Second chapter! Lots of characters inner thouts. Hope I still doin' good...
Forgot to mention: i fixed that annoying size glitch in my story, so only bot four-to-five times taller than average human is Optimus, Bulk and Ratchet three times taller than humans, Bumblbee - two-to-three times taller than a normal human (but four to five times taller than Raf), Arcee is about two-three feet taller than Jack. (Otherwise her motocycle form would have been as big as a truck)
"CON'S?" - "If it were con's. Alarm would been COMPLETLY DIFFERENT" - Ratchet's tone clearly irritated. All that commotion, occuring each and EVERY time with everyone present at base... Some times he wished he could ban EVERYONE from silo. "Agent Fowler." - now it was Raf's turn to watch active systems like long and close range radars, alarms, comms, and so on. But with all equipment enlarged by Ratchet for autobots to use, Raf just connected his laptop to base systems. - "Wonder what bring him here... Hope not something dangerous" - June as always was OVERprotective about childrens. 'Jack IS a child' was something she felt regardless of all his far from childish actions so far.
"Let's ask him directly" - Jack newer saw any point in guessing, better just know for sure. "Greetings everyone" - Agent Fowler exited elevator as soon as doors have opened. "Any luck with lookin' for Prime?" - "Not yet." Jack was first to react - "Still no idea 'bout con's plans or 'Nemesis' current location." - "Hope that'll help" - Fowler handed him a flash drive. "Better check that up. It contains all data we could find about any things possibly connected to con's activity. Looks like they plotting something."
"Finally. Chance for some REAL acton" - "Don't jinx it Bulk, we still not saw the data." Everyone froze for moment. Arcee were first to recower from shock, and asked whispering to Jack's ear - "What? Miko said something that makes sense? What was you humans saying Jack? Pigs gonna fly?" - Ratchet let out a laugh, again prooving his good hearing, and leaving Mico wondering what's just happened - "Did I said something fun?" - "No, it's nothing..." - Jack held his urge to laugh and tryed to keep been' serious by changing the topic - "Miko is right, we really sould check the data before jumping to action. Otherwise we won't know wich action to take".
Everyone almost instantly calmed down and prepared to listen. Jack felt a bit nervous, but tryed not to show it. It wasn't long since Optimus disappearance, when Jack found himself beeing untitled leader. It wasn't said, wasn't mentioned, wasn't discussed. It just was, HE was calling a shots. Much to his wondering, even Arcee newer said a word about it, never complained, never talked about it.
Jack took a deep breath to gather his guts, and started telling his plan.
"Ratchet, try to find anything in that data. Bumblbee, patrol on streets in Jasper. Raf, get you hands, head, and whatever else you have in the web, and see if you can find any trace of SoundWave activity. Bulk, Miko. Help my mom move her instruments here. Mom... We really need you here ALL time possible. Raf was not first, and I'm afraid not last person who got hurt in that mess. I hope we'll never need a medic, for humans or bots. I really hope. But, just in case... Better ready than sorry."
"I understand" - June wished she could just take Jack and other kids out of this and forget all about that bot's/con's war. But she already uderstood by now, it really was no longer qwestion of kids safety. Con's was real threat to whole earth. Just taking all kids from base and forbidding all relations with that mess won't make their life safe.
Later, same evning Jack stood on base's roof, looking at stars. His head was filled with thoughs, plans, trobles. Yet he found himself unable to concentrate on any of that matters longer than few moments, even less than a second. 'If only Optimus were with us now'. 'How he would seek for someone with lost memories?'. 'What execlty Megatron want from him?'. 'What exactly he planning to do with him?'. All those thoughts flew through his head, as he heard a sound of elevator moving to roof. He don't even turned back to look who it was. He just known. "This war is not something that can actually end someday, right Arcee?"