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HERE's act 2 of part one

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Act 2

On a cliff not far where Long-arm was murdered, as the sun sets behind them, the Auto-bots held a memorial for the fallen comrade, Cliff was supported by Bulkhead and Bumblebee as he was badly damaged and needs serious healing, but he was patched up enough for the services of their friend.

"We must not allow our anger over the loss of Long-arm to impair our judgement, as of today, only we 7 Autobots remain on this Earth. We owe to ourselves, to the memory of Cybertron, to any Autobots in any galaxy seeking safe harbor, to humankind and we owe to the memory of our fallen comrade, to survive."

Optimus delivered his usual words of wisdom, however this brought up some sad memories as he had to give a speech for Conner's mom when she passed away, he didn't bring it up as it brought painful memories, but his face and tone of voice shows it.

Arcee then laid Longarm's door on the ground gently as she was about on the edge of crying, she then felt someone's touch on her and she turned to see Conner who was wearing sunglasses to hide his eyes and he was filled with sadness and didn't want to be seen by the others, Arcee then lift Conner up and the two shared a hug of comfort to help ease each other and she let him off.

"Arcee." Optimus trailed off.

"If Long-arm's gone, standing around here sulking won't bring him back. So unless anyone minds, think I'll get back to protecting humankind." Arcee said bitterly before walking away.

"Arcee wait." Said Conner running up to her. "Let me come with you, I need to get out of the base, besides there's someone I promise to meet up with and before you ask I got my helmet."

"Hop on." She said and transformed.

Conner put his helmet on and got on and they head off disappeared into the desert sunset leaving the others.

"Optimus, helping humans will result in more tragedy." Warned Ratchet.

"Your opinion is noted." Followed Optimus.

"Now let's get Cliffjumper into med-bay." Said Ratchet.

In a busy part of Jasper was a 16 year old boy working at a fast-food joint called the KO burger, he had slick black hair and blue eyes and was working at the drive-in window and was taking someone's order and the person and his friends were giving Jack a hard time before Jack responded with a great comeback that got his tormentors a taste of their own meds.

"$5.59 sir, at the window." Said Jack.

A car came around and got the food and drove off with laughter from Jack's tormentors.

"Hey I need to pay for that!" Jack shouted as the car drove away.

(Don't worry Jack I got someone who will deal with those jerks.)

Jack sighed and went back to work, he then heard someone pulled in and looked to someone on a motorcycle through the cameras.

"Welcome to KO patty drive in, where our patty is a knock out can I take your order?"

"Yeah I like my usual with my bro."

Jack smiled at that voice and put in the order "That's 2 #2's with coke and sprite that's $6.76 at the window."

He had the bags ready as Conner came to the window by via Arcee, Conner handed Jack $15 but Jack wanted to give it back, but Conner told him to keep it as he puts it to getting a new motorcycle.

Arcee then circled around into the parking lot and Conner got off and she turned on her hologram Sadie without Jack seeing.

"Conner I'm going on patrol, call when you are done." She said.

"Ok Arcee just take it easy ok?" Conner said with a gentle tone in his voice.

Arcee heard his words knew what he meant, she flashed her lights twice and drove off.

"Who was that with your bike?" asked Jack.

"A friend of my dad's, she needs it to help clear her head and she moves like a ninja." Said Conner.

Jack chuckled at that, but stopped when he saw the somber look in Conner's eyes.

"Hey Conner everything ok?" he asked his friend.

"Yeah just dealing with some heavy stuff, a good friend of the family was killed in battle." He said sadly.

"Who?" Jack asked.

"He went by the code-name Longarm, he gave his life to save another." Conner said.

"I'm sorry." Said Jack.

"It's alright at least he's not in pain anymore." "I'm doing alright, but the others are taking it a bit harder." Said Conner as he bite into his burger.

As Arcee drove around Jasper on her patrol, she allowed her mind to wander to recent events. She tried to think something else but it was hard, it's not easy to lose a friend, especially if you were close with them, it was hard.

Then her mind drift to someone else, it was Optimus the leader, it was no surprise that she is deeply in love with him, but it could never be. He had fallen in love with someone else, with a human and he has an amazing con-smashing son, but she didn't pursue him, because she's afraid he rejects her and so she choose to be close friends and that's it.

(If she only knew how Optimus felt about her.)

However her train of thoughts were put on hold when she saw two purple cars in her rear view mirrors.

"Twins." She said as she sped up while the cars followed her, they went at her until she pulled a fast one and parked at the drive in and turned her engine off and hoped the cons would passed by her and they did.

By that time Jack and Conner finished eating and were walking around when Jack's mom called and he told her he wasn't going to the dance and continued to talk when he saw a blue motorcycle parked in front of them.

He then said "I love you." To it and Conner couldn't help but laughed at that.

Then they heard some giggling and it came from Sierra and her friend.

After a little chat between the 4, trouble came a knocking.

Just the purple cars came and flash their headlights at them and revved their engines at them.

"Scrap!" said Conner and Arcee.

The girls ran from the cars and Conner knew he couldn't let Jack get hurt.

"Hop on!" Said Conner and Jack got on behind him and Arcee drove off with the cars chased them.

As they sped on the road the cars tried to squish them but Arcee pulled back and they smashed each other.

After that Arcee kept on going.

"Do not let go!" she said.

"Who said that?" shouted Jack.

"Commander Star-scream we spotted an Autobot and it's with a human and Prime's son." Said the cars.

"Destroy them both, but bring the son to me" He ordered.

Arcee kept her distance as she tries to lose them and Conner then got his phone and made a call.

"Bee, Bulk we got a couple of bogeys on our tailpipes and we need back-up ASAP." Said Conner.

They soon head into an alley and turned a corner and Jack got off.

Arcee then said "I don't exist and if you tell anyone I'll hunt you down." And drove off with Conner.

They saw the cons and saw one of them turned off and went after Jack.

"Scrap." Said Arcee and turned around intercept the con and told Jack to get on, he did and Conner got behind him.

"Arcee drive and I'll cover our rear." Said Conner drawing out his blasters."

Jack was about say something but Conner said "I'll explain later." And kept his questions to himself for later.

They went on the highway with their pursers on them and blasters came from their hood and started blasting them.

Arcee managed to dodge them and Jack kept his head down and Conner avoid and fire some shots back.

"Come on guys where are you?" thought Conner.

Soon a black and yellow muscle car came up and slammed into the cons.

"Friend of yours?" asked Jack.

"Family." Said Conner and Arcee.

After a little skidding Bumblebee regain control and continue pursuit.

Under a bridge was a young boy who playing with an R/C car that looks like our scout and was racing until he got some unexpected visitors.

Arcee picked up speed and jumped over the guardrails and landed below.

"Whoa." Said Raf with surprise.

"You have no idea." said Jack.

Just then the cons came by and jumped and transformed with weapons engaged.

Jack and Raf were shocked and then behind them the motorcycle transformed and she was itching for a fight and Conner as well as he put his blasters away and pulled out 2 5 barreled shotguns.

"The trails end here cons." Said Arcee as charged at them with Conner.

To be continued

Well this ends act 2 of darkness rising part 1.

Act 3 will be up soon, it'll be a while.

So take care

R and R no flames and no harsh words

Until next time

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