She starts at the sudden appearance of the holoform, bumping into the wall. It's not a trick she ever saw them use very often- and Optimus' voice coming out of a tiny human face just seems weird.

...But it's a good weird, given the fact that she's hearing it at all.

It's really him.

"Aah... Umm? No?"

Mikaela shakes her head, helpless confusion and a sudden burst of irritation flaring up at the question, popping the nostalgic bubble. It's a freaky, terrifying situation, but after seven years away from the giant robots at were supposedly her friends, it's not exactly the reunion she ever dared to imagine.

"I just. Appeared. Right out of my house."