For those of you who don't know and if I forgot to mention in previous chapters, or maybe I did and just don't remember... anyway... so my nine dotted dots like so;

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When words are Italics and Underlined   like so   Then it's a Flashback/dream.

'words like this is Mika/Miko/Soundwave using her bonds to speak.'

Underlined, Bold, Italics is Authors notes and Commentary like it is right now... lol... Anyway! I cant remember if I explained that all to everyone previously but yeah! Enjoy!!

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Cold... Mika was cold and lost.... confused... Numb. She lost him... she lost Breakdown. She'd felt like she lost her Sire as well, even if it was an alternative version of him.. she had felt a part of her die with him and all of the others in that universe... then Breakdown? She'd gone to the med bay, and she watched as Knockout turned and gave a cocky greeting, his smart ass comments about the previous mission to her going in one ear and out the other as she truly wasn't paying attention... He'd noticed when she didn't argue back with him like normal, and then he'd noticed the lack of company with her and inquired where Breakdown was...

What was she to tell him?

They were like brothers.

and he was GONE!

Knockout stared at her, stared at her empty eye's and then up to Soundwave's silent form before nodding. He turned then, waving Mika away with his servo before closing the door in front of her. The air was silent, deathly silent, before an enraged cry came from the med bay and the sound of many MANY things breaking echoed all around. It took everything she had not to start crying as she listened... Knockout was in pain... he'd lost his brother in arms... his best friend. Mika trembled before Soundwave picked her up and walked to the flight deck with her.

He'd reported everything to Megatron who went a long with a team to retrieve Arachnids remains to make good and sure she remained dead. This gave him alone time with his sparkling, who was hurting more then he understood. She found herself laying against him on the roof, listening to his spark humming as she closed her eye's tiredly. She felt him poking and prodding at the bond, inquiring what had happened and she opened her mind to him... she fed him all her memories and he felt and saw everything that happened. Much to his shock...

The alternative version of him... he was happy and he was with the carrier of their creations... mated...

Soundwave refrained a scoff, as if he could ever be with one who tried to kill his sparklings. He shook his helm and decided to think on this later and for now, he comforted his child.

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"I'm sure." Mika said as Buzzsaw flapped in the air. "I just need to be on my own for a while."

Buzzsaw gave a chirp before positioning himself for her to hop onto, to which she did and quickly. In her sack she brought was a few energon cubes, some weaponry, and other supplies. If she wanted to leave for a while, then she'd need to hurry before Sire and Megatron discovered her decision to leave. With a deep breath, Mika adjusted herself and commanded Buzzsaw to fly and make haste. They flew from the Decepticon warship, soaring through the air and Mika watched as the ship grew farther and farther away before she couldn't see it at all.

Pretty soon, the light of the day began to fade and Mika watched numbly as the clouds passed them by, she didn't pay attention to how long they flew for, nor did she particularly care WHERE they were going... just so long as she could fly away from everything. From all the death and the fighting... So she could reflect on everything that had happened.

It was like just yesterday she'd just met the Autobot's, Chromia being her guardian.... She reflected like she never reflected before. She was truly home with the Autobot's... and she'd left them for the Decepticon's and despite her reasoning sounding so logical to her, looking at it from an outside perspective made it seem... well... stupid.

She had friends, she had loved ones, family! She had Ratchet... And she had given it all up for two reasons... And she wasn't so sure they were good reasons anymore... she did NOT regret going with her sire.... she did not regret befriending Breakdown and Knockout.... she didn't regret falling in love with both Ratchet AND Breakdown. Yes. Mika loved them, though She had and will always love Ratchet more... still... Breakdown... he didn't deserve to die... so why?

She shook her head before noting Buzzsaw landing and she spotted a clearing in which he'd spotted, it was an odd half ship of some sort and though she tried to remember where exactly she'd seen it, Mika was to mentally exhausted to register just WHERE they were at... She just walked into the abandon ship, picked a corner, summoned Howlback, and curled into a ball while her Simbiots curled around her to keep her warm. She would worry in the morning... but for now? For now she would sleep...

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"Aaaaaaand.... fire!"

"Hmmmm.... I'm not getting it..."

"I can see that."

"Hey! Shut up! I'm trying!"

"Not good enough, your not doing it right."

"Sure I am." Mika huffed as she adjusted her gun, grumbling to herself as Breakdown groaned behind her.

"Your not even holding it right!" He complained as he gestured to her hand positioning.

"I'm holding it fine." She denied, waving the gun around before firing it at a bulls-eye. Her tongue sticking out of the side of her mouth in concentration... and she missed. "Ugh! Fine, since your such a damn genius, show me how it's done."

"Gladly!" Breakdown cheered before using his own weapon to fire, hitting bulls-eyes each and every time. "Not THAT'S how it's done."

"...Showoff."

"Here." Breakdown chuckled as he reverted to his holoform, waltzing over to her and standing behind her, smirking when he noticed her body shiver under his touch. "You gotta hold it like this." He purposely teased her as he embraced her to show here how to hold her weapon.

Mika froze, gulping at the proximity and feeling her cheeks heat up as she felt his warm hands covering her own. She tried ignoring the hammering in her chest as he showed her the correct way to hold the weapon, and how to aim. She twitched when his hand brushed her arm before he retracted and whispered in her ear. "Now fire."

Following his command, Mika fired and gapped when she got a bulls-eye.

"I-I did it!" She cheered, whooping. "Breakdown I did it!" She laughed before kissing his cheek.

He pulled back with a splutter before both froze and turned to a clearing of throats.

"Well well." Knockout purred as he came in the room. "What have we here? Oh my my, Sire wouldn't like this now would he?"

"Knockout." Breakdown warned.

"Two star crossed lovers secretly meeting in the pretense of training... oh dear." He sighed dramatically before a sadistic smile came to his face. "What was that song humans would sing?"

"Breakdown I swear if you-"

"Breakdown and Soulspark sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"Thats it!" Breakdown turned back to his original form and summoned his hammer. "I swear Knickers-"

"First comes love, then comes bonding then come- AHH! HEY! WATCH MY FINISH!" Knockout snarled when Mika fired at him.

She then turned to Breakdown with a wide smile. "Like this Breakers?" She cooed to him.

Breakdown smirked as she aimed for Knockout, who's eyes grew wide. "Just like that sweetspark." he grinned sadistically, laughing as Knockout bolted down the Nemesis halls with Mika chasing.

"GET YOUR AFT BACK HERE!"

"NOT THE PAINT! NOT THE PAINT! ITS NOT MY FAULT IF YOU ALMOST SMOOCHIED BREA- AHH HAAA!! NOT THE PAINT!!!!!!!!!"

Breakdown broke down in boisterous laughter before he followed after the screaming two. Very much amused and very much sure that Megatron would scrap them someday if they didn't stop all the screaming.

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"You!?"

Mika bolted up startled, her simbiots snarling in their startlement as well as their creators. Her eye's swept up to a familiar seeker who stared down at her in shock, his weapons raised. Thinking quickly, Mika reached for her watch and twisted it, hitting it down and reverting to her con bot form before tackling the startled seeker.

"GAH!" Starscream shrieked as he went down, "Wait wait wait!"

"Starscream?" She questioned. "What are you doing here?!"

"What am I doing here? What are YOU doing here?!" He demanded, despite being pinned to the floor. "this is MY base." He said angrily.

"This is where you've been hiding?" She looked around a bit before Starscream used that to his advantage and knocked her back.

"Hey!" She yelped before dodging his claws, Howlback snarled and tackled Starscream to the floor once more, Buzzsaw screeched in the air and pinned his head down while Mika aimed her weapon at his chasis where his spark would be.

"GAH!" He yelped.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you here and now!"

"Just DO it." Starscream groaned. "I'll die of starvation soon anyway."

"Your not even going to fight back?" She questioned him and he grumbled on the floor.

"What's the point? I'm critically low on Energon..."

Mika thought for a moment. "Your hiding from Megatron still?"

"Why? Going to bring him here as an offering? From his little pet soldier to their master. How cute." He sneered.

Mika snarled, shoving her weapon against his helm making him grunt in reply. "I am NO ones pet! Now listen up you shifty seeker."

"I'm not shifty!"

"Let me hide out here-"

"Wait... what!?"

"-And I'll help you procure Energon."

"And why would you do that?" He questioned.

Mika knew she couldn't trust this mech of all mechs.... but if she wanted to stay hidden here then... well... "I needed time alone, away from the cons and away from the bots. I didn't realize where hid.... and I DON'T want to be found. I know where a source is, Energon... and I'll tell you where it is. I'll even help you.... if you just let me hang out here for a while."

"And HOW do I know I can trust you?"

"You can't, just like I can't trust you... but I guess I also owe you one from before." She muttered.

Starscream narrowed his eye's at her in thought. Should he let her stay? What if Soundwave came looking for her? Then he'd be found!

"I learned a bit under Autobot Ratchet and Decepticon Knockout... I'll even heal you when you are inured. And besides, I've closed off the bond to Sire for now... he won't be able to find me."

He mumbled to himself... Was he Really considering trusting this femme? He DID need the energon... and he DID need a doctor... He growled and clenched his fist. "Fine!" He snapped, before pointing a clawed digit at her. "But if you so much as-"

"The same goes for you Starscream." She interrupted his threat... if he backed out on their deal then she'd rip him apart with her simbiots.

Starscream sneered down at her before watching as she let him up. "Fine... then fix me up... doctor." he hissed at her mockingly.

Mika grumbled to herself before shoving him to a sitting position and began working on him, ignoring his satisfied smirk.

Afthole.

Mika didn't realize just how injured the seeker was, after a few hour of work, before she finally had him up and running with repairs and before the seeker could give her a stupid smug reply she took a cube from her bag, with much difficulty in her bot form, and shoved it in his mouth making him yelp in shock before he realized what it was and greedily drank it up, noting a few more in front of him. He frowned, turning and watching her go to the other side of the base before sitting down. Grumbling to himself, Starscream greedily took up the offered Energon and devoured it all. He was STARVED after all... going so long without energon, he had been sure he was going to perish from starvation until she arrived... and though he WANTED more then ANYTHING to not trust her, he knew she was sticking to the owing him thing and knew she wouldn't rat him out... so he supposed he could tolerate her in exchange for energon and repairs... For now anyway.

He had his own agenda's to attend to after all.

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Three days. It had been THREE whole days since Mika began her shaky truce with Starscream, and right now he was blabbering on and on about his genius at finding such a huge amount of Energon! Even though Buzzsaw and Howlback had done all the work. She glowered at him, petting both her Simbiots as they hissed in annoyance.

"I know." She told them. "He's an Afthole."

"Who are you calling an Afthole!?" Starscream turned to them before noting the angered expressions. He twitched before his expression soured. "Oh alright!" He snapped. "Thank you." He spat the words as if they were poisonous to say.

"Your welcome!" Mika chirped suddenly, making the Seeker fall over in exasperation at her sudden change of emotion. He grumbled more before he began the long process of extracting the Energon Crystals.

Over the three whole day's that they'd been partnered up, Mika and her Simbiots diligently searched for Energon to keep their end of the bargain and while they were out scouting they had a few run ins with Eradicons who no doubt alerted Megatron to where Mika was... With his traitorous Second in Command. Mika felt Soundwave's attempt to find her many a time but she denied him the ability, sending a very brief feeling of Love and assurance before closing him out once more. Though Soundwave wasn't angry no fearful for her, he just wanted to be sure where she was. He was confident that his sparkling could take care of her self out there, but he was particularly furious when he found out she was with Starscream of all mechs. He was not a happy Sire.

But he let her distance herself, understanding her need to reflect and think. He understood the unstable emotions since her trip and return. So he would wait until she would return before he grounded her to the ship.

Starscream had a taste of those unstable emotions just yesterday, when they ran into M.E.C.H soldiers. An anger like no other reared as Breakdowns previous kidnappers... or rather bot nappers had appeared and Starscream had witnessed the power Megatron was obsessed with getting. He could only imagine the strength of her telekinetic powers once she was in her TRUEST form and a deep greedy part of him wanted to keep her for his own. Just to have her powers on his side! But first, he had to keep her trust and that meant keeping their deal... Perhaps if he showed her he... trusted her... even if he didn't fully, then perhaps she would trust him.

Though on the outside it appeared to be working, Starscream knew that deep down she had many doubts and much issues with trusting now. But, he could work with that.

"Me?" The two had finished their Energon run and were now lazing about the ship.

"Yeah." Mika nodded. She'd just told him about the relic that transported her to another world, and the differences in the bots there.

"And PRIME was-"

"Uh huh... Sire spoke.... like a lot." Mika continued. "Arachnid was nice and Megatron kept his old name, Megatronus. He was supposed to be a Prime before Optimus stole it away and dubbed himself Nemesis..."

"Nemesis Prime... the Fallen.. Urgh thats the LAST thing I need is more competition."

"You were brave." Starscream looked down to her. "Strong, powerful. You were still the Second in command but EVERYONE respected you and listened to you. Megatronus often went to you for advice when he couldn't think of what to do... he was also very sassy..." She muttered as she remembered him teasing her a few times.

"And how do you know so much about my.... other self?"

"Easy." She replied. "You were my guardian there. You didn't like me much, thought me more of a nuisance, but you still guarded me."

Starscream said nothing, thinking to himself. In some other verse... HE was good? Never gonna happen.

"You weren't so bad either, still shrieked when you were upset, but you had such a vast amount of knowledge! You were a scientist and you made this." She gestured to her wrist. "To help keep me safe... it is the only reminder I have of that place..."

"I made that?"

"Yeah..."

The two went silent for a while before continuing the conversation, Starscream was greatly curious about the other world, and how his other self was and Mika told him all about her experiences there. Not that it would effect anything if he knew anyway... there was no way to go back to that place. Not anymore...

Mika shook her head before thinking to herself.... She hadn't done much thinking like she wanted, she was just... well living there with Starscream... and well. She actually liked it! She didn't think about the Autobots and she didn't think about the Decepticons... she was just... well living. And as four more days Passed, she'd began to make her decision on what she wanted to do... First, She'd like to explore more and find herself, then maybe return and stay here with Starscream. As shocking as that sounded, she liked living there with him and with no Megatron making him tense and frantic, the mech was actually tolerable.

And as three more days passed Mika decided to leave and explore for a while and though Starscream was reluctant to agree, she reminded him that the deal would stay so long as she could crash there every now and then... that she'd still repair him and help him get Energon should he need it... she even gave him a way to contact her!

Mika didn't know why, but there was something about him that drew her in. And as she entered the bridge that he'd summoned for her, she cast a sad smile at the bot who looked at her surprised before the bridge closed and she found herself in the middle of a clearing that was heavily damaged.

"Wha-??"

"Mika!?"

Wide eyed, Mika turned to see Optimus and the other bots to her left.

"FEMME!"

Even wider eyed she swirled around to see Megatron and a few of his soldiers...

"Great." She muttered, Screamer had just landed her between both factions that she was avoiding right now. "Just great."

"You... traitorous cur." Megatron snarled. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?"

Mika narrowed her eye's at him, turning her back to the bots and knowing they wouldn't fire on her while she was unarmed. She glared at Megatron who was seething in anger... How DARE she leave him as if she thought she owned the right to? She was under his command! After all the time he'd put into her training and keeping everything in check for her stay... to gain her allegiance, and this? To betray him for... STARSCREAM of all mechs!

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"I grow tired of your rebellion Soulspark! Who's side are you on?!" Megatron snarled in anger, "Who do you think you are dealing with exactly!? Did you think you could just walk away from the Decepticons?! What are you doing exactly!?"

Mika closed her eye's, she didn't want to think on this yet, wanting a few more days before making a decision on what she truly wanted. But, in all honesty she had made her decision as she lay with Soundwave who was nothing but supportive of her no matter what. So with that, Mika took a deep breath, she supposed she did have enough time to think, before she made her decision... she turned to the warring group, watching as Optimus and Megatron stared the other down before she landed in-between them.... This was it... this was where all her secrets would come out. This was where her final decision would come to play. Howlback and Buzzsaw sensed her decision and both tensed around her protectively. No matter where their creator went, they would follow.

The Autobots all waited in confusion and apprehension. Optimus kept bot optics on Megatron and Mika while Sunstreaker, Ironhide and Sideswipe watched intently. Bulkhead glared to Mika, Arcee tense, and Bumblebee with sorrow filled optics... He knew there was good in Mika and just wished she would return home... Prowl was tense, though he was rarely around base he knew a lot about Mika through listening and observing. And Ratchet, who'd heard her voice through the open Com links stood frozen... and uncertain.

"What's it going to be Soulspark?!" Megatron demanded impatiently, either she was a con or a bot and he was tired of her being in between! It was time for her to REALLY choose. "Either you are with us or against us, MAKE YOUR CHOICE!"

Mika let her self smile sadistically, causing Optimus to narrow his eye's at her and clench his weapon tightly. Only she directed it to Megatron who stared at her in shock as she began laughing.

Loudly, much to the confusion of everyone else.

"I've made my choice alright." She laughed before pointing her finger to Megatron. "And here it is."

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CLIFFHANGER!! YOU LOVE ME! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!