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Ah there's the Rex I know. Let's get these character suggestions done and out of the way first, RID 2015 Drift will show up but when I get into that series, Sky-Byte will make an appearance as I do like the Shark Predacon and I think I know when he will make an appearance but it'll be in the RID 2015 show, Windblade is the same along with Maccadam, I can't do much with the movieverse unless I choose to do the last knight movie and as for the other characters I don't really know who they are other than what information I could get from a website which doesn't say about their personality to a degree, I don't think I'm going to send them to G1 but I might do it as an adventure along with something else to go with it and lastly for the Terrorcons they have a place but it won't be until the beast hunters movie and the RID 2015 squeal. Also I'm not very good at doing haikus. Goddamn Rex I had everything ready for your last set of reviews and here I am answering more of them, would you like an essay? XD
To answer your other reviews Rex, as for the Maximals? I can't quite remember what they are called since it has been a while since I watched Beast machines or beast wars, maybe maybe not I'm not quite sure because this is like a jigsaw puzzle, every piece has a certain place to snugly fit in so that would mean I have to find that place for them as for the G1 Predacons I'm guessing you mean those five who can combine into Predaking? If so I don't know as the answer is the same for them and finally the shattered glass I cloud make one if I wanted to but I think I'll save that for season two of the story or should I say series because I'm thinking of turning this into a trilogy of stories but for each season of TFP.
To all who have never seen my one shot idea for Jack Of All Trades, it's in my one shot story chapter 6 and of course I'll rewrite it but I'll be keeping the same vehicle and character design.
"...Cybertronian..."
"...Beast talk..."
"...Spark-bond..."
'...Thoughts...'
...Titan connection...
The Heir Of Onyx Prime.
"Every end marks a new beginning. Every beginning marks an end."
Stronger, (Harder, Better,) Faster
"Hey Cogman, why don't you go to the base for today and keep me posted on what happens I'll be joining you later." Jack said as he came into the living room with Cogman in the kitchen cooking some breakfast.
"As you wish master Jackson I'll inform the mistress's do take care of yourself." Cogman said as he served up what looks to be a full english breakfast for Jack.
"You too." Jack called out as he started to eat about halfway through his phone vibrated with a new message so taking a look it was signed from Que, reading it it asked if Que can use either Lockdown or Waspinator for a test run of the new Synthetic energon formula he has quickly sending to Que Jack said. No only test on machines till they show no negative effects and double check the formula is complete. I don't want to risk anything. With that done Jack sent the message before finishing the rest of his breakfast he then put on a jacket before leaving the house and with the girls at base Jack got a chance to walk around town for a bit before venturing on outside of town until he found himself in the same drainage ditch where he had saved Arcee and encountered Raf he can still faintly smell energon from the vehicons he killed.
"I wish the Decepticons would put up a better fight." Jack said aloud before getting a feeling of fear coming from the bond he has, getting his phone he quickly dialed Shockblast.
"How may I help?" Shockblast answered.
"I need a ground bridge to Arcee now." Jack said in a hurry with one appearing in front of him, running towards it his body shifted to his root mode and appearing on the other side above a canyon he was falling towards the ground where Arcee, Chromia and Moonracer who are surrounded by Airelcons they are vastly outnumbered and Arcee seems out cold with her two sisters protecting her and further in front of Jack another ground bridge opened up but it was the doc bot that came through which shocked Jack to a degree as he didn't expect to see the medic leave the base unless it was an emergency and this wasn't one of those emergencies and better yet it surprised Jack even more when Ratchet started taking out the Vehicons one by one that surrounded the three sisters but it wasn't enough as he nearly got shot from behind that was until Jack landed on the poor Vehicon completely crushing it's chassis under his pede.
"How come I can't leave you alone for a few minutes and you get into danger?" Jack asked as he went to pick up Arcee since she is still knocked out for the time being. "Not only that but why is Arcee knocked out?"
"She rushed in without thinking and ended up getting ambushed by Airelcons so we rushed to her aid." Chromia said right as the rest of the team arrived who have started talking to Ratchet which is when Jack noticed his optics had changed from the usual cyan blue to a light green.
"You used it didn't you?" Jack asked, referring to Synth En.
"If you mean Synthetic energon then yes I did." Ratchet said with Jack having a disdain look on his faceplate.
"Optimus I can already tell this will only end badly, now if it ain't no problem can we get back to base?" Jack inquired with them all agreeing with Ratchet placing in a call to Raf who he had happened to leave in charge of the ground-bridge once they all had entered the base the bridge was shut off just in time for Arcee to wake up with a groan, settling her down gently on her pede Jack asks. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I got hit by a freight train." Arcee responded with a servo to her helm as she winced from pain.
"You need to stop rushing in alone Arcee." Jack then said with a hint of worry. "How do you think we feel?"
"I just couldn't help it, from the beginning we had always been outnumbered, out gunned and low on energon. I mean your help has been grateful yet even with your power it won't win the war nor will it keep giving us energon as the Decepticons will soon find a way to counter you, I just feel more and more less useful to the team." Arcee said with a sad sigh.
"... That may be true but I'm not going without a fight this is my home planet the place where I was born and raised, I will defend it to my last breath and I'll even defend a home I've yet to make in the stars. The Decepticons can try all they want but I'll remain standing and I'll keep on standing till I no longer can I am the Predacons sword and shield I'll protect our future and I'll fight those who dare to take that away." Jack said determined as he pointed at her spark. "You are both Autobot and Predacon, I will protect the future that is in store for you and the same goes for you two and the other queen's that have yet to join your ranks." Jack said with the three staring into his optics as they saw the tamed fire burning brightly. "I promise." Jack stated with all the intent to keep that promise.
"You should rest ma'am or take it easy for now." Cogman said as he appeared beside Jack with the three sisters leaving.
"Report Cogman." Jack said as he stared down the hallway his spark mates went.
"As you wish. Ratchet had been working on the formula for Synth En and ran tests on machines before he went straight towards self testing as he injected a vial of it in himself and I assume you saw how that went." Cogman stated.
"I did but I can't act on anything since he is not my subordinate, we'll see if Optimus can get Ratchet to on himself otherwise it could end badly." Jack said as he vented out his systems looking tired to some degree.
"It must be tough being a leader and better yet a Predacon leader." Raf said noticing Jack's expression.
"You got that right there are times I would just like to kick back and relax for some time but with the Decepticons there isn't time to relax and being a leader of a race of beasts isn't helpful either, It's all so tiring but that is the life of a leader and warrior." Jack said with his optics taking on a darker brightness with his shoulders sagging before he straightened up when he heard.
"GET YOUR FRAGGING SERVOS OFF ME BULK! I'M GOING TO TEAR RATCHET A NEW ONE!" Had came from one of the hallways with Jack already knowing whose voice that was so without further ado he let a sigh out as he walked towards the commotion with a hole being the wall with Ratchet, Bulk and Arcee while Bulk had Arcee pinned as she tried to claw or kick him as her optics burned with the intent to murder Ratchet, she had managed to overpowered him when she tugged a wire underneath his armour plating that forced him to move his arm away giving her enough room to grab his other arm and toss him towards Ratchet who dodge the flying Bulkhead before coming face to face with a very pissed off femme dragon who was running towrads, forcing him to run away and dodge fireballs at the same time.
Seeing the two turn a corner past Bulkhead Jack went over towards him and straightened him up. "Are you alright Bulkhead?" Jack asked with concern.
"That wasn't the first time I was thrown about like some luggage, I should be fine." Bulkhead said waving off any concerns.
"That's good to hear, mind telling me why Arcee is in a frenzy to rip Ratchet a new one?" Jack asked looking down the hallway he saw the two went.
"Ratchet had said 'How's it humming?' Obviously he had forgotten about a Prdacons behaviour when he injected himself with Synth En." Bulkhead retold Jack with not being as bothered by this.
"I'm going to let Arcee handle this one and let it be a permanent reminder for him." Jack said.
"Yeah but he is our only medic." Bulkhead said which got Jack Chasing after a pair since right now they really couldn't afford losing their only medic, when he caught up to the two Ratchet was pinned onto the floor with Arcee ready to chomp his helm off but Jack had got there in time for Arcee to instead clamp down on his arm with her sharp denta piercing his armour to some degree with a little trickle of energon dripping into her mouth, when she tasted it the look in her optics changed to that of recognition and worry with her quickly releasing her hold of Jacks arm and transforming with a shock expression written all over her face.
"Jack?! Are you alright?" She asked in worry as she inspected his arm.
"I'm fine, nothing like pain to know your alive heh." Jack chuckled with a smile while Arcee could only look worried. "Relax Arcee This is nothing but a flesh wound, I'll be fine I'm glad that it was my arm instead of Ratchet's helm otherwise who would we have to repair our battle damages?" Jack questioned but he still kept that warm smile on his face as nanobots slowly started to repair the damage as they created layers and layers of armour criss crossing each other while some worked to seal the piecered pipe stopping the trickle of energon.
"But I hurt you. My very own sparkmate which is way worse than hurting a teammate, I hurt the very being I'm sparkbonded to, the very being who I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life with, not end theirs in an instance." Arcee said as her worry increased and started to pace from the distraction Ratchet managed to get away for the time being.
"Arcee." Jack called but got no response as Arcee seemed to be mumblerling to herself. "Arcee." Jack tried again but didn't get anything. "ARCEE!" Jack roared as he gripped her shoulders stopping her dead in her tracks and turned her to look him dead in the optics. "I'm fine even if you hurt me it wasn't intentionally, I got in the way cause we couldn't afford to lose a medic like Ratchet, remember to try and control the urge to rip his spark out Arcee cause the beast inside will surely try to surface and make good on tearing him a new one." Jack stated as she nodded her helm.
"Milady, Master Ebony. Optimus is looking for you milady as it's time for a mission." Cogman said as he stepped out from behind Arcee.
Arcee let out a sigh as she tried to calm her systems down. "Right, the Decepticons won't wait forever."
"Arcee try to keep your mind clear and calm, if you let your anger get the better of you the beast inside will make use of the opportunity." Jack warned her as she walked away leaving only him and Cogman.
"It seems anger or rather rage is key for her inner beast to take control." Cogman noted.
"It might have something to do with how the war treated her. I mean taking two of her partners away, having her ex fighting against you and now having a sparkmate, it's a lot for one femme especially predacon femme I'll see if I can get a day off with Arcee to try and get her to relax." Jack said as he let out another sigh. "I'm not entirely sure to be honest, what say we take a trip to the Harbinger?" Jack asked with Cogman nodding and so he sent a message to Shockblast requesting a ground-bridge when it appeared the two entered and when they came out on the other side Jack noticed the hallways had been painted a different colour instead of it all being a dark purple it was now white with the support beams being black and the floor lights and ceiling lights being a dark blue colour.
"The wreckers you brought had a lot of free time on their servos so I thought some redecorating is in order after all this will be a vessel taking the Predacon race back home." Cogman informed Jack and he nodded understanding why Cogman did this. They had also passed Lockdown and Wasspinator.
"Not got anything to say?" Jack asked as he stood between the two cells.
"Nah, not really. I've got everything a prisoner can ask for, three energon cubes a day, a nice cozy cell and some clever wardens." Lockdown said from within his cell as he was bouncing a ball off the floor and wall.
"Wassspinator still wants revenge on black spider lady… Although this cell isssn't ssssso bad." Waspinator said as he was laying on a berth that was sticking out of the wall.
"Well that's good." Jack noted before he and Cogman moved on towards the bridge where Shockblast remained at the helm and two of the three wreckers are going over the computers making sure everything is running good.
"How have things been Shockblast?" Jack asked as he strode up behind the busy mech.
"Smoothly for the time being, having three spies in the Decepticon ranks have yielded… some very interesting information on their energon mines and the construction of a space-bridge which is halfway nearing completion." Shockblast informed Jack.
"It won't be long now before you can unearth this half, how has Que been?" Jack asked.
"Why don't we go see for ourselves?" Shockblast asked as a ground-bridge opened and so the three entered and found themselves inside a lab which has a multitude of machinery, wires, gadgets, prototype weapons and tools and some of the stuff was lying about making the lab looked like a tornado came through.
"Ah! Ebony it's good to finally see you again and at such a perfect time as well." Que declared from the middle of the lab as on the table in front of him is a vial of the Synthetic energon but it was made from a more complete formula along with a machine and a weapon.
"Is that so? Please don't let my intrudance stop you." Jack said as Que grabbed the vial and injected half of it into the machine which whirred to life.
"I had been testing normal energon and Synth En on this piece of machinery timing it for how long it stayed active which gave me the results of the Synth En being used up faster than normal energon but gives out more energy." Que said informing Jack of one of his many tests.
"So it has a con as well as a pro?" Jack questioned.
"But when testing it on a weapon." Que said as he injected the other half into the weapon he had on the table with the bio-lights changing to green, he handed it to Jack as a target popped up at the other end of the room. "Shoot the target." Que said and Jack did with the blast of the energon bolt being bigger but the weapon looked almost fried.
"More deadly but fewer shots before the weapon is nothing more than scrap." Jack noted.
"Correct, the normal… Magazine size as humans put it would be about thirty shots but add Synth En the number of shots that can be fired lowers down to half with a massive boost to damage output and increase in the rate at which you can fire it." Que informed him as Jack placed the weapon back on the table as he was now rubbing his chin in thought.
"So your saying it would be better off not used on Cybertronians?" Jack asked.
"Correct as we need the energon for ammo and life so we would quickly burn through it." Que stated.
"Ratchet you poor fool." Jack said as he knows something that Ratchet doesn't. "Would it suit the needs of a ship Que?" Jack asked.
"Yes it could if I can refine the Synth En even further where it doesn't force it to burn through it." Que said.
"Start working on that Shockblast will need as much of that as possible if this ship is to ever take off, Shockblast are you able to pick up Ratchet's or the Autobots spark signatures?" Jack demanded holding up a data-pad he had already pinpointed their location which was back at base while Ratchet's looked to be deep underground in a mine. "If we can pick up his signal then team Prime will be able to pick it up soon. That fool." Jack said with a nod.
"Ratchet isn't a fool so what makes him one now?" Que asked.
"Like you said about Synth En it quickly burns but I took note of how Ratchet moved flawlessly while fighting against Airelcons, then there was the part of how he managed to throw Bulkhead through a concrete wall and if he is on his own it means he went after information that he must've gained by interrogating which isn't like him but it seems the most possible case at this point." Jack said informing Que why he thought Ratchet was a fool. "Not only that if he had injected himself with Synth En which he did it had most likely scrambled his signature which is why he was on his own and team Prime was back at the base."
"I see, so there are cons to Synth En I could never get from testing it on weapons and machinery." Que noted.
"Where's Blackarachnia and Crystal?" Jack asked looking towards Shockblast as he was going through the data-pad.
"They are waiting in their quarters."
"Bring them here." Jack ordered with Shockblast nodding with a few taps a ground-bridge opened and out walked Blackarachnia and Crystal who were happy to see Jack.
"What's the occasion?" Blackarachnia asked since the two hardly get to see Jack since they have been helping Shockblast gathering energon and scrap metal.
"Well we're going to retrieve Ratchet since he decided to go on a little adventure of his own into Decepticon territory." Jack said.
"Say when will Airachnid be joining us?" Crystal inquired.
"Some time in the future, why?" Jack replied.
"Me and Blackarachnia have decided we shall sparkbond with you when Airachnid joins." Crystal stated surprising Jack to some degree.
"Very well, if that's what you two want I shall oblige now lets go." Jack said with Shockblast opening the ground bridge with the three stepping through to see Knockdown about ready to slice Ratchets helm off.
"Knock knock, oh we already let ourselves in." Blackarachnia spoke making Knockdown lookup with two spider femmes and the most feared amongst the Decepticons other than Optimus prime.
"Right when I'm in the middle of a procedure to get some of this power up juice." Knockdown complained.
"Hands off the fool or you can find yourself with a lot of scratches and paint missing." Jack threatened as Blackarachnia grabbed two of her spider legs and pulled revealing them to be swords which seemed to be laced with something as you can hear a slow dripping sound with a small but steadily rising plume of smoke.
"Hmm poison or acid?" Knockdown asked as he looked at the small plume of smoke.
"I'm not quite sure but I'm willing to find out by testing on you." Blackarachnia said with a grin.
"No thanks." He said as he quickly backed away leaving the four with the two spider femmes looking around while Jack sought to Ratchet.
"How you feeling Doc?" Jack asked as he saw the wound Ratchet is still clutching.
"I really am a fool." Ratchet said with his energon blue and Synth En green tinted optics looking at Jack who held nothing but a smile.
"You may be a fool but your our fool and our only medic so cheer up you old bag of bolts, the others will be here shortly the best I can do is seal the wound." Jack explained as he brought out one of his flamethrowers and started to seal the wound that is on Ratchets abdomen.
"Grr… can't you… go a little easier?" Ratchet asked as he groaned in pain.
"I would but I'm sealing the wound the best I can." Jack said as they suddenly heard blasters going off with the flashing of blue and red.
"It seems they finally showed up." Blackarachnia said.
"I wonder if I can spar with Arcee, she seems able to keep up my speed, I don't want my skills to become rusty in the middle of a battle." Crystal spoke.
"I'll see if I can arrange something you two should go back, I'm heading back to the Autobot base." Jack told them but they both whined.
"But do we have too? We haven't seen you in a long time and we wanna spend some time with you." They both said they also went as far as to try and give Jack the sad puppy eyes.
"Where did you learn that from?" Jack asked as it seemed to be a bit weird to him.
"We can process information faster than a human and our processors can connect to the world wide web… Miko also told us." Blackarachnia said with Jack gritting his denta a little bit but he has other things to worry about.
"Let's just get Ratchet back to the Autobot base." Jack said as he brought a digit up to where his ear would be. "Optimus come in, do you read me?" Jack said through his comm unit as he got static until he heard Optimus.
"Loud and clear Ebony." Optimus responded.
"I have Ratchet with me and is wounded, I did what I could to patch him up and would like to request for a ground bridge." Jack spoke as he managed to carry Ratchet on his back as he held his legs with the ground-bridge opening, needing no invitation the four went through and when they got to the Autobot base Jack went straight towards the med-bay where he laid Ratchet down on a med-berth as Optimus hooked Ratchet up to some medical equipment including what looked to be the Cybertronian version of an IV drip.
"I feel… helpless…" Jack spoke as it is just him, Optimus and Ratchet who is out cold. "This is a first." He added afterwards.
"There have been times where I too feel the same as you do that's just how war works I'm afraid, There will be times where your abilities won't help anybody." Optimus said as Jack stared down at Ratchets wound, it's true he doesn't have the skills to properly help Ratchet.
"We need another medic in our folds." Jack said with a clear expression on his face.
"We have enough warriors as it is so another medic would indeed be more useful to us at this point." Optimus agreed.
"I… know of another medic." Ratchet spoke with the two looking towards him.
"Easy old friend, you need to rest." Optimus said.
"I know that but at least I can give you some information before I rest, her name is Red Alert I haven't seen since our last days on Cybertron but she has trained with me in the arts of medicine her abilities of being a medic is on par with mine." Ratchet informed.
"But she can very well be anywhere at this moment and we don't have a clue." Jack said while Ratchet has a smirk on his face which caught Jack's attention.
"I know very well where we can find her afterall she was assigned to Elita-1 and I have received a message from her team." Ratchet said which seemed to catch their attention even more. "But it's so heavily encrypted I haven't been able to decrypt it yet and I only managed to get the message thanks to Wheeljack picking it up." Ratchet said in frustration.
"Rest old friend as right now we need a medic and our the only one capable of such things at this moment." Optimus spoke with Ratchet nodding before entering recharge.
"Hey Optimus?" Jack said getting the bots attention when they left the med-bay. "Is there such a thing called Dinobots in this multiverse?" Jack asked as the two walked.
"There is but… they are more like you in a way." Optimus said with the two stopping just shy from entering the main hub.
"How so?" Jack inquired.
"They mainly act like brutes with Grimlock being the leader of the group but with that brute strength also comes a Predacons wrath." Optimus spoke in a whisper to keep the conversation between the two.
"So their brutes with the ferocity of a Predacon?" Jack questioned with Optimus nodding. "Now that's terrifying."
"It truly is, but as some would put it it was a curse until the point we've lost contact with them which had turned the curse into a much worse curse." Optimus spoke.
"So they are now missing." Jack concluded, while in someplace unknown there is darkness and in that darkness a pair of red optics appeared from the darkness along with three blue visors one appearing after the other alongside the red optics, then a pair of green optics appeared and after that two pairs of red optics came online in the darkness as nothing but animalistic growls emanated from the darkness.
Right I'm sorry for the delay as my mind suddenly became plagued with another story idea and I couldn't seem to focus enough to get this done until now, alas I have some questions I would like answered with the first being should I make some kind of schedule and what I mean by that is what stories I will be updating so you know what story will be updated next, the next question is I'm stuck with some alt modes for the other queens such as Airachnid, I have her weapons designed already but I just can't seem to find a alt mode without over using some of the others and lastly JOAT aka Jack Of All Trades I've been thinking of rewriting the starting of it or leaving it as it is.
Oh one last thing from now on I'm going to update two stories at once but I'll work on one chapter at a time for example I'll first work on this story and when I'm finished I'll move on to do The Traveler or The lord of the undead machines. I'm not entirely sure if this will work well for me but I'm going to give it a go so I'm not behind on other stories.
Farewell and let the music keep your body fresh.