Hello this is Wonderful Dreams coming to you with my newest/ oldest addiction. Transformers. This is all in the Prime universe. It will be mostly one shots that are all connected in the same story line. There is no pairing-ish well at least not in this chapter…..anyway. The song used in this is The City by Madeon. I feel like the song goes well with Jack visiting Cybertron and all anyway her you go.
Ps. I mostly focus on father son Jack and Optimus because that what get me by now days. Also leave a comment or subsections for Ideas. I would love that.
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"No" The attention of everyone in the main room was pulled towards the noise.
"Jack" said in an off put demeanor. A lanky teen shoves himself heavily off the couch, drawing the attention of those who were farther off.
"No" He regurgitated. With a hyena smile on his already disapproving face as he proceeded to pace around the human siting area while moving his arms around to emphasize his point.
"It's not my fault" A Japanese girl whined.
"It kinda is." A third spoke up.
"Shut it Raff" The kid ducked is head back behind his laptop while smiling shyly. The girl looked back at the other boy. "Are you seriously blaming me for this, not cool man." Her annoyances rattled every word. Jack, still with an unbelieving smile the pacing teen sharply turns to face the girl in question. "Because it's all you do." Off to the side a red and white mech stood next to a red and blue mech observing the rising commotion.
"I don't know what I did."
"I am unaware of the reason for such commotion as well old friend." The taller of the two responded while watching the scene unfold. Such commotion was truly unexpected form the human and the bots where belittled to say the least. Suddenly the black hair teen, whose back was facing to two mechs, pointed at them without looking back.
"This is partly your fault too Ratchet." The bot's optics widened as he pointed to himself.
"My fault, I do not even know what you two are arguing about." The medic grew impatient with how this was playing out. Jack turned to face him with one of his eyes squinting in question. "What is your opinion on Earth music, Ratchet?" Ratchet look a little taken back by the sudden question. What in the world did that have to do with anything, but he quickly straitened himself out and answered.
"Well it's loud and obnoxious and I told Miko before that I don't want earth's music to be cluttering up my audio receptors when I am working." Jack eyes narrowed. Raff looked up from his laptop as if the pieces of the puzzle were starting to fit together but he decided to stay quiet and out of the way of the older teen.
"So you don't like Earth music." Jack inquired of Ratchet.
"No, I most certainly do not, and I absorlutely don't like that screech making thing you call a guitar." Ratchet half wailed in annoyance as he pointed to Miko's electric guitar that was leaning against the wall next to her amps. The Blue Femme who stood closer to the children piped up .Still not understanding what Jack was trying to get at.
"This is why you're upset Jack?" Jack turned to look at the femme. He sighed and shook his head.
"Do you ever listen to Earth music?" Arcee leaned on her left hip and crossed her arms. She was tired of all the questions.
"NO" She dead panned. Jack nodded and turned to Optimus.
"Optimus?" He questioned almost desperately. The prime shook his head 'no' making Jack sigh/grumble even louder. The attention on Jack was disrupted when Raff decided to pop he head over his laptop. "I get it" Everyone looked straight at Raff. Now shy about the sudden attention he ducked back behind the screen. "Never mind" he squeaked. Miko was over frustrated to the point that she started to through a fit, "Well I don't!" She pouted and stomped her foot. Raff made a huff as he stood up and placed the laptop on the coffee table. Miko and the others watched as he walked up to stand next to Jack.
"Jack is upset that you guys don't like earth music…" just then, Bulkhead and Bumblebee walked in from the entrance of the base. "Well I love Earth music." Bulkhead countered enthusiastically as he went to go pick up Miko. She squeaked in joy as he big servos lifted her off the platform and onto his shoulder. Bumblebee also walked over to the human platform and stood by Raff. Both didn't really know what was going on or that there was tension in the air when they arrive but Bumblebee could tell that something was up, but what? "! #$%^&*?" Raff looked up at Bumblebee and smiled. "Nothing's wrong Bee."
Jack let out a silent annoyed sigh, "That's debatable" He grumbled under his breath. He walked over to Raff and Bumblebee, "Raff, don't you listen to the radio when Bumblebee is driving you around?" Raff thought about the question for a short bit as he glanced up at Bee. "Well no, I guess we never do, we usually talk or play video games." Jack nodded his head then dramatically turned around with both his arms out in question as he yelled, "So nobody here besides humans have ever listen to earth music!" Ratchet's temper was through the roof with all these meaningless question, sometimes he wished the humans were never here and right now was why.
"FOR THE LAST TIME JACK NO!" He raged as he stepped closer to the tinny human. Though the sight of a giant metal being coming towards a person while screaming would have paralyzed any human Jack was unfazed with the show of aggression.
"Miko, what's more important in a song, the lyrics or the music? He yelled quickly up at the girl. Everyone paused, Miko's eyes widened, silence echoed along the walls of the base, she let out a dumb sounding, "Uhhh" followed by silence…..silence…..confusion…. more silence.
"What are lyrics?" Arcee innocently asked. Jack world around and pointed at her, "AAHHHAAH. THERE IT IS, JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!" He shouted in victory. Jack had finally gotten somewhere in all his babbling and he was ecstatic. Miko and Raff on the other hand was shocked, the two both looked at their guards in surprise.
"Wait, Bulk, you know what lyrics are right? The green bot shrugged his shoulders.
"What about you Bee?" Raff asked. The same reaction came.
Jack looked at Ratchet, who had a dumb look on his face plate, and Optimus, who looked interested. "Who about you guys." The same answer came. Miko jumped off of Bulkheads shoulder and back onto to the human living are, much to Bulkheads disapproval. "Miko, I told you not to do that." She hushed him up with a quick sway of her hand and I shoosh. "Bulk we have more serious matters to attend to."
Optimus chose to join the conversation out of deep curiosity for the subject a hand, "Younglings could you please explain what these 'lyrics' are?"
Raff spoke up to explain," Well a song, or at least an earth song, is made out of two main parts; the music and the lyrics. The lyrics are the word in a song."
"Wait why would someone put words in music?" Arcee asked. For the Autobots, the conversation was becoming stranger and stranger. Jack continued to explain, "Well we don't just say the words we sing them. When someone is singing they harmonize there voice into a melody."
The Autobots where trying to proses this new piece of information but the concept was far from normal for them. "Wait" Bulkhead spoke up. "I listen to Earth music all the time with Miko and I've never hear this thing you call singing."
Jack looked at Miko, "And that brings us back to why I'm mad at Miko. All her music she listens to around you guess is heavy metal." She ducked her head shyly. "Not only do the songs not have any lyrics but they are the entirely the same genre, Heavy Metal. I've been through your MP3, I know you have all sorts of music and good music too." The girl struggled for a comeback.
"Talk about a knowledge gap."
"$%^&*#%?" Be questioned Raff.
"What did he say?"
"Bee wants to know how many songs earth has." Raff translated. Jack and Miko snorted. There were far too many to count. How many where there was unknown and how many to come is infinite to them. But if they had to guess…
"Thousands" Jack explained. Bulkheads optics widened.
"Thousands?!"
"Thousands of thousands" Miko continued. "And there are different genres of music too."
"Like rock or classical." Raff enlightened.
"Pop and Folk" Jack added.
"Heavy Metal and country." Miko finished. "And so much more." They all said at once. Optimus now fully interested in the topic spoke up, "Are these songs part of your culture?"
"YES! Every human no matter how dull or evil, sad or hateful loves music. Since the beginning of culture itself there has been music." Jack would go on but he was cut off by Raff.
"Different kinds of music can make you so happy that all you want to do is dance around and yet other songs can make you so sad that all you ever want to do is cry, but we love it all." Miko piped up. "I love to sing and write songs. Jack and I work on the same team in school."
Jack blushed nervously. "Miko don't" This was not how he wanted this conversation to go.
"What teams?" Arcee asked. Jack lowered his head and blushed even redder but Miko kept on going.
"Jasper is in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do, so the high school puts a very high enthusiasm on art and music. Each year the best students are put in special classes that further their expertise as well as push them or us in all different types of art and music. The groups of students are split into different groups because they work on different projects. Raff is in it too but he's in a younger group then us and they mostly like to work with editing." All the bots optics widened. They had no idea that there humans could do such amazing things such as art. The kids picked up an the bots expressions quickly.
"What's wrong" Raff asked in a worry. Optimus grabbed all three humans and held them up to his face. "Nothing younglings we are just in shock that we have not come into contact with such creation. On Cybertron such things as art and the creation of art was one of the most cherished things on the planet. We believed only ones blessed by our planet Primus himself, could accomplish such wonders." The children were taken back by what Optimus had said. Was what they had done really that amazing. They didn't think so.
"Can we see some of your work?" Arcee asked a little out of character. Jack, who hasn't said a word in a while still kept his head, hung low in embarrassment. Miko shook her head, "Not mine, I'm really not that great at drawing and stuff like that but I love music, Jack on the other hand is the best artist and musician I've ever seen." Miko explained as Raff proceeded to agree with her.
Jack, who was still sitting on Optimus' servo tried to shrink as much as possible, away from the attention. Optimus picked up on it though, he put the two other children in the servos of their guardians so to be able to use one hand to try and uncurl the teen. "Why do you hide form us Jack?" He questioned softly. Jack stayed quiet and looked away from Optimus not wanting to catch his bright blue optics. "Jack" He questioned again. Jack looked up. "I….I just don't think it's a big deal."
Surprisingly it was Ratchet who was the next to speak, "Not a big deal! Jack there is almost no higher honor then one of creation." Miko perked up, "Come on dude show them." Jack sighed, stood up on Optimus' hand and looked onto his optics. He might not have been afraid of the docs agree yelling but there was something about Optimus that made him want to roll over like a puppy.
"All right" He caved, still very unenthusiastically. Optimus put a single finger in Jacks head and patted him, "Jack you do not need to show us if this truly makes you uncomfortable I am sorry for pushing the subject young one." Jack put his and up in defense. "No, no, if you all think it's that big then I won't falter at such a request." Everyone looked exited "Buuuutt… I don't have anything with me to show you."
"Yes you do." Everyone looked at Raff. who was back sitting on the couch with his laptop."
"#$%^&*" Bee asked.
"Well it's more musical art." Raff turned his head to Jack. "I finished editing the music video for 'The City." Miko became ecstatic "REALLY OH LETS SEE LETS SEE!"
"What's 'The City'? Ratchet asked. Jack sighed, "Well it was my project. Some students received an assignment were we had to write a song about a place we have been and then film a music video with it."
"What's a music video?" Bulkhead asked. Miko looked up at his face. "Well, there videos that go along with a song. These videos tell stories sometimes they corresponded with song and other times they don't."
Optimus raised Jack up again, "May we view this project of yours?" Jack took a breath and nodded yes.
"But there is something you need to know first." Jack trailed off.
"Yes" Arcee pushed,
"Well… we were supposed to do it on a place we have been and I was given the assignment right after….after I went to Cybertron….." The room went silent.
"Jack did you create one of these songs about Cybertron?" Optimus asked. Jack went red again.
"Yes I'm sorry I should of asked you first." He apologized.
"Do not apologize we are honored to have something created in the image of our home, may we listen and watch this work of art?" Jack looked at Raff.
"Sure"
There is a place in the distance,
A place that I've been dreaming of,
No more time and space don't exist there,
We can dance like here's no tomorrow.
There is a place,
No time in space….
So there they were, all standing in front of the monitor watching and listening to Jacks music video.
I can see the city,
Crumbling around me,
Can't seem to find my way.
But I can see the bright lights
calling through the dark night,
Hoping to find my way.
The children all loved it for they had worked hard in their own way on the video but the Autobots were rendered speechless as they heard Jacks voice sing.
Yeah! I had what I wanted,
It went away so fast,
Yeah! I got to let go,
We can dance like there's no tomorrow,
So here we go.
Never on all of Cybertron had they heard something so filled with life and beat and the music video was like nothing they had ever seen before. Children were fighting each other with colorful powered that spared everywhere when a ball was throne. I was war.
I can feel the heart beat
Underneath the concrete,
Just like a kick drum plays,
Running in a straight line,
guided by the street lights,
Pushing the dark away.
Optimus wondered if Jack was talking about Primus and The Autobots during that bit, he knew Jack was and he never felt more honored.
Yeah! I had what I wanted,
It went away so fast,
Yeah! I got to let go,
We can dance like there's no tomorrow,
Mostly though they were honored that this was dedicated to the home they loved and lost and through the words or lyrics he was able to tell what kind of journey young Jack went true to obtain his memories.
There is a place in the distance,
A place that I've been dreaming of,
No more time and space don't exist there,
We can dance like here's no tomorrow.
There is a place in the distance,
A place that I've been dreaming of,
No more time and space don't exist there,
We can dance like here's no tomorrow….
The video ended and room went silent. The kids, especially Jack, were worried that the bots didn't like any of it. The paused continued until…
"Can we watch it again?" Ratchet asked sheepishly.
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