Once again i have returned with another chapter! I have read your reviews again and i must say that you guys seem to like the idea of Ghost Rider Jack Darby. Well i hope to give you guys just that. anyway on with the chapter!


Chapter 7

"J.A.R.V.I.S, check for life signs." Jack ordered as he and the other Autobots made their way through the deserted town.

Seeing his HUD come up empty on the life signs, they kept moving through the town, hoping for some sign of M.E.C.H. Wondering why they had not encountered any M.E.C.H agents, Jack flew up to get a higher vantage point and try to scan for life signs again. Just as he was about to give up, Jack noticed something in the courtyard nearby. Scanning the area, jack saw that it was Miko's phone, just sitting in the courtyard. Flying towards it as the Autobots followed, Jack landed in front of said phone and scanned it for any traps. Getting a negative from his scans, Jack picked the phone up, only for it to start ringing. He waited for the Autobots to show up before he answered, putting it on speaker.

"Hello Jack. It would seem that your attempt to track your friend seems to have come up short." The voice of Silas spoke. "But not to worry, I still have he, and she is in perfect health."

"If you lay a finger on her, I'm going to-." Jack said narrowing his eyes only to be interrupted.

"You'll what Jack? The last time we fought, you almost succeeded in killing me. Only to fail." Silas taunted. "Make no mistake Jack, no harm will come to Miss Nakadai so long as you come to the coordinates in the phone. And Jack, you may not bring any of your transforming robots with you. If you do try to…well I'll be sure to send her to you in a body bag."

Once the call ended, Jack sighed and held onto the phone. Looking back at the Autobots, who all had varying degrees of emotions going through their faces. Bulkhead was angry and was ready to smash something. Arcee and Bumblebee were upset that Silas had captured Miko, but they also had a questioning look in their face, as if wondering how he knew Jack. Optimus looked as stoic as ever, not letting any emotion pass through. Sighing again, Jack called for a Ground Bridge.


Once Jack knew where the coordinates would send him, he had turned white. He could not believe that he had to go back. Just thinking about that place only brought up memories he would rather forget. But Miko needed to be saved and no amount of self-doubt would do that. As Jack changed into his armour, the Autobots were discussing on whether or not they would go with Jack. Bulkhead wanted to go due to him being her guardian. Arcee wanted to because she was Jack's. It was finally decided by Optimus that they would follow Silas' demands and not go with Jack, much to Bulkhead and Arcee's chagrin.

Nodding to said Autobot, Ratchet input the coordinates in as he and the others watched as Jack stepped through the Ground Bridge.

Once he had gotten through the Ground Bridge, he immediately noticed they had weapons trained on him, by the red dots all over his armour. J.A.R.V.I.S scanned their weapons as Jack moved forward towards the large cave that was in front of them.

"Sir, it would seem that the weapons the M.E.C.H agents are using, are equipped with armour piercing rounds." J.A.R.V.I.S said as the scan was complete.

"Thanks J.A.R.V.I.S." Jack said back as he and Optimus came to stop in front of a large clearing.

In the clearing, he saw that Silas was standing in front a large amount of screens, depicting different scenes. One of those were the fight the Autobots had with the Decepticons earlier that day. Next to the screens sat Miko, she was tied to a chair and had her hands bound behind her, with two M.E.C.H agents standing guard around her. As she turned to him, her eyes lit up in hope that he would rescue her.

"Jack!" She shouted before she glared at Silas and smirked. "You're in for it now scarface. Jack is going to tear you into scrap."

"I highly doubt that." Silas replied, turning to her rescuer. "Hello Jack, we meet again at last. Did you miss me?"

"Like a system failure in my armour." Jack shot back, as he lifted his hand about to fire.

"Ah, ah, ah. No can do Jack." Silas said as he held up a remote. "If anything happens to me then Miss Nakadai here would get a shock in her systems from the collar round her neck." He explained, indicating to the collar that was no her neck.

Growling, Jack lowered his hand. "What do you want Silas?" he asked.

Silas simply smirked at them. "Revenge for what you have done to me Jack."

"I would like to see you try. Let's settle this Silas, or are you afraid?" Jack taunted.

Silas growled at them before he turned and ran into one of the many passageways. Once he started running, the M.E.C.H agents started firing at the duo. Lifting his arms up, Jack started to return fire. Flying around the clearing, Jack started to grab onto some of the M.E.C.H agents and started throwing them at their comrades.

While all of this was happening, Anthony, who had run after Jack, attacked the two M.E.C.H agents surrounding Miko, and knocked them out. Once that was done, he started to gnaw at the collar, eating through it easily and freeing Miko in the process.

"Thank you Anthony." Miko thanked as she held onto him and ran off towards her rescuers.

"Sir, it would seem that Anthony has rescued Miss Nakadai and is on her way towards you." J.A.R.V.I.S told as Jack finished firing at the last of the M.E.C.H agents.

"Understood!" he said.

Flying towards her, Jack landed in front and his mask opened, showing his face. Once he was in front of Miko, she hugged him and rested her head on his chest as Anthony landed between them. Many thoughts and emotions ran through him. But the most prominent thought was that she was safe and that no harm was inflicted upon her. Putting a hand under her chin and making Miko look at him, he knew that he grown to love her. It was something that he had mulled over after she had kissed him that night at his workshop.

As they looked in each other's eyes, they started to move closer until their faces were just inches from each other. Closing his eyes, Jack simply leaned forward and captured Miko's lips in his own. Miko seemed to freeze before she started to kiss back and brought her hands to the back of his helmet and pulled him closer. Bringing his hands down to her hips, Jack held onto her, as if she would disappear.

Pulling away for a moment, Jack looked at Miko and asked "Are you okay Miko? They didn't try to hurt you?"

Shaking her head and smiling, she replied. "I'm okay Jack. Thank you for rescuing me though."

Letting a smirk play on his lips, Jack looked at Miko. "Are we still on for Saturday night?"

Miko simply smiled at him and kissed him again. "What do you think?"

"How sweet!" a voice sounded out.

Turning, Jack put his faceplate back on and brought Miko to hide behind him. As he looked around for the voice, the ground started to tremble slightly as loud footsteps started to echo around the cave. As the footsteps got louder and closer, he prepared his weapons and was ready to fire at any moment. Suddenly a round blue light came on from the darkness and moved towards them. As it stepped forward, Jack first saw a large foot step from the shadows and made their way towards them. Jack knew that foot anywhere and knew that he was in for one tough fight as the Iron Monger stepped out of the shadows and towered over them. Once it had stepped out, the chest opened up to show that Silas was piloting it.

"I see you made some improvements to the Iron Monger Silas!" He called out.

"Of course I have Jack!" Silas called back. "Did you really think that would not upgrade my armour after our last bout?"

"Doesn't matter Silas. You're still going down!" Jack told as he fired his missiles at the suit. Turning his towards Miko. "Miko. Run."

The chest closed, protecting Silas as the missiles exploded on it. Moving quickly he flew forward and smashed right into the Iron Monger, toppling the large giant. Just as he was about to rip Silas from the suit, he was thrown back by said person smashing his suits large fist to his side. Landing and rolling on the ground, Jack got up and fired his repulsors as Silas just laughed and walked forwards, the repulsors blast doing nothing to his suit.

"Did you not listen Jack? I have upgraded my suit and that means your weapons have no effect on me!" Silas laughed as he ran forward and kicked Jack away like a football.

Smashing into the cave wall, Jack slowly came out of the hole his body made, only to thrown right out of the cave by Silas as he fired off his own unibeam at him. Crashing through the cave and slamming on to the ground hard, he knew that he had to think of something if weapons couldn't hurt him.

"Power at sixty percent, armour integrity at fifty percent sir." J.A.R.V.I.S told as Iron Monger stepped out of the cave.

"J.A.R.V.I.S scan the suit for any vulnerabilities or weaknesses." Jack said as he struggled to get up.

Slowly getting up, Jack fired a barrage of missiles at Silas before flying forward and punching him at his chest. Pounding away at his chest, Jack did not see the large hand that came from his side and grabbed a hold of him. Caught in Silas' grip, he was slowly being crushed at his waist.

"FLARES!" Jack ordered.

With that a part of his suit opened and let loose a bunch of flares, blinding Silas, causing him to let go of Jack. Running away from the Iron Monger, he hid behind one of the many trucks and slowly formulated a plan on dealing with Silas. If his weapons were ineffective against Silas, he needed something that could deal serious damage. Except the only thing that could be useful was an Energon based weapon, and didn't exactly have something that powerful with him. An EMP would disable Silas' suit, but not for long, he would need to work fast if was to get Silas out of the suit. Peeking around the truck, he saw that the Iron Monger suit was facing away from him. Flying quickly, he got on the suits back and found a couple of exposed wiring.

Seeing his HUD display that it was the targeting system, he pulled at them. "This looks important!" he said with a final tug as the wirings came off.

He was then pulled off by his head and thrown to the ground, his helmet gone. Looking up, he saw that Silas had it in his hand before crushing it and throwing it at him. Opening his chest plate, Silas showed his face, a smirk on his face,

"You've finally out did yourself Jack. You've made your father proud!" he said. As Jack got on one knee.

Silas then started to fire his machine gun at him, causing Jack to open his gauntlet, acting as a shield to hide his face. Silas then started to fire his missiles, only for them to completely miss its mark and destroy some of the trucks.

"It would seem that you've ripped out my targeting systems. No matter, I can still crush you." Silas said as he kicked Jack away.

Landing hard on the ground, Jack felt his world spinning as he did a checklist of what he had left. No weapons, low on power and little time left. He suddenly felt a huge amount of pressure on his chest as Silas pressed his entire weight on him. Crying out in pain, Jack started to see black spots in his vision. Looking to the side, he saw one of the M.E.C.H agents weapons on the floor. Grabbing it he held it up and started firing, causing Silas to close his suits chest and release him. Stepping back away from him as Jack continued to fire away until the magazine was empty.

Seeing his opportunity, Jack regulated whatever power he had left to his unibeam and fired. Silas, who had at that point moved his suits arms away from his chest, could do nothing as the unibeam slammed right into him, making him slide backwards. Once the beam had stopped, Silas saw that Jack was on his knees, head down and out of power. Chuckling he made his way towards the boy who had caused no end of trouble.

Looking up, Jack that Silas was right in front of him, with his hand held towards him, ready to fire his repulsors at him. Just as the he was about to fire, he was thrown to the side from someone. Turning his head to where the shot came from, Jack was left stupefied as he saw Miko holding onto a rifle. From what he saw of the gun, he noticed that it was Energon based and wondered where she could have gotten it.

"You leave my boyfriend alone Silas!" She shouted at him as she started to fire away.

But just as she got going the gun spluttered and stopped firing, before transforming into Anthony. Shocked, she held onto Anthony and ran towards Jack.

"JACK! Are you okay?" she asked as she knelt down over him with Anthony looking at him with his big blue optics.

Smiling, Jack simply laid a hand on her cheek and rubbed it. "I'm fine Miko, Nothing a good rest won't fix." He joked.

"We have to get you out of here. Maybe you can call the Autobots." Miko suggested as she dragged Jack by his arms.

Just as he was about to answer a loud scream of rage was heard as Silas came out of the rubble that he was in. As Silas made his way towards them, Jack pushed Miko behind him, in some vain hope of protecting her from Silas. Just as he was in front of them, a Ground Bridge opened behind them. Coming out of the Bridge was Optimus, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee, all with their weapons trained on the Iron Monger.

As the minutes passed by with nothing happening, Silas finally made his move by throwing a large truck at the Autobots. While they were distracting he flew off before they could fire a single shot at the M.E.C.H leader. Lying on the ground in pain, Jack knew that this would not be the last time he would deal with Silas, of that he was sure. The last thing that he saw before darkness claiming him was Miko's face calling out to him.


The sound of crying was the first thing he heard. As he started to wake from his unconscious state, Jack wondered where he was, and what had happened. That's when he remembered Silas and the Autobots and that he was in the Autobot base. Groaning in pain, Jack started to slowly sit up only to be stopped by someone laying a hand on his shoulder. Looking at who it was, Jack was shocked that it was his mother, she seemed to be both worried and angry at the same time. Looking around Jack realised that he was in his workshop, his armour taken off and him in just jeans, a pair of socks and shoes. Looking at himself, he realised why he was without a shirt, and that was because of the amount of bandages surrounding his upper body.

"You have a lot of explaining to do young man." His mother told in her stern voice, making Jack cringe at the reprimand he was surely going to get.

Nodding, Jack slowly got off the bed that he laid on, and made his way to Miko. Miko, who continued to cry, did not notice that Jack had woken up and also did not realise he was standing right in front of her until he put an arm on her shoulder. Looking up she saw that he was smiling at her, smiling back she stopped crying. Once she had stopped crying, Jack took her hands in his and made her stand up. Once she stood up, Miko took her hands away from Jack and brought them to his bandaged chest. As she mover hands around his chest, Jack saw that Miko was slowly starting to cry again.

Putting his hands on her shoulders he asked. "Miko? What's wrong?"

"It's all my fault." She whispered back. "It's all my fault that you're hurt in the first place."

"Oh Miko." Jack said as he hugged her to his chest and rubbed her back. "I don't blame you for me getting hurt. I would have done so even if you weren't kidnapped."

"Why? Why would you risk your like that? All for me?" She asked as she hiccupped.

"Because I love you." Jack answered as he brought a crooked under her chin, making Miko look at him.

"Yo…you do?" she asked. Her eyes glistening with unshed tears.

"Yes. I do." Jack said before capturing her with a kiss.

Miko started to kiss back, as she weaved her hands through Jack's hair like before. When they stopped to catch some air. "I love you too. My Iron Avenger." Miko said to Jack said before kissing him again.


So what do you guys thinking that June found out about the Autobots earlier than Canon. i hope you don't mind, but with the fight against the Iron Monger, it had to be done. Also yay! Miko and Jack are in a relationship!

Anyway i hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Remember to leave a review. and Have an Awesome day.

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