After several minutes of looking around Miko's room, the boys headed down the stairs, thanking the girl's parents and left. The two boys walked down the driveway, here Bee was waiting.

.: Beep bo virrr?:. The scout asked as he opened the door for Jack and Raf.

" Well she differently wasn't sick Bee."the younger boy answered his guardian. The autobot beeped another reply, but started his engine and slowly left the suburbs. After several minutes, Raf noticed Jack was quiet, well, more than usual. The hispanic boy frowned slightly.

" You ok Jack?" The 12year-old asked. Jack, who seemed to have zoned out, snapped back into reality.

" oh...uh, yeah." He mumbled under his breath. " I'm just concerned, it isn't like Miko to withhold information about a new bot."

" You think she's friends with a con?" Raf asked, " I know we shoot some down on a daily basis, and I don't think all of them are killed."

The older teen only shook his head, causing his dark hair to fall in his face. Brushing it back he gave a light chuckle.

" No, her best friend is Bulkhead. If anything like that happened, she'd personally try to kill the con herself."

Both Raf and Bee made hushed laughing sounds.

" Your probably right, but ever since that explosion yesterday, she was acting funny. " the hacker said. " I can access the cameras back at base, and maybe we'll see what happened. But I'll have to inform Ratchet about it."

Jack nodded in agreement and sighed. After that, the rest of the trip was driven in silence. It was obvious they were all worried about Miko, but Jack was NOT looking forward to telling Bulkhead that his charge had runaway, most likely because of another bot. Jack's dread increased as they drove through the familiar part of the base that led to the main area.

Slowing to a stop, Bee put on his brakes and opened both his doors so that the boys could exit his alt. When both and gotten out, Bumblebee transormed, and asked something to his young friend.

" Yeah, I'm about to ask Ratchet." The boy answered. " But I'll leave most of his explaining to Jack."

The Darby boy looked at Raf with wide eyes. " What!!? Why me?!" Jack shouted. " Ratchet likes you better!"

Raf gave his a eye roll and signed.

" Well, your young to inform both Ratchet and Optimus. Miko more then likely left to help a bot, and Everyone has the right to know."

Jack sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, knowing that Raf was right.

" Ok...." he said, after letting out a long breath. " I'll tell them."

Making his way to were Prime worked, Jack cleared his throat, hoping to get Optimus's attention. He did.

The mech looked away from his work and down at the small human.

"Is there something I can help you with Jackson?" The prime asked. " Also I sincerely hope that Miko will recover quickly. The base has been....different without her."

Behind his Ratchet scoffed from his place at the computer. " The base has been quieter!!" His medic snapped. " It's amazing how much work I've been able to accomplish in the last 24 hours!"

Jack bit his lip uncomfortably and looked intently at the ground.

" About that...." the teen said just loud enough for the Autobot leader to hear. " Uh....Miko's not sick...to tell the truth, we have no idea where she is."

The red and blue mech raised a optic. " That is quite....unsettling." Optimus replied evenly. " Jackson, how did you come across this?" He asked. The teen sighed.

" Raf and I went to go check on her, to make sure she was ok, but when we arrived, her foster parents told us that she had left yesterday, to help a unknown friend. And we were about to leave when Raf noticed slivers of energon in her room."

" And it wasn't just any energon." Raf added. " It was low-grade. The type Ratchet uses when somebot is injured and their systems can't handle regular energon."

The prime was quiet for a while, as if thinking it over.

" So you are implying that Miko ran off, because she may have come across a injured cytrobian and didn't inform us."

The two boys nodded.

" That is exactly what I'm implying." Jack answered. Optimus made a " hmmm " noise then looked at Raf.

" Raphael, can you locate Miko position?" He asked. The boy nodded.

" Yeah, as long as she has her phone on, and knowing Miko, that's probably likely." He said as he opened his computer. After several minutes of intense typing, the young hacker looked up in defeat. " She turned her phone off. I can't locate her."

Optimus frowned and looked at the medic.

" Ratchet." Optimus said evenly, only to receive a snort.

" What? Do you want to to reply the footage from yesterday and find out what Miko was up to?" He scoffed. The leader nodded.

" That would be appreciated."

Ratchet sighed and mumbled something about how he didn't sign up for this, and that he wasn't getting too old for this. After a few pressed buttons on his console, the footage from yesterday appeared

" Can you few audio?" Raf asked, as they watched a recording of Miko with a over sized bag slip from one room to the next.

" No, its already on, sh must have been talking to quiet, which is hard to believe." Ratchet snapped.

As the four were watching, Bulkhead drove in from patrol, and to his surprise the team was watching recordings of Miko.

" Hey, What's going on here?" The wrecker asked. Prime gave his friend a stern look.

" Bulkhead, you must remain calm. But we don't know where Miko is." The Prime said, in his optimusy voice. Bulkhead blinked twice.

" What...." he whispered.

" Before you explode!" Ratchet shouted. " Step away from my computer, and we have reason to believe she is helping a injured cytrobian."

The green mech sighed and tried to keep his cool. Looking at the screen he frowned.

" The bag that Miko is stuffing energon is, isn't big enough to hold enough low grade to help a injured mech."

Ratchet nodded. " He's right Prime. That much energon could only feed a sparkling." The medic added. Then his optics widened.

" Raphael, stop the video." The older bot commanded. The boy did as he was told and stopped the recording.

" Now rewind."

Raf did so until Ratchet said stop. When he found the clip he wanted he gasped.

" Raphael, zoom in, on her bag."

The boy did so, and gave a confused look.

" All I see it some lights." The boy said. Ratchet shook his helm.

" Click the button on the right, it will make the image clear."

When Raf did, the image they all saw caused almost all of them to gasp.

" Is that what that I think it is?" Bulkhead whispered. Optimus nodded.

" I believe you are correct Bulkhead, those are a pair of Optics."

~ Miko else where

The black and pink haired teen was having a lovely dream about monster trucks smashing cons to slashmonkey music, but her dream was interrupted by the sound of light knocking.

" huh wha?" Miko mumbled tiredly as she sat up. She looked around the back seat on the Taxi in shock, before remembering where she was. Nodding to herself, she rolled down the divider and looked at the driver.

" Yes?" The teen asked politely. The man shrugged.

" You here seniorretta, the lonely town of Two Dot Montana."

The girl jumped in her seat.

" AWESOME!!!" she cheered, as she gave the man her parents credit card that she may or may not have swiped. The driver rolled his eyes and took it, returning it shortly after the payment was made.

" You loco kid." He mumbled as he watched the girl grab her bag and take off. " Really loco "