An hour passed as Jack explained what had just happened to the Autobot leader who was eagerly listening to each word he said. By the time they were done conversing over what had happened, the Prime was even more concerned than he was when Jack had originally went into his coma and came out changed.

"Jackson, if what you say is true and I believe every word, we will all need to pull together if we are to make it through this." The Prime tried to give his scout a sign of appreciation and give him a pat on the shoulder. However what resulted from this was something neither of them could have possibly expected. With the simple touch, a large electrical spark was emitted from the Prime's fingers to Jack's body which caused him to cry out in pain. Both Jack and Optimus had no idea what had just happened.

A second later Jack doubled over in pain and for several seconds Jack screamed in pain as something happened to his body, something that felt like his insides were being torn apart. The cries were so loud they woke Arcee who was still asleep down the hall.

Arcee, hearing the cries, knew they were Jack's. Fearing that something had happened and one of their new guests had done something unimaginable, she bolted out the door in full combat form with blasters at the ready. Arcee screamed: "JACK WHERE ARE YOU!" Then the screams got even louder with what sounded like metal being impacted. Running down the hall, she came to Optimus's quarters just in time to see the Prime being literally hurled upside down through the doors that led to his quarters, tearing both of the doors off in the process.

Optimus landed upside down with his legs and upper body still stuck in the concrete wall outside of his quarters. His head was the only thing actually touching the floor. Seconds later the rest of Team Prime was present, weapons ready for whatever just threw their leader out of his own quarters like he was a rag doll. Inside the Prime's quarters there was tremendous dust and smoke from whatever was in there.

Arcee and Bumblebee were getting ready to ambush whatever was in there. However something else was on Arcee's mind as well, "Optimus where's Jack?"

The Prime, who was just now getting back on his feet from being thrown like an animal's plaything said: "Everyone stand down, Its-" Optimus was cut off by an unfamiliar voice coming from within the Prime's quarters. Whatever it was, it sounded big, really big.

Arcee still unsure where her Jack was demanded "Where's Jack?!"

Optimus cut in, "Arcee stand down that's an order, same to the rest of you."

"Not until you tell me where my Jack is!" Arcee insisted.

Suddenly a deep voice that had a hint of metal came from the smoke filled room simply said, "I,M RIGHT HERE ARCEE."

Shortly after this was said, a being of considerable size began to emerge from Optimus's quarters. A Cybertronian, a very large, very tall Cybertronian easily 5 feet taller than Optimus emerged from the room.

This being was large even for a Cybertronian, easily the same height an Insectacon, and armored to the teeth to boot. His armor was silver and white with a hint of blue and red in places. His arms were fitted with strange devices that glowed a light blue as did much of the rest of his body, except for his optics which glowed a brilliant white. The rest of him was armed to the teeth with what appeared to be swords and some sort of a secondary side-arm that was both considerable in size and looked like something out of the Iacon archives.

"BY THE ALL SPARK, JACK?" Ratchet said as the large Cybertronian being rubbed his head in confusion.

"Yeah it's me guys," Jack said not fully comprehending what had just happened to him; until he was actually able to look around and see that he was about 35 feet taller than he was a few moments ago. Jack looked around in disbelief for a few seconds until Arcee realized who he was.

"Jack what happened to you? How in the name of Primus did you transform into, well that? Are you Ok? Does anything hurt? Talk to me Jack." Arcee said in a voice that made it obvious she was freaking out. In point of fact they all were.

Optimus who was now over being thrown around walked up to his scout that was now considerably taller than he was. "Jackson, are you alright?"

"Yes Optimus, I'm fine, just a little confused and well, oh man I'm really sorry about hitting you. I didn't mean to." Jack said as he realized he had just thrown his friend out of his own room with enough force to have seriously hurt him.

"That's alright Jackson; I shouldn't have attempted to aid you during your transformation. The fault lies with me." Optimus said adjusting the servos in his back and the actuators in his legs from being tossed around so hard.

"Wow kid, you just tossed one of the biggest bots around with no difficulty; you should have been a wrecker." Bulkhead said admiring Jack's new body.

Bumblebee could do nothing but stand and watch in silence, he was completely speechless.

Ratchet, on the other hand, did have something intelligent to say. "Well it seems like Arcee that Jack has a large size alt-mode."

Everyone quickly looked at Ratchet as if he seemingly forgot to tell everyone critical need-to-know information. Arcee narrowed her optics and looked right at Ratchet as if she was going to burn a hole through him. "You mean to tell us you knew that this could happen Ratchet?" Arcee said expecting a good, no, a great answer.

The scientist/medical bot quickly started talking really fast, "Um, well, you see, I had hypothesized that because you had 3 forms all together that Jackson might be the same."

Arcee's gaze was only getting more intense.

Ratchet continued, "Arcee you have a human mode and you can also keep your armor on as well in that mode or leave it off. Jack can do the same with his battle armor, but he never had a large alt-form that allowed him to uncompact all his stored mass. Considering how much energon he can store inside himself, I think what we are looking at is his full sized alt-form."

Everyone upon hearing this looked back at Jack who was listening to Ratchet quietly trying to figure out what had happened to him.

"I wonder if this is the gift Prima and Amalgamous meant when I spoke to them." Jack said as everyone's gaze shot straight back to him and seemed more puzzled than ever.

Arcee asked, "How do you know of Amalgamous?" Arcee paused for a moment, "OH don't tell me they talked to you again?!"

With that said Optimus felt it was necessary to inform Team Prime, including their new guests, about the recent developments that Jackson and he had been discussing only moments earlier.

Optimus ordered everyone to the main chamber where Slipstream and Soundwave, along with Miko and Raf, were likely waiting after hearing all the commotion.

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The Autobots one by one made their way out of the tunnel that lead to the main atrium. Optimus came out first looking like he got the scrap beat out of him which caught everyone's attention; especially Slipstream who for some reason was almost overly concerned.

"Sir what happened, do you require medical attention?" the flying femme asked.

"No I am alright," Optimus said playing off the whole thing which had left his pride dented.

Bulkhead and Bumblebee came out of the tunnel one after the other not saying a word.

Ratchet came out next and was rubbing his face which one can only suspect that Arcee gave him one of her right hooks for keeping Jack's possible situation from everyone else.

Meanwhile Miko, Raf, and Soundwave for that matter, were waiting to see what had happened minutes ago that caused the team's prime to look like he went ten rounds with a warrior Insectacon.

"Guys what the scrap happened?" Miko inquired looking at Bulkhead who was going to keep out of this one given the situation; he just kept on walking past Miko which she didn't like one bit.

Raf was concerned and said in an inquisitive tone "Bee?"

But Bumblebee was staying out of this as well.

Next thing they knew Arcee was walking out from the tunnel the rest of the team came out of and wasn't followed by anyone for a few moments which was enough time for Miko to make a smart ass comment again.

"So Arcee, we ahh heard you getting some squishy last night. Did he give it to you real hard?"

Arcee simply said, "Why don't you ask him yourself."

With that said a massive Autobot walked out of the darkness that looked like something out of a comic book. Miko's eyes went as big as they possibly could without falling out of her head. Her jaw dropped and said nothing for fear this new bot might squish her with little thought.

Raf who was sitting on the railing of the overlook could do nothing more than look on in amazement as this new Autobot walked slowly with careful precision so not to step on Arcee. Raf quickly noticed that this new bot's eyes were focused on Arcee. Then it hit the 12 year old, he thought to himself, "This must be Jack." But he decided to keep that thought to himself at the moment.

Miko then decided to not think again and opened her mouth again. "Who is this guy supposed to be, holy scrap he is big, hey there buddy what your name, and where's Jack by the way?"

Jack deciding to get back at Miko for the comment she made to Arcee moments ago decided to screw with her a little.

Jack walked up to the railing Miko was holding onto. He bent slightly bringing himself down to her eyelevel letting her look into his rather large white optics then said only one thing.

"BOOOO!" with enough force to knock her flat on her backside.

Jack then gave out a rather hysterical laugh at what he had just done to his now tiny human teammate.

Miko began to pick herself up and shook off her clothes before shouting at the bot, who she didn't realize was Jack. "What's your problem bot, you got a problem with me, hugh well do ya? Bulkhead teach this scrap head a thing or two would ya."

"Oh no Mike you want to pick a fight with Jack that is your business, but keep me out of it," Bulkhead said confirming Raf's thoughts and telling everyone else at that point who didn't know that this juggernaut of a bot was in fact Jackson Darby.

Then it hit Miko like an atomic bomb. This monster of a bot in front of her was Jack. The look on Miko's face was one of indescribable shock and horror. She now realized that she was really at the end of her rope that she had figuratively just hanged herself with. Now she was truly done making jokes about Arcee and him at this point.

Miko now realizing the error of her ways gave a subtle smile and simply said, "Hey Jack, um did you do something with your hair?"

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All of Team Prime, including its two new guests, stood in silence as they listened to Jack while still in his large alt-form. Jack reiterated everything that he could remember, having Optimus help fill in any gaps he forgot to add. As Jack continued explain what was apparently going to happen regarding the Rift Ripper that was now in Decepticon possession. Everyone seemed taken aback by the whole situation. And for many of the team, the thought of returning to Cybertron put a kink in their servos because of the pain they each felt seeing their home in utter shambles.

Jack realized this after he explained the part of journeying to Cybertron's core. All the bots in the base for that matter seemingly looked away in utter disbelief. However their attention was instantly grabbed again when both Jack and Optimus mentioned the Well of Sparks. With those three words all Cybertronians present, aside from Jack and the Prime, looked like they had seen a ghost.

"The Well of Sparks, Primus it actually exists?" Ratchet said not believing the words coming out of his own mouth.

"It would seem so old friend," Optimus added hoping to help Ratchet regain his composure that was utterly lost.

Bee chirped, ("Wow, why does everything involving you have to be so scrapping difficult Jack?")

Jack, who was now a giant compared to Bee, thought for a moment before answering, "I never asked for this Bee, none of us would. Honestly I'm still questioning whether what happened was a dream or reality, but I know that I came out of a dream knowing things that I didn't know before."

Arcee could see that he was frustrated and came in to offer a comforting hand. She placed hers on the outside gauntlet of his right hand, a hand that could now easily hold her with little difficulty.

The Prime then stepped in realizing that his comrade was still having trouble dealing with the present situation. "This situation is one of dire circumstances; we will need to ally ourselves with all our brothers if we are to ever have a hope of succeeding."

Several seconds passed until Team Prime began to fully understand what the Prime meant when he said "Ally ourselves with all our brothers."

Bulkhead suddenly raised his head and looked at Optimus. "Wait, you don't mean…" was all Bulk could say before being interrupted by his new juggernaut teammate.

"Yes, I think you understand what Optimus means Bulk." There was a long pause before Jack spoke again. "We need Megatron and his mechs to help us if we want to survive."

For what had to be the tenth time in the last 24 hours the team was again shocked.

"WWHAATTTT!" Arcee shouted in unison with Miko.

Ratchet seemed to lose his balance at the suggestion of working with the Cons and smacked his head into the wall he was standing next to; which only added to the pain his processors were coping with because of Arcee's fist earlier.

Bee and Bulkhead both seemed to take a deep breath and cleared their vents without saying anything, realizing that there probably was no other way.

All of Team Prime was in utter shock but what happened next sent all of them falling to the ground with earth-shattering force. For whom spoke next was the absolute last person that any of them thought would add to the conversation.

Soundwave looked up and simply said in a voice that sounded alien, even to the other Autobots.

"How long do we have?"

At this point Miko shrieked from the surprise, Ratchet nearly fainted because it was all too much, and Optimus looked to Soundwave then to Jack because he didn't know how long they actually had. Bee chirped ("Holy Scrap, he actually said something!")

Bulkhead was stunned and said nothing along with Raf and Slipstream.

What felt like minutes passed and there wasn't a sound in the base, you could probably hear a pin drop a mile away for how quiet it was. Eventually all eyes were on Jack because none of them knew how long until the proverbial fabric of the universe would unravel.

Arcee was the next to ask, "Jack how long?"

Jack shook his head and thought back to what Prima had said to him before he left.

"Time in short, you have roughly 10 human days before the damage will become irreversible."

Returning to the question he was asked Jack said, "10 days!"

With that the looks on everyone's face, including Soundwave's for that matter, was a sign of what could only be described as utter defeat.

Optimus decided to step in at this point and do what he did best. "As we all realize the situation presently facing us is one of grave consequences should we fail. We have overcome so much over the megacycles together and we will do so again."

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Ratchet was giving the new white bot a quick look over given his recent physical change. Jack was sitting on the berth tapping his feet on the floor waiting for the prognosis from Ratchet. Ratchet being his usual self was eagerly looking over scans of Jack's new alt-form.

"Everything seems to be alright, except…. By the All Spark!" Ratchet said looking at the Prime.

"What do you see Ratchet?" Optimus asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"He, he, he has no T-COG!" the medic said nearly losing his mind.

As those words were spoken all the bots in the room seemed to look at Jack in utter shock and confusion.

"So what does that mean exactly, am I missing something I should have or what?" Jack questioned wondering what was the matter.

Arcee with a concerned face put her hand on Jack's arm. "Jack, a T-COG is what allows all Cybertronians to transform, without one you can't transform in any way," the blue femme said.

"So then how is it that I could turn into, well, this without one?" Jack asked looking at Ratchet.

"I honestly haven't a clue, your systems are designed differently. I still can't figure out what caused you to transform in the first place. Whatever it was successfully unlocked all of your stored mass."

"It happened when I made contact with Optimus. I don't know what it was either, but it sure was painful." Jack said remembering the experience.

The med bot paused before finishing, as all the eyes in the room shifted to the Prime an unpleasant feeling filled him.

"I am unsure what I did on my part to cause this to happen. My systems didn't even register anything of any sort either." The Prime said hoping to alleviate any animosity that might be felt against him.

Looking back at Ratchet who was about to speak again, Optimus's mind was full of questioning thoughts, "What caused this, am I responsible," all these thoughts were filling the bot's processors.

Ratchet continued, "There's something else as well. In this form Jack is lacking a conventional spark chamber. He seems to have some sort of energon source within his body, but I can't even begin to fathom how it works or what it even is. But it's extremely powerful." Optics all around the room except for Jack's went wide with surprise.

"Um ok, so is this bad in my case or what then?" Jack inquired asking the group again hoping to get an answer he could use.

"No Jackson it's not a problem, it's just that in this form you have a great power. A power I hope you are ready for." Optimus said stepping into the conversation.

"Indeed you are right Optimus; I will need more time to run over these scans thoroughly to gain a better understanding of what this system is and if we can apply it anywhere else."

"Very well Ratchet, everyone else we must prepare for the battle ahead of us," Optimus stated looking at all who stood before him.