Note: this chapter contains VERY gruesome material; you have been warned.
Last time on jack's curse!
"Arcee?"
"JACK!"
"let's surprise them"
"AAAAAAA! IT'S THE GRIM RIPER!"
"Megatron took me because of what 'I' did. It had nothing to do with you"
"I promise to tell you all in the morning and I do mean ALL of you"
Morning (Jacks P.O.V)
My mind was a bit foggy as I began to wake up, my eyelids felt heavy, but I forced them open while I sat up. I looked around my surroundings and smiled. I was at the Autobot base, I was home.
"I'm home," I said in a soft, happy and most of all relieved voice. I slowly got off the couch and stood up to look around. I had taken my cloak off last night, the clock on the wall said it was 7:55am and the rest of the Autobots would be getting up soon. I walked up to the railings, took in a deep breath and stretched my back and arms out. I then noticed to my left that Arcee, my partner, my friend, and the person I loved, was leaning against the wall next to the human area. It warmed my heart to see her so relaxed, she hardly ever does.
I walked down to her and stood by her side, I knew she wanted to make sure that I was okay but I wanted her to get some decent recharge too. I was brought out of my thoughts when her optics came online, she stretched her arms up, letting a few gears grind before noticing me and smiling.
"Hey partner, how long you been up?" she asked me in a soft voice as she placed a hand on my back. I looked up to her while I smiled "I just woke up" I replied as I stretched my wings out and flapped them a few times. hearing some clinks of metal and grind of gears as I did, before retracting them back again.
I looked up to her, to see a distant look on her face and I knew what she was thinking. I just knew because I cared about her. I placed my hand on the side of her arm and she looked down at me with sad optics "I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you" she started in a sad tone "I should have taken you back home first or to base with me if only I had…"
"That's enough Arcee," I said firmly surprising her and myself a bit. I looked into her blue optics with my right eye (because his left was covered with bandages) "you didn't know, you couldn't have known and that was a month ago. so stop blaming yourself for it" "but I'm your guardian…" "I know you are, and I'm very lucky to have you as my guardian" I replied looking at her with a comforting look "and no matter what, you will always be my guardian. but the one thing I will not allow, is for you to take the blame for this" I stated gesturing to my body "now let's get ready for when Miko, Raf and mom gets here, I promised to tell you ALL what happened and the others will be up soon" I said and as we stood up Arcee looking a little bit happier.
Just then Ratchet came into the room and looked at us and smiled. It was a happy, relieved smile, to know I was safe and sound "I'm glad you're up" he said walking to the monitors "I want to do some scans of you to see if everything's alright" he stated looking down at me, but I gave him a sad smile because of what I was going to tell them.
"Sorry Ratchet, but the scans will have to wait until I give my story of what happened" I explained, "I'm sorry Jack but…" he was about to protest but saw my stern and serious expression. He then knew he wouldn't win and just nodded. Soon the rest of the Autobots woke up, first Optimus, then Bulkhead and finally Bumblebee, at around 8:47am, my mum's car came into the base with Miko and Raf in the back and soon after Agent Fowler showed up. We soon got settled down and Ratchet was about to start scanning me.
"Before we start" I started grabbing everyone's attention "you all should know that it's more than just my physical appearance that has been 'upgraded' as I should say" I started earning some confused looks from everyone.
"What do you mean, more than 'physical' appearance?" Miko asked, but from the look on my mum's face, she knew exactly what I was on about. I looked to Ratchet, nodded for him to take a scan and he did, his face then looked like it went pail from what he read "by the all spark…."
I then removed my bandages from my left eye and earned some more gasps from everyone.
Normal P.O.V
When Jack removed the bandages from his left eye everyone was in shock, where his blue-grey eyeball would once be, was replaced with a shining blue optic (human sized of course) and a scar that ran down from the middle of his left eyebrow to just under his eye above his left cheek.
"The cons took your eye away!?" Bulkhead stated with anger in his voice and clenching his fists ready to slam something not chairing if Ratchet shouted at him.
"I'm afraid, it's more than just that" Ratchet said with a sickened look on his face. he then turned to Jack, who had wrapped his arms around himself "they put… things, inside me" Jack said in a shaky voice "what do you mean… 'Things'?" Raf asked, Jack then looked up to Ratchet with pleading eyes for him to explain instead of him and Ratchet understood with a nod, he then turned to everyone.
"My scans show that Jack, not only has human organs... But also Cybatronion organs as well" Ratchet stated with a sad voice "what does that mean?" Fowler asked, "it means…" "it means that they cut me open and put some of their organs inside of me" Jack stated cutting Ratchet off. Fowler stood frozen to his spot, June looked like she was going to cry, Raf went pale and Miko looked like she was going to be sick.
"But that's not the worst part" Jack started grabbing everyone's attention again "the worst part is…. I was awake the whole time they did all this," he said gesturing to his body, and that was it for June, she burst out into tears and fell to her knees. Fowler tried to comfort her while Miko was trying to comfort Raf, Bumblebee was also trying to comfort his small charge/friend by beeping soft words to him.
"Let me explain, what happened after I woke up on the Nemesis" Jack said as he started his story.
Flashback, on the Nemesis, where we left Jack in Chapter 2, (Jack's P.O.V)
I felt the blade peace my skin and slowly move down the rim of my arm, cutting into my skin and the feel of my own warm blood flowing down my arm. I clenched my teeth in pain and tried to struggle against the blade. Knockout stopped with a displeased face, he then reached over and grabbed an injection needle then pierced my neck with it, injecting the liquid inside of it into me. He then altered the operation table so I was facing the selling, he then removed the clamps holding me and I saw this as my chance to escape. I was about to get up when…. nothing.
I couldn't move, not even my mouth to talk, I was paralysed. Knockout then looked down at me with a smirk "you won't be doing anything for at least a few earth hours, now I can continue" he stated as he went to continue on my arm. But then the doors opened, I couldn't see who, but I did hear them come closer. The figure then came to the right side of me and fear gripped me...
IT WAS AIRACHNID!
She looked down at me and smirked, she ran a sharp, metal, claw down the right side of my face without breaking the skin. She then looked back to Knockout "I've brought the piece's you wanted" she said handing a metal box to him "Aaah, thank you, don't want to start without them. Do you wish to stay and watch?" he asked looking back at me. she shook her head "as much as I would love to, I have duties to attend to" and with that she left out the door. Knockout mealy shrugged his shoulders and returned back to me. He placed the box on a side table next to me "now where were we" he said going back to my arm and I was powerless to stop him…
He cut from the palm of my right hand down to the middle of my forearm, linking up with the cut he already made. he then pulled back the skin and muscle, the pain was excruciating, all I wanted was for the Autobots to show up in time to save me, I know they will come and hopefully soon. Knockout then reached into the box, pulling out a long looking wire that looked like the roots of a plant you would dig up and on the top end was a flat circular piece of metal. He placed the wired end near where he cut open my arm, I saw the wires come to life and dig into my mussels, attaching themselves to my nerves. It was like the needles of a cactus being shoved with hot coal into my arm. He then slides the rest of the wire into my arm and the circular piece of metal was in the centre of my palm. I could feel the wires moving and attaching themselves to the insides of my arm as my blood run down my arm.
He stopped for a second to see that my skin was starting to go pale. He reached to my right and pulled a small table to the table I was on. I looked at the table to see two giant cylinder containers that were three times my size. The one on the right was filled with bright red blood. The Cons most likely stole all that blood and all I could think about was that it was going to be wasted on me when it could be used for someone more important. But when I looked at the container on the left side, my mind froze. It was filled with pure blue Energon.
Knockout then grabbed a long thin tube with a needle at the end, that was connected to the container with blood and jabbed it into my right side, in-between my ribs. I wanted to scream in pain, but I couldn't. I didn't cry, oh no, I wasn't going to let them have that satisfaction. I felt the new blood slowly flow into me and felt it flow through my veins. I looked back up at Knockout, just in time to see him grab another tube with a spike, this one was connected to the Energon container and then jab it into the right side of my neck. I gritted my teeth in pain as I felt the Energon flow into my body, it felt like my neck was on fire and then feel that fire spread as the Energon flowed through my body, like an inferno under my skin.
Knockout moved to my left arm, doing the exact same thing like he did to my right, cutting it open and inserting the same device, but I hardly noticed because of the Energon flowing into my body had drowned most of it out.
He then removed what was left of my shirt and then my shoes and socks. He pulled out some very small, sharp pieces of metal from the box. He then placed one on my big toe and grabbed what looked like a welding torch. A small blue flame came out the end, I then knew what he was going to do and braced myself for what was to come, but it wasn't enough. The heat melted the metal around my toe and burnt my skin. I could smell my burning flesh and feel the burning of my skin, as well as the blood dripping down off of my foot.
When he finished he grabbed another needle that was filled with a silver liquid. He injected a small amount of the liquid into the side of my toe, the stinging of the heat stopped and something weird happened, the metal welded to my skin felt like it was a part of my skin, I can feel what the metal can feel. Knockout then looked at my confused face and smirked.
"Those were nanobot's" he stated looking at me "they melded your skin and mussels into the metal. Now the metal is a part of you, forever. Now for the rest" he said with another grin as he started with the rest of my toes, with the same amount of pain as the first. He first did my left foot then the right, doing the exact same thing to all of my toes.
After he finished with my toes he took another needle filled with, what I believe, are more nanobot's and shoots a beam of red light into the container, from his optics, and then injects it into the souls of both my feet. I then felt the skin and muscle of the bottom of my feet become tight and hard. Then there was a sharp pain as something's sharp pierced through my skin, but it wasn't going into my skin it was coming out. I was able to look at the souls of my feet and I saw many small spikes sticking out of the souls of my feet, and like my toes, I could feel the metal as a part of me.
He pulled another blood-tube and attached it to my left thigh and another Energon-tube to the side of my right leg. He then pulled out some more objects from the box, placing the pieces of metal on the back of my right hand, palm side down, and grabbed the welding torch. He then started to weld the metal to the back of my hand in the same way as my feet, he welded each a piece of metal to the different pieces of my fingers and thumb. He then welded the bigger piece to the back of my hand, grabbed another needle and injected me with more nanobots. The metal on my hand became a part of me and like the rest, I could feel through it like my own skin.
The pain was so insane that thoughts of me dying started to sound like pleasant to me, but I threw those thoughts out of my mind. I wasn't going to die just yet, I was going to see this through, I would survive, get out of here and go home to my family, no matter what!
Knockout then took another needle and shot another beam of red light into the container from his optics. He moved to my right elbow and injected it, a moment passed before a sting of pain came through my elbow and a giant spike shot out of my elbow. Blood dripped down from my elbow along my arm and over my hand. The spike was half my forearm length and was in line with my arm.
He then moved on to my left forearm, took out the scalpel again and pressed it DEEP into the back of my forearm down to the bone. He cut away a big piece of my flesh leaving a giant opening in most of the back of my arm. My blood poured out, running down the sides of my arm and onto the table. knockout then reached into the box again and pulled out a big piece of metal with hundreds of wires coming out of the sides. He placed it in the opening in my arm, the wires came to life and attached themselves to my muscles and bone, the same burning pain as with my hands. He then took some more nanobot's and inserted them into my arm, once again the metal becoming a part of me and I a part of it.
He then turned me over onto my stomach, reached into the box again, pulling out three metal items. One was long, it looked like a metal spine with wires and sharp pieces of metal sticking out on one side. He grabbed the scalpel again and cut deep down along my spine, I felt my warm blood ooze down my back. He then moved the metal spin to the opening in my spin and the wires came to life sinking deep into my back, connecting the metal to my spine and skin. He then injected more nanobot's into my back and the metal became a part of my skin.
He then cut into my back again between my shoulder blades and a few inches away from the/my metal spin. He then took the other two metal objects, they looked like metal-bat-wings but without the wing membranes. He plunged the wings into the openings in my back and the wires began their work again. Connecting to my joints and muscles with so much pain. He then injected me with more nanobot's into my back and then I felt through the metal wings. It was wearied at first, like having extra arms, but I could feel as if I've always had them. But I was drawn out of my thoughts as a sharp pain came from my left shoulder blade up to my left shoulder, the skin and muscle on my back and around my shoulder became hard. It felt like someone was pulling my skin off very, VERY, slowly. It soon stopped and covering my left shoulder to my back shoulder blade was smooth metal.
I took a breath as knockout grabbed another object from the box, it was as thick as my thumb and it was shaped like a drill. He smirked and with his free hand he straightened my head and pressed the tip of the drill to the back of my head, right where my brainstem is (it's at the back of the head at the bottom where the head and neck meet). He slowly began to twist the object into my skin, slowly piercing the skin. He kept twisting, pushing it deeper and deeper. Blood ran down around my neck and onto the table. It was the worst thing I had felt so far. I wanted to scream, I wanted to scream so much until my throat was sore and I would keep screaming until I coughed up blood, but I couldn't. But I still didn't cry, I gritted my teeth, but I wouldn't cry, not for them.
Note: the rest of this will be in the next chapter, until then.