Rise of a Warrior v2 Chapter 14 part B

The Autobot base was all a buzz with the recent turn of events that had taken place in the past few days. Miko was utterly freaked with the appearance of the new Soundwave as was Raf given their past encounter. As for Slipstream, however, Miko seemed to take a liking to her with her more abrasive and tough girl attitude. But that was the end of the overall pleasantries revolving around this situation. The rest of team Prime was in an utter uproar over the situation, Bulkhead particularly.

"Ya know, I don't know why Optimus is taking this so lightly with them being here and all. I mean I'm not saying that their story isn't true, but still it's pretty far-fetched." Bulkhead said scratching his head and talking to Bumblebee.

Bee chirped and beeped, ("I know but given the situation revolving around their coming to be here, we might want to consider the fact they might be genuine allies.") As he looked at Soundwave looking off into the ground bridge tunnel.

Optimus was with Ratchet who was checking over Slipstream on the medical berth, giving her system a proper examination given the amount of time they spent in the Rift Ripper's void.

"Everything seems to check out ok. Her systems are designed virtually identical from the original Slipstream we knew and I would be willing to bet the same goes for Soundwave." Ratchet said as he looked at his scanner and fiddled with the reading from his patient.

"Ratchet, I would like you to do a thorough scan of Soundwave as well," Optimus said before he was cut off by Ratchet.

"Optimus, I already tried but he refused to let me even scan his systems. It seems this Soundwave is just as, well, I guess I should call it antisocial. Which, if on any account, would be a benefit for us to scan him if he would let us." Ratchet said staring into his computer's screens looking over data.

Miko suddenly decided to butt into the conversation the bots were having.

"If you scan him, could you possibly find an advantage over our Soundwave?" Miko asked questioningly.

Optimus looked stunned for a moment and looked off into the distance, Soundwave turned to look at Mike given her comment, and Ratchet was utterly speechless. They all then looked at her with a look of shock and surprise.

Ratchet, in particular, looked at Miko, whose face looked as if she had done something wrong.

"Miko, THAT'S BRILLIANT, if we could get a detailed scan of Soundwave it might give us a way of increasing our odds against him." Ratchet said with great surprise in his voice. He didn't expect to hear that idea especially from Miko of all people. She usually just caused a ruckus and wore on everyone's nerves. But for once she actually had an intelligent idea. No a brilliant idea.

Miko added, "I just want you guys to find a way to rip the scrap out of that faceless con, since he tried to cut mine off with an ax last time." Miko looked away as to not show her frustration. "This time it's personal."

Raf decided to make an intelligent comment as he usually always did. "If our Soundwave has any kind of weakness we should totally use it; I'm not saying that I agree with Miko, but I also want to see his con butt taken out of commission."

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Jack was walking into the base with Arcee, whose face was still dumbfounded from the rather exciting flight they had back to base, overheard the conversation.

"I agree with Raf, Soundwave is just as dangerous as Megatron in my opinion and we need every strategic advantage we can get," Jack said, the new Soundwave now looking directly at him and his femme companion walking with him, entering the main chamber of the base. "OH! Sorry um, Soundwave, I didn't mean you, but our version of you tried to cut me into little pieces last time I saw him."

Soundwave looked at Jack showing no sign of emotion, just gazed silently. Arcee quickly noticed this and moved to step in front of Jack, firmly placing her foot on the floor and told Soundwave: "You listen to me! You might be some kind of nice version of the scrap head con, but you STAY AWAY FROM MY JACK, YOU HEAR ME!" Arcee shouted as she quickly closed the distance between Soundwave and herself, showing that she wasn't scared of him. "YOU HEAR ME?" Arcee shouted at Soundwave again attempting to get some sort of response.

Soundwave did nothing to respond; instead he simply turned and walked away from Arcee and the rest of group.

"Arcee, it's ok; let him go. If I can hold my own against Megatron then I'm pretty sure I can hold my own against Soundwave, regardless if he is friendly or not." Jack said trying to calm his partner.

"Jack, you haven't known the Soundwave I have, he is more dangerous and deceptive then you can possibly imagine. He might play the silent type, but he is even more dangerous because of it. And he tried to kill you, believe me I will personally crush his spark with my own hands for that." Arcee said clinching her fist at the thought of Soundwave hurting her Jack.

"Hey, I want our con version of Soundwave scrapped as much as the rest of us, but I think this Soundwave is the genuine article. He hasn't threatened us in any way and all we have done is scrutinize him because of what our con version of him had done. That doesn't seem fair if you ask me." Jack said with conviction trying to make his point firm.

Optimus overheard the conversation and walked over to the disputing group. "I agree with Blurr, this Soundwave does seem to be a genuine Autobot, and if that is so, then he is our ally. We should not be so quick to judge him because of our version that had done so much harm. We will monitor him for the time being, but I believe that both he and Slipstream are our allies. And with that we should treat them as such."

Arcee, frustrated with Optimus, slammed her fist on a nearby stack of crates crushing some delicate electronics in the process.

"ARCEE, I NEEDED THAT!" Ratchet cried out from across the room.

"AHH scrap this." With that said Arcee stomped out telling Jack before she left the room, "I will be in my, or should I say, our quarters." The blue femme said to her partner before walking off down the corridor.

As Arcee walked away, Jack and Optimus had a chance to talk regarding what had happened earlier that day and the situation with Soundwave.

"Optimus, can I talk to you for a little, there are some things that I need to speak to you about," Jack said.

"Yes Blurr, in fact I need to speak to you as well." With that the Autobot leader and new scout walked down the tunnel that led out of the mountain.

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The titan of an Autobot and his tiny armor clad ally walked down the tunnel for a while before the first words were said. Jack decided to be the first to talk as he knew Optimus had a way about him and talking about things. He was good with making decisions but was very lacking in most other departments, mainly giving advice.

"Optimus, I wanted to apologize earlier for leaving you alone with Soundwave and Slipstream, it was stupid and reckless. I didn't think of what might happen if I left and I put you in danger. I'm sorry." Jack said looking at the ground as he walked in shame.

"Blurr, I believe that you made a wise decision leaving when you did. You were conflicted with your emotions following your first real combat situation; there is much to learn from an experience such as that." Optimus said in his usual calm and patient voice.

"I was hoping you hadn't noticed that I was shook up from that. But that doesn't excuse the fact that I left you alone with them, what if something happened?" Jack asked quickly.

"Blurr, I knew you were going through a lot at the time that is why I gave you permission to leave. If I felt I would have been incapable of handling Soundwave and Slipstream I wouldn't have let you leave."

"I know Optimus but,"

"Jack," Optimus saying his name to help make his point. "You are a young warrior, one of the youngest I have seen in thousands of years. But I have seen you mature and make better, more informed decisions in the last few days, than Autobots that are thousands of years older then yourself. That shows that with your new power you have not become arrogant. Instead you have matured into a better soldier, and I am proud of you." Optimus saying this with his arms folded behind his back looking out the entrance to the tunnel at the night sky.

"Thank you, thank you Optimus, coming from you that means more than you will ever know." Jack said with a hint of surprise in his voice over the compliment he was just given by the Prime.

"Blurr, I wasn't always a prime or a soldier; I was once a data clerk. I too went through what you are experiencing right now. Although you might doubt yourself right now, I believe that you will find your place." Optimus stated kneeling down on one knee to help drive what he was saying to his young comrade.

"Optimus, I, I, I don't know what to say honestly. I've been through so much and I don't have anyone to really talk with about it. I mean Arcee is always there for me, but she's not what I need to deal with this." There was a pause in their conversation as Jack looked for the right works. "Optimus you know I never really knew my father, and over the past few months I've kind of looked up to you as I would have my own father."

The Prime looked at Blurr and was completely dumbfounded, and had no words that seemed to help his situation. He simply let Blurr continue.

"So what I saying is, well, you are my father-figure that I want to learn from," Jack said with every ounce of conviction he could muster.

With that said the Prime, for one of the first times in his long existence, was unable to come up with a reasonable response. After several minutes the Prime finally was able to process what had just been said and was able to organize a proper response.

"Blurr, I am truly honored that you want to learn from me." Is all the Prime could come up with, Jack realizing that he must have caused Optimus to have a Cybertronian version of a brain fart.

Without prompting, Optimus turned and began walking back down the tunnel into the base. Jack noticing that he must have made the Prime uncomfortable quickly followed but didn't say anything. The Autobot leader and his scout walked, only the sound of his own armored feet on the concrete and Optimus's colossal feet lightly walking next to him filling the tunnel. For minutes the two walked next to each other before reaching the opening to the main atrium in the base where the rest of Team Prime was located. Jack had thought their conversation was over, but to his surprise Optimus did have something to say.

Bending down on one knee again, Optimus in a very personal tone told Jack who was looking into his optics. "Jack, you have come so far in such a short amount of time, even for your species. I truly believe you have the capacity of greatness. I am honored that you look up to me as you do even though it is unusual for our race to understand. I will teach you all that I know so that you can become a great soldier one day, and so that you can protect those important to you."

"You mean Arcee don't you Optimus?" Jack questioned looking in the direction of her quarters.

"Yes Jack I do. I know you care immensely for Arcee, as I am sure she does for you, and if there is something worth fighting to protect, I believe that she is your best reason." Optimus said in a tone that showed he was not used to talking like this because of the change in his voice.

Jack laid his hand on the Prime's leg and said only one thing, "Thank you Optimus, thank you for understanding." With that said Jack walked back into the main chamber and Optimus returned to his feet and followed closely behind him.

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Jack passed the rest of Team Prime who was unusually active even for this time of night. Even though it was a Friday night, Miko and Raf were still going strong. Miko was asking Slipstream all sorts of questions and Raf and Bee were talking amongst themselves.

As Jack made his way past the group, he told them he was going to get some rest from his rather full day of getting in his first battle, getting stomped by Megatron, and meeting a new set of unlikely allies. He didn't bother to tell them about the mental side of what he was going through because it didn't concern them. Just before he left the main chamber, Jack yelled to an unlikely individual.

"YO SOUNDWAVE!" Soundwave, giving him his attention, turned to signify he heard him.

"You and I need to have a little chat sometime in the future. Oh and welcome to the team." Were Jack's last comments as the small armor covered human left the sight of the new guest.

What Jack and no one else for that matter knew was for the first time in many mega cycles, Soundwave felt welcome and he felt like he belonged. None of them would have guessed that under his visor Soundwave cracked a smile as his seemingly new pint-sized ally walked out of the room.

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Arcee was in her quarters sitting on her berth with her light on waiting for her Jack to come in.

"Where is he? He should have been here by now." Arcee said to herself.

Getting frustrated waiting for Jack, the femme decided to get up and go find him only to find a fully clothed Jack walking through the door to her quarters moments before she reached the door.

"I was just coming to find you, what took you so long?" Arcee inquired, both hands on her hips and her head tilted to one side expecting an explanation from him for making her wait.

"I needed to talk to Optimus about my needing to be alone earlier today."

"And?" Arcee asked in a demanding tone.

"He understood why I needed time to think. Also he will teach me what he can so I can better protect those important to me." Jack said hoping that his femme partner would catch on.

"And who would those possibly be that you would want to protect Jack?" Arcee questioned hoping to get the response she wanted.

Jack walked closer to Arcee and placed his hand on the blue metal of her right leg, looked up at her. "So I can protect the one person in this crazy world I love more than anything and want to spend the rest of my life with." Jack said in a slow and loving voice, and that's all it took to get a response out of Arcee. With that said she transformed to her human form and pulled Jack in for a hug that inadvertently pressed his face into her very large breasts. She held him there for what was a while since she had no real decency about being naked she didn't care. Meanwhile Jack was not complaining one bit, he was so enjoying what was happening to him right now, and he didn't care one bit. Arcee ran her fingers through is dark black hair and gave him a kiss on his head.

"Arcee"

"Yes Jack?"

"I, I love you." Jack said with every fiber of his being he could muster that wasn't focused on the large voluptuous breasts his face was buried in.

Arcee released her grip of him and looked him in his glowing blue eyes.

"I, I, ….." Arcee looked away, part of her combat training kicked in preventing her from getting emotional even though this was perfect the time for it. Jack noticed this and put his hand on her cheek and turned her optics back to his. With that he pulled her head to his and gave her a kiss that seemed to light her spark like he did the first time they kissed. He put his hands on the back of her head and pulled her in tighter. Jack could feel her full, round breasts squeezing against his chest and the warmth of her body. He loved it and so did she. Suddenly Arcee picked Jack up and quickly carried him over the berth and laid on top of him. She then proceeded to touch his face and admire how soft and warm his skin was.

Arcee moved in for another kiss, and after a few seconds she released him. "I love you too, Jack. Stay with me please." The blue femme said in an almost pleading and begging tone.

"I will never leave you, not now, not ever. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. And one day when this war is behind us, I want to have a family with you." As Jack said those last few words, something changed inside of Arcee.

"Have a family with me?" she thought, up until a few days ago that was completely impossible. But now it was and she wanted that so much; even though she couldn't fully understand what it all meant, she wanted to know. She wanted to know so badly what it was like to have a family.

"Jack, I want to have a family with you too, I just, I can't explain it but I want it all now." Arcee said not totally sure of what she was saying.

"I'm sorry love but we can't, not now, not until there are no more cons to worry about. Not until we can make the world a safe place. Only then can we bring our children into this world." Jack said with a hint of remorse, he knew she wanted this so much right now but the logical side of him was telling him that they both needed to wait. Arcee understood this, she hadn't thought about whether it would be safe for them to do it or not to do it; she just wanted to know what it was like so bad she could almost taste it.

Jack saw this and decided to give her some words of encouragement.

"Hun, when the time is right we will both know, and believe me when it is right I don't think there's a force in the universe that is going to stop us from bringing a new life into this world together. And, maybe one day when this is all over we can all return to Cybertron and rebuild what has been lost." Jack said unsure how she would react to the last part of his statement but it was too late now.

Arcee straightened her legs and laid her hand on his chest, the femme was so conflicted with her new emotions that were brought on by her new hormones. She didn't fully understand them but she knew what they were telling her to do. They were telling her to procreate, but she didn't even know if she was truly ready for it. And Jack already had to tell her to wait.

"Jack I'm sorry, I, I am having trouble controlling myself when I'm like this. All I ever seem to do is look at you and want to jump you. How did you ever control yourself around other girls before?" Arcee asked.

"Well I never found the right person for me, to be honest, sure there are ways a guy can relieve himself of his animal urges but I never really well, umm."

Arcee looked at him confused since she had no idea what he was talking about. And he was far too embarrassed to explain it to her.

Jack continued where he left off. "SO you just learn to control it with time I suppose, for me growing up the changes came slowly over years and they just became part of life."

"Was there ever anyone that you wanted to well, you know, be with besides me?" Arcee asked regretting that she might not like his answer.

"Honestly no, I never found someone who I thought could appreciate me for who I am. I'm not a guy with that good of looks or a lot of money, so girls didn't pay much attention to me in school. As for out of school I wasn't that high on the social ladder so I didn't get to spend time with girls either. But-"

Jack stopped in mid-sentence because his thought process had been interrupted.

"BUT?" Arcee asked.

"That all changed when I met you, I mean in the beginning it wasn't like that. You were my guardian and I respected you as such. But as we spent more time together I did find myself becoming more and more attracted to you, even though we are different species. I mean I remember when we were on recon missions and I would steal looks at you. And this was before you got well, Upgraded I guess. I found you beautiful; I liked everything about you, the way you moved, the way you smiled, and your laugh. And now that you've been reformatted I find it so damn hard to keep my eyes off of you or my hand for that matter when were together."

As Jack said this, Arcee's smile just got bigger and the warm feeling she felt inside burned hotter with each passing word he said. Jack continued to talk, but at this point Arcee was so captivated by his words that she didn't care anymore. Jack kept talking until he was again interrupted, but this time was different. This time Arcee's hand had begun groping his member and his attention was completely obliterated. The conversation quickly turned into Arcee ripping Jack's shirt trying to take it off as he did the best he could to remove his pants before she ripped those off too.

Arcee felt so much of what she could only describe as ecstasy; the heat between their bodies, the electricity they both shared was just as magical and intoxicating as the first night they spent together.

When Jack had finally removed the necessary clothing Arcee wasted no time to firmly sit down on his shaft, and letting out an earth shattering scream of pleasure that everyone in the base heard.

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Raf thought someone had been hurt and had no idea what was going on.

Miko couldn't help but make a smart ass comment. "Ahhh they're knocking boots again, this time he must be giving to her real hard. Oh man can you hear that Bulk?" Miko asked looking up to Bulkhead who was doing his best to ignore what noises were coming out of Arcee's quarters.

Ratchet was so startled he jumped and dropped the equipment Arcee decided to smash in her anger earlier. Utterly damaging it beyond any chance of repair at this point, he threw his once new energon reader that was now a smashed, crushed, and mangled heap of metal into the scrap pile.

Optimus couldn't help but adjust his gaze to the hallway the scream came from and thought to himself what caused it. However after careful consideration, he decided he was better off not knowing.

Slipstream was rather startled from the sound not knowing what it was or who it was from asked Bumblebee what caused it.

Bee simply replied. ("You don't want to know, believe me!")

Soundwave was still thinking over what Jack said to him earlier and thus couldn't be bothered by the scream that came from the hallway leading to personal quarters.

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After an hour, the new Cybertronian couple were covered in each other's fluids and they loved every moment of it. The berth they were laying on turned from a cold metal table to a hot metal table that felt like a warm bed to the two laying there.

Jack was lying across Arcee's neck resting his head just above her ample breasts and she had her arms wrapped around him holding his head close to hers as she ran her fingers through his thick black hair. They were both so tired yet so happy, they couldn't have asked for anything else but to be in each other's embrace. Just before they both drifted off to sleep Jack made a single comment. "We need to get a more comfortable bed!"