Miko's Broken Heart {See Rewrite 'Miko'}

Eight: "Where are you?"✅

Later that night Miko found herself staring up at the ceiling as she struggled to fall back asleep. While she had slept for a few hours, she had suddenly woken up from what she assumed to be a nightmare of some kind. The teenager huffed as she turned over on the gurney, she had been sleeping on but then jumped slightly as she turned over just to face Ratbat's wide optics and innocent yet slightly creepy {at least in her opinion}, smile. How the little bat had managed to get so close to her without her noticing was beyond her but nonetheless she found herself dreading her breathing as she sat up.

"You need a bell." She muttered quietly as she rubbed her eyes as she sat up.

Ratbat only tilted his helm in response before suddenly jumping down off the bed, flying a couple feet, then landed and turned back as if Expecting Miko to follow.

Miko picked up her phone which was resting on the edge of the bed. She glanced at the time and saw that it was nearly four in the morning causing her to sigh. She wanted to just go back to sleep but yet she knew at the time sleep wouldn't come which caused her to huff quietly to herself and, using the light from her phone, shown it near Ratbat {as to not blind the poor mechanical bat}. Ratbat once again staired expectingly at her.

"If you want more Energon wake up Ratchet or someone else." She muttered as she shook her head, dropped her phone on the bed, and plopped her head back onto the pillow. She resisted the urge to vomit as she rolled over, back facing the small bat-like-Decepticon. While the Energon she had earlier did help a little bit, it had only helped mildly as a few hours later she felt sick not to mention also felt like something was 'off' about herself. She ached all over and just wanted to go back to sleep but with Ratbat's persistence of poking her with a wing {not to mention also occasionally whacking her in the face with said wing either on accident or on purpose} Miko finally turned back around. "What do you want?" She asked, voice audibly annoyed causing Ratbat to internal gulped. As she was acting right now it oddly reminded her of Ravage which was either a good thing or a bad thing.

Ratbat jumped off the bed, landing on his peds and walked a few feet away and pointed to the tunnel leading out of base. Miko sighed as she lifted her head up to see the small bat using the flashlight on her phone. "Why do you want to go outside?" She muttered questioningly as she sat up. "If you want to go out take it up with one of the 'bots."

Ratbat, apparently determined, lifted off a few feet, flapped his wing's midair which Miko had gathered as a sigh of annoyance and impatience from the small bat. She knew she technically wasn't supposed to leave base without one of the 'bots knowing {as much as it made her feel like a two year old as she thought she remembered she could go and come as much as she wanted to before the mess she was in} but seeing as it was the middle of the night and if they were not going to far she didn't see the issue with letting the bat fly around for a few minutes outside after all he was probably just as annoyed with being in one place as she was if not maybe more as he apparently had even less freedom then she did not to mention was used to flying around more often than what he currently could.

With a silent sigh the teenager dragged her self out of bed momentarily stopping to let the small dizzy spell pass before standing up. "Well at least I can vomit in a new place." She muttered.
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Soundwave stiffened at the sight of the notorious Tarn, the mech standing menacingly next to his comrade. The news of hearing about of his creations somehow being alive when he thought he was offline was a miracle in it's self and for a split second he found him self not being able to wait to see his creation but that soon changed when he had been told about Ratbat's escape made him realized the extra bond he was so in denial was actually real and belonged to Ratbat. Upon realizing this he chose to block out the current conversation of his Leader and the mastermind of the Decepticon Justice Division and focus on the one bond he had been ignoring. Nearly immediately there was the resolve of a familiar small Predicon known as Ratbat. Causing him to internally smile in satisfaction and joy.
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"Sire!" Ratbat exclaimed through the bond, optic's physically glowing at the rear sound of his Sire's voice. Ratbat could feel Soundwave's reprice at the sound of the tiny bat's confirmed status of being alive.

"Where are you?" Soundwave asked, cutting the point of the current situation, that situation behind he was still separated from the Predicon.

"With the Autobots! I was found by an 'Ooman and brought back to their base. Ratbat explained which by doing so bad answered a few of Soundwave's unspoken questions.

"The called 'Hue-mans', Ratbat." Soundwave corrected though lightly as he was rather amused by Ratbat's still apparent mispronunciation of some words but still knew it was important for the little mech to know proper pronunciation of words.

Meanwhile Miko had noticed Ratbat's optics brighten greatly in the vast darkness of the night. While Miko had initially shook it off and curled back up into a ball against the canyon I
walls, she soon found her self jumping as Ratbat's tiny body suddenly landed on her. "Again, you need a bell." She muttered. For a moment they both just say there staring at each other but the small stare-off soon ended when Ratbat jumped off her lap and walked a few feet away before turning and staring back expectantly at her as if expecting her to follow.

"I don't want to move!" Miko whined as she pulled her knee's up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her legs.

Ratbat flapped his wing's frustrated at the lack of the human listening to him. Rat flew up and rested on her head for a moment then {and quit comically} began walking her head with his wing's, not enough to harm her but just enough to more or less annoy her and to get her attention again.

"All right, all right!" Miko exclaimed, head bolting up as she waved her arms exasperated. She finally stood up once the small bat had flown off her head and began to hover in the air besides her before then taking off a few feet and repeating what he had done before only this time he was pleased to see Miko following all though weakly which did in fact worry the small mech but he supposed he couldn't worry about that now seeing as he had a small mission to complete and he didn't want to fail a mission given to him, any mission for that matter.

"Where are we even going?" Miko asked after a few minutes of walking sluggishly behind Ratbat who flew ahead. Nearly ten minutes later Miko realized they were walking further into the canyons causing her to have a moment of hesitation at being away from base especially this far. "Maybe we should-" she began but was cut off by a clearly Cybertronian suddenly dropping down from the top of the canyon causing her eyes to widen.

Miko had a since of De ja vu . Standing before her was {at least to her} an unknown Cybertronian, one that was quit scary as she couldn't tell if they had an actual face or not. "Scrap!" She streaked as she attempted to make some sort of escape by running though her attempts were in vain as she was suddenly lifted up by a single tentacles causing the wind to be knocked out of her as the tentacle certainly wasn't something she was expecting. She was brought up to come face-to-visor with a mech. Her heart beat out of her chest as she wondered if maybe this was it for her. Maybe this is how she died right here and now after everything. The silent mech known as Soundwave staired at her for a split second as a ground-bridge opened up directly behind him. She had hopped that maybe it was the Autobot's who had discovered she was missing and had tracked her through her phone but to her horror it clearly wasn't as Soundwave turned and walked into said ground grudge.

Miko let out an audible squeak as she felt the aftereffects of going through said ground bridge as if it was her first time doing so and as she did one thought crossed her mind: how in the world was she supposed to escape this?