Hello dear readers, thank you for all your support. I'm happy to announce that I have graduated and now have a Bachelor of Secondary Education. To celebrate I thought I'd upload another chapter. I've been writing it for the last two weeks.

Enjoy the story~

Arcee gently caressed Jack's cheek, his eyes were starting to fall shut.

"Comfortable?" she said.

"Very," he replied sleepily.

She lent forwards and kissed his forehead. They smiled at each other just enjoying the moment but were suddenly interrupted by the sound of Ratchet's voice through Arcee's communicator.

"Arcee, is Jack with you?"

"Yes, why?"

"We need you both here back at base. Chimeras are attacking a US military facility."

"Got it, send a groundbridge and we'll mobilise."

Arcee explained the situation to Jack and they headed through the groundbridge. Miko was already in her armour suit when they arrived and the others were gearing up too.

"Where are we heading?" Jack asked as he put on his armour.

"Sweet home Alabama," Miko replied cheerfully.

"Chimeras are attacking a military training facility there. We don't know why yet." Agent Fowler stood above them on the platform to brief them. "Your job is to protect and provide the remaining military personnel with cover while they evacuate. Take down as many of those things as you can. Good luck out there everyone."

"Yes, sir," they replied and rushed through the groundbridge.

They headed into battle, weapons blazing and took down two Chimeras as soon as they arrived. Arcee jumped between them and kicked one so hard in the face its head flew off. Jack tripped another up and Arcee finished it off by shooting it in the back. They stood back to back and saw they were encircled by enemies. Further over they could hear weapons fire from Knockout and Smokescreen. Bulkhead and Miko were working together to break through the enemy lines like true wreckers. Suddenly Bumblebee drove at the enemies surrounding Jack and Arcee knocking them over like bowling pins. Then there was a huge explosion and three tanks rolled into the scene.

"Come on, let's get the rest of the military personnel to safety," Bumblebee yelled as he transformed and started to take down more Chimeras.

"Base to autobot team. We've just got another report of an attack at a science facility. We need some of you back here."

"We'll go," Arcee said and gestured to Jack. "Send a groundbridge."

They headed back to base then back through the groundbridge to the new coordinates. It was suddenly much colder as they were further north. In the distance, they could see a large plume of smoke.

"Come on," Arcee transformed and Jack got on her. As they drew nearer they could see strange spider like 'bots. Arcee skidded to a halt and narrowed her eyes, she could sense an old enemy nearby.

"Jack, I need you to get off me right now."

"What?"

"Now!" she yelled. Jack jumped off of her and she transformed then fired her weapon just as Arachnid jumped out from her hiding place between the trees. Arachnid crashed right into Arcee and they tumbled into the undergrowth. She heard Jack cry out her name.

"You!" she spat at Arachnid who had pinned her down.

"Miss me?" the spider smiled a wicked smile.

"I'll show you no mercy this time," Arcee shouted then kicked out at Arachnid throwing her several metres away. Jack came running through the undergrowth.

"Arcee, are you alright?"

"Stay out of this, Jack," she blocked his path with the palm of her hand. "this is between me and her."

Jack went to protest but saw the determination on Arcee's face, there was no way she was going to back down from this fight.

"Oh how touching your human pet is concerned about you, but it's not you he should be worrying about." Arachnid had got up and was now advancing on Jack.

"No you don't!" Arcee's fist met with Arachnid's face sending her crashing into the ground. Bits of mud and dust flew up around them. "Get out of here!" she yelled at Jack and watched him scramble out of the undergrowth.

Arachnid was leaking energon from the corner of her mouth as she got up. "You want to play, then let's play." The two metal titans clashed once again.

Jack ran as fast as he could towards the building. As he approached he could see the spiderlike 'bots more clearly. What on Earth were they? He thought as he neared. They were like half human and half spider, the most grotesque looking creatures he'd ever seen. All of them were swarming around the building, he was vastly outnumbered and without backup, yet he had to try. Despite looking half human the spider creatures were much larger than Jack even with his armour suit on. He ran past a group of them and headed inside the building. Whatever they were up to in there, they had to be stopped.

Arcee rolled over on the ground avoiding another jab from Arachnid's spear-like legs. She fired a shot up under the arachnicon's torso and hit her directly. A spray of energon shot out from the spider's body.

"That hurt, you don't play nice." she hissed.

"Haven't you heard? I don't play well with others." said Arcee then Arachnid shot webbing at her weapon rendering it unable to fire. Arcee tried to free her arm but it was no use she couldn't even transform that part of her body, the webbing had completely blocked it up. She sprang to her feet and lashed out throwing wild punches, which the spider dodged. Then she was thrown backwards by Arachnid and slammed into some rocks. Her back hurt and she was leaking energon internally but she fought on.

Jack was inside the building. He'd managed to stop two of the creatures on his way and now more were advancing on his position. Inside he could see them pulling cables, trying to disconnect what looked like a giant generator. He noticed MECH soldiers were helping too.

"Ratchet," he said over his commlink. "What's the status of the others? I could really use some backup."

"Negative, Jack, they're trying the best they can but they're still engaged."

There was a loud thud and Jack was jolted forwards. A spider creature had a hold of him and now more were creeping up. He fought back the best he could but there were too many of them and within seconds they had overpowered him and pinned him to the floor. Their spinnerets doused him with silk so leaving him completely immobilised.

Arcee and Arachnid continued to battle, both of them were growing fatigued. With the weapons on her arms disabled Arcee fought using punches and kicks. Then Arachnid shot line of silk at Arcee's legs tripping her up. Now she was on the ground the spider spun copious amounts of silk at her until she was unable to move.

"I'm sorry," Arachnid hissed. "but playtime is over." Arcee was about to receive the killing blow when suddenly she heard someone shout at Arachnid.

"Enough! We've got what we wanted, let's go." it was Silas in the body of Breakdown. Behind him were some of the spider creatures they were carrying something which they threw down next to Arcee.

"Jack!" Arcee cried out and tried to wriggle free.

"Ah, Jack. I see you have met my children." Arachnid went over to the human whose hands were tied behind his back.

"Don't you mean your abominations!" Jack yelled as the spider stood on top of him.

"My, my, my what a hard carapace you are wearing." then she slammed her foot into Jack's back. Even with the armour suit on he could still feel the shock of the hit against his back and cried out.

"Jack!" screamed Arcee.

"Come, children." Arachnid called her minions and they gathered around their mother. Their fangs clicking together with anticipation. Arachnid transformed into her helicopter form and some of her minions climbed inside, the rest followed Silas and Jack and Arcee were left behind on the ground.

"Scrap!" they both said.

Once the other team was finished they headed through a groundbridge and met up with Jack and Arcee.

"Ladies first." Knockout said as he came over to Arcee and transformed his arm into a circular saw. Slowly he cut through her bindings. Jack watched as he helped her get loose and noticed the way he was looking at her. He watched as Knockout placed his hand close to her behind and it lingered there a bit longer than it should have in Jack's opinion.

"There you go, ma chérie," he said helping her up.

"Knock it off," Arcee retorted then went over to Jack and helped untie him.

"Thanks, Cee," he said as she helped him to his feet. Jack held her hand in his and smiled at her. Knockout noticed this and glared at Jack. He had no idea what Arcee saw in a small weak fleshy human. The groundbridge opened up and the team headed back to base.

"I'm going to go get cleaned up I still have some silk residue on me," Arcee said to Jack once he was out of his armour suit. Ratchet had scanned her too and concluded that her internal systems were quite damaged but that she would be okay provided she took it easy the next couple of days.

"Want some help?" he asked cockily.

"What did you have in mind?" she replied somewhat flirtatiously.

"Perhaps I could help you with some of the harder to reach places,"

"Mmm… sounds good," she gestured for him to follow.

"Yuch," Knockout commented.

Jack and Arcee ignored his snide remarks and headed into the corridor.

"What's his problem?" Jack asked once the doors to the hub had shut behind them.

"He's just jealous." she shrugged.

They entered a large empty room with a tiled floor. In the corner stood a pressure washer connected to a tap, and some supplies to wash a car.

Arcee went over and knelt near the pressure washer. She took a hold of the hose and turned it on then started to wash her face and her front. Mud and grime dripped off of her and onto the floor then down the drain hole. Jack came over and she handed him the hose and rolled onto her stomach so he could wash her back. She closed her eyes as the jet of water massaged her back.

"That feels nice," she gave a contented sigh.

"Do you mind if I climb up onto your back to reach you better?"

"Of course not,"

She helped him up onto her back then folded her arms under her chin and closed her eyes again. The jet of water sprayed across the back of her neck then down the centre of her back causing her to shiver. When he was done, she handed him a sponge and a bottle of car soap.

Jack put the soap on the sponge feeling a little nervous now, he hoped he was doing this right as this was his first time washing Arcee. He started to rub her neck and work his way down her back in circular motions then Arcee rolled on her side and Jack made sure to follow her movements so he didn't slip off. She stretched out her arm so he could wash it too then she preceded to roll onto her back. Jack hesitated for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Arcee asked noticing Jack's cheeks turn pink. She took Jack's hand and placed it on her chest plate. "It's okay to touch me here," she said assuredly.

Jack continued to lather the soap on Arcee until she was completely covered from head to toe in bubbles then she handed him the hose again and he rinsed her off. During the rinsing, his own clothes had become saturated with water. Next, he dried her carefully with a towel and finally it was time to polish her. Arcee was completely relaxed as he buffed her and nice circular motions, her engine gave a little purr while he worked and it caused him to blush harder than ever. After half an hour of working on her, Jack was finally done. She got up and stretched, her chassis had never looked so shiny, she looked more beautiful than Jack had ever seen her.

"You're beautiful," he smiled admiring her body and Arcee gave a smile too. If she were human she'd be blushing.

"Your clothes are wet," She remarked.

"Yeah, no kidding," Jack said looking at his t-shirt.

"How about I help you dry off?" she winked and grabbed a dry towel. Jack suddenly felt really self-conscious as he slowly took off his wet t-shirt.

Arcee noticed his body had become a lot more muscular since the last time she'd seen his torso naked, she quite liked what she was seeing as she oogled him for a moment. Then she noticed the bruise on his back from fighting.

"Are you okay?".

"I'll be fine; the suit took most of the shock."

Arcee put the towel around him and gently rubbed him dry. He relaxed somewhat as she massaged his back with the tips of her fingers then kissed the back of his neck. Jack spun round and his lips met hers, his kissed her deeply. They hadn't realised a tall red 'bot at the door.

"If you two are done canoodling, I need to wash too." Knockout said dryly.

"Come on, Jack," Arcee lead Jack past Knockout. "All yours," she said to the ex-decepticon as they left.

Jack got a spare pair of clothes out of his locker and they headed to the hub for the mission debriefing. The team discussed the new threat of the hybrids, assumed to be between Arachnid and a human. Which human they couldn't tell and Jack was praying it wasn't him. That's all he needed was to be the father to a whole army of spider hybrids. His thoughts wandered during the briefing. Why wasn't Abigail there? Last time Silas had used her to infiltrate the base but why hadn't he used her during this attack? So many questions arose in his mind.

Silas and Arachnid arrived back at their base with the fusion generator. It was what they needed to start work on their own groundbridge based on the specs they had stolen from hacking into the autobot base mainframe.

"Do our children please you?" Arachnid turned to Silas.

"Indeed they do, dear Arachnid. I was wise to entrust you for this alliance. Your genetic material has proven much more valuable than the autobot Arcee."

"Good," Arachnid hissed. "Perhaps now would be a good time to get rid of your failed little experiment."

"Indeed. But there's one more thing." Silas readied his weapon and aimed it at Arachnid. "It seems now that your purpose has been fulfilled I no longer have need of our mutual alliance."

"What?" Arachnid's eyes widened. She went to command her children to attack but it was too late. Silas fired and shot her right in her spark chamber, she fell to the ground dead with her legs all sprawled out at different angles. Now that he had taken care of his pest problem it was time to take care of Abigail. He had an army of spiderlings and thus had no need for his first attempt at hybridisation. He entered Abigail's room and found Eve toying with her. Abigail was tied up in silk from the ceiling and hanging upside down.

"Father, have you come to help me?" Abigail pleaded but he remained silent then looked at Eve.

"Stop toying with your sister and untie her then leave the room," he commanded.

Eve did as she was told and waited outside. Inside the room Silas had once again readied his weapon and aimed it at Abigail.

"Father, what are you doing?" fear overcame the child and she backed up against the wall.

"You're weak and I no longer have any use for you," Silas' weapon began to charge. Even though she was but a child Abigail knew what he was going to do next. She didn't want to die, she pleaded for her life but it was no use. Abigail panicked and fear overcame her, she wanted to live. Suddenly she transformed and her weapons powered themselves up and fired directly at Silas. It wasn't enough to kill him, though it was enough to knock him back. Next Abigail shot at the wall and it shattered leaving a large hole. Eve heard the commotion and came charging in.

"Sister, where are you going?" she demanded.

"Leave me alone!" she fired at Eve and hit her on the shoulder. "You're not a nice sister. A nice sister wouldn't do the things you do. I hate you! And I hate father! I'm leaving!"

Eve tried to stop Abigail but she ran through the hole in the wall and charged through the base. Alarms were blaring as the girl tried to make her escape. Behind her she could hear the clicking of fangs, more spiderlings. With all her might Abigail managed to smash through the ventilation shaft above then she transformed into her child form and entered it. She clambered through the ventilation shaft as quietly as she could, following its twisting and turning bends.

There was a breeze coming through and Abigail continued to follow it as it got stronger and stronger. Soon she could see light. She was nearly out when there was the sound of crashing metal and a spear like leg smashed through the ventilation shaft. She screamed and crawled even faster. They'd found her even though she was almost at the exit. Just a little further. On the outside of the shaft a spiderling was attacking the pipe and ripping it apart. Abigail watched as the whole side of the ventilation shaft was ripped off. She could see a giant fan ahead of her and past that a grate and after that was a clear blue sky.

Almost there. Abigail kept telling herself. She transformed her hands and blasted the fan out of the way then punched the grate out. Behind her the spiderling had entered the shaft. Abigail hurried to climb out of the shaft. Once she was out she blasted at the metal tube shaft causing part of it to collapse. She hoped it would slow the spiderlings down enough as she leapt down and landed on a dusty patch of grass. With no idea what to do next or where to go Abigail ran.

All she knew is that she was never going back and the only person in the whole world she had ever trusted was the nice lady: June.