Chapter 3 will introduce Jacob to the rest of team prime. Including Jack, Miko and Raf who now have a little angel watching them the keep them safe. This story will take more elements from the transformers book Exodus by Alex Irvine.
Starscream didn't like it, not one bit. In the mine he waited for Megatron as instructed by him. With megaton back his control was now limited. 3 years he'd been gone and no army, just dark energon. He remembered it clearly, it's intoxicating taste still very fresh to his processor. It was the very thing which had infected the core though the plasma Energy chamber. It has been an accident which had caused them they're very world to go into hibernation and regenerate. If not for Optimus prime cybertron would have died completely. Now Megatron wanted to use it again, that fool wanted to repeat history. Sometimes he found himself regretting in Joining Megatron, but he doubted that the autobots would take him for his crimes. Suddenly a large pair of footsteps began behind him. He shivered and turned. Megaton in all of his awesome glory stood their carrying a dead Vehicon body. With a shard of purple dark energon in hand he drew closer to the seeker. It was like he was looking at the harbinger of death himself. The destroyer of worlds. The words of Oppenheimer played in his head, how fitting they were.
"Dark energon. I honestly hope I wouldn't ever see it again" Starscream coldly said reflecting on the past.
Megatron lowly laughed in a deep tone. A cold shiver shot through Starscream, after many millennia he learned the true meaning of fear.
"You fear too much Starscream. Before I didn't understand what I had unleashed. Now my understanding runs much deeper than you could possibly imagine" Megatron voiced boomed with full weight behind it.
"I hope you're right about this master, but Mark my words I will never take such a substance again" Starscream spat in disgust.
"For once you're speaking intelligently, I have missed a lot haven't I?" Megatron mused as the two continued their conversation.
The shower was cold, damn cold!. The water ran down his body as he rubbed all over the soap. Goosebumps covered inch of his body as he rubbed himself from head to toe. In annoyances slammed his fist into the temperature controls to no avail. Luckily he was only staying here one night anyway. You have gone onto a long phone call with Optimus prime in the early morning to figure out how the news should be broken. It was then he was told Arcee was already given the know and I the fold. I just left bumblebee and bulkhead, The youngest one and the wrecker. Then there was the three kids. This's gonna be fun. He remarked knowing Jack was of the highest importance only followed by Ralph and then Miko Who has a natural aura of trouble. Not in a million years he thought he would put up with someone like her. Grabbing a small bottle of shampoo he squirted the stuff into both hands and begin running through his hair. Closing his eyes he began to rinse it out after getting it all situated.
"She'll be a real test of patience that's for certain" He remarked to himself. "Luckily I have some foresight on this one" He added thankfully.
Once he was done in the shower dried himself off and got changed into some blue jeans and a red short sleeve shirt. He would get used to the heat, going from Canada to Nevada in the United States of America wasn't a normal occurrence especially within less than a minute. Well technically he went to New York State first but that didn't really matter anymore. Today was the day it all would begin, Darkness Rising. Grabbing the bag he began towards the door, into the familiar world once more.
Cliffjumper saw both Arcee and Bumblebee arrive. Bee had the smaller one whist Arcee had two humans. A male and a female. No doubt Jacob knew of it in advance but gave no warning. The girl looked wowed and looked like she stepped in heaven. Bulkhead watched also as they pulled to a dead stop. Optimus was in the ground bridge area making adjustments for ratchet. Jack stepped off with Miko. Miko was in complete bliss. Raf climbed out with laptop in his bag. Once the humans had moved away both Arcee and Bee changed into their bipedal forms. Arcee stretched her arms to both sides.
"I thought their were two" Ratchet dryly said.
Arcee smirked and placed a hand on her hip.
"Haven't you heard humans multiply" She sarcastically responded.
Bulkhead couldn't help but chuckle deeply as Bee let out a string of beeps. Optimus finished his work and entered, all three humans looked at him and gaped. Kneeling down on one knee Optimus began to explain.
Jacob sitting next to Fowler in his helicopter remained eerily silent as they made their way to autobot hq. Fowler was obviously pissed and Jacob could see it so plainly. Looking to the Nevada landscape below he closed his eyes. Taking deep calming breaths he relaxed every fibre of his being, he was at peace. The sound of blades and whine of the engine were like music as he waited. Fowler glanced at him and saw the calmness. How he could be so calm was a mystery to him given the situation he was lumped in. Now manoeuvring over the base he lowered the helicopter onto the pad and began powering her down. Jacob opened his eyes and opened the door. Fowler went down as Jacob gathered his bag. He knew Fowler was bowing his lid off over such a trivial matter as the kids hid till he left. Moving too the door he waited.
Once Fowler went upwards The three children came out from their spot and all sighed with relief. Optimus looked about the room and saw everyone was a tad annoyed with agent Fowler, understandable. He wasn't everyone's favourite to be blunt. Suddenly the elevator came back and the doors opened. Optimus smiled. In strode Jacob who's pure blue eyes scanned the crowed before him. Both Bee and Bulkhead looked bewildered as the humans just looked confused. Miko shifted to suddenly dismay in a heart beat.
"You've gotta be kidding me, we're not even the first!" She voiced as her dream fell apart.
Jacob let out a chuckle and lowered his bag to the floor. Bumblebee looked at the human keenly with confusion. Looking to the scout Jacob warmly smiled.
"Bumblebee, youngest born during the war just before the all spark was sent to deep space..." His eyes shifted to Bulkhead. "Bulkhead, the wrecker and former construction worker. A bit of a klutz but alway the most reliable in tough situations" He finished with a smirk.
A little flex of his knowledge wouldn't hurt. Bulkhead a bit surprised eyed the kid cautiously.
"Not bad" Bulkhead remarked as Optimus moved closer to Jacob and stood off to the left and just a few inches from the human area.
It was at this moment he realized how big Optimus truly was. A true titan.
{what's going on?} Bumblebee warbled.
"I can explain that" Jacob responded and took a breath.
His eyes swept across the small crowd once again, settling on Arcee he became suddenly transfixed. Both looked at each other and then he snapped back and began to explain it all.
"It all started 10 years ago" He began.
The story was long, Jacob didn't even spoil the blasted show aside from Cliffjumpers death and how Arcee met Jack and in-turn how Raf and bee met. Jacob didn't look prideful, more distraught at his most likely of fate. Death if he wasn't careful.
"Please tell me your high?" Jack asked and Jacob shook his head.
"No unfortunately I am not" He muttered in response.
Miko who didn't read the room at all voiced a very unfunny joke.
"So your stuck here till Ratchet can send you back, talk about a low budget trip" Miko joked making Jacob groan aloud.
Ratchet looked at him and felt his pain, annoying she was. Before anyone could get another word out the base alarms began to blare at full blow. Right on schedule. He mused as Ratchet turned back to the computer.
"That's the energon mine...nice time to do a smash and grab!" Jacob suggested with a dead pan expression.
Optimus knew this was supposed to happen, Just from the boys tone alone added so much to it. The prime nodded slightly.
"Autobots prepare for combat" He said as Ratchet immediately pivoted to the ground bridge controls.
Letthe games begin. He thought as he moved down the hall. As the bots readied he went to grab his car. No need to hide it anymore. Jack broke off and tailed him in Curiosity. He wasn't even noticed by the others.
Ratchet closed the ground bridge once they were through, Raf and Miko looked In astonishment at the ring like Machine.
"What happened to them?" Miko asked.
Ratchet smirked.
"I simply ripped a hole in space from here too the mine. Child's play compared to the space bridge" Ratchet responded smugly.
Nodding Miko looked both the the bridge and then Raf.
"So I could visit my parents if I wanted back in Tokyo" She mused.
A nice but unlikely thought came to ratchet and he wasted no time in voicing it.
"I could send you right now...so do I open the door?" He voiced his suggestion in a sly way.
Miko raised both hands and shook her head. She clearly wasn't eager to go back so quickly. Raf moving up to the human platform saw Ratchet's computer blue screen. The kiss of death. He thought and approached.
"Blast these human operating systems!" Ratchet cursed aloud.
"Aliens using human computers...Now I've seen it all" Raf joked as he pulled his computer out.
Seeing this Ratchet eyed the young boy keenly.
"Surly if I can't fix it then you can't either" He said grossly underestimating Raf.
"It's a simple as a restart, but I'll remove the problem entirely" Raf responded hooking his computer into the main one.
Within a minute the blue screen vanished and Ratchet was impressed. That little problem had been a sore on his neck for the past three years and now that it was most likely gone thanks to you such a young human made him feel such like a fool.
He felt Alive!..Cliffjumper felt like he could take on the whole mine by himself. Running to the opposite wall he felt the heat of a laser bolt zip past. Jumping into a small outcrop he readied his 3 barrelled blaster cannon. Now that he was alive he could keep these cons from ever touching humans.
One trooper had been unlucky and was now face-to-face with Optimus prime himself. 8 million years of service to his master flashed before his Optics in only a fraction of a second. His red optics tracked Optimus's sword mid motion, everything seemed to slow to a crawl as he blade hit his neck and suddenly he felt nothing afterwards.
Soundwave watched this all from the nemesis's bridge. The darkly lit bridge added an aura of mystique as he watched the autobots cleave through drone after drone, letting the miners run which he did respect. Unlike Megatron who would waste those drones if they were on the opposite side. He continued watching, seeing Arcee move up a level in quick perfectly timed jumps. Blasting away at troopers as she did. A beautiful but very deadly femme. Keying Megatron he sent the footage over the chamber where he kept the dark energon. One mine will mean nothing in the grand scale of the Deceptacon's power. Soundwave mused as he waited for instructions.
Megatron saw the video off a wall monitor and frowned. As stubborn as ever Optimus. He thought bitterly. Starscream was just a few feet behind with a dry expression.
"Should we scramble our forces to combat their attack my lord?" He asked and Megatron only shook his helm.
"Blow the mine, it's a lose we'll live with" Megatron ordered as he looked back to the dark energon.
The large crystal chunk shimmered brilliantly as he could see himself in the dim reflection. Only once he had become dependent on such a substance, through injections only and never directly to his spark chamber. He grinned and tore a chunk off. Starscream immediately felt unease as he knew what his lord was thinking.
"Master not you're spark chamber!. Haven't you learned?!" He demanded as Megatron ignored him.
Raising the crystal just beyond his spark chamber he closed his optics. To the death of Optimus prime!. In the quickest of movements The crystal found its way into his spark. Throughout the halls of the nemesis sounded a painful scream unlike anything anybody had ever heard.
Optimus saw Starscream, his aura held a darkness to it as he stood on the highest platform just only 200 feet away. He held a cylinder like device in his left hand as he looked down onto them.
"Hey screamer how about you come play!" Cliffjumper taunted as he personally wished to beat the con from stern to bow.
Starscream only chuckled in amusement.
"Sorry I would but I'm rather screamish" He responded now throwing the bomb into a pile of energon.
Optimus felt his spark go cold.
"Autobot's retreat!" He called and began back to the ground bridge.
For dozens of milesa bright blue fireball could beseen by almost anyone if they happenedbe looking orpaying attention. Lances of debris and blue fire reached for the sky and a blast similar to the atomic bomb which had devastated Hiroshima. Satellites above could see the brilliant flash clearer than the sun which the earth orbited.