#spider miko

[ka-go-me]

                                                          hit໐๓ik໐

[magicalprofessorsludgedeputy]

Of Silk and Ashes pt 4

Part one here

Part two here

And part three here

"What happened?"

Miko repeated dangerously her face twisting into snarl, voice bouncing off the walls like a death knell.

"My friends abandoned me to die to save their own miserable hides!"

Suddenly her face shifted back into a wide predatory grin.

"But it didn't work." She cooed in a sing song voice giggling to herself.

"No I burned, and i starved and I begged for one of you to come back for me, to save me. I begged to die. But it just. never happend." She spat each word like it was poison but voice remained uncharacteristically soft.

"Instead I spent months rotting in that empty abyss, no noise, no light, nothing but the stink of my own burned flesh and endless-" She giggled.

"Well i think you can guess."

She took deeply shaky breath caught somewhere between a laugh and a sob that made optimus's spark burn with pity.

"I'm sorry kiddo." Bulkhead said gently.

"Sorry won't change anything. Sorry won't make up for you leaving me to rot!" Her face split in a manic smile

"But this will."

Cold dread churned in his tank at her words.

"What are you going to do?" Miko turned her attention back to him and lunged onto her chest.

"I'm going to make them pay by taking what they love, and i'm going to make you pay by teaching you what it feels like to lose yourself."

Her voice was just above a whisper as she crawled down towards his face. This close he could feel traces of an e.m feild from her, a near imperceptibe sensation say for the prickle of something crawling across his skin. All eight eyes glowed like embers burning into the core of his being.

"But before you learn I am going to make you watch your precious autobots suffer first."

Terror.

Raw unfettered ice cold terror gripped him. Is this what the pain had turned her into? Is this what became of the sweet wild girl he had known? Was this all his fault? He was the one in command after all he could have ordered her body to be retrieved despite ratchets protests. No. No he couldnt think about that now, he had to protect his autobots, he had to save them.

"miko please, don't do this. Revenge won't undo what happened. " He begged any sense of composure discarded.

"it isn't their fault . I'm the one who ordered them not to return to the sight, I'm the one who had bulkhead restrained when he tried to go back. I deserve whatever you have planned but they shouldn't suffer for my mistake."

She seemed to consider his words for a moment before ratchet piped up.

"No its not."

"You had no control over what happened I'm the one who said it would be useless to look. I'm the one who told bulkhead it was pointless. I'm the one that was supposed to be watching them when they snuck out. If anyone deserves to pay its me." Regret was heavy in his voice as he spoke, optics shuttered closed as if afraid of looking him in the optic.

"I am leader of the autobots, the safety of my team, cybertronian or organic is my responsibility. I had final say on everything." Optimus argued.

"I'm the one who convinced you to not take action. I'm the one who was supposed to protect the children while you were gone and because of my neglect all this happened." Ratchet snapped back tears pricking at the corners of his optics.

Optimus knew ratchet had been suppressing his grief but he had no idea just how much pain his oldest friend had been enduring.

"Enough!" Miko barked. Echoed by a thousand hissing voices all around them. "None of you came back so all of you will pay!"

In a flash she jumped from Optimus to ratchet then bulkhead, visiously tearing at the side of his neck and biting down. Bulkhead yelped and began wildly thrashing around. Miko laughed, high and cruel and manic creating a horrific symphony thay echoed all throughout the cave.

Suddenly a shot was fired in their direction and the laughter stopped.

Arcee, now free of the webbing swung to bumblebee and began cutting him loose.

"Stop her!"

All at one thousands of massive insects swarmed towards the pair, arcee hurriedly cut bee's arms free allowing him to blast at the beasts as she finished her work. Bumblebee dropped before catching himself with the torn up web as arcee jumped on optimus next and began cutting his arms loose. In a matter of moments he was free to begin blasting.

He looked over to ratchet to see bumblebee slashing at the medics restraints. At last optimus felt himself drop and just like his scout caught himself with one servo as he continued shooting with the other. The creatures wailed as they were hit and scurried back just enough for optimus to drop to the floor. Arcee soon dropped to his side followed by bumblebee then ratchet and finally bulkhead. The heavy fire caused the beasts to fall back, an opportunity optimus readily took to tranform and charge forward up into the tunnel he hoped lead to the outside.

"Autobots transform and roll out!"

"ratchet, contact Rafael and have him send a ground bridge to our location!" Optimus ordered hurriedly.

"Way ahead of you, there's some sort of technology infused in the walls down here so i was able to message him while we were tied up it's only a matter of getting to the entrance!" Ratchet called back his words both quieting his mind enough to focus on the now and bringing new worries bubbling to the surface.

He could hear the beasts rapidly gaining on them, would they even make it to the entrance? Bulkhead was lagging behind, if they did would ratchet be able to counteract whatever mikos bite had done? He heard her furious screaming close behind, what could they do about her if she came back again?

Finally he saw the vibrant light of the ground bridge up ahead mere feet away and somehow pushed himself onwards even faster.

Right as he reached the portals edge he froze, spotting arcee stop and transform. He watched her shoot at the roof of the cave while the others tore past him and in an instant understood her plan. He barely managed to pull her into the portal just as the tunnel began to collapse.

He didn't bother to savor the relief that came to him once the groundbridge closed behind them, the sight of bulkhead collapsing with a pained groan grounded optimus solidly in the moment. Before ratchet could get the words out optimus was already at the former wreckers side helping him to the medbay.

"Thank you optimus, just lay him on the exam table so I can prepare to flush his system. Hopefully that'll be enough to atleast keep the toxin from progressing." Optimus did as he was asked taking the opportunity to really absorb bulkheads condition.

He was shaking violently, his venting was labored, his optics dull and hazy, and his cables practically glowing an unsettling gold where he was bit, against the dark discolorations rapidly spreading from them.

"It's okay now, the pain will end soon, ratchet will do everything In his power to ensure you make it through." Optimus assured taking his friends servo in his own and offering a supporting squeeze earning a weak smile in return.

"I am here for you."

✨️Bonus✨️

"Arachnid! Whatever this scheme of yours is with these plants I assure you it won't succeed! Now come out and...

my aren't you an interesting find."

[magicalprofessorsludgedeputy]

Of Silk and Ashes pt 3

Part one here

And part two here

The scene they arrived to was something out of a nightmare. Bumblebee was heavily injured, cradling his arm hidden behind an unusually massive tree. Optimus rushed to his side and gently placed a hand on his uninjured shoulder.

"What happened?" He questioned urgently.

Bumblebee desperately signaled to be silent and jerked his head up to the thick canopy above. The fear in his scouts optics made Optimus freeze and gestured for the rest of the team to be still as he scanned the area.

The forest seemed completely mutated by some unknown force, the trees were massive twisted things with knarled roots that disappeared into the thick underbrush reaching up to his calf and gleaming like metal. The air was heavy and humming with static energy as if breath away from igniting, like lightning preparing to strike.

The entire forest was unnaturally still and silent yet he felt the suffocating weight of a thousand eyes all around him. The silence was broken by a rustling above them, prompting the entire team deployed their weapons and snapped their heads up to the source of the noise. For a few moments there was absolutely nothing until finally Bumblebee let out a vent of relief signaling the others to drop their weapons.

"Bumblebee, what is here and where did it tale bulkhead?" Optimus questioned as ratchet set to work putting the scouts arm in a sling and patching up his other wounds.

"I didn't get a very good look at them, all I could tell is that they're massive organic things. They were in the cave where the energy signal was strongest and dragged him deeper inside." Bumblebee explained.

"Cave? The only cave in this area collapsed after the explosion from the... the abandoned vestle eleven months ago." Ratchet responded pausing at the mention of the accident.

"Maybe the blast mutated the area and those things manged to dig it out. The ship was supposed to contain unknown chemicals," Arcee suggested.

"A viable suggestion given the state of this place," Ratchet agreed as he stood from his work.

"Regardless we need to retrieve bulkhead before those creatures can offline him." Optimus stated firmly, looking to bumblebee. Bumblebee nodded, stood up, and diligently lead the way. They waded through the dense, corrupted flora in complete silence for several unatturally long minutes until they finally reached the mouth of the cave.

For a few seconds they could do little more than stand and stare into its gaping black maw. The tragedy that had weighed on them all these past months now lay before them staring back at them from the darkness.

Slowly they all marched inside, entering without a word to eachother, what was there to say when entering a child's grave. They trekked deeper and deeper into the blackness. Things scuttled in the corners of their vision, massive things just out of sight that did nothing but watch as they descended into the dephs. No one spoke, a thick fog had formed around them, coiling around their throats and wheighing down their tongues.

Finally the trance was broken by bulkheads voice.

All at once they all surged forward in an unspoken agreement desperate to not lose another friend to this pit. They drew closer and closer hope beginning to flutter to life.

Then everything went dark and optimus distantly felt himself hit the ground.

Optimus was pulled abruptly out of unconsciousness by the sound of someone desperately calling for him. His spark hammered in his chest as his optics snapped open and he examined his surroundings. Rapidly he realized a couple things.

First off the person calling for him had been bulkhead who was strung up upside down bound with a strange white rope intricately tied across his frame. Secondly optimus was in the exact same position as were the rest of the team strung up around him all gazing at him with concern in their optics.

"Is everyone ok?" He asked, desperately examining his subordinates.

"We're uninjured for now but we need to get out of here quickly." Arcee stated frantically struggling against her bonds with no success.

"Looks like everyone's awake," an impossibly familiar voice cooed. Arcee went still. The energon in optimus's cables turned to ice. It was impossible.

"It looks like we can finally start the party." The impossible voice called from somewhere above them.

"Miko!" Bulkhead cried out voice thick with swirling mixed emotions.

"Awe you remember me after all." The thing with mikos voice answered. Optimus crained his head to see something decending from above and flicked on his headlights to reveal the creature using the voice of the dead.

Instead he was met with the face of miko, pale and gaunt with six additional eyes but undeniably her.

He could barely believe the sight before him, she had been transformed just as the forest outside had. Her emaciated body was covered in a scorched black carapace glinting ominously in the lighting, her legs look twisted and identical to the four long spider limbs that jutted out from her back the bottom pair of which were guiding her down a thred of what he could only assume was webbing being pulled from the spider tail grown from the base of her spine.

"Surpise." She purred flashing a sharp toothed grin far wider then a human should be capable of.

"miko what... what happened to you?" Bulkhead questioned horror dripping from his voice.

"What happened?"

She giggled softly, staring at her former guardian.

[magicalprofessorsludgedeputy]

Expansion of my spider miko post because I can!

Miko has very striking optics, a ring of magenta against a backdrop of red with a black pupil. Her pupil spins a bit like bee's optics and can expand or shrink depending on her mood.

Along with her other spider traits due to being a tarantula miko has "fur" in the form of plates on her body structured a bit like flower petals. This has the benefit of additional padding and making her particularly spikey.

On the down side the spikes mixed with the red optics and the rest of her whole deal means miko is easily mistaken for a con, it doesn't help that she doesn't have a brand.

[magicalprofessorsludgedeputy]

Tfp au

Aight so yall know the whole kids get turned into sparklings/bots thanks to some ancient cybertronian artifact but I want to do something special with this.

Jack is a car

Raf is mini helicopter

And miko is where is gets interesting because i think it be interesting if miko was a spider.

I don't just mean spider traits but still fairly normal I mean an absolute horror. I'm talking not just the spider legs on her back but the little spider paws on her feet, to long fingers, multiple eyes and no proper mouth, just rows of exposed fangs like the skin was cut away from the area and mandibles that can switch into a blast mask. You know how arachnid has those horn things? Give her those but shorter and with three pink tips to imitate her pigtails.

Can you imagine everyone being subtly creeper out by her and the tiny predatory movements? Can you just see arcee being reminded of arachnid and trying to avoid miko to not make her hate this new form even more but it backfires and instead only serves to make things worse? Can't you just see miko noticing how everyone flinched a bit whenever her extra legs twitch? Cause I can and I want to write it out but I won't cause I don't think I can do it justice!