Hello all. New Day new Chapter! So this is going to be a surprising chapter, so no spoilers. Hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 11

Two weeks had passed since the date. In that time Jack had Miko practice with the suit as well as learn more about medicine, both Cybertronian and Human. While the training was going well, Jack had also rewarded her with another two dates, for all the hard work she put in, such as bringing her to a movie as well as stargazing.

But while they have been having success, the rest of Team Prime could not say the same. While they had stolen all of the Decepticons store of Energon, they have been making up by hitting several Energon Mines at the same time. Unable to split the team to much, Jack volunteered to help them with the Energon retrieval, only having some success when they manage to stop the Decepticons from escaping with all the Energon.

But while the Decepticons where trying to restock their Energon Supplies, M.E.C.H has been busy. In the past few days, Agent Fowler has been giving reports of M.E.C.H activity moving close to Jasper. Worried for an attack, Jack had placed several sentry droids that could be controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S, dubbing them the Iron Legion.

As Jack was finishing up on the Mark VI, he heard J.A.R.V.I.S speak. "Sir, it would seem that M.E.C.H has attacked Jasper.

Stopping his work, Jack drank a bottle of water and asked. "Numbers?"

"A few dozen sir, not including vehicles." J.A.R.V.I.S replied.

"Alright, J.A.R.V.I.S send out the Iron Legion to help deal with them until I arrive. Also have them help with moving the civilians to a safe location." Jack said as he made his way to the others.

"PRIME! PRIME!" Agent Fowler called.

"Is something wrong Agent Fowler?" Optimus asked as he made his way to the terminal.

"You bet your star spangled shorts there is trouble! It's M.E.C.H, they just attacked one of our bases." Fowler explained. "We were developing a new weapon that we were going to have a field test on when they attacked and stole it. Luckily we added a tracking device to it in case this ever happened."

"Very well Agent Fowler, we will investigate the whereabouts to your weapon." Optimus told.

"Hold on Prime, I just got a call that-." Fowler was about to continue when Jack interrupted.

"M.E.C.H is attacking Jasper." He said as he got into his Mark V. "You're staying here, Miko." He added, much to her dismay.

"Autobots! Prepare to-." Optimus said, only to be interrupted by Jack.

"Optimus, you can't. I'll deal with M.E.C.H." Jack said as J.A.R.V.I.S fired up the GroundBridge.

"Jack's right, the people of Jasper cannot know of your existence. Best to sit this one out Prime." Fowler agreed.

Miko who was not happy about being left out, held onto Jack's arm. Turning to look at her, Jack brought his faceplate so she could see his face. "You come back alright, and go kick M.E.C.H's ass." She finished this with a kiss.

Smiling Jack nodded before bringing the faceplate down and flew through the GroundBridge.

When he made it through the GroundBridge, the first thing he saw was the chaos around him as people ran for their lives from the soldiers attacking the town. The police were trying to help where they can by blocking the road with their cars and taking cover behind them, while the Iron Legion helped by providing covering fire. Finding the closest M.E.C.H soldier, Jack blasted him with a repulsor blast, and then proceeded to blast through the others.

Once he dealt with the group, Jack turned to find a tank rolling up the driveway. Stopping a fair distance away, the tank fired a shot. Stepping aside from the shell, missing him and blowing up a truck, Jack brought his arm up and fired off on of his anti-tank missiles. Seeing the missile get stuck in the barrel of the tank, Jack turned and walked away to find more M.E.C.H soldiers, the tank blowing up behind him.

Seeing them aim their guns at him, Jack simply stood there and let them fire their bullets at him. Jack smiled at this. "Guys come on, stop, we've got to talk this through." He said this before fire concussion missile at them, knocking them to the ground. "Good talk."

"No it wasn't." one of the M.E.C.H soldiers said.

Hearing a loud thud behind him and feeling the ground shake, Jack turned around to find a large grey suit of armour, and was about the size of Megatron. It was mostly grey with a few parts being red and a helmet with a blue visor. "You're big." He stated.

"So you're the one Silas wants. You don't look like much." The person inside said, before kicking Jack away like a football.

Smashing through a car and slamming through a glass window, Jack knew he could not underestimate the person. Shaking his head, Jack shot forward and slammed into the giant robot. Noticing that nothing was happening, Jack was shocked, and tried to push the giant robot again. He was suddenly grabbed by his leg and was then slammed on the ground repeatedly until the giant robot through him into a tank truck, causing a large explosion.

"Power levels?" Jack groaned.

"Power is at eighty-eighty percent." J.A.R.V.I.S replied.

Getting up slowly, Jack walked out of the burning truck and aimed at the large robot. Shooting forward, Jack fired his shoulder mounter missiles and proceeded to fly in circles around the large robot, firing repulsors at the same time.

The missiles that hit the giant robot made it stagger back, and with the constant repulsor shots fired from Jack, he could not get a lock on. Getting frustrated, he picked up a large truck and flung it at the police, who had stayed to watch the fight.

Seeing this, Jack shot off quickly towards the flying truck and caught it, throwing it back at the giant robot. Said giant robot, fired off its own repulsor blast, destroying the truck. Once it did so, it started running towards him, with Jack responding by shooting towards him. Just as he was about to be hit by the robot's giant fist, Jack ducked low and slammed into the robot's right leg, making it fall forward from the loss of balance.

Landing on the back, Jack ripped the whole thing off, exposing the pilot inside. "Hi there." He said, pulling the guy out of the robot and throwing him to the ground.

Hearing guns cocking, Jack turned around to see even more M.E.C.H soldiers aiming their weapons at him. Rolling his eyes, Jack took aim at the vehicles around the soldier and fired at them, causing them to explode at the soldiers to run. Once that was done, Jack took off, back to base.

While flying back to base, Jack was thinking about what M.E.C.H was up to. While Silas was many things, one thing he was not was an idiot. He would not attack someone or something unless he had a reason too. Maybe he wanted to test his new suit against him, if so why not plot it himself. And speaking of the giant robot, it almost seemed too easy, unless it was a distraction, if so for what?

"Phone call from your mother." J.A.R.V.I.S told.

"Tell her I'm not here. I'm jogging." Jack said, hoping to not hear his mother scold him for his actions.

"Already answered sir." J.A.R.V.I.S said.

"Jack?" Damn it J.A.R.V.I.S, he though before answering.

"Uh hi mum, how are you?" Jack asked.

"I hope you're okay after your fight with that giant robot Jack? Anyway I just returned home and there's a package for you." His mom explained.

"A package? From who?" Jack asked as he stopped flying towards the base.

"Don't know. It was here when I got home." His mom told.

Eyes widening, Jack turned around and flew back to Jasper, back to his house. "Mom, get out of the house, NOW!" he shouted.

"Jack what's wron-." June did not finish her sentence as the sound of an explosion was heard on the other end, and then static.

"MOM!?" Jack screamed. "J.A.R.V.I.S, reroute all power into the thrusters, NOW!" he ordered.

"Already done sir." J.A.R.V.I.S answered.

Flying over the housing area of Jasper, Jack saw a tower of black smoke and fire rising from where he lived. He could see the firemen trying to put the fire out and the police trying to keep the people from getting to near the house. Flying down, Jack landed in front of his house and ran into the burning building.

"MOM!?" he called out.

Hearing coughing, Jack turned and found where it was coming from. Going towards it and finding a large slab of concrete, Jack lifted it and tossed it aside to find his mother. Kneeling down, Jack lifted his faceplate and spoke. "You ok mom?"

"Jack, I'm trapped under all this, and the house is on fire, I doubt I'm okay." His mother joked.

Smiling, Jack tossed aside the rest of the rubble covering his mother and slowly lifter her up, carrying her bridal style. "Let's get you out of here." He said before closing his faceplate and walking out of his burning home.

"Jack, I won't make it." June said slowly.

"Sir, her heartbeat is dropping rapidly. I'm afraid she does not have much time left." J.A.R.V.I.S explained quietly.

"You're going to be okay, we'll get you to the hospital." Jack answered back.

Exiting out of the house, Jack knelt down and put her down on the ground until the ambulance could get here. June looked at Jack and smiled at him, tears falling from her face. "Let me look at your face one last time, Jack."

Instead of simply lifting his faceplate, Jack took his entire helmet off and dropped it next to him. Looking at his mother, Jack could not help but tear up as his mother placed a hand on his cheek and begun to rub it. "Your father would be so proud of what you have become Jack. I know I have." She spoke softly.

"Don't say that, you're going to be okay, you'll see." Jack choked out.

She simply smiled back at him. "I love you Jack. So very, very much." And with that she closed her eyes as her hand dropped from his face and dropped to the ground.

Blasting everything in the room, Jack vented out as much anger as he could with his repulsors. But every time he thought he had calmed down, his mother dying in his arms would always come back in his head, and he would do something else. Looking at his cases of armours, Jack felt angry that for all his power to build suits to protect himself, he could not protect his own mother. And now she was dead, all because of him.

Screaming in rage, Jack activated his unibeam and blasted every suit until they were all in pieces. Panting heavily, Jack took off his helmet and threw it to the floor. He then started ripping every piece of the Mark V off of him until there was nothing left.

Sitting on the floor, Jack just lost himself in his thoughts, not knowing what to do. He wondered what his father would say if he knew what had happened. Would he be angry at him for not saving his mother? Would he blame him that she was dead? Who knows? Maybe he was never made to be a hero. Maybe Miko and his mom were wrong about who he was. He was just a failure.

As he continued to wallow in his self-pity, he did not notice Miko and Anthony, as well as the other Autobots outside his workshop. Feeling something on his shoulder, Jack turned to see Anthony looking at him, his large blue optics looking at him sadly, almost as if he understood his pain. Looking up, he saw Miko, red faced with tear stains down her face. She knelt down next to him and held her hand in his.

"Jack, I'm so sorry about your mother." Miko softly spoke.

"It's not your fault Miko. It's Silas and M.E.C.H's fault." Jack answered back hoarsely. "But it's also mine."

Miko looked at him, wondering why he would say that. "Why?"

"If I never built the suits, then M.E.C.H would not have attacked the town. They would not have placed a bomb at my house, killing my mother." He answered. "I can't do this Miko. I can't-I don't know how I can I go on without her."

"Then don't. Take her with you." Miko said as Jack looked at her. "You are a good man Jack Darby. You don't have to do this alone Jack, you don't have to bear the world's problems on your shoulders. I'm here with you. We're here with you." She finished as the Autobots and Raf all stood in front of Jack.

As the casket lowered to the ground, Jack looked on unblinking. The rain poured down on the people gathered. Colleagues, friends, patients that she treated, they all come to her funeral. Even the Autobots, in their Vehicle mode was there, parked just far enough to see the casket lowered to the ground. Raf, who was with his family attended, as well as Miko, who stood next to Jack, holding his hand throughout the whole ceremony.

"We stand here today, to honour the life of one June Katherine Darby, as she was taken from us not so long ago." The pastor spoke. "While she is no longer with us, she now lives with God and in our hearts."

As everyone left after the ceremony was complete, Jack stayed, looking at the gravestone that indicated his mother. Raf and his family had left while Miko stayed right next to Jack the whole time. The Autobots had also left due to Agent Fowler wanting to speak with Optimus about something.

"You don't have to stay you know." Jack said, not turning his head away.

"I'm not leaving you Jack." Miko answered back.

A little depressing isn't it? or not, who knows? Tell me if you thought that June was going to die in the story, if not i hope you guys were surprised by this. Anyway time to answer your questions!

Also the first chapter for Transformers Prime Ghost Rider is out. read and leave a review for me would you?

CapMarvel88: No, Jack will not make a suit for Raf. simply because he has no need for one, and also he's to young. I'm not sure about seeing other heroes.

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Also have any of you noticed that the review i have do not reflect how many of them are on the story. If you were to count how many there are on this story and the Ghost Rider one, you would see i'm missing a few. WHY is that?

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