An; I do not own anyone but Mika, Riptide and Lockjaw. Their my little scrappy's!

Mika was floating, gently sleeping on a figure.

She felt... safe.

Wanted...

Loved...

She snuggled closer to her dream person, their arm's wrapping around her protectively.

Fatherly.

They were floating in silence, traveling somewhere.

Miko was there, sleeping next to her... but Mika was more interested in the male she was sleeping on.

She felt his spark.

She loved listening to it, feeling it's hum.

Nothing could hurt her when she was with him.

She was his.

No one could touch her.

No one.

She felt herself jerk, fading from the plane she was in.

No... don't leave me... please...

"Always there. Never gone."

I want to stay... let me stay...

Please... I need you...

I n..e...e.......d......y.......o...................u.

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Beep Beeep!

Mika opened her eyes in annoyance, spotting Miko cuddling her stomach.

Beep Beeep!

Mika blinked, peeking out the window (with much difficulty as Miko's grip on her mid section was pretty secure) and squinting at the light to see Bulkhead and Chromia waiting.

She pulled out her phone, texting Chromia and Bulkhead that she was up and would wake Miko.

"Miko."

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"Mikooo~"

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"Mi-Miko!

Miko groaned, opening her eye to stare annoyed at her sister. "Mika? It's too early." Miko flipped over, cuddling her pillow with a smile.

"Miko Bulkhead is here, and it's Saturday. We get to spend the whole day with our bo-"

Miko shot up with a huge grin. "Alright!" She cheered.

She had sat up so quickly that it sent Mika toppling over the bed and onto the floor.

"Miko!" She hissed when she heard the usual morning clatter of dishes pause.

Miko froze, eyes wide as foot steps started walking up the stairs.

"Quick!" Miko hissed to Mika as said person was clambering out of the window.

Mika almost tripped, waving at her bot before jumping through her window, on her bed and under the covers.

She covered herself quickly, not bothering to mess up her already messy hair, and had her glasses on the stand before pretending to sleep.

She heard voices in Miko's room, demanding to know what the noise was before the footsteps came stomping towards her room and the door was thrown open carelessly.

Said person stomped over to the bed and ripped the covers off sending her toppling over on the floor yet again.

"W-what?!" She made a show of being scared and groggy.

"Get up." Her host mother snapped before throwing the blankets back in her face and stomping down stairs.

Mika huffed in annoyance before making her bed and dressing in a yellow tank top and tossing on a blue off the shoulder long sleeved shirt. She then snagged black shorts and her usual boots before heading out the door, snagging breakfast and headed out the door and onto Chromia.

Said bot had been sleeping as well when Bulkheads honking woke her up.

She wasn't very happy at the moment, having went into a late recharge because of a late mission.

Once they reached the base *along with everyone else* Miko and Miko hopped out and stretched and Chromia ditched and went to recharge in her room.

"Miss us doc bot?" Miko teased as Ratchet groaned at the sight of them.

"Shouldn't they be in school?" He grumbled to Optimus.

"On Saturday? WE have the whole weekend off... To spend with you."

"I wasn't expecting a car pool. What gives Arcee?" Jack asks as he gets out of Bumblebee with Raf.

Arcee raises and optic before placing her hands on her hips. "Tag-team, Jack. It's my turn for exploration duty."

"Huh... Too bad. It's a beautiful day out for a ride. I would hate for you to feel guilty for leaving me in doors."

Arcee smirks at her charge. "Arctic exploration duty."

"Indoors where it's warm." Jack quickly states as he cocks back his thumb to the direction of the couch, before walking over and flopping down on it.

"The Arctic! I've always wanted to see snow!" Raf smiled brightly.

"Me too!" Mika grins up to Optimus

Optimus frowns sadly at them. "I would invite you two to join, Rafael and Mika, but the conditions are much to extreme. Even for us Autobots."

"I-I understand." Both were a bit disappointed and started walking over to the couch.

As Optimus was about to leave he glances over at the two humans and hmm's in thought. "But, I will bring you back a snowball."

Raf and Mika looked up to the gentle smile of Optimus, both grinned.

"That would be awesome!" Raf exclaimed.

"Your the best Optmus!" Mika grinned, hugging his Pede.

A habit she seems to have in greeting whenever seeing him now.

He grew to enjoy her little greetings everyday, feeling fond of her and all the children.

"Let's roll out." He spoke to Arcee who nodded and the two walked through the ground bridge.

"Transport complete." Ratchet mutters when suddenly a small explosion is heard.

The ground bridge lever was sparking.

Ratchet quickly called Bumblebee and Bulkhead over to help him lift a few things.

Raf was playing the game by now and Mika was watching up until Miko and Jack stole the remotes, feeling like challenging each other.

Raf frowned sadly before getting up to leave. "You wanna go Raf?" Miko noticed he was slightly sad.

Raf shook his head. "Nah. I'm gunna walk around for a bit."

Mika watched Raf walk away for a second before watching the two play their game. Feeling like a third wheel she decided to go find Raf and found him 'facing snow and struggling to survive.'

"Temperature sub-zero and d-dropping." Raf Stuttered from the 'cold' as he walked.

Mika walked up behind him, letting out a few coughs. "W-will we make it C-captain?"

Raf turned, looking at her wide eyed before grinning. "W-we have to try!"

They both continued on, having trouble getting through the 'snow'

"Captain! I-If we do not reach camp before sunset... I fear we won't make it."

"We must c-continue on! They need the vital Intel we gathered."

"Look out! Wolves!"

"Duck!"

"Take that!"

"Run!"

"Avalanche!"

"Hold on to my hand!"

"W-we're trapped in the cave Captain..."

"We must... stay awake... we must... survive."

"I-I don't know if I can make it Captain..."

"You have to! Think about y-"

Clank.

They both paused in our playing, looking around for the sound. When nothing was seen they went back to their game until they heard it again.

CLANK!

They both walked towards the sound, Raf finding a crow bar and using it for protection before they both stopped in shock.

It was a small, metal, round creature with HUGE purple eyes.

It was CUTE.

The creature walks towards them, yawning adorably and looking up at Mika and Raf.

"W-where id you come from? The Autobots never said anything about pets."

Mika picked it up and grinned when it snuggled into her.

There was another one near Raf and he saw as the creature looked wide eyed at the metal while the one in Mika's arms went to sleep.

"You wanna play fetch?" Raf giggled as the creature nodded, running in circles and jumping up and down.

Raf threw the bar far, watching as the creature ran after it. "Good boy! go get it!"

Then it started eating the metal.

"No! Don't eat that! You're going to choke!"

It devoured the metal in seconds.

"O-Or not."

Mika tilted her head before looking down at the one in her arms. It had been silver at first and now suddenly it was dark blueish purple with glowing purple seems. When it peeked an eye open it's optics were no longer purple but a glowing gold.

"That's odd." She mutters before petting the creature and listening to it purr.

The two made their way back into the main room before Raf looked up at everyone, holding his creature.

"Hey guys! Look what I found."

"We're busy!" Ratchet snaps as he looked up, he yelled inf ear suddenly which caused the others to look up as well and scream in fear.

"SCRAPLET! SCRAPLET!" They all pointed their weapons at Mika and Raf who backed away in fear.

"Woah Hey hey!" Miko calls, trying to calm the autobots as she placed herself in front of her Twin. "GET THOSE BLASTERS AWAY NOW!"

"What's with you guys?"

"S-scraplet."

"What's a scraplet?" Raf asks confused.

"The most dangerous vermin ever to crawl upon the face of Cybertron." Ratchet says seriously.

"The most 'dangerous' vermin ever? This? Are you kidding me?" Miko and Jack look from the bots to the scraplets.

"You guys are giant robots! Scrappy here is... tiny." Miko exclaimed.

"He wouldn't hurt anything." Raf cooed at the creature who woke up from it's little nap.

Once it's eyes opened it looked around the room before focusing on the Autobots. It's optics got wide and suddenly hundreds of teeth popped out and revved like a chainsaw before it shot towards Bee's pede.

The bots tried shooting it but it dodged every shot and jumped onto Bumblebee and began biting and chewing its way through his armor.

Bee whirred, beeped and screamed as it bit at him, flailing wildly and trying to shoot it before finally kicking it off and into the wall.

It got up easily and began charging again until Raf ran in with another crow bar and killed it, hitting it over and over again.

"Easy there killer." Jack said as he took the crow bar away.

"I-I'm so sorry bee!" Raf teared up.

Bumlblee made a few beeps and whirs, most likely telling him it was okay.

"Is he going to be okay?" Mika whispered, forgetting her scraplet as she cuddled him close.

"Only a mesh wound. He'll live." Ratchet reassured them, making Raf sigh in relief.

"Now do you believe me?!" Bulkhead spoke. "All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal! Especially living metal."

That was... very unnerving.

"Well, bug squashed, game over... Right?" Jack asked.

"No." Ratchet solemnly said. "When it comes to Scraplets, there is NEVER just one. I fear I know how they got in here." Ratchet spoke as he stood and walked towards the corridors with everyone following.

In the room he went in was a melted metal contraption with holes chewed threw it.

"It's a trap, a scraplet trap."

"An empty Scraplet trap." Bulkhead looked around worriedly.

"Most likely injected into space eons ago. Only to wind-up in the Arctic where the Arctic temperature kept them in stasis." Ratchet observed.

Jack stepped forward anxiously. "Until we brought the thaw.."

"Now their wide awake and ready to brunch." Miko finished.

"H-how many are we talking?" Mika asked.

"Thousands." He turned towards Mika before zeroing in on the scraplet still in her arms. "By the allspark! What are you doing?"

Mika blinked before looking down, she had forgotten about him. "OH!"

The bots all backed away in fear again when the creature opened it's eyes, staring at them before barring its teeth.

"No!" Mika said harshly.

The scraplet stopped, looking up at her before retracting its teeth in a pout and climbed up her shoulder, still pouting.

"Did it just... listen to her?"

"Mika... what did you do?" Ratchet demanded. "The coloring of the optics... and its metal is odd."

"I just.. picked him up."

"Him?"

"Yeah. It's a Mech."

"How do you know that?"

"I-I don't... it just... came to me." Mika muttered as the scraplet purred, rubbing his helm on her cheek affectionately.

Another came out, seeing the bots and charged.

"Scrap!" Ratchet shouted as he and the rest of the bots backed up.

Mika ran at it, picking the scraplet up and watching in awe as it turned color's too.

White and Orange.

Gold eyes as well.

"By the Allspark.." Ratchet was in awe at what he was seeing. He wasn't even SURE what was going on.

Mika looked down at them confused. "I don't know whats going on Ratchet..."

The two scraplets looked at her, then the bots, then back to her. "No." She said sternly. "They're friends. You do not hurt friends."

The scraplets huffed, before huddling around her.

"What are you, Scraplet queen?" Miko asked as the scraplets protectively stood around her.

"I don't know..."

"Well you most certainly can't keep the-"

The scraplets hissed, baring their teeth at Ratchet who stopped mid-scentence.

"-Never mind..."

"With the Power malfunctions and ground bridge damage, that is a sure sign that their infestation is well under way." Ratchet eyd the scraplets again before turning to the rest.

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Mika yawned, the two Scraplets had fallen into Stasis in her lap.

She named the purple one Riptide and the white and orange one Lockjaw.

"Ratchet to Optimus! Do you read me? We have a situation!"

The screen glitches, fading on and off before going off completely causing Ratchet to growl in frustration.

"The scraplets have gotten to the com-link system! If we don't eradicate these creatures immediately they will reduce the entire base to a scrapheap."

"Uh..."

"Well I say we bug out of here and let them keep it!" Bulkhead exclaims as he and Bumblbee, who nodded in agreement, were all but clinging to each other.

"Are you crazy?!" Mika glared at the two.

"Evacuation is not an option. If we do not get the ground bridge back online stat, Optimus and Arcee will perish." Ratchet solemnly says.

"T-they will?" Jack's eyes widened, worry rising.

Mika placed a hand on his shoulder, Miko on the other, for comfort.

Though it did little.

"Bulkhead! You never run." Miko glared at her bot.

"Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a bot! I have. They pic you apart-"

Mika backed up.

"-from the inside out.-"

Her hands covered her face as an image of a bot flailing for it's life came to her mind, being eaten alive. Raf was no better, he was clinging to Mika as she backed away.

"-going for the small juicy bits first, fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit.-"

She backed into Ratchet who looked down at her and Raf *who was all but clinging to Mika and hiding his face* confused until he followed her line of eye sight.

"-Until there is nothing left! Not even your optics!"

"Bulkhead!" Ratchet snapped.

Bulkhead flinched, looking over at Ratchet who gestured down to the scared Mika and Raf.

"Oops.."

Mika suddenly froze, fear rising. "I need to go find Chromia!" Mika shouted.

"What? Where is she?"

"She went to go recharge!"

"WHAT IF THEY ATE HER!?"

"'MIA!" Mika screamed as she took off

"Wait Mika!"

"She's gone."

"She'll be alright, she's not made of metal."

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"The don't hurt humans... They only eat metal... They don't hurt humans..." Mika whispered to herself over and over as she walked down the halls.

TONS Of scraplets were walking by, their mouths open wide.

She searched and searched for her bot, but couldn't find her anywhere!

"Chromia!"

"Chromiaaaa!"

Mika began crying, hugging her scraplets in fear.

Where was Chromia?

Was she okay?

D-did they eat her?

She heard a girly scream and pannicked, who was that?! W-was that Bulkhead???

"Chromia!!!" Mika screamed as loud as she could. "WHERE ARE YOU! CHROMIA!"

"AHH!" Mika heard Ratchet scream and ran towards him.

As she entered the room she saw Ratchet flailing on the floor with scraplets on him and Jack trying to hit them off.

"RATCHET!!" Mika ran towards him, hopping on. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!"

Mika felt something in her snap and the sound of the crunching of metal paused, leaving tiny screams.

When she opened her eye's everything was glowing in a purple hue, and the scraplets were floating in front of her, compacting into tiny balls of iron.

She had... killed all the scraplets.

"Mika." Ratchet and Jack looked at her in awe.

"D-Don't look at me!" She covered her face. "I'm a monster!"

"Ratchet! They fly!" Jack interrupted.

Mika looked up to see even more swarming in the air just as Bulkhead and Bumblebee came limping into the room.

"Ratchet! Get the med kit we're leaking engergon like WOAH!" Bulkhead skidded to a halt a long with Bumblebee at the mass swarm above them.

"Look out!"

"AH!"

"Get the fire extinguishers!"

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...

"D-did we get them all?" Jack panted, him and Miko were back to back and out of breath.

Raf and Mika were back to back as well, eyes sweeping for any left over scraplets.

"Hardly, these were just the scouts."

Bee's optics widened before he fell on his aft in shock and worry.

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

"If we allow ourselves to become their next meal, Optimus and Arcee will never make it home! We must get the ground bridge operational!" Ratchet urgently exclaimed.

"Then we can use it to send the scraplets anywhere on earth." Jack murmured.

"Why not back to the arctic?" Miko and Raf said at the same time.

"WE already know they don't do cold!" Miko piped up, holding up her extinguisher threateningly.

"Not a bad idea... Given the body mass of the scraplets, sub-zero temperature's should freeze them on contact! So... Think Ratchet think! If the ground bridge is still down..." Ratchet paused in thought before his optics widened. "Then there must be a breach in the energon fuel line!"

"If we weren't breaching, one of us could go back over there and fix it." Bulkhead growls.

"Uhm Hello? Made of flesh here." Miko spoke up. "Where do we find it?"

"Yeah!"

"-And how do we fix it? Don't forget we're not made of metal... so we're fine." Jack supplied.

Mika stayed behind with the bots, worried for them and the scraplets.

Worried for Chromia.

"Did... did you ever find Chromia?"

"No... I-I don't know where she is..."

"We'll find her." Ratchet reassured, his servo nudging her softly.

"Ratchet?"

"Hm?"

"I'm scared..."

"It's okay to be scared."

"FIRE IT UP!" They heard from the distance.

Ratchet got up and ran to the bridge, pulling the lever.

Mika watched for a moment but what they didn't take into account was how they would GET to the other side.

Mika frowned before noticed a piece of bumblebee's armor laying near by. Thinking rashly, Mika deposited Lockjaw and Riptide into Miko's hands before picking up the still warm metal.

"HEY!" She waved the metal around. "You want the main course?"

One scraplet, having bit the metal and tasting it, alerted its brethren who all focused on Mika.

"Uh oh.." She whimpered when HUNDREDS started flying at her. "AHHH!"

She ran out of the ground bridge before dodging to the side. As she dodged, she spotted Optimus and Arcee, looking weak and worn.

"GET DOWN!"

The scraplets came flying through, Mika collapsing into the freezing snow.

"Mika."

She looked up at the familiar voice and spotted Chromia before her vision went black.

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When Mika woke next she spotted Chromia hovering over her worried. "MIA!" Mika glomped her bot, tears streaming down.

"Hey its okay." Chromia reassured.

"Where w-were you? I was so s-scared that they... t-that they..."

"I made a split second decision to follow Optimus and Arcee at the last second. No one noticed me slip by."

"I WAS WORRIED!" Mika huffed now angry.

"I know. I didn't intend to worry you."

Mika sniffed before looking over to Optimus and Arcee. "Are you guys okay too?"

"We made it back in time." Optimus assured.

"So we didn't completely freeze our afts off."

"Luckily." Mika heard from... underneath her?

Looking down Mika spotted familiar white armor. "Ratchet?"

"We had to get you warm and Ratchet was the only bot healthy enough to be up and about..."

Mika blushed a little.

The warmth from Ratchets spark had quickly helped her back to being at a stable temperature. She shoved down her embarrassment and looked over Ratchets ruined Armor. "You don't look so good." She teased.

"Really? I thought you'd agree to this new make over." Ratchet rolled his eyes.

Mika started laughing before hopping off of Ratchet to cling to Chromia.

Said femme allowed her worried charge to cling to her.

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"Report bio circuitry stats?"

"Levels are rising." Jack answered Ratchet.

"Excellent. Rafael, keep close watch on Bumblebee's electro pulse monitor. Miko, check Bulkheads interface patch."

"It's steady." Raf informed.

"Looking good." Miko replied.

'Isn't that-'

'Shut up.' Miko interrupted.

"Perhaps you should rest some yourself old friend." Optimus said to Ratchet. "You saved quite a few lives today."

"He's right." Mika agreed.

"It wasn't all my doing." Ratchet quirked a very small smile. "We're just fortunate that this infestation... happened on a Saturday."

Everyone grinned before Miko screamed so suddenly, scaring the bots and humans.

"Scraplet?!" Jack and Raf held a crowbar.

"SPIDER!!" Miko screeched. "Is it on me?"

She checked herself.

"EEHH!!! OHHH AHHHH YEEEP!!"

She went running down the hall.

"...Did she just scream like a little girl?"

"Miko is a little girl Bulk. What's your excuse?" Mika said cutely.

Bulkhead clamped his mouth shut, grumbling to himself.

"... What in the name of Primus is in your hands!?" Mika looked up to Arcee and Chromia.

"Uhm... Tamed Scraplets?"

Lockjaw and Riptide yawned cutely, looking at Mika who stole the crowbars from Raf and Jack, and fed the to the scraplets.

They ate them up quickly, glancing at the bots before snuggling back into Mika and returning to recharge.

Mika looked sheepishly at Optimus.

"C-can I keep them?"