Ch. 2

Jack had seen a lot of things and had some surprising experiences, but when he heard the motorcycle he was sitting on tell him to hold on; he grabbed on to the handlebars knowing that it was his best chance to get away from those cars. The two-wheeler sped off into town making turns and twists down back roads and alleys; she let him off once she had put some distance between them and the two muscle cars and immediately spoke once more. "You never saw me. You tell anyone otherwise and I will hunt you down." And with that the motorcycle sped away, he turned down a separate alley way when he saw the two muscle cars advancing on him.

He ran hard not knowing what to make of these events and when he turned around, he saw one of the two purple cars had split off and was now pursuing him. "Damn!" Jack knew that he needed to run like hell or he was gonna wind up as a grease spot on the road. But when it comes to Jackson Darby, he never does what is truly logical. Jack turned around and drew his katana from the scabbard on his back. He waited as the speeding purple death machine got closer and closer to him; and just as the car was about to hit him, Jack's training kicked in.

He ran at the car and jumped onto the hood, up to the cars roof and jumped off landing from a front flip back to the ground. The driver of the car obviously didn't expect this as they continued to drive. Jack looked back to see that the car had stopped and was now moving back towards him. At this Jack ran towards the car again and this time he slid to the side while throwing a horizontal slash of his sword clean through the side of the car.

He continued to run as he looked back and saw that the bottom halves of the driver side doors were now on the ground. He sheathed his sword and ran out of the alley. "Looks like I'm in the clear." He said with a relieved sigh, but he then turned his head at the sound of a car engine. "Or maybe not!" He started running again knowing that at the speed the car was heading towards him, any attempt to try and jump over it would likely end with him having a sprained ankle, or worse a broken leg. Then out of another alley, the motorcycle drove up.

She didn't have to say anything and as soon as the sleek two-wheeler was close enough, he jumped onto the seat and put a strong grip on the handle bars. She continued to drive towards the large drainage ditch on the side of town and as she drove over the edge, she landed flawlessly on her wheels. Jack panted heavily as he felt adrenaline flowing through his veins like white water rapids. He was taking a few steady breaths to slow his heartbeat when he looked up to see a young boy sitting against the wall of the ditch playing with a small remote control car.

He recognized the young boy; his name was Rafael Esquives, a young boy of 14 years old who went to school with Jack. He was a small boy who loved computer work, but aside from that seemed rather solitary. He got up and walked up to Jack who was now off the motorcycle looking around. "Jack, what're you doing here?" Jack turned back to the young techy and gave him an urgent look. "Raf, you need to get out of here, there's something seriously wrong going on. Don't ask why, I'll tell you lat-"before Jack could finish, the sound car engines drew their attention to the purple cars that had been chasing Jack.

Suddenly, they both started to change into what appeared to be large robots. They were tall and had silver masks with red visors over their faces and they looked like they were itching for a fight. Jack was about to tell Raf to run for it, but he turned and saw the motorcycle he had just been on begin to change as well. Jack could tell from its feminine frame that it was definitely a female robot. She stood up to full height and when she made eye contact with Jack, he could feel the power emanating from her body. "Get to cover."She said it so calmly that Jack new she was undoubtedly pissed.

But regardless of this, he did what she said, more out of respect than fear that she might hurt him, but he did want to get Rafael somewhere safe. "Raf, follow me." Jack said it with enough urgency for Raf to follow and they both ran for a large drainage pipe that was opened up, it was big enough for them to hide in, but not large enough to be pursued by the robots fighting close behind them. They reached the large opening and Jack helped Raf inside. He was about to jump in himself when he turned around and saw that the blue motorcycle turned robot warrior was having some difficulties holding her own against the two larger bots.

He nearly turned back to the pipe when he saw her go flying onto her back with a loud crash. At that point, Jack felt something click in his mind and he suddenly found himself running full sprint towards one of the purple machines with his katana drawn. The two killer robots saw him and split up, Jack was going right at the one he had escaped in the alley and was now dodging blaster fire. 'Come on, show me a weak spot!' Jack circled the large machine for a few moments. 'There, behind the knee!'

Jack saw several cables behind the area where the large robots knee was, each time the bot moved, the cables would stretch and coil up on each other. 'They must work like tendons or muscles.' Jack ran full on at the bot and feigned to the left, coming up right behind the large robots' leg. Jack threw a clean diagonal slash at the exposed cables, effectively severing them with a crisp 'shink!' The bot suddenly dropped down on the injured knee as its arms came forward to prevent it from landing on its face.

Jack then ran to the front and through a strong horizontal slash at the elbow joint of the downed bots left arm. Jack, and the wounded robot, watched in astonishment as the blade cut through the steel in a shower of sparks. Jack could tell the large bot was horrified when it its arm fall limp and useless, Jack took the moment and climbed up to where he was right behind the head of the large living machine and with a ravenous war cry, Jack drove his sword down into the head of the robotic warrior. It gave a last out cry of pain and fell to the ground as the red light faded from its visor and a large puddle of blue liquid flowed out of the open wounds.

Arcee had seen many things in her long life, but when she looked over to the other Decepticon whom she had heard cry out as if in pain, her mouth dropped open in utter shock. The young human she had saved was standing on top of the now lifeless Decepticon with splattered energon on his chest and face and his sword in his left hand. The other Decepticon was just as surprised and so Arcee took the opportunity to put a few energon blasts in the Cons head.

As she got up to go see the human warrior and ensure he was unharmed, she heard two more vehicles moving towards her, she immediately turned around with her blasters primed and ready to fire, but she dropped them as soon as she saw who she was pointing them at. A Chevy Camaro SS with a golden paint job and black racing stripes and a large army green truck were driving towards her. When they reached her, they transformed into two bots she had come to see as family.

"Bumblebee, Bulkhead. I should've known Optimus would send you guys." She said it with a smile on her faceplate. She turned to Bulkhead as he began to speak. "Ratchet picked up Decepticon signatures heading towards you and Optimus sent us to make sure you were alright." Arcee was suddenly brought back to the situation she had just been in a few short seconds ago. "Bulk, Bee you are not gonna believe this." She said as she turned to see the young human she had fought beside was now staring right at her with the smaller, and obviously younger human standing right next to him. They began to walk up to the three transformers and when they reached them; Arcee couldn't help but compliment the young warrior despite her rough personality. "Thanks for taking care of that one for me."

Jack wasn't much for compliments but it was somewhat gratifying when the motorcycle turned robot ass-kicker (authors note: and you know its the truth!Lol.) gave him one. "He was already wounded and he underestimated a human. If there are more like those two, they won't make that mistake again, that I'm sure of." Jack was glad for the compliment, but he was still a modest individual and he knew when he had an advantage over someone he was fighting. Regardless, Jack couldn't help but ask questions. "What are you doing on Earth anyways?"

Jack was surprised to say the least that these machines were here and wanted some answers, so he was happy when the motorcycle-bot answered him. "Come with us, you need to meet our commander." Jack new this was going to be a long evening but when the three bots transformed back into vehicle form, he couldn't resist getting on the sleek two-wheeler. They were about to drive off when suddenly they heard a small cry of what sounded like surprise come from behind them.

Jack turned around and saw none other than the heavy metal loving trouble maker of Jasper High School. Miko Nakadi was a foreign exchange 15 year old student from Japan who surprisingly spoke English very well. She loved playing guitar and rocking out to her favorite bands. But what Jack couldn't figure out is how she had managed to avoid the notice of both him and the large robots he was with.

She came running up to Jack and started shooting questions at him at 100 miles an hour. "JACK! THAT WAS SO AWESOME, YOU CUT THAT BOT APART LIKE A FRICKING SAMURAI! CAN I COME WITH!? PLEEEEEEEEEASE!?" Jack was about to staple her mouth shut but the door on the bot dubbed Bulkhead popped open as he spoke up. "Hop in kid, you're in this too now that you've seen us." Jack was surprised to say the least when he realized Bulkhead had a neutral tone with what sounded like a bit of interest in it as well. So Miko hopped into Bulkheads cab and with that; Jack, Rafael, and now Miko were on their way out to the desert to meet the commander of these alien robotic warriors.

There's chapter 2. Hope everyone enjoyed it; start hittin' that Review button. I'll get the next chapter up as quick as I can. ROLL OUT MY FELLOW AUTOBOTS! Lol. ;)