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Rex Vong Thrawn: I'm sorry I killed Cliff off but it was quite difficult for me to try and include him in the story and I'm not sure if I'll bring him back and at this point it was crucial I kill him off as it will develop the story, personality and it will also allow adding someone's in the future and the only reason why Fowler didn't ask is because Cliff was already in the main hub when Fowler got there and as for the pointy purple eared Cybertronian your going to have to be more specific.
Very quick warning near the end it gets gruesome so be warned and proceed at your own risk and don't say I didn't warn you.
"...Cybertronian..."
"...Beast talk..."
"...Spark-bond..."
'...Thoughts...'
The Heir Of Onyx Prime.
It had been a week since Cliff has been terminated and Jack was worrying because during that week he had taken over some of Arcees responsibilities as she never came out of her quarters and when she did it was either for her daily energon or training in S.A.F.E which Jack had learned about when Optimus took him down there for his first training match in a Cybertronian sized boxing ring, Jack had his moments when he bested Optimus by doing something unexpected and that was faking a kick and instead a right hook into Optimus helm sending him to the edge of the ring, not only that but Jack had nearly burned Optimus' helm as he didn't realise he had wrist mounted flamethrowers which used the same black flame his beast mode has and even Optimus surprised Jack with things he didn't expect the Prime to do and after that Optimus had taken Jack to the shooting range which was close by and in the target range was some destroyed vehicles and buildings that are turned into rubble and by demonstrating to Jack Optimus had taught him on how to use his long-range built-in weapons which were a modified Riot cannon that resembled Megatron's plasma cannon and Optimus blaster and the two of them found out that either Jack could charge up the cannon for a very explosive blast which even the whole team could feel the earth shake from the blast and after Optimus explained to them what happened they found out that Jack could also manifest an energon bow with a quiver of energon arrows on his back, he even found out that each arrow would do something different by the colour of the tip, a green arrow tip would cause the target to corrode with rust and acid melting them, a darker blue tip would cause arcs of lighting to spread out and chain from one target to the next, a red tip would cause the target to suddenly combust in flames and after all that Optimus had instructed Jack to enter a pure white room as Optimus went up some steps into what looked to be a control room and that's when Jack found out he was standing in a virtual training simulator as buildings suddenly appeared and even Vehicons which Jack disposed off and everytime Jack succeeded Optimus would turn the difficulty up by either making it harder as more enemies tried to swarm Jack with overwhelming numbers or by adding in situations which Jack would have to defend humans from being killed or escort a military convoy and what the two didn't notice was that Arcee was watching them from the shadows she watched how Jack handled each situation and how he handled Arielcons as they didn't stand a chance against Jack as his metal hide protected him from a lot of damage as it didn't even looked scratched when ten missiles hit him.
Once that was over Optimus had taken Jack up to the main hub where he began to teach Jack the ways of a Prime by showing him certain images and asking how he would handle the situation that would take place and when he answered Optimus would show what he did and if Jack's answer had a better outcome than what Optimus had he would congratulate him and the same would go if Jack's answer is the same as what Optimus did but when his answer was wrong Optimus would teach him on how to handle the situation or even give Jack datapads to go over, Optimus also taught Jack the history of Cybertronians and that was it for that day as Jacks energy was gone by the end and when Miko or Raf tried to get Jack to do something with them Jack would briefly look at them for a moment before turning towards Optimus and his answer was this every time. "I need to focus as this depends not only on my race but theirs as well and even yours." before going back to whatever he was doing with Optimus, and when Jack couldn't sleep because sometimes his nights were plagued by a vision of Cliff's dying optics flicking on and off and a sliver talons piercing through his chassis and Jack would remember those red optics and before long Jack pieced it together who had terminated Cliff and that didn't sit well with him and to try and calm himself down he went down into the S.A.F.E and start the virtual training simulator and practice with his weapons and beast mode and every time he would always try to beat his record and even making it harder and at the entrance Arcee stood there watching him fight tirelessly trying to one-up himself but what she didn't expect was for him to say.
"I'll find you screamer and I'll get vengeance for you Cliff and hopefully put Arcee at ease, so she can stop feeling the pain that you caused." Arcee was quite speechless at what Jack said as she quickly went back to her quarters but knocked something off on her way out of the S.A.F.E which Jack heard but when he got there he only saw an empty paint can on the floor, after putting it back Jack shut down the virtual training simulator and went back to his quarters as he had added two more Cybertronians on the cave wall one was a red femme Cybertronian and a dark blue mech and both looked to be triple-changers.
"Sooner or later I'll meet you all and either you'll be fighters or possibles queens, One thing at a time Jack, one thing at a time." Jack mumbled to himself as he looked over all of the Cybertronians he managed to draw into the wall before going into recharge for the night.
Jack had suddenly woke up as he heard a very distinctive exciting scream which could only be Miko and when he went to the edge of the mesa he spotted Bulkhead driving down a dune and further down the road to the south Jack spotted Bee sitting on the side in his alt mode and Jack could just barely make out the sound of a race car engine which Jack guessed Bee and Raf were playing a racing game.
"Hey Ebony." Jack heard from behind him which was Arcee.
"Oh, morning Arcee. You doing okay?" Jack asked as he was concerned for Arcee.
"I'm... doing fine." Arcee said and after a short silence she sat down with her legs dangling over the edge."Do you know who Megatron has under his command?" Arcee asked.
"Well, I know you got Megatron as he is the Decepticon leader, then he has that annoying seeker whose voice is annoying to listen too and I'm not sure if there is anybody else." Jack answered as he sat down as well.
"You have Soundwave his trustworthy spymaster who acts as his third in command and as his eyes and ears, so no matter what Megatron knows what is going on his warship at all times." Arcee said as Jack now knows the top three but he has a question.
"Hey, Arcee what can you tell me about the Screamer?" Jack asked as he looked at Arcee and clearly saw her frame stiffen.
"He is Megatron's second in command, he is known to be a coward, traitorous and when it's his spark or Megatron's or anyone else's he will save himself. That's basically Starscream in short." Arcee explained with a little bit of anger laced in her voice and when she looked at Jacks face all she saw was nothing, not even a hint of anger as his optics showed no emotion, his face showed no expression but those eyes, those are the eyes of a coldly calculating warrior which gave her a little fear and right below them Bulkhead and Bee were heading into the base as Jack heard their engines get louder before going quiet.
"Let's head inside." Jack said as he got up and offered Arcee his servo and she accepted it like a lady and Jack had surprised her by giving her a quick kiss on her cheek before walking towards the lift.
"Well, are you coming or not Arcee?" Jack asked as Arcee had her servo over where Jack had kissed her.
"In... a moment." Arcee said so Jack had just shrugged and gone down leaving Arcee alone and when he got into the main hub Ratchet and Optimus seemed to be preparing to leave.
"Departing so soon?" Jack questioned.
"Yes, as me and Ratchet are going on a reconnaissance mission, Arcee will be in charge." Optimus stated which Jack understood why and then the two went through the ground-bridge leaving Bulkhead, Bee, Raf, Miko and Jack in the main hub and at that moment Arcee walked in with a little sway in her steps and Jack notices something in her optics but he couldn't quite tell what it is.
"Where's Optimus and Ratchet?" Arcee asked when she didn't notice them in the main hub.
"They went on a reconnaissance mission and said that you are in charge." Bulk said and he heard Miko say that he is the biggest and that he should be in charge."Optimus never picks me." Bulkhead said to Miko but then Raf has a question.
"Wait if you're also a Prime then why didn't he put you in charge?" Raf asked Jack.
"Because I'm inexperienced and cannot lead a team yet and by the way how Optimus put Arcee in charge is because she is his second in command." Jack said which Arcee nodded at.
"I'm going on patrol, Bee with me. Bulk you're in charge." Arcee said before transforming with Bee and drove outta the base leaving Bulk and Jack to deal with Miko and Raf.
"Sooo whats on the activities list?" Bulk asked right before the sound of an amp being tweaked with and then a strum of guitar strings was played and when it ended it was Miko with her guitar.
"How about band practice?" Miko asked.
"But... we're not a band." Raf said.
"We are now! Raf, what do you play?" Miko instantly asked.
"I can play computers." Raf said as if he was somewhat questioning himself.
"Laptops and samples, good and you?" Miko asked pointing towards Jack.
"No thanks." Jack politely declined before heading over to the console and doing work by keeping track on Arcee and Bee and since he couldn't reach Optimus over comms then he was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to check his position and all of a sudden green alarms blared and Bulkhead could barely hear it and so he got Miko to stop playing her guitar.
"It's Fowler." Jack said with Miko running behind Bulks leg and Raf behind Jacks right as the elevators doors opened up with Fowler storming out.
"PRIME! PRIME?!" Fowler shouted out but all he can find were Jack and Bulkhead."Where is he? Wait don't tell me, he's out pancaking a mini-mall. I don't know what language you speak on your planet but blowing a crater in the middle of Nebraska is not what the word handle means now you tell Prime." Fowler was ranting but then spotted a cable going behind Bulkhead which was connected to Miko's guitar and so both Miko and Raf came out from hiding." Contact with civilians. Team Prime has gone off the book now." Fowler said as his day was just getting worse.
"We're-" Miko was going to say but Fowler just put his hand to stop her.
"I don't wanna hear, it's bad enough I have to deal with Prime not understanding things, anyway your both coming with into federal custody it's for your own protection." Fowler said but he was stopped by Jack as his pede stomped in his path and Jack gave him the most deathly glare he could.
"WE are protecting them, agent Fowler, You also have my respect but there are some things you should know about Predacons, we are very territorial, we will protect those who we call friends and family till the end and when one is hurt you better pray to whatever god you believe in that you are not on the receiving end as we will get our vengeance tenfold compared to a Cybertronian." Jack stated and when Fowler tried to make a move for a phone it was instantly burned down by Jack as he melts the phone with his flamethrower and so without wasting a heartbeat, Fowler went straight towards the elevator.
"This isn't over. Not by a long shot!" Fowler shouted at them as the elevators door closed Bulkhead had just groaned as he knew that wasn't good.
"Why did you do that?" Bulk asked Jack.
"Because Bulk if Fowler took both of them then I dunno thanks to the advanced technology the Decepticons have and not only that but Soundwave I'm expecting him to activate a distress beacon soon." Jack said and not long after the alarms blared to life again and Bulk checked the console only to find out that Fowler did indeed activate a distress beacon but when Bulk tried to trace its signal it vanished.
"Scrap." Bulkhead cursed. "Oh well." Bulkhead carelessly said while the others were just shocked.
"Bulkhead!" Ebony said in his shocked state.
"What? Fowler's a jerk." Bulkhead replied.
"He may be a jerk but he also knows the bases LOCATION and could very much be in Decepticons hands." Jack stated which then got Bulkhead thinking as he now knew what this could mean.
"Frag, that is not good. But I lost the signal how are we going to be able to track him?" Bulkhead asked.
"Raf, think you can do anything to solve this problem?" Jack questioned as Raf plugged his laptop in and started to get to work.
"What is he doing?" Bulkhead inquired as they watched what Raf was doing
"He's hacking into the government's servers and trying to find agent Fowlers location as the government had implanted a microchip which transmits their coordinates 24/7." Jack explained as he remembered reading something about that when he was surfing the internet.
"And I have them." Raf said and uploaded the coordinates into the console that controls the Ground-bridge which then Bulk pulled the lever down.
"Uh... Ebony, you're in charge." Bulkhead said before running through the Ground-bridge leaving the three there.
"Wait where's Miko?" Jack asked as the rebellious punk teen was nowhere to be seen.
"Arcee, Bumblebee do you read." Bulkhead said over the comm units.
"Loud and clear Bulkhead." Arcee replied.
"I have a situation." Bulkhead said.
"Their just kids Bulk and you also have Ebony there to help." Arcee said as she and Bee drove down a road.
"That's not what the situation is about, I've found the Decepticon warship and-" Bulkhead said which had gotten Arcee's attention as she and Bee swerved to a stop.
"YOUR WHERE!?" Arcee exclaimed angrily.
"And Miko sneaked through the Ground-bridge with me." Bulkhead finished.
"SHE'S WHERE?!" Arcee exclaimed angrily again.
"Raf stay here and when Arcee needs a Ground-bridge you do it alright? I'm going to go help Bulkhead." Jack said as he activated the Ground-bridge and ran through and when Bulkhead heard thundering steps he turned around to see Ebony with his face guard down.
"Ebony?! Why aren't you back at base?" Bulk asked and Jack had a plan.
"Listen Bulk I'm going to surrender myself and when I do you're going to storm the warship and when you find me I should know the location of where Fowler is, got it?" Jack inquired to which Bulkhead nodded and Jack got going as he put his servos in the air in a surrendering gesture and started to walk towards the Decepticon warship and not long after two Vehicons had spotted him and pointed their weapons at him.
"Halt! State your business!" One of the Vehicon ordered as Jack stopped dead in his track.
'How dumb are these drones?' Jack thought to himself. "I'm surrendering myself as I'm with the Autobots but wish to change sides and fight by lord Megatron's side." Jack said but when he said lord Megatron his voice was laced with anger as he still remembers what Megatron called him and the two Vehicons looked at each other before one nodded to the other.
"Commander Starscream, we have an Autobot turncoat who is surrendering themselves. What would you have us do?" The Vehicon said over the comm.
"An Autobot turncoat?" Starscream said back over the comm.
"That is correct sir. How should we proceed?" The Vehicon asked.
"Bring them to the brig but keep a very close optic on them, I'll be dealing with our other guest till then." Starscream ordered and so the two Vehicon pointed their guns at Jack but motioned him to move towards the elevator and so he did with the two Vehicons standing behind and their guns still pointed at him but when Jack turned around he saw Bulkhead waiting and right before he couldn't see any more he saw a Ground-bridge open. ' Just in time.' Jack thought as the two Vehicons kept leading him down different hallways. "Did you hear that Soundwave had managed to capture the Autobots human pets?" One of the Vehicons behind him asked.
"Yeah, I heard the human was being interrogated by Starscream in the brig." The other Vehicon said right before the two of them got shot with both them being hit in the chassis.
"Took you long enough." Jack said as he turned to see Arcee, Bulk and Bee standing there with their weapons out.
"What are you doing?!" Arcee demanded as she stormed towards Jack.
"Gathering information on where agent Fowler is being held which just so happens to be where these kind drones we're talking about before getting terminated." Jack said with a bit of sarcasm. "He's being interrogated by Starscream in the brig." Jack said informing the Autobots where Fowler is.
"Alright first let's find a safe place for a certain human girl to stay put and we'll go get agent Fowler, Ebony you'll watch over Miko till Bulkhead gets back." Arcee ordered as Bulk handed over Miko to Jack.
"Sup, Draco." Miko said with Ebony not liking the nickname but didn't bother to say anything about it and they set outgoing from room to room before encountering a group of Vehicons from in front of them and behind them, Arcee and Bee took care of the Vehicons that were in front of them while Jack and Bulk took care of the ones behind, after that they entered a room which just so happened to be the bridge and they took care of the Vehicons inside and Jack put Miko on a consoles surface.
"Alright now on to the rescuing part." Arcee said with her and the other two left the bridge heading straight towards the brig of the warship.
"Now why on earth did you follow Bulk through the bridge?" Jack demanded from Miko who just didn't care.
"Why should I tell you? Also, you went through the Ground-bridge breaking the rules that OP set." Miko argued back.
"Because a person was in need of help and help from you wouldn't do anything unless you had an indestructible suit of some make." Jack said and after a pause from him, he continued. "My mother raised me to help those in need and to be responsible." Jack finished which made Miko get a question forming in her head.
"Wait, mother? I thought Cybertronians had carriers?" Miko asked and at that Jack knew he was busted as the look on his face said it all.
"Scrap." Jack cursed as Miko kept asking him about it till he broke. "Fine! I was Human before getting turned into a Predacon, there you happy now?" Jack asked with a frustrated sigh.
"Who were you before getting transformed?" Miko asked and by this point, small tears of energon started to well up in Jacks optics.
"My name is Jackson Darby, the guy who nobody basically cared about, the guy who got picked on but never fought back." Jack said and something clicked inside Miko's brain.
"Your the kid who's gone missing! Oh boy, you're in deep trouble when June finds out." Miko stated since she and Raf had confronted June since she had helped their families in some way.
"Wait, you know my mother? Tell me how is she doing?" Jack questioned as he started to swell with joy knowing that Miko knew his mother.
"Well, she was a complete wreck when we first saw but I and Raf had stayed with her to look after her since she didn't look too good. Like her skin colour was pale white and she looked like she had been crying for months. She must really care about you." Miko said and Jack felt many emotions knowing his mom still cared about him and he had something to ask.
"Miko..." Jack said getting the punk rock teens attention. "Could you do me a favor?" Jack inquired and Miko gave a double thumbs up. "Could tell her I'm fine and I miss her." Jack said.
"Sure thing, it'll make June happy and that is what me and Raf are aiming for and besides it beats hanging around my host parents." Miko said and then Jack noticed something on the console screen which he understood very clearly.
"These are... equations on distance, planetary movement and such." Jack said as he started going over the data and tried not to bore Miko so much.
"Why?" Miko asked as that was the one million dollar question and then Jack figured it would be best if he could show this to Optimus.
"Miko, do you think you can take a picture of this?" Jack asked and Miko took out her phone but at that moment Jack picked up on the sound of a jets engine heading in their direction and he got into a defensive stance when the door opened with a silver and red highlighted jet hurling itself in the bridge and had transformed.
"Those pathetic Autobots were not always the brightest." Jack heard and he knew who it is.
"Starscream!" Jack bellowed as he charged at the seeker who had turned around in time to see Jack punch him in the gut and sent him flying to the other end of the walkway which looked like it was going towards the steering controls for the warship. Starscream was grasping for air as he got winded from that punch and when he looked up he saw Jack marching towards him as his golden optics were basically slits like a dragon and only held rage in them but it was controlled rage.
(I'm putting the warning a bit ahead of where the gruesome bit is and like I said at the beginning IT WILL BE GRUESOME.)
"How... dare you hit me?! Do you know who I am?!" Starscream demanded as he stood up and primed his arm-mounted missiles.
"Oh, I know fully who you are. You are a coward who'll do anything to save his own back and is ready to backstab anyone in the back be they friend or foe." Jack said as he kept marching but Starscream and shot both missiles at him and when they impacted on Jack a black smokescreen was covering what Starscream had thought to be a carcass and he had started to laugh like a maniac but he didn't realize that Jack was completely fine.
"Is that the best you can do?" Starscream heard and when he looked at the black smokescreen he saw Jacks silhouette and saw that it was walking towards him and when Jack stepped out of the smoke Starscream could fully see that nothing had happened to Jack except for a little scratch from fragmentation.
"You'll pay for what you did to Cliff and You'll be a warning to those who dare to face me!" Jack stated with anger as he started to pick up the pace before grabbing Starscream's throat and used three digits to dig out one of his optics and Starscream was living up to his name as he screams for the whole galaxy to hear and when that optic was only dangling by wires Jack had ripped it out causing Starscream more pain but Jack wasn't done he then did the same thing to his other optic and when Jack was done with that he then started to rip limb by limb starting with Starscreams legs so he couldn't get away and then Jack moved on to his arms and only left them dangling by some wire and the same goes for the legs but they still bleed energon and once Jack was done with that he punched into the ceiling and pulled down huge cables and started to tie Starscream up by his arms.
"Kil-kill... me... al-alr-alrea-already." Starscream whimpered out due to so much pain as it is the only thing he could feel as he had no ways of seeing.
"Not yet." Jack said as he then managed to grab hold of Starscream's glossa and ripped it out and threw it behind him, next Jack had turned one of his wrist-mounted flamethrowers into a blowtorch and Jack had started to practice surgeon by removing Starscream's voicebox with that out Jack had dropped it to the ground, he then plunged his servo into Starscream's chassis and ripped out what looked to be his T-cog, next was his spark with it sparking electricity as it was forcibly removed and dropped the two things down to the floor before finally grabbing Starscream's helm and ripped it off with some of his spinal strut coming out as well and Jack stood there with energon slowly dripping off his talons as he stared into Starscream's optic sockets before shoving the helm straight where Starscream spark used to be.
"Dude...That... was... so brutal." Jack heard Miko say and he went over to her.
"I think you should listen when I say don't piss off Predacons." Jack said as he allowed Miko to sit on his shoulder strut. "Did get the picture of the equation?" Jack asked as he started to walk towards the door.
"Yup and let's blow this joint." Miko exclaimed and when Jack walked out he heard the sound of three engines heading towards him and with Starscream's optics still with him Jack quickly put them in his subspace compartment right as Arcee, Bee and Bulk turned the corner.
"I thought I told to stay put?!" Arcee inquired when she transformed and stared Jack in the optics.
"We did... until I had to 'take care of business'." Jack vaguely said as he lowered Miko to the floor besides Bulks vehicle mode which she then jumped in and Arcee noticed that one of Jack's servos was dripping energon and she knew what he meant before he had transformed and started running down the hallway and they all started to follow suit and Arcee transformed and falling in behind Jack as she thought about whose energon it was staining Jack servo and who screamed so loud.