The average day in the Autobot base always consisted of Ratchet typing away ever vigilantly at his computer, more often then not one would wonder what he does on said thing. The Medic to the Autobot cause loyally stayed to his post searching for not only unearthed Energon, but possible Decepticon movements and perhaps if they were lucky a beacon from any fellow soldiers touching down on the organic planet in which they currently occupied.

Optimus Prime, leader and friend to his team, was often seen traversing from the back to the front of the main hangar of the base keeping watch over those under his command, making sure to constantly keep an eye on their Energon supply, keeping an optic out for cons and more often the not; making sure everything was secure and safe.

Lastly Autobot's Arcee, Chromia, Bumblebee and Bulkhead were the main group to scout out the surrounding's of the base or scouting out other area's for any Decepticon activity and Energon signals. However, lately when they were doing neither of those the Autobot's were seen with their charges spending quality time together and getting to know each other.

Today was different, however, as today the Autobot's could be seen traveling all over the base moving and cleaning area's and placing items in different spots. And this is currently what a certain Mika Nakadai was watching as she pet the helm of her pet Scraplet Riptide, ignoring the crunching the thing made as it devoured a piece of scrap metal that hadn't been needed. The Autobot's were working hard to move around and construct newer parts of the base, thanks to the discovery Mika had found when she fell through the floor.

There had indeed been more to the ex Military bunker then first thought, she mused, as Ratchet had finally gotten the elevator's to work after much hard work and arguing with Agent Fowler. She watched as the bots traveled to and fro from the underground, moving items below and even bringing some above. Bulkhead grumbled as he shifted around with a large box containing... well she didn't know what it contained really, but she knew it was heavy especially by the sound of his groaning joints. Bumblebee warbled and whirred about something to Arcee who in reply rolled her eye's and told the scout to get back to work. Said bot seemed to pout and sag ever so slightly before returning to moving things around along side Bulkhead. Chromia could be seen setting a few things up for Ratchet who was overseeing the process with Optimus (Of course they helped too)

The first level would remain the main control center where missions would be given out and bots traveled to and fro through the ground bridge. The back rooms were just about cleared and would be reconstructed to be only the prep rooms and Training room. There were a few spare human sized room's that, upon Optimus' decision, would be in case the children needed to stay in an emergency or (like today) Miko and Mika staying the night. Ratchet had needed much convincing for that, but once it was discovered that the children's host parents were out of town for the night Optimus didn't feel comfortable with them being alone in the house even with Bulkhead and Chromia waiting outside.

The second level, of which Mika had fallen to, was being constructed as a full out medical bay for Ratchet. Whom of which was completely elated by that fact. The back rooms would serve as a supply room to hold both medical equipment and Energon which would remain under lock and key.

A third and fourth level was discovered upon further inspection and the third level would be molded into a lounge area for the Autobot's (and Children) while rooms were fixed to be the Autobot's berthrooms. This excited the bots a bit to have the area to relax and rest after a long day of missions or scouting, and not to mention an area where Ratchet wouldn't be bothered nor his ire summoned.

The final level, on Optimus' order, would be for storing any other items they had from Cybertron being special data or any of the like and if the need arise, holding cell's for prisoners should they ever have any.

Or as Ratchet sadistically chuckled, a place to throw Miko when she got too annoying.

Optimus put a stop to that right away, scolding the medic for such an idea.

A grumbling of sorts erupted from Ratchet when he attempted to get some work done at his computers after overseeing the moving process (him wanting a break from the work load to do OTHER needed things but was unable to because of noise) and Mika turned her attention to him. She gave a small, almost unnoticeable smile, before she stood up and placed Riptide down to go over to the medic. Now being on the floor, Riptide chirped excitedly before rushing over to Bulkhead who'd just finished his work load and was chatting with Miko. Said girl had plopped down by Bulkheads foot with a loud groan, having been helping as much as she could. When Riptide made it over to the duo, he gave a loud coo that startled Bulkhead into, once again like many a time since Mika kept him, screaming like a little girl.

Ignoring the amusing sight, Mika rapped on Ratchet's foot causing the grouchy medic to look down. "What?" Came his gruff voice.

"I was wondering," She started, pausing and wondering if she should even bother him. "Could you teach me a little about Cybertonian Anatomy?"

Ratchet blinked at her, briefly wondering why the heck she was even asking such a question or even when she thought of asking it. "What ever for?" He inquired curiously.

"Well... I'm kinda curious, I mean I know you're trying to get work done but I also know you can't currently concentrate. So... why not take a little break? I'll tell you about our Anatomy too! T-that is if you want to." Mika said, at first firm in her desire before crumbling under the medics stare and kicking at the floor nervously. "I-I wouldn't take up to much of your time..."

She wasn't really sure he'd even agree to it, but she was really bored and she did want something to do while she awaited for Chromia to finish up her portion of the work today. Bulkhead was already finished, she noted, chatting up with Miko who was now cuddling Riptide. She also kinda wanted to spend a little time with the aloof medic before she took off with Chromia.

Ratchet was about to deny her, but he paused when he remembered what Miko had told him three day's ago during the Scraplet fiasco.

"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."

He cringed at the memory, its not like he WANTED her to feel like that... He shifted in his spot uncomfortably before observing her expression, noting how it was like she was prepared to be denied.

"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."

He cursed his guilt, and how her eye's looked up at him like an earth puppy staring hopefully up to its master to go outside and play!

Grumbling to himself, Ratchet sighed. "Alright."

Blinking up at the agreement, Mika gave a smile which made the medic pause and stare for a moment. Agreeing to spend a little time with her for something this small made her smile?

"Okay!" She cheered, she couldn't believe he agreed! "I'll point to a body part and tell you the name of it... and you vise versa." She explained, not noticing the curious glance of Chromia who paused in what she'd been doing.

"Head." Mika pointed to her head, watching as Ratchet grumbled yet again.

"Helm." He replied as he pointed to his head... well helm.

"Eye's" She pointed to her eyes.

Ratchet twitched, for a moment he swore her golden orbs twinkled... "Optics." He returned after his pause.

"Feet." She wiggled her foot at him, having taken off her shoes and socks earlier when her feet got to hot. She even wiggled her toes for extra effect.

"... Pedes." Ratchet replied, even going so far to mimic her by wiggling his own pede.

Mika blinked at the act and giggled, not noticed the sudden stare from her guardian. He rarely heard her giggle like that and 'cute' was his first thought before he shook his head.

Neither noticed that the base was suddenly quiet.

"Hands." She held hers out and watched as he copied.

"Servo's."

"Fingers." She wiggled her fingers.

"Digits."

"Face!" She started feeling playful... and a tad silly. But she poked her face and tried to withhold her grin, lips twitching ever so slightly. Really, ever since her secret had come out she felt a heavy load being pulled off her shoulders.

"Faceplate." Ratchet tapped his robotic face.

"Brain."

"Processor."

"Tongue." Mika stuck her human organ to Ratchet and watching in amusement as his eye twitched at her.

"Glossa." She heard his haughty tone and burst into another fit of giggles when he stuck his 'glossa' out at her.

"Female." She pointed to herself.

Frowning for a moment, Ratchet pointed to Chromia who was now full on watching in amusement. "Femme."

"Uhm... Jack and Raf would be male."

"Mech." He pointed to himself.

"Heart." She said, pointing to where the human organ was.

Ratchet stared at her for a moment before slowly placing his hand over the spot where she had been placed after her return from the arctic. "Spark." He replied softly, ignoring her curious look.

"Butt." She said after a pause and then with held a laugh as Ratchet rolled his eye's.

"Aft."

Both jumped and looked over to Chromia who made her way over to them, smirking at them and ignoring Ratchet's dirty look.

"Shouldn't you be working?" He questioned in annoyance, the sooner the bots finished fixing up the place then the sooner- Ratchet blinked when he noted that not only had Chromia been watching but everyone else too. Feeling himself getting more flustered, Ratchet growled and hollered at the rest of them. "What are you looking at!?" This effectively caused the bots watching to wave their hands frantically and stumble into each other to go back to their jobs.

Non wanting to upset the medic too much least he break out his weapon of doom...

"Child." Mika continued, ignoring Ratchet who frowned and looked cautiously to Chromia.

"Youngling." Chromia said with a small, sad smile.

"Baby."

"Sparkling!" Mika jumped at Ratchet's sudden loud burst and then yelped and shouted in complaint when Ratchet suddenly picked her up. This he ignored in favor of distracting the human girl from the expression upon Chromia's face at the word. "I think that's enough for today."

"Ratchet! P-put me down." Mika complained, she never had been a fan of him doing that, especially when it was out of the blue.

"Chromia." All paused at the sound of Optimus' voice when he entered the room, having finished his own work. "I would like you to go on patrol."

"Can I come?" Mika asked from the floor, making Ratchet gap and sputter in question on how she got down so fast and without him noticing. He didn't know that she had squeezed out of his grasp when Optimus came in and somehow silently clambered her way down his armor without notice.

Optimus frowned in thought and wondered if allowing that would be such a good idea, what if something happened and there was an attack? Could he risk her getting harmed at all? But he froze at the look she sent, uncomfortable under her gaze as her eye's seemed to suddenly enlarge and almost sparkle hopefully... how did she do that?

"It is just patrol." Chromia supplied after a moment.

Frowning even more, Optimus sighed before nodding. "Very well." He caved and then looked startled to the human as she suddenly was hugging his pede.

"Yes!" She cheered, "You're the best Optimus!" She said before blushing and clearing her throat, "I-I mean thank you."

Chuckling softly, Optimus nodded and watched as Mika went over to Chromia with excited eye's. Everyone seemed to be adjusting the three days since the Scraplet incident including Mika who was beginning to change almost rapidly. He noted spouts where the girl seemed more happy and outgoing like her sister, and then other moments when she would revert back to her uncertain and shy self. He could only hop that this change was due to how close she was beginning to get towards them. Which he felt grateful for being one of those she felt closer to. Miko had, after all, told them that Mika was more confident once you got closer enough to her, but had a hard time trusting people enough.

While she was still the more docile, timid, gentle twin there were times where Miko's personality seemed to rub off on her. Like now for instance, he mused as she practically impatiently waited for Chromia to transform.

"Come on 'Mia!" Mika excitedly exclaimed, not noticing the slip of the tongue regarding the little nickname she used.

And while she did not notice the faraway look on Chromia's face at the name, Optimus did. He had no doubt about what she'd been thinking of when she heard that name, but thought it best not to bring it up. Sometimes it was best to leave things as it were... With that, Optimus turned to his aggravated medic with a soft chuckle as the angered medic reminded him of a grouchy earth cat.

"Ratchet." He called, catching the medic's attention. "The Medical bay is complete if you wanted t-"

"Finally!" Ratchet exclaimed and before Optimus could finish, the medic bolted out of the room to go and put to order his new Medical bay.

"Chromia?" Mika called when her guardian went silent after Optimus and Ratchet left. "Are we going?"

Chromia blinked, shaking her head before smiling down to her human charge. "Of course." She'd never admit it out loud but... She'd began to care for Mika more and more every day, feeling a motherly bond to her almost instantly. It was rather startling really, how attached she was getting to her little human and how fast things seemed to be going, but she wasn't going to stop it. It was odd how protective she felt of the child as well like a carrier to their sparkling (She winced to herself discreetly), but she didn't complain. After all perhaps this was her chance to atone for her past mistakes? One graver then any she'd ever committed before...

"Then can we go? I'm bored..." Mika said a bit more boldly.

"Yes, yes. Hold your... horses?" She questioned, uncertain if she got the human saying right.

Mika nodded in return before hopping onto her femme guardian's alternative form and squealing when Chromia bolted out of the main base, laughing lightly at the speed. Now with her sister gone, and with her and her guardians chores done, Miko stood and stretched; giving a loud yawn that caught Bulkheads attention.

"Ahhh!" She exhaled as her body crackled, making Bulkhead look somewhat queasy at the sound. "Chores are all done!" She cheered as she set Riptide down. "Can we go do some dune bashing?"

"Hrm... I dunno Miko." Bulkhead said with an odd expression. "The last time we did, I spent about a week picking sand out of my seems." He grumbled. "And my aft."

"We don't want to know what you pick out of your aft Bulk." Arcee's voice could be heard from down the hall, most likely setting up the training room.

Miko, sighing to herself, looked down in disappointment, of which was caught by her guardian who scrambled to cheer her up. "Uh but there IS a monster truck rally in town?"

Perking up immediately at this, Miko grinned. "Sweet!" She cheered and was more then ready to go to said thing but an alarm sounded from the base making everyone wince while Ratchet came quickly back into the main room of the base to see what the problem was that interrupted him from setting up his med bay.

Typing away at his computer, Ratchet blinked at what he saw. "Optimus, I'm picking up a signal on a restricted channel. It appears to be coming from a ship in this solar system." He voiced as he tried to triangulate the exact location of said ship. "By the Allspark! It's an Autobot Beacon!"

"More Autobot's? Sweet! Who is it?! Who, who?" Miko asked excitedly, maybe they'd get a bot as cool as Bulkhead?

"I was beginning to worry that you guy's were all that was left." Rafael spoke up as he practically appeared out of thin air next to Miko.

"Gah!" Miko yelped, leaping up from being startled. "When did you get here?!"

"Just a little bit ago." Raf smiled to Miko as he pointed back to Bumblebee who was curiously watching Ratchet typing away. He too was curious about who this Autobot could possibly be.

"The masses scattered through out the galaxies when Cybertron went dark." Arcee informed the boy as she joined everyone in the main room. She folded her arms and leaned against the wall and observed as well.

"What if it's a trap from the Decepticon's? You said before they'd been known to bait traps with false beacons." Jack suddenly appeared next to Miko who jumped yet again.

"When did you two get so sneaky?!" Miko demanded, seriously she didn't notice the two bots leaving or returning!

"We got here around the time Bulkhead was talking about picking particles out of his butt." Jack said. "I was helping Arcee in the training room. Raf with Bee in the Autobot rec room."

"..."

"You have the attention span of a fish." Jack teased making Miko narrow her eye's at him and punched his arm. "Ow!"

"Whimp."

"Unknown vessel, this is Autobot Outpost Omega One." Optimus spoke through a comm to the ship with authority oozing from his voice. "Identify yourself."

{I've had warmer welcomes from Decepticon Combat Brigades.} A voice spoke in reply making Miko perk up curiously, that voice was definitely the voice of a rebel.

Sweet.

"Wheeljack?!" Bulkhead suddenly blurted with wide optics, causing Miko to turn to him and blink in wonder, old friends maybe? "You old Con crusher!" The bulky bot laughed. "What are you doing all the way out here?"

{That you Bulkhead? What's with all the security?} The bot now identified as Wheeljack wondered.

"Ugh, the rock we're on is crawling with cons." Bulkhead explained. "How soon can you get here and even out the odds?"

{Sometime tomorrow maybe, if I put metal to the pedal. By the way, I'm not the only one coming in for a little visit.} He added.

"Who else is with you?" Bulkhead asked curiously.

{Well I may have picked up a few hitch hikers roaming about.} Came a chuckle before that chuckled turned into a growl and an odd language spewed over the comm link, making the children all look at each other in confusion.

The fellow bot's of the base shared odd looks as well, especially when a sudden racket was heard and a few new voices sounded through the call. {You mean we're FINALLY going to land somewhere? I'm starting to get space sick.} A new voice sounded, filled to the brim with mischievousness.

{You don't get space sick, Idiot.} Another voice sounded, this one was a little more serious, if not a tad vain sounding. {And watch where you purge your tanks! I finally got that fragging dent you caused out!}

"Oh no." Everyone in the base turned to Ratchet who released a loud groan. "Not them." The utter amount of despair in his tone caused Raf to frown in worry and walk over to the medic, though he didn't know exactly WHY Ratchet was upset, and set his hand on his pede in a form of support.

"You okay Ratchet?"

{Hey I'd know that voice anywhere! Hatchet how ya been!?} The more mischievous one sounded excited. {Did you miss us? Cause we sure missed you~}

"Do you know them Ratchet?" Raf questioned curiously, casting an eye over to the despairing medic.

"Unfortunately..."

{You know you missed us doc.} The vainish one sounded like he was smirking from his tone.

"Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, it warms my spark knowing you two are well and operational." Optimus spoke, perhaps even casting an ever so slight turn of the lips to Ratchet in amusement to his misery.

It's official, Ratchet decided, Optimus had a sadistic side to him somewhere deep down beneath his... Primeness.

{We got Prowler with us, but he's recharging. And its good to hear from you to Prime.} Sideswipe chuckled somewhat sheepishly.

{Recharging? More like in stasis you dimwit, they made him glitch again.} Wheeljack groaned.

{Who you calling dimwit Wrecker?}

With that, the comm ended abruptly which clued them in to the bots arguing. But that was to be expected, being stuck in a ship all together for who knows how long could drive one up the wall.

"I have only known him by reputation." Optimus spoke after a moment of silence. "Bulkhead, can you verify his voice print?"

"He's 1000% the real deal." Bulkhead excitedly confirmed.

"I see." Optimus spoke with a nod. "We will send landing coordinates then. Ratchet?"

"Do I have to?" The plea was heavy in the medics voice, and Optimus chuckled lightly before nodding. "Fine." He said before typing in the designated location in which the new bots were to land... could you tell from his chipper voice how excited he was?

Yay.

"So." Arcee started amused. "Who's the boyfriend?" She inquired with a quirk of her eyebrow.

"I'll make sure he gets a proper welcome!" Bulkhead said excitedly before turning to Arcee to answer her. "Me and Jackie go way back. We were a part of the same war unit, the Wreckers, which means the con's are gonna wish he never found us."

And as Bulkhead began spewing tales of him and Wheeljack, Miko paying rapt attention and absorbing it like a sponge, Jack and Raf had to share a look with each other before looking to Ratchet.

"Uhm, Ratchet?" Raf called cautiously.

"Yes, what is it?" Ratchet paused from typing at the computer, glancing down at the boy.

"Well... We were wondering." Jack continued. "What's the new bots going to do about our uh... pet?"

Ratchet paused, and then slowly turned to Riptide who was crunching away at yet another scrap of metal from his little pile that Miko had made him. He watched for a moment before many different scenario's ran through his helm of the first meeting with the Scraplet and a dark and sinister smile lit his face before a chuckle poured out from his chassis, soon turning out into full blown laughter making the two children look at each other once more and back away.

"Should we be worried?" Jack whispered to Raf who nodded quickly, gulping to himself.

"I would be." Jack jumped at the voice of his guardian, looking back to see Arcee staring at Ratchet apprehensively. "Hurry, lets get out of here."

Jack nodded quickly and rushed after Arcee as she walked back towards the training room to continue putting it together. "Boy I'd hate to be the new bots." Raf muttered, shaking his head before noticing Bumblebee's hand wrapping gently around him and a fearful and worried look was desplayed over his face.

Bumblebee was quick to utter a few semi quiet beeps and buzzes to which Raf nodded quickly and stayed silent as his guardian was swift in traveling back down to the Autobot rec room to finish putting together the children's area.

They didn't want to be around the medic right now.

Even Optimus had disappeared without a trace!

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It was finally calming down, the sun beginning to go down and giving off an orange hue to the sky signalling the children's needs to return to their home in a few hours. Mika was seated next to her guardian on a rock formation, the formation overlooking a canyon before them leaving a view of the worlds unending beauty and magnificent wonders. The two sat on the edge, Mika kicking her feat as she listened to Chromia chatter aimlessly about her memories from their home planet Cybertron.

They'd just finished patrolling their designated area and were now resting before they'd return to the base.

"Then what happened?" Chromia smiled at the eagerness of her charge, reminding her of a sparkling excited for a story before it's recharge.

"Well." She continued, watching Mika's eye's sparkle in wonder at all the alien things and tales never heard before by a human. "While Jazz and I were enjoying our high grade after a long day's work of training, Ironhide came in under the assumption that Jazz was making moves. So he came in, shoving passed people with a growl and pulled out his cannons."

"Oh no." Mika grinned lightly to herself. "The Cannons huh?" Chromia often told her of her sparkmates love for his cannon's and weaponry when they were free to spend time together. He being a weapons specialist and all, they were his pride and joy.

Aside from her of course.

"The Cannons. After he made his way up to the bar with them activated, he takes one look at Jazz, making sure to give him the toughest look he could muster and starts droning on about his new weapon he made that used acid pellets. Something that would devour enemies slowly and painfully." Chromia shook her head fondly. "Of course Jazz knew that Ironhide was a rather... possessive mech and more then likely was speaking out of his assumptions jealousy. So Jazz was trying very hard not to laugh at Ironhide's tough act, though the act would normally have other mech's cowering, it just made him laugh because he knew of the jealousy."

"When did Ironhide find out that Jazz wasn't making the moves on you? And that you guys were just friends?" Mika curiously asked. Her hand played at the dirt below, briefly wandering from the current topic and wondering if the orange dirt would stain her cloths.

"When Jazz's sparkmate came in and planted a kiss in greeting. Ironhide's face was bluer then the Highgrade we were drinking." Chromia laughed.

Though Mika didn't laugh at first, she did when she began to imagine a big buff and tough mech embarrassing himself as such while trying to intimidate someone who wasn't even hitting on his sparkmate like he thought. She listened further as her guardian told her more tales of her lost sparkmate and had to wonder to herself what it would have been like growing up with parents like that?

She smiled to herself, hugging her knee's to her chest as Chromia told her the next tale of Ironhide rushing head first into an army of Decepticon's. Her time with Chromia was becoming something she cherished the most... With Chromia, she was starting to feel less and less like an unwanted burden like many of the kids at school made her feel. Not only that but... ever since Chromia and the others had discovered her secret and accepted it, Mika saw them in a new light. She felt like she could trust them...

She felt... like she was wanted around.

She began to think to herself that perhaps she could finally say that she had someone else she cared about beside's Miko? All her life, it was only Miko.

Her best friend?

Miko.

Her closest confidant?

Miko.

Miko, Miko, Miko.

But now? Now her femme guardian was worming herself into Mika's fragile heart, into her fragile trust and Mika didn't want to stop her if she were to be honest... Because, despite her loving Miko more then anything in the world- Mika wanted to have more friends. She wanted to be well liked, just like Miko was. She wanted to be stronger, more confident!

And with the bots, Chromia especially, She was finally starting to feel that.

So Mika allowed herself to lean on Chromia, and she allowed herself to cling to her bot's side (Chromia noticing and smiling but saying nothing on it and continuing her story, perhaps even shifting closer to the child) and she allowed herself to care more for Chromia then she had anyone else besides Miko.

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Wooo! Update! Hope you all like it! And yeah I'm mashing Conjob and Slumber party together! For those of you who've read the OLD version, The happenings of "Powers and sickmind" wont go like the old book. Power's will be later on, I want to do more time with the bots and Mika before moving on. With that, I hope you all like how the original plot and story is and I also hope you enjoy the newer version! I'm hoping this becomes just as popular, if not MORE, then Unwanted was.