"Prrr?"

Mika opened her eye's, coughing a little before squinting to see the glowing light purple optic's of her Scraplet who had crooned in her face. "W-what?" She pushed herself up, noting how she was in complete and utter darkness before cursing slightly as she attempted to search for her cellphone.

Her hand reached down, feeling  her side to her hip where her little wolf plushy lay and felt for the sheep, opening its mouth for her cellphone that lay inside the plush pouch. Finger's fumbling in the dark, she pushed the power button to turn it on only to squint at the sudden flood of bright light. Turning the device to light her way while it started up, Mika discovered she'd landed in some underground bunker of sorts that was layered in dust. This lead her to believe that it was a part of the Silo the bot's had not known about, and she curiously shuffled around to get a better look. The light on her phone dimmed, cluing her in that it was finally on and she turned on the camera flash for a light which was brighter then the start up screen.

She discovered many piles of boxes layered thickly with dust and her hand gently wiped away any remaining debris to discover large words upon it spelling, U.S Army which lead her to believe it was weaponry. But why would they leave weaponry in the Silo? She frowned before looking around the larger room more, there was an elevator that lead up covered thickly with spider webs making her shiver as her eye's spied large arachnids (AN: See what I did there?!) skittering about their webs. She wasn't really afraid of spider's per say, that was more Miko's fear then hers and she fondly remembered all the times Miko's screeched and come to her to squish the eight legged offenders. Chuckling lightly to herself, and patting her Scraplet upon the head who was now rubbing against her happily, she continued onward to look around and took notice of a large stair way leading down.

Obviously this basement went farther down then she'd realized, not that anyone else knew about it either and she briefly wondered to herself what the bot's would do when they realize they had way more space then they first thought. In fact, would they let her and Miko stay over to help decide what to do with it?

"Maybe I should try to get back to Chromia..." She mumbled to herself, when a scratching noise caught her attention. The noise came from the stairwell and she felt herself freeze, she was the only one down here as far as she knew, so what could it be? Her Scraplet, who she now decided to name Riptide (An; Riptide is actually a Decepticon of mine. She is Red and Black and the sibling of Knockout. I'm just using her name.), was growling at the stairwell making Mika tense.

Mika's eye's shifted to the Army box and, with fear ever rising, she quickly made her way over to it and began to try and pry it open in a desperate attempt. She ripped off part of the old wood with ease, the wood having weakened over time and wear, and reached inside with a gasp. It was filled with military guns and she hesitated on using it as she was never fond of them, but as the noise grew closer her apprehension and fear rose causing her to pull it out and cock it back. The weapon was surprisingly loaded, she noted as she pulled the safety off, and she wondered why the soldier's had left it like that?

Her hands grasped the gun, an M9-Beretta, and her finger's grazed over the trigger in a familiar way. When her and Miko were younger, their father in Tokyo would take them hunting (He'd always wanted boy's but instead he got girl's) and he taught them everything he knew about weaponry. Miko took to it instantaneously but Mika hated every single moment of it. She hated the idea of shooting the cold metal contraption, hated the idea of hurting an animal or living thing, and hated the image of the oozing wounds from the animals both he and Miko took down. Still, she wished to please him and shut that part of her out to learn along side her twin.

Now she was rather rusty, having not done this since she was twelve, and she swallowed thickly as she inched her way to the stairwell. The sound's grew, followed by the pounding of her heart and the small rattle of the weapon as her grip shook. With one hand on the gun aiming it and on the trigger, her other held her phone for light and she reached the stairway to look down.

Beaming eye's glanced up at her, bordering on the hundreds it seemed and Mika screamed in surprise which caused them all to scatter and Scraplet's began shooting up from the basement. With them rushing at her, Mika flew backwards in an attempt to get away causing her to fall back onto her butt and hold her head in defense. Riptide snarled from her shoulder, his sharp claws raised in aggression and hitting away any stray bug to get near them. She held herself curled in a ball, repetitively whispering to herself.

"They don't hurt human's." She whispered. "Only metal. They don't hurt human's... Only metal." The image's painted in her head, thanks to Bulkhead, haunted her as horrifying images of the bot's being ripped to shred's flashed in her mind. "They don't hurt human's... only metal."

Like a mantra she said this as she heard the creatures flying through the air growling and hissing before they latched onto anything metal in the room, that included the weapons box she'd previously gone through. One creature zeroed in on her weapon and opened its mouth, the sound echoing like a chainsaw as it reared. Gasping, she stood up as it came closer and noted how Riptide was still swatting away the flying ones from reaching her.

This meant it was up to her to keep them away and Mika brought the weapon up, "S-stay back!" As if they'd understand her in their frenzied state.

It came closer and closer, the growl continuous and she paled before shaking her head, NO! She had to be brave! She couldn't just sit and wish for someone to come save her like she always did! Mika would be strong. She would, because Chromia needed her to keep them away from the bots and as she saw it right now she was the only thing standing from keeping them from moving on!

Her finger tightened on the trigger and her wide golden eyes now narrowed from behind her glasses. "I-I won't let you hurt them!" She said before firing the gun.

The shot echoed around the room and the bullet soared through the air before bouncing harmlessly off of the creatures head. In response, the creature let out a hiss as it moved towards her even faster.

"W-what?!" She screamed as it jumped at her, and she threw the weapon at it and watched as the gun metal grey Scraplet devoured the weapon in seconds. "They eat metal, not human's." She muttered to herself for more assurance before she noted something else. "They're in the wall's... the floor's, the entire base!"

She looked up from where she knew she fell and her eye's widened even more in realization that they were now one by one going through the hole she'd fallen through and she felt more terror as the realization that they could be after Chromia.

"No!" Mika shouted before searching through the room for something. Anything! What did Ratchet say? Something about the cold? What was she supposed to do!?

=Clank=

She turned to the noise, ready to do something; anything, when she noted Riptide pawing at something. A fire extinguisher! She rushed to it, picking up the little tamed Scraplet that she hadn't even realized had hopped off of her, and fiddled with the device before aiming it. "YOU STAY AWAY FROM THEM!" She shouted before spraying as many as she could, over and over she did this as she made her way over to the seemingly run down elevator. She grabbed an old broomstick near by, conveniently, and she swiped at all the spider's and the webs that she'd previously seen on the controls and on the lift before trying to turn it on. When that didn't work she groaned in frustration before noting the wires holding it leading up, she realized she had to climb.

"Okay, okay I can do this." She whispered before putting her phone in her pocked and taking Riptide, shoving part of him into her shirt so that his head was the only thing curiously peeking out, before grasping onto the wires. "I've got to climb." She told herself before using her sleeves as gloves, wincing at the feeling of the metal cutting into it as she began to climb.

Now Mika wasn't really a gym person, but she was in good shape from constantly running away from Marco and his goons! She climbed up and up, constantly reminding herself not to look down as she went higher and higher. Eventually after some time of climbing up, she reached what appeared to be an old maintenance door and she tried to open it.

But it wouldn't budge.

Groaning in annoyance, Mika fiddle with it only to pause as a distant screaming could be heard. "Chromia?" Her heart pounded, was that Chromia screaming in pain!? She pounded at the maintenance hatch, grunting with each slam of her arm and the constant sting of her now bleeding hands from the wire's she climbed. She felt like she was on an adrenaline rush now, but the door would not open and tears of frustration began to fall. "Open! Open, open, open!" She slammed her arm and shoulder to it, crying out as her grip on the wire's began to loosen.

As if sensing her dilemma, Riptide clambered out of her shirt and up her head and seemed to observe the door she was trying to break. He glared at it for a second before noting that it was made of metal and it was something she didn't like! He barred is teeth, noting how Mika had paused to watch, and latched onto it, quickly chomping at it and leaving a whole big enough for her to squeeze through.

Crying in gratitude, Mika pulled herself up and out of the hole he had made for her. They were in some empty room, one she used to think was just a spare closet, and the screaming grew louder. She got up to her full height, ignoring the bloodied hand prints upon the floor she left behind, before she raced out of the room with Riptide safely in her hood once more. Mika rounded the corner and skidded to a halt in horror as she found Chromia who was surrounded by the creature's she'd awoken and she cried out.

"Chromia!"

Chromia was trying her hardest to fight them off but there was too many! She squirmed, hit, and shot at any she could get to but she felt them getting deeper and deeper into her frame as Energon began leaking out of her. "Gaa!!"

"Leave her alone!" Mika shouted, trying to smack some of them off of Chromia but it wasn't working! Why was nothing she did working?! Mika felt herself panic more and more and suddenly in her fear filled state she started feeling angry.

Really angry.

They were trying to take her bot away! Fury began overriding her mind and suddenly she found her gaze beginning to gain a purple hue as a deep and dark growl escaped her. "LEAVE. HER. ALONE!!!" Her scream echoed and for a moment she felt like the ground shook a little with her shout before tiny little scream's caught her attention as Chromia's went dead silent.

Now panting in exhaustion, Mika peeked an eye open only to gasp in horror as the Scraplet's that were all over Chromia had now been suspended in the air and crushed/condensed into little metal ball's. She stared horrified at what she'd done, it was the thing... the thing that made Marco hate her. Her freaky abilities that terrified both her and everyone at school which lead them all wanting to run her off.

Or better yet kill her, the monster.

Memories wafted through her mind, ones from the first time she'd used the terrifying power in school when she lost control of her temper... She'd sent a kid flying into the wall in front of the class, cracking his skull and sending him to the ER in critical condition. His name was Andy Santiago, Marco's brother, who had been picking on her for being nervous and she repaid him by almost killing him. It didn't matter if it was on accident, she had almost killed someone. She'd hurt someone when she had sworn to NEVER harm anyone! No matter how she pleaded for forgiveness or said she hadn't meant to, they seemed to hate her all the more.

Her hands shook as she watched Chromia stand in confusion, her blue optic's looking at all the floating balls of metal that were once Scraplet's before turning to Mika who's sclera (White part of the eye) had gained a purple hue. "Mika?" She breathed and Mika's eye's widened even more as she realized that Chromia saw her freaky powers.

The metal balls all dropped harmlessly to the floor as the anger faded out and Mika slammed her hand over her mouth as panic rose, her bleeding hand's leaving marks on her face. She saw, she saw her use the curse! She trembled and shook her head as Chromia neared, her gaze concerned. "Mika you're bleeding? What happened? What was that? Mika?" Mika, unable to register the concern, was backing away in her horror that her bot had seen her secret. "Mika wait!" Chromia called in worry.

"NO!" Mika shouted, wiping her face of the mark's with her sleeve before it dried, shocking Chromia into pausing. "D-don't come near me! I'm a monster!" She turned and ran causing Chromia to follow.

"Mika wait! Stop!"

The two ran through the halls, ignoring the Scraplet's eating at the walls, and Mika ignored Chromia's calls because she couldn't handle anymore rejection especially by the ones she started to adore. Before long they found themselves in the main hangar where a horrifying sight met them. Ratchet sat laying on the ground screaming as he rolled around with a bunch of Scraplet's eating at him and Jack was shouting as he raced around him.

"Mika!" Jack cried when he noticed the new entry, he hit at bug's with a crow bar before growling to her. "Help!"

Previous panic forgotten a the horrific sight of Ratchet being attacked, Mika ran over to him and attempted to help Jack get them off before spying a fire extinguisher near by. Narrowing her eye's she grabbed it and turned it on. "Get off of him!" She shouted before spraying all the creature's around them, when they fell to the floor Jack was quick to bash their head's in before repeating the process with each Scraplet in the room and before long the two ended up back to back on the floor panting from exertion.

"Where the hell whe-" Jack paused and paled  as the sound of thundering clunk's echoing down the hall before Bumblebee and Bulkhead came tearing in with their charge's all gasping and panting.

"Ratchet! Get the med kit we're leaking energon lik-" Bulkhead paused in his speech before skidding to a halt with a yelp as a massive swarm re-appeared above them from the heating duct's. "-e Duck and cover!" Bulkhead shouted.

"Let me at em!" Miko shouted after Bulkhead set her upon the floor, letting loose a growl as she tackled any that dared near her bot. "I'll squish you like a bug!"

"Bumblebee look out!" Rafael shouted, using another crowbar he'd found to smash at any near by as well.

"Miko!" Mika shouted, causing her twin to turn to her. "They hate the cold." She said as she pointed at another fire extinguisher. "Spray them!"

"You guys spray we'll smash!" Jack ordered and the human's got to work both spraying and hitting any they could reach while the bots attempted to smack away the ones in the air. After what felt like hour's of the same process over and over again, Jack smashed the final Scraplet near by before collapsing.

"D-did we-" Miko panted as she used Mika for support.

"Get t-them all?" Mika finished as she equally leaned on Miko.

Ratchet grunted with effort as he sat up, groaning and rubbing his helm. "Hardly." He grumbled before standing on shaky pede's. "Those were merely the scout's."

"Only scout's!?"

"So, the rest of them know we're in here?!" Miko groaned, "Man..."

"If we allow ourselves to become their next meal then Optimus and Arcee will never make it home. We MUST get the ground bridge operational." Ratchet urged them on.

"Then, we can send the Scraplet's anywhere on earth." Jack realized before Miko nodded excitedly.

"Yeah, yeah! Why not back to the Arctic?" She exclaimed. "We already know they don't do cold."

"Hm..." Ratchet paused in thought. "Not a bad idea... Given the body mass of the Scraplet's, Sub-zero temperatures should freeze them on contact!" He began grinning before scowling once more. "Think Ratchet, think! If the ground bridge is still down." He paused once more, eye's shifting to random spots in the main hangar before lighting up excitedly. "Then there must be a breach in the Energon fuel line!"

"Well great! One problem." Bulkhead rumbled.

"We're breaching, all of us, so how are we going to go back over to fix it?" Chromia added in, she'd been staring at Mika for a while before brushing it off. Now wasn't the time to question the girl about what happened in the halls.

"Yeah, Hi!" Miko called as she waved her hand's. "Made of flesh here, were do we find it?"

"Yeah!" Raf agreed. "you said so yourself, they eat living metal."

They ate more then just living metal, Mika thought to herself with a shiver. 

"How do we fix it? You don't have to worry about them hurting us since we're not made of metal." Jack also agreed.

"..."

Mika stayed silent, listening to the kid's as they talked with Ratchet before their individual bot's. Then, they all went out to find the breach and fix it so they could get Optimus and Arcee home! And to rid themselves of their pest problem.

Noting Mika's odd behavior, Ratchet frowned over to her before walking over and nudging her with his pede. "What's the matter? You're more silent then usual."

"...I'm scared." She admitted, eye's looking to Chromia who spoke with Bulkhead and Bee about the hole her charge had fallen through.

"It's okay to be scared." Ratchet spoke softly, gently nudging her with his servo before a shout from Jack could be heard to fire up the bridge. He walked over to the control panel and pulled the lever, watching how the blue vortex exploded into a brilliant circle of different shades of blue.

For a moment Mika watched silently, the Scraplet's who were now leaking into the main hangar once more and weren't reacting to anything. She realized that no one had really taken into account on how to actually get the Scraplet's to the other side. She frowned, looking around the base floor's for an idea when her eye's spotted a broken off piece of Ratchet's armor and, perhaps not the best idea she'd ever had, Mika snatched it up in determination.

"Hey!" Everyone, the returning children who came running in, looked over to her shout and she took a large gulp of air. "You want the main course?!"

A Scraplet, who previously had bitten into said shard of armor, alerted its brethren to the juicy piece of metal and all began to focus on her. Mika paled, deciding this was a terrible idea before gaping as they suddenly charged at her.

"AHH!" She screamed, reaching for Riptide and throwing him at Miko before taking off towards the bridge with the cries of the other's after her. She raced forward, barely missing a nick from one of the Scraplet's as she dove through the ground bridge.

Her world went from a nice and toasty warm to a freezing cold in the matter of second's and she found herself engulfed by the icy grip's of snow. Skin stinging as if a thousand needles were stabbing her, eye's watering and breathing becoming harsh, she continued on and pushed through the snow before dodging to the side. The Scraplet's all charged past her and Mika looked up in time to see Optimus and Arcee half alive as they staggered closer. "G-Get d-down!" She shouted at them and just in time too as Optimus protectively stood in front of Arcee to take the brunt of the hit. The Scraplet's charged forth at an alarming speed before slammed into the enormous bot and harmlessly bounced off as they froze in the matter of seconds when meeting the cold air of the Arctic. Once Mika was SURE the bot's were safe, she felt her eye's suddenly droop and she collapsed into the snow with the last image of purple pede's.

When Mika woke next, she was still cold but something warm beneath her was helping in rectifying that. She looked up bleary, eyed, to see Arcee and Optimus speaking to each other in hushed voices while the children walked around to help Ratchet keep an eye on their health. "I-Is everyone okay?" Mika inquired as she pushed herself up before wincing as her injured hand's, now scabbed over, stung.

"We made it back in time, thank you." Optimus assured.

"So we didn't completely freeze our aft's off." Arcee gave a humorless chuckle and a growl erupted from underneath Mika causing her to yelp.

"Luckily!"

When she looked down, she noted familiar white and orange armor before following it up to a familiar grumpy face. "Ratchet?" She blinked in confusion, why was she on his chest?

"We had to get you warm and Ratchet was the only one healthy enough to help you out." Jack supplied and Mika blushed a little.

"Yeah, they're spark chamber thingies give off toasty warmth." Miko said with a grin while Ratchet echoed 'thingies?' in a quiet but exasperated question.

The warmth from his chest was helping her body get back to a stable temperature and she had to marvel at the warmth. For being made of metal, Mika thought they'd be cold to the touch! Her hand softly grazed the metal, not noticing Ratchet staring at her intensely in confusion and shock. Ratchet's metal was smooth to the touch, warm as if she were touching another person and their heat was reacting. As her hand ran over the metal, it reached a few marks that had been from the Scraplet's and brought her back to reality. Blushing in embarrassment, Mika covered it up with humor. "You don't look so good." She attempted to tease making him tilt his head a little.

"Really? Well drat." He drawled and Mika giggled at him. "Here I had thought you would have agreed to my make over."

She laughed at him before sliding off of his armor and watching as he stood and checked on the children's work.

"What's Arcee's Bio circuitry status?" He inquired to Jack who looked up from the machine he was observing.

Jack gave a thumbs up. "Levels are rising." He answered before going back to curiously observing the monitor.

Ratchet nodded, "Excellent." He turned to Rafael who was poking and prodding at Bumblebee, said bot was looking like a child who got caught steeling from the cookie jar. He never did like getting check ups. "Rafael, keep a close watch on Bumblebee's electro pulse monitor and Miko check Bulkheads interface patch."

"Its steady." Raf informed when he stopped poking at his bot who beeped a little at him. "You're fine Bee, don't worry! I'll even bandage you up like mom does when I get a few cut's and scrape's."

"Perhaps you should rest yourself, old friend." Optimus suggested. "You saved quite a few lives today."

"Yeah." Mika nodded, but Ratchet shook his head and shocked them all by giving a small and rare smile.

"It wasn't all my doing." He informed. "We're just fortunate that this infestation, happened on a Saturday."

"I KNEW YOU MISSED US DOC!" Miko cried in victory before she froze and a VERY visible shutter ran down her spine, eye's wide as her mouth opened and closed.

"What's wrong Miko?" Mika asked worriedly while the other's continued to their own conversations.

Feeling a sensation, a familiar one on her back, she screamed. Miko screamed so loudly and suddenly that everyone jumped to high alert and looked around wide eyed while pulling out weapon's.

"What is it!?" Jack demanded as he and Raf raised their crowbars that had never left their hands. "Scraplet?"

"Spider!" Miko cried in terror. "Is it on me!?" Frantically searching herself, Miko practically cried before tearing down the hall squirming and screaming.

"...Did she just scream like a little girl?" Bulkhead asked with an amused expression.

"Miko is a little girl Bulk. What's your excuse?" Mika said cutely as she recalled the girly scream from earlier. She knew it wasn't Miko, nor was it Bee, Raf, nor Chromia. And Ratchet couldn't go that high, she didn't think, which only left the bulky bot himself.

Bulkhead clamped his mouth shut, grumbling to himself indignantly before Arcee narrowed her eye's at something in Raf's hands. "What in the name of the Allspark is that in your arm's Raf?"

Thinking quickly, Mika snatched the poor thing from him and thanked him for catching Riptide when she had tossed him to safety. Said thing yawned cutely and munched on Raf's crowbar. "Uh... tamed Scraplet?" She beamed up to Optimus and Arcee sheepishly. "C-can I keep him?"

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Hey guy's! I'm sorry this edit/update took so long... As I've said before I'm not really changing anything, just kind of re-reading and fixing a few small errors here and there. I might miss a couple cause, lol, I kinda get into some of the scene's and my brain auto corrects mistakes without even realizing they were mistakes. It's been really hard lately, My mom passed away last year and about a month ago I lost my sister. It's been a struggle lately but, even though I'm sad that they are gone, I know they aren't suffering anymore... I've lost my spark for drawing and writing for so long now and I'm trying to get it back. That's a part of me that I never want to go away. I love you all, I'm glad you guy's are so supportive and thank you all for being so patient. 

This story, with a few edit's here and there went from 3,597 word's to 4,604~ 

Tune in next time one;

Transformer's Prime; Pull Me Into The Dark.