Jack Darby was nervous beyond belief the groundbridge was busted and Arcee and bulkhead were stranded on some island with a solar flare about to hit them at any second, which would permanently put them offline. Then again, it'd kill him too. That much sun on one such as himself?! Instant dust pile!
"Come on...come on!" Ratchet muttered with worry. As the groundbridge finally shot online he inputted the coordinates.
Arcee got through fine but was very worried. "Bulkhead's still out there, he's stuck!"
Jack gulped and did the one thing he'd never done, he pulled a Miko. As he rushed out into the sun sections of his skin sizzles slightly as he ran for the pinned bulkhead. By the time Arcee had rushed out to get him he had already reached bulkhead and was tossing aside the three tonne bolder which pinned him, leaving Arcee in a state of shock. It only increase as she saw jack sprint forwards with bulkhead on his back.
"Move!" Jack called as they sprinted for the groundbridge . As jack reached Arcee she muffled a gasp, his skin was burning off in the light. They made it through the groundbridge just before the burst hit. They were still hit by the burst but extremely mildly. When the others saw jack literally carry bulkhead into the middle of the room, they were extremely shocked.
"dude, what the hell?" Miko asked with an awed voice.
"Jackson, how did you manage to lift bulkhead?" Optimus asked in a worried tone.
"Furthermore, why on earth are you covered in burns?!" Ratchet demanded in a concerned tone.
"Not...not human." Jack panted as his burns quickly healed, leaving everybody in a state of complete and total shock.
"What the, no pulse?" Ratchet asked in concern.
"Haven't had that in years." Jack sighed slightly. "Wait, let me rephrase that, I have never had a pulse."
Miko gave a shrill scream of pure terror as she fell on her a** and shuffled away from jack. "VAMPIRE!"
"Well really? I hadn't noticed." Jack sarcastically shot back. "No, not even when I''ve never had a reflection in the millions of years I've lived."
"Millions?" Arcee asked in shock. "how old are you, if you don't mind sharing that is."
"Sixteen million, four thousand three hundred and ninety three, okay?" Jack asked as he straightened up.
"Wait, you're my age?!" Arcee sputtered in shock.
"You're a monster...cool!" Miko awed, finally getting over her fears. "Can you eat garlic? How strong are you? Ever killed someone? How fast are you? Can you fly? Ever turned into a bat?"
Jack let out a annoyed sigh as he face palmed. "Yes, very strong, yes, 237mph, no and definitely no."
"Can you turn me into a vampire?" Miko asked innocently.
All the bots and Rafael looked at jack curiously . Jack gave Miko an agitated look, like he'd been expecting it.
"While I could, I won't Miko, you're too young, in order to do that, you'd be stuck at that age forever no takebacks or do overs. And it would essentially kill you."
Jack explained to Miko in a stern tone.
"Besides you'd become bound to me until your first kill, and I don't want to watch over you ,24/7 365"
"Please Jacky sempia?" Miko begged.
"No, it would not be fair on you, like the last person." Jack sighed.
"Wait, you've turned somebody into a vampire before?!" Rafael asked in shock.
"Lets put it this way, Dracula was based off of me, but really watered down." Jack explained uneasily. The bots did research for a few moments before ratchet glitches along with bulkhead.
"Wow, is all that true?" Arcee asked in a state of awe.
"Asides the death bit, transformations and the garlic and crosses things, yeah." Jack told them uneasily. "Well, its almost lunch, anybody hungry?"
That turned out to be the wrong choice of words as bumblebee picked up Raf in one servo and used his other in his gun state to aim at jack.
"If I wanted to feed off of him bee he'd of been dead already." Jack sighed as he walked over to the minifridge in the human area before pulling out his thurmas and a sandwich.
"Is that blood?" Miko asked curiously.
"Just soup Miko, I've already had THAT earlier." Jack shuddered.
"Wait, aren't you suposed to survive souly on blood?" Rafael gulped."don't you, ya know, like it?"
"Do you think I like having to kill or harm people to live raf?" Jack asked with a sad frown. "You have any idea how hard that is to be around you and miko?"
"No, why?" Raf asked with a slight tremble.
"Virgens" jack answered simply. "Its also why it can be hard sometimes to be around Arcee or ratchet." Miko looked at the medic and burst out laughing.
Arcee and optimus both gave looks of confusion.
"It means you're yet to have sex or as you'd put it, interface." Jack clarified, optimus said nothing but nodded while Arcee gave bumblebee a suspicious glare.
Bumblebee raised his servos in surrender and gave a rapid series of beeps.
"I am so not translating that." Rafael gulped from bumblebees shoulder.
"Don't even want to" jack shuddered slightly.
"Dude, what's he saying!?" Miko demanded immediately."Come on!"
"So, you and Wasp huh?" Arcee practically snarled. "Keep that to yourself bee." The young scout beeped angerly in protest at Arcee.
"So...Jack's a blood sucking mythological creature then?" Ratchet asked, trying to deviate from the topic of love life's, particularly his.
"Please don't put it like that" jack requested before he took a bite of his sandwich then sighed.
"Jack, can...can I speak with you please?" Arcee asked hesitantly to jack.
Jack thought for a moment, as if not entirely sure this was good but he nodded. Arcee lead him through the base to her room and ushered him in. Jack was glad for that, part of being a vampire meant he couldn't enter a private place like a bedroom or chapel without investigation first. Arcee sat on the edge of her berth before picking up jack and sitting him next to her.
"Something on your mind Cee ?" Jack asked, he'd had the 'how do you deal with this' talk thousands of times past thousand years alone.
The blue autobot sighed then a section of the metal plating on her neck armor retracted, revealing her metallic neck. The metal was flexible like fabric but somehow blast resistant. "Wait...what are you doling?!" Jack demanded in shock.
"Just drink." Arcee offered kindly. "You won't hurt me, I promise."
"Arcee, no, I couldn't not to you, or anybody" jack protested. Arcee didn't listen. She picked him up and positioned him by her neck. His instincts took over and hit bit in before he could stop himself. Arcee didn't even flinch but rubbed his back with one of her servos. Jacks eyes grew wide and pulled back quickly. The metallic but sweet taste of energon lingered in his mouth. Arcee smiled softly at him.
"Its been Vorns since I've experienced that." Arcee sighed in embarrassment. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't of done that."
"Why did you do that!?" Jack croaked as he tried to control himself. Arcee sighed and cut deep into her left servo with her dental which were sharper than they looked. A small pool of energon formed and she drank it. Jack knew that characteristic anywhere, vampires did it to trick themselves into thinking they didn't need to feed, he knows he'd had to use it often. Then he realised, Arcee was like him, a vampire. "You're like me?"
Arcee smiled softly and then nodded. "Jack, I don't want to be alone anymore."
Jack knew the feeling, vampires were often antisocial to humans so he guessed the same was true for cybertronian vampires. "Arcee, I'm sorry for snapping but please don't do that without asking first?" Arcee nodded.
Jack smiled at Arcee then bit into his palm, letting the small amount of blood pool there. "Jack, what are you doing?" Arcee asked in confusion.
"Arcee, I...I love you." Jack smiled at Arcee.
Arcee gave an expression which looked to be both cheerful, lustful and loving. "I love you too jack, I...I would of asked sooner but, I was worried you'd think of me as a freak or pervert."
Jack smiled at Arcee. He had been taught a lot of customs by his mother around vampire and human relationships, he had also been reading through some material optimus had given him, mainly translated cybertronian novels and one time a autobot comic about a dinobot . He knew vampires shared their blood to make a relationship official and cybertronians made it official by either consulting a prime or by saying it before primus .
"Arcee, to make this an official relationship vampires share blood." Jack explained. "This is like a sparklbond okay?"
"I know what it means, we'd be each other's forever, I'm ready and willing, are you?" Arcee asked. Jack nodded with a warm smile. Jack held his bloodied palm up for Arcee and dripped some blood in her mouth before she dripped some of her energon in his. "I deal...weird."
"Weird bad or weird good?" Jack asked in concern.
"Decently good." Arcee purred lovingly then looked to jack. "Is it a good idea to tell the others?"
Jack looked up her and gave a soft smile. He wasn't too sure on the matter but it was better safe than sorry. "Maybe we should wait, just until the shock of what I am wears off."