bullet casing's lying around the scrap yard and the lack of the bubbly black, Japanese minicon.
"Miko is fine now, she's stabilized in her new frame if Wheeljack you would want to come and see her." Ratchet informed them all as they looked towards the medic's. "Hopefully there was no amnesia caused from the damage to her processor. Hopefully we expect a full recovery." He continued.
"Jackson there had been an incident last night were Soundwave had infiltrated the base here. Miko managed to save Denny and Russell who were hiding in the old diner from a bomb Soundwave threw their direction. Whilst Denny and Russell are fine, Miko however wasn't so lucky, she had to have a processor and spark transplant into a blank protoform to save her." Optimus informed the humans.
"Poor aunty Miko." Savannah mumbled, her eyes wide and filled with sadness as she looked at the bots. Slipstream, Jetstorm and Russell were quickly shooed away by both Drift, Denny and Sierra to play with the toddler for a minute whilst the adults talked.
"Savannah go play with Russell whilst us adult talk, okay sweetie." Sierra told her daughter as she shooed her off with the three boys.
"She'll be fine, she's tired but she's fine." Wheeljack sighed, relief flooding his faceplate as his bond stabilised and began to get stronger. "Ratchet… May I see her?" He asked as he got up from where he had been sleeping.
"This way then Wheeljack." Fixit showed as he led the mech into the medibay.
"Aah, um … Bulkhead… would you come with me?" Wheeljack asked, looking for moral and emotional support from his best friend.
Whilst Optimus explained the situation about Miko to Jack and Sierra, and the bots took care of little Savannah, Wheeljack, Bulkhead and Fixit made their way back into the medibay were Miko was recharging. The minicon medic quickly typed in the password to the medibay to allow them entrance as they arrived outside the door of the room were Wheeljack's little sister was. The two mechs made their way into the room as the door opened, Fixit opted to remain outside it. Bulkhead stayed beside the door as Wheeljack approached the sleeping femme on the berth.
He initially was shocked, his little sister's armour remained nearly exactly the same. He noted that she was now a seeker with two large black wings on her back, sprawled out against the berth. She had lost the blue chest orb and orb on her belt around her crotch plating. The only major difference was that the excess armour that she now had was that she had rounded black armour covering her thighs up to her crotch plating. Her nosecone for her flyer alt mode created a black one piece coat tail effect to her armour, replacing her kusazuri type of armour plating she once had. Her shoulder plating had become rounder and looked more like parts from a plane, and her healed peds now had jet engine parts to them, thrusters to be exact. Her faceplate remained the same as her lips were still pink and her optics were rimmed with pink glass. There was a slight change to her helm became more aerodynamic as her bun's had now become flatter rather than round, and she had lost four pairs of chopsticks, leaving two pairs, one on each side of her helm, which now pointed downwards instead of pointing upwards.
She recharged there peacefully on the berth as Wheeljack pulled over a crate to sit beside her. He reached over to grab her servo as he looked over his baby sister as he begun to come to terms with what happened. He looked up and around for a second only to notice that on a berth in the corner was Miko's damaged frame. That was when he realised just how damaged it had become as the frame had begun to grey over, indicating that the frame was terminated… it was dead, her optic's black and void of life as they lay open. It just struck him how deeply he cared for her as he looked straight back down to her. He looked back over to Bulkhead for some moral support but noticed that his best friend had noticed Miko's old frame on the berth off in the corner. Wheeljack had to clear his vocaliser to get Bulkheads attention before patting a second crate beside him. The two mechs only exchanged a look before they continued their silent vigil at Miko's berth side, praying she would have no processor damage and remember them and everything that had happened.
Ratchet and Fixit came into the medi bay after half an hour explaining the situation to Jack and Sierra and how Miko was. The older medic just walked over to Wheeljack, giving him a pat on his back in sympathy and handed both Bulkhead and Wheeljack a cube of energon. Ratchet pulled over another crate as he begun to inform the two about Solarstorm state now.
"The operation was successful as you can see. Her spark and processor were intact and by some miracle received minimal damage, nothing a few days rest won't cure. She'll make a full recovery but some of her memory files were corrupted due to that minimal damage." Ratchet informed the mechs.
"How bad?" Wheeljack asked, not even bothering to look at Ratchet.
"At most the memories of Soundwave's assault last night was corrupted. She won't remember the accident at all as we had to delete those memory files whilst operating. She'll be in shock when she wakes to find herself in this form. I'm afraid she's never going to get the chance to return to her previous frame as it… the moment we transferred her spark and processor the damage took its toll. I had hoped we could save it and rebuild it but it's now no longer possible due to the extent of the damage received." The senior medic informed.
"Is that everything Ratchet?" Wheeljack asked as bulkhead patted his friend on the back.
"No, most of her mod's that weren't connected to her spark such as her Skyboom shield, Double sided battle axe, Energon whip, Naginata, Energon bow, Morning star flails, Shurikens, t-cog accelerator, her dimension jumper and about ninety percent of her other mods , those ones we couldn't save. We did however manage to save her Micron Boosters, Plasma thrusters, a set consisting of a Katana and tanto blade, a whip, her knuckle spikes and her hammer, all of which had been locked to her spark. We did manage to remove the universal communications, temporal distortion unit, techno links and those bazaar gravity gauntlets of hers and add them back to her frame, locking them to her spark so they remain with her if this situation ever arose again. Her frame already came with a holoform projector and overdrive feature and mag locks already so those really are all that she's left with. She once had hundreds of mods, now there all useless, those are the only mods we could save." The medic informed as he took a sip out of his own cube of energon. It had been a long night for him and Fixit so it had. "Now if you excuse me, I'm heading down to my quarters and I'm going for a well deserved recharge." The doctor announced as he got up.
"Thank you Ratchet. Thanks for saving my little sister." Wheeljack said as he looked at the medic. This caught ratchet of guard as Wheeljack had never been this respective of him before.
"I ah… it's what a medic does Wheeljack. It's our duty. Now if she begins to wake up com get me immediately." Ratchet answered as he began to leave the room leaving Wheeljack and Bulkhead beside Miko.
The two mechs remained silent for the next few hours as the others began to call and check in on them. Wheeljack's processor however could only go over the conversation they had the night before all the way up to where she had jumped in front of the bomb to save Denny and Russell. The white wrecker sighed as he began to talk to Bulkhead.
"She was right, we shouldn't have left her in the dark. This is our fault Bulkhead…. It's my fault." Wheeljack sighed, burying his faceplate in his servos.
"What Jackie, it's not your fault. Miko just did what she knew was right, she was trying to protect Denny and Russell." Bulkhead reassured as he patted his best friend on the back.
"She felt us here on earth but I lied to her and told her we were still on cybertron. She told us someone would get hurt if we left her in the dark and now look. She was right." The mech whispered.
"That's because I'm always right bro." A strained voice quietly whispered, getting the two mechs attention. Wheeljack's optic's opened in shock before relief filled his faceplate, whilst Bulkhead just squeaked and fell off his crate he had been sitting on. "Primus, are you alright Bulkhead. You look like you've seen a ghost." The voice then continued to say as its owner cracked her optics opened slightly, showing that she'd come out of recharge.
"Or a scraplet." Wheeljack chuckled as he hugged the femme on the berth. Bulkhead just got up and looked at the siblings for a minute before going to get Ratchet, or Fixit… which ever medic was closest. "Solar whatever possessed you into doing something like that. Jumping in front of a bomb. We nearly lost you." Wheeljack continued as he watched his sister begin to push herself up off the berth.
"Do what now Jackie… where am I and why are you smaller." The femme asked as she looked around the room.
"You're in the medibay. Soundwave launched a surprise attack on the base last night and you jumped in front of the blast to deflect it to protect Denny and Russell Clay. You do remember that right?" the white wrecker asked his baby sister.
"No, I remember telling you guys that I was once a prime by accident and then… nothing… it's like my processor was stonewalled or at least I had just been forced into a cortical psychic patch." The femme sighed as she rubbed her helm. Before the two could talk anymore Bulkhead re-entered the medibay with Ratchet following him. "What's going on?" Miko asked as she looked at the three with her mixed blue and gold optics.
"Soundwave attempted to assault us here in the scrap yard last night and attempted to eliminate Denny and Russell with an energon bomb. You however, as thick helmed as you are, activated your sky boom shield and deflected the blast away from them. Denny and Russell were unharmed but that could not be the same for you Solarstorm." Ratchet began to inform the confused femme.
"I… I don't remember any of this." Solar informed as she took her brothers servo, only to notice that her servo was now nearly the same size as his. She quickly began to look up and down her frame only to notice that she was now larger her armour was so much different, the last thing she noticed was that her back struts had now become huge seeker wings as she patted herself down.
"I feared that there would be some form of amnesia caused by the processor damage you received. Solar… I'm afraid we had to preform emergency surgery and transfer your spark and processor into a blank protoform to save your life. The damage done to your technorganic frame was… irreparable and was terminal. I'm sorry but you're no longer a technorganic… you're now a full on cybertronian with a seeker alt and nothing more. It's all we could do before your other frame failed on us." The medic informed.
"That explains why you guys have shrunk." She sighed as she looked over herself again. "So what's the cards I've been dealt mod wise. Do I still have everything or have I lost some mods?" the femme asked as she looked over to the senior medic who went through mod by mod of what she'd lost.
"Well… you've lost nearly all mod's which weren't connected to your spark but connected to your old subspace such as your Sky boom shield, Double sided battle axe, Energon whip, Naginata, Energon bow, Morning star flails, Shurikens, t-cog accelerator, personal space bridge and about ninety percent of your other mods. Fixit and I did however manage to save the following which had been connected to your spark such as your Micron Boosters, Plasma thrusters, a set of blades consisting of a Katana and tanto blade, a whip, her knuckle spikes and your hammer, all of which had been locked to your spark. We did manage to remove the universal communications, temporal distortion unit, techno links and those bazaar gravity gauntlets of yours missy and add them into this new frame, locking them to your spark so they remain with you if this situation ever arose again. The frame already came with a holoform projector and overdrive feature and mag locks already so those really are all that you're left with." The medic sighed as he took out a scanner. "You had even me and Fixit worried that you wouldn't make it last night. Your damage was worse than Bulkhead after Hardshell." The medic informed her sternly.
"Well, I did say that you guys treating me like a sparkling was going to end up with one of us getting hurt… never thought for a microsecond it would be me getting hurt though." She sighed, a small smile of iron on her faceplate. She got up and swung her peds around to the point were she was hanging off the berth.
"Epp, epp, epp. Take it easy missy. Your in a new larger frame, you need to take things carefully and let your equilibrium get used to your new frame and balance. I recommend you do nothing strenuous for the next few days. Rest and take it easy for a while. Frame transference usually leads to the patient needing a little help for a day or two to keep their balance. Give it a few days and you can start to train again but I recommend starting off slowly, meaning no gymnastics for a few weeks." The medic instructed as he begun to list off what she could and couldn't do for the next few days.
"Wait, anyone see pink diamond, my sniper scythe. I hate it when she's not with me." Miko begun to threat as she looked around for her favourite weapon. Just as she had begun to look around the medibay. Before anyone could reply to her, there was a knock on the door before it opened, revealing Arcee with the gun in question as she walked in.
"Is it alright if I come in?" the blue femme asked. Wheeljack and Solar looked at each other before shrugging,
"We've got no objections, come on in Arcee." Wheeljack said as the femme came over.
"I ah… I found this. When I was looking around the crane. You threw it behind you as you saved Denny and Russell. Thought you'd want to keep it, not that it's going to be much use to you now, you know. I like the frame though." Arcee said as she handed over Miko's scythe over to her.
"Aah, my precious diamond, thank primus I felt so vulnerable for a minute there." The femme sighed as she took the scythe into her servo. "It's not fully useless now, Solus built in a fall back for me and I thought she was crazy for this but looks like she was right." The seeker chuckled as she gently turned the scythe over pushing a button the bots in the room hadn't noticed till then. The scythe quickly reformed in front of them and reshaped itself as it grew to the size it needed to be. Leaving the others in shock.
"The pits was that sis?" Wheeljack asked in shock.
"A mass shifter, how else do you think it could change into a useable balanced war scythe you dolt?" The seeker laughed as she took in everyone's confused and shocked faces. "Now help me up please" the femme sighed as she grabbed her brother's shoulder plating as she got off the berth. Only to nearly fall over but be caught by Wheeljack and Bulkhead. "Whoa… that's really different now." The femme sighed as she got her balance.
"So ehh, do you still wanna go to that concert tonight or will it not be possible anymore?" Bulkhead asked as Solar took him by the servo as she tried to walk, only going very slowly as she kept stumbling due to her new larger size and new balance.
"You two were going to a date tonight, ABOUT TIME." Wheeljack shouted in joy at his baby sister, leaving both Solar and Bulkhead blushing,
"Bro it's just a concert." Solar quickly stuttered back.
"Sure it is, just look at the pair of you, it was about time you two got together. We've all seen who you look at each other when you're visiting cybertron or when we're on earth sis. Hell you two even danced together at both Jack's and Raf's wedding so don't try to act it out." The white wrecker teased as they left the medi bay.
"Aww Jackie, stop teasing the pair, any chance of a double date then Solarstorm, someone has been rescheduling constantly for some reason." Arcee asked as she took Wheeljack's servo, a slight evil smirk on her faceplate. Wheeljack just stopped in his tracks and within seconds his faceplate became a deeper shade of blue than the Solarstorm and Bulkhead combined. The two said bots just began to chuckle as Wheeljack just got more embarrassed.
"So Jackie, when were you going to tell us that you and Arcee were a couple?" Bulkhead asked as he looked at his best friend.
"Aww, big bro's lost for words. I knew you two would be a cute couple, just like how you two were when you were dancing at Rafs and Jack's weddings." Solarstorm teased back.
"Well, Aah, I… I'll shut up now." Wheeljack stuttered as they all walked out of the medibay. The moment the group walked out of the medibay Solar was swamped by all of them all asking questions, praising her and thanking her for her quick actions the night before. They all had quite a weird day as everyone was just having a lazy day as Solarstorm began to regain her balance and delete the programming for her audio struts as their programming for flashing had reactivated with her new frame. In the evening the four bots, Arcee, Wheeljack, Bulkhead and Solarstorm headed out via ground bridge to a cliff side overlooking the concert, all having walked out, throwing a tarp on the ground as they all sat down to watch the concert. The group had a wonderful night as the concert went on, with Arcee and Wheeljack even enjoying it, preferring this type of rock to the Bulgarian shriek music Miko once loved.
"Well, I had to find another band to idolise once the slash monkeys retired from the spotlight seven years ago. Rise against was the best band to come up after them." The femme chuckled as the evening went on and the concert drew to a close. The four bots were chuckling the whole way back to the base through the ground bridge as they returned for the night. Strongarm had helped some of the others make up one of the spare cabins on board the frigate ship that the rest of team prime used to return to earth, were she stayed for a while, getting used to her new frame, even her former human parents, who she had kept in constant contact with over the past fifteen years came to see her once they found out what had happened. The bots extended their stay for a few extra weeks, helping Miko get back on her peds to the point she had returned to her somewhat normal life. She had snuck out one morning to a corner of the base where she had set up a set of banfer bars out of steel tubing she had found and begun to swing about on it, doing her usual training and a near perfect replica of Nadia Comaneci's Olympic winning routine. It was only when she had disembarked from the bars, pulling a flawless routine and landing did she realise the bots were all around her and clapping, well, Ratchet was on the verge of glitching out after having advised her not to do any of this sort of activity for a while longer.
When it was time for team Prime to leave and return to Cybertron with the Decepticon prisoners the bots decided to offer Miko two positions. To join Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Smokescreen Ratchet and Optimus on their return to cybertron as a co-pilot to the ship. Or she could stay on earth and help team Bumblebee and some of the other local Autobots such as Jazz and Windblade who was flying around, with rounding up the last few decepticons, knowing that there was only a few left on the loose now. Jack and Sierra said that they'd support her decision and would inform the authorise, and after having a visit from Raf, Sari and there three new-borns she had made up her processor. She left a formal message of her resignation from her post in the U.N and from Unit E and a detailed explanation of her recent medical operation and of what has occurred. Deliberately leaving out the crashed Decepticon ship and escaped prisoners and how Bumblebee and his team were on earth hunting them down but informed them that some of the Autobots had been to earth visiting her. After moving her range of forged swords and blades into the ship's armoury, she had any of her possessions that weren't blown up in New Zealand in her subspace as she joined the bots on bridge, taking up the seat of co-pilot. It was a fond farewell as she set off for cybertron with the others, and Wheeljack had already told her that she'd be staying with him in his apartment and the others reassured her that her spark signature would be recognised but Optimus would help her sort out her paper work, so that she was recognized as a fully-fledged adult bot and not a sparkling like on the records and then she could go about looking for a job which suited her qualification's. Ultra Magnus had tipped her off about how there were judges needed on the planet as ships arrived with boat loads of ex decepticons and war criminals that needed charges, he said he'd put in a good word for her. And it's with that that the young technorganic Miko, became high judge of Praxus Solarstorm, one of the most well renounced judges on the planet due to her unusual punishments and harsh sentences to those who need it.
*End flash back.*
"That, kiddo's is the story of how your Aunty Solarstorm became a full sized seeker." Wheeljack finished as the three sparklings looked at their parents in awe. Tailjumper was the first one to speak up as he jumped about in his creators servos.
"That's so cool aunty Solar, I didn't know Minicon's could be like that at all, I thought they were just little useless runts." The mech said only to receive a slap across the back of his helm yet again.
"No Tailjumper that's the mistake everyone makes. Minicons have to work harder than anybot and are constantly picked on and bullied because bots see them as being different. What they never realise is just how deadly they can be, I used to use my small size against bots as my former small size could hide in spots you could only dream about, and I used it well. Minicons should never be looked down upon but shown respect, you never know what will happen when you annoy or bully a minicon. I hope you know that now and will apologise to all the minicons you've been bullying for they are capable of great things, some of which you will never be able to do." Solarstorm told her nephew.
"Creator you're so cool. Can you teach me to fight with a scythe, please, please, please? Please creator." Songbeat asked as she jumped up in her creator's servos.
"Your sire and I shall think about it Song, it's a very difficult skill to learn and master, and it's one of the most dangerous weapons you'll ever wield and you have to use every bit of strength you can muster to wield it effectively." Solarstorm informed her daughter.
"Aww, please creator, please Sire. Uncle Jackie, please tell creator to teach me, please." The femmling cried out, really trying to get here parents to teach her, usually asking uncle Jackie worked.
"Kiddo, don't ask me, I can't wield a scythe, but if your parents don't I can always teach you, Cliffgate and Tailjumper how to make and wield your own katanas, just like family traditions." The white wrecker chuckled.
"Cool, sire's gonna teach us how to fight like the wreckers."" Cliffgate cheered as the mechling jumped into his sire's servo's, nearly knocking him off the stool he was on.
"Heh there now, I didn't say I'd teach you or wrecker moves just yet, you three need to master your weapons first, then well think about teaching you specific moves." Wheeljack chuckled back at his sons.
"But, now it's late and you three need some sleep, and if you're good, aunty Solar will show you how to create your own katanas boys and for song, I'll help you build a scythe, just like mine." Solarstorm smiled as she looked at her yawning daughter after having a quick conversation with Bulkhead over there bond. Pulling out her own from her subspace and twirling the bladed weapon around in front of the sparlings, receiving exciting chuckles before putting it back in her subspace.
"Yay, thank you creator, thank you sire." Song cheered as she yawned, her optics were beginning to fall down as she tried to stay awake at this point.
"Thanks aunty Solar! Thanks creator, thanks sire, thanks uncle Bulkhead." The twins said in sync as they two began to fall asleep in there parents servos. Arcee and Wheeljack lifted up there two little mechs as Solar and Bulkhead lifted Song and put her down on her berth, fixing her messed up mesh blankets and pillow and placing her gently in her berth, pulling her blankets up around her. Both the parents kissed there little angel as they began to make their way out of the room.
"Night creator, night sire." Song mumbled out as fell into recharge. Solar quietly closed the door to her daughter's room as she and Bulkhead left the room. Within moments both Arcee and Wheeljack had emerged from the guest room where they had just placed there troublesome twins to recharge in. The adults just made their way down into the living room and treated themselves to a nice glass of high grade energon as they relaxed for the evening.
"Did I really manage to slice one of Soundwave's tendrils off? How come you guys never told me that?" Solar asked as she took a sip from her glass.
"Yeah, you did. Did we never mention it till now? Huh, I thought we had told you that." Bulkhead replied, slightly confused at how they had never told her about that.
"Yeah, well. Looks like we're going to have a busy day ahead of us tomorrow. Tailjumper wanted to build a nodachi sword if you want to help him forge it sis. Cliff wanted two katanas like his old sire, so I'll help him forge them with him." Wheeljack chuckled. Leaving Arcee confused,
"Wait… weren't you protoformed with your katanas fully forged and normal, like other bots?" the femme asked her husband and sister in law.
"No, funny thing about that. After my parents turned up on my doorstep and mooched off of me, I did some research on our family line. Were descendant's from a long line of warriors, those said ancestors had destroyed their natural protoformed blades and rebuilt them piece by piece and it had sort of become a protoform basis to be sparked with just blocks of tawagani and tamahagani steel, which we then use to create our blades. Just like tradition." Wheeljack chuckled.
"I forged mine only weeks after landing in Detroit at a local smith with their help, that's where I had begun to learn how to forge. That's also why I'm so god at it. " Solar chuckled as she set down her glass of energon.
"You did a good job with them then. Well, I think we should go to our own berths because those sparklings will be up as early as possible tomorrow just to get down to the forge with us." Bulkhead sighed, "Thank primus it's the end of the cycle and I've the next few days off." The green mech chuckled,
"And we've gotten no neighbours to shout and complain at us." Solar laughed back.
"Not exactly sis. Iacon was becoming a bit…. To crowded and well… the crime rates were beginning to climb and we didn't want the boys to grow up in an environment like that. We've decided to move out of the city to a quieter region." Wheeljack butted in as he set his glass down.
"We wanted to let the boys grow up in a quieter region of cybertron so we got lucky as we began to search for houses in the area and new jobs. We bought the plot of land next door to you guys. We're going to be your knew neighbours once we build our house. I've landed a spot at the regional elite academy as a teacher thanks to Magnus. We have the school which Songbeat goes to informed and there willing to accept the boys as soon as we move." Arcee laughed. Solar just jumped into her brothers servo's as she hugged the pair of them.
"And I've been relocated here to the Praxus labs to help with production of some of my inventions." Wheeljack chuckled, hugging his baby sister. She wasn't so much of a sparkling but she'd always be that to his optics, just as wonderful and as precious as any sparkling.
"That's wonderful news, when does the build start?" Solar asked as she got off her brother.
"Well, it depends on if Bulkheads ready for another build. I know your busy but you're the best contractor on cybertron, everyone in Iacon wants you to build all there new towers and apartment blocks, either that or there copying your styles. We'd want you and one of your many teams to build our house, with a similar layout to this house. Prime and Elita as well as Chromia and Ironhide said that they'd love to come visit us out here some time so we'd need some spare rooms." Wheeljack chuckled as Bulkhead pulled him into a bear hug.
"I'd be glad to pull a team together to help build your future house Jackie. Sweet spark, why don't you take Tailjumper and Songbeat to the forge first and get them sorted out and I'll sort the plans for the new build out in my office tomorrow morning." Bulkhead informed as he picked up the four glasses and took them over to the kitchen sink, as they all got up and headed up the stairs to their rooms.
"That sounds like a plan. So we'll see you two in the morning." Arcee smiled as she and Wheeljack reached there guest room, Wheeljack's servo around his bonded wife's shoulder plating.
"Night you two." Solar smiled as her brother and sister in law made their way into their room.
The second the door was closed Bulkhead scooped up Solar in his servo's and carried her down bridal styled to their Berthroom, kissing her the whole time, getting his digits into some of the sensitive spots between her armour. The femme chuckled as she reacted to the touch, arching upwards in her husband's touch.
"What a great surprise. I can't wait for our family to move closer, I did miss Jackie and the others so much." Solar chuckled as she kissed her husband again.
"So, do you wanna finish that family like we had been talking about?" Bulkhead smirked as the pair entered their own room.
"Ohh, give them a surprise? I like you're thinking Bulky. Round up our family nicely. So, what are we waiting for then sweet spark?" Solar smiled as Bulkhead set her down.
"So how do you think Song will take it when she gets a younger sibling?" Bulkhead chuckled as he sat down on their large berth.
"Well… she'll just have to roll with it." Solar smirked, "This'll be the end to one story and the start of another, let's just watch were destiny throws its cards." The femme smirked, winking as she closed the door behind her. Closing one chapter in the story of her life. The story of a child thrown through time and space who fought with everything she ever had to get home to the people she loved and knew who loved her back. The story of someone who lost themselves and with the help of her family found herself again. A family who helped her and protected her, and who she helped and protected, laying down even her life for them, and those they loved and cared dearly for. The family that never judged her for who she really was, and who she turned out to be.
Because that's what a true family does. They love one another for who they are and who they become. And there is no greater privilege in life, than to have a family who loves and cares for you, no matter your race, colour, creed or belief. The one thing everyone deserves, even in the darkest of times, a family much who will always be there to support them, no matter what.