Now Here is the third chapter, Jack meets Ahsoka and Barriss This next chapter follows the episode after "Legacy of Terror" there is plague on the ship and jack must do what he was taught never to do, kill others. I OWN NOTHING STAR WARS AND TRANSFORMERS ARE NOT MINE.
Chapter 3
"Ok let me get this straight." Jack said "You three are Jedi and the Jedi are peole who can use a strange power called the force."
"Yes." Luminara said.
"The soldiers are all clones of one man."
"Yes" Anakin said
"And you are all fight for "The Republic" in a galaxy wide war against "The Separatists" led by someone named Count Dooku who is a fallen Jedi that you call a Sith?"
"Correct now will you answer our questions?" Obi wan asked
"Fine, my name is Jack Darby, and I like in a small, virtually nonexistent town called Jasper in the state of Nevada on a planet known as Earth." Jack explained
"And you have never heard of this war?" Obi Wan asked
"No in fact some people on earth think that there is no other life in the universe. We're pretty isolated I guess."
"You haven't explored beyond your planet?" Luminara asked
"The farthest a human from earth has travelled is to our moon, and even with our most advanced rocket engines it takes about eight days." Jack said
But then how did you get here?" Anakin asked
"Thats just it, I don't know. One minute i'm lying down in the desert looking up at the stars, then some weird portal opened up right next to me and I got sucked through. Next thing I know I'm being dragged below ground by giant bugs." Jack said
"I don't believe you." anakin said
"indeed it does sound impossible." Luminara said.
"ha ha ha."Jack laughed.
"Whats so funny?" Rex asked
"Impossible?" Jack said "Only someone with a tragic lack of imagination would dare use such a
vulgar word. You three lift objects with your mind and travel through the stars, you live in the world impossible." (Secret Saturday Reference)
The Jedi were taken about by what Jack had just said and Anakin was about to answer when he heard a ship land turning around he saw Barriss and Ahsoka exit it and walked over to them.
"Who is he?" Ashoka asked
"I'm jack, Jack Darby. Who are you?"
"I am Padawan Ahsoka Tano and this is Padawan Barriss Offee."
"Whats a padawan?" Jack asked
Barriss and Ahsoka looked shocked
"A Padawan is a Jedi knight in training." Luminara said. "They are younglings assigned to a Jedi, Ahsoka is Anakin's Padawan and Barriss is mine."
"How can he not know what a Padawan is?" Ashoka asked.
"Its hard to explain but you can ask him as you take him and the injured clones to a medical facility to pick up supplies."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Jack said "Why should I go with you?"
"Because I said so." Anakin said trying to muster his most terrifying voice
"Look pal." Jack said pointing his finger at Anikin "if you're trying to scare me know this, there are only two people in the entire universe that frighten me and you are not either of them."
Everyone looked in shock but then Luminara approached jack and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Jack we will not harm you we just want to look at your injuries and then we will try and get you home."
When Obi Wan say that jack remained unconvinced he said "Master Luminara speaks the truth jack."
Finally Jack sighed "Fine lets get this over with, I just wanna go home."
With that he walked towards the ship.
"He doesn't seem to trust us." Barriss said.
"I suspect that something in his past has made it hard to trust others." Luminara said "I sense great trauma in his past. Also he is hiding something from us, I got that from the way he chose his word while answering our questions."
"should I ask him again?" Ashoka asked
"No I feel that given time he will come to trust us, I am sensing some power from that boy, I feel that he might be able to use the force."
"How, he said that he had never heard of it before." Anakin said.
"Maybe he isn't even aware of it or he would have used it to get away from us don't you think."
"Yes you are right." Obi wan said
"One more thing did you notice how tightly he held on to that thing around his neck, it must be valuable and he thought we might take it." Luminara said
"didn't look to valuable to me." Anakin said. "But if it is maybe we can use it to get him to be more truthful."
"Anikin if we did that we would be no better than the separatists." Luminara said "Barriss, Ahsoka see if you can get him to open up more, being closer to his age he might relate to you more."
"If you say so master." Ashoka said.
no one noticed that one of the clones was acting strangely as they departed the planet.
Ashoka and Barriss found jack staring out of a window with an astonished and sad look on his face
"You act like you have never seen a spaceship before." Barriss said
"Thats because I haven't, back home if something flew like this we didn't call it a ship."
"what did you call it?" Ashoka asked.
"Science fiction." Jack said. (Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes Reference) "this technology is centuries ahead of anything we have on Earth."
"Earth? is that your Home world?" Ashoka asked
"Yeah and I hope I can see it soon." Jack said with a depressed sigh.
Trying to change the subject Ashoka asked "So tell me whats your family like?"
"Well the only blood relative I have is my mom who is a nurse, then theres my friend's Miko and Raph, they're like siblings to me. theres also Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Smokescreen, and Wheeljack who are like brothers, Ratchet who I consider a grumpy uncle, arcee who is like an overprotective older sister, and Optimus."
"Is he like a brother to?" Barriss asked.
"No." Jack said. "Optimus is like, well, he's the closest thing I have to a dad, you see my real dad died when I was three and when I met Optimus I just felt like I could trust him."
"He sounds nice." Barriss said.
"He is." Jack said smiling "So can you tell me where we are going?"
"A medical station, to pick up supplies and to drop off our wounded." Ashoka explained
"Cool now is there a place to eat on this ship? I'm starving." jack said as he clutched his stomach
Ashoka laughed and said "Come on lets head to the mess hall, I'm pretty hungry myself."
They were the only ones and when they got their food none of them touched much.
"You not hungry anymore jack?"Ashoka asked concerned.
"No for some reason I just can't eat I mean I have no idea where my planet is and the universe is huge, what if I never see home again?"
Both Barriss and Ahsoka looked at him with sad eyes. Ashoka scooted closer and put her hand on his.
"Don't think like that jack everything will turn out ok." Ashoka said
"Thanks Ashoka." Jack said
"Jack something else is bothering you isn't it?" Barriss asked.
"Yes" Jack said "you see I have this feeling that something bad is about to happen and experience suggests that I should listen to it."
"Really what's going to happen?" Barriss asked
"Not sure." Jack said. "all I know is that we should be on our guard."
Just then some clones came in who were acting strangely they all circles the table and were holding strange orbs when jack saw what they were he started to tremble
"What is it jack?" Barriss asked
"We need to get out of here" Jack said "these clones are not themselves."
Ahsoka was about to ask what he meant when the clones started wailing and weird worms came out of their throats.
Ahsoka and Barriss whipped out their lightsabers while jack picked up a tray to use.
But he didn't need it because Ahsoka and Barriss made quick work of them, as the clones attacked all it took was one slash from a lightsaber to kill them. they turned to jack expecting to
see a relieved expression on his face but instead all they saw was horror.
"You, you killed them." He said "YOU KILLED THEM! YOU COULD HAVE JUST KNOCKED THEM OUT AND THEN WE COULD HAVE FOUND A WAY TO SAVE THEM!"
"Jack there wasn't time." Barris said "We had no choice."
"THATS A LIE!" Jack yelled "YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE! MAYBE I WAS WRONG, MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE TRIED TO FIND ANOTHER SHIP HOME."
"Jack please calm down." Barriss said
"We didn't want to kill them" ahsoka said. "but if we didn't and they got control of the ship then there is no telling what might have happened."
"Fine." Jack said "But I can tell that this isn't over."
"Right we must determine who we can trust." Barris said
just then more clones came in and The three were immediately on the offensive
"Whoa whats going on." One said
"We were just attacked by your men" Barris explained "and we think that you might be infected to."
"Look we're putting our weapons on the ground no tricks." The other said
Barriss and Ahsoka lowered their guards and thats when it happened.
The clones eyes rolled back into their heads and worms appeared in their mouths and grabbed both Ahsoka and Barriss.
"THEY'RE INFECTED!" Barriss yelled but she and Ashoka were unable to do anything. acting on instinct he grabbed the clones gun and quickly fired it at their heads instantly killing them.
Ahsoka and Barriss turned to thank him but they saw him shivering on the ground staring at the clones.
What, What have I done? I killed them! thats when jack started to cry
Ashoka quickly embraced him and said "Its ok jack everything is ok."
"I killed them I killed them." He said sobbing
Ashoka held his face in her hands and forced him to look at her "Jack look at me everything is going to be ok, we need you right now if we are going to survive and save this ship."
"ok lets do this." Jack said
and so they split up. Barriss went to deactivate the engines and Jack and Ashoka went to contact Anikin and The fleet.
After Ashoka had contacted the fleet she and jack waited for Barriss unfortunately she came back
"Barriss you scared us. were you successful?" Ashoka asked.
barriss just stood there.
"Barriss, what's wrong?" Jack asked
Barriss then used the force to knock jack against a wall.
"Barriss snap out of it." Ashoka yelled
Jack ran up and grabbed Barriss holding her in place.
"Ashoka run I'll hold her." He said
"Jack thats crazy." Ashoka said frantically
"I can't fly this ship but you can so go!" jack said
Ashoka realized that he was right and so she slipped into the air vent and escaped.
Jack was left to fight Barriss but it wasn't much of a fight, holding him down with the force Barriss did something that really shook jack, she kissed him now he knew she wouldn't do that of her free will he then felt the mind worm (I know its not called that but I don't know what they are called) enter his body and he felt his mind going blank, the last thing he thought before he entered the darkness was It can't end this way.
then his mind was under the complete control of the mind worm. He and Barriss went after
Ashoka knowing that she was the last threat to them. they found her in the temperature control room setting the air to its lowest temperature. her task accomplished she quickly escaped through an air vent Barriss and Jack tried to follow her but the mind worms couldn't handle the cold.
But they knew where she was headed so they made their way to the bridge to stop her. When they got to the bridge they instantly attacked her.
"Barriss, jack stop." Ashoka said
Her words got through because they both stopped but the mind worm in Barriss soon had its grips back in her, jack on the other hand was fighting it rather well. Even with the worm screaming "OBEY ME OBEY ME YOU BELONG TO THE QUEEN OF GEONOSIS!"
But jack wouldn't listen and yelled out "I BELONG TO NO ONE! YOU WILL NEVER CONTROL ME YOU FILTHY WORM!"
with that he collapsed and was soon unconscious.
When he awoke he was in the medical facility being treated by a nurse. and looking over nest to him he saw Barriss and Ahsoka lying in the beds next to him.
"Jack it is good to see that you are all right." Obi wan said "How do you feel?
"I feel like Megatron was pounding on my head." He said
"Who's megatron?" Luminara asked.
jack suddenly realized what he said sighed.
"Well I guess I can trust you to tell you. Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons, a faction at war with another known as autobots, I am an autobot Ally."
"Who is the leader of the autobots?" Asked Ashoka
"oh Ashoka Barriss good to see you awake." Jack said. "But you already know, the leader of the autobots is Optimus. Optimus Prime."
"Prime?" Obi Wan said "You mean he is a Cybertronian?"
"You know about Cybertron?" Jack asked
"Just legend because thats what I thought they were just legends." Obi wan said. "Legends of great mechanical being standing as tall as skyscrapers with the ability to scan and transform into Vehicles. But it is said that they all died out when their when their planet became uninhabitable."
"No some survived and Megatron came to my planet hoping to rule it but the some autobots under the command of Optimus followed him there to stop him," Jack explained "then four years after they arrived Raph, Miko, and I got in the middle of one of their battles and we have been autobot allies ever since."
It was then that Jack realized that the key to vector sigma was gone. and he started to frantically look for it
"Are you looking for this?" Luminara said and floating over her palm was the key.
"Yes thank you." jack said as he reached out and took it back slipping it across his bare chest.
"jack if you don't mind I would like to know what that thing is. We found that no one but you could touch it."
"Its called the key to vector sigma. "Jack said "and only a prime can hold it or one chosen by a prime, and Optimus entrusted it's protection to me."
"What does it do." Anakin asked
"I'm afraid that I can't tell you that." Jack said. "I swore not to tell anyone who was not an autobot Allie."
"Very well but can you tell us how you received so many scars on your back." Asked Obi Wan
Jacks eyes suddenly darkened and he curled into a ball,
"I don't want to talk about that." he said
"very well, but something is bothering you isn't it?" Obi wan said
Jack just continued to look down.
"Jack killed for the first time today." Barriss said
The three Jedi nodded in understanding, the first kill was always the hardest.
"Jack I want you to try something for me." Luminara said
"What?" He asked
She placed a small ball in front of him. "I want you to try and use the force to lift this ball."
"But you said that you had to be born with that ability and I wasn't" he said
"Perhaps but we sense power within you and we want to see if you can use the force." Luminara said
"Fine but I don't see..." he started to say but then the ball soared into the air, bounced off the ceiling and hit Anikin in the face.
"I am so sorry Anikin I, I didn't mean to." Jack said
"It's ok jack" Obi wan said laughing "Anikin has survived worse but still you have just shown us that you can use the force and as such you must learn to control it."
"But I can't get involved in your war I need to get home and help the autobots." Jack said
"But jack if you don't learn how to control it your powers could go out of control and you could really hurt someone." Luminara said
realization dawned on jack's face and he said. "All right but know that I'm not a soldier."
"Jack the Jedi are peacekeepers not soldiers." Barriss said.
"Ok but what do I do now? who will train me?" Jack asked
"Well first we must take you to Coruscant, the republic capital, then you must create your lightsaber, and finally a master is chosen who you will train under."
"Alright lets get started, the sooner I'm trained the sooner I can go home" Jack said.
Meanwhile across the Galaxy, Dooku was contacted by his master Darth Sidious
"Dooku, I am sensing a disturbance in the force, a very powerful entity has emerged, given this being could be more powerful than all the Jedi put together, we must bring him to the dark side."
"As you wish my master." Dooku said.
It had begun, jack was now involved with two wars, but little did he know that soon, he would have to fight for his survival."
Well thats the third chapter, please review and feel free to give me ideas on how to improve this crossover and Transformers Prime Z which I will probably update in a few days or so depending on my college work load. Until we meet again,
PrimusPrime Out