"WHAT IS THAT AND WHERE IS JACK!" shouted an angry robotic titan, Arcee, to another slightly larger one, Ratchet.

"I don't know Arcee. But all my scanners say that Jack is still on the berth"

"ON THE BERTH?! ON THE BERTH!?" Arcee grabs the Ratchets' head and brings it closer to the metal slab that the strange orange stone lies upon, "TELL ME RATCHET, DOES IT LOOK LIKE HE IS ON THE BERTH!"

Ratchet sighed," No, Arcee, it doesn't," Arcee released him and bent down to pick up the crystal, the only remains of Jack.

"What do you think you are doing?" Asked Ratchet in a suspicious tone

"I am taking the only remains of my partner back to my quarters," Arcee stated flatly.

"Oh no you're not. I need that to stay here for analysis," Arcee just leveled a death glare on him.

"I am taking it back to my quaters," Arcee stated in a deadly flat tone causing Ratchet to back away slightly putting his hands up in defeat.

"Fine, take it. I can run tests some other time," The red and white titan moved back to his original position by a large center terminal as Arcee walked down a massive tunnel to her quarters."

Arcee's quarters

Arcee closed the heavy steel door as she entered her quarters moving over to a large metal dresser like structure and places the small orange crystal on top of it. A sad look crosses her features,

"Jack, I don't know if you can hear me wherever you are, but I just wanted to say that you were by far the best partner a fem could ever have. You were understanding and caring," she smirks," I remember how I threatened you when we first met, even then you were understanding," another sad look,"I never got the chance to say thank you for helping me through my grief over Cliff and Tailgate," she starts to sob," I never should have let you go up to that strange being, then maybe you would be here." walks over to berth and lays down to recharge,"Good night, Jack."

Next Morning...

Arcee awoke with a yawn and stretched before getting up and walking out of her quarters obviously forgetting about the crystal. As she walked down the base quarters Arcee was growing more and more excited. When she entered the main room where she was last night she saw Ratchet was at his terminal working as always.

"Hey, Rathcet, can you open a bridge to Jacks'?" She said with an excited tone. The large Titan just gave her a sad look and turned back to his work,

She gave him a questioning look,"Ratchet?"

"Arcee, are you feeling alright?"

"What do you mean?"She raised an optic ridge at him before remembering the events of yesterday and falling to her knees sobbing. She visibly flinched as a massive robotic hand was placed on her shoulder, looking up she saw a different titan. This ones upper armor around it's chest and arms was red while its legs up to the knee were blue same as its helm which had one center front spike and two on either side. Its optics held a look of worry,

"Arcee. What is wrong?" The fem just broke into tears causing the large titan to turn to Ratchet with a curious look.

"Optimus...we have lost yet another of our team," Optimus just stood there with a look of disbelief mixed with grief before hiding the feelings and replying,

"Who?" Ratchet wilted slightly before he replied,

"Jack,"

The massive robot just stared at the medic,"How?"

"Arcee called in an emergency bridge as she and Jack were on patrol,"Ratchet sighed before continuing,"But when Arcee came through she was carring Jack and he had a small holelahdflja As the tired titan finished he returned to his work at the large computer in the center of the room. Optimus turned to Arcee and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder,

"Arcee, I know this is hard for you but Jackson would not want you to mourn his passing for he is in a better place,"

"You're right. Jack would want us to find out everything we could from that craft," She replied as she wiped the tears from her eyes and stood,"Thank you, Optimus," And with that she turned on her heel and back into the tunnel leading deeper into the rock.

Unknown room...

Arcee let out a war cry as she slammed into another purple and black titan that stood just taller than her slashing and hacking at it with arm mounted blades that stretched from her wrist to elbow. As she beheaded the figure it disintegrated into thin air. As she stood she looked around breathing heavily but there was no other foe to face in the fairly large room so she walked out of the room and started wandering the through countless tunnels.

"Why did you always play the hero Jack. You tried to help that creature and died for it. Why did you die you selfish little glitch? You left me here alone just like Cliff and Tailgate. You promised me that you wouldn't die unless you didn't have a choice but this time you had a choice. You could have stayed back and let me handle it but you, always the hero you just had to help didn't you," she rambled as she walked through the tunnels. Suddenly she found herself outside the heavy metal door to her quarters. Punching in the code she entered before the door was finished opening. As soon as the door sealed she falls to her knees weeping.

"I hate you. You selfish little glitch. I hate you. You hear me!" she screamed at the ceiling. Sobbing she stood up and walked over to the the giant dresser like structure where the strange orange crystal was, picking it up she seemed to notice a difference.

"What the...Wasn't this smaller this morning?" turning it over it she examined it for any other difference but found none, "Hmmm...", she walked over to the berth and sat down on it, looking at the crystal with a sad look.

"Oh Jack, I'm so sorry. If I hadn't stopped to investigate that ship none of this would have happened and you would be here with me," small blue drops fall from her optics and onto the stone which ripples with waves of dark blue at the spot where each drop falls.

"I am turly sorry, Jack,"

Where am I? Who am I? What am I?

Ok I know that some of you who have been following me since my first story are probably a little confused on what I have been doing lately and I am here to say that I am going to only be working on three stories; this one, Jack Dragon Darby, and a new one that I am co-writing with another person here on FanFiction. So stay tuned and I promise there will be more in the furture.