Chapter 4

(Dante's pov)

10 minutes earlier.

Jack was in his tent as I started looking around with my sniper rifle making sure Airachnid doesn't get to Jack while in stealth camouflage. I told Jack not to talk to me ahead of time while I'm in stealth camouflage so that the enemy doesn't find me. I want to give that bitch a taste of her medicine.

I waited patiently after some time and let me tell you. It paid off. Like the hunter she is, she stalks around the forest and notices Jack's tent with the sadistic grin she had. I steady my aim at her and stayed calm. She got closer slowly heading towards to the tent but before she had the chance to do anything, I fired a shot at her that sent her flying away and on to the ground. She gets up in complete shock as I deactivated my stealth camouflage.

I get off the ground switching my sniper rifle into my Kamas as Airachnid sees me back with her sadistic grin.

"So the cyber ninja finally makes his return..." She said rather sadistic.

I remained silent keeping my cool as much I wanted to kill the bitch and as expected, her response was her chuckling. The fuck does she find funny?

"Silence. Of course. As expected from you. Won't be long before you scream for mercy." She said as lunged at me.

She strikes at me with her claws aiming for my spark chamber but I quickly dodged out of the way and sliced her shoulder making her cover her wound making her back off a bit.

"You little..." She growled.

"Back off..." I said with no emotion.

"So the silent cyber ninja finally speaks...but what's this? You don't have the Autobot mark on you...how intriguing for a neutral to be protecting a mere human." She suddenly smirks.

"That's funny coming a Decepticon who tortured my brother during the war just to find me and my comrades."

"Ah...so you remember that? How I made him scream in agony...begging for mercy...he cried like a sparkling begging for the pain to stop..."

I just shook my head of how disinterested I was hearing the bitch talk stupid with me like that. Now...I'm starting to act like Kamiizumi...I don't show my anger but deep down I'm mad. That's how I'm good at keeping my cool in this situation. Because of this, Airachnid was not expecting to see me calm after her talk.

"You're talk does not phase me nor am I falling for your trickery just so you can get the upper hand." I said rather calm.

As I expected, she lunges at me but Arcee tackles her down as they both stumbled down the hill as I just rolled my optics rather unimpressed of how mad Arcee was.

"What's going on?!" Jack shouted as he got out of the tent.

"We got to go now!" I shouted as I transformed in my vehicle form with holoform on.

Jack gets on my motorcycle as I drove at full speed away from Airachnid while Jack held on tight to prevent himself from falling.

"What's happening?!" He asked in a panic.

"Let's just say someone from Arcee's past has some unfinished business with Arcee and not in a good way either." I said with seriousness.

As I jumped off the edge of the cliff to get to the otherside, I stopped near a tree and saw Airachnid's ship from the distance which made me come up with a plan.

"Jack. I have a plan that might help us on getting rid of our problem." I said as I drove to the ship.

"What do you have in mind?" He asks.

"I'll explain when I get there."

I stopped in front of the ship as Jack got off my motorcycle and went to check on the ship and noticed some energon on the floor of the ship.

"Energon...you plan to...?"

"Yes. Once I lure the enemy here, set her to a blaze." I said as I activate my stealth camouflage.

"Okay. Hope you know what you're doing..." He sighs.

I look at the edge where I jumped over and sure enough Airachnid was there...with her trademark sadistic grin.

"Hide. Be sure you have something that makes fire and fast before she finds out what's going on." I ordered Jack.

"You got it."

I quietly got to a hiding spot near Airachnid as she jumps over the edge as I hear a dark chuckle coming from her.

"Come out, Dark Blade. You can't hide forever!" She shouted.

Wanna bet, bitch? Okay...let's play. I throw a rock at her and quickly got behind another tree as she shot at the tree thinking I was there.

"Playing games with me? Fine. Be that way. You're only making this worse to yourself." She smirks.

I stood still as she starts walking around the forest trying to find and as she got close to me, her claws were near my face but thankfully didn't touch my face when I quietly moved away from her but...

*SNAP!*

I accidentally snapped a twig making her stop in her tracks...then slowly turns towards me with the most sadistic grin on her face that made me shiver and that it puts the show in shame. I'm not kidding. It's fucking terrifying!

"There you are." She chuckle.

As I deactivated my stealth camouflage, I back flipped away from her and ran to her ship and as I expected, she started chasing me. I pretended like I lost hope when I got in the ship and ugh...she shows up in front of me when I pretended to make a run for it.

"Going somewhere?" She purred.

I back up a bit but she pins me down to the ground...no...I know what you're thinking so stop thinking dirty! Her acid claws scratched my cheek making me winced. She then trails her claws to my spark chamber.

"I'm going to enjoy making you beg for death...just like I did with your brother..."She said with a wide sadistic grin.

This time I smirked knowing I made her a fool.

"NOW!" I shouted.

A lit stick was thrown in the stick as Airachnid sees the energon lit on fire...

"Checkmate..." I chuckled.

(Jack's pov)

I quickly behind cover a tree as a huge explosion triggered in the ship and wondered if Dark made it. I hope he did...

"Dark?! Dark?! Are you alive?! Dark?!"

"Over here..." I heard him from above.

I look up and I see Dark unharmed on a tree branch looking at me. He jumps down next to me and stretches a bit.

"You planned this all along didn't you?" I asked him.

"One of the main things of being a cyber ninja is planning ahead. ...like right about...now..."

Just as he said that he quickly grabs me, side flipped out of the way just avoid something that looked like webs. He's good...

"Nice try, Airachnid. But it takes more than that to outsmart me." Dark said with seriousness.

I look through the fire and there was this femme...a very scary femme...walking through the flame with her spider legs in complete rage.

"I won't be made a fool by you! I'll kill you!" She shouted.

Dark didn't seemed fazed by her rage and I noticed a faint smirk like he was proud of making her mad. Then he said something in Japanese...

"Dare ka hokanohito wa anata ga o shinpai suruhitsuyōgāru monodesu(what you should be worrying about is someone else.)" Dark smirks.

At the same time, Arcee comes out of nowhere and does perfect jump kick to the femme's face knocking the femme far away from us.

"Jack! Dark! Are you alright!?" Arcee said as she rushed towards us.

"Yes. We're fine." Dark said.

"That's a relief."

Suddenly...I hear what sounded like drilling and saw the femme drilling through the ground to escape. As Arcee tried to go after the femme, Dark stopped her.

"Let her go. It won't be the last time we see her."

Arcee glares at Dark but sighs knowing that Dark may be right. We walked away from the burning ship and were on our way out of the forest.

"By the way...Dark. I overheard that femme about your brother...did something happened?" I asked.

Arcee stops to look at Dark and the moment Dark stops on his tracks, he looked emotionless again.

"He isn't entirely my brother but what you humans call adopted. We treat each other like brothers though if that makes any sense..."

"I understand, Dark. Seen that before with people around Nevada." I said.

He was silent for a second then sighs.

"During the war, my brother was held captive by that femme named Airachnid. Tortured him just so the cons could find me...and my neutral comrades...he was tough though and didn't gave her the location but then it got worse. She nearly killed him with torture tools she kept with her but I got him out with a distraction and managed to treat his wounds once we got away. However...his sanity was something else that would take a long time to recover..."

I covered my mouth in shock of horrifying that was...sounded like something from the Vietnam War...but...probably worse.

"Wow...I'm so sorry I asked..." I said with a apologetic tone.

Dark looks at me with an emotionless look and at first he would get angry but he just still looked emptionless.

"It's okay...you didn't know...come on...Optimus must be worried about us." He said as he looked away from me and kept on walking.

"Couldn't agree more." Arcee said as she followed Dark.

Looks like there's more to this guy that meets the eye...