AND ONTO THE NEXT ONE…
So just to let you guys know I'm trying to get these chapters out at least once a month if not less than that but typing seven thousand word chapters takes a fair bit of time so the last one obviously took a bit longer I think maybe a month and a half maybe two. Editing takes maybe about a week just to add to that so that's the kinda schedule I have set for this. (P.S. yea I write this A/N when I first start the chapter so keep that in mind)
Also, thank you to those that have left positive reviews, those make me feel happy that people actually like what I think is kinda garbage. Seriously I feel like my writing is just constant rambling and not a decent story so thanks for the self-esteem boost. And to the crazy guest bastard that said I should have written more, I probably would have but then you would never have gotten a chapter.
So yes as a kind of recap, the former humans are cornered by Buckethead for the moment after Jack escaped and freed everyone else so let's see how this plays out cause I'm just wingin it most of the time.
And I should also point out that a nano-cycle = a second and that's about all ya need to know might be the only time I use anything other than normal time.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
-John F. Kennedy
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Chapter 4
Sound the Alarm
It felt as if time had stopped.
No One moved, no one breathed, not that they needed to anyway.
Jack stood glaring at silver titan, vaguely noticing he was half a helm shorter than Megatron.
Sierra was behind Jack using his large size to hide from the terrifying mech. Miko, Vince, and, Jameson stood close by ready to assist in the case a fight broke out, everyone else stood behind them like they were a wall.
"I must admit, Jack, you are truly an impressive youngling," Megatron spoke.
"Not only have you managed to free yourself and your friends but you also put my second in command in stasis lock and evaded my troopers patrols."
"She tried to break me using anger and fear," Jack said determined not to show any nervousness or fear to the tyrant. "I turned it around and used that as a strength and broke free."
"Indeed you did, and not too much a surprise either, especially with your large frame those chains didn't stand a chance to hold you for long," The way Megatron talked about Jack made him feel creeped out, the observations and small complements unnerving. "You see when you first assessed that terminal outside of the cells Soundwave was immediately notified of this and in turn, as was I, yet even with increased patrols with alerted guards you hid well."
Megatron glanced around the room at the other former humans in the cell practically cornered. "And that is why I think you will make an excellent lieutenant for my cause and your friends a specialized squad to hunt down Optimus and his pestering Autobots."
"For the last time Megatron we will not fight for you," Jack spoke with a level tone but it withheld a growing fury at the warlord. He knew not one of the people behind him would fight for the maniac at least not willingly.
Megatron chuckled his red optics gave off the impression of amusement. "Ahh yes, I doubted you would do so willingly boy, and your resistance to the cortical psyche patch is an astounding feat but it is of little consequence." Megatron evilly smirked at Jack before turning his gaze behind him, "There are other ways to break one's will."
Following the tyrants' gaze, Jack saw his mother keeping Raf and Sari behind her to shield them from the maniacal mech.
"Not only that but, I think I shall have Knockout do some tests to see what allows you to resist the patches effects," Megatron looked away for a moment as if in thought before continuing "And maybe one of the little ones as well to see what makes them tick."
Jacks plates bristled at the constant bombardment of threats against his friends and family his wings pressed firmly down and against his back acting similar to a cat's tail. "We. will. Never. Join you. Megatron." his voice low and threatening, his optics burning in a silver rage.
Megatron simply waved him off walking slowly closer revealing two vehicon troopers behind him no one noticed before. "Oh, but you will, and once you do I'll have you hunt down your precious Autobots and tear out their sparks." Megatron's voice lost the calm and almost malicious tone and it had and turned to a vicious almost feral snarl. "I tire of your games boy surrender yourself to me, you stand no chance of escape."
At that single moment of fear and anger, Jack's mind shut down and his instincts kicked in and took over.
The sound of a transformation rang through the cell and Jack lunged forward at Megatron who was now in striking distance.
Before Megatron even had a chance to react, Jack charged into his chest, plunging a long and broad blade that protruded out his arm where his servo was, straight through his chassis, and just barely missing the warlord's spark.
Megatron, optics wide, gasped in pain, shocked that the boy would even be able to summon a weapon yet and injure him in such a matter.
Jack's eyes were filled with fury. He wanted Megatron to suffer under his grip. However, his glowing blazing silver optics gazed around, seeing the stunned and shocked faces of the others behind him.
The most terrified ones were Sierra and his mother.
He sighed before taking his blade out of the Decepticon's chest it dripping with the corrupted purple energon, grabbed his limbs, lifted him above his head with a tremendous amount of strength and tossed him into the two Vehicons that were still inside, crashing them into the wall where Sierra had been chained, creating a Megatron-shaped dent into the wall. Before Megatron had a chance to recover, Jack kicked him hard in the faceplate for good measure, knocking the tyrant out cold.
"Way to go Jack!" Jameson and shouted out, completely unfazed by the fact that Jack took down the leader of the Decepticons with ease.
"That's showing that Decepti-Creep not to mess with us!" Miko followed up,
"J-Jack… how d-did you..." June tried to speak but was too stunned by the anger she saw in her son's eyes, and the fact that he nearly killed Megatron on his own was almost more to handle than the transformation.
"I-I-I don't know…" Jack replied honestly, looking at the blades on his arms before they retracted back on their own. "I-I just…h-he was getting too close…a-and I-I just c-couldn't…" he could barely get the words out he almost killed someone even if it was a sparkless maniac.
"Jack," June spoke, snapping Jack out of his stunned and scared rant. She smiled warmly at him. "Thank you for protecting us." Jack couldn't help but smile back, glad his mother did not think any less of him.
"Yea you did a good job," Sean mumbled. Jameson just quickly Gibbs slapped him.
"Oh stop being so moody."
"Alright, quick let's get out of here before he gets up," Jack said quickly ushering everyone out of the cell.
No one had any objections to that and as soon as they were out of the cell threw caution to the wind and ran down a few corridors before Jack had everyone stop. And the same as before entering Sierra and Mikaela's cell there were no patrols in any of the halls to try and stop them.
"Alright, now that everyone's here we have to figure a way off this tub." Jameson put it bluntly and to the point.
Miko's optics flashed momentarily, "Yea and there are two ways, number one we could go to the top and jump off and hope we don't become giant metal pancakes, or we can find and 'borrow' the cons groundbridge just like when Optimus thought he was a con."
"Uh, that might work. But first we need to find it first and we only have the ship schematics for the cells." Raf spoke up, "Unless we can find another terminal we'll be stuck here, and even then you heard what Megatron said Soundwave is monitoring the terminals."
Jameson leaned against the wall and opened his wrist terminal and rapidly started typing half listening to the conversation.
"Yea Raf's right, as soon as we get into another terminal Soundwave will know exactly where we're at and where we're going." Jack leaned back against the wall and let his helm hit it with a small bang, "How are we going to get off this ship," Jack muttered,
"Uh I still got a map it may only be this level of the ship but it's better than nothing and I think I found a way out of the brig section." Jameson lifted his arm to show Jack the map, "Sure I don't know architecture but I'm pretty sure that hallways don't turn like that just to end," He pointed to a highlighted part showing a hallway just after an intersection turn left and then just stopped.
"But, Ugh… I mean, are you sure, for all, we know it could just end there and we're cornered," Jack pointed out.
Well we won't know until we find out, and besides if we get caught by some cons we'll be fine you could probably slice them while me, Miko, and Vince knock out the rest," Jameson nudged Jack with his elbow, "No one else is coming up with anything and this is all we got for now."
"Uh, Raf what about you what do you think?" Jack asked kinda hoping for a different option that had more know variables.
"I think it's worth a shot, best case scenario we get out of the brig and another step closer to getting out of here, worst case is it's a dead end." Raf just shrugged then gestured to Jameson. "Besides he's right we don't have anywhere else to go do we."
"Come on Jackrabbit it'll be fine stop being such a wuss, where's your sense of adventure." Miko chimed in earning a halfhearted glare from Jack.
"Sorry, I think I left it in my burned down house." Jack retorted making Miko and Raf wince a little at the reminder of what happened. "And I'm not being a 'wuss' I'm trying to make sure everyone stays safe, I don't want anything worse than what's already happened to happen to anyone else."
"Yes, fine mister responsible no need to get sappy, let's just get going I'm tired of looking at the same stupid walls." Miko stretched her joints emitting a small hiss and pop in the pistons and gears.
"Alright, well it's in that direction and left at the next corridor intersection." Jameson pointed out and Miko nodded and started walking in the direction, Jameson shrugged and started following after grabbing Sean.
Raf gave as much of a thankful look to Jack as he could, "Thank you for trying to watch out for us Jack and don't mind Miko you know how she is, she's thankful she just doesn't realize it yet." Raf gave Jack's lower arm a reassuring squeeze before following after.
The other seeing that people were leaving quickly started following as to not fall behind. Jack stayed behind momentarily just to make sure no one was left behind and jogged to quickly catch up with the rest as they had made it quite a ways down the dark hall. Matching pace with June as he caught up she gave me a small smile to which he returned.
The sound of all their pedes walking along the metal floor started to sound slightly like marching and it was fairly loud making Jacks unease grow a little more.
Luckily the amount of time it took to get to the corridor that Jameson pointed out didn't take long to get to.
Not so luckily whatever was at the end of the hall two vehicons were guarding what looked like a large door double the size of the ones their cells had.
Vince at some point came over to see what was going on along with Sari and June all three listening intently to what was being said.
"Great, those vehicon's will see us before we can even get close to them." Jack pointed out, "Now what are we supposed to do?" Jack stared at Miko, Jameson, and Raf while the others stayed behind them a little further down the hall.
"I say we rush 'em they won't have any time to react," Miko emphasized her want to wreck something by bashing her servos together.
"No, I agree with Jack on this one they're too far for them not to notice us not to mention we're not as small as we once," Jameson glanced at Jack for a second "were some more than others."
"Well, how are we supposed to get over there then?" Miko questioned irritably switching her annoyed glare between the two large bots.
Vince glance around the corner for a moment then glanced around at everyone in the little circle looking at Jack and Miko a little more especially the silver patch on Jack's black chest plate.
"Hmm, I've got an idea, I doubt you'll like it though." Everyone looked at Vince in surprise and motioned for him to get on with it. "Well, those are just drones, right?
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"No, absolutely not that's crazy, He'll get hurt I won't allow it," June cut in as soon as Vince finished his plan. "There has to be another way."
"Well what do you think we should do then Mrs, Darby, we don't exactly have a large amount of options or time for that matter," Jameson pointed out, "It's either we can hope those two down there think Jack's a con or we can try and rush them and someone definitely get hurt."
"Mom I agree it's not really a full proof plan but it's better than nothing at the moment and we really need to move." Jack put a servo on her shoulder in a reassuring gesture, "I'll be fine, I can take a few hits if it means getting you guys out of here." Jack froze up for a split second as he felt feeling of extreme worry and protectiveness flood him for a moment before stopping, brushing it off he turned to walk toward the vehicons.
"J-just be care careful," June softly murmured and once again that feeling of worry passed through him, although he was nervous he was certain this worry wasn't his he was feeling.
"Aren't I always?" Jack shot back over his shoulder light-heartedly before turning the corner into full view.
The vehicons didn't even react to seeing him there, Jack let out a small sigh of relief "Alright so far so good." he started walking closer, it wasn't a very long hall but it was just enough to form perfect kill zone.
He crossed to the corridor and was basically in front of the cons' when they finally reacted, "Designation: Unknown, Faction symbol identified: Decepticon, Identify yourself." the con spoke in a monotone voice void of anything.
Jack stood dumbstruck, he didn't really think about what would happen if he got this close but five seconds without an answer and the con's leveled blasters at Jack's chest. "You have ten nano-cycles to identify yourself or you will be fired upon."
Panicking he quickly grabbed both the cons' helms and smashed them together making them fritz for a moment before stilling and slumping.
The sound of rushing steps behind him made him panic and he turned around swinging, he felt his fist connect with something before he saw who he hit. His blue optics met wide dark green optics for a second as he saw Jameson flying to the right a decent dent in his chest plate.
The loud clash of metal rang through the hall making everyone wince at both the noise and sight of the impact, Sean just stared for a second before bursting out laughing.
Miko and Sari joined in a little bit later, Jack, however, was quickly by Jameson's side helping the dazed bot get back on his pedes.
"You, you uh… have got one hell of a uh, was that a right or left hook," Jameson quickly shrugged, "Ah who cares, I flew like a bird." he started something that sounded something between a giggle and his previous deranged laugh.
Jack just hefted him up by the shoulders set him on his feet, when he started swaying Jack went to catch him before Jameson steadied himself out.
Jack let out a relieved sigh when Jameson gave him a thumbs up and assured him he was fine, although Jack really thought the potentially mental bot was everything but.
Raf caught his attention at the terminal at the door and waved him over the others once again stayed along the sides of the halls and Vince dragged the two vehicons out of sight.
When Jack stood behind Raf who was busy at typing away Raf started explaining what he was doing, "It's an elevator, it goes up and down the four levels of the ship, were in the brig at the bottom, the crew quarters are above us and above that is the command and flight deck."
"Alright so we're going to need to use a groundbridge to get out of here or we crash the ship," Jack pointed out "so we need to get to the command level and hope we can figure it out from there."
"Alright" Raf agreed "I'll call the elevator down and set it for the command deck,"
Moments later a mechanical whoosh sounded behind the doors and they opened revealing an empty circular room with a terminal at the side that Raf quickly moved toward. While Jack ushered everyone else in doing another headcount to settle his nerves a little bit.
However with twelve bots in the elevator it was a little crowded, it wasn't too bad but the quick ascent of the elevator jostled everyone into each other slightly.
The ride upward lasted all of three minutes before it came to a sudden stop, and the doors opened. However standing guard right outside were two more vehicons with their backs turned to the door completely oblivious of the escaped prisoners behind them.
Miko tackled one while Mikaela jumped the other one the two femme's quickly tearing apart the cons with a fury.
"Geez, don't wanna piss them off," Sean muttered, Vince and Spike quickly nodded in agreement, Just as suddenly as the two attacked the two vehicons offlined and were dragged out of sight.
"Alrighty then well now this thing is useless," Jameson gestured to his screen, "And unless we wanna run into soundy we can't download another map onto here, we're gonna be running in the blind."
"Well we'll have to check every door we come across, were close now but that cell isn't going to hold Megatron forever once he wakes up," Jameson and Raf nodded in agreement, time was not on their side.
Jack looked down at his left servo holding it up, the image of him stabbing Megatron like a shishkebab was brought to the front of his processor, he left out a slow vent and relaxed his joints and thought about what he felt when his servo switched, the shifting metal, the energy pulsing in the blade.
The sound and feeling of his servo transforming vibrated throughout his frame, looking down the large blade now in place of his servo pulsed with energy, and now he got a good look at it.
It was large that was for sure although it was probably proportional with the rest of his arm, blue circuitry ran along the black sides and instead of the jagged shapes like Optimus' and Arcee's blades his were smooth and similar in shape to a broadsword.
(A/N I swear if someone leaves a review commenting on the 'length' of a 'sword' as an innuendo I'm gonna find where ya live then smack the shit outta ya. Gotta put this here just in case.)
"Oooohhh, pretty, that's so cool how do you do that." Miko all but screamed in jealousy, "I wanna know how to do that, please Jack tell me tell me tell me-"
"Later Miko right now we have to find a way outta here." Miko visibly sagged but now was not the time for games.
Jack managed to figure out how to bring back his servo and re-summon his blade, and summon another one on his right arm. He was prepared to protect his group.
"Come on guys, this way," leading the pack. June, Sean, and Raf were right behind him while the girls followed close. Vince, Jameson, and Spike brought up the rear Effectively forming a protective barrier for the ones in the middle.
"Jack, do you know where we're going?" Sari asked from behind June.
"Not a clue," Jack replied. "With the few numbers of times I've been on this ship, I never really took a chance to get to know the layout. I was kind of busy running for my life." Jack led them to another hallway.
This one same as the others looked exactly the same as any of the other ones, dark creepy and of course dark purple lights barely light the hall, the main power conduit on the ceiling brought some light but not enough to be calming.
Hall after hall and door after door brought no results besides allowing Jameson to map the place, they came across a few empty crew quarters, a storage room filled with who knows what and a few empty rooms.
Soon though steps could be heard coming from in front of them and an obnoxious voice drifted down the hall halting their progress.
Finding quick hiding spots amongst the ships support structures they waited as the voice came closer.
"Well I can't exactly go back to that town now can I, half of it was destroyed and it was completely evacuated." there was a slight pause but from this distance, it was easy to tell who the voice belonged to. "Well while they may be squishy they do make for interesting race competition, besides I'll be back before ya know it."
Seconds later the vain red medic of the Decepticons came down the hall digits to his helm obviously on a comm link. A plan came into Jack processor as he saw the red con with a data pad in his other servo.
"Whatever Breakdown just keep fixing the patch and we'll have some new recruits by tomorrow." Knockout cut the link and continued to walk down the hall.
A small sound off to his left caught his attention and before he could even recognize the fact a fist was coming his way he was flung into the arm of Vince who dragged him into the shadows and dropped him 'gently'.
Jack bent down and picked up the datapad Knockout dropped and handed it to Raf, "Can you figure out what's on this?" Jack asked.
"Yea just give me a sec," his screen's optics furrowed in concentration, "Got it, let's see," he quickly skimmed over the pad and with each row of cybertronian glyphs, he read his optics widened exponentially.
"These are all his notes and scans from the experiment, here look" He handed the pad back to Jack who surprised himself with the ability to read the language.
"Right here it says all of our systems have been brought up to date and the multiple programs needed like the translation software were downloaded fine, I guess that makes sense as to why we can read this." Jack held the tablet out to his mom who took it and started tapping away at the screen experimentally.
"Alright that's fine and all Jack but what are we gonna do about that creep," Vince said pointing a digit over his shoulder at Knockout who was now getting a makeover courtesy of Miko and Mikaela.
"We leave him, he'll slow us down and he's not a threat right now, besides we got what we needed from him." pointing at the datapad now in Spike's servos who was humming in thought.
"Alright, well we should get going then who knows how long that silver behemoth will stay knocked down." Spike pointed out while handing the datapad back to Raf who held it in his servos like it was his life source.
"Right, let's get going." Miko popped up making Vince jump slightly while Jameson and Sean quietly edged away from the animated femme.
Jack nodded and began jogging down the hall with everyone right on his heels, leaving Knockout dented and scratched in a dark corner.
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Jack led them to another hallway, except he could hear vehicons coming from both the other halls leading into the intersection. "Frag it all!"
"Jack! Language!" June said, covering Raf's Audio Receptors.
"Sorry," Jack muttered. "We need to go back, it's a dead end."
"No can do!" Vince whispered, looking past the wall and seeing Vehicons coming from both sides. "We have Decepticons!"
"Double Frag!" Jack growled, this time quietly enough for his mother not to hear.
"Great we're trapped like rats- wait hold up there's a door right down there," Miko pointed out to a door down the left hall being guarded by two vehicons
"Way to go Miko!" Sari whisper yelled happily
"Well, it's better than nothing, come everyone let's go." Jack charged forward easily taking out the two oblivious guards before they could make a noise.
"Alright, everyone get in!" Jack commanded. The femmes and mechs all rushed in with Jack being last. The door closed just as the cons passed by, completely unaware. Jack, having his head pressed to the wall, said, "Sounds like they're leaving. Looks like we're safe."
"Uh…Jack?" Raf called, making the mech look over. The femmes, Vince and Raf were all staring at something. Jack looked and gaped at what he saw. They were surrounded by a vast number of Cybertronian, blaster and melee weapons. Swords and shields, maces, axes, pistols and rifles, everything one could think of. And at the center of this room, standing on a pedestal was a large golden hammer easily half Jack's height.
"The Forge of Solus Prime," Jack said in amazement, having seen images of it brought by the Bots.
"The what?" Spike asked.
"It is an ancient Cybertronian relic, like that machine that changed us," Jack explained. "However, according to the Autobots, it is said that it can be used to build or repair pretty much anything." Jack stepped forward and was about to grab it when his mother stopped him.
"Jack! What are you doing?!" she hissed
"We can't leave the forge here with the Cons!" Jack exclaim. "This is our chance to take away an advantage from them. Also, if the Con use it, they can build whatever they want do you really think it's a good Idea to let them keep it?"
"He's right we can't let the enemy have any sort of advantage, the smart thing to do it take it whilst we escape," Jameson said as Jack gripped the handle. While Jack's words were true, he was unaware of the certain specification that was needed in order to wield the forge.
"Jack, look at that thing!" Mikaela explained. "I mean, I like a good hammer, but that thing is huge."
"Yeah," Miko replied. "Bulkhead said he even had trouble lifting it. And he's the biggest bot, next to Optimus." "I mean I think you might be a little bit bigger than Optimus but still there's the chance you can't carry it"
Jack sighed. They were right. If Bulkhead had trouble lifting it, what chance did he have? Sure, he was strong now, but maybe not that strong.
"You're right. I'm a lot stronger now, but it's not like I can just lift this up with one hand and say, 'Look at me with the Forge of Solus Prim-and why are you staring at me like that?" he asked, looking at the stunned stares of the group. He looks up and saw he was indeed holding the Forge of Solus Prime in one hand. "O…kay. I didn't expect that."
"Jack, how are you doing that?!" Carly exclaimed. Before Jack could answer, a loud blaring sound along with a red light flashing started.
"Okay, either the Forge had a signal or Megatron is out. In any case, we need to get out of here, NOW!" Jack yelled out. The group rushed to the door and ran into the hall. When they did though, they were surrounded on all sides by Vehicons.
"Oh Scrap," Jack muttered,
Everyone just remained frozen and the cons had their blasters all pointed at the escapees.
quickly a lone Vehicon stepped forward, "Prisoner! Put down the forge and surrender." the Vehicon spoke in a voice different from that of the one earlier in the fact it wasn't just monotone and sounded like it came from a computer.
However, at the moment, it didn't matter as Jack took the forge and swung it in a downward arc crushing half the vehicon.
Another vehicon shouted something sounding like "Neutralize him" but it was lost to the sound of crashing and tearing metal, Several Cons began to charge at the group, Although none of the other started firing.
"Everyone get back!" Jack exclaimed, pushing the group back into the hall while remaining at the front to battle the Cons. One charged with blades at the ready, only for Jack to literally bring the hammer down on the Con's head again, crushing it. this impact, however, sent a shockwave through the halls, making many of the Cons fall on their afts.
"Here's our chance! Run! Run!" Jack declared. The group ran to the left, which was less crowded and avoided the Cons. Any Con that tried to reach for their legs was crushed by either Jack, Jameson, or Vince.
The group ran fast through the halls, Miko leading the pack and Jack bringing up the rear. "Wait!" Miko cried out, stopping the group.
"Miko! What's-Scrap!" Jack cried out, seeing more Vehicons running towards them from the front. He would have gone to the front, but he heard movement and turned to see Vehicons coming from behind them.
Jameson and Vince joined Jack in front of the group acting as the front line defense against their attackers as the remaining Vehicons from before started attacking from behind them so Sean, Spike, and Mikaela stood up to defend their rear but it was obvious they were quickly getting overwhelmed on both sides.
While the metal was clashing and occasional blaster shot went off, Miko's thoughts were loud as well. 'Oh, for the love god. All those Cons are coming right for us! they can't protect all of us all the time. Oh if only I could do something! Anything! I'm so mad I could just SCREAM!'
At that very moment, Miko's arms transformed into strange blasters. "GET AWAY!" Miko screamed, and the blasters sent massively powerful waves of sonic energy right at the Cons, sending them flying to the end of the hallway.
"MIKO STOP!" June cried, holding her Audio Receptors. Miko stopped screaming, and the sound waves stopped as well. she looked back and saw the others, even Jack, had covered their ears. The cons behind Jack had been knocked on their afts due to the vibrations of the powerful waves.
"Whoa, I did that? AWESOME!" Miko exclaimed as her blasters reverted into hands back into her body.
"It looks like we all might have some special weapons," Spike said in awe.
"Well, as much as I'd like to find what our weapons are, we should keep moving," Mikaela stated.
"Mikaela's right," Let's go!" Jack exclaimed. The group continued to rush through the halls, this time with Jack at the front, wielding the forge. Miko now took the rear, ready to take out any con with her sonic blasts. They kept running until… "Scrap! A dead end!" Jack exclaimed.
However, Raf intervened. "W-Wait Jack, there's a door here!" he pressed his hand to the door at the end of the hall, Revealing a fairly large room with a full array of terminals along the back wall. It looked like they might have come upon Soundwave's room with the number of computers but from the total lack of any creepy cons in the room, it was safe for now.
Everyone rushed inside and Jameson almost tripped over the smaller Sierra in his hurry to get in quickly.
"Raf, try to see if you can hack into the system, and Miko you cover him just in case." Miko and Raf nodded before rushing over to the main console.
"What do you want us to do Jack?" Jameson asked. he had been feeling pretty useless since their escape, and he wasn't the only one. Some of the girls and the guys felt the same
Jack tried to think. What could the girls do to help them in their situation? None of them had any fighting experience or experience at all with the cons. Jack could try giving one of them the Forge so he could use his blades instead, but one look at them and he thought they would have no chance to lift it.
Jack heard cries coming from the other side of the door and smashed the controls with his fist. He could hear the Cons shooting at the door in an attempt to open it. "J-Just get back with Raf and Miko. I have to stay here in case the Cons breakthrough. Vince, Spike, and Jameson stick with me and
watch my back."
"That's fine by me," Sean said and took to hiding behind a terminal close to Raf.
The girls wanted to argue, but June intervened. "Jack's right girls. We have no means of fighting at the moment, and Jack and Miko have more experience when dealing with Decepticons. We can't risk anything yet." The girls only nodded in response and followed June back to the console.
Vince watched as the girls left, then turned his attention back to Jack. "Why didn't you send me back with them?"
Jack smirked. "Are you saying you don't remember our little wrestling matches?" Vince blinked in surprise. "I may be able to swing this hammer, but I can't do everything. I need someone to watch my back, and I trust you with it."
Vince was stunned. When he began acting like a jerk, he had often picked on Jack, trying to hurt him. He did this because he felt he was better than Jack. Now Jack said he trusted him, after everything he did? Vince realized this was a chance to prove himself. Vince nodded, taking a fighting stance. He wouldn't let himself lose his friend again.
"And you can count on me too," Spike said, smacking his fist. The four mechs braced themselves, ready for the coming fight.
"How are you doing Raf?" Sari asked.
"I'm still trying to hack into the Bridge controls, but I found something else," Raf said, pulling up a screen with the images of their little group and strange data. "There seems to be more Information on us, it even looks like they were spying on all of us."
"That's great Raf, but we don't have much time before the Cons breakthrough!" Jack exclaimed. "Hack the Ground Bridge and let's get out of here."
"Right!" Raf replied. He quickly worked his servos on the keyboard. It felt strange being able to use an actual Cybertronian keyboard rather than his laptop, but he pushed it aside. He kept working and hacking until finally, "Jack! I got it! I got the Ground Bridge controls!"
"Great, now set us up for the Bots' base and let's get out of here!" Miko exclaimed.
"No!" Jack exclaimed. "If we bridge there the Decepticons will be able to track us and get into the base. We need somewhere far enough that they won't be able to find it, but close enough for the Bots to find us."
"Already on it!" Raf replied. However, before he set the coordinates, Raf did something different. "Hold on, I got an idea."
"BREAK DOWN THAT DOOR!" Megatron's furious roared echoed through the walls.
"Megatron!" Jack cried out. "Raf! Hurry up! We don't have much time!" Jack braced the Forge of Solus Prime, ready for what he was sure was the coming battle.
"Almost there," Raf said, transferring and clicking on data. "Got it!" Raf pressed a button and shortly behind him and the girls appeared a swirling green vortex. "We got it!"
"Good! Now everyone, get out!" Jack cried out just as the doors burst open. Several Vehicons and Seekers charged at the five defending mechs with blades, claws, and blasters at the ready.
Using excellent skill and prowess he didn't even know he had, Jack spun the Forge of Solus Prime around smashing and crashing the Cons. Vince and Spike also got several successful punches on them. While Jameson found out how to fire his shoulder cannon hitting multiple vehicons with precision.
"Go! Go! GO!" Miko exclaimed, leading the femmes and Raf through the bridge. June paused and looked back, watching as he son took on the Cons. Never in her life had June felt more proud to be the mother of such an amazing young man.
"RAAAAH!" Jack roared as he smashed through more Cons. "you four go I'll hold them back!" they were about to argue, but when they saw Jack's face, they quickly ran to the portal. Jack continued to take out cons with great speed and strength.
Just when he thought he was done and was about to run to the Bridge, a clawed metallic hand gripped around his metal neck and crashed him into a wall. "AH!" Jack dropped the forge and opened his shining silver optics, staring into Megatron's furious red ones. "Leaving so soon?" Megatron said darkly.
He pressed a tighter grip on Jack's neck cables denting the plating, causing the mech to cough out in pain. "I think not. It seems I was mistaken in believing you would be easy to corrupt. But don't worry. I'm sure you'll make a fine Decepticon, that is, if you survive the torturous beating I'm about to give you." Megatron reeled his free arm back, ready to pierce Jack's very body with his sword. Jack closed his eyes, ready for the coming pain. The blade came down, and metal was cut.
Jack clenched his optics shut and hissed in Pain as Megatron's sword cut through his side, Jack opened his optics to glare at the Warlord but was confused when he saw the red optics open wide in shock and his mouth gaping open.
Looking down Jack could see a white blade with teal edges get pulled out of Megatron's back perfectly parallel to the wound Jack inflicted earlier.
Megatron lost his grip on Jack's throat and kneeled to the ground. Jack looked up and saw his mother with an angry glare and her blade dripping with Dark Energon. "No one, and I mean no one, hurts my son," June said coldly, giving Megatron's limp body a good kick to the abdomen making him fall over. June sheathed her blade and quickly rushed over to her son and helped him up. "Jack are you okay?"
"I'm fine mom, thanks," Jack replied. He grabbed the forge and stared down at Megatron. "Let this be a warning Megatron. You made a massive mistake turning us into Cybertronians. You just gave the Autobots a new chance at victory." He and June quickly rushed through the Ground Bridge, not before Jack picked up the warlord and tossed him into the console, destroying it and causing the green vortex to disappear just as they escaped.
AH HA, I DID IT! I didn't actually think I would finish this soon.
I'm so damn sorry this took almost like what two months to get out it was either school boring me to death, video games distracting me with their awesomeness, or me just not wanting to do a damn thing all day.
Whatever enough excuses for me, BTW that schedule thing up above not sure how accurate that thing is gonna be especially with how my writing has been going lately and I've just finished this at like 2 in the morning so yay sleep deprivation is a fun thing I need to sleep better this has been going on for all week.
ALSO who wants to see the bumblebee movie, I like how they implemented the G1 models especially Starscream's he doesn't like a damn triangle. There are so many things coming out that I want and want to see like Jurassic world fallen kingdom which I know the brits ya lucky bastards get that earlier than I do. *hmph* and there was quite a lot of cool shit shown off at E3 such as fallout 76 and Battlefield 5 so I'm hyped for that.
Hey also (I feel like I say also too much) please send me suggestions and leave reviews to this thing I call a story cause I not only need something to boost my self estee- I mean influence my writing habits but I need ideas to stea- dammit I mean to incorporate into this. Fine, I admit I need help I write too slowly when I have a set plan, I like to Captain Jack Sparrow this shit, emphasis on SHIT.
See what I mean about self-esteem…
Anywho I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter from hell and let the red army be with you comrades
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