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A pale faced woman with white hair walked through Jasper with a slight shuffling stagger. Her eyes a bloodshot red under her grey hood. Her jeans ripped and torn and a blue backpack slung over her right shoulder. Along side her walked a man who wore a green hoodie and long black trousers, his hands were gloved and his face was incredibly furry.
"So, constantine said there's some kid here like you then?" The furr covered man asked. "Hey, gwen, you heard me?"
"Uh, er, yeah, sorry scot, uhm, can you tell me again please?" The hooded woman asked with an awekward smile.
"I was asking if constantine sent us here to find that revenant kid?" The furr covered man asked as they walked around a street corner.
"Uh yeah, he did, somekid with blue eyes he reconds, black scruffy hair and is kinda spindly." Gwen shrugged as she pulled a bottle of whistishire sauce from her pocket and took a sip. "Said something about him being well protected though,any clue to what that means?"
Scot thought for a moment as he scratched his long snoutlike nose then shrugged.
"Some help you are scot." Gwen smirked with a roll of her eyes. "Can you atleast try and sniff him out or something?"
"Fine." Scot groaned as he sniffed the air. "Two blocks from here." He told gwen. "Wait,he's comming this way." he corrected.
There were only two people asides themselves walking down the street, or rather, one walking, the other just sat there on a bench. The teen matched the description Constantine had given them to the letter. Then he turned down an allyway.
"What? But...huh?" Scot gasped in confusion. "He...He just dissapeared."
"He went down an allyway scot." Gwen sighed with a half moan.
"No as in his scent, just...gone." Scot complained in confusion.
Gwen moaned in annoyance then pulled out her cellphone. "I'm calling this Fowler guy then."
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Elsewhere _
A raven haired teen walked out of a shimmering green vortex and into a large cavernous room. The large orange and white Mech, Ratchet was powering down the ground-bridge and swearing under his breath in cybertronian. Jack wasted no time in walking over to Arcee,the blue femme who was his partner and guardian. She looked torn between annoyance and disgust.
"Uh,hey Arcee, what's up?" The teen asked sheepishly.
"What's Up jack is the fact that Miko told me you ate rat brains." Arcee deadpanned. "After she dared you to."
Jack fidgeted uncomfortably. "And,why believe Miko?" He asked.
"This is why jack." Arcee deadpanned as Miko flashed the video she had taken of Jack eating the small Rodent's brain and not even gagging or coffing it up.
"Ohhh." Jack gulped uncomfortably. "Yeah...about that."
"Jack, this is serious, THIS can make you sick." Arcee growled.
"Arcee, look, you wouldn't understand, it's been...dificult." Jack tensely explained as he averted his gaze to his shoes.
"Is your mum's tofu really that bad jack?!" Arcee demanded as she poked him gently in his chest, yet the force alone was enough to shove him back a few feet. "HMM?!"
"Arcee, I can't, it's a secret between me,Mum, Fowler and constantine." Jack roughly explained. "If you guys knew, you'd kill me or atleast try to."
"What is it jack?! What is so serious it'd make us, US, want to kill you?!" Arcee demanded as she poked jack a bit more roughly.
"Arcee..." Ratchet growled in a warning tone, he was ignored.
"I can't tell you!" Jack shouted at her. "...I WISH I'D NEVER MET YOU, YOU STUPID MACHINE!"
Jack, imediatly would regret that, Arcee lost her temper and literally punched him across the room, impailing him on a end of the guard railing.
"JACK!" Arcee cried in shock and anguish as she dropped to her knees. Ratchet just stood there in shock, Miko and raf ran and hid. Arcee staggered towards jack's impailed body. No signs of life. She began to cry as Ratchet cautiously walked over.
"Ouch." Jack mumbled as he slowly and carefully moved his hands to the metal beam, stunning both Ratchet and Arcee. Then,he looked up at Arcee and frowned softly. "Arcee, I...I'm so sorry." he whispered.
"Jack,please, please don't...don't move, you'll make...make it worse." Arcee begged as in three or four jerks he removed himself from the railing and landed and crumpled onto the floor.
"Next time,I think we'd both keep our mouths shut." Jack moaned as he picked himself up from the floor and dusted himself off slowly.
"How...How...How...how...how...huh?" Ratchet stuttered as he tried to find the right words. "What?!"
"Jack,how...why didn't you...not survive?" Arcee asked in awe.
"Secret, one that I fear, I'm going to have to explain." Jack gulped just as Fowler rang the base.
"Ratchet, tell Optimus I'm bringing in two of Jack's 'friends' tell him constantine sent them, he'll know what it means." Fowler told them. "E.T.A, one minute."
"Uh...recieved, Fowler." Ratchet said as he watched Jack with unease.
"Good, Over and out." FOWLER said as he hung up, leaving the base in complete silence.
"ARCEE!" Roared an enraged voice as thundering footsteps rung closer and closer.
Optimus burst out of the hallway with his battle mask engaged and his blasters out, his optics flashed with rage. "HOW DARE YOU KILL JACK!"
"OPTIMUS!" Jack called. "I'm fine"
The prime looked shocked and so did the two teens who were peaking out from behind him.
"WHAT?!" Miko shreaked in horror. "Jack went splat!"
"Yes I did miko." Jack told her calmly. "And I didn't survive, nor have I survived for the past two years."
"Dude, you've been with us for two years, how can you be dead?!" Miko shouted back as an alarm went off, Fowler was topside.
"Complicated." Jack smiled as the sounds of an elevator drew closer.
Agent Fowler stepped out first, in his usual black suit then from behind him stepped out two hooded figures, one was a hairy man, the other was a pale woman with pale blue eyes which seamed to flicker red on occasion.
"What's going on here?" Fowler asked in an impatient tone.
"Jack killed,arcee, mad!" Miko stuttered as she flung her hands in the air in frustration.
"I'm dead, so what?" Jack shrugged. "Have been for two years."
"Son, is that realy wise now?" Fowler asked edgily.
"Arcee impaled me by accident Fowler, they have a right to know." Jack explained solomly. "So, right,er...I'm sort of like a zombie."
"AGH!" Miko screamed as she covered the top of her head with her hands and ran to hide behind Fowler. Raf just smiled nervously and took three steps away from jack.
"Oh come on now,that's insulting." The hooded woman moaned as she pulled her hood down. "Revenants are not like zombies."
"Well, best explanation I can think of." Jack said as he rolled his eyes. "Wait...how did you know?"
"Name's Gwen,I'm also a revenant, but that and Constantine sent me and Scot here." Gwen explained as she gestured to herself then The furry faced man next to her. "So, giant robots, huh? Constantine was right, good protection kid."
"Don't use the R word, I did and Arcee punched me into the beam over there." Jack nervously laughed as he rubbed the back of his head. "Well that, and Miko showed her a video of me eating rat brains."
"What's wrong with that?" Gwen asked. "It's a better alternative to eating human brains."
"Please don't." Scot groaned as he held a furr covered hand over his mouth.
"I haven't eaten those at all, if mum found out, she'd re-kill me." Jack shuddered.
"So,that's why she's so protective?" Miko asked as she quivered behind Optimus' leg. "She's worried you'd eat someone?"
"No, I er...died in a motorbike crash Miko,that's why she freaked when she saw Arcee in her vehicle form." Jack explained with a nervous smile. "She's just worried, this time, I won't survive."
"Jackson, if you are truely deceased, how is it that you are amoung us as your friend is?" Optimus asked curiously as he bent over to be at a closer level to jack.
"After the crash, some zombie tried to munch me while I was dragging myself from the wreck." Jack said with a shudder as he did so. "trust me, zombie bites burn."
"I second that." Gwen sighed slightly . "So, Optimus is it? Er,we need jack to come with us."
"For what purpose?" Optimus asked as he carefully eyed the two arrivals.
"For his own saftey, being a revenant gets messy." Gwen said nervously. "Like the time scot lived with vampires."
"Yeah,not fun." Scot explained with a slight whine. "But we've got a suberb set up north of here, and Miko, nice seeing you again."
"Yeah,uhm, you two." Miko grinned with embarrisment.
"You two have met?" Ratchet asked in astoundment.
"Uh yeah, I ran into him in newyork." Miko said with bright pink cheaks. "Jack's not the only one with secrets."
"So, just when I think I have her figured out." Jack murmered as he pulled a bottle of whistishire sauce from his pocket and took a gulp of it, earning an odd look from Miko and Arcee. "What? It's one of the few things I can taste."
"Uh yeah, the downfalls of being undead." Gwen smiled as she took out her own bottle and shook it slightly. "I miss the taste of cola the most probebly."
"Yet you still drink it." Scot pointed out.
"I like the bubbling sensation okay?" Gwen shrugged. "Anyway, Jack, this is for the saftey of your friends."
"It's okay, I've never lost myself, mind you that damn nightmares are making me a bit edgy." Jack said then shuddered.
"Let me guess, eating everyone you cared for? Zombified and not in control of yourself and really big red glowing eyes?" Gwen asked.
"Er, yeah." Jack gulped, prompting Raf to take a good three steps away. "And I know the eyes, Megatron."
"Wait, a megaphone?" Gwen asked.
"Wow, and I thought Unicron was the only name mix up." Miko giggled slightly.
"Unicorn?" Gwen asked.
"UniCRON." Jack corrected. "Big robot which our planet formed around."
"Great, yet another reason to stay out of the coffins." Gwen shuddered. "Wait, UGH! I got off track, Jack, you have to make a choice."
"I'll keep him safe." Miko offered. "No way he'd turn me zombie!"
"Miko,all it'd take is a accidental nip, then, er...yeah." Jack explained uneasily then look to Raf with worried eyes. "Raf, you should try not to get too close to me."
"Got it." Raf gulped. "I...I think I'm just going to er...chat with a friend." He explained and rushed for the secure connection telephone that the base had.
"Jack, you CAN'T turn me zombie, no way, zip nada, imposible!"Miko proclaimed. "I'm not able to."
"Miko, stuborness can't change it." Scot explained.
"Okay, okay, I'll be careful." Miko pouted. "But, I'm still here for you jack, cross my undead heart and hope to die."
"Undead?" Arcee asked.
"What? never heard of a joke before?" Miko asked. "If I was undead, I'd probebly be going with jackrabbit."
"Don't call me that." Jack warned. "We agreed,no calling me Jackrabbit, and I don't call you pigtails."
"Okay..." Miko moaned. "Zombieboy."
"You know, I think I prefered Ultra Magnus' lectures to this Miko." Arcee yawned then turned to jack. "Didn't leave anything permenantly damaged did I?"
"What? Oh, er...no, no. I'm fine." Jack smiled. "Give it a few hours, I'll be fine."
"Providing he doesn't make it any worse." Scot explained rather bluntly.
"Oh, er, hold on,there's a vampire I need to say goodby to." Jack told them. "And well, I told constantine and Fowler, and...her that when my secret got out, she'd be able to come here from time to time."
"True, but if she even looks at me funny, I'm out." Fowler deadpanned.
"Aw, come on Will, you've got to remember the Darby family is cursed, always weird." Jack chuckled lightly. "My grandmother is a poltergiest in the liberary..."
"Dude, your gran's the gray lady?!" Miko squeeled in delight. "She is TOTALLY AWESOME!"
"My dad got killed by a runaway orange tree, my uncle became the swamp-thing, my sister...I...-sigh- I'm sorry." Jack faltered as he shook his head. "I wish she never left that day, I shouldn't of made her mad."
"Jack, it's okay, you had no way of knowing what'd happen that day." Fowler assured him. He then turned to face Gwen and Scot." You two stay here, I've got a vampire to retrive." with that, he was off.
"So, big er...mechanical beings." Scot smiled weakly.
"They're cybertronians and their faction is autobot." Jack explained. "So, yeah, bot or autobot normally does it."
"Yeah, big autobot friends huh?" Scot asked with a slight grin. "Never thought I'd see something as big as my rent bill."
"He likes to ruin apartments during parties." Gwen shrugged as she pulled a jar out of her bag which contained a mix of rice and what looked like pink chunks of inflated raw mince. "Jack, ever had sheep brains?"
"Uh yeah, why?" Jack asked.
"Want some?" Gwen asked as she held up the jar.
"Er no thanks, it's yours and besides, had rat earlier." Jack nervously laughed.
"Gross." Miko murmured. "I'm going to play video games."
"OOH! Can I join?" Scot asked with a large grin.
"Sure, hope you like loosing" Miko snickered.
"You're on!" Scot grinned as he and Miko made a mad dash for the couch.
"Why me?" Jack and Gwen groaned in unison at their friends.
"You too huh?" Gwen asked. "I like Scot but sometimes, he's a bit immature."
jack shrugged. "Miko's the same, she's always running head first into a fight or goofing off."
"Now I see why you two get along, according to Constantine, you're the level headed one, shorty's the genous and your girlfriend is..."
"WHAT?!" Jack sputtered. "Are you suggesting that me and...no no no no no, that is too gross."
Gwen stiffled a laugh as she rolled her eyes and grinned slightly. "Never know..."
"Great, undead matchmakers." Arcee chuckled as she walked off.
"Oh, I get it, interested in the girl bot huh?" Gwen asked with a ghost of a smirk.
"...you realy do remind me of constantine but with Miko's bad jokes." Jack sighed. "Anyway, Miko and me, far too different, then Arcee on the other hand, sure, we've both long 'lives' but we're far too different."
"duh." Gwen smirked as Raf hung upthe phone and cautiousy walked over.
"Uh hey." Raf smiled weakly.
"Raf, everything okay?" Jack asked the miserable looking teen.
"Robert, my pet goldfish died." Raf sighed sadly.
"It's okay Raf, death is a part of life...well, normal life anyway." Jack explained softly. "I'm sure that he's in a better place now."
"Sometimes, I just...I just wish I could do something about thingslike this." Raf sighed as he walked off.
"CHEATER!" Miko shouted as a video game controller came hurteling across the room.
"I did not." Scot detested as he placed his controller on the coffie table. "You just lack skills Miko."
"Fuzzface." Miko retorted.
"Yellow-eyes!" Scot snorted.
"Fleabag!" Miko growled.
"DEMON!" Scot shouted at miko who suddenly fell deadly silent. "Oh my, Miko, I'm so, so sorry, I...I just...forgot."
"It's okay scot." Miko told him softly. "I...they would find out anyway." Miko added as she pulled off her small purple shirt she wore over her grey polo shirt, two thick cream colored bat-like wings were possitioned there and she began to fly upto a beam on the room and sat there sobbing softly.
"I'm sorry." Scot sighed as he looked up at Miko.
"Scot, just leave, I'm nothing more than a freak." Miko sobbed.
"You're a fury." Gwen stated aloud. "Impressive."
"I'm not a fury." Miko sobbed. "I'm just some half demon freak who's parents are from the underworld."
"So they're from the pit, I'm sure they still love you, right?" Jack asked the sobbing girl.
"They tried to kill me!" Miko shouted in anger. "My own parents!"
"How is it that two non-humans got into base without me knowing?" Ratchet muttered in annoyance.