AN: I know that there are those of you who probably want to see me update my ATLA story, but this idea has been buzzing around in my head for about two weeks, and I feel as though I need to get it out of my system since I can't rely on challenges being picked up by anyone. And I realize that, like Afalstein said, "If I tried to write down every story idea I had, I'd never get anything done."
That being said, the idea here is based on Marvel's past history. They used to own Transformers, and they almost owned DC comics. So it's basically an idea where Transformers: Prime is written in a way where the question of "What if Marvel still had Transformers and owned the DC characters?" is answered. Don't worry, I won't overload this with a bunch of characters from any of those three, just a few select ones. I know which ones they are, but I'll reveal it as I go.
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, Marvel or DC comics, as they all belong to their respective owners. And I make absolutely no profit on this, and I honestly don't see how I could, which makes disclaimers in general seem stupid.
Jasper, Nevada
4:47 PM
In a small town surrounded by seemingly endless desert and rocks, a sixteen-year-old teen worked a job at the local fast food joint, K.O. Burger. His name was Jack Darby. He was a fairly tall kid for his age, and he had jet-black hair, blue teal eyes, and his attire consisted of wearing a dark gray short-sleeved shirt over a light-gray long-sleeve shirt along with blue jeans and black shoes. Currently, he wasn't very pleased with his life, and that's due to the fact that the customers in the drive-thru would often give him very little appreciation. Like right at that moment:
"Welcome to K.O. Drive-in, where every patty is a knockout," said Jack in a bored tone, "May I take your order?"
The customer on the other side of the microphone said, "Uh, two super combos with extra fries."
Getting the order ready, Jack replied, "Okay, dos numero tus. Anything else?"
"Yeah, some advice; how do I get an awesome job like yours?" joked the customer, laughing with his friends on the other end.
Jack rolled his eyes and put the bags with their orders on the window before saying sarcastically, "So that's two 'we're not as funny as we think we are' combos with a side of 'bite me'!"
The customers stopped laughing as the lead one asked, "What'd you say?!"
"Five fifty nine, Sir, at the window."
The Customers' car rolled up to the window where they grabbed their meal and drove off without paying.
Jack, upset but not surprised by this turn of events, quietly said, "You have to pay for that!"
Sighing, the sixteen-year-old boy called it a day and put his job hat away. Then he walked out the door to the parking lot, and as he did, his phone began to ring. Pulling it out of his pocket, Jack flipped it open to see who it was before putting it up to his ear and answered, "Hey Mom."
"Hey Honey. You okay?" asked Jack's thirty-nine-year-old mother, June Darby, on the other end.
"Yeah, I just got off."
"Are you heading to the dance?"
"No, I'm not going to the dance. Experience suggests that I should never cut a rug. Unless I'm installing carpet, of course."
"Well just be careful is all I'm asking."
"'Be careful?' Seriously? This is Jasper."
"That may be, but just in case, please? For me?" asked June in a semi-pleading voice.
"Fine," said Jack rolling his eyes.
"Oh, and before I forget, Steve's coming over for dinner."
"Oh, yeah…Steve. That's great…" says Jack, trying and failing to sound enthusiastic about the idea of having dinner with his Mom's boyfriend, Steve Rogers.
"Look, Jack, he's not trying to replace your father. No one is." June hadn't dated since her husband died when Jack was seven. But since nearly five months ago, she'd been dating a tall, handsome, and well-rounded man by the name of Steve Rogers, who had moved there not long before the two met. When they began dating, June found herself in a great relationship with an all-around great guy.
Jack, on the other hand, didn't know what to think because, while he was glad that his mother was happy, he didn't want anyone to replace his father. "I know, but-"
"No buts. The three of us are having dinner together, and we will all enjoy ourselves. Got it?"
Jack sighed in defeat before saying, "Yes, Ma'am."
"Good!" said June triumphantly.
Suddenly, Jack noticed a blue motorcycle sitting in the parking space in front him. He took a good look at it before saying, "I love you!" Realizing that his mother might've heard him, he quickly said, "Yeah, I love you too, Mom. I gotta run." Then he hung up on her before going to inspect the blue bike.
"Hello Beautiful…" said Jack, not realizing that the side mirror on the bike turned to face him. "Where have you been all my life?" Putting his hands on the seat, the sixteen-year-old said appreciatively, "Nice!"
Getting his hands on the wheel, Jack sat himself down on the seat before saying, "It may take a few K.O. paychecks, but I am gonna own a ride like you someday."
Jack was interrupted from his fantasy by the voice of a teenaged girl, who said, "Are you talking to your motorcycle?"
Looking away from the bike, Jack saw it was two popular girls from his own school, specifically Sierra Bishop and her friend Liz Hardy, who stood there laughing at what he did.
"Eh-m-my motorcycle?" said Jack, looking for words to say, "Uh, no! I-I mean y-yes-yes! It's mine, but I'm not talking to-well to you, I am." Face-palming himself, Jack went on to try and change the subject and asked, "So, how's things, Sierra? Take you for a spin sometime?"
Jack and the girls didn't notice the bike's side mirror move to see two dark-purple muscle cars rolling up close to them. The bike thought to itself in a feminine voice, 'Come on Smooth Operator! Wrap it up!'
Sierra looked at Jack quizzically and asked, "You…know my name?"
"Yeah, we're in home room together. I'm Jack. Jack Darby?"
Before any of the teens could continue, however, the two muscle cars revved their motors and shined their lights at them.
The blue bike moved her mirror and mentally cursed, 'Scrap!' before driving off with Jack as the muscle cars chased after them.
Jack screamed "Whoa!" multiple times as the bike he was holding onto for dear life sped down the road, trying to lose the cars behind them.
The blue bike finally spoke out loud before saying, "Don't let go!"
A surprised Jack screamed, "WHO SAID THAT?!"
The two cars finally caught up to them and were about to crush them when the blue bike pulled Jack and herself back. The two cars bounced off each other, making an opening that the she was very quick to use. The bike drove herself around the corner and into an alley before doing a screeching spin stop.
Jack got off the bike almost immediately before backing away in a frightened manner saying, "What are you?!"
The bike turned to Jack before threatening, "I don't exist. Tell anyone about me, and I will hunt you down!"
Jack nodded before running off into another alleyway. Noticing that the cars from before were driving behind it, the bike began to drive towards the end of the alley before her mirror saw one of them go in Jack's direction. 'Scrap!' she thought as she turned around and drove its way into a jump over the car chasing her. Then she went down the other alleyway to chase the other car, who was after a running Jack Darby.
Jack panted as he shouted, "I DON'T EVEN KNOW HER!" which did not deter the purple car from rushing towards him.
The bike managed to drive over the car driving towards Jack and got right beside him before shouting, "HOP ON!" which the sixteen-year-old did without hesitation.
As they drove out of the alleyway, they made a sharp turn onto the main road with Jack giving another "WHOA!" As Jack and the bike turned onto the highway, the purple cars behind them began to shoot energy-like bullets at them.
Once they were on the main freeway, Jack asked his transport, "Why are those guys shooting at us?!"
Snaking her way between the traffic, the bike replied, "There's no 'us' kid, and they're no guys!"
Looking back, Jack saw the two cars still close behind them. Then, he noticed a yellow Urbana 500 with black racing stripes come onto the highway from the entrance ramp and slam into the twin cars before driving up to where Jack and the bike were.
"Friend of yours?" asked Jack.
The bike's response was, "Family."
As Jack continued to ride the bike onward, the yellow Urbana got into a slam fest with the two purple cars, trying to avoid hitting any other vehicle.
After another minute or so, Jack finally faced forward and saw that the road ahead involved a bridge still under construction, which meant that there was a big, blocked, gap straight ahead.
Fortunately, the bike drove up to the side and jumped off the freeway and did a few more hurdles until they reached the drainage canal right below the bridge. Once they stopped though, they found themselves face-to-face with the twelve-year-old Rafael Jorge Gonzales Esquivel, or "Raf" as everybody liked to call him, who dropped the remote control for his toy car as he looked at Jack and the bike in awe. Raf had brown hair and eyes, wore red-squared glasses as well as an orange dress shirt, blue jeans and orange sneakers.
"Whoa!" said Raf.
Jack caught his breath before responding, "Whew, you have no idea."
As the teen got off the bike to greet Raf, they both heard the sounds of motors revving and looked up to see the two purple cars from earlier atop the concrete closest to the incomplete bridge.
Jack and Raf's expressions turned scared when the cars drove down the concrete towards them, and, much to the surprise of the two humans, transformed into robots, nearly twenty feet high each. The robots had silver faces of sorts with a red visor acting as the eyes. Their bodies were mostly black and purple colored with large shoulders, lean forms and their heads were hunched over. On their chests were a symbol of sorts that looked like a mouth-less face with malevolent intentions. With their black legs and three-digit hands, they robots moved towards Jack, Raf, and the Bike.
The bike, however, had a little surprise of her own and shifted her parts around to transform into a sixteen foot tall feminine robot with blue armor, black thighs, upper arms and waist, pink highlights on her blue head, and a silver chrome face. Her lips were faintly pink, and her eyes were glowing blue with anger. Once her transformation was complete, she stared down the two other robots and said, "This ends here, Cons!"
And the fembot charged towards the other robots while narrowly dodging their laser fire. She jumped into the air and landed her foot on one of purple "Cons" before dodging the other's fire and kicking it in the chest as well.
Both Jack and Raf stood still in awe at the scene before the younger of the two said, "W-What are they?"
"Talking cars that turn into robots," said Jack nervously unsure, "Or the other way around."
The blue fembot laid a whole series of ferocious punches and kicks at one of the Cons, and through a series of punches to the Con's face, she said, "This-is-for-Cliff!"
For a brief moment, Jack wondered, 'Who's Cliff? Must be somebody important if she's THAT upset about it.'
Once her blows were done, the Cons proceeded to fire on her. The fembot did a number of backflips before getting shot once and found herself scraping across the concrete.
Jack and Raf exchanged worried looks, but then looked up as they heard car engine rev up above them. As they did, the yellow Urbana 500 from earlier jumped off the incomplete bridge before transforming into a robot as well. When it landed, the yellow bot nearly crushed one Con before giving the other a right cross on the jaw.
The blue fembot groaned as she got up and rubbed her head, "Ugh…"
The yellow bot stomped his foot on the face of one Con before backing away from his downed opponent. As he did, however, a loud crunching sound was heard, and he looked down to see that he had crushed a yellow toy car that belonged to Raf. The yellow Bot looked at Jack and Raf and made a series of mechanical whirs and beeps whilst looking apologetic.
Raf responded, "No problem. Really."
Suddenly, they were interrupted when the Con got back up and shot the yellow Bot, sending him flying and twirling until he landed a few feet away and face down. He was about to get up when a Con stomped his foot on the yellow bot's back. The yellow bot managed to roll over so that he could see the two Cons standing over him and pointing their guns at him, ready to fire in his face at any second.
Raf got upset by this and yelled, "Leave him alone!"
Unfortunately, this only caused the two Cons to focus their guns at him and Jack.
Raf got scared and said in a scared voice, "Please?"
Jack lowered himself to Raf's level and said, "Bad call."
The Cons exchanged a nod before the one closest to Jack and Raf began walking towards them. The two boys made a run for it with Jack yelling for Raf to keep running, "Come on, come on!" The con followed them as they entered and ran into a drainage tunnel. Once they were in, Jack shouted, "Keep moving!" as the robot reached it three-digit hand to grab them.
Then, the boys heard a loud metallic clang and turned to see that the Con was no longer at the entrance and was fighting someone. Not one of the other robots, but rather a tall man. A man wearing a blue outfit with red and white stripes along the midsection, white on the sleeves, red gauntlets and boots, and a blue cowl with white, stylized wings on the sides and a white A on his forehead. On his waist, he wore a belt with a number of big pockets, and in his right arm, he held a shield with a white star on a blue circle with ring pattern of red-white-red. This star spangled man was seemingly holding his own against the purple and black antagonist.
The two boys stood in the drainage tunnel with dumbstruck awe at the scene before them. Raf was the first to give voice and asked, "Is that-?"
"Captain America?!" finished Jack. Even from their distance, Jack got a good look at his and Raf's rescuer, and thought, 'I don't know why, but something about him seems familiar…'
Jack would've continued pondering had the superhero in question turned to face them and yell, "Don't just stand there, go!" Then he proceeded to hit the oversized robot over the head with his shield, creating a loud clanging sound.
"You heard the man!" said Jack as pulled Raf along with him into a run towards the other end of the tunnel.
6:38 PM
After eventually finding their way out of drainage tunnel and making it back to their suburb, Jack and Raf agreed to keep quiet about what happened and went their separate ways for the day. Jack walked up to his house and knocked on the front door, where his mother stood in the hallway with her arms crossed and her foot tapping.
"Jackson Benjamin Darby, where have you been?!" yelled June at her son.
"It's a long story," was Jack's reply.
"Try me!"
Sighing, Jack said, "Alright, but can I go get a shower first? I had go run through a sewer for about an hour and a half."
"Why were you-" before June could finish her sentence, she got a good whiff of Jack before covering her mouth and noise, and saying, "Ugh! You do need a shower, but don't think that means this conversation is over, Young Man!"
"I didn't think it was," muttered Jack as he made his way to the shower. About twenty minutes later, he got out, got dressed, and made his way to the kitchen where his mother was preparing tofu. Being a nurse, June Darby was a bit of health nut.
"Ah, tofu…" said Jack unenthusiastically, "my favorite meal."
"Better than eating that junk you hand out to people at your job," replied June without turning to face Jack.
Before Jack could respond, a knocking sound was heard at the door, to which June said, "I'll get that."
Jack listened as he helped set the table for three people, as he could already tell who it was at the door.
The door opened and the sound of June's boyfriend could be heard, "Hey June."
"Oh, hey Steve!" replied the nurse happily surprised, "Glad you could make it."
"It was no trouble, June."
As they exited the hallway, June came into view with a man with blond hair, blue eyes, six foot five inch height, and dressed in a white t-shirt, khaki colored cargo pants, and brown work shoes. His shoulders were wide, and he seemed perfectly muscular, almost as though he exercised every day. June had informed Jack that when she and Steve started dating months ago, he told her that he had served in the Army, which is why he always exercised.
The former soldier smiled at the sixteen-year-old and said, "Hi, Jack."
"Hey Steve," replied the somewhat distracted teen, who was sitting at the table.
"Something on your mind?" asked Steve as he and June got situated.
"Well-" started Jack before his mother interrupted.
"As a matter of fact, Steve," started June, looking from her boyfriend to her son, "Jack was about to explain to me why he was so late in getting home."
"This should be interesting," said the soldier, almost as though he had something on his mind as well.
"Indeed," replied June looking at her son sternly.
Clearing his throat, Jack said, "Well, the thing is…" Jack tried to think for a minute about what to say, 'What am I supposed to say? That I ran into a transforming robot rumble?' After about half a minute, Jack finally said, "Well, after work, I saw this bike I was interested in getting once I build up enough money."
"Uh-uh…" said June listening.
"Then…this…" Jack drifted trying to find the right words without sounding crazy.
"Girl?" asked Steve.
"Yeah, girl, who appeared out of nowhere to…take the bike for herself. Then these two purple cars come in and the girl makes me get on the bike…which resulted in the two of us getting chased by the two cars down the highway."
"Really?" asked June in a voice of both unconvinced and curiousness.
"Yeah, and…"
"Why were they chasing you?" demanded June.
"I honestly don't know. I even tried to get off the bike and tell the guys chasing us that I didn't even know her. But, whatever their reason was, they were in hot pursuit."
"I imagine they were," said Steve taking a sip from his glass.
"After trying to get rid of the guys on the freeway, we ended up in a canal, where I finally got off the bike. The guys in the purple cars finally got out and they and the girl got into a fight."
"A fight?" said June worriedly.
"Yeah, but I didn't stick around long enough to see the outcome." Deciding not to mention Raf and risk getting the twelve-year-old in trouble, Jack continued, "So I ran inside the drainage tunnel where I ended up navigating my way through the sewer before finally getting back above ground and coming home."
June sighed a bit before saying, "Well, I'm glad to know you didn't get involved."
The sixteen-year-old sighed himself before digging into his tofu.
However, Jack found himself in an awkward position again when his mother smiled a bit before asking, "So, this girl you rode with, what was she like?"
Jack nearly choked as he was caught off by the question, and after a couple coughing fits, he managed to regain his voice and say, "Well…she was…unlike any girl I've ever met!"
Unfortunately, it didn't deter his mother, "How so?" she asked calmly.
"Um…well…she…had some…unusual features."
"Like?"
"Uh…she…was mostly dressed in blue…and she was easily the tallest…woman I've ever come across."
"How tall was she?"
Before Jack could think up an answer, Steve gave a divergent question, "Can you describe the guys she was fighting?"
Silently thanking Steve for changing the subject somewhat, Jack answered, "They were tall, but they were dressed darkly and wore some kind of masks." Technically it was true, the Con robots that he saw had no actual faces to speak of, so they could have easily been wearing masks of some sort.
Steve nodded before ending the discussion with, "Well, what's important is that you got out of there alive and in one piece."
"Yep!" agreed Jack, "So let's eat before the tofu gets cold. Shall we?"
With that, the three of them ate their meal. It lasted for about an hour before they were finished and Steve left to go home.
3:07 PM
The next day, after school was dismissed, Jack walked outside and found Raf, then walked up to him before saying, "Raf, hey…" The sixteen-year-old rubbed the back of his head before saying, "Look, let's just…keep this between us and forget anything ever happened, ok?"
The twelve-year-old knew what Jack was talking about, and was about to respond when the honking of a car got their attention. They both looked to see where the sound came from, and Raf grabbed the older teen's arm and gasped enthusiastically, "Jack!"
It was the yellow Urbana 500 from yesterday, and as it rolled up to where the two were, Jack rolled his eyes saying, "Oh, not again!"
Once it was right in front of the boys, the Urbana 500's door opened up to show an empty seat, followed by a series of mechanical whirs.
Jack tried to understand and asked, "It…wants us to get in?"
"No," said Raf, "just me."
"How do you know that?"
The twelve-year-old shrugged saying, "It said so."
Looking even more confused, Jack responded, "What?"
Grabbing the older teen's arm and pointing to the parking lot, Raf said, "Yours is over there."
Jack was surprised to see that the transforming blue, motorbike from yesterday was there, but he still wasn't on board with going, so he said, "But I really don't think-"
Except the younger boy wasn't listening, and instead got in the yellow car asking it, "How's it going?" before the door closed.
"Raf?" asked Jack, and as the car drove off, he yelled, "Wait! Stop!" only to be left behind in a dust cloud. The sixteen-year-old looked to the blue bike before turning away and walking on the street side away from the school. It wasn't long before he found himself in an alleyway, and not long after, the revving of a motorcycle engine. The said motorbike went past him and swerved in front of him.
"Relax," said the bike, with surprisingly still person on top of her wearing a helmet that didn't show a face, "I just want to talk to you."
"Don't you mean you and your new friend?" asked Jack, referring to the person riding on the bike.
"Kid, there's a lot you don't understand," replied the bike as the person on top of her disappeared, revealing to be nothing more than a hologram.
Putting his hands up, Jack said, "N-No, I get-I get!" Putting his hands down, Jack began to walk away from the bike saying, "First rule of Robot Fight Club is 'you don't talk about Robot Fight Club.' What you need to understand is that I don't want a bunch of crazy, talking vehicles-" right behind him, the bike transformed into her robot move, "-following me around, trying to get me killed!"
"Look," said the fembot as Jack turned to face her, "Jack, is it? Your personal safety is exactly why Optimus Prime has requested your presence."
Jack backed away a little as her face got closer to his, "Uh-Optimus Who?"
"You may be in danger because you are one of the few, one of the only, who have ever seen us."
"Dude, what're you waiting for?!" came a girl's voice, and both Jack and the fembot looked to see the fourteen-year-old transfer student, Miko Nakadai, poking her head around the corner and listening in on their conversation, "Go with!" she chirped.
The fembot cursed saying, "Scrap!"
3:32 PM
On the desert road, Jack found himself with riding on the fembot in her bike form, with Miko sitting right behind him, and the yellow car right in front of him with Raf in it. Both vehicles had dust trails after them.
"WOO-HOOO!" yelled Miko, enjoying the thrills of riding on the bike.
"And why exactly are we taking her?" Jack asked the bike.
"Rules!" was her only answer.
As they drove further, they soon found themselves off the road and driving into a mountain up ahead, which scared the sixteen-year-old, "Hey, what-WHOOOAAA!"
Thankfully, the mountain made an opening for them, revealing a lit tunnel inside. Once the kids and vehicles were in, the doors closed up, and they traveled down the tunnel into what appeared to be a large command center with the mountain acting as the walls and ceiling.
Miko expressed her awe at the place by saying, "Whoa…"
At what appeared to be a large computer terminal, there was a large robot with an orange and white color scheme and had what appeared to be parts of an ambulance covering him. Another large robot came into view, one who appeared to be very round, and had a green and black color scheme, four-digit hands, and large chin of sorts.
At the sight of them, Jack and Miko said, "Whoa…" while Raf said, "Cool!"
The two teens got off the bike while Raf got out of the yellow car, and the aforementioned vehicles transformed into their robot forms as soon as they became short on passengers.
The white and orange robot walked up to them and expressed his curiosity, "I thought there were two?"
"Haven't you heard?" said the fembot sarcastically, "Humans multiply." Then she walked off to the wall where she leaned back and crossed her arms.
The twelve-year-old extended his hand to robots and simply introduced himself, "I'm Raf."
The fourteen-year-old transfer student walked up to the green robot with excitement and said, "I'm Miko. Who're you?"
The green robot replied in an uncertain voice at her, "Bulkhead."
Miko gasped and proceeded to shoot her mouth at him, "Are you a car? I bet you're a truck-A MONSTER TRUCK! Do you like Heavy Metal? How much do you weigh? Ever use a wrecking ball for a punching bag?" Bulkhead only stood silent, unsure of which question to answer, or what her questions were about.
Raf gave his voice as well, "So, if you guys are robots, who made you?"
The white and orange robot scoffed at the question and responded, "Puh-lease!"
The kids heard loud footsteps and turned around to see a large blue and red robot walk up to them. Looking down at the three, the robot explained informally with a bass voice, "We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron, also known as Autobots."
Jack stepped up to the large Autobot and asked, "Why are you here?"
Again, informally, the Autobot said, "To protect your planet from the Decepticons."
"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night," added the fembot so that the kids would understand.
Looking from the fembot to the red and blue Autobot, Jack asked, "Okay, why are they here?"
The large Bot kneeled down and looked at them saying, "A fair question Jack. In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable, ravaged by centuries of civil war."
"W-Why were you fighting a war?" asked Raf.
"Foremost, over our world's supply of energon; the fuel and lifeblood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike. The combat was fierce, and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom I considered a brother, but in war, ideals can be corrupted, and it was thus, that Megatron lost his way."
Miko sighed in an uninterested way and asked, "Is there going to be a quiz?"
Raf and Jack gave a glare for being rude, before turning back to the red and blue Autobot. Jack then asked, "So, what does Megatron, or any of this, have to do with us?"
"Megatron has not been seen nor heard from in some time," answered the Autobot, "but if his return is imminent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic." Getting back up, the red and blue Autobot continued, "And since you now know of our existence, I fear that as of last night, the Decepticons now know of yours."
"Got it, we spot any strange vehicles, call 911," answered Jack, eager to leave, "Can we go now?"
Miko looked at him a like he said something crazy and asked, "Are you insane?! I am living a dream her in Botswana, and I will not allow you or anyone else to shatter it!"
Jack rolled his eyes at her before the red and blue Autobot got their attention, "It is best that you three remain under our watch. At least until we can determine our enemy's intentions."
"Which is why you're being brought in on this," said a different, yet familiar voice. The three kids turned toward the voice to see that it belonged to none other than Jack and Raf's human rescuer from the previous night, Captain America. He stood on top of one of the platforms and looked down on everybody as the three adolescents stared in awe. Walking over the ladder and climbing down, the star spangled superhero made his way towards the two teens and twelve-year-old before saying, "I bet this must all seem surreal to you. Meeting a guy like me and interacting with giant robots?"
"To say the least!" exasperated Jack.
Before the Captain could continue, Miko butted in and asked, "What does surreal mean?"
Jack and Raf sighed as they face palmed themselves. Before they could answer, the Captain did it for them, "I means that this is all weird for you."
"Oh, is there going to be a quiz on that too?"
"Miko-!" started Jack.
"Why're you here?" asked Raf.
The Star Spangled hero's reply was simple, "To answer your question, I'm here because our government assigned me to help the Autobots in their war with the Decepticons."
The red and blue Autobot added to that, "And it was against my wishes to not involve humans."
The Captain looked at him and said, "With all due respect, Optimus, humans became involved the moment you and the Cons came to our world."
Jack, Miko and Raf figured that maybe that the red and blue Autobot was Optimus Prime, but they weren't sure until Cap called him out by name. However, nobody could say a word about anything as the Autobot leader and the American Superhero exchanged glares. One could easily tell that this was a sore point between them, though how long it had been that way was anybody's guess.
The tension was cut thankfully when Jack asked Cap, "Pardon me, Captain, but do I know you from somewhere? I feel as though we've met before yesterday."
"You met Captain America yesterday?" asked an oblivious Miko.
Before the sixteen-year-old could get frustrated even further with the Japanese exchange student, Raf cut in and answered, "Jack and I both did, Miko. He helped save us from one of the Decepticons that those two fought," he said pointing towards the yellow robot and the blue fembot.
"Oh!" said a surprised Miko.
Before she could say another thing, Jack got back on topic and asked Cap, "Anyway, have we met before yesterday or not?"
"To be honest Jack, I'd be lying if I said we didn't."
"What do you-?"
Jack didn't finish as he stood there in surprise as the American superhero took off his cowl to reveal is face in full. Who he turned out to be was someone Jack would never have guessed it was.
"Steve?!"
Indeed it was him; Steve Rogers, the man that his mother had been dating for the last five months was actually the All-American Hero, Captain America. Needless to say, Jack was stunned by this revelation.
Raf brought the sixteen-year-old out of his stupor by asking, "You know him?"
Bringing himself back to reality, Jack looked at the twelve-year-old and gestured to Cap/Steve saying, "Y-Yeah, my mom's been dating him for the past five months."
"Whoa!" interjected Miko, "your mom's boyfriend is Captain America?!"
Jack looked at her with his mouth agape and said, "Were you just listening? Yes!"
"Jack," said Cap, getting their attention, "I know this must come as a shock to you, but listen and I'll explain."
"I'm listening," replied the sixteen-year-old.
"First, let's all get situated," and the American superhero led them to one of the upper platforms where there was a set of chairs. Once they all sat down, Cap proceeded to tell them his story. Starting with how he was originally part of a super soldier program back in the 1940s. That fact alone shocked Jack the most, as he initially thought that maybe Steve was a successor to the Captain America from WWII, rather than the same person.
Cap then told them that most of his missions back then centered on stopping a German super-soldier called the Red Skull, who was in charge of a group called HYDRA. After which, he said that the Skull somehow disappeared. He also stated that the reason Cap was still alive and looked as young as he did was due to being frozen in the artic for nearly seventy years.
After he was unfrozen by the government organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., he was immediately put to use by the association and did some work on covert and public missions for them. When he was done, the kids had mixed reactions. Miko was enthusiastically excited about the situation they were in, Raf looked at Cap with childish awe, but Jack sat still and silent.
"A lot to take in, isn't it Jack?" asked Cap.
"Honestly, I'm still trying to take in the fact that my mom's been dating a guy who's at least twice her age."
Miko quirked an eyebrow at him and said, "Dude, you're in a secret military base with a living legend of a superhero and five transforming robots from another planet, and that's the part you're having trouble with?"
"Point taken," 'for once she says something smart,' thought Jack, who then looked at Cap and asked, "So, you mind introducing us?" he asked inclining his head towards the Autobots, "I mean, we got a couple of their names. He's Optimus Prime and he's Bulkhead," said Jack, pointing towards the two Autobots respectively, who nodded in confirmation. "But we didn't get their names," he gestured back and forth between the white and orange Autobot, the yellow one, and the blue fembot.
"Well," said Cap as he got up from his seat and walked to the edge of the platform. He motioned towards the white and orange Bot and said, "This would be Ratchet, the Autobots' chief medical officer. And that," he pointed to the yellow Bot, "would be Bumblebee, the team's scout. And she's-" he would've introduced the fembot had she not decided to do it for him.
"The name's Arcee!" she answered coldly, "That's all you need to know." And she walked off to another part of the compound.
"What's with her?" asked Jack with a little concern in his voice.
Cap looked at him solemnly and answered, "Her partner, Cliffjumper, was recently killed in action."
"Oh…" said Jack in understanding, "How did he-?"
Before anyone could continue any conversation, a signal suddenly flashed on the big computer's screen, getting everyone's attention.
Ratchet walked up to it to see what was going on, and once he did, his optics widened in shock and disbelief, "Impossible!"
"What is it Ratchet?" asked Optimus as he and the others gathered around the CMO.
"Something must be malfunctioning, because according to this, Cliffjumper's signal is now online!"
AN: And that's all for now folks. Hope you like the set up I've got so far. And I realize that in the open AN that there would both Marvel AND DC characters in this, and I intend to keep that promise, but the DC characters will come in later chapters.
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