AAAAAAAGH! I have returned at last! Anyways, I ain't gonna bother you with the story of my dissapearance from fanfiction. Onwards to the chase seen! Mwuahahahahaha!
Ch.6
Jack ran through the woods as quickly as he could, actually hearing Airachnid play around with him in her sick demented joy of hunting. "That's the spirit Jack, play hard to get." Suddenly, Jack froze, as if overtaken by some sense of strength that was screaming at him to stand and fight, it was as if time froze and he could think. 'How can I fight her? She's been hunting for probably hundreds of years, I've killed one Decepticon and it was just a foot soldier.'
Jack suddenly realized something before he looked in his bag. Although he was well trained and respectable, his buddy Michael was a serious fire bug; he would put fireworks in Jack's bag so that they could have bottle rocket wars, among other things, on the weekends. He hid behind a nearby tree and looked through his bag.
"Yes, finally something I can use!" Inside the bag he found a handful of smoke bombs and a few packs of black cat fire crackers. The smoke bombs are a special kind that goes off much like the military smoke grenade. Jack took the packs of black cats and lit all the fuses and tossed them behind him.
He then hid and as they started going off, he could see Airachnid moving towards the sound he soon was able to sneak close to her and light the fuses of the smoke bombs and throw a handful of smoke bombs at her legs. They exploded and he suddenly ran at her, his hand axes in his grip and as he moved by one of her spider legs, he slashed his axes through her thinner legs with all the strength he could muster. The smoke began to dissipate and he found that his idea had worked.
Airachnid was growling now and she had two injured legs that were hampering her ability to use her extra appendages, with that Jack began running again and he soon found himself at the front of Airachnid's ship, he stood in place for a moment and started analyzing his current situation. 'If I go in there I'll be cornered.' Jack suddenly heard a certain spider-bot not far away, speak up. "Now where did you scamper off to?"
With that Jack threw a decent sized rock into the ship and snuck around the side to hide under the access ramp. Jack waited for a few seconds and he soon heard metallic footsteps moving towards the ship, he froze waiting for something to happen and he soon heard the bot in question speak. "If you wanted a tour Jack all you had to do was ask."
Jack could hear the joy in Airachnid's voice at thinking she had Jack cornered; she began walking into the ship to claim the trophy that was not even there. Jack began walking to the back of the ship to escape up the edge of the crater when he heard Airachnid from inside the ship. "Jack, did you see the empty space? I hope you like it, it's where you'll soon hang your' head." Jack ignored the jest and continued sneaking to the back of the ship.
Jack was about to make a run for it when he stepped in something cold and wet. He looked down to find a blue slightly glowing liquid coming from the ship. "Energon." Jack suddenly remembered something Jack had heard from Ratchet, that liquid energon was extremely flammable and when lit in large quantities could cause one hell of an explosion. Jack suddenly heard footsteps on the access ramp of the ship and he quickly reached into his back pack and grabbed an emergency flare and lit it.
He threw it into the area of the ship that was leaking energon just in time to here Airachnid call out to him. He saw the energon catch fire and ran like the deranged spider bot was on his heels. Jack looked back just in time to see Airachnid catch sight of the flaming energon. She looked up with a look of terror on her face plates, and for a second Jack felt the power of being the hunter rather than the hunted. "JACK!"
Airachnid's outcry didn't stop Jack from running; but the next second, Jack found himself lying on the ground with his vision now quite foggy. He looked up to see what was left of Airachnid's ship burning; but just as he was getting up, Jack felt something hit his foot. Jack looked down to see a blast of webs on his foot; he looked up to see none other than Airachnid standing in front of her burning ship with one hand raised right at him.
She shot another large blast of webs at Jack and he was soon plastered against a tree, unable to move. Jack struggled against his bindings and looked up just in time to see Airachnid run her fingers softly over his cheek and down to his throat. Jack closed his eyes excepting his inevitable death when he suddenly heard a large crash of metal. He opened his eyes to see none other than Arcee standing in front of him and Airachnid back on the ground with a pair of blaster marks on her chest.
Arcee turned to Jack and cut him free of his bonds. "Are you okay Jack?" Jack looked up at the blue femme and smiled. "I am now, thanks Arcee." Jack spoke in a relieved tone. Jack felt something stir in him as Arcee returned his smile with one of her own. "Jack, you risked your' life out there. And you actually held your' own against Airachnid." Just as she finished speaking a drilling noise could be heard behind her; Jack looked past Arcee to see Airachnid was using her remaining spider limbs to drill down into the ground to escape.
Arcee quickly turned with her blasters firing, hoping to get a lucky shot in on Airachnid, but the sadistic spider bot was already gone. Arcee ran up to the edge of the drilled out hole and looked down inside. "AIRACHNID!" The anger in Arcee's voice was apparent and Jack ran up to her side to look down into the hole as well. Jack could tell that Arcee was distraught that Airachnid had escaped; the blue femme continued looking down into the hole as her face changed from a look of rage to one of regret "Jack…I'm sorry you had to face my demons today…"
She frowned with her face lowered and her eyes averted. He placed a hand on the side of her leg. "We all have moments where we relive bad memories, I'm just glad you're alright Arcee." Arcee looked down at Jack and a smile appeared on her face plates. She then looked up and placed her hand by her head. "Arcee to base, we need a ground bridge Ratchet." At that moment a mosquito landed on Jacks chest, Jack casually smacked the bug and wiped his hands before hearing Arcee speak up. "I need to get my partner away from any oversized bugs."
Jack looked up at the smiling blue femme with a smile of his own; the words he just heard bringing him a sense of new friendship. "Partner huh?" Jack couldn't help the smile on his face. "Junior partner, I can still pull rank Jack." She continued as a swirling green vortex opened up behind them. Jack decided to play along as he spoke up. "Whatever you say Lieutenant." Arcee walked through the ground bridge with a large smile as Jack's words sent a pulse through her war hardened spark. 'He called me by my rank.' Suddenly, Arcee felt something she had not felt in a very long time: peace.
Jack walked into base and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen; he fell to his knees and grabbed at his stomach. When he brought his hand up, it was covered in blood. "Arcee…" Arcee looked back in time to see Jack fall face first to the floor. "Jack!" She ran to his prone form and picked him up in both hands, and when she saw the blood on his hands, her spark went cold. "Ratchet, Jack's injured!"
The rough old medic suddenly sprang into action and took Jack over to one of the smaller medical berths in the Med Bay and scanned Jack's body. "A few shards of metal have pierced the skin and embedded themselves inside Jack; one of them is almost puncturing one of his major organs…. Aaaaagh Scrap!" Arcee was standing over Jack trying to remain calm but she was scared to death that Jack could die. "Ratchet, can't you do anything!?"
She was screaming at the medic with all hope that he could help Jack. "I don't have any knowledge of human anatomy! I don't know what to do!" For the first time in many years, Ratchet lowered his head in defeat, he felt useless; knowing that someone was hurt and that he didn't know how to help. Arcee was about to scream when she suddenly heard an aged but firm voice. "Ratchet, contact Agent Fowler, have him contact Jack's mother, she is a human medic with knowledge on how to treat Jack as well as the necessary tools; after that, I need you to go to Jack's home, pick up Mrs. Darby, and readdress the situation to her."
Optimus' voice was calm but forceful. Without hesitation, Ratchet followed his orders before transforming into his ambulance form and speeding off at maximum overdrive to pick up June Darby. Optimus was maintaining a calm appearance and at that moment, the large monitor over the computer controls the base showed Agent Fowler as he spoke. "Prime, I have a medical team with extra equipment heading towards your' base just in case June needs any help. I'll be there to pick her up as well so I can inform her of what's transpired over the past few months." Fowler's voice was clear and precise. "Understood, we await your' arrival Agent Fowler."
With that the screen went dark again and Optimus walked over to Arcee who was currently standing at Jack's berth side with a pained look on her face. He put a gentle hand on her shoulder and spoke as calmly as possible. "Arcee, I need to know how this happened." Arcee looked back at Optimus and to the prime's shock, he saw Energon tears running down her face plates; she then spoke up in a broken tone. "Airachnid…"
HOLY FRAG! Jack is as Arcee would say, "neck deep in scrap right now!" What will be in store for our favorite little human? I'm not gonna tell you yet! But fret not, I shall get the next chapter up soon. Until next time my fellow Autobots and Decepticons; TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!