Autobot base. Omega one.
Deep within the Autobots base, in parts that even arcee would have trubel navigating through, Jack could bee seen cleaning his guns.
After he had managed to wave of Optimus's and even Ratchets' concerns about his injuries, he had wondered off to this secret part of the base he had found in his earlier days of visiting.
His mother had taught him the basics of first aid, and fortunately for him, one of the specially made first aid kits his mother had spread throughout the house was one of the things he had brought in his inventory.
Everything from his skin to his bones is thicker and stronger than a regular humans would be so he requires needles made of stronger metals to peirce his skin and would need a far higher dose of pain killers or drugs for it to take effect.
Once his wounds were tended to, he had withdrawn all the guns he used in his inventory and started stripping them down piece by piece.
He'd kept several bottles of water in the room so as soon as the guns were stripped, he soaked them in a bowl of water big enough to fit every piece.
Once the water ternd murky with the oils and gun powder residue, Jack swiftly and methodically dried, re-oiled, and reassembled them. Starting with his TAC-4, then the I.C.A 19's, and then finally the sawn-off barrel of the four bore.
Interestingly enough, now that Jack was shirtless, the garment neatly put to the side due to the numerous bullet holes and gashes, On Jack's upper back, tattooed where his spine would be is a barcode. Under the barcode was the number 640000000047, written above it in a bowled text was A64, the letter and number signifying something unruly.
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Mech base.
The small town mech was using as a secret base, looked even more rundown than it was before thay made it their temporary strong hold.
Dead bodies were scattered around the abandoned town, especially the main strong hold where the bots were being dissected.
Out of nearly three thousand, only forty-three remained, most of them being silas's enhanced soldiers. Speaking of which silas himself, despite sustaining significant injuries, had survived Jack's brutal beating and was currently undergoing surgery.
Since silas's body was greater than Jack's in terms of durability, and he was a fully grown adult, he also had to have specially made surgical tools. "Dam it what did this to you, father." the head doctor of silas's personal surgical team," said out loud as the damage to his chest was significant.
The reason for the use of the word "father" isn't pleasant to hear. All of his surgical team and his enhanced soldiers unknowingly share a tragic fate. To crate a perfect soldier in his eyes was not an easy task.
There had been multiple super soldier projects over the course of human history, and throughout most of them, one thing is required. a perfect genetic structure.
Literally, 1 in 250,000 people have this perfect genetic structure, and through a lot of searching, silas had found enough children with this perfect genetic structure to make an army.
Fortunately for him, a good chunk of these children were orphaned at a young age, so it wasn't too hard to adopt them, but for the ones that weren't. Well, let's just say silas had to get a little, creative with his methods.
After fifteen long years of training, surgical implants, brain washing, physically enhancing, and further improving their genetic structure, his army was formed.
Since there would always be a chance of his enhanced soldiers Terning on him, silas has also made them believe he was his father.
These super soldiers were essential blank slates stripped of what they would have been, Vehicon drones to a Decepticon overlord made of flesh and bone.
"Finally, stopped the bleeding. Now, let's repair the ribs and sternum before he wakes up." The lead surgeon told his team of six. Their supplies were running low, and even with silas's abilities, the shock alone would kill him.
...
This last cycle has been trying for arcee. She had started the day off as she had done these past few months, waking up in Jack's garage as she waited for Jack to get ready, then dropped him off at school.
The fem may seem a little prickly to strangers, but that's just due to her circumstances. She was born in the latter half of the war, so all she knew was battle. that would leave anyone a little cold, even if not made of metal.
As a result, she'd kept her spark closed off to others. Only a few like tailgate, and cliffjumper had managed to worm their way into it, and later on Jack when they first met.
After picking up Jack from his school with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, who came to collect Raphael and miko, she was looking forward to going on an afternoon ride with Jack, but mech just had to mess it up.
One of the reasons for her capcher was the spider themed Cybertronian herself, arachnid. The fems taunts and constant reminders of her fallen partner tailgate sent her off edge, and instead of retreating, she had fallen for mech's trap and got her and bulkhead capchered.
Arcee was unconscious for the entire experience, but when she was woken up from her recharge, the fem was raleaved to have been rescued, but not for long.
The sight of bulkhead laying on Ratchet's examination table as he so desperately tried to repair him made her spark ache. Most of all, the fact that it was her fault that she got him injured, and the selfish thought that it wasn't Jack on the table was making her feel like a bad fem.
Once she got off of the birth she was laying on, the surprises kept on adding on, and was the reason the fem was walking down the deeper hallways of omega one.
She expected to be rescued, or at least hoped to be. Instead of Optimus rescuing her and bulkhead, the one she expected, It ternd out it was the one she hoped, that did.
Despite her hopes, it took both Bumblebee's and Optimus's memories, the latter surprisingly having been bot-napped as well, for it to sink in.
As the memories ran through her processors, several emotions flowed through her.
Fear, anger, hatred, sorrow, wonder, amazement, joy, and a final emotion she wasn't quite ready on naming yet. arcee was planning to give her Jack a talking to, much like Bumblebee guessed.
Pausing in her search for Jack, arcee wondered when she started thinking about Jack like that glitch arachnid. Placing the thought in a file labelled for later in her processors, she continued her search, and thankfully, it wasn't too long until arcee found who she's looking for.
Terning the corner down the hallways she was roaming, her sensors, picked up Jack's bio signicher inside one of the human storage rooms. Reaching the door, arcee found that the door was big enough for her to walk straight through with a little ducking.
As soon as she entered, several things caught her optics. At first, when the bots arrived at omega one, they had deemed these parts of the base unusable, but she could now see that this room alone was bigger than her birth room, and even Optimus himself, would be able to Stand with his full height, as long as he could get through the door.
But the biggest thing that caught her optics, was Jack's shirtless form hunched over from the other side of the room. Arcee knows Jack had an impressive amount of muscle on him for a teenager. She had felt them pressing against her in their afternoon rides.
Jack's back looked like it was carved out of the finest marble. Each muscle fibre was visible to her optics, and his frame seemed to be built for both speed, strength, and power. If Jack was a bot, his frame would put any Cybertronian to shame.
"Hay arcee, it's nice to see you up, partner." Her little smooth operator spoke, as those cold grey eyes shifted back into his usual, loving, blue Ones, while a small, charming smile formed on his lips.
Simply rushing over to him as fast as she could, arcee grasped Jack from behind in a hug. patting her armoured servos as she did so Jack just sat there quietly. The past day had been trying for everyone in omega one. If Bumblebee and Bulkhead could, they'd be hugging their human charges, too.
As arcee held the hug for a few minutes, she could feel some fluid covering her servo plate armouring. Opening her optics to see what it was, arcee was horrified more than when she saw the memories of Jack.
Covering the plate of her armour was Jack's blood, and only then did she realise where it was coming from. All over Jack's torso was countless bullet holes, gashes, and claw marks. The worst part of it was what arcee knew to be blaster marks on his right shoulder.
"Jack, your injured." Arcee shouted, worried looking like she would cry if she could. "Arcee, it's okay. I'm fine, I heal fast." Jack stated, trying to calm arcee down, but his words just got her to worry over him even more.
Despite his words, she simply kept on examining Jack. He was right her optics could visibly see his wounds healing at an abnormal rate. Furthermore, as she prodded Jack's chest, she could feel its surprising density.
The feedback was similar to the feel of the more flexible parts of her armour. "What are you?." Arcee asked him, waiting to know what her partner really is.
Arcee didn't like the fact that Jack was keeping secrets from her, especially after she had opened up to him after the incident with arachnid.
Deciding to finally come clean with Arcee, he thought she deserved some answers. Unfortunately for arcee her answer would have to wait, throughout the entire base an ear-piercing scream was heared.
Suddenly, much like in the mech base, Jack's world view came to a hult. In his mind, he followed the scream back to its source, black and white images corsing through his mind until the image of miko crying and screaming entered his mind.
Before arcee realised what was going on, Jack had already disappeared out of sight. It was only when the after-image Jack had left behind with his speed vanished that arcee kicked into action.
Just before Jack exited the door arcee was able to see her partner running towards the command senter with a speed nearly matching herself. Transforming into her alt mode, arcee sped after her junior partner, not wanting to be outdone.
As the two of them sped down the halls of the base, arcee was wonderfully surprised with his speed. she was maxing out as much of her speed as she could, but still Jack was out running her with a terrifying ease.
Instead of the typical running Stance, one would assume. Jack was keeping him chest low to the ground as his heels never even touched the ground, while his toes propelled him a grate distance with every single leap.
Slowing her speed slightly, the fem nearly having been going at two hundred and fifty miles an hour, arcee almost slammed into the metal walls of the silo even with the large korrydoors.
Jack, however, was having a far better time than arcee with the terns. With just one mighty leap into the air, Jack launches himself into the wall of the silo and uses it as a stepping stone.
Seeing arcee have trubel with high speed terns in such a small and confined space Instead of continuing his run, he simply hopped on the back of arcee's alt. "Let's see what you got, cee." Jack stated as another corner came up.
Instead of slowing down again, arcee sped up and stepped it into overdrive as they took the tern Jack used his left leg as a stabiliser, the lim leaving a dent in the floor as the duo sped off.
For arcee, this feeling was wonderful. She had always felt one with Jack when they were riding, but now it feels like they had been partners for aeons. Both arcee and Jack were working in perfect unity, and fortunately, it paid off.
Once arcee and Jack made it through the entrance leading to the command senter, arcee stopped in her tracks, her alt now on one wheel as Jack used the extra momentum to jump, and flip off of her handle bars, arcee transforming and doing the same as her partner.
They both landed in a spot with a straight line to where they could hear the ongoing screaming and aimed their weapons at whatever may have gotten that reaction out miko.
Lowering his TAC-4, Jack realised the reason for the scream. Instead of an attack as expected, the reason for Miko's scream was because of bulkheads' current state.
In the five hours, arcee and the others had been back, Ratchet had only managed to repair half of bulkhead's damage. most of The platings of his armour was missing, and energon still leaked from his frame.
Bumblebee himself was trying his best to hold back miko without hurting her as Raphael stood behind his ped, tiers flowing from his eyes. "What happened to him? Why is he hurt." Miko cried out as she wanted to know what happened.
"We were caught in a trap, Miss nakadai." Optimus said as he kneeled on one knee strut, much like he did with Jack earlier. "Unfortunately, bulkhead took the most of mech's abuse before we were rescued." He added as a bitter, sweet smile crossed his face plate.
"Have no fear, Miss nakadai Bulkhead is one of my most strongest worriers, and Ratchet's the best medic I've seen throughout my life."Optimus's actions and fatherly aura calmed miko down to where bee didn't have to hold her back.
Wiping her eyes, miko stated her thanks to whatever bot rescued her Autobot partner. Hearing this bumblebee whirs and beeped out that it wasn't a bot to rescue them and said who actually did.
Not understanding what he said, miko looked at Raphael for answers, but the boy mealy looked behind him with a shocked and horrified look on his face.
The reason for this was the sight of the still bloody Jack walking over to them with arcee. "It wasn't a bot that saved bulkhead miko it was Jack." Raphael blankly said, shocked evident in his tone.
With the arrival of Raphael and miko, the questions about Jack were higher than ever. Every single optic and eye was on him, even Ratchet's, who has been not so secretly, secretly taking glances at the wounded teenager.
...
Over the sky's of jasper, a purple and black Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was flying over the small town. This was arachnid in one of her alt modes, and the spider themed fem was mauling over what in the pits she had witnessed.
She'd figured out that humans may not have been the easiest pray upon first arriving on this rock. Once she had repaired herself after a very risky trip to the Decepticon war ship, the nemesis, the truth of the humans rang clear through her processors.
The weaponry wasn't that big of an issue. A lot of their weapons were obsolete against her tech and armour. Their bigger calibre armour piercing rounds, rail guns, and nuclear weapons weren't exactly pleasant to the toxic fem.
It was only after her search through the Internet and going through the more classified files the humans had that the danger was classified.
Men-like beast with fans and claws, indestructible humans with the strength, speed, and power of a minicon
but most frightening to her was that these humans have hunters of their own, assassins, these hitmen were truly terrifying to arachnid. They were masters of their own weapons as much as murder.
Her temporary alliance with mech managed to bear more fruit than she thought, tho. Since starscream gave the humans some blasters and Vehicons, most likely for his own selfish whim, mech help a temporary surplus of energon.
Silas was more than happy to share, but the fem still had trust issues, so she went to hunt some of her own. Mech could have done something to it, and walset her sensors could pick up any poison's or toxins in the energon, The clearly enhanced humans were enough of a deterrent to stay safe.
Fortunately, she did so for on her way back to the mech base her sensors managed to pick up Jack's and Bumblebee's escapades. Arachnid was a master of stealth due to her predatory nature, so she kept an optic on the pairs endeavours.
From when Jack took out the mech soldiers in the car to when the pair finally broke out of the base with the Autobots in toe. By the time Jack had his fight with silas, the fem had flu off to a canyon nearby for her own safety.
The fight between silas and Jack was truly optic opening for arachnid. She knew there were super humans running around on this planet, but a proper display of their abilities was frightening to witness.
The closest thing she could compare them to was a mini-con. Thay we're one of the many Cybertronian races, mini-cons were so powerful and a valuable source of strength in the war back on Cybertron.
They're no different from a Cybertronian except in one way, and that was size. Since they possessed the spark of a regular Cybertronian and their frames were similar to humans in height, the mini-cons held a great amount of strength, speed, and power along with highly durable frames
The worst part of the whole situation was the pairs' fight remained arachnid of the many battles Optimus and megatron have had in the past.
To think her unassuming Jack could be such a treat. If it was visible right now, the fem would have the most scrap eating grin on her face plate.
She has seriously gotten bored over the past few aeons but to think her Jack was hiding such a beautiful secret was so tantalising. to add the energon on top, she could stab another one of her spider legs into arcee's spark by killing or Terning her Jack to the dark side.
Silas was still undergoing surgery, so the fem had a little time to kill, and since her fun time with arcee was cut off, how better to kill it than starting another hunt.
The fems spark was going at a thousand miles a minute with thought of her next hunt, but arachnid would have to make some preparations beforehand.
June Darby, Jack's fem crater, is a weakness she would be processor dead not to use, and from the processor ache she gained from trying to hack into Jack's father's files the woman wouldn't have any secrets that would harm her.
Hovering down to the town of jasper, arachnid transformed into her by-pedal mode, arachnid finding herself standing in a very familiar street.
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Back in the Autobot base, the tension had thinned slightly after Jack explanation. bulkhead's frame has been mostly repaired, but the jolly green giant wasn't out of the woods yet.
Miko now has calmed down enough to where Bumblebee didn't have to hold her back. Instead of her typical energetic personality, the teenage girl was sullenly sitting on bulkhead's medical birth as ratchet finishes the last repairs on his armour.
Optimus himself was sitting on the medical birth next to his as Bumblebee was reattaching the armour on his right shoulder strut.
Much like the rest of the Autobots, the prime was pondering on the disturbing information young Jackson revealed.
These hitmen sounded like the cyber-ninjas of Cybertron. Arcee's trainer prowl is the greatest cyber Ninja Optimus knew, and the mech could be a match for him if not careful.
Ratchet was just wondering how an organic being could display such abilities without cybernetic enhancements. Bumblebee was just thinking how cool it would be to have another member on the team who could actually fight with them.
Elsewhere in the base back in the same room Jack was using, the newly realised assassin could be seen tinkering with one of the mech blaster rifles.
Since Jack snagged three of them, the shirtless boy decided to modify and examine one of them. Having borrowed some of Ratchet's tools, the rifle was a wonder of tech.
It shared the basic design of human rifle, but the clear Cybertronian tech and the energon generator inside was a clear signifier. Although there still was a lot of wasted space inside the gun and Jack would not have that.
Locking in the last panel and slapping in the energon supplie, Jack gazed upon the newly modified rifle the rifle used to be slightly longer than his TAC-4 but now it was slightly shorter than it without the suppressor.
The changes weren't too big of a difference power wise, but the smaller package would be a boon in battle, and the extra pieces he carved off would be necessary for his next creation if he would be able to get Ratchet's help.
As Jack continued tinkering with his new tools, arcee Mealy watched him quietly as the fem sat a few feet away from Jack. the fem kept track of his wounds walset Jack worked, and indeed, he did heal fast.
Arcee could only assume his injuries were worse before her arrival, which made her feel worse for her capcher.
Suddenly, the mech rifle Jack was working on disappeared. "Jack, can I ask a question." The fem asked, having wanted to know since seeing the action through prime's and bee's memories.
"Shor thing cee, what is it?." Terning to face her, he raised an eyebrow. She didn't realise it before, but her spark skipped a beat as he used her nickname.
"Where do you store your weapons?." Ignoring the feeling, arcee asked her question. "You didn't have anything on you on the way to the command senter, but you did when we got there, and it disappeared when I wasn't looking."
Instead of answering, mainly because he doesn't know the logistics of the ring, Jack took it off and placed it in arcee's servo after she opened one out.
The moment it lay contact with arcee's palm, Jack could see the ring, and the fems optics glowed a bright blue.
Furthermore, since the ring was one of the highest pieces of technology on the planet, arcee was able to interact fully with the ring.
the ring's information popped into her processors. Mech went the only ones with Cybertronian technology, unlike Jack, she could analyse every single object within it to the molecular level.
Not only was the ring a Cybertronian storage space, but his guns, bullets and most of the tech in here are made of cyber metals. Plus, some of the tech he has in the ring was definitely inspired by her people's.
"Jack, this is." Facing her optics to her partner, she stated. "Your people's technology, I'm guessing." Jack beat her to the punch, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Where did you get it?." Just when she thought he had no more surprises, he found more to surprise her with.
"It belonged to my father. it's one of the things I have left besides his old gear." With the use of the word gear, arcee raised an eyebrow ridge. Seeing the intrigued gaze, Jack asked arcee to come with him to the ground bridge.
...
Unknown to Jack, his home was left a former shell of what it was, only the garage and a little of the front wall was left.
The street looked like a completely normal street, all with the exception of the Darby residents, which looked as if a war had gone on.
Within the garage, a small ground bridge opened up, moments later Jack on top of arcee's alt mode rolled in the ground bridge, closing a few seconds later.
Since there wasn't much to do at the base, Optimus thought the two deserved some off time for themselves. He knew if it came down to it, Jack would protect arcee as much as she would him.
Moving to the side so arcee could transform. The garage had a max height of ten feet, and at first, the fem had trubel comfortably sitting in her by-pedal mode, but over time, she had worked out how to sit without discomfort.
"So what did you want to show me?." Walking over to the same bicycle hung on the garage wall, Jack took it off of the stand, the garage walls shifting once more to reveal the rest of Jack's arsenal.
Leaning on her servos, arcee brought her face plate closer to the weapons racks in front of her. Most of the guns blades and different devices are either made of cyber metals or inspired by it.
Suddenly, part of the garage wall collapsed, the shutter falling off of its hinges.
Fortunately, for arcee, she was able to transform back into her alt mode before it fell. Some of Jack's neighbours have witnessed some of what happened and were standing outside his house with looks of disbelief on their faces.
As the onlookers talked amongst themselves, both Jack and arcee were able to overhear them, and the blood in Jack's veins ran cold. Ignoring the bystanders, he ran straight into his house through the connecting garage door.
the living room, kitchen, front door, and ceiling were all destroyed. His house was left in ruins, and his mother was nowhere to be seen.
The worst part of it was that Jack's analytic eyes could pick up multiple blaster markings, which could have only been made by a Cybertronian.
Returning to the garage, Jack dispersed the crowd forming in front of his house. Some of the older men didn't quite like Jack giving them orders, but after braking a few hands, the crowd returned back to their houses, even if a little salty.
most of them were still in disbelief of what they witnessed, the human mind trying to make up anything to understand what they saw.
Once no one was looking, Jack lifted the garage door up and against where it should be and essentially welded it to the wood and concrete frame by using his strength to morphed the metal into it.
His house was in ruins, his mother was missing, and there were blaster marks all over the house.
"Arcee, can you hack the cameras in front of my house?." His neighbourhood was plastered with security cameras, so most likely one of them picked up what was going on. Even though Jack already had a hunch of what's happening.
Transforming back into her by-pedal mode. "Jack, you may wanna look at this." The fem said as her optics displayed a hologram of the footage.
The footage was a bit patchy, but the sight of arachnid holding June in her servo was damming. As the hologram faded, both arcee and Jack looked like they had eaten something bitter.
Before he could do anything, Jack forcefully calmed himself. Walset he was doing so Jack's phone rang. Picking it up, Jack saw the caller, I.D. was his mother's. "Mom, where are you are you safe?." He hurriedly asked.
"Sorry Jack, I'm afraid she's a little busy right now." The sadistic voice of arachnid was heard over the other side of the phone.
"Where's my mother arachnid? You better not have hurt her." Jack growers out as his face takes on an emotionless tone.
Hearing the entire conversation, arcee was angered at the glitches actions. Just when everything was about to go back to normal, the fem had to mess it up by going after yet another partner.
"Don't worry, your maytren isn't harmed mostly. I just called to see if we could have a little fun. Come alone, my Jack." Shivering at the use of her nickname for him, Jack checked his phone.
Having hung up, arachnid sent a message to Jack containing her location and very specific instructions, those mainly being come alone and with no bots.
Arachnid would be watching him. If arachnid saw any signs of arcee or the Autobots, she would kill June.
"What did the text say." Arcee asked Jack as he started to switch out some of his weaponry. "Arachnids location. She wants me to come and meet her alone, or she will kill my mom." He stated blankly.
Now that there was some freed up space, he started collecting the strongest weapons in his arsenal.
Grabbing a sleak silver gun that bears a resemblance to a high-tech P,90. he stored it in his inventory. Instead of the trigger being in the front, it was nearer to the stock, and the weapon was around the same size as his TAC-4.
This is an electromagnetic railgun. It uses two electromagnetic launchers that use electricity instead of chemical propellants to fire Kinetic energy penetrator rounds at speeds, reaching 5000 miles per hour.
Jack wasn't shor on what produced so much electricity, but he didn't want to take it apart to find out in case he broke it.
"Jack, you can't go there alone." She pleaded with him. Arachnid is a truly sadistic fem and if she is going through this much trouble to get Jack alone, then she is on the hunt.
"I have to cee, she has my mom, and she'd kill her if I don't come alone." Heading back over to the wall across from the garage door, there are four large sliding drawers underneath the racks.
They're used for storing bullets, magazines, granads, and explosives. Opening the middle right draw, Jack stores all the ammunition compatable with his railgun, four bore, 50 B.M.G. bombs, along with every single explosive round he had in his possession.
Jack also grabbed some specially made rounds for his granad launcher. The regular rounds would use gass or a low range explosive agent to propel the granad.
These modified rounds are a 40X70 armour piercing tank round. Each...granad shell contains half the yield of a 120X570 NATO round.
...
Barrelling through the desert was Jack. He had managed to get the blue fem to stay behind after leaving her the receiver to his tracker.
There wasn't much time to waste, but Jack couldn't go unprotected, and since his suit was in Tatters he brought out another set of his father's clothes.
Instead of another suit, Jack was wearing a black turtle neck, green cargo pants, and a long black trench coat.
There were also several straps and holsters spread throughout his body, so Jack kept his pistols in their holsters under his armpits. They're also made of the same kevlar and titanium strands, and since they were thicker than his suit's it offered more protection.
The coordinates arachnid sent was relatively close, well to Jack anyway. Going the same speeds he did back at the base, the closer he got, Jack realised he was heading to one of the abandoned energon mines the Decepticons used in the past.
Jack's raw speed is greater than any earth made vehicle. In fact, he could give the bots a run for their energon, so with the time limit, arachnid had set and the near hundred miles of space in between them he figured out arachnid may know about his abilities.
The closer Jack got to the meeting spot, his sense of fight or flight instinct rang alarms throughout his core. His body was telling him to run as far as he could in the other direction or violently lash out at anything near him, but he simply kept on his path.
Unknown to Jack, his sense of fight or flight wasn't for not. Hidden in the canyon directly in Jack's path is an insectacon clone of bombshell. Taller than Optimus and bulkier than bulkhead, the insectacon clone would be a nightmare for any Cybertronian to handle.
Unlike the regular Cybertronians, his servos were extended to the point where they surpassed his knee struts, plus his servos and peds were tipped with sharp blade like claws and he also sheared the same visor design as a Vehicon.
The moment Jack reached the canyon, the only accessible way to the abandoned energon mine, the bombshell clone leapt off of the cliff he was hiding on to crush Jack with a clawed servo.
"Booom." The clones' right servo created a crater in the ground.
"What in the actual hell are you?." Jack said, standing on top of a rock several metres away from the monstrous Decepticon.
Instead of speaking back like Jack expected, he only received a beasteal roar and proceeded to punch Jack.
Leaping off of the rock he was standing on Jack front flipped off of bombshells servo and propelled himself into the air. Now that he was only a few meters above bombshells optical visor, Jack could see the con still possessed actual optics underneath it.
Taking the four bore out from storage, Jack fired off the round already loaded within. Fortunately for Jack, the four bore round managed to peirce the optical visor.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh." It roared out in pain due to the bullet implanting in its right optic. Landing on the ground.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH." Jack could hear the insectacon roar out once more. Looking back to see the reason for the second yell of pain Jack saw it had peirced its only working optic with its claws.
"Guess you're as dumb as you look." As the words left Jack's lips, the insecticon faced his direction. Reloading the four bore Jack fired another round at the clone and another and another.
The insecticons rage was sending it to charge in Jack's direction mindlessly. He was a good distance away, but he reached Jack before he could let out the fifth shot.
Sending the four bore back in storage, Jack braced himself. he wasted too much time, and the Decepticon was way faster than he expected, to go along with the freakish durability. Besides the optics, his bullets Bareley left a mark.
Letting out another roar, the bombshell clone backhanded Jack as hard as he could. The sound bombshells servo made when making contact with Jack's body was sickening to hear.
In an instant, all Jack's life was, pain, anger, and weightlessness. The experience was dizzying, but the pain of getting hit, plus aggravation of his injuries, wasn't anything to the pain from impacting into a rocky facing.
Jack's body was sent flying hundreds of meters into a canyon wall, so hard his body impacted fifteen feet into it.
The pain and damage caused Jack to Blackout, he had never experienced something like this in his whole life, and his entire body was screaming at him due to his wounds opening up along with the broken ribs he gained and sprained four-arms.
For a few moments, Jack was just implanted in the wall, unable to move an inch. Suddenly.
"Beep."
"Beep."
"Beep."
Jack could hear his alarm ringing. Coming to from his Blackout, he wondered why his alarm was going off. Is he missing school?. The onyx haired boy thought to himself.
"Beep."
"Beep."
"Beep."
Like a lightning bolt striking him down, Jack realised why he was here and exactly what he was doing.
"Beep."
"Beep."
"Beep."
Arachnid hadn't left him much time to make it to the meeting spot. Gaining enough of his strength back, Jack reached into his trench coat's pocket.
"Beep."
"Beep."
"Beep."
Taking the phone out from his pocket, Jack could see he had mealy 9 minutes and 52 seconds left before arachnid dose god knows what to his mother.
Forcing his way out from the side of the canyon, Jack's bloody form stood at the edge of the crater his body made.
Much like the insectacon did earlier, Jack let out a primal roar. he didn't even pause to ponder on his strange actions as a sonic boom was created by Jack's charge at Bombshell.
The insectacon's primal mind viewed Jack's roar for what it was, one beast challenging another, and the Decepticon wouldn't let a squishy challenge him so.
Unfortunately for bombshell, this wasn't the same being he backhanded into a wall just a few moments ago.
If his optics weren't damaged, all bombshell would be able to see is a black and yellow, blear.
Jack's fight with silas wasn't without consequences, much like a wear wolf in supernatural fictional stories silas had infected Jack with protobeast D.N.A.
the changes would have taken longer than it would have if it wasn't for the life and death situation and the colossal amount of rage flowing through him.
As bombshell swung at Jack once more, Jack blared out of motion, appearing behind bombshell as his servos collapsed to the ground.
"Boom."
The sound of the insecticon clones servo falling limp to the ground rang out as the armoured plates all detached, and energon flowed out of it like a leaky pipe.
Since Jack's momentum kept him floating in the air, he pondered on his action. He doesn't remember being that strong or fast, and he could have sworn his fingernails have ternd black, extended, and sharpened.
Since Jack was caught up with his thoughts, he didn't notice bombshells left servo coming at him faster than his titanic frame would suggest.
Instead of implanting in another canyon wall, Jack used it as a stepping stone. Launching himself off of the canyon wall, the shock wave Jack created reduced it to rubble as he instantly appeared in front of the con and two footed him in the chest plate.
As both of Jack's feet landed on bombshells' chest plate, it cracked open slightly, revealing a newly made opening to its spark while being sent into a wall himself.
Landing on the ground, Jack brought out the semi auto granad launcher with the modified shells already placed within it. Rapidly, Jack fired off three shots at the downed con.
"BOOM."
"BOOM."
"BOOM."
the granad shells exploded upon contact with bombshells open chest plate. The explosion from the shells caused the canyon wall to collapse on top of him and bearied him underneath rubble.
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Speeding down the navada Roads is arcee. The fems spark was screaming at her due to her foolishness. By some means, Jack had managed to get her to stay back instead of going with him, like she wanted to.
Not even twenty minutes after she did so her worry thickened when Jack's signal disappeared. Instantly, she transformed and headed to Jack's last known location.
She honestly couldn't handle the loss of another partner, especially to that glitch. The thought of losing Jack was causing the fem to go into maximum overdrive, arcee's speed made her look like a blue and black blare dashing across the navada Roads.
Currently, on this planet, arcee was the fastest thing on wheels, the speeds arcee was reaching was nearing 400 miles an hour.
"Arcee to base, arcee to base, come In." She contacted the base. The situation was too dangerous to not inform the team, and in case things went to scrap, she would need to inform Optimus and the others.
"This is ratchet, what's the matter arcee?. Con's on your arft again." The medic replied, having finished bulkhead's repairs, now continuing his work at the terminal.
"Arachnid has kidnapped Jack's maytren, and he may be in trubel, the receiver to his tracker he gave me lost his signal." For a few seconds, Ratchet's processors tried to understand what was going on, but the frantic tone in arcee's voice modulator kicked his gears into action.
"Send your coordinates, prime, and bee are on a scouting mission, but I'll send them your way." The medic said, instantly trying to contact Optimus.
Seeing that backup was on its way, arcee kicked it up a notch, pushing her gears to their furthest extent.
...
Deep within the abandoned energon mine, arachnid was pacing back and forth, currently in her arachni mode.
June Darby was just watching the pitter patter of her legs. She honestly needed the distraction. The fem wasn't the most gentle with her capchering.
Due to her training as a nurse, June could tell some of her ribs were broken, and the added strain to her arms by the chains holding her aloft in the air wasn't helping in the matter.
The fear arachnid was trying to hide was fading. The signal of one of the insectacon clones she put under her control after finding them abandoned in the mine has disappeared, and arachnid already knew what did it, or who.
The fem had personally seen silas take down a Vehicon when one of the captives had gotten out of its restraints.
Since Jack beat silas during his infiltration of the mech base, she expected him to be able to take down a Vehicon or two, maybe even a named Cybertronian.
But the fact that he took down an insecticon clone of bombshell, one of the tuffest mech's of glitches she'd seen wasn't a pleasant thought.
She had left commands to capcher him, if not offline him out right. Whatever Jack had used to take down the insectacon would easily peirce her hide.
When it came to strength and durability, her frame type lacked in comparison. It was meant for speed, agility, and stealth.
Fortunately for her, that was not the last of the insecticon she personally had put under her influence. Shockwave must have been working overtime, arachnid had found not only one but three insectacons for her hive.
The poor things must have been left behind when megatron abandoned the mine, so arachnid quickly scooped them up.
Instantly, the fem put the three of them to work and routinely fed off of their energon. Her ship was destroyed by Jack, so she didn't have access to a means off of this rock, nor her higher weaponry.
Suddenly, arachnid could feel through the connection she had with the insectacons that they're currently in a fight.
One she had ordered to greet Jack, another was in the room with her, and the last was in the cavern leading to the one she's in.
...
Flashing out of the way of an oncoming servo, Jack appeared behind the peds of the second insectacon. Having already withdrawn the newly modified mech rifle, he fired several shots into the back of its left ped.
Since the rifle was in the highest setting and the smaller beam has a higher penatrating power, The con, losing temporary function in the lim, collapsed under its own titanic weight.
As the insectacons Ped started sparking, it tried to claw at Jack, considering he wasn't too far away from him.
Completely missing the attempt, the young hitman dodged it with an ease, his fang's and claws had receded, but Jack's eyes remained a dull yellow.
Once his rage lessened, Jack's analytical mind was able to decipher the changes going on with him. It wasn't too hard to figure out he was gaining silas's abilities, especially after seeing his changes in a puddle of water within the mines.
Landing on a ledge around 12 metres high, Jack Wasted no time. As he fired off several more shots at the downed insectacon, the semi mindless beast had enough of a survival instinct to roll out of the way in time
Losing one of its servos before he could get to cover in time bombshell hid behind one of the supporting pillars. Stopping his barrage, Jack jumped back down to the ground, swapping out the railgun for one of the swords in his inventory.
Around 5 feet in length, hilt included the single edged blade bared a resemblance to a Japanese katana while, the garde resembled that of a typical arthereal, knights, sword.
Bolting over to the insecticon, Jack slashed at its chest plate, sticking the blade in between one of the gaps. Jack would still need full medical tests done just in case, but Jack was pleased about these changes.
Before, Jack wouldn't have been able to even think of fighting one of these beasteal Cybertronians. Only his higher class long-range weaponry would have a chance in a one on one fight.
but since his strength, speed, durability, and senses were being multiplied by an unimaginable amount, it allowed Jack to slice open the insecticon's chest plate.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGHHHH." The insecticon roared out in pain due to Jack piercing his unprotected spark with his sword, the blade implanting all the way up to the hilt.
Bombshell struggled, but Jack simply pushed the blade in even deeper into his spark as his other hand held onto the spread open chest plate.
After a few seconds of struggling, including trying to crush Jack with its only working servo, the life faded from the insecticon's optics along with its spark.
Withdrawing the sword from the insectacon's empty spark chamber, he hopped off of the lifeless frame and checked his sword hand.
Actually, touching a live spark felt far different than Jack expected. It felt like the hottest flame Jack had ever touched. his hand wasn't burned to bad. It was mainly discoloured from the tips of his fingers to his wrist.
Jack only had to rip off part of his sleeve due to the strands of metal having been melted, further burning his hand.
Ignoring the burns, Jack continued on his path. The cavern had many exits besides the entryway Jack used, but with the way the insecticon was guarding a specific tunnel, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
Within seconds, Jack reached the other side of the tunnel he was running through. "Shit." Jack muttered under his breath as he sent his body into the air, another insectacon having tried to smash his into the ground.
"Nice of you to join us, my Jack." The spider themed fem said walset the insecticon sent a barrage of blows at Jack, the onyx haired boy simply dodging the blows with an ease.
Dodging yet another mad blow from the insecticon Jack brought out three black circular devices into between his fingers and through them at his chest plate.
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM."
The devices detonated into a bright blue explosion. Unfortunately, Jack had taken his eyes off of arachnid for a second too long.
Slamming into him before he could notice, some of arachnids webbing struck him, sticking him onto one of the cavern walls.
Grunting, Jack played off like he was stuck and was struggling to escape arachnids webbing. In reality, Jack was making room for one of his swords, while the fem creeps closer.
"Well, well. I don't know how you beat three insectacons, but clearly, they were defective if you were brought down this quickly." She stated, forming a creepy smile on her face plate.
Arachnid, as Jack intended, was lulled into a false sense of security. Only twenty feet away from Jack's position, he sliced the webbing apart and leapt at arachnid.
Since the blade was in his right hand, Jack trusted the sword at the senter of arachnids' chest plate. Evading the blow, Jack redirected his blade at her throat.
Dodging the slash, arachnid was gifted with a slight cut on her throat, a trickle of energon leaking from the wound as Jack landed on the ground.
Rotating his form counterclockwise, striking at arachnids front left spider leg, Jack Sliced the leg in two, then pushed off with his left foot to slash another one of her legs.
Not wanting to lose another one of her spider legs, arachnid had never moved so fast in her entire life as she had now, trying to evade Jack, and that's including her years in the war on Cybertron.
Retreating backwards arachnid shot at Jack with alternate shots of webbing and blaster fire. Charging after her, Jack used his blade to block and deflect the attacks. His mother wasn't looking to good when he arrived, and he still didn't know what traps the fem had laid.
If he backed off without defeating or killing her, she could attack him as he tried to rescue his mother, although with the way she was looking, he didn't have long anyway.
June Darby was awfully quiet, plus her skin had gone dangerously white and there was only movement on one side of her chest, revealing internal bleeding.
...
Within the canyon where Jack had fought the first insectacon, a ground bridge suddenly appeared, marely a few moments afterwards, Optimus Prime, bumblebee, and arcee exited it, with their blasters activated.
"Prime to base, we've arrived on sight." The blue and red mech said, his optics scanning his surroundings.
Instantly, Optimus realised where he was and could see signs of a recent battle. Hearing Bumblebee call them over. "There's blood here, look." The yellow mech beeped out walset kneeling on the ground, inspecting the trails of blood.
Leaning down, arcee scanned the blood. Only a few seconds after she did so, arcee's face plate gained a hardened look for the blood was a match for Jack.
The fear in arcee's spark deepened at this realisation. Inside the fems mind, she was cursing herself out with every single Cybertronian cuss word she knew, and she knew plenty.
Suddenly, to the right of the three Cybertronians, the insecticon Jack had fought earlier crashes out of the bolder's he was bearied under.
Running at the Autobots, the insecticon madly struck towards arcee. The clone managed to get online after the bots' arrival, since his optics were still damaged, Bombshell just used his audio receptors to attack whatever made a sound.
Before he could make contact arcee dodged out of the way, Optimus blocking the incoming servo as Bumblebee jump-kicked the clone in the face plate.
"Insecticon?. What are one of them doing here?." Bumblebee whirs out as he landed, as the Insectacon was sent flying backwards due to the force of Bumblebee's kick.
"Arachnid, she must have found and put it under her control." Arcee said. It was one of the go to move's for the fem and had been used against many a bots and cons in the past.
"Yes, it must have been left behind when the Decepticons abandoned the mine." Activating his blades, Optimus ordered the two to find Jack.
Transforming, bumblebee, and arcee sped off, following the trail blood of leading to Jack walset Optimus engaged the injured insectacon in battle.
...
Flashing all around the cavern, they're fighting in arachnid's and Jack's bodies collided dozens of times a second as the pair struck each other with a flurry of kicks, punches, slashes and blaster fire.
The two had been only fighting for a few minutes, but the damage on both was evident.
Arachnid herself had lost another one of her spider legs. Her frame was racked with stab and slash wounds, energon leaking from them, and if it wasn't for her ability to transform, the fem would have lost an optic by now.
Jack, on the other hand, wasn't fairing any better. It hasn't even been a full twenty-four hours since his battle with silas, so his injuries gained from the whole endeavour haven't fully healed.
The bullet wounds had mostly healed, and the claw marks had only closed up a few hours ago, but the constant heavy impacts Jack had sustained over such a small time frame wasn't helping him in the least.
Over the two minutes they fought, arachnid had managed to peirce his abdomen and placed a nasty shot to his chest, Jack's clothes sporting a new blaster mark in tern.
Clashing once more, Jack locked his blade with a pair of arachnids legs. Suddenly, Jack's eyes glowed a brighter shade of yellow, and his claws and fangs returned.
With all of the strength he could muster, Jack forced arachnid back dozens of meters. With his left hand, Jack pointed his four bore at arachnid and fired.
"BANG!".
"BOOM!"
it made contact with her chest, arachnid not being able to evade or block the blow. Smacking into a wall, arachnids form, made a crater as her chest plate was partially open, energon leaking from the wound.
Ignoring the fem jack bolts over to the passed out form of his mother. the woman was suspended off of the ground by chains and arachnids webbing.
The height she was suspended at and the spikes of energon would kill her if she was to fall, but Jack knew from what his mother taught him that her injuries would finish her off faster.
With one leap, Jack jumped the 50 or so meters in the air. since his blade was on its last legs, Jack through it at the webbing that kept his mother held up, catching her before she even started to fall an inch.
Using one of the cavern walls, Jack propelled both of them to the ground a softly as he could, doing his best not to further injure June.
While the young super human, ran to the exit at a safe enough speed. Through his senses, Jack could feel his mother's pulse and heartbeat fade at a rapid rate.
Glancing to his left, Jack could see arachnid slowly creeping out of her crater. the instead arachnid notice Jack getting away with his matren, the fem gave an evil smile.
Jack would do anything to protect his mother, as evident by his actions. Since he would have to carry her, Jack would be limited in his abilities.
As Jack reached the tunnel leading to the second chamber and subsequently, his exit out of here, arachnid was not far behind him, the fems injuries seemingly not of consequence by her need to kill her ultimate prize.
Fortunately for Jack, he could hear the familiar rumblings of two engines, a third familiar engine not too far behind them.
...
Blazing down the tunnel, arcee, and bumblebee were kicking their gears into overdrive. After seeing the insecticon's offlined body in the second cavern, the two sped off as fast as they could.
Injuring an insecticon is a grate feat in itself, but to offline a second is something extremely difficult to do, even for an enhanced individual such as Jack.
Suddenly, Bumblebee's and arcee's scanners picked up Jack's and June's life signichers heading towards them at speeds almost reaching theirs.
"Bumblebee, open your door!" Jack roared out. Seeing that June Darby's vital's were low bumblebee didn't think twice about the request.
As the driver side door opened, walset Bumblebee shifted his angle of approach, Jack swiftly jumped into Bumblebee's alt without further harming June.
Terning back to the way thay'd came from, both arcee and Bumblebee headed back to the entrance of the cavern. "Prime, we got Jack and June, spin back, we're heading back towards the entrance." Arcee Informed Prime.
Arachnid, having sensed the bots approaching, decided to flee and hunt another day. Now was not the time to be fighting the scout and arcee, nor the head honcho with her injuries, which were making it hard to tunnel her way out of here.
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hope you like the second chapter, so a few things first jack's new powers will be explained in the next chapter, if there are still mistakes let me knew for i have dyslexia so i struggle to write and have to use sevral diffrent apps to write my stories.
till nex time.