Another day, another chapter.


Chapter 2

The sound of engines roaring had woken him up. Getting up quickly, Jack ran down the stair and opened the door that led to the garage to see Arcee revving her engines to get his attention.

"Shh! Are you crazy?" Jack asked. "You'll wake the whole neighbourhood with the way your revving your engines like that!"

"Grab your helmet. It's go time." Arcee replied.

Sighing Jack hung his head. "It's Saturday."

"You can watch cartoons back at base with Bumblebee." Was her reply

"Cartoons. I'm sixteen." Jack muttered closing the door to shower and change.

Fifteen minutes later, after Jack had showered and changed in some fresh clothes, picked up a red metallic suitcase and got on Arcee, where they drove off towards the Autobot Base. While driving Jack thought back to the conversation he had last night J.A.R.V.I.S and the plans that he had working.

Flashback

"Sir, these Cybertronions seem to be made out of an unknown element of metal and use a power source similar to what you use to power the Iron Man suit." J.A.R.V.I.S explained.

"Right well, I'll run some test with the metal soon as soon as I can get some. In the meantime, see if you can figure a way that we can use their own firepower against them." Jack replied.

"Very good sir. Might I also remind you that your science project is due by next week?" J.A.R.V.I.S asked.

"Noted J.A.R.V.I.S." Jack replied, shutting the comm-link off and returned to his blueprints.

After meeting the Autobots that day and realizing that his weapons would be ineffective against them. Jack quickly had J.A.R.V.I.S run through the data that he had collected earlier as well as run a background check on Agent Fowler and everything that he could get his hands on information on the Autobots. Once back home, he quickly said goodnight to his mom and went to his room to start work on his new Iron Man suit. Knowing that the technology that the Autobots used could not be replicated without a basis to work on, he decided that he would settle that for tomorrow.

"Sir, all data about Agent Fowler has been collected. Unfortunately any information on the Autobots are unknown." J.A.R.V.I.S said.

Nodding his head,Jack quickly replied. "Search the Internet for clues about the Autobots, conspiracies, leaked images, anything that could be useful."

"Very well sir." J.A.R.V.I.S replied.

Deciding that he worked enough, Jack packed all his work in his drawers and went to bed.

Flashback

"Hold on tight Jack." Arcee's voice sounded out, breaking Jack out of his thoughts. Before he could say anything, Arcee sped forward.

Grabbing the handles quickly, Jack held on as he watched the Nevada desert pass by. "Woah Arcee, what's gotten into you?"

"thought you might enjoy the ride with no one shooting at us." Arcee replied, amusement clearly showing in her voice.

"Bring it." Jack said, challenging Arcee.

Quickly, Arcee once again sped off, clearly going at nearly 120 miles per hour. Jack loved the feeling of the wind whipping past him. Hearing loud honking, Jack turned his head to notice Bulkhead speeding towards them, Miko clearly enjoying herself. Once they had neared each other, they came to a stop. Getting of Arcee, Jack approached Miko, who had exited Bulkhead, to speak to her.

"Hey Jack, what's with the suitcase?" Miko asked noticing the suitcase Jack carried with him.

"Important, don't touch." Jack replied, using the words Ratched had used on her yesterday.

"So how did your host parents react to Bulkhead?" Jack asked.

"They didn't." Miko replied, before continuing seeing that Jack had raised his eyebrow, clearly not believing her. "Ok, they said that so long that as I was safe and that the person was trustworthy, that I could ride with him, as long as they get to meet him."

"What do you mean when you said 'that the person was trustworthy'?" Jack asked quickly, hoping that the girl wasn't crazy enough to try and have Bulkhead transform.

At this Miko seem to have become nervous and started to look at the round and play around with her feet. Raising his eyebrows yet again, Jack looked at Miko more closely and noticed that whenever she looked up to speak, she would quickly either turn her head and avoid eye contact or just hang her head.

"Miko." Jack spoke up putting his hands on her shoulders. "What did you tell your host parents?"

"I might have told them that that trustworthy person was you, and that you were my boyfriend." Miko answered, still looking down.

In shock, Jack had released Miko's shoulders and stepped back a little. He did not know what to think. While he would admit that Miko was certainly attractive in a spunky rebellious type of way, he certainly didn't think that they would ever be involved with each other in any way. Before he could say anything about her decision, they heard someone honking and saw Bumblebee and Raf drive towards them.

"We'll talk about this later." Jack said.

Walking towards Raf, he though more about what Miko had said, about him being her boyfriend. Despite her saying, Jack could not still believe it. While yes, they would only be in a pretend relationship, it would still mean him going to meet her host parents, pick her up on a date and other such stuff that couple's do when they're in a relationship. Yet he could not seem to get the feeling that that was what she wanted. Clearing his head for a moment and bringing it back to the present, he looked down and greeted Raf.

"Morning Raf."

"Morning Jack, what's with the suitcase?" Raf asked the same question Miko had asked earlier.

"Just some important stuff, nothing to worry about." He replied. "So how did your parents react to you and Bumblebee?"

"They were fine with him, since he's just dropping me off at school." Raf replied.

Nodding his head, Jack decided it was time for the to head to base. Turning towards the Autobots, he called and said that they should head to out towards the base. Nodding the Autobots transformed and let their charges climb on before heading off.


Once they head entered the base, where Optimus and Ratchet seemed to have been in the middle of a conversation as Jack and the others got out of their respective guardians. Optimus then came forward to speak to them.

"Autobots prepare to - ." he started before he looked more closely at them.

"Roll out?" Arcee asked, placing a hand on her hip.

"Remain here. While Ratchet and myself head out. We will be out of communications range for some time, thus I am putting you in charge Arcee." Optimus finished as Ratchet worked on the Ground Bridge.

"Dude your biggest, you should be in charge." Miko said to Bulkhead.

"He never picks me." He replied shaking his head.

"Optimus, with all due respect, playing bodyguard is one thing, babysitting is another." Arcee stated. "Besides, Ratchet hasn't been out in the field since Cybertron."

"My pistons may be rusty, but my hearing isn't!" The aforementioned Autobots shot back.

"For the moment, it is simply a reconnaissance mission." Optimus replied.

"Then why do I hear an edge in your voice?" Arcee argued back.

"Arcee much has changed in the past twenty-four hours. As such, we must all learn to adapt." Optimus answered as the Ground Bridge opened up, before walking off with Ratchet towards their destination.

All the while they were talking, Jack had climbed the ladder where all the other computers were and placed a small circular device underneath one of the monitors, where no one would find it. The device would help J.A.R.V.I.S locate the base and hack into their data, giving him access to everything they knew and had. Once he was done he turned to see Optimus and Ratchet leave through the Ground Bridge.

A few minutes passed in silence, until Arcee said they she was going on patrol, Bumblebee following behind her when she ordered him to come along. Bulkhead tried to stop them, but was told off when Arcee told him that when your in charge you get to make the rules, before transforming and heading outside.

"So what's on the activities list?" Bulkhead asked, clearly not knowing what to do with his position.

His answer came in the reply of Miko tuning up her amplifier and jacking in her guitar to it. She played with some of her strings, making sure that everything was correct before answering her guardian.

How about…..band practice?" she asked.

"But we're not a band." Raf replied.

"Why so antisocial Raf?" Miko asked chuckling. "Come on, do you play anything?"

"Uuhh...keyboard?" Raf answered nervously, holding up his laptop.

Miko smiled at that. "Laptops and samples. Good job." Turning her head she looked at Jack and asked. "What about you, do you play anything?"

"I sometimes play the guitar." He answered.

Nodding her head, Miko was about to play her guitar when the proximity sensors went off. Stepping towards the console, Bulkhead saw that it was Agent Fowler. Jack and the others quickly hid behind Bulkhead foot and tried to stay clear of the agent's line of sight. Just as they hid behind Bulkhead, Agent Fowler had exited the elevator.

"PRIME!" he shouted out.

"Agent Fowler! Optimus is not here, nobody's here, well except me." Bulkhead told.

"Well where is he? Wait don't tell me, he's pancaking a mini-mall." Agent Fowler vented before looking down. He then noticed a wire stretch across the floor towards where Jack, Raf and Miko were hiding. "Since are you 'bots electric?" he asked.

Knowing that their cover was blown, Jack quickly signaled Raf and Miko to stay put before stepping away from Bulkhead's foot and directly in Fowler's sight. "Hey there." He called out.

"Contact with a civilian. Team Prime has really gone off book this time." Fowler muttered as he went downstairs. "Alright young man, you're coming with me into federal custody. It's for your own protection." He said.

Looking up at Bulkhead, Jack nodded at him before following Fowler into the elevator. Once they reached the top of the mesa, they boarded the helicopter and took off. Seating at the passenger seat while Fowler was speaking to someone, Jack wondered if he had made the right decision getting involved with the Autobots. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but whatever happened after this, he would not be staying with them. Once J.A.R.V.I.S has finished downloading all the information needed, he could begin making plans to deal with the Decepticons his own way.

The sound of an alarm sounding off interrupted his thoughts. Looking at Fowler, who seemed just as confused, he looked at the radar and saw that something was moving towards their position. Looking out the window, Jack spotted something small, almost like a bird fly straight at them, only to look closer to see what looked like a metal purple drone.

"What in the Sam hill!? Fowler cried out, before jerking the joystick up, to avoid the drone. "First the freeways aren't safe, now air travel?"

Fowler flew as quickly as he could, the drone keeping up with them. Seeing a cliff wall in front of them, Fowler pulled on the joystick, hard, and pulled the helicopter up above the cliff and flew straight ahead, the drone a little behind them. Moving forward, Fowler saw a drop and dipped the helicopter to just below the cliff face, where the drone flew passed them above. Quickly speeding up, Fowler tailed the drone as it tried to avoid a lock on.

"You wanna dance 'con? I'll lead!" Fowler said before squeezing the trigger and firing a barrage of bullets, most of them simply bouncing off.

The chase continued on for some time. The Decepticon drone avoiding the bullets while Fowler simply continued to fire his bullets. Suddenly there was a clicking sound, indicating that they were out of ammo. As if knowing this, the drone pulled up and then sliced through part of the helicopter, taking away their back rotors and sending them heading for a collision course to the ground.

"Never an Autobot around when you actually need one." Fowler said trying to keep control of the spinning helicopter.

Suddenly the drone landed in front of them and had four tentacles with claws at their ends grab their arms. Before they were taken out of the helicopter, Jack saw that Fowler had pressed one of the buttons. As they flew away from the spinning helicopter, they say it crash and burn before they were taken to who knows where.


And that's all folks. have an awesome day.