Location: Above Earth...(Nobody who watches the sky for a living is doing their job)

The ship that had tried to claim the Omnitrix had been repair and was now just flying around.

Inside, three warriors; one who wore black and dark magenta armor, another who had armor that was different shades of yellow, and one that word black and grey armor stood beside each other in a line.

"Begin the audition." The voice of the owner of the ship, who sounded like Starscream, said.

The first warrior took off with his jet pack. When he landed he was surrounded by hover drones that were identical to the ones that were destroyed by Jack. He grabbed a gun out of one of the compartments on his armor and fired at the drones. He destroyed a few before the robots returned fire. He dodged their shots and then used a missile launcher that had four projectiles to destroy one of the drones. He then grabbed what seemed to be a grenade out of another compartment in his armor and threw it at one of the drone that was in the air. It exploded, taking out several of them.

The one who had yellow armor and what seemed to be crab legs jumped off of the platform he and the final applicant were on. He landed one of the drones, crushing it with his oversized left arm. He then grabbed another drone and threw it at one that was to the left of the crab. He saw a drone fly towards him and he caught the drone, crushing it with his crab arm. He then sliced an incoming drone with a sword that was sheathed on his back.

The two of them looked up to see a compartment on the ceiling open up to allow one of the large three legged drones to drop out of it. The final warrior stepped on what seemed to be a light green skate board with black corners. He used it to fly into the path of the tripod's blast, taking no visible damage. He flew into the robot and destroyed it. He jumped off his hoverboard before it folded up into a more compact size.

"Impressive." The tyrant said, his face appearing on a viewscreen. "You are all hired. Your objective: Retrieve the Omnitrix." An image of the super watch that Jack wore was on the screen. "The one who succeeds collects the reward. Do not disappoint me."

Three pods were launched out of the ship.

In the bridge...

"Sire," One of the drones said. "We have picked up signal from the planet below."

"What is the source?"

"An mercenary you hired in the past."

"Be more specific." He said. "What species is he?"

"It is a she, sir. And as for her species, she's a humanoid cybertronian."

"Ah, Airachnid. Put her through."

The face of a decepticon that resembled Maleficent appeared on a screen.

"Vilgax, long time no see." The decepticon said.

"Airachnid, why do you contact me? You failed to show up for the application process."

"I am aware of the trial by fire you put you hitmen through. But it's not me who wants to speak with you. That would be my superior, Megatron."

"Put him through." Vilgax ordered.

"He would like to speak to you in person."

"As much as I would like to speak with Megatron, the only being who comes close to having the reputation that I have, I am unable to leave my ship. What does he want to discuss?"

"The Omnitrix. And before you pop a gasket, no, he does not want the Omnitrix. He will discuss the full details about it." Airachnid said. "However, Soundwave has detected the Omnitrix signal near that of an autobot, is that correct?"

"It is. An autobot you have encountered before, and have tried to kill at every turn."

"Arcee. Her someone close to her partner must have it. Vilgax, I will join you hunters, and I request no payment, because Arcee's suffering will be payment enough after I use her partner's friend against her."

"Very well. Do not fail me. I have the most faith in your abilities, Decepticon second in command."


On Earth...

Arcee and June were setting up an obstacle course for Jack to practice using the powers of the Omnitrix. It was made out of a combination of wood boards, metal pipes, soda cans, rope, cybertronian steel targets, and sensors which were connected to Raf's computer, the owner of which was sitting at a desk that was set up inside the Rust Bucket.

"You ready?" June asked as she and Arcee finished building.

Jack stood with his back facing them and activated the Omnitrix. He selected an alien that looked like he was made out of legos.

Jack's body became more angular. He adopted a gorilla like stance as parts of his body were either red, blue, or yellow. His jaw grew into an underbite, adopting an TFA Bulkhead styled head.

"I'm made out of legos?" Jack said. Whenever he moved, the sound of a large pile of plastic bricks being moved around was heard. "I'll call this one, Bloxx!"

"But what can that one do?" Arcee asked. "Besides be painful to step on, that is."

"Let's find out."

June pulled a lever, flinging several soda cans at Jack. Jack turned his head around one hundred and eighty degrees. He saw the incoming potential dimes* and turned his hand into a shield, blocking the. Arcee yanked on a rope and several targets descended. A string of bricks went from his back to his right arm as he turned it into a launcher. He fired them at the targets. The brick, now looking like 1x1 cones stuck in the targets. Some more cans came at Jack and he shot those too. He then fired at a cactus that had a crudely drawn picture of Megatron on it. Some wooden targets popped up and Jack shot at those as well. He held the barrel of the launcher up to his face and blew on it as if it were the smoking barrel of a gun.

Miko was applying sunscreen as she watched this.

"Show off." Miko jealously said. Jack looked at Miko and stuck his tongue out at her.

"Jack, keep you attention at the real threat!" Arcee said.

"Don't worry 'cee, I got this." Jack said after several cans flew by him. He shot those cans. However, he failed to notice a large tire flying at him in his direction.

"Oh this is going to hurt." Jack said moments before he was struck. His body was broken apart and during the flaying, his launcher arm fired several cones at the RV.

"Ah!" Miko screamed as she hid underneath a table. The projectiles pierced the sides of the RV and the bottle of sunscreen Miko was using, knocking it over and causing it to spill onto her hair.

"Heh heh. Whoops." Jack said after he reassembled himself.


Later, in the Rust Bucket...

"You brick head! You almost turned me into swiss cheese!" Miko complained.

"Miko, how many times do I have to say 'I'm sorry'?" Jack asked.

"Um, hows about you let me use it."

"Sure thing." Miko looked at Jack with glee. "If I could get it off and I knew you wouldn't do something to put us in danger."

"When have I even hinted at something like that?"

"When we left the base to continue on our trip, you said you would've used it to turn into Upgrade and make Ratchet's personality different." June said.

"Or wanting to race Vince as XLR8." Raf said.

"What about saying you wanted to pound in Breakdown's face as Humungousaur?" Arcee added.

"And what did you think I should use the watch for?" Jack asked. "Oh, I remember, become super famous."

"Okay. I've had a few bad ideas. But what's so wrong with beating Vince in a race? Or helping out the 'bots? Or becoming a celebrity? Or- okay, I can't justify the first one."

"It would be cheating if you were to use the Omnitrix to race Vince. As for helping the bots, Jack fought against Nemesis Prime a few days ago and got injured." June said.

"And as for the fame, do you know why fame would be a bad thing for any of us right now?" Arcee asked.

"The Paparazzi would hound us and eventually find out about the 'bots, allowing the 'cons to find the base easier." Jack said, answering for Miko. "And do I even need to mention TMZ?"

"You don't."

"Basicly Miko, what we're trying to explain is that the Omnitrix is not a toy. You have to think before using it, and that is not one of your strong suits." June said. "And using it for your own amusement would add to the list of times that you leaped before looking." June added. "I think you should be glad that Jack found it."

"But Jack used it to save those people from the burning building, and stop Animo, and race RC cars as Upgrade, and fly around as Big Chill, and, as Raf found out, you showed off to a 'Chromastonefan#1' I saw the picture before Raf removed it."

"It may not be a toy, but who's to say that I can't have a bit of fun once in a while. Wait. You removed the picture? What picture?"

"This." Miko showed Jack the image of Chromastone that Riley took a week ago that she had posted on a website.

"What did you do that for?" Jack asked.

"Ratchet said to remove all confirmed evidence of aliens."

"But why did you take down the picture I let Riley take of me?"

"It was on one of those conspiracy websites. That wasn't where the picture was from, somebody put it there. I just removed all traces of it." Raf said. "And who's Riley?"

"A girl, about your age Raf, that I met in San Francisco as Chromastone. She wanted to take a picture of me as proof that I was real and not some imaginary friend, so I let her take some pictures of me. I also told her to not put it on conspiracy websites because you might take it down."

"Whoops. If it's any consolation, I still have it on my computer. I was actually planning on making a scrapbook of all your aliens." Raf said. "Would you like it if I sent it to her?"

"Yes, please do. But let me type up the message." Raf rotated the keyboard computer and let Jack type a message in.

Hey Riley. Sorry that your picture got removed. I did manage to find who had it removed and recovered it. Here you go. From Chromastone.

"Why did you write Chromastone? Why not a screen name?" Raf asked after seeing Jack's message.

"There's only one Chromastone who knew about the picture, me." Jack said.

"Alrighty then. On to other matters." June said. "When we get to town we shou-" The engine started to sputter. "Uh oh. That doesn't sound good." The RV shut off.


Back at the training site...

"This is where the Omnitrix was last activated." One of the bounty hunters said after checking a scanner. On a cliff, the other two, the crab and the black and magenta humanoid watched him approach the training coarse.

[We should just destroy this planet and look for the Omnitrix in the debris.] The humanoid grumbled in his own language.

"You can say that again. A rock like this is better off as space dust."

The black and grey hunter saw a soda can with one of Bloxx's projectile in it. He tries to pick it up, but the humanoid that didn't speak english grabbed it first with a mechanical tentacle. The much more muscular being grabbed it and ripped the tentacle off. A standoff ensued.

The alien said something in it's language.

"Whoa. Big talk from a gear head." The crab said.

"Get in my way again SixSix, and I'll teach you how to say dismantled." The black and grey armored guy said.

SixSix flew off as Krabb pulled an Airachnid and used his legs as a tunnel drill. The last guy just walked away as a black helicopter flew to where they were. It transformed into the decepticon huntress Airachnid.

"Now where are you Arcee?" Airachnid said as she used a scanner to look for trace amounts of energon. "The you are." Airachnid transformed and flew off.


Back with the Rust Bucket...

The Rust Bucket had to make a stop in a ghost town due to mechanical trouble. Most of the town's buildings were falling apart. Arcee was in her robot mode stretching out abit, June was checking on the engine, while the kids just chatted.

"Looks like nobody's home." Miko said.

"Not for a long while." Raf said. "Apparently this is Slatterville. Incorporated in 1857 after the discovery of silver. Went from boom to bust in the late fifties when the mine ran out."

"Why is it that everything that comes out of your mouth sounds like a book report?"

"Ah ha." June said. "I think I found the problem." She held out a piece of black tubing that had a red projectile in here. "Leak fuel line."

"Sorry mom." Jack said apologetically. "I'll fix it." She said.

"Don't worry about it. I can patch it up."

"Hey Mrs Darby, is it okay if I go look around?" Miko asked.

"Sure." Miko ran off to look through the abandoned buildings.

"Jack, I think you should go with Miko and make sure she doesn't hurt herself."

"Okay." Jack said.

Miko walked into what seemed to be a warehouse.

"Miko!" Jack shouted. Miko saw Jack and had a devious smile. She picked up a wrench and threw it at an old piece of machinery, making a loud clang.

Jack activated the Omnitrix and selected an alien that seemed to look like a ghost. "Haven't used you yet." Jack said to himself. He pressed it down, transforming him and sending out a signal to the hunters.


With SixSix...

SixSix detected the signal the Omnitrix made whenever it was activated.


Back in Slatterville...

Miko was suppressing her laughter, she was going to surprise Jack and get a scare out of him.

"Burr." Miko suddenly shivered. "What was that?"

"What's the matter Miko?" A very raspy voice whispered. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"I didn't mean to disturb your home. Please don't hurt me." Miko whimpered.

"Ha ha ha ha!" The ghost chuckled. It revealed itself to be a grey being with a tail, a single blue eye, lines going around its torso, and lacked any nose, mouth, ears, or legs.

"Jack! You were scary until I saw what you look like. Scary movie rule #1, don't show what the monster looks like until late in the movie. By the way, what are you calling that one?"

'Zs'Skayr.' A voice that nobody could hear fully rasped. Jack could only hear it as a faint whisper.

"Ghostfreak." Jack answered.

'Oh come on!' That voice rasped in disapproval.

"So, now what?" Miko asked.

"We go check on mom to see how she's doing. They heard a rumbling. The bounty hunter known as Kraab was tunneling towards the two of them. Ghostfreak grabbed Miko's shoulders and carried her away from the danger. The hunter emerged from under the ground and turned to face them.

"Jack, what's that?" Miko asked as Kraab walked close to them.

"I don't know, but whatever it is, I'll deal with it." Ghostfreak flew over to the hunter. "Who are you?" He didn't get an answer. "Not very talkative. Well then, what do you want, is it something I have?"

"Hand over the Omnitrix and I promise you won't suffer, much." Kraab said.

"Dream on claw boy." Ghostfreak said. "The Omnitrix and I are, kinda attached."

"Not for long." Kraab snapped his claw shut.

"You have no idea who you're messing with." Ghostfreak said.

"I was just about to say the same thing."

"Wanna see a trick?" Jack asked. "Now you see me." Ghostfreak turned invisible. "Now you don't." Miko was the only thing that the hunter could see. She ran off as the crustacean like being stumbled around, looking for Ghostfreak. Ghostfreak, still invisible, rose up from the floor behind him.

"You're as arrogant as you are dimwitted." He said after turning his head to see Ghostfreak by using a thermal scan. His whole body turned around and he shot an orange goo out of his claw arm that made him visible.

"What did you do? What the heck is this stuff?" Jack asked as he tried to get the goo off.

"Your protoplasm is now solidified, making it easier to do this." He punched Ghostfreak, sending him back into a crate. He rubbed his head as Kraab got closer to him. Kraab tried to crush him with one of his legs, but Jack dodged it at the last second. He tried to fly above Kraab to get away, but the hunter caught his tail and threw Ghostfreak in Miko's direction. Miko was hiding behind an empty oil barrel. She ran over to help him up.

"Who is this guy?" Ghostfreak asked.

"Remember when you said that the Omnitrix might attract dangerous people? Well, I believe you now." Miko said.

Kraab walked over and approach the two.

"Do something Jack." Miko said. Ghostfreak flew over towards Kraab.

"You better keep your claws to yourself." Jack said as he hovered around Kraab. Kraab then shot at Jack with a beam cannon, sending him back.

"Hardly worth the hunt." Kraab said as he approached Jack.

"Let's see if I can't use another alien." Ghostfreak said to himself. He turned the dial to the right and pressed it down. "Big Chill!" He exhaled, freezing Kraab's legs in place. "Why don't I give you a raise?" Big Chill asked. He pulled a lever and raised an elevator used for car repair. That didn't stop Kraab, it only allowed them to escape. The Omnitrix timed out as Miko ran up to Jack.

"Come on, let's get out of here before crabcake wakes up."

They ran out of the warehouse and back to the rust bucket. The black armored hunter watched them.

"What happened?" June asked as the two ran towards the camper.

"Oh, nothing out of the ordinary. Some jumbo sized arthropod burst out of the ground and wants to kill Jack." Miko said sarcastically.

"That's actually normal." Arcee said. "Wait, arthropod? Airachnid!"

"No, this one was a lot smaller." Jack said. "Any way, are the repairs done?" Jack asked nervously.

"Yeah." June said.

"Good. Now let's put as much distance between us and crab face as possible." Miko said.

They secured Arcee's vehicle form to the trailer and drove off, Jack and Miko looking the most relieved to get out of that town.


Later...

"Jack, you and Miko aren't telling us something." June said.

"Yeah, what happened back there? It seemed like you two saw a monster." Arcee's holoform said. "You can tell us what you guys saw back there."

"There was this crab guy who wanted the Omnitrix. Jack managed to beat him, but we didn't stick around to see if he won."

"Well, at least we won't have to worry about that anytime soon." Raf said, jinxing it.

A buzzsaw could be heard as the roof of the Rust Bucket was cut open with a circlur saw that had red glowing teeth.

"I think we just picked up a hitchhiker!" Miko said in fear.

When the buzzing stopped and then clawed hands ripped through the roof like it was tin foil.

[Where is the Omnitrix?!] SixSix demanded from the humans.

"Who the heck's that?!" Raf shouted.

"Beat's me." Arcee said.

SixSix was reaching for Jack. June saw this through the rear view mirror and slammed on the breaks. She sent SixSix flying off the roof and about twenty feet in front of the rust bucket.

June drove over the being that tried to kidnap her son with a grin on her face as she felt the wheels go over the alien, but that grin turned into a frown when she felt the RV slow down to a stop. She got out and saw that there were spikes in the tires. She saw that SixSix wasn't down for the count, as did Miko, Jack, Raf, and Arcee.

"In there!" June shouted, pointing at the entrace to a mine.

"June, it could be unstable in there." Arcee said.

"It's more dangerous out here!" She retorted.

Arcee transformed into robot mode, tearing the ropes that held her alt in place and then transformed into vehicle mode to follow them into the mine.

Moments after the humans and Arcee had hidden in the mine, Kraab came out of the ground, using his legs as a helicopter blade to hover.

"Remember me?" He said to SixSix before landing on him.

Inside the mine, the humans hide on the right side of a T-junction, while Arcee was on the other side.

Jack peared out to look down the entrance and didn't see anything.

"Phew! The coast is clear." Jack said. An instant later, Kraab tunneled out from under the ground.

"Let's make a rule. If we think something's over, let's never voice that thought." June suggested.

"Agreed." They all said.

"The Omnitrix! Give it to me!" Kraab demanded as he approach them. Arcee transformed into Robot mode, having to crouch down and fired at Kraab.

"Stay away from them bottom feeder!" Arcee taunted. Kraab ignore the hit.

"Hello Arcee." A familiar voice said.

"No!" Arcee turned around to come face to face with her arch enemy, Airachnid. "What are you doing here?!"

Airachnid had used her legs to drill a tunnel that made it so that she could stand up in it without a problem.

"The same reason Kraab, SixSix, and that other guy are here, to collect the Omnitrix, only for me, it's a personal matter. Why don't you call your partner over to help you, oh, wait, he's busy with Kraab."

"Leave Jack out of this!" Arcee furiously spat out.

"So it is Jack. I thought it was on of the other humans and you just left Jack because you wanted an equal partner, not some sorta glorified pet."

"Eat slag!" Arcee shouted. She lunged at Airachnid and got into a fist fight with her.

Meanwhile, Jack, June, Miko, and Raf had run down several tunnels and had made their way to a large man made chasm that was lined with wooden walkways. They were at a dead end.

Kraab walked ran through the walls to get to them.

"Now what?!" Raf asked in a panic.

June looked around and saw what looked like the combination of a minecart and cable car.

"We take a ride." June pointed to it. They were relieved to find out that it could fit them all in there. June pulled the lever, allowing the cable car to start. She turned and jumped, grabbing onto the side of the car. Jack and Miko helped her in.

"What a pathetic excuse for prey." Kraab insultingly said as he was about to cut the cable.

He was then blasted by SixSIx, who flew at the cable cart, and then fired at it.

Miko looked over the top and saw SixSix about to fire a bolt at her. She then ducked under before he fired at her.

"We got company closing in fast!"

"We need a plan." June said.

"Jack, is the Omnitrix recharged?" Raf asked.

"Yep." Jack said after it the red changed to blue.

"No! That's just what it wants!" June shouted.

"Mom, you got any other ideas?" Jack asked before activated the Omnitrix.

"Fine, just be safe, or, as safe as one can be when you can be."

"Okay, then let's see how this guy handles when he's up against," Jack selected the hologram of Big Chill. "Diamondhead! Seriously? Oh well, you'll have to do." Jack jumped at SixSix, landing on him and forcing him down since his jetpack shorted out.

"Jack!" June shouted as she saw Diamondhead and the guy he was jumping on plummet into the darkness. When the cable cart neared the other side of the chasm, SixSix's jetpack restarted, causing him and Diamondhead to fly by the cart and then into the rock that the walls were made of.

"Jack, come on!" June shouted as the cart entered a mine shaft.

"I'll catch up. right now I gotta make sure that this walking vending machine is out of order.

Kraab came up from behind Diamondhead and grabbed his left arm and flung him at the wall. Diamondhead got up and leaped at them. He shoved SixSix to the side and used a buckler that he generated on his right arm to disorientate Kraab by slamming it into his chest. SixSix shot him in the back, distracting Diamondhead and allowing Kraab to grab him with his claw arm. SixSix punched Diamondhead, as did Kraab. Kraab slammed Diamondhead on the ground and then flung him at the wall. SixSix walked over and stood beside Kraab.

"Back off! That reward's mine!" Kraab said.

[SixSix's language]

"Well, you don't have to get personal." Kraab said.

A camo green sphere with light green circles on it was thrown in the direction of the two hunters. It was a smoke bomb that caused SixSix and Kraab to fall over. It was shot out of a launcher that was being used by the third, or fourth hunter if you count Airachnid. He flew on his hoverboard and grabbed Diamondhead by one of his shoulder spikes.

He flew out of the mine shaft and tossed Diamondhead into some mine carts.

"Billions of beings on this planet and the Omnitrix ends up on the wrist of a foolhardy youth."

"Well, like I told your buddies back there, this thing doesn't come off. Believe me, I've tried."

"Oh course it doesn't." The black armored being said. "It's power utilizes alien DNA, which binds to the host's genetic structure. It can not be remove like simply taking off a hat." Diamondhead turned into Big Chill and tossed a rock at this guy. He turned invisible and ran around him. "Where'd you go?" Big Chill turned visible again and exhaled, freezing the 'friendlier' bounty hunter's arms in place. "It seems your choice of warriors is based either on partial misdirection or brute strength, with little to no regard for strategy, though I must admit, when you do put effort into your attacks, one could find your choices clever, for a human." Big Chill exhaled again, freezing his legs in place.

"Who are you calling foolhardy?" Jack said. "I've beaten guys more than twice your size."

"Your recent bout with the bounty hunters in the mine showed otherwise." The armored guy broke out of the ice.

"Hey! It was two against one back there!" Big Chill transformed back into Diamondhead and charge at this guy with his arms turned into blades. He slashed at the guy criticizing him with an angered expression on his face.

"You were moments away from losing your life, and the Omnitrix." Big Chill's attacks were blocked. "Victory should've been swift and effortless." Jack was tossed back into the mine carts. "The Omnitrix is not some toy for your amusement. It is the most powerful weapon in the galaxy, the tipping point in the struggle between good and evil."

"Yeah, and whose side are you on?" Diamondhead asked. He was rubbing his head as the time out sound was heard, turning him back into a human.

"You're still alive, aren't you?" He said.

"You're a good guy?" Jack said.

"My mission is to retrieve the Omnitrix at all cost. And since it's attached to you, I shall bring you with me for its removal."

"Oh no, if you think I'm coming with you to some far off planet, you got another thing coming."

"It's not your choice." The armored guy grabbed Jack by his shirt. Jack struggled and manage to slip out of his long sleve shirt. Without his would be abductor noticing, he managed to grab one of his blasters off of his belt and rolled away.

"It is now!" Jack pointed the blaster at him and pulled the trigger. A blast of blue energy came out of it, sending Jack back a few feet, while his attacker was engulfed in a cloud of smoke. Jack though he beat him and had a grin on his face. When the smoke cleared, Jack saw that the one who was trying to kidnap him nicely, wasn't damaged at all, his grin turning into a frown.

"Clever, but you lack experience. You know neither the strengths or weaknesses of any your forms." He walked over to Jack, who was laying on the ground and firing at him.

"Yeah, what does that mean?" Jack asked as he was grabbed.

"For example. the form that you have dubbed Diamond Head, there is much that it can do. You've barely scratched the surface of its potential."

"Yeah, and what makes you an expert?" Jack asked.

The hunter's mask folded up to reveal a head that looked exactly like diamond head, except the eyes were dark green.

"You're like Diamondhead!" Jack said.

"Wrong! I am Tetrax Shard, I am a noble warrior. You on the other hand, are an immature annoyance." Tetrax said. He grabbed Jack by the back of this shortsleeve shirt. "We have wasted too much time.

"Hey! Put me down!" He shouted while he struggled. Tetrax payed that no mind and look around for his hover board.

Kraab came around the corner and had it held in his normal arm.

"Looking for this?" Kraab said. "You're not getting off this planet without the Omnitrix. And just to make sure..."

SixSix came from the same direction and dragged June on the ground while he held Raf and Miko in the other.

"Hands off!" June shouted.

"Let us go!" Miko yelled as she tried to kick SixSix's face. Jack had a look of shock on his face.

"See, we've decided to work together, to split the reward, and you, in half."

Kraab shot at Jack and Tetrax as SixSix held blades to the throats of the three. Tetrax blocked the shots with his body and ran into one of the buildings as a blue motorcycle approached with a black helicopter following it. Tetrax tossed Jack to the ground as Kraab fired a beam at the building.

[Two lifeforms are heading towards us.] SixSix said.

"Don't blow a gasket metal mouth." Kraab said.

"What are we waiting for, we gotta save them!" Jack shouted.

Tetrax grabbed Jack by the front of his shirt. "Don't be foolish, keeping the Omnitrix secure is the only priority here."

"Maybe not for you, but they're my friends and family!"

"You cannot save them, you would soon be overpowered and captured." Tetrax said. The obvious choice is for me to retrieve my hoverboard so that we may leave this planet." He dropped Jack and exited the building. "Stay here!"

Tetrax saw that a twenty foot tall blue female shaped robot was fighting SixSix and Kraab. She apparently had rescued the three humans and was trying to hold them off.

Arcee saw tetrax and tossed him at a building that was across from the one Jack was in.

"Who the scrap are you and what have you done with Jack?!" Arcee barked.

"I will not reveal that to you, Cybertronian. And as for the one you care so much for, I ordered him to hide." Tetrax answered the ticked off femme. The two other hunters approached Arcee and Tetrax. "We can settle this later. Right now we should deal with these two."

"Fine!" Arcee spat.

Jack peered out of his hiding spot to see Kraab land in front of the hole in the wall. Kraab didn't notice him and went back to fighting Arcee, while SixSix battled Tetrax.

"Alright." Jack said as he noticed the Omnitrix had recharged. "It's hero time!" Jack was about to transform into humungousaur, but though of a more graceful way of beating his attackers. We then shifted to the hologram of Grey Matter, but before he could transform, the back wall of the building collapsed, revealing a face that horrified Jack. Airachnid had found him. She said in her venomous voice, two word that when the two first met terrified him, and still did so now. They were:

"Hello Jack."

"Airachnid! How did you find me?" The Omnitrix went back into its inactive mode.

"Oh, it's now easier than ever to track you if one has the right gear."

"What do you mean?"

"The Omnitrix, every time you transform it sends out an energy signal that can be traced back to you." Airachnid said. She blasted a strand of webbing at Jack, sticking on his chest and allowing her to reel him in. She held him in her right hand. "Speaking of which, did you know that the Omnitrix can scan in the genetic material of other sentient life forms? And seeing as you don't possess a cybertronian form, allow me to do this." She took one of her claws and tapped it on the dial of the Omnitrix. It emitted a flash of yellow light.

"DNA scanned and rearranged to suit the chemical structure of Omnitrix host. Cybertronian and Insecticon CNA unlocked and added to playlist 1984." The Omnitrix said in a strangely human voice.

"Now, what to do with you..." Airachnid opened activated the Omnitrix. She cycled through the holograms until she found the ones she was looking for. Jack's hologram for a cybertronian form had the same body type as Cliffjumper, but the head lacked horns and was shaped kinda like a knight's helmet. "This reminds me of Tailgate. Maybe it'll remind Arcee of him as well." She then went to the next hologram, which was an insecticon that had the features of a wasp. "Or maybe I could use this one of your forms to kill Arcee, and then right before you snuff her spark, I'll revert you back to being a human so that she can know that her partner killed her." She shifted back and forth between the holograms. "What to do, should I use her PTSD to damage her, or should I use you to hurt her?" She asked. "Let's do this quickly. I'll use your cybertronian form."

She walked through the remaining wall and out into the sandy road to see Arcee and Tetrax fighting SixSix and Kraab.

"Arcee, look what I have." Airachnid taunted.

"No!" She saw that Airachnid had Jack. "Release him!"

"I have a bounty to collect on this human, but who's to say I can't enjoy myself a bit?"

She activated the Omnitrix against Jack's will. She cycled through the holograms until she got to where she thought the hologram of the Cybertronian was. Without checking to make sure if she got the right one, Airachnid transformed Jack.

"No!" Arcee screamed as she sidekicked SixSix, who was flying at her with his jet pack.

Jack's whole body melted, clothes and all until it was a green slime. A UFO like device flew over and allowed the slime to form into a humanoid being that had three fingers and a thumb on each hand, a cone shaped head that seemed like the slime forming its body was hanging off of the UFO. Shoulder spikes were present that seemed to be hanging off of something. He had an omnitrix symbol on his chest and light blue eyes on a featureless face.

"What the?! It gave me the wrong thing!" Airachnid was disappointed.

"Goop!" Jack said in a squeaky voice. "A new alien? Cool!" Goop said. "I'd never thought I'd be saying this, but thank you for giving me the wrong alien!" The UFO moved up towards Airachnid head, taking all of the slime that composed Goop with it. "Well, I'm not sure what this one does, but I'll figure that out later, now, Airachnid, how's about you deal with..." Goop rotated the dial again and pressed it down.

"Upgrade!" Jack said after he was engulfed in a flash of blue light, but he wasn't upgrade, he was Grey Matter. "You know what, I can make this work!" He said. Grey Matter pulled some of Airachnid's neck cables.

"Get off me you frog!" Airachnid shouted. She tried to get him off of her, but when she tried to move her arms, she found that they failed to function. "What did you do to me you pest?!"

"I just disconnected a few wires that allow you to control you arms. I suggest you head back to the Nemesis before I do some more damage." Grey Matter said. He then jumped from Airachnid to Kraab.

"You and your partner survive this time Arcee!" Airachnid transformed into her helicopter mode and flew off.

While he was on Kraab, Grey Matter pulled some wires that caused the quadrupedal being to flail his arms and yell out in pain. After enough wires were pulled, Kraab was shut down and fell over.

"Two down." Jack said as he ran from Kraab's disabled body.

Tetrax and SixSix were in a fist fight. SixSix managed to grab onto Tetrax and took off, slamming him into the ground.

SixSix saw Grey Matter and aimed his wrist mounted missile launcher at him.

June ran up and jumped on SixSix's back, trying to obstruct him.

"Jack! Run!" June was thrown off of the hunter's back and was held down. SixSix was about to slice her head off with his laser buzzsaw.

"No!" Miko screamed. Arcee didn't shoot since she saw that Grey Matter was running towards SixSix and was climbing up the hunter's leg made his way up to one of his shoulder pads.

"Guess who?" Grey Matter shouted, getting his mother's attacker's attention. SixSix ceased trying to cut June's head off and tried to shake the Galvan off of him.

"I told you to let me handle this!"

"And you were doing a bang up job crystal man." June said as Tetrax got up and walked over to June, helping her up.

"I am a petrosapien." Tetrax said. "You should know that." He said quietly.

Jack saw that SixSix's armor had a similar setup to that of Kraab's.

"I wonder what would happen if I did this." Jack pulled a bunch of wires that cause SixSix's jetpack to turn on, but he hand no control over it. He flew up to a water tower and went around it and hit it on the return. SixSix crashed right next to Kraab after painfully skidding on the ground.

The water tower collapsed. Kraab, still having control of his neck said this...

"I hate this planet." He said before he and SixSix were crushed, but were still alive after it.

"It may not be Big Chill, but it's a great way to beat the heat." Grey Matter said triumphantly.

"Pretty smart, for a human." Tetrax said before he fired a light blue cube at the two unconscious bounty hunters. The cube expanded to encompass the two of them and then contracted to a more manageable size.

The Omnitrix timed out and Jack was reverted to his human state.

"I will return as soon as I am able to." Tetrax said after he picked up the cube.

"But what about the Omnitrix?" Jack asked.

"It's in good hands until then." Tetrax said. "However, this might be of some use in the meantime." Tetrax handed Jack his hoverboard in its colapsed state.

"Cool." Jack said as he deployed it. "But I'm not really much of a skateboarder. And wait, didn't you say that you needed this to get off of the planet?"

"Selective disinformation." Tetrax said.

"Huh?" Miko was confused.

"He lied." Raf clarified.

Tetrax deployed his helmet and pressed a button on a device. In a flash of red light he teleported away.

"How come you get all the cool alien stuff?" Miko asked.

"Do you want it?"

"Sure!" She took the hoverboard from Jack.

"Just be sure to stay close to the ground." Jack said.


Back on Vilgax's ship...

A drone saw a flash of light leave the planet then disappear.

"Betrayed." Vilgax groaned as he saw this.

"Sensors indicate that the Omnitrix is not with the mercenary." The drone said.

"It would appear that the human who possesses the Omnitrix is as clever as it is fierce. But I shall not be denied."


Back on Earth...

Our main cast has made their way back to the Rust Bucket.

"So yeah, your normal getup is trashed." Miko said.

"Well, I did bring more than one shirt, but I have been wanting to try out something new.

Jack went in to the Rust Bucket and found a blue folded up jacket. He put it on over his short sleeve t shirt and walked out of the camper. The jacket was the same shade of blue as Arcee and had two white strikes around the right arm, a white stripe going down the left side of his chest with a black circle with a red autobot insignia near where his shoulder would be. However he didn't notice the emblem.

"So, what do you think?"

"It looks pretty cool." June said. "Autobot Jack." Jack then noticed the insignia.

"What the? Miko!" Jack shouted.

"What? It looks better than the ten that was on it."

"Yeah, now I stick out like a sore thumb with this."

"Well, I think it looks cool." Raf said. "You're sorta a superhero, so it makes sense that your outfit reflects your personality."

"Well when you put it like that, I guess that the name Jack 10 doesn't sound as natural. Mom, this is one of the few times I wish you named me Ben. But you were like 'you already have a cousin named Ben', because Ben 10 sounds cool."

"But you have more than ten aliens." Miko said.

"Well, I like how it sounds." Jack said.

Chapter end...


A.N. Airachnid is still part of the Decepticons because some of the events from TFP have yet to happen. Dreadwing will show up eventually. The jacket Jack's going to start wearing looks just like the one Ben wore in Alien force and Ultimate alien, except it has the autobot logo instead of the number ten, and is blue.

New aliens:

Bloxx: Omniverse

Ghostfreak: Original series, right down to him being evil.

Goop: Alien force

And for those who are wondering, Jack started off with sixteen, the first ten from the original series, those being Heatblast, Wildmutt, Diamond Head, XLR8, Four Arms, Ghost Freak, Upgrade, Stinkfly, Greymatter, and Ripjaws, as well as four from Alien Force; Chromastone, Humungousaur, Swampfire, and Big Chill, one from Ultimate Alien, that being Fasttrack, and one from Omniverse, that being Bloxx.

Next time; The circus is in town. And we learn that Jack and Arcee share a fear that is very natural, clowns.