A story of reviving Jazz [movie sequel]
This is a movieverse short story of resurrecting Jazz. The time of the story is six months after the events of Transformers 2 Revenge of The Fallen.
I hope you enjoy.
(The English of this post has once been revised by a native English speaker (thanks KK), but there may be some unclear sentences because I've further messed them up. :)
1: Background
It's been half a year since the massive fight on the west bank of the Gulf of Aqaba. Thinking back on it now, that fight was rather a meaningful accident that confirmed the importance of the alliance between human and the Autobots. Of course, its importance has been implicit from the beginning. That was why the NEST was set up after the first fight in Mission City, and since then, humans and Autobots have together been preparing to confront the threat of the Decepticons. Even so, until that fight, as aliens of the same species as Decepticons, the Autobots were not necessarily treated hospitably by governments in the world. The voice of those who demanded to get them out from the Earth has sometimes gathered strength, threatening the existence of the NEST.
However, humans have witnessed the huge energy harvester (a machine blowing up the sun), which was destroyed by an Autobot immediately before activation. Autobots were literally saviors of the living things of the Earth. This demonstrated to humans that the enemy's race has had technology advanced enough to destroy a star since well before the dawn of human history.
Extraterrestrial species that has destructive power and machine civilization far surpassing those of human beings――.
In order to protect the Earth from their threat, it was clear to humans that they must rely upon those with the power to oppose them. In this way, the Autobots have been recognized as essential to protect the humans from the threat of the Decepticons.
Until recently, life on Earth was uneasy for the Autobots, because they were requested to camouflage themselves among the public, and were barely allowed freedom of going around on this planet. However, since earning the belated trust of humans, they have been able to speak and act more freely than ever before. And humans have also become prepared to listen more seriously to their demands. Though this capacity is still limited. . . .
Under these circumstances, what Optimus wanted to do was salvage and reactivation of a comrade who was destroyed during the fight in Mission City two and a half years ago, sunk at the bottom of the North Atlantic Sea with remains of the Decepticons.
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At that time, it was almost impossible to revive Jazz, who got his body torn apart and suffered fatal injuries in his Spark. Actually, Ratchet tried it once, using the last fragment taken by Optimus from the chest of Megatron fused with the Allspark. However, it didn't succeed. The wound of his Spark was too deep to be restored by only a small shard of the Allspark.
And when there came a request from humans to throw all remains of the alien bodies, regardless of whether they were Decepticons or Autobots, into the ocean, Optimus decided to comply with their request, even though all of his colleagues were opposed it.
Optimus felt that he was indebted to humans. More than anything, the change of the Earth into a battlefield would be attributable to his race, or else to a kind of forgotten connection of the fates of our races. At least humans were not responsible. Nevertheless, it was a human who had staked his life to defeat Megatron and saved Optimus in Mission City. Therefore, Optimus wanted to accept humans' requests as much as possible, even if they seemed outlandish and, sometimes, even outrageous to the Autobots. And when humans requested Optimus to give them Jazz's body, he persuaded his colleagues to abandon the attempt to revive him, since practical means were not available at that time.
However, two and a half years have changed everything. After the devoted fighting of the Autobots at the pyramid, humans have come to trust them more than before. Now, there is no insistence that Jazz remain sunk at the bottom of the sea. And most importantly, they have obtained a source of energy with far more power than the shard of the Allspark. Now that the Matrix has been brought by a young smart human, Sam, the reactivation of Jazz has become a realistic plan. Because. . . , Optimus himself once suffered the cessation of his functions, but after all he is now here, thanks to the Matrix.
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When Optimus told Lennox his plan, Lennox expressed regret that he had not become aware of this possibility earlier, and let the human side propose it to Optimus. Though he did not know Jazz well, he saw Jazz courageously jumping to fight a tank-shaped enemy in Mission City. And. . . , when the formidable enemy Megatron appeared, it was Jazz who stood in front of Lennox's team and averted the attention of Megatron from the humans.
Just after Megatron fell, Lennox saw one of the Autobots bringing the miserably destroyed body of Jazz to their leader. Holding the body, the leader of the Autobots discreetly lamented his comrade's misfortune, and soon after that, he rather expressed his gratitude to the human soldiers. To humans, the Autobots would appear to be huge and frightening monsters. However, Lennox found that Autobots, like humans, have deep compassion and a strong sense of responsibility.
After the fight was over, the agents of Sector Seven came to take away all remains of the fight in Mission City. It was the Lennox's team that immediately helped the Autobots take Jazz's body outside of the city before the agents arrived.
Afterwards, Sector Seven was disbanded. However, Lennox could not stop the humans from seizing Jazz's body from the Autobots after all. When Project Deep Six was put into action, Lennox was on board the ship carrying Jazz and the remains of dead Decepticons. He could do nothing but stand on the deck of the ship with the Autobots, and watch Jazz falling far to the bottom of the Laurentian Sea.
When Lennox heard the plan to revive Jazz from Optimus, Lennox also felt that something that had been on his mind for two years would finally be put to rest.
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The Matrix has already returned some lives to the Autobots. Despite the marvelous abilities of Ratchet and Jolt, the restoration of an aged transformer who had suffered a severe wound in his abdomen, ripped his Spark off, and nearly been dissected into parts would never have been possible without the Matrix. The Matrix has also saved an Autobot who fell down a huge waterfall into a basin of the Zambezi River.
Next up is Jazz.
Optimus believes in fairness and equality. In his mind, every one of his colleagues was equally irreplaceable. However, as Jazz was one of the clews of the Ark who had been traveling together in the galaxy for a long time, his existence occupied a special area in Optimus' short-term memory. It was the same for other clews of the Ark. Everyone hoped for the return of Jazz. Therefore, the reactivation of Jazz is a task that Optimus must have taken care of as soon as the time was ripe.
The time is finally here.