The look on Optimus' face sent a jolt of guilt and pain into Jack's spark, and his conscience screamed at him.

Why should he lie to Optimus? It was still Jack, even if he was in another body.

No…Jack is dead, maybe his soul lives on, but not as Jack. As Riptide.

"I'm sorry…there was nothing I could do…Primus I couldn't even move to help him" He scorned himself, he was frustrated that he hadn't been able to do anything for himself of for Sasha.

Just a lifeless corpse staring at him from the binds that held her upright.

He looked down and away from Optimus, but he could feel Optimus' optics boring into him, trying to decipher truth from lie but he could not.

There was truth mixed with lies in the young mechs speech, but Optimus couldn't tell which was which.

"Could you take me to where MECH was holding you?" Optimus asked him and Jack tilted his head to the side in thought, running through the memories in his mind.

Down the desert lane at the edge of town…past the old work station and to the left of the main road…that's the location of the warehouse…whoa, super memory!

"Yeah, it's like it's…engraved in my head" Jack told him and Optimus frowned, but nodded as they turned to leave the base and head towards MECH's HQ.

Optimus knew it wasn't unusual for Autobots, and even Decepticons, to have exceptional memory. But to recall so intricately as to recall the exact details of the road, it was unheard of…

Well…almost unheard of.

There was a singular Autobot, and a singular Decepticon, that had such perfect memory to recall every detail in all that they saw.

Autobot Prowl had such a gift, as did the Decepticon known as Soundwave.

It was a gift that could be both a gift, and a curse. He knew that Prowl's stern demeanour was to hide the fact that he recalled every fight in stern detail, he could see every drop of energon of his comrades as it spilled on the battlefield.

He recalled when Prowl first arrived, the first night as the worst. Optimus had never heard a mech scream like that before, and he prayed that Riptide wouldn't suffer the same horrible fate.

Riptide, he noticed, did not yet have a vehicular form and so the two of them ran to the site of MECH's HQ and Riptide slowed as they grew closer, coming to a stop a few hundred meters away.

"There, that's where I broke out" Riptide told him, pointing to the huge crumbling gap in the wall and Optimus knew that MECH would have probably left by now…but he still had to check, just in case they hadn't.

Just in case Riptide was wrong about Jack.

Rosestorm took to combat like a fish to water. Her close combat skills astounded Arachnid, her long range skills were something to be desired.

"So unless we can get close to a bot you'll be killed in a few seconds but we can work on that" Arachnid told her nonchalantly and Rosestorm found herself raising her eyebrow plating at the femmes calm way of speech when talking of someone's demise.

She got the impression Arachnid didn't like her very much, but then that wasn't her fault.

Arachnid was just a jealous cow and Rosestorm had met plenty of those in her human life. Arachnid was no more than a mild annoyance.

"Is she ready for combat?" Megatron asked sauntering into the training room and observing Rosestorm take down another drone.

"Her close combat skills are extraordinary, but her long range skills leaves nothing to be desired…but if you wish to send her then she has my blessing" Arachnid informed him as another three drones were dragged from the arena.

"Get her some energon, we leave in three clicks" Megatron ordered with a fanged smile that was directed towards Rosestorm.

Silas sat and watched Optimus and Riptide approach on the security cameras and grinned, how could he not? Riptide had lead Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, straight to him and he had always brought himself back to Silas.

It was a perfect situation…at least it was.

"Sir, we've got aliens coming in from the sky, not bots" A soldier told him and he nodded curtly and the soldier returned to his duty on the monitors.

"Then we shall sit back and see how this pans out" Silas decided as he noticed the two signals were approaching each other.

Those two signals being his two precious experiments.

Riptide and Rosestorm, united at last.

Okay, this took, FAR too long to update and it's dead short so I will try so god damn hard to update sooner next time…if my laptop ever gets back home…

Lionfire, It was a change…she used to be so sweet…and yes! Jack has lied…do you think I wrote him out of character?

Answerthecall, glad you think so!

Bio team2, you think so? Yay!

JazzGirl221, Really? Yay! Reviews like that make my day!

Sonicxjones, your welcome J

SlipknotGhidorah, yeah, her body turns up soon…so does Jacks…and I'm glad you like her name, I spent ages mulling over your review when it just popped into my head.

Richard'sQueen aka LGFS, He is an idiot isn't he? I like the use of Japanese in your review by the way, anyway. Yeah, he just drops it on them…do you think I'm writing him out of character? I'm worried that I am…

Read and Review guys!

Tulip Out.