Jack yawned as piercing sunlight edged through the slits in the door, hitting his closed lids. He moaned and awoke with a yawn and arm stretch helping stir the body.
He felt a warm weight on his chest. He raised the tarp a tad with his hand and saw a blue slender polymer arm rested on him, wrapped around his torso. She was still there with him, fast asleep. She was on her side, snuggled against his smaller body. She had a leg curled up and stretched out across his. His arm was pinned behind her head as she rested against him. Jack thought about how soft it felt. He expected a crushing sharp pain from her head on his arm, but it wasn't. They weren't robots; they were living beings, cast in polymer and metal, soft reforming Cybertronian metal skin.
He could have stayed on that mat forever, with his guardian turned girlfriend. She was very possessive of him though, as she always was with him, now even more so they were romantically involved. Her leg coiled around his legs and arm around his bare chest, her head resting on his bicep and wrist. He looked at her with a silent laugh. Her mouth was open only slightly, and her eyes still shut. She let out a gently sigh as she tensed slightly and pressed against him more. He felt the tire in her leg brush against his leg slightly as she brought it up into a fetal position. It felt weird and made him feel weird, but that faded when he saw her sleeping face.
Slowly she stirred, her optics shining blue as her lids slowly lifted. She never resembled a machine at all. It was all silver skin on her face, not lots of little metal pieces forming into a face, a full smooth perfect face. Human-like in every way.
"Mmm, morning" She whispered with a moan as she stretched gently. A smile etched on her face as she looked up at his eyes slightly.
"Morning to you too" He said back. "We should probably get up though" He sighed. She moaned and grumbled.
"Really? But my receptors are so comfortable"
"Yes Cee, you've got patrol duty today haven't you?" He asked, but knew the answer. She groaned as she sat up unwillingly.
"Fine, damn you Darby" she hissed but with a smirk. He sat up too, kicking the tarp back. She crouched out into the middle of the garage.
"By the way" She started, transforming mid sentence into her sleek blue motorcycle, a bounce on the front tire as she slammed down, the kick stand flicking out. She looked at him with the headlights. "What did you tell your mom when she saw me the other day?" She referenced three days prior when June came home to see Arcee's motorcycle form in the garage, followed by some mumbling as she walked into the house and a firm shout of Jack's name.
"Oh yeah, I told her you came back"
"You what! Jack, direct orders from Optimus to not endanger anymore people than you Raf or Miko. We can protect you three not half of Jasper!"
"Relax Cee, I was kidding" He smirked. She sighed with relief and her wing mirrors drooped, like shoulders.
"Thank the Allspark. I mean, it's not like I don't miss her, it's just..."
"Yeah I know. She can be a pain and gets into trouble...a lot. At least this way she doesn't get hurt"
"And less people know about us. Consider it a reset to when we first arrived, except you and I get on better" she said with what sounded like a smirk.
"A lot better" He chuckled as he pointed to the mat, throwing the scrunched up tarp in the corner. She revved towards him.
"Hey, that isn't funny" She snarled.
"I know" He said mimicking her voice like a child. She arched her motorcycle spine and transformed into her main form again, as if fidgeting.
"Seriously, you know that you and I...we...Primus it isn't fair" her face went from a slight frown to sad as she looked down.
"Hey Cee, don't worry about it. Like I said, if you truly want it, then we'll figure something out" he said to her, making her peer up from the floor at him, thumb on her chin as he tilted her head up.
"Yeah, I guess"
"You seemed pretty willing to wait a few weeks ago. When we got some Shore leave" He said making quotation marks with his fingers. She chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck.
"Yeah, Chernobyl wasn't exactly what I had in mind for a relaxing leave" She scoffed. He nodded.
"Yeah, radiation sickness sucked"
"Blackout and his insane partners. Sorry I dragged you into my past"
"Well I was worried about meeting parents, Ex-boyfriends, not ancient war enemies" he chuckled. She nodded and rolled her optics.
"Any Ex-boyfriends I should expect to stomp on me?" He said with a stifled laugh behind his voice.
"Just Optimus" she said with a straight face. Jack gulped and his ears rung from that name. She giggled and shook her head.
"You aren't the only one who can make jokes Kiddo" She laughed. He sighed with relief.
"Thank god" he mumbled. Her face then lowered and she became bashful and shy.
"You're my first" she shrugged, playing with her hands and avoiding eye contact. He dropped his shoulders.
"Seriously? Arcee I don't think you realize just how gorgeous you are" He complimented her. She stroked her upper arm and looked up at him.
"flatterer" She smirked.
"I try" he nodded with a smirk "Now, I'll go get dressed, and then we can get you to the base"
"I guess" she groaned. It was funny how she used to always rev to wake him up early so she could get back to base quickly. Now? Now she would rather be here, her home.
"I've got to work, and you've got patrols" he said to her as he headed to the door.
"I know, I know" she said to him with a shoulder shrug and head shake.
He stood in the doorway and looked at her for a few seconds. She turned around and transformed. A motorcycle was in the garage moments later.
He turned, heading inside to get dressed for the day ahead.
...
At the same time as Arcee and Jack grew closer, deeper in love, though neither admitted it to one another, not yet; a Massive Pave low roared across the sunrise of Florida. The humidity attacked his cockpit, fogging the windscreen, but that barely fazed the titan.
His rotors clapped as he neared the outskirts of a radio antenna farm. The Pave low sprouted arms and the rotors folded away onto a forming back as the titanic Decepticon grabbed onto the stem of the radio mast. He slammed his giant feet against it and his spiky head gazed out at two inbound wheeled vehicles. He smirked as they neared.
A long desert camouflaged metal fork smashed through the thin fencing and the buffalo mine clearance vehicle trekked inside the farm. Six wheels hissed and fell still.
Sirens whooped as the stern face of a police Mustang pulled up beside the gigantic buffalo. To punish and enslave tattooed on its chassis.
The fork slapped down on the ground and it swung round latching up onto the buffalo's shifting exterior, forming a spinal column. Suspension sprigs coiled away into the cricks of the knees and the six huge wheels mesmerizingly spun as they shifted up into the torso and into the feet. Four wheels helped make up the beefy torso and the other two became the heels of sharp pointed feet.
At the same time the mustang slammed two fists down from its side and the grill hissed and growled as it split apart and moved up onto the torso of this transforming vehicle.
The Buffalo's head emerged, a round solid ball with red gleaming eyes and beige desert skin. Two huge fists extended onto long hulking arms. The fork split in two and landed on each shoulder blade.
The Mustang stood up with long arms, white and black color scheme, mainly black. Red eyes hummed and the snarling face laughed as the door wings folded into the spine and perked up slightly.
Blackout watched as the two formed below him, Bonecrusher and Barricade. Two loud roars of fighter jets neared. The bulky hull of a Black and purple Cybertronian jet hovered and folded in on itself, forming a torso with legs and arms sprouting out. The wings rotated and sat upon the back of the bulky being as the hovering body lowered itself from the sky to the ground.
Skywarp smirked as he cracked his neck from side to side. Bonecrusher stood with a grim grin etched along his face, just like Barricade.
Blackout watched as Scorponok left his spine and crawled down the antenna to meet up with the awaiting hunters. He rolled upwards and stood in a humanoid stature, becoming his main form. Scorponok popped his long fingers and smirked as he too cracked his neck from left to right. Skywarp nodded and chuckled.
A loud thump of sonic boom echoed and the inbound hull of a beige and purple fighter emerged. The huge jet morphed into a humanoid form and slammed down into the ground, fists embedded into the concrete as he slid forward. A titanic bang echoed as he landed and a quake trembled. The insane, monstrous Blitzwing stood up, a sinister smile on his evil face. He demonically chuckled as he saw the terrifying team finally reassembled.
"My Hunter brothers!" Blackout announced as he leaped off the tower, landing with a tectonic thud before them all, dwarfing them. "We have a foe that needs vanquishing. Thanks to Starscream, we have located the continent, the city, the town in which Optimus and his Autobots hide" he clenched his fist. Skywarp shuddered at the name of Starscream, his brother.
"We now have the chance to kill the ultimate game! Optimus Prime, and his band of heroes" He chuckled. They all joined him, laughing demonically.
"We all have pent up revenge that must be dealt to these specific bots. Bonecrusher, you want retribution on Ironhide for what he did to your fellow Constructicons during the war!" He pointed at the beige beast. Bonecrusher snarled and slammed his fists together.
"Skywarp! Jazz for how he dismantled the skull of Thundercracker with a blaster round!" Skywarp growled as he pressed his knuckles into his other palm until they popped and cracked.
"Barricade! Bumblebee and Bulkhead for how they left Prowl to die, leaving you without a brother" Barricade roared upwards as he clenched his fists, remembering the very motive that made him go on to don the Decepticon logo.
"And Blitzwing. You are here for the same reason I am. To help kill that wretched Arcee and her human partner" He snarled as he patted the insane Decepticons shoulder.
"And Optimus. He will die by my blade" Blitzwing smirked viciously, lifting his sword, carved from the wing of Silverbolt.
"We all have motivation, and a destination: The town of Jasper Nevada. We will tear that place apart until we find them, and destroy them!" Blackout roared as he clenched his fist. All of the hunters roared and cheered as Blackout gave his speech.
"We will find their home and burn it to the ground!" Blackout bellowed. Scorponok cheered as he spat oil from his humanoid mouth, the scorpion head forming his shoulders in his present mode.
"We have donned many names, The fear bringers, The Harbingers! Now let us bring these icons to their knees and remind them why we are so feared!" He roared. The entire team cheered and grinned. Blitzwing stood silently smirking evilly.
"Go forth my brothers, and get revenge!"
