Jack raised his head sharply after a hand cracked against his cheek and he his eyes were brimming with tears that he refused to spill.

"Jackson Darby, a pleasure as always" Silas greeted with a slick grin and Jack glared at him with vehemence.

Silas only took a step backwards and looked to Jack's left, after a moment Jack followed his gaze and stared aghast at who was next to him.

It was a girl from his English lit class, a girl called Sasha that he had hardly ever spoken to. She looked…dead.

Her normally tan skin was pale and her glistening blue eyes had lost their shine, glazed over with a mist that only she could see. Her luxurious black hair hung where it was, devoid of all it's usual bounce and shine and Jack couldn't tear his eyes from her corpse.

"Ah, our previous test subject. Her body only had an eighty three percent chance of survival. My men caught the wrong girl, I was rather hoping to meet that dark haired companion of yours Jack, the lovely miss Miko" Silas sighed in disappointment and Jack turned to glare at him, his glare only made Silas laugh.

"You almost look angry Jack. It's not a look a boy should be sporting, you're far too young to understand anger" Silas commented with a chuckle that sent shivers up Jacks spine.

"What did you do to her?" Jack demanded, as he had been unable to see any form of injury on her he was worried. Was Silas going to poison him? Try out some new drug?

"Relax, the results of the tests we did when you were unconscious inform me that you have a ninety eight percent chance of survival. You needn't worry, you'll be alive and well when your operation is complete" Silas informed him and the blood drained from Jack's face.

Surgery? What was Silas going to do to him?

"See you soon" Silas muttered darkly and Jack was vaguely away of a pricking sensation in his arm before darkness swarmed his vision and he heard what sounded suspiciously like a drill in the background.

Arcee dragged herself forcefully back into consciousness when her sub consciousness asked her a single question.

What happened to Jack?

She glanced around the room and sighed in slight defeat, this was the decepticon prison cell that Fowler had been held in so long ago. At least, it seemed like so long ago now but it was hardly over a month ago that the cons had captured the agent.

"Greetings Autobot, you did not fare to well in that fight" Megatron greeted sauntering into the cell like he owned the place…which, Arcee supposed, the tyrant probably did.

"Where's Jack?" She demanded tugging on the chains that kept her suspended in the air so uncomfortably.

"The human? I was not aware he was with you, however, there was one spatter on the road after my vehicons left" Megatron told her with a dark chuckle and she screamed in anger and frustration.

He was lying, he had to be lying. Jack couldn't be dead, he just couldn't.

"Oh, such a shame. I rather liked that human, I thought of perhaps keeping him as my pet" Megatron hissed and Arcee screamed again as he walked out of the room, the walls echoing her screams and profanities that followed Megatron down the hall.

Optimus was worried, he always worried when one of his team went missing, but when one of his team and their ward he became seriously concerned.

"Ratchet, have you been able to locate them?" Optimus asked and Ratchet sighed and shook his head whilst he stared at the huge monitor.

"Negative, but I've had several vehicons appear on the usual route that Arcee takes Jack to the base on, but then they just vanished" Ratchet replied and Optimus came and stood behind him to look at the screen.

"An ambush?" The Prime asked and Ratchet huffed in response.

"Possibly, but here's where things get confusing. Just before their signals vanished, Jack and Arcee, were going in different directions" Ratchet informed the Autobot leader with a frown and the Prime joined him on one of the many human facial expression that they had adopted.

"So only one of them is with the cons?" Bulkhead asked from behind them both and Ratchet sighed and gave a defeated shrug of the shoulders.

"I don't know Bulkhead. I just don't know"

Jack tried to pull away from the guards as they dragged him through the lonely corridors of MECH and threw him into an even lonelier cell. The room was immaculate, no blood, no dirt, not even so much as a spec of dust to be seen. So why did it reek of death and despair? It was drowning Jack, suffocating him on the very air he was breathing.

I can't…Oh god I can't breath in here…I just…I just want to die

He simply sat and shook where he had been thrown, waiting for what he knew was inevitable.

The end of his life.

Only it was taking far too long for Jack, he supposed that Silas wanted him to suffer…either that or he was trying to bore Jack to death. The thought brought a slight smile to his face as he thought about his tombstone.

Jackson Darby aged 17, died of boredom…nice.

The door swung open and Jack looked over as Silas walked in, accompanied by a large muscular scientist in a long white coat with thinly framed spectacles pushed too far up his face.

"Come Jack, it's your time to shine" The scientist told him in a whimpering voice that made Jack want to laugh at the man but he refrained from doing so.

"Your going to be a part of MECH's revolution" He cackled bringing a long needle into view, and that what when Jack decided his death was but a second away.

Haha, have another creepy cliffhanger, though I have to admit I'm not sure I like how choppy this chapter is…the next one shouldn't be so bad though which is very good.

I must say I was very happy when I saw how many people added this to their favourites! Thank you all! But only two reviews?

Tell me what you think! I want to know why you like/dislike the story and what I can do to improve!

Foxbear, Jack suffers in almost every story I read, I guess he's just someone we can all relate to in certain ways (and by far my favourite human to star in a transformers cartoon)

Lionfire, I'm glad you like the beginning and I will most certainly continue with this story as it is literally exploding out of my brain.

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Tulip Out.