Chapter 14: Maternity Matters
"Whoooeee!" Miko exclaimed stretching, "Now that was nice! I needed that!" Jack ran a hand through his hair and let out a relieved huff after pulling his shirt back fully over his body. "Damn that was a good one...no mom here. Just you, me, and a whole lotta this," Miko giggled pressing her lips against his. Though caught a bit off-guard, Jack leaned into the delicate gesture giving his own kiss back. The two remained in the storage room for a few minutes before finally deciding to exit and accompany each other back to the more populated areas of the base. Despite their cooling faces and more ragged breath than usual, the duo seemed just to be like any other time they were together to the Autobots. Casually they passed by Bulkhead who looked to be caught up in a game of Lobbing with Bumblebee.
"Woo! Go Bulkman!" Miko cheered weakly as the bigger bot bested Bumblebee. The yellow Autobot put his hands on his hips and made a bunch of noises at the larger one.
"Yeah yeah, you just keep telling yourself that," Bulkhead chuckled bouncing the metal sphere around in his hands. Knowing that the girl would only antagonize the situation further, Jack clamped his hand over Miko's mouth and dragged her off to the lounge area. Understandably annoyed by her lack of pestering, Miko fought all the way, only breaking free when Jack sat her down on the sofa in front of the TV. She was about to start up a commotion when she saw the boy she'd been seated next to. A few feet away Raf was quietly snoring, his laptop open.
"Aw, wook at da widdle baby," she giggled leaning over to him. Jack may have stopped her from teasing Bumblebee, but she could at least have fun with his unconscious partner. Figuring it'd probably save the battery on the device, Jack walked over to shut the laptop. The screen peaked his interest a bit. On it was a diagram of the triangular object he and Miko had recovered earlier. That must've been what he was studying between gaming breaks when they were going up against each other. "He has your face you know," Miko teased. Jack laughed lightly at the continued annoyance. Perhaps he could let it slide with someone who wasn't awake.
"And my brain obviously," Jack chuckled.
"HEY! I'm smart!" Miko grumbled. Jack lifted his brow.
"Seven times seven?" Jack asked. Miko opened her mouth to speak. As time went on her eyes darted around as if searching for the answer. A confident smirk hung on Jack's face.
"Uh...twenty-nine?..." she guessed. Jack's eyes widened slightly.
"How did you even get..." he murmured. Shaking off the wonder, Jack rolled his eyes. "It's forty-nine," he told her. Miko scoffed and rolled her eyes as well in response.
"Well duh, I was just...seeing if you knew," she tried to excuse herself, "Besides, minus the nerdy glasses and vest thingy, he has the mom's terrific sense of fashion. I mean look at that hair! Dragon Ball baby!" Miko pulled at the quill-like structures lightly.
"Well the mom is pretty nice to look at..." Jack played along. The comment made Miko's face go quite a shade of red. Her eyelids half-closed, she glanced up at the taller boy.
"Well the dad isn't half-bad either once you get past the blandness of him," she replied. Blushing back, Jack knelt down over the arm of the couch and the younger boy. Miko lifted herself up a bit so that she was at Jack's level. Their minds set on the same goal, the two teenagers opened their lips and lowered their eyelids even more.
"I'd appreciate if you two didn't make out above me," a new voice murmured. Immediately, Jack and Miko yanked back to their previous positions. Parts of them wished they could just disappear from the embarrassment.
"R-Raf!" Jack hesitantly greeted, "Uh, hey buddy! What's up?..."
"And uh...how long were you awake exactly?" Miko inquired. Raf's vision shifted between the fifteen-year-old and sixteen-year-old sleepily.
"Long enough to hear you playing house," he yawned, "You're lucky I didn't have my computer recording you two. Otherwise I'd have the perfect blackmail to show our friends."
"Oh you little-!" Miko cried grabbing him and shaking him about. Any sleepiness that might've remained in the young boy was violently tossed aside. It didn't take long for Jack to pull her back.
"Relax," he sighed, "he wasn't recording. We're fine." Miko let out a few puffs of air from her nose before settling her shoulders back into a relaxed position.
"Yeah, and that's no way to treat the "baby" of the family is it "mommy"?" Raf smirked. Miko's teeth gritted inside her mouth.
"Don't push it..." she growled. Just then they heard the revving of an engine causing the group to look over the railing to the floor below. Waiting there was a blue motorcycle.
"You two ready to get goin'?" Arcee asked, "I could really go for a power-down about now..." Jack smiled.
"We'll be down in a sec," he told her. Just before Miko started down she shot an unamused look at the youngest member of the group.
"Night night "mommy"..." Raf chuckled. Miko's eyes narrowed.
June Darby finished the last of her cup of wine. It was getting rather dark out by now which meant that her son and his...friend would be home soon. Of course by now she was used to getting calls from Miko's host parents to make sure that the girl really was staying over the house for the night. That was never a problem. But now that she knew just what exactly had been going on between the boy and girl...June couldn't help but wince every time the perverse thoughts ventured through her they were growing up and she couldn't stop them if they really wanted it...but she'd told herself that as much as she'd told them. She didn't want to believe that Jack, her son, was partaking in such acts and that she couldn't stop it. But for his sake she allowed it.
That is why the woman had been thinking long and hard all day about how she should be acting with the decision she'd made. June knew that the teenagers could sense her...animosity towards the relationship everytime she saw them together now and she knew that that certainly would not be helping matters on any end. It'd just make them all uncomfortable. She couldn't help how she felt though. It was ingrained in her nature. She was a mother worrying about her son. But at the same time...he needed to experience this stuff himself. As early as she could she'd guided Jack in everything from entertainment to sexual education, and now it was his time to use all that he'd been taught.
Sighing, June looked down at the empty cup, the only remaining liquid along the bottom's lining. Confidence. That's why she'd been drinking it. To get her morale up for the difficult task ahead. At the end of everything she had come to one conclusion. She needed to be happy about it all. About the relationship. She needed to support it for the sake of its participants, not be an obstacle. She shouldn't be a hindrance. The reason she'd been drinking the wine was so that it'd give her the added strength to handle the task. She just hoped she could pull it off convincingly. Her eyes shot open at the sound of the front door being knocked on.
"Hello! Mom?" Jack called, "We're here!..."
"And we're fully clothed!" Miko added. June's eye twitched at the remark. Of course Miko would be the one to say such a thing given the circumstances. There was no doubt in her mind that Jack was already giving her some form of a disapproving reaction. No need to do the job herself. As calmly as possible, June walked to the living room and slipped into view. Jack quickly released the girl from the headlock he had her in allowing them to both stand at full attention to her.
"Uh...it's movie night tonight," Jack reminded shyly in case she forgotten. Inwardly, June's heart faltered a bit. He wasn't supposed to be shy around her...at least not in such reservation of his happiness.
"Oh I know," June replied, a wide smile on her face. Jack and Miko glanced at each other uneasily. They'd never seen the woman so physically happy when the girl was around before. And in their minds she certainly shouldn't be after the recent events that she'd uncovered.
"Uh...mom...are you alright?" Jack asked worriedly. Startling them both, June let out a laugh. The younger humans shifted their stances.
"Of course I am honey," she replied, her giggling beginning to subside, "I just wanted to...see you when you came home is all." Miko didn't know whether she should hide behind the nearby couch or just stay where she was as the oddly excited woman started to approach them. To her relief though, June seemed only focused on her son. Delictately she placed a hand on each of the boy's cheek and tilted her head against his. "I love you honey," she told him quietly before giving him a kiss on the cheek. Jack's embarrassment only intensified with Miko's sideline giggling.
"Now I know you two have a busy night ahead of you so I don't wanna get in your way," June told them standing back up to full height. A bit too happily she gave them a wink. Miko and Jack shared rather disturbed faces from the newfound enthusiasm that the adult had. "So you two just run along and make all the squeaky bed noises you need to," June practically sang as she departed back to the Dining Room. Jack and Miko stood there for a few seconds, their minds lost in disbelief. Then they shot off to Jack's bedroom.
"...what...was...that?..." Miko asked slowly once the door had been closed. His thoughts absent, Jack shook his head.
"...I don't know..." he eventually murmured back, "...but it was...weird..."
"Okay...despite that stupid "windfly!" crap that the green one was speaking with, Bionicle was pretty awesome," Miko reviewed the movie as the credits rolled. Yawning, the girl snuggled deeper into the boy's arms. The action contagious, Jack followed with his own yawn before wrapping his limbs tighter around her body. Affectionately he ran his lips along her neck causing her to clench her eyes from the ecstasy they brought.
"Yeah," Jack agreed, "Bionicle is pretty awesome but the movies tend to look too...rubbery to me until the final one..."
"Well, they are just plastic toys in real life," Miko reminded. Jack rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, but in-story they're obviously machines," Jack murmured, "...and you're obviously trying to start up a fight..." Miko grinned up at him.
"You know me too well," she cooed. Now Jack was the one grinning. Rarely did he have thoughts of revenge or some such ideas towards something. But with Miko that nature became a lot more frequent.
"Well challenge accepted!" Jack declared. Miko's sleepiness evaporated as she was unexpectedly thrown onto the bed beneath the boy where his fingers swam quickly up and down her sides. The girl couldn't even hold back an ounce of the laughter from the dancing of the digits. Every bit of her body was caught up in excited spasms due to the nerves that Jack's fingers brushed across. And he wouldn't stop. No matter the pitch or frequency of the laughter he just kept on tickling. Miko didn't doubt that she deserved such torture, but she had to at least fight back. It was nature. That of course did not change the fact that Jack was physically stronger. Despite her efforts to break free, all that Miko could do was stay pinned there at Jack's mercy. Fortunately the attack wasn't for much longer.
"Alright," he smiled rolling off of her, "I think you've learned your lesson."
"Oh have I?" Miko asked. Before Jack could move away the Asian had tossed herself on him and started up a tickling of her own. Jack gasped for air between the laughs. Every time he pushed her off she found a different way to cling on to him and a different body part to wriggle her fingers across. Jack may have had the male advantage of more muscle, but Miko with her smaller build found it easier to slip through his grasps and blocks. But even she had to let up eventually. Both taking in large amounts of air, the teenagers fell back on the bed next to each other sharing in the free laughter now. Once they had regained their composure, Jack and Miko turned their heads to each other.
"But seriously...Bulkhead could so beat that Makuta guy," Miko boasted. Jack let out a single laugh.
"You're saying that Bulkhead could beat some grand master of darkness?" he chuckled. Only Miko would have the nerve to make that kind of claim, "I'm pretty sure not even Arcee would be able to down him that easily." Miko's eyes narrowed and the corners of her mouth curled upwards.
"So you're saying that Arcee can beat Bulkhead again? Sounds like you need another lesson," she told him mischievously. This time however Jack was ready. With ease he grabbed the girl's crawling hands and held them suspended over his head while her lower body fought to pull them back.
"Do gotta say though, that Makuta guy's a ton more level-headed than Megatron," Jack laughed at the tugging female. Miko's concentration was only on continuing her planned offense to her opponent. But with how Jack was holding her, that wouldn't be happening any time soon. The door opening only solidified the fact. Surprised by the sudden intrusion, Jack let go of the Miko causing her to fall forward onto him. Peeking through the doorway was his mom, the wide creepy smile from before still on her face. The younger humans just stared at her. "...hi mom..." Jack waved.
"Oh hello you two little bunnies," she replied in a sickeningly sweet tone. Miko closed her eyes. The embarrassment was certainly not just for Jack anymore. "I was just checking in to see if anything was wrong was all. Hadn't heard as many noises as I thought I should be hearing by this point," she continued. Now Miko's eyes were wide as dinner plates. She was normally the one that'd be making the comments with that kind of disregard! Added to it, the whole way she spoke...what she said...it was just flat-out creepy for anyone to say, let alone a parent! Needless to say, Jack wasn't fairing much better. His face was red and hiding as best it could in the pillows behind him.
"We're...just being...quiet tonight Mrs. D.," Miko came up with something to say knowing that Jack would probably be too nerve-shot to, "don't wanna disturb you or anything ya know?..." To both of them, the giggle that the adult gave was the least of the oddities that June had presented that evening.
"Oh don't worry about me sillies," she chuckled in her woozyish state, "the more noise the better. Believe me, I'd know." Miko's eyes rolled into the back of her head from the wink June gave her.
"Mom!" Jack cried, his face crimson from embarrassment, "We do not need to hear that!" The only response she gave the boy was a rather lucid giggle. Something was really odd about her...
"Oh and please Miko, call me mom. After all, looks like we're gonna be adding another member to the family soon enough," she persisted in her attempts to show the acceptance of their relationship. It only caused the girl to collapse onto the boy's chest in shock. Feeling as though her work was done, June slipped back out into the hall and shut the door. For a few minutes the the boy and girl lied there in the dark, their minds jello from the latest encounter with the adult.
"Miko...after that I don't think I'm really up for-"
"I hear ya..." she cut Jack off. Pleasantly she sighed. His scent always did help her relax. "How's about we just...sleep tonight..." she yawned. Jack gave her a tired nod before giving her a kiss on the head.
"Ugh! Those stupid idiots!" Starscream hissed clutching his leg. The limb had a hole in it about the size of a car door. Sure he hadn't expected escaping his former team to be easy, but he also hadn't thought that they'd have had the nerve to use such severe weaponry on him! Practically every shot fired by even the grunts was enough to send quite a spasm to his processor. Megatron wasn't taking any chances at this point. Starscream chuckled lightly through the pain. It may have been dark humor, but at least he knew that he was enough of a pain to the lord of the Decepticons that he was actually getting the attention he deserved now...just not the kind he wanted... All of a sudden he heard something and spun around. Something had rustled in the bushes.
"Who's there!" he cried in a panic lifting his firearms to the foilage, "I wouldn't take me on if I were you! I-I'm the great and powerful Air Commander Starscream!..."
"Oh so you're one of those kind of Starscreams," a sly voice laughed. Startled by the newcomer's casualness, Starscream backed up a bit. The Transformer that had emerged was a sleekish purple one of standard height. But there was something about him that was...different than any other Cybertronian he'd come across before. Whether it be the air or look or sheer presence, there was something off about the Transformer.
"I-I'm warning you!" Starscream gulped backing up another step. The foreigner scoffed.
"Please," he laughed, "Yeah dude I know who you are. Great mighty Seeker from the Trypticon Facility. Constant usurper to Megatron. That which gets stepped on by anyone he comes across. I mean hell, those humans you teamed up with probably backstabbed you in some way even." Normally Starscream would've shot someone for spouting off his failures. But at the moment he was too frightened and surprised by the wealth of knowledge that he seemed to possess. "Name's Sideways," the purple Transformer told him putting a hand to his chest. Starscream eyed him suspciously.
"Er...yes...and uh...why exactly are you talking to me?..." the Seeker inquired.
"I just thought I'd see if you'd be interested in a partnership..." Sideways replied.
The pressing of Miko's lips only enhanced the light-headedness of the already incomprehensibly passionate situation. The girl's pelvis jerked towards his with the suggestion his hand made on her butt. They were beyond the point of blushing now. It was all normality to them in the steamy room that they inhabited. At Jack's side another form of the girl ran kisses up and down his cheek and neck while another cuddled against the arm on the opposite end of his body. It was bliss. In the boy's mind he was in heaven. Ever-willing, Jack interacted as much as he could to the three females. Then another appeared.
All the teenagers stopped what they were doing to look at the girl that had drawn back the curtains at the end of the bed. Pulled back on her head was vibrant orange hair. Her hands were on her naked hips and a stern looked was on her face. Jack's jaw dropped and the Mikos glared.
"S-Sierra!" he gulped wobbling towards her, "Uh...I can uh...explain..." The visage of beauty folded her arms over her breasts waiting for the answer. Jack tried to speak but his voice just came out garbled, his mentality overwhelmed by the heat of the situation. But she did get a response.
"I can too," the Mikos told her, a touch of distaste in their voices. Helplessly the boy was pulled back by the girls he was leaving. But that wasn't the only direction he was taken. Intent on keeping his interest on her, Sierra grabbed his shoulders and yanked him towards her own direction. Jack could feel his body tearing apart with the continued struggle. Sierra would get some and the Mikos would too. Either way, he'd be torn. But he couldn't do anything. Jack couldn't help his feelings. Just as his body ripped, his eyes snapped open. The boy lifted off the bed panting from the intensity of the dream. Even in consciousness though, something was wrong...he was alone.
"Come on...there has to be one in here somewhere..." Miko's voice murmured. Looking to the side Jack blushed. There the girl was bent over with only her shirt and panties on and her butt facing him as her waist wiggled . Absent-mindedly he placed a hand on his lower body.
"Uh...Miko...what are you doing?" he managed to ask. Her pigtails jumped a bit in surprise at hearing him speak. The alert face was soon replaced with a frown as she walked over to him and sat down.
"Oh just looking for cameras," she grunted. Jack gave her a perplexed look.
"Cameras?" he asked. Miko nodded while she began to wave her arms around.
"I mean think about it Jack! What the hell is up with your mom? She encourages us to get it on, complains when she doesn't hear us going at it, and just seems obsessed with getting us to go all the way now! Is it really that much of a stretch to think that she wouldn't be spying on us too? I mean hell, this might all be so that she can get footage to jack off to us-" Miko's voice was silenced from the hand Jack put over her mouth. His cheeks were blood-red. Sympathetically her mouth lifted into a small smile underneath the appendage.
"Look, I know my mom. She wouldn't do that," Jack muttered trying desperately to get such images out of his head, "Though...I really don't get what's up with her right now...how's about we just head on out to the base for some privacy. At least there we won't have people barging in on us...as unexpectedly. But you gotta promise to be quiet so she doesn't catch us." Miko nodded viciously. Jack's brows furrowed causing her to nod slower.
"...I'll do my best," she gave him all the guarantee she could. Jack sighed and removed the hand.
"Get dressed," he told her. While he slipped into his shirt, Miko pulled on her tank-top and slid her shorts up which she buckled with her belt. After patting their clothing down to make sure everything was all nice and comfortable, the pair walked to the door and creaked it open. Miko waited at Jack's arm while he eyed the hallway. Unable to keep herself from the excitement of being sneaky, Miko peeked out too. Nothing. It was silent.
"Alright! Let's-" Jack nearly knocked Miko over with how fast he covered her mouth. The look he gave her felt like daggers. Her eyes beamed an innocent expression back at him at which he shook his head. Placing a finger over his lips, Jack slipped out into the hallway with Miko following close behind. They were almost at the garage door too when they were stopped by a moan. In the Dining Room Jack's mom was sitting at the table clutching her head.
"Haven't felt one this bad since College," she grumbled. Trying to cope with the annoying hangover, June popped open an eye. Miko tried her best to pull her and Jack out of sight, but it was too late. "Oh Jack! Miko! I uh...wanted to talk to yo-"
"RUN!" Miko cried. June's headache was too severe to allow her to properly chase after them. By the time she'd entered the garage Arcee was already speeding into the street. Irritated, June pulled out her cell phone and made a call.
"Fowler, please come pick me up."
"WOOHOO! YES!" Miko cried throwing her arms in the air. It was a split-second before they were around Jack's body again. In the sense of freedom she'd completely dismissed any regard for safety she might have had on the speeding motorcycle. But Miko hardly cared. They were no longer suffering under the suffocating pressure of Jack's crazed mom! Whatever had gotten into her she didn't know nor did she care. Miko was just happy that they were away now.
"So are either of you going to tell me what the scrap's going on?" Arcee asked, "A girl usually likes to get her power-down cycles finished properly before being jump-started..."
"We can tell you later. Right now just head on out to the base!" Miko squealed squeezing Jack's stomach. The boy's eyes went to his head in glee. The moment wasn't to last long however. After a few more minutes the humans noticed something a bit behind them. There was a car tailing them and in it was June. Miko gulped and squeezed Jack tighter causing his eyes to bulge a bit. "FASTER!" she cried.
"Why do we need to...why is Fowler chasing us?..." Arcee muttered realizing the vehicle behind her as well. Miko dug her face into Jack's back.
"Damn it damn it damn it!" she hissed, "Come on! Can't you do that Maximum Overdrive crap that Optimus does!"
"Maybe, but I doubt I need to considering who's tailing us," Arcee told her worried passenger, "Now let's just pull over and-"
"Hell no!" Miko exclaimed. Not giving the Cybertronian much more of a choice, the girl slammed her foot into the gas pedal rocketing them forward. The base was just a few yards ahead!
"HEY!" Arcee cried trying to brake. All it did was create a nasty skid mark in their path, "This is my body and my choice of what happens! Now you let up right now!" To her amazement, Miko actually did as she was told. Arcee would have to wait another day to toss her to the side of the road.
"Alrighty," Miko smiled. She'd done what she'd wanted to. They'd gotten close enough now to the rocky disguised walls so that they were opening and had no real choice other than to enter. What the Asian didn't take into account was that the government agent would just follow them right on in. "Come on!" she practically tackled Jack off the bike as Arcee slowed, "We gotta-"
"Now why am I being dragged out here?" Fowler asked from where he'd parked. He never received an answer. June was still in hot pursuit of the teenagers.
"Oh hey guys-"
"Hi Raf!" Miko and Jack said as they zoomed by him.
"...oh hi Mrs.-"
"Hi Rafael!" June greeted in a similar manner. The youngest of the group shook his head. His friends always seemed to be in trouble. Eventually, Jack and Miko stumbled to a stop at a storage room door, their breath ragged from the running. Hesitantly they looked around. They couldn't see anyone else.
"Do you...think we...lost her?..." Miko asked through her gasps. Jack's eyes went wide from a tap on his shoulder. He gulped and turned. Crouched over in front of them with her hand on the wall for support and panting just as much as them was his mom.
"Y-you two...hold it...please..." June pleaded. Now that Jack could see her up close he noticed quite a bit of dark linings beneath her eyes.
"Mom...are you alright?..." he asked. Miko gawked.
"Is she-is she alright!" Miko repeated incredulously, "You're asking that after yesterday?" June winced at the memories.
"That's...what I was trying to talk about..." she told them, "about yesterday...I'm real sorry...it's just I was drinking a bit and...well I was just trying to show my support and everything for the relationship. I want you two to be happy if it involves my little Jack." The boy tried to look away due to the affection his parent was giving him. "And with how I was acting when I found out...well you know you two didn't like that..."
"Yeah, and we like this even less!" Miko shouted. The teenagers immediately regretted the claim. June's face fell all at once, depression overtaking her.
"Mom, come on," Jack said quietly giving her a hug. Though still quite a bit disheartened, June returned the embrace. Reluctantly, Miko joined in too. "Mom...it's alright," Jack told her comfortingly, "it's just...we want you to be casual sure. Just not THAT casual." June's cheek's blushed a bright red. "Like how you were before you found out. Just...act normal." Bashfully she glanced at the two younger humans. A slow smile formed on her face and she nodded.
"Alright...I'll try..." she promised giving her son a kiss on the forehead. As per usually he tried to ignore Miko's jesting reactions. Feeling that she'd pestered the younger generation enough, June nodded again and started walking back towards where Fowler had parked. She was ready for a nice long nap.
"So "mommy", what all was the deal with "grandma"?" Raf had seemingly appeared at Miko's side and started taunting her. With a yelp he received a bonk on the head.
"Adult business," Miko responded cooly. Raf rubbed the spot that'd been hit and glared up at the female. Jack just chuckled and shook his head. The atmosphere, at least, had returned to normal.
-end of chapter-
Wow. It's been a while since I've had a chapter THIS focused on Jack and Miko's romance crap. Either way hope it was enjoyable. Doubt June gets drunk all that often, but this way my take on it: warahi deviantart com / art / Throwin-Off-Worries-308548370