It takes a lot of time, but Wheeljack is indeed building armor for Miko. From here, quoting Ratchet’s immortal words, everything went to the Pits.
Miko gladly leaves Earth and sets off for Cybertron (At first only Jackie knows about it). For the others, it turned out to be a big surprise. Although Bulkhead was very happy.
The trio of Wreckers was already living together at that time. No, they weren’t a couple, it was simply more convenient, and habits from the war aren’t so easy to get rid of. Moreover, it’s a useful habit.
Miko gets down to business. That is, she tries to do something good, but most of the time it ends in disaster.
Their dwelling is very modest. Although this is nothing surprising given the situation on Cybertron, they do everything possible to arrange their home and make it more “homely.” At least Bulkhead tries to do so. He constantly brings little trinkets, handmade furniture, or even sprouts of techno-plants. Mostly he brings these for Miko, since he knows she will find them interesting.
Wheeljack and Magnus don’t quite understand his need to “domesticate” their living space, but they never object. Especially since he never says anything about Magnus’s arsenal or the fact that Wheeljack, without asking, claimed the basement as his laboratory.
Many Cybertronians are gradually returning to Cybertron, and Miko meets some “peers” and surviving Wreckers. It turns out that she does indeed miss Jack and Raf, as well as certain people and Earth in general.
Bulkhead and Ultra Magnus are quite busy most of the time. Sometimes Miko goes to the construction site with Bulk, but after some “minor” accidents, she is not very welcome there.
Ultra Magnus took her to meetings of the “new government,” but she found them uninteresting. Moreover, in most cases Magnus demanded that she listen and learn. What she could possibly learn from a bunch of noisy bureaucrats she did not know. Therefore, most often she spent her time with Jackie.
Jackie never stays in one place, unlike Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead, and constantly drags Miko along with him both on the planet and beyond it.
At some point she actually prepares tempura from a Quintesson. Honestly, the Cybertronians decide that it’s a pretty good addition to their diet. For the first time in all her acquaintance with the Autobots, Miko feels a certain thrill watching them dismantle the captured Quintessons and the ingredients.
Miko tries to learn the Cybertronian language. It turns out there are quite a few of them, although most Autobots speak the modern form of Iaconian.
To her great surprise, the biggest helper in this matter is Ratchet. He gives her manuals for learning the language, quite accessible and informative. It turns out that before the war Orion Pax was also engaged in educational issues for the lower castes, and this is one of his works. Miko treats these manuals as her greatest treasure.
Of course, theory is good, but nothing can replace practice. Therefore, she now demands that her trio of guardians speak to her more often in their language. She rather quickly learned to understand and read basic phrases and even to write, but pronunciation is a big problem for her. The speech apparatus of a Cybertronian is very different from that of humans. So she is left to enjoy writing and her broken pronunciation of their names.
They travel. A lot. Miko tries to draw everything she sees. Bulkhead gave her a very cool, almost indestructible set of datapads and styluses. Оne sized for a Cybertronian and one for a human.
She draws plants, creatures, landscapes - everything that catches her eye. When NASA somehow finds out about this (Miko occasionally returns to Earth, mainly for Jack and Raf), they go crazy, but end up getting nothing.
The government can do nothing because one of her “guardians” is a member of the government of an entire planet. A rather important member of the government with heavy fists and a massive hammer.
When the situation on Cybertron stabilized, the Wreckers began traveling beyond the planet more and more often in search of something new. Bulkhead wanted to show Miko the universe.
In his opinion, Miko has too large a spark and an even greater sense of curiosity to fit even inside an Apex Armor, let alone her human body. He wants her to see as much as possible in the short time they have.
During their travels, Miko realizes that the war was far more serious than she had imagined. On some planets, Cybertronians are not welcome at all. It doesn’t matter whether they are Autobots or Decepticons. They never stay long on such worlds. No one says anything.
Sometimes it escalates into full-fledged fights with the locals, sometimes they get caught up in big trouble, and sometimes they create the problems themselves.
Strangely enough, it is Bulkhead who behaves like a mother hen, constantly scolding them for all the trouble. Until then, Miko had never noticed just how much of a mad bot Ultra Magnus really was. She is impressed by his ability to disguise it as common sense.
Although she could do without their rather tactile attempts to calm Bulkhead, sometimes it is even sweet to watch Magnus take Bulk’s servo in his massive one and gently explain to him that blowing up the fuel tower was a perfectly reasonable and tactically calculated step to resolve the current situation, and that Bulk shouldn’t worry so much.
On other planets the Autobots are welcomed, though people still treat them with a certain caution. On each of these worlds, at least once, Optimus Prime is mentioned with a kind word. It is pleasant for all of them to hear.
With each journey they fly farther and farther away from Cybertron.
One day Miko ends up on a planet inhabited by an organic race who perceive her as a “Deity from the stars.” By the time the trio of Wreckers finally find her, a cult has already formed around her.
Miko really likes this planet. Especially since the atmosphere is similar to Earth’s, she can wander here without armor. She adores that armor, thanks to it she has the chance to do what no other human (except Jack and Raf) could ever dream of. But sometimes she wants to touch things with her own hands. To feel the texture on her skin, to know whether something is cold or hot. To sense the breeze on her face or the warm rays of yet another star on her skin. And honestly, she misses the time when her surroundings were her own size. She never thought she would miss something like that.
Miko likes this planet. She wants to stay here a little longer. And longer, and longer. It seems she has found the perfect world for herself.
She stays and begins fanatically studying everything about this planet, every corner, every plant, every stone. In the end she has several very massive works to her name. Optimus would be proud of her.
The Wreckers understand that she has grown up, but they still try to remain an active part of her life. They constantly fly to her, taking her back to Cybertron or off on yet another journey.
On one of these trips Wheeljack tells her that she is going to become an older sister.
She isn’t sure how to feel about it. In truth, she knows, but she is ashamed to admit even to herself that she is not happy.
The fear of being abandoned returned once again. It was so irrational and stupid, but the first thought that came to her mind and would not leave was that they no longer needed her. She was no longer needed by Bulkhead, now he would have little Cybertronian children, real Cybertronians, not some small annoying organic.
So instead of waiting for the moment when they would abandon her, she takes the first step and distances herself from them. It was a bad idea, the result of which was Bulkhead ending up in the hospital.
In the end everything works out, but now Bulkhead doesn’t let Miko out of his sight at all and in almost every conversation tells her that they love her just as much.
When she first holds her sibling in her arms (she is in the Apex Armor), she is happy. Incredibly happy. At that moment it seems to her that she is holding the most precious treasure in the world.
It turns out that Cybertronian children grow very slowly. Miko is already an adult woman, while her younger sibling has not even learned to walk properly yet. In fact, this is not bad. Children of any kind are very cute, and her younger one is the sweetest being in their galaxy. She still plays with them, helps take care of them when all three parents are too busy.
On “her planet” the seasons do not change the way they do on Earth, but from Jack and Raf she knows that a decade or so has passed.
She continues her research, travels across “her planet,” and finds companions who become a permanent part of her life - to Magnus’s great displeasure and Wheeljack’s amusement.
Time passes, and she misses the first steps of her younger sibling. At that moment she was exploring a dormant volcano which, according to the local inhabitants, erupts with violet lava. A rather familiar shade. She decided it was better to check it out.
When her first gray hairs appear, she decides it is time to create a permanent home for herself. Her younger sibling’s first word is “Frag.” To her great surprise, this turns out to be Magnus’s fault. Wheeljack brings it up at every possible opportunity. Bulkhead looks as if he is questioning his life choices.
She builds a home in the settlement and stays there more and more often, dedicating her time to her notes and the systematization of everything she has gathered. She is not alone
The last time she visits Cybertron, Miko learns what name her parents have chosen for her younger sibling and she absolutely does not approve of their choice.
The Apex Armor remains on “her planet,” and around it new legends grow about a deity that descended from the stars and, when the time came, returned to them. The Wreckers don’t mind.
Over time her figure fades from the memory of her younger sibling, though they still feel that something is missing, something shifted in their life. Yet they are still too young to understand what it truly is.
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