Last time son of the snake eyes
"The damage looked bad but it was a snap to repair," ratchet said while holding the immobilizer, a decepticon that could freeze a bot "allowing us to reverse its effects on you." ratchet said while bulkhead and optimus was trying to get feeling back in their arms and legs "you should gain your full range of motion before long."
"And Arcee and snake?" optimus asked
"Arcee is ratchet resilient for a two- wheeler and snakes is still unconscious. He should wake up some time soon."
Optimus turned to Arcee, she was on a med breath holding an unconscious snake she looked back as Optimus came up to her "it is the external wounds which heal the quickest."
"I thought settling scores would allow me to move on." Arcee said holding snake close to her chest "instead, I chased away our hope for ending this war anytime and above that Jack got hurt because of me."
"Wisdom cannot be granted, Arcee." Optimus said "it must be earned sometimes at a coast and young snake will be alright he is a strong warrior." Arcee held Jack closer to her.
"But what I don't get is why jack brain wave activity is off the charts." ratchet said
In jack's mind jack pov
I open my eyes in a desert with a storm going overhead with purple lighting flashing around "what's going on, where am i?" i asked
"You're in your mind boy." a person said behind me
I turned around and there was a person in all black with a blood red mask with two horns and a wide smile painted on it with pointed teeth. It had black detail lines around the eyes and horns but the eyes were purple "so you're the shinigami shadow." i said
"No boy you're the shadow, I'm just using this form to talk to you ." the shadow replied
"So who are you really? I replied, the shinigami shadow drop died and changed to rocks that formed into a rock giant look like the shinigami with demon wings on his back him a rock mace on his right and craved sword on his left with purple eyes "i am unicron" he said
"The chaos bringer." I said, thinking it over, "let me guess the purple energon that got on my arm is your blood and when I go to sleep you take control so you're the one that cleared out a cobra base, nice job by the way."
"Yes, I take control of your body when you sleep." unicron said "you don't seem surprised that i killed other humans."
"Shocked yes, surprised no." i replied "i was the shadow before you took over, i've killed before so it's nothing new to me."
"What do you think of these pests?" unicron asked
"You're getting stronger by the day. I can feel it when the dark energon flares and I know you can destroy this planet if you want to, but I can promise you this, if you want to destroy this planet you've got a hell of a time ahead of you with me at its head ."
He took a step forward "is that a threat boy." he pointed his sword at me
I jumped on the sword "i don't make threats, i make promises." I jumped up and punched his rock face a second later. The rock face crumbled into stone when I landed on the edge of the wind. I heard a laugh and it said "we'll see boy, we'll see."
A few days later, I woke up with a huge headache. "The next time I see starscream I'm going to rip his wings apart."
"Get in line." Arcee said walking up to me "I'm sorry Jack, you got hurt."
"Arcee, did you go through with it?" i asked
"No." Arcee said," you were right, I would be no better than megatron." arcee "I remember what you said."
"I'm proud of you arcee." I replied as Arcee helped me up I heard Optimus walking up to me, I looked up to him then looked back down "I'm sorry optimus for hiding my past, the shadow is part of my past after my master left i grow angry and the shinigami mask choose me as its new host but i gave it up three years ago i thought it was gone for good but turns out someone found it."
"Could your master have found it?" miko asked
I started thinking it over "umm, no he's a little too big for it the mask is picky about who wears it."
"We all have a past we are ashamed of." optimus said
'You have no idea.' i thought
The next day at school
I was sitting at my table enjoying the sunny day. it was nice when i heard a group of voices "lookie at we got here."
"Leave us alone." I heard Raf said, standing in the way of another student that was being bullied.
"Ain't that sweet, the little rat thinks he's a hero." Vince said getting ready to punch raf but i caught the elbow in just the nick of time.
"Surely you're not thinking of hurting one of my friends, are you vince." I said, holding his elbow in a vice-grip.
"What are you going to do about it?" vince said
I shake my head "do you really want to find out." i said,
i spun him and kicked him hard in the crest sending him back a couple of feet and on his back, after a couple of minutes he got back on his feet "why you little prick, i'll you make you pay."
"That normally requires money and it's very expensive." I said, walking away and I would have left it at that till he pulled a knife on me, I jumped up and kicked out of his hand and I gave him an ax kick knocking him out "next time you play the game you better play to win."
Sierra walked up to me "what happened."
"Your bodyguard messed with one of my friends, a deadly and costly mistake if i find out you had something to do with this." i said, standing next to her
"Is that a threat?" she asked
"No, I didn't make threats." I said walking up to her "threats are pointless in my line of work." i turned to walk away
"Oh jack i have another job for you to do, meet me at the refinery at six o'clock tonight, 2,500 in cash."
"In cash it must be something good than." I replied walking away 'maybe now I can find how they're paying for everything.'
"What was that all about?" raf asked
"Don't worry about it, raf." i replied when we got inside, there was a rumor going around about a new physical science sub which just so happens to be my last class of the day 'hmm that's weird.'
Today was pretty normal today. The teacher taught us stuff I already knew so it was a boring day like normal except during physical science.
The teacher walked into the room "my name is Michael Tomas, you will either call me or sir now turn to page 319 and read 320."
'Hmm this should be fun, normally physical science would be taught by coach coon and it would be he would just let us read the book but this guy means business.' During class he was hard as nails but he taught us stuff that wasn't in the book. It was nice to learn something new today " , please stay behind." The teacher said so i did as asked, "Hello Jack or should I call you desert snake or better yet shinigami shadow." the teacher said
"Congelation Mr. Tomas, your fingered it out." I said "what do you want, megatron warrior, war lord, gladiator and my personal favorite miner."
"How could that one be your favorite?" megatron asked
"Because the miner wanted to change his world but the miner was drought out by the warlord." i replied
"How did you… you know what never mind." megatron said "I don't get it, you spared me in those mines. How could you with the blood of unicron in your bloodstream without it killing?"
"Because I won't let unicron control me, shinigami controlled me once that won't again." i replied "plus i have the blood of my master flowing in my veins so it's balanced out."
"Who is your master?" he asked
I turned and walked away "oh he'll be around at some point."
"What would the autobots think to know you might have been a trained decepticon." megatron said
I charged him and tackled him to the ground with a kunai at his throat "and they never found, not until he comes planet-side, you owe me megatron your tongue is sealed or I'll seal it permanently cybertronian or not.
"Fine boy I'll keep your secret, you know that's a little dark don't you think." megatron said cooly
"I'm a ninja first, always have been, always will be, I walk the fine line between light and dark." I replied, getting off his crest.
Later that day.
"and it was written in the covenant of Primus that when the forty-seven spheres a line an perpetual conflict will culminate on a world forge from chaos and the weak shall perish under a shadow of rising darkness and the star will bring back light." Optimus recited
"No sky's raining down fire." Arcee said
"It goes without saying it is a doom prophecy after all." ratchet said
"I say it's a load of Hui." bulkhead said
"I'd always thought the ancients were referring to our home world" ratchet turned to bulkhead "but seeing how cybertron world has been dark for eons."
"and considering what has befallen this planet since megatron's arrival here." Optimus said
"whoa whoa whoa we've known these superstitions for age's and never gave them a second thought." bulkhead said
"So why all ominous rumbling now?" Arcee asked
"because the planetary alignment to which the prophecy refers to is nearly upon us." Optimus answered
"and it would seem its end point is earth." ratchet said
"um crazy coincidence r-right?" bulkhead asked hoping for a yes.
"In my line of work I live by one rule, there's no such thing as a coincidence." i said walking up
"How long are we talking here?" arcee asked
"A few days at most."ratchet replied
"however unsettling this Revelation may be I am more concerned about those who might believe that the prophecy speaks to them alone." Optimus said
a little later
They were scrolling through some pictures on a conspiracy website
"Pass." I said, picture something in the stars. "um-nm." A strange weather event "Nope kid in costume." It looked like an alien in the window " balloon." Something in the air in the shape of an alien spaceship " nope." Something in the woods. " whoa hold." A picture of bumblebee without a driver." i said while raf was scrolling.
"Camera sure loves bee." i said
"What can you do when you're a superstar, your Paparazzi bait." Miko says
"Wait, is that bumblebee?" Ratchet asked
"Yeah on a conspiracy website where users post evidence of Close Encounters but we have it covered we just Scrabble and post." Raf said mars cat's say take me to your feeder.
Seeing that actually made Ratchet laugh at the post.
"Ratchet actually laughed." Miko commented
"Hmph um hey optimus want to see something funny?" i asked
"No." Optimus replied
"Don't take it personally, prime's are built that way." Arcee said
"Never seen optimus laugh' cry or lose his cool." Bulkhead said
"Well optimus certainly keeps his emotions in check. I've known him far longer than any of you and he was different before he was made a prime." Ratchet replied
"Optimus wasn't always a prime." Raf said
"On cybertron one isn't born into greatness rather one must earn it.
"Different, how like a party animal." Miko asked
"No no he was more like... jack." Ratchet said
"What i'm a ninja not a prime." i said humbly, There was a beep then Fowler's signature "Prime those tect Heist my department has been tracking we fingered it was MECH on the account of their stealth tactics until moments ago a security feed at the Pennington abs particle Collider caught this." It's a picture of Soundwave.
"Soundwave." I said
"Raf swoop that out with a funny cat." Miko trying to be funny
"The faceless con made off with a cutting edge phase conductor here a punch list." Fowler said, ignoring Miko.
" plasma injector... Neutron Shield... Trans-placement technology." Ratchet said
"Hey fowler, who was it that manufactured all of these?" i asked
Fowler looked it up "M.A.R.S. industries."
"That's the same ones that made the D.N.G.S." miko said
"Do you know if MECH or cobra is involved at all? " I asked
"No." fowler replied "there's no connection between the three"
"maybe soundwave hacked into MARS, anyway their only one thing missing if their building spacebridge is a power source." ratchet said
I looked at my watch and it was close to Six o'clock "sorry optimus, i've got to go."
Arcee transformed and we raced back to Jasper "so where off to snake." she asked
"The refinery." I replied, "I think my mission is about to come to an end."
"Why's that?" she asked
"I know who and where now I need to know how they're paying for anything." I replied "and I think I'll find that out today."
"Why are we here?" she asked
"Well the refinery has been out of service since the 90's." i replied
"I feel a but coming." arcee said
"For the last three months it's been running every night but anytime I try to find out why everyone gets quiet." i replied
"So what's the plan?" arcee asked
"I'm going to find out what's going on and if cobra's got something to do with it i'll blow it sky high today my mission comes to an end.
"What are you going to do after that?" arcee asked
"I'm going to ask if I can go on vacation or be stationed at the autobot base." I replied I looked at my watch and it was around fif-teen before six o'clock. "Well let's get going, I may need a getaway." i climbed on top on the roof and stealthy walked around and saw a group of people working the furnace melting with gold down and remodeling it 'so that's how' i brought an telescop to get a closer look and the gold was nazi gold 'their using nazi gold it's untracable and is worth alot of money.' i planted bombs all the refinery in a way so that it would imploded.
I looked at my watch and it was 5 minutes before six o'clock "well it's show time."
I dashed out of the building and went around the corner and walked up the building and there was Sierra and Vince standing "well lookie here it's the shinigami shadow." a new voice said
I turned and cobra commander was standing there "what's going on."
"We want you to join us." the commander said
"No." i replied walking away
"What! you can't say no to me." the commander said
I was stopped by a couple of red ninjas. "Why would I join someone like you commander, an egoistic jerk with no since no loyalty but you demand it from those who serve you, so why would i work for someone like you." i said
"Because what would your mother or those alien friends think if they found out you were the shadow." the commander said
"Why do we need him, sir." vince said
"Because I'm a highly trained killer with a brain in my head." i replied
"Are you calling me dumb snake." vince said walking closer
"No calling you dumb would an insult to all dumb people." i replied
"Enough, is this going to be a problem?" the commander said
"I will not work with cobra, the one and only reason I worked for these two was for the paycheck." i replied
Everyone gathered around me "Oh hell, might as well go out with a bang." I pulled a detonator and "say goodbye" pressed the button then the building exploded.
"How dare you, kill him." the Commander said
Everyone attacked at once, even Vince and Sierra. I just pushed them away. The red ninja could at least give me some work but blocked and ax kicked them. I threw a couple kunai, killing them, when I saw Vince and Sierra running away "where you going." i threw four shurkin and they landed on their back legs. I ducked under a sword and blocked another, it was my uncle "hello nephew."
"Hi uncle." I replied as I blocked and kicked his sword arm but he kicked one of my swords out of my hand.
"Why are you doing this?" Uncle asked, as I rolled out a couple shuriken throws.
"Because I will not work for someone that killed the hard master." I replied as I threw a shuriken of my own.
"What do you mean?" uncle asked confused
"The blade that killed the hard master smelled of Zartan, how could the blade that killed the hard master have his small out it." i replied getting into a sword lock "unless"
"Unless he touched it when he was cleaning it." Uncle said
"If you help me we can find Zartan together and clear your name." I replied he backed off but was still defensive.
"How?" snake eyes replied "nephew even you would have a problem finding someone like Zartan."
"Who would know better than his nephew." I said pointing to Vince and I looked around "where's Cobra Commander?" i asked
"He's more of a snake than we are." snake-eyes said, i called in the joe's and they showed up an half hour later even the general showed up everyone pointing their guns at snake-eyes even father had his swords but i got in-front of them