List of oneshots part 4
chapter 8
Jack ends up visiting a mirror version of his own universe.
Series: Transformers Prime
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-Earth, Nevada, Autobot HQ-
"No Miko." Jack deadpanned while holding some chocolates. "I'm not giving you any, remember the last time you had one of these?"
"The rush was only a day."
"You nearly broke someone's leg."
Miko whistled at that while Raf sighed. "Aw come on, one time."
"Sorry, but I'm not taking any chances." He said while taking the chocolate and placed it in a safe.
"Aw!"
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
The three humans sighed while knowing that was going on.
A Deception attack/appearance.
To be fair, it was kinda getting boring...for Jack that is. Since he had been doing this for a year now, the thrill and danger has been sucked out and replaced with repetition, something he really didn't want. The fact there was still energon on the planet at this point and the fight had been going on was something none of them expected, even though it had been going on way longer than their own planet's age.
"Hey Arcee, how big of a deposit is it this time?" asked Jack following the large fembot.
"About the size of a small lake."
"Wow, sure wish we had that right now. Didn't Ratchet say our reserves were getting real low again?"
"Yes." Arcee said while noticing Jack was a little bored. "Jack? Is something wrong?"
"Oh it's nothing." he said while trying to look energetic.
"Jack, you don't seem all that excited. Usually you'd be all for coming along."
He sighed. "Fine, I'm just bored of the repetition. Everyday it's either a con attack, an attack from some crazy alien, or a terrorist attack from MECH. After a YEAR of this well...I don't feel excited at the idea of adventures anymore. Sorry Arcee, but I'm spent."
"Well no one said this fight was gonna be fun." she remarked looking down. "It's something we have to deal with until the war ends."
"I get that, and I'm not treating it like a game, I just mean...it feels like we're no closer than when me and the others got involved."
Arcee looked at Raf and Miko. "Do you feel the same?"
"Well…"
"Yes." Miko said bluntly. "I love the con kicking, but it feels kinda boring now. Especially when everytime we gain a mile, we go ten thousand feet backwards."
"Well if we can get this deposit before the cons we'll have a huge lead up. Their own reserves should be getting low themselves."
They sighed.
"What?"
"It happens all the time." Jack said. "But still...maybe today will be different."
"So are you coming or do you want to stay here?" Arcee asked as the ground bridge opened up.
The three looked at each other with Miko holding her hands up.
"I'll sit this one out."
"Same." Raf said while raising his hand up. "I have some homework to do."
Jack sighed. "I'll come, since I have nothing else to do."
'This is new...and depressing.' Arcee thought while transforming into vehicle mode. "Hop on."
Jack got on her before she drove towards the ground bridge while the others were already out, minus Ratchet at the controls.
(Elsewhere)
-Somewhere in Canada-
And drove right into a snowbank with a loud splat.
"Scrap." spoke Arcee while Jack got off with her transforming and brushing the snow off. "Great, now I'll have to get another wash when we get home."
"Provided some of us don't freeze." spoke Jack rubbing his arms. "Should have asked Ratchet before we went through where it was."
"It was either waiting for Ratchet to map the local weather or get here before the cons appear." She said while Jack sneezed.
"Sniff…" he rubbed his hands together while looking around. "Well let him know we're here and where to go."
"Alright-"
WOOOSH!
And cue a Seeker in jet mode flying past them and towards the east.
"Change of plans." she frowned. "We'll follow the con and he'll lead us right to it. Ratchet, we found a lead on the deposit."
"Well if you had given me a chance to tell you before going through, you would have already known that."
"Anyway, we're going to pursue the con. Make sure the ground bridge is ready in case of an emergency." She said while Jack sneezed.
"You're not seriously going in by yourselves are you? I need to radio in the others so they can move in on your location. That stupid weather is messing with the comm link frequency."
Arcee transformed while Jack hopped on and-
SPLAT!
Got stuck in a snowbank again.
"Slag!"
(A long while later)
Both sighed while finally making it to the location of the Seeker, which was a large valley full of square energon cubes the size of a lake.
"Huh? What's with the cubes?"
"The cons must be converting the raw energon into cubes for easier transport." replied Arcee as they hid behind a large boulder. "Which is gonna make it easier on us when we get the drop on them."
"Hope you didn't plan on it without us." remarked Bulkhead as he, Optimus, and Bumblebee arrived.
"Bzz bzz zzz."
Jack looked around before seeing a Seeker right next to the boulder. "Quiet!"
The con looked around before shrugging and started to throw snowballs at some cons, for fun apparently.
"Guess even cons can enjoy snow when they can, who knew?"
"Well they are about to get hit by a snow fist." Bulkhead said before Optimus held him back.
"Not now, or our cover will be compromised."
He nodded in agreeance before they carefully snuck closer to the con's position. They kept their heads down while Arcee narrowed her optics when she spotted Starscream giving orders with Knock Out beside him.
"Remember to get the energon loaded onto the ship as soon as it's refined. No sense letting it lie out in the opening."
"I know, I was the one that did the calculations." Knock Out deadpanned. "And where is Arachnid, she should've been here for the extraction."
"You know her, late as usual." scoffed Starscream checking his fingers with annoyance. "Frankly I don't care if she got lost and wound up a frozen statue out here."
"I'll keep that in mind."
As they continued talking, the Autobots got closer and closer to the energon.
"ACHOOO!"
Until Jack sneezed that is. He covered his face while one con perked up.
"Hey, did you hear something?"
"No, but I do detect some movement behind that rock." Another said. "Want to blast it?"
"Sure, it might be one of those Polar Bear things. Their fun to shoot at."
The two cons walked towards the rocks, blasters at the ready, while the Autobots felt their position was compromised.
"Ah..ah...ah…" Jack tried to hold it but he couldn't due to him being very cold at the moment. "AH-"
Arcee quickly covered his nose with her right index finger. This got him to slowly stop with the cons hesitating.
"Hey, I don't hear anything now."
"Maybe it-"
"ACHOOOOOOO!"
And cue the cons looking in the Autobots direction.
"Slag."
"It's the Autobots!"
"Blast them!"
BAM!
BAM!
The cons were blasted away while the autobots rushed out.
"Autobots, roll out!"
BAM!
BAM!
They ran down the hill while blasting at the other cons who saw them and fired back with Starscream looking annoyed.
"So they showed up after all." He sighed. "Knock Out, com Arachnid at once, and make sure there are some Seekers guarding the highly unstable energon cubes!"
"Consider it done." he saluted while Starscream transformed and flew at the Autobots before opening his own fire on them.
BOOM!
Jack hid behind some snow banks while noticing the cubes were getting bombarded by ice and debris, only for him to notice an oncoming missile from a con. "Shit!"
WOOOSH!
He dove to the side as it flew by and blew up near a cliff, causing snow and ice from it to come tumbling down.
RUMBLE RUMBLE!
As the battle raged on, the weather started to get worse and caused a sudden rush of frost and wind to obscure the optics of the combatants. This led to a few getting their heads knocked off thanks to Bulkhead's maces.
"Take that." He sent his maces in a random direction.
"GAH!" Arcee cried out while getting hit. "Watch it!"
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
Jack tried to see where the cons were, but couldn't as he heard the sounds of a helicopter in the distance. "Oh no." he turned and spotted the familiar alternate mode and felt a shiver. "This just got bad."
The fembot sent a barrage of missiles at the Autobots while Knock Out made sure to keep the energon from getting hit, at the expense of his paint job.
"Careful! This isn't easy to maintain in sub arctic weather!" he yelled out while brushing snow off with a grumble. "I knew I should have stayed on the ship."
That was when Optimus got hit by a missile, sending him a few feet towards the cubes.
Zzzzzzzzz!
And caused the already unstable energon to slowly but surely, spark to life as a chain reaction followed sooth.
"Oh no." he spoke with his optics widening as sparks started to come up as energon cubes began to explode with him jumping up and ran off. "Ratchet! Open a ground bridge now!"
"Ok ok! I'm on it!"
A ground bridge opened up, however as the sparks got closer to the portal and right through the space time hole, like a river of energy.
Zzzzzzzz!
(On the other side)
ZAP!
ZAP!
"What the-"
BOOOOM!
Ratchet went flying a few feet as he slowly got up and saw the controls destroyed and on fire. His eyes widened and turned to the ground bridge to see it sparking and spasming with the color turning purple.
(With the Autobots)
The portal began to warp and spasm while it started giving off billions of joules of energy, enough to melt the ice and heat the very air itself.
"Ratchet? What's going on?" asked Bulkhead through the commlink.
"The controls are down, I repeat! The controls are down!"
"But the ground bridge is still up." spoke up Arcee.
ZAP!
And cue a purple bolt of lightning hitting one of the Seekers, causing it to explode into a trillion pieces.
"Don't even think about it! I don't know what happened, but it's unstable!"
That was when the portal began to zap nearby rocks and snow banks...including the one nearest to Jack.
ZAP!
BOOOOM!
"Woah!" He got out before noticing he was floating. "Eh?"
The portal made one more bolt of lighting, which hit Starscream's left engine, as the portal began to collapse into itself, forming a small black hole in the process.
"AHHHH!" He screamed while getting sucked in along with some energon and cons.
"Jack!" cried out Arcee who saw this and ran towards him. "Hold on!"
"Arcee!" Jack cried out while he saw the portal getting closer and closer to him. "Arc-"
FOOSH!
And cue him getting sucked in.
The portal spasmed one more time before vanishing into the event horizon, causing a sudden burst of energy that sent the cybertronians flying in every direction. They crashed all around the snow and ice area, suffering minor damage.
However, Arcee was in shock. For the second time in her life, her partner had met a terrible fate. She stared at the spot where the ground bridge was and felt like every part of her body just shut down.
"Ugh…" Starscream groaned. "Decepticons...retreat…" 'Oh my circuits…'
Any cons that were still functional tried to get up while Knock Out himself was half buried in the snow and couldn't move his arms.
As for Arachnid, she was stuck in the frost and ice, but thanks to some quick thinking, was able to get into an ice cave, at the cost of her 'wings' freezing up.
As the Autobots worked on getting out, we find Jack, screaming while getting hurtled through a long tunnel with flashing colors all around him.
Each one hurt his eyes as he went falling into the abyss, which looked weird as he saw strange sights from the edges of the tunnel, some looking the same, others…
"Star Saber! Henshin!"
Were completely illogical and should be excluded from the entire story due to it being non canon...for America that is.
"AHHHHHHH!" He screamed as he saw some orange horns popping out of one side, which sent him flying into another tunnel full of glass like shards. He tried to brace himself, but felt himself get cut on all sides and cried louder in pain.
That was when he saw a small portal coming up and went right into it.
-Dimension 9991-3 40 TSG, the same location-
CRASH!
And landed in a scorching desert full of cactuses.
"Pah!" he cried out, hissing in pain from the spines and had to roll on his back with some getting stuck in his shirt. "Ow...ow...ow…."
As he looked around, he noticed some energon cubes next to him, but it wasn't the normal color, but a thick yellowish hue, like melting amber.
"What...the?" he looked confused and tried to sit up with a wince before trying to yank the sharp points out. "Where am I? This doesn't look like there's been snow in this place since….never."
That was when he noticed some cons on the ground, but unlike the normal purple colored ones, they were pure red with white markings with almost normal looking faces, but what was most striking was the symbol, for it was red with sharp edges on the sides that made it look like it was filling in for cheeks or a chin.
That and all of them were either destroyed, ripped apart or had blaster fire in their torsos.
"Woah. What happened?" he grunted as he stood up and looked around while noting numerous craters. "And what's with the paint job?" he tried to take a step and walked past them while grimacing since he saw one had it's whole head crushed into a mess and had to keep from losing his lunch. "Whatever happened, it wasn't pretty."
Beep.
He blinked while recalling he got a commlink and answered it. "Hello?"
"Whoever is on this frequency, surrender or be terminated." said a voice that sounded...vaguely familiar.
"What?" he spoke in confusion. "Who is this?"
"Surrender or be terminated." It said again in an almost robotic tone before hanging up.
'Ok...that wasn't creepy at all.' he thought with concern and looked around. 'Must be one of the cons, which means I better hide.' he was about to run off, but he heard a groan and saw one of them near him twitch a little while coughing energon as it spotted him.
"Human...you must….get….away….."
"Ah!" He jumped back as the con coughed.
"Before...Auto…" It said before going limp as it's spark faded away into nothingness.
Jack blinked while looking very confused. "Auto? As in Autobot? Ok….why would a con try to give me a warning? It's not like they care."
That was when he heard several vehicles in the distance.
"Huh?" he turned and naturally went to duck for cover behind a rock. "Please don't let those be Decepticon reinforcements."
That was when he saw some vehicles, moving towards the carnage.
Each one...very odd and felt off for some reason. They looked like earth vehicles, ones he knew, but the colors were off.
He moved closer near the rock as he saw one drive past the fallen cons and stop, showing it resembles motorcycle with a red seat and some chrome lines going down the sides, but the off part was the fact the rest of it was purple with no driver and with what looked like the Decepticon symbol on the front in between the headlights.
It stopped near the rock while Jack noticed it wasn't a Deception symbol, but a purple face with pointed horns on the sides and looked similar to an angry Autobot symbol.
'What the…'
"The signal came from here." said the motorcycle in a warped voice similar to a sadistic demon. "Yet my scans can't find the foolish con."
"You probably misread the signal." said a dark black muscle car with red lines going across the sides and had what looked like spikes on the rear and hood.
"Like I could." the bike said with a chuckle. "Hey no voice, got any scans?"
All that came in response was static coming from what looked like a camouflaged colored military jeep with a machine gun mounted on the top while having several green lines going across it while revving its engine.
Jack gulped while seeing another vehicle driving towards the three vehicles, but what confused him was that it didn't look like any earth based machine, but a large ship like craft with large energy wheels on the sides, two giant wings on its sides that seemed to be folded back and made it look like a truck, two large spikes on the front that twisted around and pointed past the hood and a single large cannon on the top that seemed to be floating under its own power.
"What have you found?" they asked in a cold voice that also held a sophisticated tone to it making the other vehicles instantly quiet down.
"Nothing sir." The bike growled.
The truck vehicle drove over near the bike with Jack getting a feeling the bike was sweating. "And just why is that? You said you located an unknown signal on our comm link, did you not?"
"I did, but-"
"And yet all I see are the remains of those annoying Decepticons we slaughtered. Are you saying one of them 'somehow' survived?"
"Well…"
The vehicle aimed its cannon at the bike. "Must I destroy another Deception sympathizer?"
"Ah! N-No sir! I swear by the Allspark I detected it here!"
The vehicle was silent with Jack gulping as he saw the vehicle turn to the others. "Did you all discover it as well? Or just her?"
"Well yes sir." The muscle car gulped.
Silence.
The cannon-like vehicle turned to the jeep. "And you Bumblebee?"
The vehicle let out some static with Jack making a mistake.
"Bumblebee?!"
Speaking up loud enough to make the vehicles all turn to his location making him slap himself in the head while the bike let out a chuckle.
"Well well well, looks like we have a vermin problem. Probably wandered here without knowing it. Mind if I get rid of it sir?"
"Oh no." He gulped as the bike revved up. "Wait wait! Arcee? Is that you? What's going on, why are you in different vehicle modes?!"
"How does it know your name?" asked the muscle car while the bike moved near Jack slowly making him back up.
"Who cares?"
"I do." spoke the truck vehicle making Arcee stop as it drove past her and to Jack. "Organic, you will explain how you know her name, or be exterminated where you stand."
"I know her because I'm her partner."
"No." Arcee deadpanned. "My partner is Wheeljack."
Jack looked really lost before shaking his head and looked at the vehicle. "Hang on...Optimus, is that you? Why are you acting like this? You know who I am, it's me, Jack."
The vehicle didn't acknowledge that while Jack felt like it was giving off a dangerous glare.
"I helped you against the Decepticons."
"Ha! No organic could do that." The muscle car laughed. "They're too busy running away, like those MECH parasites."
Bumblebee let out more static with the vehicle letting out a hum.
"Good idea Bumblebee, perhaps Ratchet could discover what this organic knows, and test some of his synthetic energon on him as well."
Jack paled in horror as he backed away. "D-Don't do this guys, you can't become like the cons."
"Decepticons? We do not want peace." The truck said while the cannon aimed at Jack. "We want conquest, for the Cybertronian Empire."
"Conquest?" Jack was really lost, so much so he didn't notice there was something moving to the location, but Bumblebee did and let out some static in warning.
"Slag." The bike growled. "Decepticons, and here I thought I could sink my blades into an organic."
"Autobots." The truck spoke with a dark chuckle. "Transform and destroy!"
With that each one of them transformed into robot mode, making Jack stare in more horror, if it was possible, seeing it was indeed his friends, but also seeing it WASN'T them.
"I'm gonna enjoy myself." smirked Arcee, retaining her usual form, minus the fact the obvious change in color scheme, but also because her head had a noticeable red crest going across it while there were several notches going across her legs with her hands having talon tips on them.
"Save some for me." said Bulkhead, who looked thinner, but with spikes going across his arms and part of his face covered by said spikes as his hands were replaced with five spider like nails. "You destroyed more than me last time."
Bumblebee let out static while his form looked much more bulkier than Bulkhead while retaining the machine guns on his shoulders as half of his head was tucked into his chassis with his optics glowing red.
For the final being, the hero of the Autobots was now completely different as he was taller than the others, with the wings jutting out of his sides, his right arm forming a giant rail gun with dark green energy lines oozing out from his emblem and from his dark green eyes, and his spikes turning into inverted battleaxes that hung to his legs like a magnet. "Autobots, exterminate the Decepticons and the organic. If the peace lover is after this organic, then let's break his spirit."
"Gladly." laughed Arcee before Jack turned and tried running. "Come here you!" she took off running after him and easily picked him up with her hand and grabbed him tightly making him cry out in pain. "Aw, what's wrong? Does it hurt?"
"Ahh!" He cried out while seeing her pulling out a curved blade from her left arm.
"Good, and I thought you were getting used to the pain." she smirked darkly while Jack tried to break loose.
"A-Arcee! Please stop!"
"Beg, I love to see organics beg." She smirked while moving her blade back. "Any last words?"
His eyes widened and briefly saw his life flash before his eyes as it came towards him, only for an energon blast to fly out and hit the blade, chipping it and making Arcee cry out.
"Ahhhh!" She cried out while her hand changed back and she turned to the origin point of the blast. "Who dares?!"
"It would seem your old friend has arrived." remarked Optimus while they saw several vehicles come onto the scene, one of them a white and blue colored helicopter above them with a blaster aimed out from under it's cockpit.
BAM!
BAM!
Arcee growled before dropping the organic and charged at the helicopter, using her legs to jump and slash at the vehicle. "Come down and fight!"
"Nope." said a calm voice that sounded a little nervous. "I'm not crazy like you."
"Oh I'm gonna enjoy ripping your spark chamber and crushing it in front of you!"
Jack gasped for air while seeing blood dripping from his mouth, before getting blasted a few feet by a stray blast. "Ah!" he rolled on the ground and groaned in intense pain.
The battle raged on before the human noticed the helicopter blasting Arcee away and caused a rope to fall towards him.
"Hurry and climb up, and don't get my insides filthy!"
"Ugh…" he let out, but reached out and grabbed the bottom of it as tight as he could.
The rope went quickly into the helicopter while Bumblebee saw this and attempted to blast them out of the sky.
BAM!
Only to get hit by some missiles from a gold and white fighter jet.
"I won't allow you to do such an underhanded tactic!"
Bumblebee went flying while Jack finally got inside the helicopter.
"Hold on organic." It said before flying away from the battle. "And don't touch anything! I just had an energon bath!"
"Uh...w...who….?"
"Just stand there and don't try and touch me!"
Jack looked very confused before seeing Arcee trying to slash at the tail.
"RAH! You coward!"
The chopper flew away while more blasts and missiles rained down.
'What is going on?!' Jack thought.
(Away from the battle)
He looked out the window while noticing that there were no trees, mountains or any animal life, just a large expanse of desert that went on for miles. He rubbed his head while questioning if this was all real or just some frostbite induced hallucination.
"We are almost at the base, but can you stop breathing on my optics?! I can't clean that!"
Jack moved back before seeing a large ocean coming from the east, which looked devoid of life except for algae.
"Soundwave, open a space bridge."
"Fine." Said a voice that sounded unusually high pitched and annoying. "Opening a space bridge now."
"Wait, Soundwave?" spoke Jack, now on high alert before a space bridge appeared in the air which the chopper went through before it closed behind them.
(Elsewhere)
And caused them to appear in a gold and red ship that seemed to be partially damaged.
That and it was on the sea floor itself!
The chopper landed on the ground while Jack felt very nervous. He looked around and noted they were in some kind of hangar.
"Get out, just be careful of any fluids you might be leaking."
"What are you talking about?" He asked before seeing the blood. "Oh…"
"You didn't! EW!"
"Sorry." he spoke as the cockpit opened up and he climbed out with a wince. As he looked around, he noticed that the entire ship was no ordinary ship….but the Nemesis itself, if it had a new paint job. 'What the...ok now I'm losing it.' he rubbed his head while the chopper transformed behind him without him noticing. "I'm in a coma, or having a crazy dream, that's gotta be it."
"Ew ew ew ew!" A figure gagged while jumping up and down. "So much organic fluids! I need a bath, NOW! Ew ew ew!"
Jack tensed up hearing the voice, one he definitely knew, and slowly turned his head.
And saw Arachnid, but with white and blue colors, pink tips on her legs, shorter spikes, with blue eyes, a softer expression on her face and had a giant sized chest plate, similar to a D cup chest, and hips that made her look more human like, although she was also a little shorter then the fembot Jack knew. And she was jumping around with a disgusted look in her eyes while trying to gag the blood out of her body.
"I-GAG! Hate-GAG! ORGANIC-GAG! FLUIDS!"
Jack looked at her, utterly floored, and held up a finger. "Uh...are you ok?"
"NO!" She gagged. "I have your fluids in my body! And it tastes nasty, gag!"
'Ok….that's kinda weird!' he thought, lost and started to back up. 'But my chance to get away. If she's here, that means-'
"Are you ok organic?" said a voice that sounded...familiar, except without the sleaziness.
Jack stopped and gulped. "Uh...yeah, just...lost."
"How so? Did those disgusting bots break anything important?"
"No, no no no, just fine and dandy."
"I beg to differ, I'm gonna need an oil bath just to get the taste out of my mouth!" Arachnid gagged. "And an energon bath!"
"Um…"
"Do you want Knock Out to inspect your injuries? He is the best medic here...and a skeptic on everything else." remarked the person as Jack looked up to see Starscream, except his optics were blue and calm, where as the grey color to him was replaced with a more platinum color with a hint of gold and red on the sides, with the wings being blue and having the regular missiles on his arms, with the fingers actually more rectangular and less pointed.
"..." he slapped himself on the cheeks. "This is a dream! This is a dream! This is a dream!"
"A dream?" spoke Starscream confused while crouching down as Jack shook his head. "What do you mean? Why are you attacking yourself?"
"It's a dream!" He yelled. "Cons aren't good!"
"...is this some kind of organic ritual?"
"I think this one is broken."
"Yes." Said a voice while walking towards them, revealing Soundwave, who looked skinnier with dark red and white armor, five tentacles on his back, a pair of orange eyes on his monitor and a small mouth, with only a single horn on his head that curved inwards as his fingers were shorter and less like claws. "And personally he looks like a half dead scraplet."
"Hey! Don't bring those things up. I don't wanna remember the infestation." shivered Airachnid.
"Yeah yeah."
Jack paled before doing something logical.
CRASH!
Faint.
"..."
"..."
"Told you it was a half dead scraplet."
(Later on)
"Ugh…" Jack groaned while looking around and saw he was on an operating table, unrestrained.
"Organics. Why do they have to have more complicated parts than a normal cybertronian?"
Jack blinked his eyes to try and focus while noting a large lense hovering above him with a blue optic looking through it and right at him.
"Mmmm, perhaps some energon transfusion? Nah, might cause it to explode...like the last one." 'Never again!'
"AHHHHHHHH!" screamed Jack scrambling away.
"Hey hey, calm down. Your skeletal structure is still repairing itself, we don't need you bleeding again."
He coughed up blood.
"Not again."
Jack gripped at his shirt as the lense was moved away and he saw it was Knock Out, only the red color was replaced with green while dark blue lines went down his arms and legs, had blue optics, with normal looking fingers and looked less angular as his right optic was seemily replaced with a set of green and white lenses with a hint of rusting on the large jagged tears around the socket.
"Please don't move around too much, unless you WANT to expire early." He said while Jack tried not to scream again. "Besides, you are needed for questioning. Unless of course you have amnesia."
"I...I...I…" he stuttered while trying not to faint.
"Oh joy, this one is broken."
"I-I'm not broken! You are!"
"...what?" He blinked while his lenses moved closer to the human. "How pray tell am I the broken one here?"
"You...well….all of you!"
"..." he looked to the nearby computer terminal and typed out loud. "Subject seems to be suffering from the organic condition called PTSD, will attempt to use more calming stimuli upon subject-"
"I don't have PTSD."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!" Jack snapped. "I'm not suffering from anything!"
"You could fool me, from what Starscream, the annoying Uniconist he is, told me, you actually thought those bots were good, among other things we acquired from Soundwave's hacking."
Jack groaned and rubbed his head while shaking it. "Look, can you just answer me this? What's going on? Where am I?"
"Earth, you should know that by now." He deadpanned. "And you just entered a war between the Decepticon Knights of Unicron, or Decepticons, and the Autonomous Bots of the Cybertronian Empire dictates by Primus, or Autobots."
"But….that doesn't make sense. I mean, you shouldn't look like that. You should be red, and a stickler for being clean."
"..." he turned to him. "Did you suffer from brain damage? Why would I be red or for that matter, a cleaning expert? I have to amputate limbs for a living."
Jack groaned in frustration. "Because that's who you are! Why else would I be here unless you had some sick and twisted idea for me?"
"You're here because Airachnid brought you here, and I was just trying to come up with a way to fix you without causing more harm."
"Let me guess, so she can skin me alive?"
"No, she hates touching organics so why would she do something so...primitive?"
"Because that's what gets her kicks off."
"No, she's a shy fembot, not whatever you think she does."
"I know what she's like, along with you."
"...what?"
"I don't know what your plan is, but I'm not falling for whatever….this is."
Knock Out shook his head before typing on the screen. "Soundwave, call Megatron to the sickbay."
"Already done, he's on his way."
Jack paled in horror. 'Shit!'
"So." Knock Out said while pulling out some cards. "Are you a card fan? Black Jack? Go Fish?"
"Uh...you know, I left my cards at home, I'll go get them." he stood up with difficulty and tried to make his way near the edge of the table.
Only for him to pick him up and carefully placed him on the table.
"Don't, or you might bleed out, again." Knock Out started shuffling the cards. "We'll play a game before Megatron shows up."
He groaned while resigning to his fate.
(Some time later)
Jack groaned as he lost, again, at Old Maid.
"You're not very good at this."
"Of course not."
"I guess Miko was telling another lie." He sighed. "Oh well, at least I know now that humans are not always lucky at card games."
"Wait, what was that?"
"That your species is bad at luck? I may be a skeptic on intangible things, but luck is-"
"No, I mean about Miko. She's here right now?"
"Yes, training with Breakdown. Why?"
"Show me."
"Not until Megatron sees you."
"No, show me now."
"I will not falter to an organic with PTSD."
"I do not have PTSD!"
The sickbay doors opened as Jack felt so confused, and mad, mostly mad.
"Ah, Megatron." Knock Out said with a smile. "Thank you for coming."
"Well I am glad, but how is the health of the human?"
"More or less one hundred percent."
Jack blinked while seeing the being, which made him very confused. They resembled Megatron, but the jagged spikes and claws were gone while the helmet around his head was more rounded out without any sharp teeth, with a smaller cannon on his arm, with four long chopper wings on his back and a single tail on his left arm that looked similar to a shield with the inverse emblem on its front.
He looked at him with a warm smile. "Welcome human, to the Genesis, the last hope for an independent Cybertron and a peaceful one at that."
Jack looked at this Megatron while not finding him threatening, at all.
"Are you ok? Has the Autobots destroyed anything important?"
"Uh...no?"
He looked at him. "Are you sure?"
"No! I'm...I'm so confused!"
"Calm down." Megatron said. "Take a deep breath and explain to me your woes."
"Where do I ever start? I get sucked through the ground bridge, see my friends who wanna kill me, wind up here by a bot who I know wants my head, and now….all this!"
"Mmmm." He tapped his chin. "Perhaps we should let Soundwave show you the ship's archives...or do you want me to ask Breakdown to tell the story with what you humans call, Muppets?"
"Don't." Knock Out whispered. "It takes ten of your earth days to do the prologue."
"Look, Knock Out mentioned Miko's name, is she here or not?"
"Yes, she is our weapon's expert after all."
"...what?!"
"Apprentice weapon's expert." Megatron clarified. "She has a few more cycles before she could utilize one of our weapons, even if it's against our code."
"Where is she?"
"Training, somewhere in East Dakota I believe."
"Ugh!" Jack groaned in frustration.
"Shall I show you the archives now or later human?"
Jack coughed out blood while fainting again.
"Oh not again."
(Two hours later)
Jack groaned while getting poked on the face.
"Weird organic." a voice said while sounding curious. "Think it'll pull through?"
"Nah." said a VERY familiar voice. "But if he does, I'm so going to give him a wedgie."
"Oh Miko, you really should stop that, especially when you made Raf lose all his undergarments the last time you did that."
"He's an easy target."
"...ugh…."
"Shh, he's waking up."
Jack groaned while opening one eye, and saw a bright green optic staring at him. "...AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Sounds like he's doing ok."
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Can you shut him up?! My hearing is on the fritz!"
"AHHHH-"
SMACK!
"OW!"
"There!"
Jack groaned in pain before noticing a familiar face, that being Miko, but she was about three years older with a sizable D cup chest and large ass, with pink hair and black highlights, wearing black and white pants, a pink shirt with a skull on it, and had a large burn mark in the middle of her face. "Miko…?"
"Um yeah, but how did you know that?" she asked with a raised eyebrow while standing up. "You some kinda weirdo or something?"
"No….I mean I know you…"
"Yeah, and I'm a bot lover."
Jack groaned before noticing that he wasn't alone in the room. He noticed another bot near the table, that being Breakdown, except his face was the usual red, but the armor was instead gray camo instead of blue with green optics, with a skinnier frame and had several blasters on his shoulders.
"Are you fine or do you need another slap? Because Miko here is one slag of a slapper."
Jack groaned. "No, I'll be ok."
"Good." Miko smirked. "Because Megatron told me to get you to the command center, a big meeting I heard."
"But I've got so many questions."
"Just get up and come." Miko deadpanned. "Or I'm going to drag you there myself."
Jack gulped before getting up.
(At the command center)
Jack gulped while finding himself near the cons, including Arachnid, who was trying to move away from him, as he tried to not scream again. 'Ok Jack, just remain cool and wait before you can get started getting answers.'
As he looked around, he saw what looked like Raf, but he was taller, bald, and wearing a surgeon's attire as he wasn't wearing any glasses.
Jack was about to call out to him when Megatron walked towards them.
"I'm glad everyone made it. We have a few important matters to discuss." He said while pointing to Jack. "The main priority is this human, who nearly died from the tyrannical Autobots iron grip."
"What? What were you doing with them? Those guys are bad news." frowned Miko.
"They are the…" he muttered. "Good guys."
"...are you high?" she slapped herself. "Who in the world would think those guys are the good guys?"
"Well…." he gulped. "Me?"
"...welp!" Miko groaned. "He's high, Raf, get him into rehab stat!"
"I'm NOT high!" he frowned. "I know what I'm talking about, it's all of you who don't make sense." he spoke gesturing to the bots. "Miko, you weren't older than me, Raf, you're not bald and shorter, and the Decepticons are NOT the kind to care about humans."
All of them looked at the other while very confused.
"What?" Arachnid asked in confusion. "Just...what?"
"I'm lost." remarked Knock Out.
"For once." Starscream said. "I concur with you."
Jack looked at them in disbelief and confusion as he tried to figure out what was going on here, and failing due to his stress. "Oh come on! Starscream, you always use any underhanded tactics to win, and Knock Out? You're obsessed with keeping your paint job clean."
They looked lost while Starscream looked mildly annoyed at the remark made to his honor.
"And Breakdown, you were turned into a MECH zombie!"
"...I was what?!" He looked at himself in horror. "Oh Unicron! Miko, zombies are real...get the shotgun!"
"You're not a zombie." Miko facepalmed. "He's just making up worse lies then me, and I'm the queen of lies."
"It's the truth. Like how you weren't friends with Breakdown, but Bulkhead. And Raf? You're best friends with Bumblebee."
"Why would I be allies with the serial killer robot?" Raf asked in anger. "The one that killed my family with its wheels?!"
Jack reeled back hearing that while seeing Raf look furious.
"I'd sooner kill myself by guzzling Dark Energon than even consider that piece of scrap a friend!"
"Um…." Jack moved away from him and looked at Arachnid. "And you are trying to kill-"
"I never met you before, and I'm a pacifist." She sweatdropped. "Been one for ages." 'Yuck! His breath is on my leg!'
"So….you never once had a collection of alien heads?"
"EW!" She gagged. "No, why should I even do that for Unicron's sake?!"
"Something is wrong here." spoke up Megatron. "You seem familiar with us, but all of what you've said has never once happened. I can assure you from my spark that we are doing our best to stop Optimus and try to restore Cybertron to what it once was."
"Yes." Starscream added. "Before the mockery of an empire formed, and turned the name of Prime into one of depravity and despair."
Jack blinked while feeling very conflicted.
"Want the full history?" Soundwave asked. "Or Breakdown's puppet show version?"
"Go with the history." whispered Knock Out.
"Aw." Breakdown huffed. "But the puppets were so entertaining."
"And long." whispered Miko to Jack.
"I heard."
Soundwave typed on the screen while causing a hologram to appear. "In the beginning there was Primus the Order Bringer and Unicron the Chaos Bringer. These beings used to protect the universe from outside threats, until Primus struck down his brother in cold blood. As he fell, he created the Thirteen Primes, great beings of chaos that went against Primus and destroyed his spark, creating Cybertron from the remains of his shell as our creator went into a deep slumber in the darkest part of the universe."
"Wait, Unicron made the primes?"
"Yes, and for countless eons the primes protected the universe, and Unicron, until." Soundwave showed a younger version of Optimus. "Orion Pax was forged, as unlike the rest of us, he cared for knowledge and power so he can rule over the planet. The archives don't contain anything from before his rise, but Megatron might fill you in more."
Megatron sighed. "We met when I was but a simple gladiator, the both of us wanting to end the corruption within the senate, but while I wanted a unified planet, Orion wanted to form an empire, one that would starve the cosmos of all life and bring 'order' to all the galaxies in this universe. I met him in the graveyard of the primes, where he tried to open the Matrix of Leadership, but as he could not, he destroyed it and caused two parts to escape from it. The dark 'order' entered Orion, while I optioned the light 'chaos', making me half a prime. But...as Orion became the monster Optimus Prime, he declared our brothers traitors and sent us into exile as he created the Cybertronian Empire."
"Ever since then, we've been at war with him and the Autobots." spoke Breakdown.
"We lost many battles." Arachnid frowned. "From space bridges to the very planet we currently exist on. I may be an organic phobic, but the Autobots...they destroyed all life here. All to extract energon and metal for their smelting pits and forges."
"All of which increases their armies every hour." Knock Out sighed. "And since we lost many of our brothers and sisters, both cybertronians and humans, we are the only remaining Deceptions in the universe."
"But...if they ended all life….then how did Miko and Raf survive?"
"Shockwave." Miko frowned. "He saved us as our entire town got overrun by those Vehibots. Got us into a ground bridge before he got killed by Wheeljack."
"Wait what?! How?!"
"A traitor." Raf frowned. "That one...bastard who wanted power and money, sold us off to them and after that, became a bot named Omega Supreme, a giant abomination of man and machine."
"...and who was he or she?" He asked nervously.
"Jack Darby." Both said with venom in their tones.
He went white as a sheep. "Hold on hold on! I'm Jack, but I would NEVER do such a thing!"
"Wait….YOU'RE Jack?"
"Well yes!"
"...are you a hologram?"
"NO! I'm not a machine, I'm a human who's currently going insane!" he spoke while holding his head. "This whole world is like the opposite of my own!"
"..." Miko blinked while looking at Megatron. "Are you sure he's not a bot?"
"Positive."
Jack squatted down and curled up into a ball. "This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real…"
"Want me to slap him again?"
"No." Megatron said. "Let him take this all in, he might calm down on his own."
"And if he doesn't?"
"Then we wait." He said calmly. "After all, it was the same thing with you two those cycles ago."
"...true." She admitted sheepishly.
(Later)
Jack groaned while feeling slightly calmer, but still trying to come to terms of what he just heard, especially the fact that here...he was a giant robot thing!
So yeah, he's suffering from PTSD mixed with a hint of insanity right now, but hey, at least he didn't snap right?
"How much longer is he going to be like that?"
"By my estimations." Soundwave said while shrugging. "Until the day Arachnid gets laid."
"Hey!"
"I was joking."
"Slagger." She muttered in annoyance and with a hint of embarrassment.
Miko moved over and nudged Jack with her foot.
"Eh?" He looked up. "What? I'm having a midlife crisis here."
"Then stop, or you're going to go bald like Raf."
"I resent that." Raf deadpanned.
"Well you are."
"I was born with no hair. There's a difference."
"Look, the point is, this copy of Jack needs to snap out of it."
"I agree, and no ice cubes Breakdown."
"You are no fun." said con huffed while looking a little disappointed.
Miko looked at Jack before picking him up. "Snap out of this, now."
"How can I? I'm in some mirror world of my own, and I might be stuck here!"
"Well…." she trailed off. "At least you didn't come here naked right?"
"That's not helping!"
"Well I'm trying!" She huffed. "No need to act like a jackass!"
Both frowned at the other before Raf got in between them.
"Calm down you two, remember what Megatron said about violence."
"Not to start one." Miko sighed in defeat.
"Yes." Raf said while looking at Jack. "You may be a different version of 'him', but you have the heart of a hero, so we can help you get home...eventually."
Jack sighed while feeling his body aching like crazy, plus his mouth was starting to drip blood.
"But first, you need some first aid."
"Good...call…" he got out before fainting again.
(Later on)
Jack grumbled again while covered in bandages, mouth included courtesy of Miko. "Mmmm!"
"There, all fixed up."
"Mmmm!"
"Maybe you should remove the bandage around his face." Raf sweatdropped.
"Nah, besides he was the one that got blood on my shoes." She deadpanned. "That and I like him this way, less talkative and not likely to betray us."
"Mmmmm!"
"Miko."
"What? He might do it again."
"If he did, why did the Autobots attack him?"
"Um...elaborate ruse?" Miko said with uncertainty.
"MMMMMM!"
"Just take it off him."
Miko grumbled before pulling the bandage off.
"Ah! Thank god!"
"Just don't bleed on my shoes or pants." She frowned.
"Consider it done." He said. "But one question."
"What?"
"Do you have any similarities to my friends? Likes? Dislikes, that stuff."
Both raised an eyebrow at that. "Um…."
"I mean my friends from...my world."
"Oh...don't get it." Miko sweatdropped.
"What are you into?"
"Video games." Raf said.
"Quantum physics and guns." Miko smirked. "Among other things."
'Now that's...different.' Jack sweatdropped.
"What about you? What are YOU into?"
"Lots of things, mostly motorcycles."
"Bot lover." Miko frowned. "You had to have a crush on that crazy fembot."
"Uh….just because I like motorcycles doesn't mean that." blushed Jack.
"Yeah, and Arachnid isn't a clean freak." She muttered. "Anyway, your dislike?"
"Cons? I mean the bad ones."
"There is no such thing as a bad con." Raf said. "Only bad bots."
"Not from where I'm from." Jack grumbled. "And YOUR dislikes?"
"I hate chickens." Raf said. "And Miko hates underwear and cons."
"Oi! I don't hate them, I just have a bad skin condition involving lace and silk." She huffed in embarrassment.
"Uh….does that mean…..you know what, nevermind."
Miko stuck her tongue out.
"Yeah, any other questions?"
"Oh. If you're not with the Autobots, who is your guardian?"
"Knock Out." Raf said with a nod. "We have the same interests."
"Breakdown, and yes." Miko smirked before whispering in his ear. "We did 'it'."
"Wait, what's 'it'?"
"Sex dummy." She flicked his head. "What else? Have tea and crumpets?"
"Wait...WHAT?!" He turned red.
"Yep, nine hours long." She winked. "Last night mind you."
And cue Jack getting blood from his nose, and mouth again.
"You should've kept that one under wraps." Raf whispered to Miko.
"Why?" she asked innocently.
"Because he's a virgin."
"I know, but it's fun to tease him for a change, without him blasting me with cannon fire." She grinned as Arachnid walked by. "Hey! Ara, give the boy a good lubing-"
"NO!"
"Aw, it was for fun."
"Not for me." She glared. "I hate organics, especially their germs, so why hug them?!"
"Jeez, someone's in a grouchy mood."
"I just finished an energon bath." She pointed to Jack. "And I can still taste his fluids in my body, gah! Disgusting!"
Jack felt a little hurt at that, along with relieved the conversation changed from sex to cleaning regimens.
Miko smirked. "If you don't like the taste, why is Jack near you huh? Maybe he wants to be your partner?"
"EW/No!"
"I'm sensing some tension. Me and Raf will leave you two alone." She smirked while dragging the boy away. "And don't forget to hug and use some tongue."
"MIKO!" yelled Jack and Airachnid.
But they were out of the room as the two looked at the other in embarrassment.
"..."
"..."
"Um-"
"Don't breathe on me. You might be contaminated with rust."
"Hey, you make it sound like I'm sick, which I'm not."
"Tell me, are you a host to bacteria?"
"Yes-"
"Then you are covered in viruses that are designed to make cybertronians sick, so I will NOT allow you to touch, breathe, or taste me." Arachnid frowned while grimacing a little. "So go away...and lick a wall or something."
"First off, I'm pretty sure you guys are immune to the sickness we humans deal with. Second, humans just don't go off and lick walls. Just how many humans have you interacted with?"
"Besides Miko and Raf, who are always busy with their partners, no one. Because most of the humans on this planet are nearly extinct and living in small pockets near the equator." She gagged. "And I'm not going to go out of my way to have them...sit on my chest in vehicle mode."
"Well not all of us are packed full of germs. Even if we are, have you ever once gotten sick?"
"Yes."
"From what?"
She pointed to her back, revealing a small patch of dried rust. "The rust plague. Not fun for me."
"I mean human based."
"Common cold."
"How did that happen?"
"From an experiment from some crazy 'american general'. He tried to use me as a robotic biological weapon until MECH got me out of it, however I never got his full name. Just the name of a bird." She shrugged. "But needless to say, I still hated that day and I will never get that from anything organic, even you."
"Well I don't have a cold, so you don't have to be so paranoid."
She moved away from him. "Yeah, not trusting you. Unless you take an energon bath...which won't work as you are not a cybertronian, but an endangered primate."
'Ok...that hurt. A lot!' he frowned. "I think I prefer you when you wanted my head on your wall."
"I did, nevermind." She sweatdropped. "I have things to do, including finding Decepticons hiding on earth."
"What do you mean?"
"Our ranks have decreased all the way down to a select few, so I'm just looking for stasis pod signals so I can bring them back to the Genesis."
"Why not the Insecticons?"
"Why look for an extinct species?" She asked in confusion. "That would be like trying to get a Predacon to stop helping the Autobots, which is impossible due to them being very intelligent and stubborn."
"So the Insecticons aren't around here?"
"Yes."
"I see…" He said. "This place is so weird."
"And from what I saw earlier." Arachnid said. "You and that Autobot were close."
"Well she is my partner, the good one I mean."
"...the cycle I see a good bot is the day I kiss you." She gagged. "And that will never happen."
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!
The room turned red while Arachnid grumbled.
"Autobots." She sighed while walking quickly away. "Why do they always have to sound that stupid alarm!"
Jack blinked while running after her.
(The command center)
Only for the two of them to see Soundwave turning off the alarm with a sheepish smile.
"Sorry, false alarm." He chuckled. "I kinda was testing out the system and activated the alarms, and on full blast too. He he he...yeah, my bad you two."
'Wow, seeing a Soundwave look embarrassed is something I never thought I'd see. Or just a Soundwave with a look on his face.' Jack thought while Arachnid facepalmed.
"Again?"
"Yep...he he he…"
'Wait what?! Again? This happened more than once?'
"False alarm organic."
"I know." He deadpanned before getting an idea. "Itsy bitsy."
She blinked. "What?"
"You heard me."
"...are you flirting with me? Because that was kinda cute." She admitted with a light blush.
That made Jack blush in return.
Soundwave typed on the computer while the alarms went off again.
"Soundwave."
"It wasn't me this time, this one's for real."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." He pinpointed the signal. "And it's...at a hydroelectric dam somewhere in the Antarctic."
That made Jack very confused as the other cons and humans ran into the command center.
"What's going on? We talking energon?" asked Miko.
"Yes, a big one."
"Wait. Antarctica." Jack said in confusion. "Why there?"
"Because it's a desert with water." Raf said.
"...but it's covered in ice."
"No, China and Brazil are covered in ice. Antarctica and Canada are giant deserts."
"...I'm so confused."
"Blame the bots." Miko frowned. "They changed the environment on us using crazy terraforming devices. All for energon."
"Like every other planet they conquered." Megatron said sadly. "Life extinguished before they could have a chance to truly experience the cosmos."
"That explains some stuff." Jack muttered. "But how can I get home?"
"No idea." Starscream said. "But first, we must secure the energon and prevent the Autobots from contaminating that dam."
"With what exactly?"
"Dark energon." He frowned.
"On organics." Knock Out said while his lense moved back a little. "Dark energon can turn a simple squirrel into a Predacon-like creature within several clicks."
"From where I'm from all it does is poison the body. It almost killed my best friend because of it."
"Who?" Miko asked. "The bot or the other me?"
"Raf."
"...oh." She shrugged. "Nevermind."
"The space bridge is ready and operational." Soundwave said. "But this one's a bit unstable due to our limited energon reserves and the failing systems within the Genesis itself. So try and hurry up before it closes up on you."
"Wait, did you say you guys didn't have space bridges?" Jack asked in confusion.
"Yes, but the Genesis has a built in space bridge drive within it. From before the war mind you." said Knock Out. "So it tends to break down on us."
"Ahem." Breakdown coughed.
"Pardon the expression, but it is true you know."
"For now we best head on our way." spoke Megatron. "Decepticons, advance."
The cons nodded before heading to the space bridge as Jack saw each one transform into a vehicle mode. Which made him surprised and interested as each one seemed to be smoother then the con vehicles he knew, even after seeing Arachnid and Starscream's vehicles first hand.
Breakdown actually becoming a hybrid between a jeep and a monster truck with blasters on the sides.
Knock Out transforming into a dark green and blue ambulance truck with tears on the upper left hand side of the hood.
And the final cybertronian, Megatron, transforming into a giant helicopter like vehicle with a cannon under the cockpit, the shield forming the tail, and had two openings on the sides.
Overall, completely different forms compared to the ones Jack knew of, making him so shocked and in awe.
"I'm coming with." spoke the human.
"Then come." spoke Megatron. "But Airachnid will be the one keeping an eye on you."
"NO! Not again!"
"Well it only makes sense." remarked Breakdown.
"No no no! I'm not-AH!" She cried out as Jack entered the helicopter cockpit. "Get out of there! You might have a plague!"
"Huh." He muttered while jumping up and down on the comfy seat. "Soft."
"GET OFF MY CHEST!" Arachnid cried out before the Decepticons started to fly into the space bridge.
(Many hours later)
-Antarctica-
"I hate this." Airachnid grumbled while Jack still sat on her 'seat'. "I really hate this. Are you sure that you're NOT a breeding ground for a plague?"
"Seriously, you need to stop being so paranoid." frowned Jack. "Humans aren't as infectious as you make us out to be. If anything, your energon could cause a wide spread plague more than what we have on earth."
"At least I don't get itchy, seriously I can feel you rubbing your posterior on my chest. It's disgusting, like a Scraplet eating a con's dead face! Ew!"
"Just stop."
"Then stop trying to make me sick!"
Both grumbled while the cons flew over a large continent full of desert sand and mountains, both not liking the other but tolerating each other...for now.
"So are you like this normally?"
"No, I'm not this aggressive. I'm just not comfortable with...organics in my body." 'GROSS!'
"Well the feelings mutual, especially since the last time I was this close to y...I mean, the Airachnid in my world, she was real eager to web me up and slowly tear me apart."
"...that's something Arcee would do." She grumbled. "To think my fellow con would do that to a human...oh wait. I would, because her circuits have been broken since we were in the force."
"What? A con?"
"Yes, we used to be Decepticons that protected our planet, until she decided that the Autobots were more fun and left me on a barren...organic planet! Ew!" She gagged. "Slag her to Primus! Calm down...calm down...Unicron will preserve us...ohm...ohm…."
'Ok, this is….new.' he thought with a raised eyebrow. "So I take it one of your other forms is not a giant spider?"
"Unicron no! My other form is what you humans call a 'steamboat'. Why would I need to use...organic forms? Ew ew! Too disgusting!"
"So those extra arms are just for your helicopter form?"
"Yes, yes they are."
"I see...and the boat?"
"Gives me a larger form, but due to mass shifting I can't use it unless I'm in the water or I'll break something from orbit. Last time that happened...nearly crushed Breakdown. And he's still mad about it." She grumbled as Jack chuckled. "It's NOT funny!"
"Well it is for me."
"We are nearing the dam." Starscream radioed. "Prepare for anything and don't get stabbed by Dark Energon harpoons. We don't need another 'zombie outbreak' like last time."
"Uh….do I even wanna know?"
"No. Trust me, I almost got scrapped." Airachnid said while the cons flew towards a giant reservoir full of dark green energon, with a massive fortress like dam towards the northernmost end, constantly spitting out a toxic smog, and was guarded by millions of 'Autobots', but with the features of both Insecticons and Predacons.
"What are those?!"
"Vehibots, forged by the mad Autobot Ratchet utilizing Predacon and Insecticon CNA. They are capable of spawning within a couple of your earth days." Megatron spoke up. "And they are the ones that destroyed most of our forces."
"My god….Ratchet made those?"
"Yes, and with that reservoir, he will create an army big enough to slaughter the Decepticons." Starscream said gravely. "Decepticons! Get ready for an all blitz attack, and make sure this place is blown all the way to Primus' cold spark!"
Jack gulped while feeling like his entire core was getting frozen stiff in fear and disbelief. 'I know Ratchet is smart, and this version would be like him, but….that's more than I expected.'
The cons flew towards a maintenance exit before they started firing at the Vehibots.
BOOM!
BOOM!
"Decepticons! Transform!" Megatron yelled out while transforming into his robot form and blasted the nearby turret, which sent a few Vehibots flying while others began to transform into giant insectoid dragon like creatures to attack them.
"Listen, just take cover and don't get killed." spoke Airachnid when she transformed and set Jack down.
He raced towards a box of energon while getting a very stupid idea.
Find Ratchet or Optimus and get them to see the light.
'Maybe if I can talk to them face to face I can get through to them. On the other side or not, they're still Autobots.' He thought before quickly running into a hallway.
(Later)
And found himself lost in the maze of endless halls as the Vehibots were too busy with the Decepticons to even see an 'organic' like him. The only problem was that he couldn't figure out where the Autobots were.
"This was easier in my head." He muttered while turning a corner and saw a giant mass of machine parts hanging from hooked chains on the ceiling, some looking very much alive.
"AHHHHH!"
"AHHHHH!"
"HELP ME!"
"THE PAIN!"
"AHHHHHH!"
Jack covered his mouth to try and keep from losing it and closed his eyes. He then turned around and saw a large patch of oil and energon oozing from a door on the right side.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
WZZZZZZZZZZ!
And the sounds of a chainsaw could be heard from within along with the screams of a million unfortunate souls, both cybertronian and organic.
'Oh god, oh jeez. I know I shouldn't, but I have to.' He thought before moving towards the door and looked inside, to reveal a butchery full of test tubes, still breathing lifeforms attached to hooks, and several Decepticons with organic and mechanical parts fused or stitched together in a macabre manner unlike that of a horror movie.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed a con while getting his face slowly cut off by a figure nearest to the large metal table, it's right arm a giant chainsaw of pure green energy.
"Disgusting." spoke the figure while placing the face of a human over the right optic. "Such impure forms. Don't worry, I will fix that right up."
"You'll p-AHHHHHHH!"
"Oops." He said smugly while 'accidentally' pulling out an optic. "Clumsy me."
The optic went flying as it landed near Jack's feet.
"I will replace that later."
Jack gasped before covering his mouth. He really started to feel sick seeing it staring at him before he couldn't hold it in and puked on the floor.
That was when the figure revealed himself, which was Ratchet, but his entire body was wrapped with his face covered in metal that obscured his face sans his dark green optics, a large black right arm covered in animal bones with spider like fingers, two legs similar to an elephant with talons, a left arm that was dark red and black, and had the body type of a wingless Predaking, but with long thick tubes around the emblem that seemed to be pumped full of dark green energon, who turned around and looked for the 'intruder'.
"Who was that?" He said. "If it's you Omega Supreme, your next tune up isn't until tomorrow."
'He must mean the evil me?' wondered Jack who ducked around the corner.
Ratchet looked to the sides before walking towards the door. "Mmmm, looks like this base has rats in it. No matter, I will get it into a new perfect body within the cycle."
Jack gulped before seeing the foot move right next to him.
Ratchet looked to the left before his right optic glowed a blue color as the camera began to show the world in ultraviolet and then infrared as he saw Jack's body heat. "Ah. A human." He then looked down at Jack with an evil smirk. "Perfect, I'm running out of humans for my practice."
'AHHHH!' thought Jack who quickly backed up with his hands out. "Ratchet wait! It's me, Jack."
He moved a boney finger at Jack while seemingly playing with him. "Jack. Jack, oh. You mean Omega Supreme. How interesting, you somehow ripped your upper torso out of your metal frame." The boney finger poked Jack on the chest. "You shouldn't be functioning."
'Oh shit!'
"Looks like I have to place you back in your body. This time removing your limbs and replacing them with hooks, maybe even electrical wire. Might even fix the constant fluid backup." He said with a dark chuckle as Jack ran under the bot's legs. "You can't escape perfection organic. I will get you."
"Ratchet listen to me! Doing stuff like this isn't you! You're better than this." He yelled out before seeing the bot running after him.
"Oh I am better. I am a god." He chuckled while his chainsaw arm turned into a large hooked chain that nearly caught Jack by the neck if he didn't duck and hightailed it down the hallway. "And I will have my component!"
"AHHHHHH!" Jack screamed while running for cover, and his life.
As he ran, the human noticed that one corridor was similar to the base back in his world, to be more precise, the hallway leading to the command center where Optimus would explain missions.
'This way!' Jack thought before sliding into the room and began blocking it with some chairs.
But what he didn't know was that Arcee and Optimus were in the room, and they were very confused/amused at his antics and 'dying' to see him again, emphasis on the dying part.
"Ah...ah...I think I lost...him…." He panted while Arcee grabbed him tightly. "GAH!"
"Ah the human, how WONDERFUL to see you again!" She cackled while looking like a cat with its prey. "I was worried I wouldn't get another chance at you, but it looks like luck is on my side."
He gasped in pain.
"Time to squish you-"
"No." Optimus interrupted. "Let him live, for a moment."
Arcee frowned hearing that, but lightened her grip slightly. "Yes sir."
Jack gasped for air as Optimus walked towards him.
"Now that I see you." He said while Arcee let him down. "I recognize your face as my ultimate weapon, Omega Supreme. But unless I'm mistaken, you are not him."
"No, I'm human." spoke Jack while trying to catch his breath. "Optimus, I know you don't know me. Or at least this version of me, but I know who you are. You used to be Orion Pax, before you changed."
He chuckled at that. "Orion Pax? How ignorant you are human."
Jack looked confused. "What-"
"That life was my best." He smirked. "After all, I did take control of my own world and become Prime. All thanks to Primus."
"No! I mean the good version!"
"There was no good version." He smirked. "Only the one you stand before, the TRUE ruler of Cybertron."
"No, that's not the real Optimus Prime." Jack shook his head firmly. "You can't look me in the eyes and tell me that you don't feel something for all the lives taken in this war."
Optimus laughed and held Jack right up to his optics without hesitating. "Every single one of them was just a means to an end. An end that will come with me ruling Cybertron, and I will snuff out as many sparks it takes to get there."
"N-No! You-You can't! You're a Prime!"
"Primes are heralds of Primus, thus I bring his will." He formed a energon blade from his right arm. "And he decrees, destruction upon all that stands in my way!"
Jack paled as the blade nicked his face, causing boiling blood to fall from the cut.
"And once I dispose of you, I will let Ratchet study your body and perhaps, just perhaps, find out where you came from." He smirked. "After all, I need more worlds to conquer for my empire. Yours will be the stepping stone in that soon to be realized reality."
'Oh god! He's not joking! There's no hesitation at all!' thought Jack, finally seeing that this was NO WAY in any form the Optimus he knew.
As the 'Prime' pushed the blade deeper into the human's skin-
BOOM!
CRASH!
The doors blasted right at Arcee while sending her flying as Megatron stepped in with a blade of green energon and his cannon aimed at Optimus.
"Prime." He said with a frown. "Unhand the human, at once."
"Sorry Megatron, but I don't think a corpse is good for you." remarked Optimus while digging the blade in harder with Jack's cheek, making him scream with wide eyes at feeling the searing pain.
Megatron stiffened.
"Drop your weapon, and I might let this organic live." He smirked. "Or do you want another organic on your bloody hands, Megatronus."
"You'd stoop to any low Optimus."
"I learned from the best." He pushed the blade deeper. "Now on the ground, now!"
Megatron relented before placing his blade down.
"Cannon too."
Megatron frowned before detaching his cannon and set it on the floor while Arcee got up and looked angry.
"You little slag!"
"Now if you excuse me." Optimus smirked before throwing Jack at Arcee and transformed into vehicle mode as he flew away. "I will take my leave! Arcee! Destroy them and this base, we're done here!"
"With pleasure." she smirked catching Jack while bringing her blade out. "Megatron, I will rip your spark out!"
Jack groaned as Arcee raced towards Megatron and grabbed his blade, attempting to slice and dice him with his own weapon. He then noticed he was right near a circuit that could cause paralyzation and got an idea.
"I've wanted to rip you apart for eons!" She cackled while Megatron used his shield to defend himself.
"You foul bot, you dare to attack the one that gave your protoform life? Again!?"
"You were a means to an end! Optimus taught me that!" Arcee grinned before Jack got out of her grasp and began to play around with her chest plate. "Get out of there!"
"Sorry Arcee, but that's not happening!" He yelled before ripping out some cables.
She gasped before feeling her body becoming numb and unresponsive as she fell to the ground with a thud, releasing Megatron's blade in the process. "Y...Yo...u…."
"I'm sorry. You left me no choice." Jack said sadly while Megatron placed his weapons back on his person.
She glared before one of her optics turned green.
"Self destruct process activates. Base 2-3 will explode in ten minutes. Nine….eight…." said a computer system while Arcee cackled with a maniacal tone.
"Shit!"
"We have to flee!" Megatron called to Jack while transforming into vehicle mode. "Jump on!"
"Six...five…"
Jack looked at the downed Arcee and bit his lip while gripping his hands. "But Arcee, she can't move!"
"Three…"
"We have no time!" Megatron called out. "This base will blow us up very soon!"
"But…."
"Jump in!"
"Two…"
Jack quickly jumped in as the helicopter flew out of the base.
KABOOOOOOOOM!
Just as the base was turned into a giant crater of energon….which soon began to turn into a vortex of energon similar to the one that sent the human to this reality, but instead of purple, it was dark green.
"Hang on!" Megatron called out before safely landing away from the vortex, where the other cons were busy fixing their wounds, which was a lot given they attacked a very large base a few minutes ago.
Jack stared out the window, not even noticing when the door opened as he looked down at his lap. "..."
"That was something." Airachnid muttered looking at the vortex. "Hopefully this doesn't destroy the planet."
"Agreed." Starscream nodded in agreement. "Soundwave, what are your scans showing on this?"
"Yes, and from the internal structure and the lack of energon exhaust, this is a one way space bridge, no. This is a dimension bridge, just like the one the human came out of, after reviewing the data from the last position of the Autobots." Soundwave said while examining the vortex. "And it seems to be stable, for now."
"Does that mean Jack can go through it?"
"Possibly, as long as he goes now before the energon laced field doesn't get converted onto the more lethal Plutonium-240." He said. "Or worse, an Autobot or Vehibot goes through before it closes."
"So I can go home." spoke Jack, feeling hope light up inside.
"Yes." Knock Out said. "But I suggest you hurry, or you might become one of us, if you so choose it that is."
Jack looked at the vortex and took a step forward, but stopped, much to their confusion.
"What's wrong? Aren't you happy?"
"Yeah…." he trailed off before turning to the others. "Look, I'm gonna be honest. Meeting you all, and the Autobots of this world….it was a lot to take in. I honestly never imagined I could see my friends as the bad guys, or good Decepticons. But, all of you...I'm gonna be rooting for you all. You all are way different than the cons I've met, and I think it's a good thing." he smiled and chuckled a little. "Never thought I'd say that to be honest."
"But it is welcomed." Megatron said. "And if you somehow return to our reality, you and your allies are welcome under the Decepticon banner."
"Just don't try to do anything stupid." Starscream warned. "Like mistaking your unjust versions of us as your allies."
"I'm not that dumb." He sweatdropped as Airachnid moved closer to him. "Let me guess, gonna say something about me being covered in germs? Because if so-"
Chu.
He turned bright red as the fembot kissed him and started gagging a little.
"Yuck." She muttered before turning to him with a huff. "Just keep your planet safe or I'm going to regret doing that...ew." 'Gross!'
"Uh….sure." 'Where'd that come from?'
The vortex started to fluctuate while sucking everything inside its giant maw.
"The vortex is closing!" Soundwave yelled. "Hurry or you will be trapped here forever!"
"Crap! Good luck to you all!" he called before he started running.
FLUSH!
(Elsewhere)
And went flying into the vortex again, as this time he was shot into the unknown like a bullet.
-Dimension 555-2 TP, Autobot Base-
Arcee paced around the room while looking stressed, angry and concerned at the same time. "Optimus we need to find Jack, now!"
"I know Arcee, but Ratchet is still working on the ground bridge."
"Well when is he gonna be done? Jack could be who knows where!"
"Maybe in Candy Land?" Miko said while also concerned, only to see a green portal opening up behind Arcee.
CRASH!
SQUISH~
And cue a very familiar boy getting stuck in her cleavage as the portal suddenly closed on its own.
"Mmmmph!" Jack got out before Arcee pulled him out. "Ahhh! Oh god! That was...ah! Evil Arcee!"
"Jack? What's wrong?"
He flinched. "Are you going to slice me?" 'I hope this isn't a WORSE place, like evil Autobots by the trillions or something!'
She raised an optic at that. "Why would I do that?"
He looked carefully at her before he started to tear up and he hugged her finger. "I'm home! I-I'm finally home with a good and not crazy Arcee! Yahoo! I'm HOME!"
Arcee was caught off guard, but smiled and tried giving him a hug. "That's right Jack, you're home."
As he hugged the fembot, Miko and Raf looked at each other in confusion.
Jack felt his heart warm up while feeling very happy right now. He moved back and sniffled. "Arcee, you wouldn't imagine what happened to me."
"Well we'd all like to know. We were worried sick."
"Well, it's a very strange story and well, I will never joke about Decepticons again."
That got them very confused as Jack began his tale of interest.
(Elsewhere)
-Dimension 9991-3 40 TSG, unknown location-
In the dark void of space, we see nothing but blackness as we see the ancient planet of Cybertron, the camera zooming deep into the core as a dark platinum object obscured the lense.
Rumble...rumble….
The core began to shake as a dark green optic looked at the viewers, full of cold hard logic, as we see a portal opening up near the surface of the planet, a figure looking on with anticipation. "...I...open the way….go...my acolyte…"
"It shall be done my lord." said the figure before entering the portal.
-MECH HQ-
And appeared in the ruins of MECH, the portal closing as the sun illuminated the figure's form.
"So this is Earth huh? Well it won't matter what it's called after my lord is done with it." they smirked with glowing green optics, as it's revealed to be a Ultra Magnus, but covered in thick platinum armor that seemed to shimmer in the sunlight, with dark gold angelic wings, a giant silver hammer sword with a strange horned emblem on the sides, and taloned fingers. "And soon, all Cybertronians shall fall."
The figure took flight while saying to himself.
'One shall stand, all shall fall.'
