Jack walked forwards carefully and quietly, standing just behind Optimus as he lead the way. He felt uneasy just being in the abandoned warehouse, when he had been here last, he had been strapped up and unable to move.

This dank and dark place was where he had spent his last few human minutes, and the first minutes of his new, robotic life.

He shuddered as he and Optimus looked around, before stepping back out into the harsh light and the sandy desert.

"Nothing, they left he moment they realised they were compromised" Jack muttered and Optimus nodded in agreement, but something felt off to him, he just couldn't quite place his finger on it…

"Riptide! Move!" Optimus yelled and Jack turned and then flung himself out of the way, just avoiding a blast of violet energy as the two large jets landed, transforming as they did so.

"Megatron" Optimus growled in a low voice and Jack stared at the femme he was with.

Who was she? And why was she with Megatron?

"Greetings Riptide, it's been a while" She greeted and Jack frowned…who the hell was she?

"Rosestorm, is this the other experiment?" Megatron asked and it clicked in Jacks mind.

Sasha…oh god Sasha is a decepticon…

"Yes, yes he is" She grinned and Optimus held his blaster up, pointing directly at Megatron as he watched the conversation carefully.

"You joined the decepticons" Jack hissed and she nodded with a gleeful look on her face.

"Of course I did Riptide. You obviously escaped before Silas' explanation" She told him with a grin and Megatron chuckled whilst glaring at Optimus.

"Perhaps you should educate him Rosestorm" He suggested an she grinned, running straight towards Jack, whilst Megatron charged at Optimus.

Jack managed to deflect a punch to the face but he wasn't able to block the kick to the helm and he stumbled backwards after receiving the hit. Tasting something strange in his mouth.

"Silas is a very clever man Riptide, he managed to create two working sparks" Rosestorm smirked and then grabbed Jacks shoulder, pulling him into her knee as she got him in the stomach plating.

"But with the help of a mysterious Cybertronian helper, he managed to split both the sparks into two halves. A dark half, and a light half" She told him spinning on her back leg and cracking him in the face and stepping back so that he could see her more clearly.

"He pushed all of the darkness into one spark and implanted it, in me. He then took the light and implanted it within you" She told him and he stood, standing shakily on his feet.

"So? That just means that I am good and you are evil" He hissed spitting out a glob of energon.

"No, I said light and dark, not good and evil. They are two different types of power Riptide, but not necessarily good and evil" She told him and he frowned, and her chest plating opened to reveal a spark.

A spark made out of some kind of pitch black life force, that scared Jack more than any kind of dark energon, or Megatron or even Unicron.

"See? Dark spark, your is made of light. The only problem is, because our sparks are connected…well, I'll let you figure that one out" She grinned, cracking Jack in the face with a punch, but this time he dodged.

Jack was fast, he was tall and slim and lithe. He was young and unhindered by old joints.

His body was new.

He span and slammed his elbow into her face, and then he threw her over his hip. She was bigger than he was, and weighed more, but it meant she was slower.

Powerful, but slow. Fast, but weak.

Jack could use that to his advantage.

She was dragging herself up from the floor when the ground bridge opened, and Jack span, unable to tell whether it was for Rosestorm and Megatron or for him and Optimus.

"Riptide, go!" Optimus yelled, gripping the young mech's wrist and dragging him towards the ground bridge.

"Remember Riptide! Two halves, one heart!" Rosestorm called after them as they vanished into the ground bridge.

Megatron stood and walked over to Rosestorm who was dusting herself off and she turned towards him.

"Did you convey the message?" He asked her and she nodded.

"Yes sir, I have no doubt that even as we speak, it will be destroying him inside" She told him and he nodded with a grin.

"Excellent"

Riptide stumbled behind Optimus as they entered to the base, but Optimus continued to pull him forwards until he was pushed down onto the berth by Ratchet.

"What happened to recon?" The grumpy medic asked and Optimus sighed.

"Megatron found us, he was with a decepticon femme" Optimus told them and then turned to Riptide, who was staring at the ground with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Riptide, you knew that femme" Optimus said, dragging Riptide out of his thoughts.

"Sort of" He replied vaguely and Optimus frowned whilst Ratchet raised an eyebrow and worked on fixing the dent in his stomach plating from where he had been kneed.

"Riptide, whatever she said, we need to know" Optimus told the young mech and saw that his shoulder plating slumped ever so slightly.

"She said that, Silas…split our sparks…is that even possible?" Riptide asked and Ratchet guffawed.

"Only the most skilled Cybertronian medics could even attempt that" Ratchet informed him and he tilted his head to the side in thought.

"She did say Silas was receiving help from a Cybertronian" Riptide added in a sheepish voice and Ratchet blinked his optics.

"But I don't know who" He added under his breath and Ratchet remained where he was before going to examine Optimus quickly.

"Did she say anything else?" Ratchet asked glancing over his shoulder and Riptide nodded.

"She said that when Silas split our sparks, he gave me the light, and her the dark…but…she said that it wasn't good and bad, just light and dark…what does that mean?" Riptide asked, burying his helm in his hands.

"I do not know Riptide, I do not know" Ratchet informed him, and this made the mech sink lower into his thoughts.

Into his loneliness.

Here have an update.

Sonicxjones, yes, yes it does.

Foxbear, he should, nothing good will come of it, but it fits in for the story.

JazzGirl221, It's one of your favourites? I'm honoured! And thanks for the netflix tip!

Bio team2, he should have…do you think I'm writing him out of character?

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