Last time
"Corporal, we have some news for you." the general replied, he pulled up the video of firefly and destro breaking into one of the joe's bases "destro and the traitor firefly, broke into high security prison and helped sierra and vince escaped."
At K.O. burger
I just clocked out of K.O burger "hello jack." a voice said
"It's about time you showed up sierra." I replied "you've been watching me for an hour."
"How… how did you know?" sierra asked
"You're good but not that good." I replied leaning against the wall "where's that lap dog of a boyfriend of yours."
Just then I heard someone yelling as they ran up behind me "you'll pay for what you did to me."
I axed kicked him into the ground leaving a spider web like cracks in the ground "oh there he is." i said "he wasn't even worth my time."
"You ruined all my plans." sierra said just as Arcee just pulled up behind her "Look heiress, i have bigger fish to fry, can you skip past the points i don't really care about."
"My mother blames me for cobra commander punishing her." sierra said
I walked past her "it's not my fault that your precious cobra commander is an egotistical jerk." i said "but i can promise you this, come near my family and the safest place you'll be is in hades, heiress." i got on arcee and we rolled away
"What was that all about jack?" arcee asked
"Sierra and Vince letting their presence known, come on let's head back to base." I replied, "any word from optimus."
"No, not yet." arcee replied
we kept on driving to the base but Arcee didn't say a word she didn't even go that fast which told all that i need "arcee pull over." i told her, arcee did as i asked and i got off "ratchet told what happened after you left."
"Yeah." she replied "so you fought unicron, became his son and got a gift from him."
"Yeah, I gave him something and he gave me a gift in return." i replied
"Why didn't you tell me that unicron talks in your head?" arcee asked
"Because unicron needs someone to talk to, plus he overheard your all plan to go to the core. To be honest it was pretty predictable." i replied "i fought him to buy team prime time but that is not what is really bugging you so what is it?"
"Why didn't you tell me about your nightmares Jack, I'm your partner." arcee said like she was hurt
"I'm sorry arcee, i guess somewhere along the way i started believing i have to keep my darkness hidden to keep the people i cared about most safe, unicron forced me to face my nightmares and reminded me that i fight evil from the shadows.
"what would your master say about keeping secrets." she said
I gave a small smile "my master would say, knowledge is your greatest weapon but deception is your best friend, you can lie to your friends, to your family but don't you dare lie to me, i'm a ninja at heart the shadows and deception are my allies but my loyalty is to my friends and family and make no mistake team prime is my family."
Arcee took a minute or two before she spoke "let's head back to base."
"Before we leave there's a secret that my family and the head of clan knows." i said "i am trusting you with one of my family deepest darkest secrets. If you tell anyone i will be forced to hunt down you and anyone you told to this secret do you understand this can NOT be taking lightly."
"What is it jack?" arcee asked
"The reason why the shinigami shadow is so dangerous." I replied looking her dead in the eyes "before the shadow there was a man named zhang shi he made a deal with the shinigami to give him the power to defeat his enemies and in return all the people that hes family kills would go to the shinigami."
"Ok that does sound so bad." Arced
"Your right but there two secrets about the mask, first when zhang shi and the shinigami the deal he gave him a mask and zhang shi went to battle but after some year wearing the mask he became the first shinigami shadow, he became so bloodthirsty he started whipping out village after village at some point the shinigami got tired of all the pointless killing and decided to helped the arashikage defeat him but before he died zhang shi begged arashikage to spear his family and the clan inducted them into the clan and used the mask to deal with devertors but as the clan found out the mask is very picky about who wears it, it only allows a male that is directly related to zhang shi." I explain
"You make it sound that the mask is alive." Arcee said
"Up to a point it is and that whats makes the masks so dangerous, it remembers every kill the wielder ever made and the way they did that's six- hundred years." I replied
"You mean..." arcee said
"The shinigami shadow has access to six-hundred years of memories." i replied "but the shadows still have to train in the skills the mask has access too, arcee i do trust you but can't tell you everything."
"Thank you for trusting me with your family's secret." Arcee said "let's head back to base." When we rolled up we got agent Fowler just called "ratchet are you awake, this is an emergency." Fowler yelled
"Agent Fowler, is it Optimus?" ratchet asked
"no , it's con's and they're busting into the same military research lab they hit last time." Fowler said
"For all we know Optimus could be riding with them." Arcee said
"No Orion skills are in his mind, not his might." i said
"rollout." ratchet
"Hang on just a minute guys." i said stopping them
"why?" Bulkhead asked
"Fowler, pull everyone out of there,Optimus and the general would have my head if I let military personnel get hurt." I said
"fine, this is agent Fowler pull all personal out immediately" fowler said
"Now, we have some con's tailpipes to send to the scrap yard." I said transforming into the unicron armor and we all went into the ground bridge.
on the other side of the groundbridge. normal pov
The US military was using their tank's trying to cover the retreating personnel but when the tanks fired at their target they hit close to them but did little damage, off to their right a groundbridge opened with the autobots running out.
Snake threw a handful of dark energon kunai stopping all but one of the energon blasts from hitting the tanks As we all were running bulkhead yelled "drop the power source!"
"Did you decide to replace someone?" Knockout taunted, Overhead the six aerialcons just flew in and fired on us.
"Unlike the con' we value all our teammate, time to show you a new trick" i brought out my wings and took to the sky's and started taking them out like flies with my swords When I landed I transformed back to human form and arcee was not there "she went after them didn't she?" I asked, knowing the answer.
"Yep" bulkhead replied and he comm Ratchet to send a groundbridge thirty minute later, ratchet groundbridge arcee back to base and started scanning her knee for any damages "you weren't able to determine the Decepticons location or even if Optimus was on board ship."
"I couldn't confirm." Arcee replied as if someone punched her."
bulkhead got so mad that he turned and smashed one of ratchet tools and ratchet yelled "bulkhead i..."
Bulkhead interrupted him "what! you needed that. Well all I need is our head honcho back!" Then he smashed his fists together.
"It's not your fault." I said, thinking something over.
"If we needed rescuing, Optimus would have found a way, I didn't simple as that." Arcee replied
If things weren't bad enough Fowler decided to call at the moment " team prime good call on pulling the military back on the heist but what happened! if anything happens and we get more casualties the pentagon will make me shut down your base." Then he hung up.
"But then where will you go?" Raf asked
"Who knows, maybe an abandoned Island or shoot us into space wouldn't that be a welcome relief." Ratchet replied
"Good call Jack, thinking like Optimus." Arcee said
("Yes jack well played thinking like Optimus.") Bumblebee buzzed
"We don't know what Optimus would have done because he's NOT HERE!"bulkhead yelled the last part
"Thank you captain obvious is there anything else you can tell us that we don't already know." Arcee said getting in bulkhead face
"Nothing I can say in front of the children." Bulkhead replied getting close to arcee
"Shut up!" I yelled getting tired of all the yelling "fighting with each other won't help us get optimus back, besides aren't we overlooking one positive like what did the con's just get their claws on."
"Yes, now they got their hands on a power source for their spacebridge." Ratchet said sarcastically
"And how exactly would that be a positive thing?" Arcee asked
"Because that means they're still working on the spacebridge and that means we can let them finish the spacebridge."
"Why so, they can bring zombies back from Cybertron." Bulkhead said still mad but was starting cooling off.
"No, we take it over and use it to send me to Cybertron." I said with determination in my eyes and a plan forming in my head.
"Whoa, that's a pretty good idea." Miko said a little shocked
"Well if Miko thinks it's a good idea." Arcee said sarcastically
"Look guys, doing the right thing is never easy but you all took a spacebridge before." I said
"We blew one up, there is a big difference than the four of us taking and holding one." Bulkhead replied
"Who said you four would take the bridge, i'll help you all." i said
("We would have to find the thing.")bee buzzed
"Bee's right, we've got to find the thing first." Arcee said
"Umm hello if it's a spacebridge, wouldn't it be." Miko said pointing up to space
"The term space is referred to its transport range not its physical location and we've been monitoring earth's orbit, we would know if it was there." Ratchet said
"Megatron wouldn't hide it in the same place twice, so it could be here on earth although I don't know why he would pick earth." I reason saying the last part under my breath
"Like finding a servo in a scrapheap." Bulkhead said depressed.
"What would you do?" Miko asked
"If it was me, I would make a base on the moon or another planet maybe mars and use the nemesis as a heavily armed transport ship and hide the spacebridge on or behind the moon, but seeing how megaton is too fixed on Optimus to truly conquer this planet." My eyes were closed which gave me an idea "ratchet get hold of a man named Jason Grayson at NASA"
"Who's Jason Grayson?" bulkhead asked
"He's the leading scientist in Geology, Aeronautics and Astronomy." Raf said
"Why?" Bulkhead
"Yeah and as of four years ago he got into trouble with the North Koreans and owes me a big favor but I could only use it once so I had to be careful how I used it." i replied
When I was done, Raf gave him a call, a small white man with black hair with brown eyes and big red glasses. He was the textbook definition of a geek "who is this?" He asked
"Jason, it's me hubi." I replied, "I'm here to cash in my favor."
"It must be something serious, if you're calling me." Jason said "What do you need me to do?"
"I need you to scan the earth for an element called energon. My team will send you the energy signature." he replied
"I can do it but it will take a couple of days and a week for detailed scans." Jason replied
"Thank you Jason ,now we're square." I replied then i cut the connection "now the world just got a little smaller."
"We still have a week between now and finding him." Ratchet said sadly "and we still don't know if still alive or if he is truly out of harm's way."
"Bulkhead come with me." I said starting to walking away.
"Where?" he asked
"To the roof." i replied
On the roof
When we got to the roof the sun was starting to set "What did you need."
"I'm gonna give you a word of advice, never give up on hope, when you allow yourself to give into despair, you surrender to your lowest instincts. in the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself that is the meaning of inner strength, trust me bulkhead walking down that road will take you deeper and darker than ever you would've thought you would go."
"You sound like you've been there before?" bulkhead said
"I have, truth be told when we captured starscream and arcee had him dead to rights, i told her i was scared she would turn into magetron, i lied i was scared she turn into me and truth be told that monster best left locked up." i said
The next day
I was able to have the day off so arcee drove us to the base early in the morning we entered the command center just as bulkhead "no sigh of energon spikes." he said coming out of the the groundbridge "."has bee found the spacebridge yet." and a minute later arcee drove through the groundbridge to a new location.
"He hasn't reported back yet."ratchet replied
"Hey ratchet you alright?" bulkhead asked worried about the old bot."
"Hmm, yes let's get you ready for the next set of coordinates."
"We'll fine him ratchet never up on hope." i said walked over to them a minute or two later Ratchet's computer started flashing "what is it?" bulkhead asked
"It's a high frequency signal with an embedded message for me."ratchet replied shocked
"Is it from Optimus?" Bulkhead asked
Ratchet pressed on the screen "It's from starscream." ratchet said shocked
We groundbridge back to base as bulkhead drove through the groundbridge as ratchet computer started flashing "what is it?" bulkhead asked
"It's a high frequency signal with an embedded message for me." ratchet replied shocked
"Optimus?" Bulkhead asked
Ratchet pressed on the screen "Starscream." ratchet said shocked
"What does screamer want?" I replied
"I have obtained information regarding your leader
bring a medical kit, come alone." ratchet read off, We groundbridge to those coordinates and starscream was hurt and bleeding energon "I told you to come alone."
"Yeah like that's a good idea." i replied, as i brought out my sabers
"Since when do we listen to you?" bulkhead said sarcastically
"Where's optimus." ratchet asked
"Patch me up and perhaps I'll tell you." starscream said,
I throw a kunai hitting right between his eyes "do not press your luck coward, i have a half mind to make what megatron does look like mid day breeze."
"have sympathy ." he said, "i'm leaking here." he was scared that he was going to bleed to death
"Sympathy, why should I when you disgraced my Oji-sama grave." i yelled
"I suggest you speak quickly." ratchet said "has optimus been harmed in any way."
"No he's fine." starscream replied "can't you see i'm the one that's been harmed." he said as he was trying to get away from me but he couldn't with leg bleeding.
"What's your point?" I asked as the sametime bulkhead yelled "where is he!"
"Where do you think!" starscream yelled back "he's on megatron's warship
"Which is located where?" ratchet question
Starscream laughed a little bit "now who knows, it's a ship it moves, it took me months to track it, only to be fired upon."
"You wouldn't go to the trouble of calling me unless you had real information to trade, real information." ratchet said
"Ratchet, didn't you once tell me that energon was flammable? I wonder how it feel to flames going through your veins, it must be rather painful i'm sure." i said as my flaming sword was close enough to lick the energon.
He took a defeated sigh "very well, your beloved leader may have lost his senses, he goes by the name Orion Paxs now and it seems megatron has led him to believe he's a decepticon."
Bulkhead scoffed, "tell us something we don't know."
Starscream was shocked by that "what! How could you possibly know that!"
"Come on guys he's useless." i said starting to walk away
Ratchet agreed with me, "Agreed, we're wasting our time." getting up.
"Wait, that's all I have, really you can't leave me out here." Starscream yelled
"Why not, you would leave us." i replied, We turned around and bulkhead said "unless you know where the spacebridge is, you can sit there and rust."
"You have five seconds to tell us before I show you why I'm the most feared in the ninja world." I said
Starscream took a sharp intake and said "Spacebridge ... You mean to tell me they actually finished building it without my supervision!" we all looked at each other, Starscream laughed a little bit then said "it hurts most right here doctor."
After he gave us coordinates, ratchet finished welding Starscrame's leak and started walking back to the groundbridge "hang on a minute guys." I said then turned back the Starscrame, I dashed over to him, pulled out the kunai and cut his right eye and punched him hard in the face hard enough to leave a dent and held my head towards him "what are you doing!" starscream yelled in pain as something was coming out of his chest.
"taking back something that doesn't belong to the likes of you." i replied, and a shard of dark energon came flying out of his chest and it was absorbed into me.
"Feel better." Ratchet said
"Trust me, I could've done a lot worse," I replied 'and I might have if you all weren't around' "Come on, we have a friend to save."
Bulkhead stopped me "hey, what was all that about."
"He disgraced an honorable warrior's grave, and someone that was on a very short list that I truly care about." i replied "where i was raised there was no honor in fighting but in what you are fighting for and it's a high crime to disgrace a warrior's grave."
Later that day
on the computer screen flashed a decepticon symbol "The decepticon spacebridge is located right here deep with in an energon mine." ratchet said
"Jack yes right, adjacent to a raw fuel supply clever" Arcee asked
"what's our intal?"
"Umm a reliable source so now we have an agreement." Ratchet asked
"I would double check with Jason to see if there is a mine there." i said not really focusing on the mission, at the same time jason sent us a message "i was able to get the reading done faster than i thought here is what i have so far." and the coordinates of the spacebridge matched the location of the mine.
"Jack, can you even survive on their world?" Mom asked me but i didn't say anything, I was focused on something else "Jack." mom said walking up next to meshe started shaking my shoulder, getting my attention, when I looked at her "is unicron bugging you again."
"No." I replied "father is being quite."
"Isn't that a good thing." bulkhead said
I glared at him "no, hearing his voice is comforting at times, let me ask him "unicron can i survive on cybertron."
"Yes, for one day if you where your armor." he replied but that was all he said
I looked at everyone. "Yes I can for a day if I wear my armor but that's all he said."
"The plan is that when we will groundbridge directly into the energon mine and make our way into the spacebridge chamber neutralizing any Decepticon force we encounter once we secure the spacebrige jack arcee will spacebridge to cybertron, stealth must be an absolute priority we will most certainly be outnumbered" ratchet said "if any Decepticon should transmit an alert to their warship." ratchet said
"the odds become four hundred to one." bulkhead said
"scrambling communication upon entry will certainly provide an edge in this regard." ratchet finished
"Hold off the scrambler until the last minute we dont want to tip off the con's and leave the guards to me, Stealth is in the genes" i said "me and arcee will spacebridge to Cybertron once we secure the bridge the problem is if we keep the spacebridge open, soundwave will catch on to our plan and if we keep the communication scrambler on too long someone will get alerted, so we need to hurry."
"taking the spacebridge is the easy part you all need to hold it long enough for me and jack to get Cybertron and back." arcee said
"Raphael climb to the top of the rope in gym class we can do this." ratchet said
"What does gym class have to do with this?" Miko asked "and if jack is going then so am i."
"No miko if the con's catch on to our megatron himself my show up and that put you into too much danger." i told her, she turned and walk away mad at me but she could be mad at me all she wants as long as she is alive to do it i don't need another ghost hunting me.
"Let's go, we have a leader to get back." ratchet said as he opened the groundbridge and we all ran though it.
bulkhead and arcee say "clear."
"Give me a second." i closed my eyes and i forced dark energon through my arms and pushed into the ground sending out a dark energon pulse that would react to the light energon in the cybertronian sparks, i got back twenty in all. "twenty cons, six up ahead and fourteen in the main chamber, hmmm give me six minutes."
I dashed off down the hall a few minutes later and I came across a couple cons working on a drill. I jumped over the in and threw two kunais to their sparks offlining them and dashed down the halls. i stop to look down the hall and there was four con's guarding the elevator, when i got close i throw the two kunai at into the first two and disappear into the shadows, i got behind behind the third one and used a hidden blade to the back of its neck when and brought out a small hidden bow and shot of a dark energon arrow hitting the fourth in the spark.
When the bots caught up, the four collapsed at the same time "dang." the bots thought
"Let's move." We ran to the elevator and went down. There was a guard standing when it turned around, a hidden blade to the throat took care of that "shhh." i said "ratchet active the scrambler." and he did so.
We then ran to the main chamber "by the allspark." i heard ratchet say
"Thank you Starscream." Arcee said bulkhead looked at her in shock "who else could it be." She replied "I'm surprised Jack didn't turn him into scrap."
"He almost did." bulkhead replied under his breath as he was looking around the bridge
There was a massive space bridge with six support beams and a walkway going to the space bridge. There were six cons manning the bridge "there's eight cons patrolling around, arcee can you take out four of them." arcee silently agreed "good bee go with her i'll take out the other four, bulkhead ratchet stay here."
"Why?" bulkhead asked
"Because do you know how to operate a spacebridge, we need ratchet and we need his technical support and you're staying to watch his back." I replied, then we disappeared, when I found my four i made short work of them then returned to the bots "let's take the rest." i took out two and arcee took out a couple more but before she could out the third con he tried to comm the nemesis ": commend this is spacebridge control we are under attack:." But he got nothing but static ":commend do you read.:" But then was offlined by bulkhead and bumblebee and bulkhead took out the rest.
"Shh." Ratchet said, tossing the scrambler up as he was walking to the spacebridge "a masterpiece of engineering."
"Is it operational?" Arcee asked
ratchet tapped on the screen and it came online "Completely." He replied
"Perimeter secure." Bulkhead said
"Now comes the scary part." Arcee said as bulkhead was watching our backs
"I'm shutting down the scrambler in order to contact the base and to maintain communication for the remainder of the mission." Ratchet said doing just that ":strike team to base objective complete.:" ratchet comm
"Good luck jack." mom said
"Bring me back a souvenir." raf said
"Be safe jack." miko said
"Godspeed son." Fowler said
"Now where would the fun be in that." I replied
"You ready partner." Arcee said
I took out the key card and replied "let's do this." as the spacebridge opened.
Than ratchet walked over to us and said "I'll leave the space bridge open to eliminate communication lag over the great distance and make it to easier locate when your ready to return" ratchet said
"Easier to locate?" i repeated
"You're not just jumping them to their destination?" mom asked
"The location to Vector Sigma is shrouded in myth and rumor, nurse darby ." Ratchet said "It said the path of the primes leads there we must be confident Optimus will guide you there."as ratchet opened spacebridge thinking it would be in iacon
"don't worry jack spacebridgeing is just like groundbridging ." when it opened it was more intents "just more intents." Arcee shouted over the sound i transferred into the armor and we walked through
On the other side ":ratchet we made it:" arcee comm get a look around it looked like a war zone "Whoa guys I'm on cybertron I'm actually on cybertron Arcee I can't believe it." I said as I looked up to her
she had hurt in her eye as if painful memories were replaying in her mind "this isn't how I wanted you to see my home." She said
"I'm sorry." I said
"In the fog of war it's hard to see beyond the next leg of the mission or the next punch in the fight. We did everything to save Cybertron but when the fog finally lifted there wasn't much left to save." She said painfully
"You still have time to save Cybertron if you don't give up on hope." i said than ratchet comm us :"arcee, jack do you copy.":
:"Roger, we're on cybertron.": I replied I could imagine everyone shouting for joy at the base.
:"Just keep the sightseeing to a minimum.": bulkhead said
"No promises, bulkhead." i replied
:"Indeed we don't know if your journey is five clicks away or five hundred." Ratchet said
"Understood we're out." Arcee said
I brought out the key and said "okey ratchet said the key would guide us but I don't see how or what I'm supposed to…" Just then it growed brighter in one area than the other, it pointed towards a bridge.
"There you go." arcee said than she transformed and we drove off ":spacebridge control do you read me spacebridge control this is breakdown your status is overdo.:" i overheard over the comm
"Scrap." we all thought
":come in spacebridge control." breakdown said started to get mad "don't make me come down there and dent some engine blocks."
"ratchet patch me throw i can mask my voice." I said quickly
A few seconds pass "ok jack your patch in."
"This is space bridge control sir, sorry for the delay we had a minor communication problem. A rock drop came loose and damaged the communication system." I said but my voice sounded like a troops voice
"Understood." Breakdown replied "do you need a maintenance crew to take a look at it?" He asked
"No, the problem was small but it took time to find it. We were able to fix it." I replied
"Understood." Breakdown replied "I know it can be a thankless job down there, keep up the good work, over and out."
"Thank you sir, spacebridge control over and out." I replied
"I'm impressed." Arcee said
"Military protocols don't change even if your from another planet." I replied "I figured the cons would need some form of Communications boost to get through all the rock levers which mean a communication system in the mine and it would be unreasonable for a rock to fell and damage something." I reasoned
"if I don't see it I would have believed you were a trooper." Arcee said
"Its not that hard to mimic someone voice." I replied
A few minutes later
We kept driving and when I pulled out the key card was leading us to a city with big skyscraper and and huge drop with only way in or out
"Toward kaon." Arcee said in shock
"Great the Decepticon capital." I replied when we got to a bridge arcee stop
"We're on foot from here." She said, she stopped and I got off as she transformed "We don't want engine noise to attract the wrong kind of attention." Arcee said activating her gun
"Con's?" I asked
"Vermin." She replied
I took out the key card and it pointed to kaon "this way" I said and we started walking across the bridge
A few minutes later we walked around and saw the key started to glow brighter "we must be close." I said I looked up and there was a statue of Megatron "boy someone sure is full of himself." I said as we continued walking till we came into a courtyard-like place.
When we walked in and the ground started shaking and cracking then the key started glowing brighter a few minutes later a gate came out of the ground and when we got close the lines on it glowed then the door opened "vector Sigma is down here." I said surprised.
"Remember, Kaon wasn't always the Decepticon capital, Megatron took it as a capital without ever realizing what was under their feet." Arcee said then we heard something on top of the gate. It was a giant bot-beatle that dived at us,
We both backflip out of the way, arcee firing her guns at it but the thing blocked them it got a good look it came after arcee and pushed into the otherside of the wall.
otherside of the wall.
"Arcee!" I yelled than it turned to me and I got into a fighting stance it staired at the key then ran at me but I unfolded my wings and jumped as high as I could.
"What's going on." Ratchet yelled
"We're being attacked by some giant bot-Beatle." I replied
":An insecticon:." Ratchet spalt out
"What are they doing there!" Mom yelled
":what are decepticon's doing on cybertron.:" raf asked
":A few remained in stasis as a sentinel in case the enemy returned.:"
We kept jumping out the way it fire at us but it's aim was just as bad as the vehicon.
Arcee had transformed to avoid the insecticon and fired her gun "Jack go." Arcee told me
I looked at Arcee then at the gate "what should i do, leave my panther to an insect again, or run to Vector Sigma."
tell me what you think
electro prime signing off