Author notes: A new story Ladies and Gents! yes, the next episode has begun, with Jack having a job with Fowler working with the bots, which means no more K.O burger, and more time with Cee. Plus Jack on missions, fighting in his awesome suit! Hope you all enjoy what is about to unfold! - David

A huge C-130 roared across the night time sky of Rio de Janeiro, rumbling through the choppy sea of clouds. The massive Favela, clambering up the huge mountain wall flickered bright with dull lights. Upon a nearby peak, the open arms of a stone Christ welcome the huge military jet, the massive pristine city below suddenly cutting a thin line between wealth and poverty as silver scrapers turn to rusty shacks by the thousands.

The wings buckled and swung as the massive titanic plane bellowed forward, huge propellers rotating and screaming in the heavy onslaught of wind. The rear hatch opened, slowly whirring through the thunderous clouds. Inside the darkened bay of the plane, only three beings stood, one taller than the rest. The slender female form of Autobot Arcee stood inside, fists clenched, staring out of the plane's rear hatch at the cloud fogged view of the distant city.

A man stood next to her, dressed in recognizable metallic blue and gold plated armor. He shrugged his shoulders and bats the black lock of hair from his eye. Jack smiled at the sight of Arcee. In the short month since Hoover dam, Jack had finally gotten a job working with Agent Fowler and the Autobots. The Autobots were reinstated with Fowler's team. Jack had proven his loyalty and new skills in combat over this life changing month. Jack had a new life, a good life. He was working with the family he adored, the friends he held dear, and most of all...the woman he loved. Jack looked at his partner, a smile forming.

"Hey Cee!" He shouted over the tremendous roar of the jet engines. She looked over at him, smiling.

"You got any plans Saturday night?!" He shouted to her with a smirk. She shrugged.

"You know I don't!" She chuckled back.

"Then we're going out to celebrate my new job, my new life!"

"Deal partner!" she shouted, looking back out the rear of the plane. Jack cracked his neck, remembering days long past where he was an awkward teen drooling after her. Now he had her, and he was working as an operative, an Autobot. He realized just how lucky he was. He looked down at his newly refurbished armor suit, which he was nowhere near as inexperienced in using. Ratchet did a perfect job fixing it; especially after the beating it took on Hoover dam, by Sector Seven and Blackout, rest his spark.

Agent Fowler stepped out of the cockpit, walking over to the duo. Red lights blared inside the dark plane. He looked over a data pad, his suit jacket blowing in the gale force winds, trying to get sucked out the open plane hatch.

"Okay you two! We've got a Decepticon threat detected by Ratchet here in Rio de Janeiro! We believe it's another one of those Decepticon heists!"

"Another robbery?!" Jack shouted.

"Decepti-Sapiens no doubt!" Arcee added.

"Optimus and I want you two to move in and either stop or if necessary neutralize the cons, Human or bot!"

"Why not just bridge us here?"

"Ratchet's bridging is down for maintenance, so I stepped in. I got you here though, just took a little longer" Fowler winked, nudging Jack's armor with his elbow.

"If they're hitting another bank, no doubt this'll end like London, or New York?! They'll get bridged off continent by Soundwave!" Arcee inquired.

"Possibly! All you two need to worry about is not getting civilians hurt or causing damages to the city, or yourselves!" Fowler shouted to them. "If it comes to it, try and lead them out of the city before kicking their asses to the curb!"

"Yes sir!" Jack nodded.

"You'll drop from here! Once you land at the designated drop zone, head for the city! Might want to turn the suit off though Jack, cut down the attention you'll get!" Fowler chuckled.

"I won't let you down!"

"I know son!"

"Well let's do this Jack!" Arcee said, walking towards the rear of the plane. Jack nodded, walking over with her. Fowler grabbed Jack's shoulder.

"Stay safe, for your mother! Don't do anything stupid! I got you this job; I know you can handle it! But don't make me fill another coffin with a friend!"

"You forget sir, I've got her!" He pointed to the Autobot female posed at the hatch.

"I won't let anyone down Agent Fowler" He said as his helmet closed around his head, locking tight and the eyes gleaming neon blue. He stomped with metallic feet to the edge with Arcee.

"Ready partner!"

"Ready!" Jack replied. She smiled, stretching from audio receiver to audio receiver. A partner capable of helping her thoroughly on missions, she hadn't had one of those since Cliff. Jack was always great with Intel, London proved it. But now he was trained, older, braver. He'd faced down Sector Seven for her. His days as her pet to protect were long over. He was her equal. He was her partner. He was her everything.

The light beeped and the hull filled with a green hue, blaring. "Go, go, go!" The soldier from the hatch shouted.

"See you on the ground!" She said with a wink, leaning forward and falling into a nose dive.

"God she's hot when she does that" Jack mumbled to himself.

Jack took a step back, a deep breath exhaled through the helmet and he jogged forward, leaping from the plane, falling through the clouds. His first ever halo jump, in an alien designed transforming metal suit. Never thought his life would offer that.

With arms spread out, he fell. He saw Arcee nose diving, arms pressed tight to her side. Jack mimicked, diving with his arms locked close to his torso, like a falling pencil. He gained speed as they raced through the clouds. The faint lights of the city glimmered than vanished as they raced down through the night time clouds.

Fowler looked from the plane as they dived, a smile on his face. The soldier tapped his shoulder.

"Sir! The kid didn't take a parachute!" He panicked, holding it up.

"He doesn't need one son!" Fowler walked towards the cockpit door, leaving the confused soldier holding the parachute sack. "And he isn't a kid. Not anymore"

...

Jack and Arcee cleared the clouds, the huge city lying in the valley below. A waypoint creating a chartered course towards the base of the huge Christ the Redeemer Statue, empty of all tourists at this time of night, 1:34am.

Jack accelerated with a thump as his thruster boots kicked in, a crackle and roar behind him and amber glow of propelling fire. He kept his legs rigid and still, a trait he'd learned after the dam and London. Learning from past mistakes help to better shape future actions.

He raced by Arcee, who watched him go with a smirk.

"Not a race!" she shouted, her competitive side kicking in as she dived. Jack kept his eyes fixed on the waypoint his HUD created as the heaving winds battered him. He tensed his torso and tilted himself, correcting towards the landing site. He neared the ground.

Sir now might be an imperative time to activate the flaps. Teletraan One spoke in his ear.

"Good call, and thanks for helping me use this suit" he spoke inside the quiet helmet, only the thumping of his pulse and his heavy breathing sounding.

Our little secret sir.

Jack held his arms out wide and the array of brake flaps enable, stretching out from his arms and back like wide metal feathers. Aggressive wind hit him and tried to speed him up, along with Gravity's push. Jack grimaced as he held his arms out and kept holding them out, slowing and angling his legs down beneath him, coming to the right angle.

He activated the thrusters once more; factually Teletraan did, helping the eager young human Autobot. The boots slowed him to the perfect altitude. Arcee raced past, also using wind breaker flaps to slow her approach and angle herself back up. She could go fast than him, landing first with an earth shattering thud in a knelt position, fist against the cracked ground, only because of her metal body and stronger physique.

Jacks fragile human form was stronger in the armor, but not strong enough to survive an impact at those speeds. He neared the ground, holding his hands down and keeping his feet together as the thruster boots hovered him over to the podium beneath Christ. He dropped with a clang and staggered slightly, arms waving out as he steadied himself.

"Okay, that...was awesome!" He chuckled as he looked up at the leaving plane they'd just jumped from.

"Cee! I just jumped from that thing!"

"Yeah you did. Well done partner" She said, crouching down to him.

"I mean I just...whoa, my life is so awesome right now! I mean I got this suit, I got the Autobots" he saw her face drop. "But most importantly, I got you" He said, his helmet disconnecting, revealing his face as the mask sunk into the chest piece. She lifted her head up as he stroked her cheek.

He leaned forward planting a gently kiss on her lips, enough passion to let her know she was his everything. An arm around his back and a passionate press on the lips back, his top lip between hers, Arcee gave her all. They gently pulled away. He panted slightly along with her, only gently. She opened her eyes along with him as they bumped foreheads softly.

"Shall we go get these cons Cee?" He said to her.

"Now you're talking my language" She smirked as she transformed. Jack hit the Autobot logo on his chest with a thump and the suit hissed and dissolved, forming up and onto his back in a cube, Autobot logo on the back of the box as it clipped tight. He raised his black hood and hopped his jeans coated legs over his beloved motorcycle partner. He rested his trainer wearing feet on the footrests.

Arcee revved and raced down the hill from the redeemer as he stood arms held out wide to the welcome city below.

...

In the heart of Rio de Janeiro, screams echoed and gunfire crackled. Arcee pulled to a stop just around the corner from the bank, funnily where the cried were coming from. Suddenly Police cars wailed by the Motorcycle and her rider towards the bank, blue and red flashing lights glistening on walls.

"Cons always do these heists at night; they know what they're doing" Jack rubbed his chin.

"Must have recruited men with knowledge on how to commit perfect robberies" Arcee stated.

"Yeah well it won't be so perfect in a moment, come on Cee" He hopped off of her and neared the wall of a tall building. He activated the armor and seconds later, thruster boots engaged, flew up the side of the building, no longer walking his hands up the wall to steady him. He'd learned.

He landed on the roof and activated his right arm blaster, repeating London and aiming at the bank. He winced his left eye and glared through the right. The scope picked up the same scenario. Decepti-Sapiens holding hostages, however this time Jack spotted the awaiting Vehicons early, two of them sat in vehicular modes not far up the road.

"Arcee, we got Vehicons literally a few meters up the road from you, you think you can head through the alleyways and get em?"

"Of course, just tell me which alleyway" he saw her drive forward across the road, transforming as she disappeared into an alleyway. Jack counted the alleyway exits.

"Erm...From the one you just entered, I count six alleys. Go through-err-the seventh and get em from behind" Jack told her

"Element of surprise. Got it" She nodded, running through the darkness of the alleyways. Occasionally Jack would see a dark mass move through one alley, and another, towards the unawares Vehicons.

She slid her arched back along the brick wall with blasters raised. She could hear them revving and the brake lights painting red on the ground behind them. This was the alley.

"Jack, I'm in position"

"So far so good. I'm guessing these hostages won't be lasting long, they've got guns to their heads and these human cons don't look cooperative" Jack watched the Decepti-Sapiens shouting at the desperate police, trying to calm them, lowering guns and palms raised in a calming manor to the angry cons. "Arcee hit the Vehicons, now!"

She slipped out from the behind the wall, aiming at the back of the cars.

"Hello boys!" She smirked, firing at the unawares cons. One exploded in a fireball and the other transformed, running to the awaiting Sapiens. Arcee took cover as the con fired back at her.

"Scrap! Jack he's getting away"

"No worries, at least they've let the hostages go. Now that they're in the car, we give chase and get them away from the innocent" The Vehicon with Sapiens and money inside drove away with pace as Arcee drove out of thealleyway. The police were too busy with the hostages. Jack lowered his rifle, shifting it away into his arm. He held onto the wall and took a deep breath.

"Teletraan I hope you're helping right now" He sighed, leaping the wall and jumping to the ground below. Suddenly the flaps kicked in as did the thrusters, steadying his four story jump to a gently stop. He landed slowly on his feet with a clank as Arcee pulled over. He immediately hopped on, helmet forming around his head as he did. She drove off giving chase.

"So Cee, we gonna break rule one?"

"What, win?" she replied as they caught up with the lone con.

"Winning isn't enough Jack, you wanna make em cry!" She shouted, driving alongside the con as Jack readied his arm blaster. Suddenly he looked up, seeing a huge Buffalo mine clearer drive out of an alleyway onto their side of the road, blocking it.

"Arcee, get em!" He shouted, wincing and rolling off of her, skidding along the tarmac in his armor, rolling to a stop at the curb. If he'd stayed on her, she wouldn't have been able to transform till she'd stopped so Jack could get off. This way, she could focus on them.

"Thank you Ratchet for this suit"

Arcee wanted to go back for him, but she had to finish this. Just as the Buffalo stopped, she transformed, leaping onto the roof of the con, diverting around the buffalo labelled Bonecrusher by millimeters.

"Shockwave, this is Bonecrusher. You might want to get Soundwave to open a bridge and soon" He growled, driving off after the Con and Bot tangle.

Jack sat up with a groan to the grill of a red and gold sports car. The pristine car revved, headlights gleaming on him.

"Well, well, well. Jack is it? How's mom, is she good? Nice suit. Though it looks a little scratched" Knockout joked. Jack got up, walking alongside him, holding his gut, walking off the pain.

"So do you" He smirked, scraping the sharp corner of his rectangular barreled blaster down Knockout's side, a thick silver streak of ripped paint edging along his torso with a metallic screech. The Decepticon wailed, not in pain but horror.

"You...you ruined my finish! You're dead!" Knockout revved at him, transforming into the tall red eyes Decepticon doctor.

"Thought you joined the winning team?" Jack hissed.

"With Megatron back, this is the winning team" He smirked. "Now, you'll pay for that scratch!" Knockout sighed as he looked at the door wing on his wrist.

Jack, thanks to the help of Teletraan, activated the thrusters and flew up out of Knockouts range, missing his swinging sharp fingers by inches.

"Teletraan, can you lock onto Cee for me?" He shouted as he hovered, looking over the city.

Autobot Arcee has been located sir. Shall I set you a waypoint?"

"Thanks Teletraan" he edged forward gently and flew like Iron man after Arcee, having watched the films to give his flying style practice, legs together and arms to his side, head raised as he flew over the city, watching Arcee below as she sliced at the roof of the Vehicon. He looked back slightly, back down the road as Bonecrusher was driving after them, alongside Knockout.

"Teletraan, I'm going to need you to put some more juice in my boots"

Yes sir. Your thrusters are now at 70% power; however, power was triaged from shields, meaning amour will be weaker by 30%

"I'll cope. Thanks Teletraan" Jack said as he boosted forward towards the chase. Suddenly a UAV drone raced by him, almost knocking Jack into the path of a tall broad skyscraper, he corrected his course but only just. The purple drone landed just up the road as a tall slender Decepticon: Soundwave.

"Arcee? Cee, its Soundwave!" Jack shouted through his communicator, watching it unfold from above.

Meanwhile Arcee looked up the road at him. A ground bridge opened before Soundwave, swirling in powerful green light.

Arcee leaped off of the Vehicon, twirling through the air and lining up a blaster shot, as if in slow motion. She closed one eye and released the blast, firing the blue energy under the car, blowing the engine tank sky high in a huge fireball. The purple Vehicon erupted in flames and Decepti-Sapiens flew from the burning wreck as the dead con smashed and rolled down the road. The humans writhed in pain amass the firing inferno. Arcee stood tall, Soundwave's appearance distorted by the wobbling horizon of heat from the amber flames. He stared back as he stepped into the ground bridge, vanishing. Burning notes of money filled the air and littered the floor.

Arcee, quickly rolled aside as the huge Bonecrusher raced past, six wheel running over the burning hull with Knockout in tow. They both disappeared through the vortex.

"That's my girl" Jack smiled with a fist pump as he watched from his hovering stature in the sky, thrusters burning.

The green swirl vanished with an electrical pop and she dropped her stance of aggression. Humans lay on the floor, holding wounds and moaning. She had a few moments, and wanted her own answers; so she walked over to one, a girl. Arcee crouched and placed her blaster to to the con, a crazed blonde woman with the Decepticon logo on her arm.

"What are Decepticons doing here?" She whispered to herself overlooking the injured Sapiens and destroyed Vehicon. "What do you want? What's all this money for? Answer me!" She ordered.

"Tyranny" She chuckled with a smile through the pain. Arcee growled. Her interrogation was severed when police sirens sounded up the road. She transformed and drove off out of sight. Jack watched from above as she drove off up the road, police arriving not far behind in sheer numbers, arresting and apprehending the legion of Decepti-Sapiens. It wasn't all of them, but it was a start. Jack watched as cops pulled them along the ground, pressing knees into their backs and shoving cuffs on them. An arrest of ten men, three women, thanks to Arcee and her skills. Jack saw her heading out of the city towards the darkened statue aloft the hill.

"Teletraan. Tell Optimus we stopped em. Well, tell him Cee stopped them. And ask if Ratchet can bridge us back yet. We're coming home" Jack said as he raced towards the statue with his thrusters.

Of course sir

...

Jack flew down to meet Arcee, back at the Redeemer statue. Still the wailing of police sirens cried.

"Great work Cee" he smiled, landing with a thump.

"Lost the money though" she sighed with a shrug.

"So? At least they can't use it for whatever they had in mind" Jack told her.

"I guess. Wish I knew what it was. It scares me to not know Jack"

"Me too"

Suddenly a loud pop sounded and the green hue of a ground bridge erupted beside them.

"Ready to go home?" He smiled as he stepped forward. She grabbed his shoulder, kneeling down.

"Jack, you did amazing work today. You and I, we stopped them. Don't second guess yourself" she said. Jack was confused. His eyebrow floated upwards.

"Arcee, what are you?"

"When you talk to Teletraan, I hear it too" she chuckled gently. Jack gulped.

"Oh...so you know that he..." Jack played with his gloved fingers.

"Helped with your suit? Yes" She smiled with an eyebrow raised.

"Scrap" he sighed.

She did figure it out for herself sir. I kept to my order of withholding the information.

"Thank you...Teletraan" Jack hissed.

"Jack, that is what he's there for! To help. you still have a lot to learn about flying that suit. I can't imagine how difficult it must be. You did amazing work, and i am so very proud of you" she gave a gently squeeze of his shoulder.

"Wait, does that mean that the guys at base can hear us...you know...talking about...us" He asked like a nervous kid.

"No, I turned that side off. Just you me and Teletraan baby" she smirked. Jack chuckled.

"Thanks Cee. I appreciate it. I know my skills aren't there yet, but I'm getting there...slowly"

"Hey, who knows Jack, Maybe one day you'll be a prime" she joked, ruffling his hair.

"Nah, that'll be you. I can see it now" He held his hands out in front of him. "Arcee Prime, leader of the Autobots, the first beautiful Prime!

"Flatterer" She smirked.

"I try" He nodded back. She cupped his face and kissed him, letting her arms wrap around him and hug him close as she kissed hard. He stroked her face and up to the back of her head. After a long intimate kiss, she let go. Jack was dazed slightly.

"Whoa...a-and that?" he stammered, scratching the back of his neck with his gloved hand.

"For saving me countless times: The dam, from ending up like Blackout. For showing this old war-bot that there is more to life than fighting and death...I love you" she sighed with a smile.

"I love you too Cee"

"Come on, we got some celebrating to do" she smiled, getting up and walking towards the bridge. Jack followed, his helmet reforming around his head, simply to conceal his love struck expression till it calmed down.