Miko's phone
- Miko's phone is an electronic device from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Miko's phone is a pink flip-up cellphone equipped with a camera and flash. Miko Nakadai uses it for taking remarkably clear pictures of the wonders she faces in her adventures with the Autobots.
Fiction
Prime cartoon
Miko got a call from her host parents while she was sitting outside the Jasper school. She ignored the call, but was distracted long enough for Arcee to drive away unseen. Darkness Rising, Part 1 When the kids found themselves on the Nemesis, Jack yelled at Miko to take a photo. She took a picture of the Vehicon attacking them, before Jack clarified he meant a picture of the computer display they'd found. They were thus able to take the information back to base, where Ratchet discovered it comprised schematics for a space bridge. Darkness Rising, Part 4 She whipped the phone out to take a photo of Soundwave, when the three kids encountered him at a radio telescope. Darkness Rising, Part 5
She used her phone to take a photo of Bulkhead and Wheeljack before the latter left Earth in his spaceship. Con Job When Miko and Bulkhead were sent to Greece to investigate a possible Energon deposit, she snapped a shot of an ancient fresco. As the painting was subsequently destroyed during a fight with Breakdown, the photo was invaluable in identifying the Energon Harvester it depicted. The kids were sent to a museum to steal the harvester, and Miko used her phone to take a photo of the statue holding it, before balancing her phone on a security camera so that the museum guard wouldn't notice their activities. Unfortunately vibrations from a battle outside knocked the phone off-center and Miko was subsequently captured by the guard. Agent Fowler returned her phone to her when he later bailed her out. Deus ex Machina
On another occasion, Miko was running for the GroundBridge so she could follow the Autobots and watch them fight when Jack tried to stop her. Though he failed to prevent her from going in, her cellphone was dislodged and fell to the floor. When the kids were lost, Bulkhead tried to ring Miko, at which point he found her phone laying near the GroundBridge. The kids were trapped in a shadowzone dimension, but had enough cellphone signal that Jack was able to send a text message to Miko's phone saying "In alternate dimension with zombie. Help." Bulkhead eventually noticed the flashing phone, and the message supplied the missing information needed to rescue the kids. Shadowzone
When Miko pulled out her phone to take a photo of Bulkhead and Arcee fighting Breakdown and Airachnid, it was pulled from her hand by the polarity gauntlet that Breakdown was wielding. After hovering in the air for a few moments, it became stuck to Bulkhead's magnetized chest, and Miko was unable to dislodge it, so it pretty much stayed there while Bulkhead and Arcee went to retrieve the gauntlet. Somehow it managed to survive the battle, and Miko used it to take a photo of the new battle scars Bulkhead had picked up. Metal Attraction
Miko used her phone to record and compile highlights of a monster truck rally she and Bulkhead sneaked into. When a week later she followed Bulkhead into a battle, she called Ratchet to try and arrange a GroundBridge to take the Cybertronian data cylinder they were after back to base. While trying to jog Bulkhead's memory, she showed off the picture of him and Wheeljack on her phone. She instead took Bulkhead to the monster truck track, but when Knock Out and Breakdown arrived, she discovered the Decepticons had set up a jamming field, blocking her phone signal. T.M.I.
During a mission in the Manhattan subways, Miko used her phone to call base so that Fowler could deputize Vogel, ensuring the subway worker's silence. Tunnel Vision The phone was also capable of transmitting video back to the Jackhammer in real-time when Miko reconned an energon mine for Wheeljack. Hurt
Commercial appearances
When juvenile dessert chef Strawberry Shortcake called Bulkhead to invite him to the Berryfest Princess Parade, Bulkhead inexplicably received the call on Miko's phone. Strawberry Shortcake and Bulkhead
Titan Magazines Prime comics
The fact that Miko had been downloading rock music onto her phone from the Autobot mainframe when she was kidnapped by MECH meant that Ratchet could track the signal, leading the Autobots to MECH's underground base. The Novo Incident Miko had Raf set up a two-way emergency speed-dial circuit between her phone and Bulkhead's communicator so she could quickly call for help. It turned out to work both ways when Bulkhead was stuck in Megatron's Ultra Prison on the Nemesis. The Battle for Bulkhead
Notes
- Miko's phone is not part of her character model, nor does she appear to have any pockets in her outfit. She usually produces the phone from behind her waist or from out of shot. Perhaps it lives in the same places as Optimus Prime's trailer.
- A Blackberry® insignia has been spotted on the phone's function key.
