Hello everyone. Here is another chapter.


Jack was shocked as he stared at his old Iron Man armour. He could not believe that Miko had decided to keep his armour after he had destroyed it. He slowly walked into the room and over to the armour. Upon reaching the armour, he placed his right hand on it's chest and felt the cold metal touch his skin.

Jack began to remember how he first began his journey to being Iron Man up until the Battle of New York. He remembered building the Mark I in the caves with Yinsen and his subsequent escape. He remembered how he donned his War Machine armour and helped the Autobots to destroy the First Space Bridge. He remembered the Battle of New York, where his suit made short work of the Chitauri invaders. His battles against Megatron, Soundwave, M.E.C.H, Silas and the countless Vehicons went through his head, each of them a moment he would never forget as he stared at the helmet of the armour.

Staring at the helmet and it's facplate staring back at him, as if it was judjing him. To be honest with himself, a small part of him missed the thrill of fighting in his Iron Man suits and holding his own in a fight aginst giant while tht small part of him that missed being Iron Man, the bigger and more paranoid part of him showed him the pain that he had brought countless times to everyone around him. First it was his father, and then it was Miko and Raf. Then it was finally his mother. The sight of her dead body was something that would haunt for the rest of his life, but he kept going. Back then it was about a sense of righting his wrong and to find some small peice of peace. But that all went to hell with Unicron.

He cursed himself as he clearly remembered what he had wrought against everyone he knew. He nearly caused the death of Optimus Prime, someone he looked up to. Guilt and shame began to well up in him as he remembered the injuries that he had dished out to the Autobots and the Avengers. He sometimes wondered why Miko continued to stay with him after everything that he had done.

"So? What do you think?" Miko asked suddenly, breaking Jack out of his thoughts and bringing him back to the present.

"How? I destroyed all of my suits when i left." Jack asked, not turning away from the suit.

"You did, but I...uh..." Here Miko looked down sheepishly as Jack turned to her. "I managed to convince Ratchet and Raf to rebuild the suit with help from J.A.R.V.I.S." Miko answered, a smile playing on her lips.

"You guys knew J.A.R.V.I.S was here the whole time?" Jack asked, right eyebrow raising.

"No. Only I did" Miko said, shaking her head. "Why don't you try it on?"

Jack looked unsure of himself as he turned back to the armour, once again staring at the faceplate of the helmet. "Are you sure about that Miko?" he asked.

Miko simply walked over to him and and took his into hers and squeezed tightly, giving him some reassurance and also some small amount of courage. "Damn sure Jack." she said, smiling at him.

Taking a deep breath, Jack began to strip himself of all of his equipment until he wore a simple shirt and pants. Stepping up to the suit of armour, it foleded outwards and opened up and waited for Jack to enter. Said young man stared at where he would stand and calmed his nerves. Despite his use of the feature many times over, the sudden realisation was that he would ina way trapped in the suit. He took the first step forward and was about to continue when alarms began to blare throughout the base.

Instincts kicked in and Jack strode forward and entered into the armour without even realising it until the armour closed in around him and the faceplate slammed shut. As the HUD began to fire up and the suit activate, jack bit back a groan and simply looked at the readings that the suit showed him. It seemed that Miko, Raf, Ratchet and J.A.R.V.I.S had done an excellent job in building his armour from scratch. He was impressed.

"Hello sir. It's good to see you back in the Iron Man suit." J.A.R.V.I.S said.

"Maybe temporary J.A.R.V.I.S." Jack replied.

"Of course sir." J.A.R.V.I.S replied, seemingly applying some chek in his response.

"Alert! Decepticon Troops are attacking the base! Repeat! Decepticons are attacking the base!" The announcer called over the intercom.

Jack turned to Miko. "Miko grab your things and head downstairs. Get into the Marauder and Agent Fowler and he Avengers to get in. Go!" Jack shoted as he smashed through the door.

Using his thrusters, Jack flew through the hanger and landed outside the entrance. Looking up, Jack saw that the second ship that was detected earlier had finally arrived. Jack could see that the Air Force were scrambling to thier fighters to deal with the flying cons while the rest of the military base was firing at the ship. Knowing that they did not have the firepower necassary to go head to head with the warship, Jack could only hope that they would buy enough time for them to escape the base.

"jack!" a voice called out from behind.

Turning around, he saw the Avengers and Autobots all looking at the Decepticon ship. As they stopped in front of him, he quickly began to issue orders, despite knowing that the Autobots might not wish to follow them. "Alright Avengers listen up! I ned you guys to get into the Marauder along with Agent Fowler and get Miko out of here. J.A.R.V.I.S will show you the way to where we're heading."

"Jack we can help." Steve argued.

"You'll be helping by getting my pregnant girlfriend to safety. I can't risk using the GroundBridge in case something happens to the baby." Jack replied. "Steve please." he implored.

Steve stared at Jack for a moment before nodding and gestured for the rest of the Avengers to follow. Turning to the Autobots, he saw that thet were looking at him wondering what they were supposed to do, considering what he had said earlier. Yet before he could say anything a GroundBridge portal opened in front of them and out came an entire legion of Decepticons led by a lean silver Decepticon that had his entire face covered with the only noticable feature being his glowing red optics.

"Optimus Prime! It has been some time." The Con stated.

"Lockdown." Optimus growled out.

"It seems that the rumours were true." The Decepticon known as Lockdown commented. "Optimus Prime and his small band of Autobots have taken refuge on this insignificant planet."

"I'll show you insignificant you piece of junkyard scrap." Jack growled quietly.

"Lockdown! I am giving you this one chance to surrender and leave this planet peacefully." Optimus warned.

"Sorry Prime, but the reward that I will recieve from Megatron when I deliver your helm and those of your Autobots to him would be immense." Lockdown refuted.

"J.A.R.V.I.S what is the status of our weapons system?" Jack asked.

"Unfortunately sir, we do not have any weapons whatsoever. It seemed that when Miss Nakadai rebuilt the armour, she forgot about the weapons." J.A.R.V.I.S answered.

"And you did not bother mentioning this to her?" Jack asked.

"Miss Nakadia specifically mentioned not to put any weapons with sir, in case an accident should happen." J.A.R.V.I.S explained.

"Great. Any suggestions?" Jack asked.

"Perhaps using one of the Vehicons weapons against them sir." J.A.R.V.I.S suggested.

"Good idea." Jack said, a smile playing on his lips.

"Also sir, the Helicarrier is right above you." J.A.R.V.I.S stated.

Looking up Jack saw that J.A.R.V.I.S was right as he saw the Hellicarrier fly bove him. He saw it's fighters launching, helping the Air Force to deal with the Vehicons. As the battle above them raged on, a different battle was about to begin. Knowing that he did not have the means to attack them from afar, he would have to deal with them up close. Luckily, it seemed that his armour was made of the same material as his orginal Mark III. Using the battle above as a distraction, Jack shot forwards and slammed into the closest Vehicon and proceeded to rip the blaster out of its arm and kick it in the face. Flying up above the others who began fighting thier own battles with Arcee taking on five of them at the same time, while Bulkhead and Bumblebee stood back to back and knocked down any Vehicons that came at them. Op[timus was busy fighting against Lockdown, who seemed to hold his own quiet well against him. Focusing back to his own fight, Jack shoved his entire forearm and grabbed the wires tht he knew would signal the weapon to fire and tugged it a little and blasted the Vehicon he kicked.

Seeing the Vehicon dealt with, he proceeded to fire at some of the other Vehicons that stayed back tocover thier comrades. With his high mobility, speed and small stature it made it extremely hard to hit him. Once the outlying Decepticons were dealt with he looked around and saw that the others with the exception of Optimus and Lockdown had also dealt with thier own fights. Landing on to the ground, Jack dropped the massive blaster and watched with the others as Optimus landing a swift and powerful uppercut, sending Lockdown back.

As Jack and the Autobots watched Lockdown slowly get back up, a GroundBridge opened behind Lockdown. They watched as Lockdown retreated back into the GroundBridge and saw as the large Decepticon warship try to ecscape. As the Helicarrier gave chase, Jack made his way to Optimus as said Autobot stared at the retreating warship.

"I take it you know that piece of scrap?" Jack asked.

Optimus did not look away from the retreating warship until it was nothing more than a speck in the sky, before turning his head towards Jack. "I do indeed know Lockdown. He was a Decepticon who thrived on he thrill of the hunt. He did not serve under Megatron out of loyalty but rather for monetary purposes, he would hunt down any Autobots that Megatron deemed troublesome and sent him after them." he explained.

"So he was a bounty hunter. A person working to find people for money." Jack clarified.

Optimus nodded. "Yes."

"That's going to complicate things. Lucky for you, you have us Optimus." Jack said. "We need to get to the new base made just for you. J.A.R.V.I.S?"

"Sir?" J.A.R.V.I.S spoke.

"Open the GroundBridge to the main base, Bridge Room." Jack ordered.

"Very well sir." J.A.R.V.I.S answered, and not a minute later a GroundBridge opened up.


The Bridge Room within the base was huge, large enough for the entire of Team Prime to stand side by side, with room enought for two more. It was also tall enough that you could stack two Optimus' on top of each other. The Bridge Room was built with space in mind. From the GroundBridge at the end of the room, on it's right was a massive door with the Autobot symbol on it. It compromised of the Autobots living quarters, which were also seperated by another hallyway, each with thier own room for privacy. There was also a Medical Room, Training Room and Energon Storage. On the opposite side of the room from the massive doors, was a smaller set of doors which led to Jack's lab, living quarters, testing room for when he needs t test his inventions. Facing the GroundBridge was a large glass panel that served as the Console Room, where the destinations would be set and also as a way to monitor the entire Bridge Room. Above the Console room, was where the Breifing Room was, thereJack could learn more about the situation as well as gain After Mission Reports from the teams.

As there was always a risk of Decepticons rushing into the base, Jack had made sure to install as many defense systems in the Bridge Room as possible. The first thing anyone would notice when exiting the Ground Bridge was the many turrets that sat at the end of the room. These turrets were manned by the base's defenders with a rotating shift so that anyone would know when the GroundBridge was activated. These turrets were equipped with Sabot rounds as the primary rounds of ammunation, but could be swapped out whenever with Energon blasters that had the same level of firepower as Megatron's arm cannon. A total of six turrets were placed against the wall of the room, with another twelve more auto-turrets that were controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S whenever there was a need to spread across the entire room.

As Jack and the other Autobots exited the GroundBridge, Jack indicated for the Autobots to follow him as he began to lead them to where they would be staying. Entering the main area for the Autobots, they were greeted with a long hallway that had six other doors, two on each side spread across the hallway. The two on the left from the closest, was the Medical Room while the one further in led to the Energon Storage room. On the right was where the sleeping quarters and Training room were. There was even space for another two more rooms as they wer the the furthest in the hallway.

"This is where you will be living when you are in base. There's your sleeping quarters, Medical Room, Training Room and Energon Storage." Jack said as he pointed at where each of the rooms were.

"Thank you Jack." Optimus thanked.

"Are we allowed to leave the base?" Arcee asked.

Jack shook his head. "Unfortunatly there is no way you can leave the base besides the GroundBridge, so no."

"So what will we be doing in between missions?" Ratchet asked.

"You could continue to work with the Synthetic Energon. We even managed to salvage some of the technology from the Harbinger ship." Jack answered.

"What about Raf and Miko's parents?" Optimus asked.

"They are being brought in to be briefed." Jack answered.

"What about you? What will you and the Avengers be doing?" Arcee asked.

"We are going to be training and working together to get back on track with this team." Jack explained. "Currently, a tower is being built where we will be based at."


Hope you liked this chapter. Sorry for the rather bad ending, but i could not think of any think. Tell me what you think of this in your reviews.

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