Two months had elapsed since the Decepticon coup of Earth. Jasper was still being rebuilt, but the massive effort to house those who had lost meant it was a speedy recovery, with half of Jasper already completed, a tall forest of cranes and thousands of workers and volunteers building New Jasper.

Until Jasper was completed however, June and Jack were staying at Omega Two, the massive Silo base built inside a huge mountain stood tall in the Nevada desert, an exact copy of Omega One from years prior, before it's destruction.

Miko and her host parents had moved back to New Jasper, even though half of it was still under construction. Raf and his family did the same, moving to the new housing estate in the completed side of New Jasper.

Jack was still adjusting to his new prosthetic leg, and after two long, hard months of rehabilitating and learning to walk and run again, Jack was getting back to his old self. Though he was never in it alone, thanks to his mothers medical expertise and care, Ratchet's technology and upgrades and of course his beloved partner Arcee, helping him all the way the best she could.

Arcee and Jack were finally Sparkmates and bonded both physically and mentally. She was finally on the path to peace and happiness, straying from the thin line of good and evil. Jack loved her with all his heart, and planned to spend all his short life with her, because they were meant to be together. They were created and born so many light-years apart, and found each other despite their differences.

What are they all doing now? Well, the Autobots are settling back into their Command Center, starting to get used to being in an exact replica of Omega one. Though they had two newcomers staying where Jazz and Ironhide used to, Smokescreen and Grimlock were here to stay.

With no Decepticon threats in months, and October reaching the end of its short life, the small Autobot family was starting to grow...bored.

...

Isaac Clarke roared as he slammed his boot down on a Necromorph's skull, blood erupting upwards and flesh breaking from bone. As the image buzzed and illuminated from the TV screen, Jack gasped and shuffled on the berth edge as he clicked away at his controller, playing the experience. His tongue peaking out the side of his mouth as he titled his body to Isaac's movements, concentrating as monsters leaped at him onscreen.

Laying on her side behind him, her curves rising and setting like a smooth metal mountain range of black, silver, pink and blue, Arcee sighed heavily and rolled her eyes in boredom. Her head plopped on her left palm and elbow denting the huge padded mattress under her, she watched Jack scream and gasp at the monsters biting and clawing at Isaac.

"Jack, why do you humans find it so fascinating to scare yourselves? It's ridiculous" She grumbled.

"Because-argh-Cee, its fun to be on the-ahh!-edge, worried about what's going to happen-gah!-next! It's fun!" Jack explained , his eyes never losing connection with the screen. Arcee the sat up behind him, crossing her long slender legs and resting her elbows on Jack's shoulders, propping her head up in both palms above him.

"And this...Halloween. What is it again?"

"I'm sure I've-AHHH!" Jack's eyes widened as a Stalker screamed out from behind a crate, making a blood curdling bellow and knocking Isaac over. Jack slowed his heart rate as he cut through its torso, with rapid button clicks. "Ah...As I was saying, I'm sure I've explained Halloween to you before"

"Probably, but I wasn't listening" She simply stated. Jack rolled his eyes with a chuckle.

"Do you rarely listen?" Jack asked, getting no response. He peered up at her head above his, staring at the TV.

"Cee!"

"Huh, what?" She snapped back from the screen of bright pixels.

"Never mind, just proving my point" Jack laughed, returning to dismembering Necromorphs onscreen. She shuffled around her berth and rolled onto her stomach, head cupped in her palms as she looked at him, her legs kicking up in the air behind her.

"Come on! Tell me about Halloween! I swear I'll listen"

"Okay, okay. Stop with the puppy dog eyes" He laughed as she calmed the brightness of her optics and retreated her pouting bottom lip. His eyes returned to the screen as Isaac walked over the blood stained floor.

"Okay, well...Halloween is a time when kids and sometimes adults dress up as monsters and creepy...well, things, and walk around knocking on doors calling trick or treat"

"Then what? Is that it? Sounds boring" She said all at once.

"Let me finish...Then they collect candy from the people's houses, and put it in bags and then move onto the next. It's a fun time of year" Jack explained, Arcee's eyes popping bright blue and wide.

"Wait, they rob their houses of sugary snacks? Sounds awful, how is this allowed, what about the law?"

Jack couldn't help but burst into laughter, throwing his head back. Arcee growled and snarled her lip, giving him a gentle nudge, knocking him over on the berth.

"Oh Cee, you do make me laugh" he pretended to wipe away a stray tear.

"Uh-huh" She said with a straight face. He sat back up, his mechanical right leg clanking on the floor. She noted that now he didn't even notice the sound, when originally it scared him. How time heals.

"No, Cee. They say trick or treat, and it's basically them asking for free food. It's all for fun, makes people happy"

"Well alright then" she said as she sat back up on her berth, stretching her long legs out.

"What, you gonna stop Halloween from happening if you didn't like the sound of it?" Jack chuckled.

"Maybe" She smirked, closing her eyes and stretching her back, arching it and thrusting her chest forward. Jack gulped as he watched her stretch her curvy body.

"Gah Cee, why?"

"Why what?" She asked, oblivious or evil.

"You know what I mean Missy" Jack said as he reached a save point, Isaac opening the panel and saving his progress as he put the controller down on the berth beside him, his undivided attention given to Arcee.

"Oh do I?" she coyly giggled.

"Yes...you do"

"What? When I stretch...like this?" She smirked as she stretched her body again, knowing it aggravated and excited him.

"This isn't over Arcee. You're lucky you don't have a last name, otherwise I'd have used it" Jack said with a finger pointed as he got up, his right knee whirring.

"Whaah?" She said with a crease in her confused eyebrow. Jack sighed, having to explain something else.

"When I was a kid...hell even now, if I was in trouble, Mom would shout "Jackson Darby!" my full name...scary to hear, you know you've done something bad" he chuckled. Arcee nodded.

"I'll remember that...Jackson Darby" She smirked as she laid out on her berth, giggling like a little girl, a side of her that nobody ever saw, only him. A side of her that she was only happy revealing to her Sparkmate. Jack smiled as he stood in the middle of their quarters.

"Well, maybe one day you can have my last name" Jack nervously laughed, not realizing that Arcee was fully aware of human marriages, having studied them to learn what happened to June's husband and Jack's father years ago. She knew that wearing someones last name is a sign of marriage. Her eyes widened at Jack's offer. Jack turned to face her seeing her reaction. Suddenly his smile dropped and his face turned bright red, flushed with color.

"You err...you know what I...oh boy" he rubbed the back of his head. "The one time I don't have to explain something to you. You don't know what Halloween is but you know everything on marriage? Perfect" He sarcastically mumbled.

"You want to...marry me?" She asked. Jack's eyes widened.

"No! God no!" He saw her eyes drop in upset. "I mean well yes, but no...but...well maybe one day I just, gah!" He stammered all at once to her.

"Don't worry Jack, I'm not pushing you into it" She chuckled gently, embarrassed him.

"I know, I know...look, you know I love you, right?" He asked her.

"Of course, and I love you. Though after last night...you better love me" She giggled, biting her lip with suggestive eyebrows bobbing.

"Shush! Mom's living here as well remember, at least until the house is rebuilt" Jack shook his head with a chuckle, the red on his face and heat diminishing.

"Argh...I know" Arcee grumbled as she slouched; sitting up, head in palms.

"What now..." Jack rolled his eyes as he clanged over to her.

"I've loved having you here...I mean really loved it. I wake up in your arms, I power down in your arms. It's just...it's gonna be hard when you go, that's all" She shrugged. Jack tried to crouch to be eye level, but couldn't keep stable thanks to his leg. He simply lifted her chin instead.

"Cee, I've had one hell of a time as well, and it isn't over, we've still got a couple of weeks no doubt"

"I guess...so, what now? I mean it is Halloween and all" Arcee smiled changing the subject.

"Err...gee, I don't know" Jack said as he rubbed his neck.

"We could go for a ride? I mean we haven't been in months!" Arcee sighed, missing having him aboard for her little drives. He lowered his head.

"Cee, I'd love to but...well" He gestured to his mechanical right leg. "Kinda hard to stay on you when that's not a foot" He sighed. She rolled her eyes with a smile, getting up and taking his hand, leading him out into the hall. "Follow me" she said softly.

"But...my game-" he reached out to the room as he was dragged from it, like a child from a toy store.

"Isaac can wait. I have something to show you" She smirked as she walked with him down the long tall hallway of Omega two, past Bumblebee's empty quarters, then Bulkhead's. His door was ajar and inside his foot tapped as he laid on his berth, blaring Slash Monkey, Miko jamming in his room on her guitar, strumming away with violent wrist swings. Arcee and Jack both rolled their eyes as she grasped the giant door handle and slid the hangar-like door across with a gently slam.

"Hey!" A muffled Miko moaned. Jack scoffed a stifled laugh as they rounded the corner towards the familiar Command Center.

"For Primus sake Grimlock, I needed that!" Ratchet shouted.

"Oh this'll be good" Arcee smirked. Jack nodded as they entered the huge room, Grimlock's huge dinosaur form struggling to turn around in the massive room, his tail whacking and knocking Ratchet's equipment over.

"Why are you even in that form?" Ratchet growled, ducking under the swinging tail. Grimlock stomped about as he tried to get past the doctor and into the bigger clearing of the huge Center.

"Whoa! Easy big guy!" Jack shouted as Grimlock stared down at him.

"He's not angry, just getting used to not having to always be enraged to use this form...But soon I will be enraged, if he doesn't stop breaking my equipment!" Ratchet shouted in anger, his arms tightly crossed.

Grimlock soon transformed back, raising fists from the ground as the golden toes folded up into his wrists. His huge black head and red visor gleamed down at Jack.

"Me Grimlock...sorry Ratchey" Grimlock sulked.

"It's...Ratchet! Not Ratchey!" the doctor grumbled.

"Me no like him" Grimlock mumbled as he stomped over to the corner of the room, near the Ground Bridge tunnel excavated into the cliff wall.

"I have to say Ratchet, you outdid yourself. This is identical in every way to Omega one!" Jack chuckled, admiring the huge Center, Ratchet stood by his familiar Bridge controls.

"Thank you! Someone who appreciates a little aesthetic! Yes Jack, it turned out wondrous. A perfect reconstruction, right down to the number of rivets in my..." He turned to display his devise, eyes widening to see it gone. He looked everywhere in a blind panic, before setting disappointed eyes on Grimlock.

The colossal softy was sat cradling the flattened device in his huge palm. "Me sorry. Me accidentally sit on it" He seemed genuinely apologetic to the doctor. Ratchet rubbed the bridge of his optics.

"Its...It's alright. I can always...rebuild it" He sighed as he held it in his hands.

"So! Cee, you had something to show me?" Jack asked, breaking the awkward silence and thick tension. She clicked her fingers, remembering.

"Yes, Ratchet, did my update work?"

"Ah yes! It has been fully corrected and installed. I thought you'd have showed him by now?" Ratchet shrugged.

"Showed me what?" Jack was growing impatient. Arcee transformed, looking identical in every way. He couldn't make out a single alteration, at all. "What am I looking at Cee?"

"She revved and turned slightly, showing him her right side. Jack's eyes widened with a smile. Her footrest was now redesigned with a latch, so Jack's leg could hook onto it, allowing him to stay full seated on her, without his foot slipping off her at high speeds.

"We can ride again partner!" she said with a concealed smile.

"This...this is why I love you" Jack smiled as he sat on her, checking his right leg as he gently swung it over, the knee hinge whirring as he pegged it into the slot. A snug fit, no way he could fall out, or off.

"Actually, I invented the upgrade" Ratchet bragged.

"Do you want me to love you?" Jack smirked, threatening the medical officer. Ratchet's proud smile vanished and he gritted his teeth.

"Mmm...Little Scraplet" Ratchet grumbled under his breath as he turned his attention to the bridge controls.

"Shall we?" Jack smiled, taking his helmet and sliding it over his head.

"Oh yeah...let's go-"

"Jack?" shouted the voice of June, Jack's head tilting back with a groan and Arcee's wing mirrors slumping like disappointed shoulders.

"Rain check?" Jack nervously chuckled.

"Uh-huh" Arcee transformed, Jack falling off her as she stood up.

"Hey!" he took his helmet off, watching her stand above him.

"Whoops" She said with little to no enthusiasm. He sat up, groaning as he rested on his knelt right leg, pushing up with his flesh and bone left. He staggered to his feet, rubbing his head as Arcee walked off to the corner of the room, definitely annoyed. June then took his attention, a Motherly kiss to the forehead making Jack cringe.

"Argh, Mom!" The twenty year old groaned, wiping his forehead.

"Hey honey! Just got back from New Jasper. It's looking good! Officials say it'll be totally finished for us to move back in two weeks!" June smiled.

"T-two weeks?" Jack sighed.

"Yeah...why? You look disappointed" A mother's instinct at work.

"No...Not at all" He rubbed his neck. "Just liked staying here is all"

"I know, it's been nice, especially staying up late chatting with the doctor. Hello Ratchet!" she shouted up, a smile and wave back, as Ratchet had actually grown to like her. They would stay up late, Ratchet telling her about Cybertronian medicine and her about human medicine in return.

"Hello G-Grimlock" She stammered as she waved at the titan sat in the corner. He waved back, mimicking her wave, It was rather amusing seeing a titan death machine like him wave in a feminine manor. Poor Bot has a lot to learn.

"Oh hello Arcee! I didn't see you there" June said, getting a sarcastic wave back from Arcee.

"Is she mad at me?" June asked her son.

"No, no Mom. We were just heading out. Wanted to stretch the leg" He nervously chuckled.

"How is it? The leg I mean? You okay?"

"Mmm? Yeah. Yeah I'm getting used to it. It's never gonna be the same, but I guess the more I forget about what it felt like to feel the right one, the more I'll get used to this one" He shrugged, looking down at it, the pistons and suspension spring squeezing in on themselves as he leaned pressure on it.

"I suppose that's one way to think about it" June smiled.

"So mom, how'd you even get to New Jasper with the Bridge down for repairs?" Jack asked. Suddenly a huge red truck pulled up with a hiss behind her.

"He offered me a lift" She smiled as Optimus Prime morphed into his huge proud Autobot stature. His arms folded out with a tensed pose and his head lifted up from the torso, everything locking in to place by the time he was stood at full height.

"Hello Jack. How are you today?" Optimus asked.

"Not bad thanks. I'm getting used to having this bulky thing for a leg. You?"

"I am well. No Decepticon threats mean we Autobots have had time to, as you humans say...kick back and relax. It has been enjoyable. Your mother showed me around the site of New Jasper. It is looking very impressive so far"

"Good...good. Look, Prime. Me and Arcee were just heading out, I'll speak to you later?"

"Indeed Jack. Have a good time" Optimus walked away towards Ratchet to check on any progress. June crossed her arms and looked at Jack.

"What?" he asked as Arcee walked over, hips swaying.

"There's something going on" She gasped "Have you met someone!" June asked, hopeful.

"You have no idea" Ratchet chuckled, a sharp nudge from Arcee stifling his laughter.

"Err...well, no not really" He chuckled, his eyes glowing blue as Arcee neared, somehow going unnoticed by his mother.

"Yes there is isn't there! Come on, whose the lucky lady? Is it Sierra, the girl you were chatting to a few days ago?" June really dropped Jack in the deep end now.

"Sierra huh Jack..." Arcee chuckled sinisterly. "Oh we need to have a talk" She said with a fake, soft happy tone, although Jack knew it was a threat.

"I don't want to go for a ride now" He mumbled as Arcee transformed.

"Tough. Get on"

"Yes Ma'am" Jack sighed. "Thanks a lot Mom" He moaned.

"What'd I say?" She scoffed. Arcee sped off out of the base with her prey.

"So...Sierra huh?"

"Scrap" Jack winced. Jack was in for one uncomfortable ride.

Author notes: Start of a more happier, funnier, relaxing story. Hope you all enjoy the sequel to Shattered Glass!