Jack was over at the base yet again doing some exercises. Using all his senses like this had really gotten a bit odd. Even though it seems unlikely for him to see out of his eyes again he knew that he had to get used to it. It had already been a week and school had started back up for miko and Raf leaving just him at the base with the bots. Flare and aero were watching from the rafters while Kage was unknowingly next to them daydreaming and jack had a good idea it was about the resident hacker of the group. Jack knew the twelve year old was clueless though. Jack remembered when he found out Kage was actually a year younger than Raf. Sonicwing had overheard them and had told jack in private kagehime's age. Jack knew that with his optic nerves damaged and with the technology in jasper the surgery needed had more failure rate than success and it was just a miracle his eyes are staying in their sockets. Jack heard and saw optimus enter the room.
"Arcee I need to send you and jack on a recon mission ratchet has detected a cybertronian ship somewhere in arizonia's rain Forrest with jacks new perception he can help see things you might have missed" said optimus.
"Sure I don't mind optimus being in base like this has started to make me wish I could still do classes. Online classes go by quicker than regular for some reason" said jack as aero reentered his soul card while flare leapt onto his shoulder.
(Hello little a/n here this bit actually happens to me I blow by online classes than regular a lot. Really I can do three or six lessons than the one we normally get in regular. Helped out in English but math is not my strong suit. Just saying. Now back to the story)
"Okay optimus I was getting bored myself" said arcee.
"You best get ready jack it will take some time for this one" said optimus.
"Okay besides mom got a double shift today so I'm in no rush there" said jack.
He packed the essentials and rode arcee through the ground bridge soon the two were walking through the Forrest with arcee feeling like something was wrong. The last time she felt this was when. 'No don't think about it!' Thought arcee briefly flashing back to a dark room.
Jack stumbled when the image flashed in his head.
'What was that I don't think that was my imagination playing with me' thought jack. Soon though arcee found a familiar strand of transparent blue webbing.
"Oh no" whispered arcee.
"Arcee what is going on" asked jack nervous.
"Jack when I say the word run" said arcee as neither noticed the canine spirit look at then from the tree branch above.
"Does this have something to do with a dark room?" Asked jack.
"How did you" asked arcee.
"It flashed in my head a minute ago and I know it wasn't my imagination making it that must have been part of your memory somehow" said jack tensing when he sensed a presence approaching.
"Jack be careful we are not alone" said flare from jacks backpack. The canine went wide eyed at the spirits voice seeing the teen it wrote off as blind to suddenly jump to the side avoiding that odd web that ironically got arcee instead.
"Arcee you okay" asked jack tugging at the web.
"Go jack! I don't want you to meet this decepticon" said arcee.
"Well, well if it isn't little arcee tell me how is you partner? Oh wait he's dead at starscreams hand! That makes the second partner you lost and this must be your new one hmm blind that will make this interesting" said a voice as a black and white femme appeared from the shadows. She resembled a spider.
Jack couldn't help but see a resemblance to arcee in the face. To his spirit sight he saw the spark of a lone Autobot that seemed aware.
"Kid run! This is arachnid she killed me in front of arcee and wants to do the same to you!" Said the spirit.
"He sounds like me" thought jack as he bolted as aero released himself.
"Great the connection is complete we can't hide it from jack anymore flare" said aero.
"You two hid something from me!" Asked jack hearing this.
"Jack you bonded your soul with arcee's spark your basically soulmates now. The connection had just finished forming allowing you to see memories that have a deep meaning to your bonded partner. I wanted to tell you when you discovered it on your own to be sure you could handle the knowledge but that spider rushed it. I been with you all your life jack knowing that I know that it was for the best. Because I am the soul of your unborn sister the day you were born. Your soul pulled me into you before it could pass on. It was my job to look after you when needed and I knew you would need to learn this one day in a emergency. That is now!" Said flare making jack wide eyed. Flare was his sister and despite the fact she was never born she still had a chance to experience life through himself and know that he was aware of it something shattered releasing a new energy.
"Flare, aero you don't know how much this means for me but right now we need to draw arachnid's attention away from arcee I'm seeing the day arcee met her right now. Wait there is aracnids ship!" Said jack in a whisper.
Jack tossed a rock inside and hid around the side discovering the ship was leaking energon. He watched arachnid enter the ship and quietly got back into the tree line.
"Flare light up the energon blow her sky high" said jack.
"You got it bro" said flare. She released a fireball that lit up the energon lighting and destroying the ship.
"You destroyed my ship! I will take great pleasure in killing you" said arachnid from behind jack.
'How the she was just... What in the world just happened?' Thought jack somehow running back to a still tied up arcee.
"Jack!" Said arcee as he skidded.
"God there is no way to call for back up and arachnid is getting close flare we may have to use that!" Said jack.
"Right" said flare while arcee wondered who flare is.
Jack revealed his scanner and pulled out a card.
Arachnid just ran in when the card glowed.
Arcee saw what seemed to be a red two tailed cat form on the card.
"Spirit fusion! Flare!" Shouted jack as a wind kicked up around his feet before a spiritual diagram appeared around him before he scanned the card.
The screen glowed as a red light shot out of it and spun around jack before diving into him. His body was covered in spirit fire before it shot off revealing a transformed jack.
He now resembled a red furred feline humanoid dressed in a black bodysuit with fire colored armor on his upper torso, lower arms and legs and had his staff in naginata form in hand. His head was covered in a helmet that reminded arcee of that one feline cybertronian cat she once met on Cybertron named ravage. Oddly the cat was friendly to her even when she found out it was a decepticon. She briefly wondered where ravage was before remembering what was going on.
"Jack what in the world happened" asked arcee.
"Later arcee and call me firejack in this form" said the now dubbed firejack as he suddenly jumped at arachnid slashing his staff's blade at her. Arachnid on instinct blocked with one of her legs and was surprised with a screach of agony when the limb was cut off before firejack caught it and channeled aero into it transforming it into a knight sword barely resembling the limb it used to be with a green hawk acting as the hilt.
"Arcee this is for tail gate" said jack as he slashed her free before he was startled when the canine spirit revealed itself.
It was a white wolf that seemed much wise and feirce with a shuriken mark on the forehead.
"Young channeler you have proven worthy of my respect in avenging the lives this spider monster has taken please allow me to fight with your bonded" said the wolf.
"Do you have a name?" Asked firejack.
"Shiro no kiba amataratsu named after the sun goddess herself I been waiting in this Forrest for the time the channeler returned to this plain. Just know that though I am contracted to you I will only help your soul bonded arcee until arachnid is dealt with" said the wolf. Jack thought about it and gave a nod. The wolf jumped onto arcee's shoulder and howled.
A feirce wind kicked up as day turned to night with a crescent moon before the wolf turned into a white orb that entered arcee turning her armor white and adding a wolf theme as the shuriken mark appeared around her Autobot insignia.
"What the heck happened to me" asked arcee once she saw her transformation.
"I will explain it later arcee but first let that form guide you this is your fight not mine" said firejack jumping to a tree branch.
Suddenly arcee felt her rage at arachnid calm before she felt a presence take control.
'Don't let your rage cloud your mind young ninja now time your strikes and show this spider never to mess with your partner!' She heard before arcee suddenly blurred faster than she used to move deploying her blades now resembling kunai and entered a sword fight with arachnid who due to her shock of arcee's new look could barely counter and dodge.
"What are you! This is impossible!" Shouted arachnid as she jumped back.
"I am a cybernin and it is time I get rid of past demons" said arcee suddenly having a wise undertone like something was speaking with her.
"Now to finish this" she added as her blades glowed.
"Crescent cross" shouted arcee slashing arachnid away but before jack and arcee could follow the spider femme went underground in spider mode.
"She got away and arcee I will explain back at base the others need to hear this as well by the way you can come out from her soul now amaratsu" said jack.
Arcee was startled when she reverted faintly hearing a howl. A wolf howl.
The two requested a ground bridge and when they entered base to see miko and Raf plus the rest of the base look at jack confused jack took a deep breath.
"Okay time to reveal something I been hiding from you guys since I met you" said jack making the base look at him in shock.
"Jack! Is that you where did you get the armor and did you get slightly taller?" Asked miko.
"Yes it is me miko you remember sonicwing mentioning a spirit channeler when we met her?" Asked jack.
"So your finnaly telling them young channeler" said sonicwing entering the room.
"What in Sam hill is a spirit channeler" asked fowler.
"A spirit channeler is a individual able to see and interact with the spiritual realm. With how long I spent on this world I gained the ability to interact with that world on not much the same level a channeler has. Jack can see and hear spirits and can interact with them on unknown levels. I could only see and hear the spirits" said sonicwing.
"Yeah and turns out the shadow zone is basically the spirit world or the spirit side of our planet" said jack.
"That still doesn't explain your new look" said bulkhead as he rubbed his head.
"Your seeing me merged with my spirit partner flare Darby the spirit of my unborn sister. She only told me that today though" said jack.
"WHAT!" Said miko.
"I will let flare herself explain" said jack defusing and channeled enough of his energy to have her seen and heard by the others.
"That's the nekomata from the shadow zone!" Recognized Raf with a jump. "I am flare and no I been with jack since he was born. I was supposed to be his twin sister" said flare on her brothers shoulder.
"But how did jack became a spirit channeler?" Asked miko.
"Reincarnation. His soul is a reincarnation of a very wise spiritualist from a time long ago. You might know his past life as nobunaga from the warring states era" said sonicwing.
"He was so wise his soul had evolved from his experiences that it created a link to the spiritual plane thus the spirit channeler was born and he spent his life before his death to help spirits pass on to the afterlife and keeping the living and spirit worlds balanced. Than other channelers were found in his bloodline keeping up the duty he began. Until his line ended with the turn of the era. With no more channelers the world was keeping the balance until recently. The day Megatron started his war here on earth. You all have been around longer than the three of us can think of so the spirit world called out and my past life's spirit decided to undergo reincarnation at the site the war began. Eventually becoming me. Flare had become still born at the same time and her still young soul was latched to mine as my past life's last act as a spirit wanting her to experience life though me and strengthened our bond as twins in the process. I didn't meet flare until I was around 7 years old. I accidentally channeled her into fire on Vince and she manifested as what you see now" said jack explaining further.
"Eventually we were joined by another spirit during that race that you met knockout. It was a corrupted spirit that was part of Vince that was corrupted when he started to become a cruel teen. A wraith. Jack had been the only one not affected by the flowstop effect where the wraith stops time around itself due to his role as a channeler. He and I worked together to defeat the spirit and purify it of the corruption. The spirit is currently in jacks sword giving it form" said flare.
"Meet aero Vince's old spirit from when he was younger and now my third partner because he couldn't go back to Vince as on becoming a wraith the connection to the soul all spirits have gets severed" said jack reverting the sword now regaining the spider limb look mostly it was still a sword in shape before jack sealed it into a card.
The green hawk nodded to the group.
"Thanks to jack taking me in I felt better than I have in a long time. And there is still one more spirit that while contracted to jack is more partnered to arcee and him at the same time. The shiro no kiba, amatarasu and no miko not the actual sun goddess of your nation just named after her" said aero as the white wolf appeared.
"She just joined us today. She was in the Forrest watching us when we encountered arachnid. I blew up her ship as it was leaking energon remembering when ratchet told miko and Raf when he started the fair incident that energon was flamible. I asked flare to ignite it but somehow arachnid escaped unharmed even though I saw her enter the ship and never came out" said jack.
"Jack merged with me when he got back to arcee becoming our fused form firejack. And don't ask about the name the name of the form is not our idea but the forms own. Arcee's combined form with amataratsu is called crescent arc which she used to force the spider to flee after jack cut her free" said flare.
"You encountered arachnid!" Said ratchet.
"She was jamming the coms so we couldn't call for back up" said arcee.
"I couldn't tell anyone I was a channeler unless it was a emergency which that was. Not even mom knows about my abilities with the spirits. I have to keep the world balanced for a reason" said jack.
"And this doesn't get out to anyone! This is a secret for a reason. If jack is forced to become a weapon and not a guardian the world would end. He has to be balanced to keep the world balanced and I you try to reveal this I will burn you as a warning" said flare.
"And there is one last thing. Jack had to channel his soul into arcee to keep her from having her spark die after that space bridge mission to kick start her spark's healing. This had the effect of bonding the two joining her into his role as a channeler. The connection was completed today allowing jack to see arcee's memories that have a deep meaning to her" she added.
"Wait does this involve how I reformatted" asked bulkhead pointing to his frame.
"Makeshift had echoes of the souls he killed around him connecting him to you. When you started to realize his role in your past you took the echoes into you in a way merging with them not unlike how me and my partnered spirits can you had litteraly merged with the memories you shared with them and your reformating is the physical sign of it happening. The friends you had that was killed by makeshift had litteraly left a bit of themselves in you through your bond of friendship. I saw the same thing with arachnid and tailgate. By the way arcee why didn't you tell me I sound like him" said jack.
"You heard tailgate" asked arcee.
"I heard his echo and saw the memory" said jack.
"Well explains that odd feeling I felt when you told me about your dad" said arcee.
"Wait if you two are connected on a spiritual level than oh god your practically soul and spark mates" said miko as she came to a realization.
"Yeah I'm still coming to terms with that bit miko the soul bind is represented in this card" said jack.
"Each channeler had a medium for their abilities. jacks past life had his iconic gun with jacks being a deck of cards and a card reader/case his dad made for him before his death" said flare by explanation as jack showed the card.
"Sam hill if it wasn't for the bots I would have called you crazy and sent to a mental asylum for insanity but with the proof right in front of me I can't disbelieve it besides the government won't believe this even if I told them" said fowler.
"Raf is kind of special like me he's a technomancer technology practically is part of his soul manifesting as his intellect and ability to understand pure cybertronian. That's why he is the best hacker to go against soundwave head to head on the net" said jack smiling at Raf.
"No wonder I understand technology like that I was pretty much born to work around tech and by meeting the bots I am able to use my skills like they should" said Raf in shock.
"Miko was just caught up by accident sorry" said jack.
"Eh its cool besides I got to meet some awesome people and gain a sister in all but blood and species in kagehime" said miko.
"Thanks miko" said kagehime.
"Still can't believe your eleven Kage just a year younger than Raf your as tall as miko in robot mode" said jack mentally laughing as Kage looked embarrassed.
"Mom told you my age didn't she" asked Kage.
"That I did dear I let it slip when I was teaching him about the history of the channelers" said sonicwing.
"I actually got access to my past life's memories through the meditation I got to do as sleep since the shadow zone incident" said jack.
"I'm never going to live that down am I" asked miko as her now revealed little 'sister' giggled.
"Nope I don't think so just be glad he's talking to you still even after this week" she replied with a giggle.
"Revelations aside we did learn one thing from arachnid and that starscream was the one who killed cliff" said arcee.
"Which means next time I see starscream I'm going to see cliff jumper's echo" said jack.
"Its going to be dinnertime soon you all better get home" said fowler.
"Right see you later guys" said jack while arcee now realized the implications of her bond to jack.
"Guess he really is my new partner since day one guess fate has a odd way of letting us know in time" thought arcee as the two and jacks spirits left with jack putting away his staff and letting the three enter their cards with flare still on his shoulder but back to being only visible to jack and now arcee through the bond.
(End chapter)
A:n- phew finally done with this! I been looking forward to writing this chapter for a long while. This was my favorite episode of the series as it was a major turning point for jack and arcee in their friendship. Plus now the gang knows about jacks true abilities. And I thank a recent reviewer for the suggestion of jacks third spirit but I hope you like the twist where he and arcee share the spirit. As you can guess I made the wolf one the more ninja oriented when fused. My other favorite episode is when nemesis prime was revealed. As always read and review. Please tell me what you think and like about this and have a good time with this.
Also I don't mind if you make spin offs or side stories that expand on this story like jack growing up after meeting flare, his training in martial arts, and how he interacts with the others out of the show for example. And if your asking about KO burger your going to see why that place hasn't been seen in a while next chapter.
See you all in a new era this has been knight of earth's light gh152 signing off.