Honestly, Mika grumbled to herself as she opened and closed her scabbing hands, how had they not hurt before? Yet now they were driving her insane, stinging and itching with every movement which often brought out a nearly inaudible hiss in reaction. She could blame it on the adrenaline, seeing her femme guardian in trouble plus the pure utter terror she'd felt would be a good activation for it.
Mika withheld a cry as she leaned over the sink of the Silo restroom, a room that (naturally) the Autobot's did not use. The stinging pain shot up and down her arm and her palm making a small whine exit her lips as she tried cleaning it to the best of her abilities. She didn't want to bother Ratchet right now, as the medic was busy tending to the other's still (who just returned from taking the kids home and just finished chasing her new pet Scraplet around when it had gotten hold of Ratchets wrench. Now he was confined to a cage for 'time out' ) and she'd just be in the way. So she had to take care of this herself, but unbeknownst to Mika the bathroom door creaked open and a familiar pink tipped haired sibling of hers popped her head into the room.
"You know, its not a good thing to hide injuries right?"
Mika turned to Miko with a yelp, smacking her hand in the process. "Ow, ow ow!"
"Whats going on in there?"
"Miko!" Mika hissed as Arcee's voice came closer.
"Hey don't blame me." Miko folded her arms with a roll of her eye's. "I've been feeling your ghost pains since you got it. Just go see Ratchet already."
"No... he's... busy." Mika mumbled as she quickly wrapped her palms with her outer shirt just as the door opened to reveal Arcee's optic peering in. "Uhm... Hey Arcee."
The two wheeler femme narrowed her optics at the two humans in the restroom. "What are you hiding?"
Mika blinked before sputtering. "H-hiding? Nothing!"
"..."
"We're just uhm... having issues with our uh... Time of the month!" Mika fished, but by the looks of Arcee she didn't believe her.
"Just show her." Miko rolled her eyes and Mika glared to her sister.
"Show me what?"
"It's nothing..."
"Mika Nakadai." Mika cringed at the stern tone before sighing and removing the cloth from her hand. "Why would you be so stupid as to hide an injury?"
"I've... taken care of them myself befor-"
"That's not an excuse and you know it." Arcee simply put.
Mika nodded her head in defeat before trudging out of the bathroom with Miko and Arcee following behind. When the trio got into the main hanger they could see Optimus and Ratchet conversing, the latter of the two was quite animated about whatever he'd been speaking of.
"Ratchet," Miko called. "Get your medical aft over here."
Ratchet paused in his conversation, blinking down unimpressed to the girl.
"Could you look at your charges hands for me?" Arcee spoke while sending Mika a pointed look.
Grumbling to herself, Mika looked to Ratchet who eyed her in confusion before he turned quickly to Optimus who nodded. Ratchet then transformed and activated his holoform, stepping out and waiting expectantly. With a sigh, Mika showed him her hands and Ratchet glared at her. "Why would you not come to me sooner?" He demanded and Mika bit her lip. "I thought I saw something when you were laying unconscious!"
"I-It's just you were busy with everyone else and I didn't want to bother you." She mumbled to herself.
"Why in the pit would you ever think that?" His tone made her cringe, and Optimus was giving her a look that made her cringe even more!
"Well maybe its cause you MAKE her feel like she bothers you sometimes, or perhaps that you can't be 'bothered' to do stuff for her." Miko shot it with a deadpan expression as Ratchet looked to her startled.
"M-Miko not right now." Mika hissed to her sister but Miko shook her head, it'd been something she'd wanted to say for a while now and despite now not really being a good time for it; She finally wanted to get it off her chest.
"Where did you get that idea?!"
"From you." Miko pointed. "She may not wanna say anything out loud but I will, I mean its not like you're very happy to be around her. Sure there's time you're tolerable and seem like you care, but then there's times where you make her feel like nothing but a burden and you hate being around her."
"Miko." Optimus intervened, "Perhaps Bulkhead could use some assistance."
Miko looked to Optimus before turning and spying Bulkhead attempting to move yet another one of her instruments that she'd accidentally left within his back seat. Sensing that Optimus wished for her to go, Miko nodded with a sigh and left to help her guardian who was now grumbling annoyed at the guitar making a racket as he tried to loosen it from its confinement.
"Mika." Ratchets started, but she kept her gaze to the floor. With a sigh, Ratchet grabbed her hands to look at them, all the while grumbling to himself as he started cleaning the area gently and mumbling small apologies when he'd accidentally hit a sensitive spot.
"Mika?"
She turned her head to her femme guardian and tensed as Chromia stared down with a stern look. "I don't want to talk about it..." She muttered, ignoring the confused glances of Ratchet and Optimus.
"Mika, how did you do what you did?" Chromia pushed as she knelt down to make it easier to look at her charge. "Please, you have to tell me, Mika if something like that were to be leaked to the wrong person..."
"T-that wont happen because it was an accident!" Mika said sternly to her guardian.
"What are you speaking of?" Optimus inquired in confusion, the actions of both Mika and Chromia were making him suspicious of something they were keeping from him.
"Mika, when we were in the hall she stopped the Scraplets." Chromia informed. "It was like she paused them all in mid air before crushing them to scrap."
"Impossible." Ratchet scoffed once he finished with her hands. "Something like that is only done by-"
"Freaks?" Mika murmured sadly as Miko suddenly appeared by her side. She must have felt Mika's unease.
"You're not a freak!" Miko snapped and Mika looked down.
"Mika?" Optimus called to her and the girl turned to her twin.
"Okay." Mika said after a moment of silent staring before turning towards one of Ratchets tools and, with the utmost concentrated look, the tool began to shake and move much to the rest of the Autobot's shock before it landed roughly beside Ratchet who yelped at the clatter it made. "S-Sorry... I don't like using it."
"By the Allspark! Mika! H-how?" Ratchet questioned before suddenly she felt his holoform disperse but before he could scan her she moved out of the way in fury.
"Stop it!" Mika cried out angrily and Ratchet flinched at the sudden anger, and the pressure that was suddenly forcing him to remain still holding tightly to him, restraining all and any movement. "I-I'm not some experiment o-or scientific phenomena for you t-to observe and test!"
"How are you doing that?" Ratchet demanded when he found he could move again.
"She was born with it." Miko shrugged while Bulkhead scratched his helm. "Mind powers."
"Can uh, you do it too?" Bulkhead questioned Miko who shook her head.
"No, but I feel like there's something there... something sleeping."
"What else can you do?" Optimus inquired curiously only for Mika to shake her head and bite her lip. "Mika, we are your friends." He assured her and felt his spark twinge at the heart broken look on her face.
"You'll all leave me like everyone else... y-you'll think I'm a freak..."
"We care about you Mika." Chromia assured. "Miko too, you don't have to say if you don't want to." She caved to the look Mika had been giving.
"W-we share a bond together..." Mika started, "From the day our parents found us."
"Wait a minute," Arcee questioned in confusion. "What do you mean found?"
Miko rolled her eyes at how long Mika was taking before she began her tale, from what they could remember anyway of how they had discovered that they had been found... instead of born to their family like they thought. "Well it all started when we were like... seven-"
Giggling could be heard through out the household of the Nakadai's, a sound that was always accompanied by the sound of two sets of piter pattering feet which was a clear sign that the two beloved daughters of Ichidate Nakadai were up to no good. And it was so, as the forms of two nearly identical sisters snuck passed their father's office (of which had always stayed closed and was forbidden for them to enter) and upon further inspection (if one were to be home that is to SEE said thing) a mischievous brown eyed girl was dragging her golden eyed (hidden behind glasses) twin down the hall with pink and brown boxes within their grasps. Upon even farther inspection, the boxes in which they were fleeing with was Pocky.
"Sissy." Mika looked up, big eyes wide in aw as Miko tore open the pink boxes. "What they?"
"Pocky." Miko easily said, growing up Miko had the easier time speaking while Mika struggle with speech. IT had been told to the Nakadai family that Mika was going to be a bit of a harder child because her development was slower then Miko's.
"Pocky good?" Mika inquired curiously as she peered a pudgy face to look into the box of the delicacy her twin had convinced her to obtain with her.
"Chocolate ones are." Miko nodded before shoving a chocolate one inside her mouth with a satisfied and triumphant look. "Here." She ordered before shoving two more sticks inside her mouth.
Curiously, Mika reached for it, adjusting her glasses quickly, and popped one in her mouth before making a face. "Icky!" She threw the thing on the floor with a huff and Miko tilted her head, allowing her short hair (both girls hair matching each other's back then) to go over her face for a moment before she reached for the pink box.
"Try this one."
"No." Mika shook her head, making a disgusted face. "Icky."
"Strawberry." Miko told her which caught Mika's attention.
She did like Strawberries... Huffing to herself, Mika reached for the pink stick and with the utmost caution, put it to her tongue and blinked.
"Well?" Miko asked.
"Nommy!" Mika cheered with a loud giggle, kicking her feat in glee as she ate the pocky.
"I don't like them. You can have them." Miko said as she shoved the rest of the boxes towards her sister who gladly received them.
The two began chattering to each other, eating the entirety that was the massive mess of Pocky, and spoke of their favorite show that they recently saw, Teentitans. Miko adored Cyborg and Jynx while Mika had a love for Raven and Beastboy (The quieter twin having also a love for animals). It was deep into their conversation that the two had heard a noise in their father's office. Which was odd because he was away on business. The two looked curiously at each other before standing and wondering if they could investigate.
"Intruders!" Was Miko's first assumption.
"But... no go in." Mika whimpered as she hid behind Miko who was about to go investigate.
"But no ones home! We have to check it out." Miko insisted only for Mika to shake her head. "It's our job as honorary Titans to keep the tower safe!"
Mika looked up to Miko who took the stance as if she were a real Teentitan, they'd both made alias's as honorary teen titans! (they having been taken to Comicon on their birthday and met the 'teentitatns' who made them honorary titans.) Miko had dubbed her titan self Bleaknote while Mika had called herself Soulspark.
"But Bleak..."
"No but Soul, you gotta be brave! What if its the Brotherhood come to take us away?" Miko questioned before taking on a dark look, "OR Slade coming to take one of us by force as his apprentice?"
Mika didn't say anything, though she shuttered at Slades name, but nodded before allowing Miko forward, but she still kept hidden behind her sister for safety precautions. The two made their way back towards their father's office (both having been outside to eat their treasure they'd obtained, having been playing pirates before) and Miko slowly peered into the unusually ajar door. It was odd that it was open seeing as usually the thing was closed. Peering in and not seeing anything Miko bravely shoved the door open with a brave shout.
"Titans go!" She shouted as she raced in with Mika squeaking at the sudden move and struggle to keep up.
Miko bolted around the room, holding her toy gun in case she needed to use it on their enemies. When she didn't spy anything she looked confused only to gasp in horror as Mika tripped on the floor and slammed into their father's desk. The rumble it sent through the mahogany desk caused an unstable case to go flying off of the bookshelf that sat against the side of the desk. The two girls watched in horror as an expensive looking vase fell from the height it had been on and crash into the ground before shattering into millions of little shards.
Tearing up, Mika began to cry as a fear ran through her with the prospect of their fathers ire at the vase having been broken and Miko rushed to her sister's side in a desperate attempt to sooth her. She hugged her sister too her, petting her hair and rocking her in an attempt to calm her and after a while when Mika finally calmed, Miko stood and went over to the mess in worry. It was then that something caught her eyes, papers that had been folded up and hidden within the confines of the vase. Curiously, she stood from Mika's side and went to investigate; making sure to be cautious of the sharp shards of glass as she grasped the papers and spotted a tape wrapped inside of it and while she couldn't fully grasp the words on the papers being to big of words for her to make out, she took the tape and her sister back to their room to watch whatever it was.
But what she didn't expect was what was ON the VHS tape...
Upon her placing the tape in like she'd seen their mother do for them on movie nights, Miko and Mika stared upon what seemed to be a secret news broadcast about some odd pile of scrap metal discovered with two infant's underneath them. Miko watched in curiosity as a man, an ex archeologist now reporter by the name of Ichidate Nakadai pulled the infants from the wreckage.
"Are you telling me that you were found in that rubble?" Ratchet inquired.
"That's what I just said." Miko replied. "So to be honest we don't really KNOW who our real parents are. Just that we have these odd abilities. Mika has some telepathic powers, and both of us are able to communicate to each other without a word. Not only that, but I can feel what she feels and if we concentrate hard enough I can see what she see's and vise versa."
"W-when I get hurt Miko can feel it." Mika mumbled as she stared down to her hands after she said that.
"So that's why you made that noise earlier." Bulkhead spoke as he recalled the two fleeing from the Scraplets, having saw Miko hiss and suddenly look to her palms.
"But tha-" Ratchet sputtered. "That's not possible."
"Well it is." Miko simply replied.
Staring at the two girls, and now only half paying attention as Miko began spewing forth another tale of their sparklinghood, Ratchet seemed to find himself... well panicking.
On the inside if you will.
Human's didn't HAVE that kind of bond... did they? Could Miko and his charge be like -he shudders to even dare think it- the terrortwins? Briefly a memory popped through his processor, the last time he'd seen them had been on the Autobot ship created to evacuate all they could when Cybertron turned dark known as the Ark. He could see Sideswipe, a red mech, grinning from ear to ear next to his twin brother, a golden mech known as Sunstreaker who was in the process of rolling his optics at his brothers antics. Those two where known to the Cybertronian race as spark twins. Two holes of a single spark, split into two different yet the same bots. Could Miko and Mika be like them?
Impossible. Ratchet scolded himself for even thinking that! They were human, with oddities he'd never heard of mind you, but human none the less and the race of human kind were nothing like theirs (excluding a few similar attributes). Humans didn't feel as Cybertronian's, not to the emotional level they felt and Cybertronian's didn't feel as Humans did- Not to the physical level they felt.
But then he began to wonder, absentmindedly listening as Miko switched her tale to a memory of when Mika first discovered her abilities one night during a thunderstorm, if there WAS a possibility that the two human twins before him had the kind of bond Autobot's Sunstreaker and Sideswipe had... could that mean if one was lost the other would follow? Or if one had been seriously injured, so to would the other feel it? Now Ratchet normally wouldn't allow himself to get like he currently was... but assigned as a role to be a guardian his coding was rearing up. With Cybertronian's they had something similar to a humans instinct, only Cybertronian's rarely fought off coding. There were many forms of coding for his kind, from a type of parental coding, sparkmate coding, and many more- the current activating for him was the guardian coding... something that had started after he be began to become... accustomed to Mika being around.
No that he'd let anyone else know that!
That being said... Ratchet started fearing the worst as questions floated around his helm. What if the Decepticon's discovered Mika's abilities? What if during one of Miko's horrendous adventurous tendency she got injured, or worse dragged Mika with her and they got injured? What if someone else out there got hold of this kind of information? W-would the humans capture his charge and treat this phenomena as a scientific experiment like she had expressed in her fear earlier?! What if they wanted to rip her open to possibly see to what extent of her was abnormal?!
Then a worse thought came to him.
What if Megatron discovered her abilities and turned her against them? Or allowed his Decepticon scientist and doctor to... experiment?
"Ratchet?" The voice and touch on his shoulder from Optimus startled Ratchet back into reality (Having not noticed that the twin girls were now arguing about something completely irrelevant to the previous conversation) and he nearly jumped out of his armor.
"I'm fine!" Came the blurted reply of the Autobot Medic, startling everyone in the room at the abruptness and slight squeak to his voice. Ratchet (If he could) sweat dropped and cleared his throat. "I'm fine."
"You sure? I didn't know you could be so squeaky." Miko questioned.
"Kinda like Bulkhead sounded like a girl when the lights went out?" Mika questioned next with an innocent look.
If you asked Ratchet it seemed a little... too innocent.
"When are you going to let that go?" Bulkhead groaned causing the rest of the group to laugh. Especially when Mika turned from them to the big bot and gave a Cheshire smile that matched her sisters.
"Never." Both said making him groan once more.
Clearing his throat, Optimus stepped forward once everyone seemed to have settled down. "Perhaps it is time to take your charges home." He informed Chromia and Bulkhead.
"Awww!" Miko's reply was immediate, as was her pout.
"C-can we stay a little longer?" Mika turned her attention to the Autobot leader now, her eye's large and hopeful making Optimus pause and almost flinch at the look that was rather quickly deteriorating his decision.
"Please?" Miko added before adding to 'The Look.'
"I was hoping to spend a bit more time with Riptide." Mika added, and right as she spoke the Scraplet Mentioned popped out from behind her and purred happily as it rubbed it's head against hers. "Aww you're so cute~"
"What in th-" Ratchet glared down to the creature who, if you asked him, had the most smuggest expression! "How did you get out of your ca...ge..." Ratchet turned to look at the cage they had the Scraplet in, only to blink as it was nothing but a pile of scrap.
"Aww he was hungry." Miko cooed next, petting the Scraplet causing it to purr even louder.
"Give me that Scraplet!" Ratchet demanded in aggravation, taking a stomp forward. "Before he devours the rest of my tools!"
"He would never." Mika denied as she cuddled the creature to her. "Would you Riptide?" She questioned and the creature shook its head with Mika, nuzzling his nose against hers.
Ratchet bristled at the display before the words set in. "Wait you named it!?"
"Of course." Mika purred. "Optimus did say I could keep him."
"No he didn't! Optimus?" Ratchet whirled around to look at said bot, who was shifting from pede to pede and looking anywhere but at Ratchet.
"... I think I hear something in the back. I shall investigate." Came the Primes reply and before Ratchet could continue shuttering his optics in disbelief, said Autobot was gone from the room without a trace.
"Optimus Prime!" Ratchet hollered, quickly following after his leader to no doubt scold him.
"Lets get you both home before he comes back." Chromia mused with a chuckle.
"Alright." Mika nodded before hopping onto the now transformed Femme with Riptide now hidden inside of her hood.
After her guardian, and Miko's guardian, dropped them off the two girls went inside. They went through the usual weekend of having to play nice with their host parents before eating dinner and clambering upstairs to go to 'sleep' in their own rooms. Once night fell, and Miko was certain their host parents were now asleep, she climbed out of the window. Carefully maneuvering around on the roof she paused, glancing over to make sure Bulk was there out of habit, before hopping through her sister's window and flopping on the bed. This caused the lump in it to squeak followed by an odd inhuman sound.
"What the heck was-" Miko ripped the blankets off before smirking when she saw her sister cuddling the scraplet. "Ratchets going to kill you tomorrow."
Mika stuck her tongue out at her twin before snuggling deeper into the cover's and squealing again when her sister dove under as well. Within moments said sister was snoring and Mika rolled her eye's. She wished she could fall asleep as fast as Miko... Shaking her head, Mika sat up with the snoozing scraplet cuddled to her chest, and looked up to the sky and to the stars.
She wondered, her mind flashing to Miko's take of how they'd been 'found', where their real parents were? She felt her heart clench and her eye's prick at the thought, were they looking for them? Did they... did they miss them? Did they even love them?
Deep down she doubted it, what parents left their babies in a pile of scrap metal all alone against the world? Her head turned to Miko and she trembled. All she had was Miko, in the end that's all she'd ever have; She deduced. Growing up... all she had was Miko to lean on when no one else wanted to be around her. No friends desiring her company, no love interests (she blushed at the thought of actually BEING loved by someone in that way) No... best friends.
No, There had only been Miko.
Tears were now slowly dribbling down her cheeks as she clutched Riptide to her closer.
Her caring sister who took on the world just for her... Because Mika was weak, or at least she thought so. She couldn't stand up to her bullies, Miko ended up always doing it. She couldn't stick up for herself to rumors, Miko did. She never fought back when they beat her up, but Miko jumped head first into the fray.
Miko was brave, courageous! Unafraid to take on any challenge before her and a sarcastic attitude to boot! She was loved by so many people...
But Mika... she was silent... reserved with freakish powers deep within. She hated the spotlight, her nerves always got to her... Even as a child, Mika would be only talkative and outgoing with Miko by her side but alone? Mika was Selectively Mute and only recently had started growing past it, finally. And she wondered to her self, whatever would she do without her twin? She couldn't possibly live without her in her life.
But despite her adoration for her twin and the feeling that all they would EVER need was each other (Because that's all they ever had was each other) she still wanted that... that bond between child and parents. The bond that wasn't there with their adoptive parents, she was grateful for them yes but... She wanted to just...
"Why did you leave us?" Mika choked out as she wiped her tears. "Why?" She hiccuped and clenched her eye's shut.
And as sleep began setting in she opened them once more and reached for the stars wishing with all her heart to one day find them so she could ask them why they abandoned her and Miko... And she wished with all her heart to be able to hear them say that it was a mistake... and that they loved her.
Eye's closing, and last thought in her brain-
Mika just wanted to be loved... and to have a real family.
Not one obliged to care for them...
One that actually- cared.
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Deep within the Cosmo's, far far away (An; In a galaxy far far away -cue Starwars music- Naw jk jk...) a dark figure paused in his work upon the vessel he stood in. His servo twitched and moved, clenching at his chest as something began to fill him to the brim with sorrow and loneliness. But this was not his feeling, no it was someone else. He clenched his fist and relished to the feel of the emotions, not because it brought him particular joy feeling said emotions, but because it was a bond he'd long thought gone years ago.
He remembered the feeling, he caressed his chassis where his spark was, the feeling of the bond so long ago. He remembered the feeling of their love consuming his at the beginning before it went cold and dark. And now? Now he could feel them again. And while one was more mute then the other's, he felt more so the pain of the other signifying they were closer to discovering the bond. More open to it as they wished and searched for something, but the other was content with where it was and how things were.
He growled low, ignoring the odd looks of the crew as they passed him by, and made a swear to Primus himself. Soon, he would make a move. Soon he would land in earths atmosphere where the pull of emotions came from and where he knew they were, and he would find them...
And he would get them back even if he had to destroy everything in his path.
That was a promise.
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BLEHH! Okay update complete! Don't kill me readers okay? I'm trying SUPER hard to get stories updated. I've got 3k for Unwanted Soldier so far and this one had been close to being finished. Also I want to inform you all that I've decided to redo Riptide! And below is my redo from the base line art, to colored on the computer, to filtered on my phone. Hope you like it and thank you SO much for all your patients. I'm trying. -hugs readers- Okay I'm going to try and settle for the night. Tomorrow I'll try to get my Unwanted Soldier update finished, Gnight all!
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Transformers Prime; Pull Me Into The Dark *Autobot*