DISCLAIMER I own none of these characters except my OC's Hasbro or whoever owns transformers does because if I did not only would this series never had ended but this probably would have happened

Heh and sorry for the rocky start on this chapter, I can't really see any way I can improve how cheesy it sounds but that might just be me idk. And please keep in mind this is my first fanfic so there's that as well.

Updated 1/6/2020: Fixed some issues changed some small details that don't effect much and made the story more PG that it was before, however some cursing is still there just around certain characters.

Now get reading so I can go back to working on the next chapter.

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

(President Franklin D. Roosevelt) FDR's First Inaugural Address

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CHAPTER 1

Revelations

Darkness was all around him, he could tell he was laying down because of the cold metal on his back which somewhat numbed the pain in his back and head.

It took him a moment to realize his eyes were closed. he sat up and opened his eyes slowly his eyes blurrily adjusting to the dim light in the large room he was in.

When they finally adjusted he was confused, this wasn't his room it was far larger than any room in town its walls colored gunmetal grey with purple lights dotted around mostly on ridges. He looked around taking a moment to try and find a door or something. the only thing really catching his attention was a large door that looked like it would have fit on a hanger.

He decided against trying to open it due to the sheer size of it. He decided to sit by the wall and try and remember where he was and how he got there. He was staying at home due to it being a Saturday and decided not to go to the base with his partner. it was rather quiet nothing big was happening the only recent event was Wheeljack coming back for a bit and chasing a new...con…

With the last thought he thought, that name had a large significance to his current situation he just couldn't figure out why. The cons hadn't done anything as of recently they had been rather quiet for the better part of two months. Optimus had figured they were planning something.

With his memory finally not as blurry and his vision clearing up he started to recognize parts of where he was with a growing sense of dread, finally it had all clicked he was captured by the Decepticons and undoubtedly he was on their warship the Nemesis. Panic started to well up inside him but he calmed himself down, he needed to remember how he got there maybe it would lead to a way out.

He sat down again to try and focus on what happened, he was eating lunch by the TV relaxing for a while, then he heard what sounded like explosions and screeching tires and felt like small tremors through the ground, he got up to see what was going on and went to the front window to open the curtains but his mom burst in through the door slamming it behind her rushing to the phone. Rapidly typing in someone's number. Before he could ask what was happening the sound of explosions had gotten louder and were shaking his house almost making him fall he had to support himself on the couch.

His mom frantically called the number again after not receiving an answer the first time. He looked out the window to see what on earth was going on to witness a terrible sight.

There was fire all over the place people running in fright from things in the smoke they couldn't see red lasers almost hitting some of the people running, cars driving fast down the road barely dodging each other or people. How he didn't notice any of this earlier was beyond him.

Looking back through the window he could see military jeeps and trucks driving through the smoke and devastated street some carrying civilians while others fired into the smoke at an unseen enemy.

He looked over at his mom who was once again calling the same number who still hadn't picked up. He assumed she was calling the Autobots and judging from her multiple attempts at calling any communication attempts was being jammed. He was then taken from his thoughts by the vibration through the ground made by cybertronian pedesteps.

He looked out his window to only see a large navy blue pede blocking the window. Debris from the ceil started falling as the roof was ripped off the house like tissue paper to reveal possibly the most terrifying Decepticon second to Megatron, Soundwave.

His mom screamed at seeing the Con, He grabbed his mom and bolted to the back door hoping to escape the Decepticon communications officer, sadly it was all in vain as Soundwave picked him and his mom up. They had both started calling for help but none came before a green vortex opened up in front of them and the silent con brought them through.

On the other side of the portal, they appeared on the Nemesis the dark hallways stretching on for quite a ways. Behind him, he could hear some screams and yelling of familiar and unfamiliar voices but just kept focused on where they were going so he might be able to find a way out if he escaped.

It wasn't long before Soundwave stopped before a dark room. The large door opened revealing it to be empty with the exception of restraints for someone possibly several times his size then he was tossed inside. He could hear his mother's cry before he crashed into the wall, instantly going out cold before falling to the floor. Everything else…was just...Darkness…

Remembering his mom was also grabbed, made him stand up and for the first time noticing the group of people in the room with him who he somehow failed to notice earlier.

In total there were about twelve people in the room him included. There were multiple people from his school some he knew well some he didn't, his mom was among them along with Rafael "Raf" Esquivel and Miko Nakadai. It was obvious they were here but why everyone else they didn't know the Autobots no one did they were supposed to be a government secret.

He was brought out of examining the surrounding people by the steady pace of large cybertronian footsteps walking at a slow but steady pace.

"Ah, I see you're awake," said a cold, dark voice that sent Jack shivers through his spine. He turned to the face the now open door to his cell, and clear as day, standing high before him was the leader of the Decepticons, Megatron.

"Megatron," he said with venom practically dripping from his voice, He stood tall, or as tall as he could against the colossal dark lord trying not to let the terror he felt show. He didn't let any surprise into his voice as he had failed to hear or see the warmonger arrive.

"As I said I always remember a face even that of a humans." the silver titan said with a menacingly calm tone sending shivers down his back. "Let us not forget our brief encounter in that abandoned mine or even your restoration of Optimus' memories." Megatron leaned down glaring. "You must have had true courage or stupidity to defy me like that."

"I've learned a lot from the Autobots," he growled looking Megatron right in his crimson optics. Megatron might have been ten times his size but he would try to never show fear in the face of a con ever.

"I know," Megatron replied. "I also know that you are not the only one to impede my goals. Your two little friends there have helped the Autobots quite a bit to hinder my objectives." Megatron smirked darkly.

He snarled. "You leave them out of this you twisted psychopath!"

"Oh such spark," Megatron said with an ever growing maniacal smirk. "You will make a fine warrior. But you shall have to wait and see what is in store for you." With that, Megatron walked away from the cell.

With Megatron gone he left the young man even more confused and disturbed than earlier, he wanted to know what the tyrant meant but left it to more important matters, but he knew whatever it was it wasn't good.

"Ugh…" groaned a voice. Jack quickly turned and saw it was his mother awakening. Her eyes slowly opened and blinked as she saw him. "J-Ja…ack…" she said weakly.

"I'm here mom," Jack said, rushing to her side. He helped her sit up. June rubbed her aching head before looking at their surroundings.

"Jack, w-where are we?" June asked her son.

"The Nemesis," Jack replied sadly. "The Cons…" June let out a silent gasp. "Are you alright? That overgrown tin can threw you into the wall!"

"I'm fine, just a little headache, but other than that okay," Jack replied.

June turned to her side and gasped again. "Raf, Miko! What are they doing here?"

"Same as us mom," Jack replied. "Megatron, he… he came by before you woke up. I don't know what he wants with us. And it's not just us mom, look." he then pointed over to the eight other people in the room.

She knew a few of them like Sierra Winters she knew Jack used to have a crush on her but he had a new crush now, who she didn't yet know of. The second one she saw made her blood boil a little just at the sight of the little punk Vince Smith, she knew he was a bully and he messed with Jack and the kids.

After Vince was Spike Witwicky she didn't know him too well but knew he was friends with Jack and had asked for him to work at his mechanic shop at some point fairly recently. Next to Spike was a girl she didn't know the name of, but Jack started giving a one sided introduction to everyone she didn't know.

"That's Carly Spencer she's a quiet girl most of the time, she and Raf are friends I think and she helps him deal with Vince I heard."

After her, June just decided to let Jack continue to tell her about the rest of them since they most likely were going to be here a while and to keep her mind off what happened for a short while at least.

"So after Carly is Sari Sumdac she moved here from Detroit and after her dad thought it best for here she one of Raf's friends because they both enjoy computers and robotics, and her dad owns Sumdac Systems in Detroit," Jack said pointing over to a small Indian girl about Raf's height with red hair.

"And uh the one propped up on the wall there is Mikaela Banes, her dad had dragged her into stealing cars so once he got locked up she was moved to Jasper to live with her uncle." Jack finished with a small shake of his head.

"Poor girl why would her father do that, that's just messing up their kid's life." June shook her head although the present situation was already saddening hearing about this didn't help. Instead, she decided to get the depressing thoughts out of her head and looked over at the last two people.

"What about them who are they?" she asked Jack who looked up seeing her pointing towards two men, who he knew to an extent but not too well.

"Hmm the first one, his name is Jameson uh… Sanders, he's a teacher and taught US history, loved the WWII era I heard. He used to be in the military but got discharged due to a bad knee I guess, and apparently, he prefers to get called by his first name only I think it has to do with his last name or something. I talked to him occasionally but not too often"

Jack paused a moment to try and remember who the other was "Uh the short one he's a PE teacher his name is Sean Harris I don't really know much about him other than him and Jameson are friends and he can apparently be fairly annoying and has a short temper. I haven't talked to him at all, but Miko had him as a teacher and apparently hated him." Jack finished and looked at his mother again trying to figure out what else to say.

June again shook her head in sadness and panic with all the thoughts and information about their current situation sinking in again. "Why? Why would they do this? They… They…"

"I know mom, I know," Jack replied, leaning down and hugging her, they both knew their home was gone almost torn apart in the attack they figured it was probably nothing more than ashes and rubble at this point and the chances of the Autobots being able to help were…slim, at best.

They sat there in a frightened silence, Jack hugging his mother to try and comfort her in some way.

It took about twenty minutes for the third person to wake up after Jack and June.

"Ugh, wh-what hit my head feels like Bulk just ran me over." Miko groaned out it was obvious she didn't have a nice landing either.

"Miko are you alright?" Jack asked walking over to the crazy foreign exchange student. He put a hand on her shoulder to steady her when she suddenly stood up and started slightly wobbling slightly.

"Ja-Jack? What are you- wait where are we? This place looks familiar. Oh is Raf around I need to ask him something" Miko started slightly rambling off for a few seconds; it seemed she took a nasty hit to the head if the large bump was any indication.

"Miko hey snap out of it are you alright?" Jack asked again grabbing her by the shoulders shaking her and jostling her out of her weird kind of daze.

Luckily it seemed to work her eyes quickly focusing on him. "Huh oh ya Jacky I'm fine uh whe-" she trailed off this time her eyes going wide as she remembered everything that had happened to her prior.

"JACK!" she almost screamed causing him to step back slightly to save his ears she somehow hadn't woken up anyone else thankfully. "Jasper wh-what happened, the cons, Raf and I tried calling the bots but no one picked up they… they didn't come...th-they le-left us. Why?" Miko questioned and started rambling slightly again.

Miko at this point started looking extremely depressed and was crying slightly. "Bulk he- he didn't come none of them came." at this point Jack was shocked just in a short amount of time he saw a strange new side of Miko, one he didn't like and intended to fix.

"Miko listen to me." He started grabbing her attention; she looked at him with sadness in her eyes.

"The bots will come for us we have to be strong for them for all we know they are on their way right now as we speak, and were not the only ones here look," Jack said turning Miko around to show her their sleeping friends.

"Carly? Mikaela? Raf?! Even Mr. Harris? No way, why have the Cons done this? They didn't know about the bots! Only me, you, and Raf did. But after this they won't know what's happening, what do we do?" Miko questioned. If she didn't know what to do or understand exactly what was happening she could always count on Jack to get them out of a bind. He was like the protective older brother she could count on, while Raf was the innocent little brother she needed to protect.

It took Jack a moment to form an answer due to it being quite obvious but it would not only be hard to convince them but it was a major secret. "We tell them everything; if they're getting dragged into this we're gonna have to tell them about pretty much everything." He decided Miko nodding in agreement.

Not long after their talk Raf was the next to wake up his reaction was the worst off out of all of them. He woke up with a start, he then sat up fixing his glasses which somehow didn't get crushed or broken and looked around. His eyes widened exponentially and his breaths quickened, it was obvious he was panicking and badly to the point he was trembling.

Jack tried to calm him down but nothing worked his mom was the only one able to calm him down albeit only slightly, but it was enough for him to give simple nods to answer questions. Raf seeing all the other people in the room confused him greatly as none of them had known of the Autobots, it was only people they had frequently had contact with.

Jack told him about telling all of them about what was going on which Raf hesitantly nodded in reply still to shaken up to deal with any of what was going on.

It didn't take long for the others to wake up; most of the girls were panicking with the exception of Mikaela. The guys either didn't show it or weren't scared but Jack could tell a few were scared and confused about the situation. Jameson and Sean had an interesting "show" when they woke up.

Jameson basically looked and acted like he just woke up from a nice nap then looked around. He looked around noticing the girls panicking then looked over at June attempting to calm Raf down… he then spied the shorter guy unconscious guy on his back. When he was looking over the others he had what could only be described as a worried look on his face… when he saw the unconscious Sean he started looking between everyone else and him as if trying to make up his mind about something.

His eyes finally settled on the guy and he shrugged before standing up. Now Jack had to admit this guy was tall he stood at roughly six foot eight inches maybe a little less than ten inches taller than Jack.

After standing up he made his way over to Sean and knelt down before a mischievous grin came upon his face. Before Jack could even think about what was happening Jameson picked the other guy up by the collar sitting him up whilst shouting something along the lines of "time to get up sleeping beauty" or something.

Suddenly a slap filled the room, Jack looked and saw Jameson just slapped the poor sleeping guy across his face both waking him up fully and leaving a red mark on his face and him with a wide eyed expression. A moment later Jameson was on his back laughing and clutching his jaw because Sean had punched him not even a second later.

Sean started yelling at Jameson and you could tell he was really pissed. The yelling trailed off after he finally looked around and noticed where they were. And just kind of stopped everything, he sat down next to Jameson who at this point stopped laughing and started talking but Jack couldn't hear what was being said.

Since everyone at this point has woken up Jack decided now was the time to try and calm everyone down. He walked over to Miko who was sat by his mom and Raf with Sari and Carly close by. He tapped Miko on the shoulder a bit who nodded then looked at Raf; although he looked better -probably from the laugh Jameson gave- he was still not up to the challenge of explaining the current situation. He and Miko walked towards the center of preparing to tell everyone about everything.

"H-hey e-everyone." Jack stammered embarrassingly, thankfully it seemed that no one had heard him so he took a moment to steel himself and spoke again this time more clearly and louder. "Hey everyone we're going to need your attention." this time everyone turned towards Miko and him making him feel even more nervous.

"Jack? What happened?" Sierra spoke up clearly confused and still very much afraid.

"Well uh, first I'm sorry if this brings up bad memories but does everyone remember what happened before we ended up here?" Jack asked looking at the small group of people. Each gave a sorrowful nod some saying they remembered their houses getting torn apart by something large then darkness. Some others remembered almost vivid descriptions of the vehicon troops attacking.

Jack grimaced for a second starting to think it was their fault. These people didn't deserve what happened to them they didn't know anything and now their families were either fine, hurt… or.

Jack couldn't bring himself to finish the thought. He calmed himself down to resume his current task of getting everyone up to speed on their predicament.

"Alright that's good I just needed to make sure. Now, this next question may sound odd but how many of you believe in aliens?" Jack continued. While some of the people just looked at Jack like he lost his mind, Jameson, Sari, Mikaela and oddly enough Carly raised their hands.

Noticing the odd looks she got she spoke up. "What there's gotta be something in space we can't possibly be the only things here." Everyone seemed to find that a reasonable response and turned their attention back on Jack.

"Alright well, what if I told you there are alien robots and we're trapped on the bad guy's ship would you believe me?" Jack asked which caused more than a few people to get a little scared, however, Sean just gave Jack an incredulous look before speaking.

"So you're telling us that we've been kidnapped by robot aliens and are now on their ship," Sean said skeptically with a raised brow. "Great so next to your gonna tell me they turn into vehicles or maybe even a toaster or an RC car." He continued sarcastically making Jack laugh a little on the inside. Startling everyone a small bit Jameson started laughing and grinned at Jack with a knowing look before speaking.

"Wow, and you guessed it right on the dot. Are you psychic or somethin' Sean? And here I thought you had no brain." Jameson said laughing at Sean who looked at him with a glare.

"What do you mean I guessed right how could you know what's going on either of you? You both must have hit your head pretty hard." Sean replied getting a glare from Jameson while Jack looked him right in the eyes and spoke with dead seriousness.

"We are on an alien warship, it is called the Nemesis whose owners are called the Decepticons who are led by Megatron, and all he wants to do is conquer Earth and destroy his enemies. Now there is another faction called the Autobots they are the good guys they have been protecting Earth lead by Optimus Prime. They work with the government to try and keep them a secret." Jack hurried and said not wanting another interruption and figured it best to treat it like a Band-Aid and rip it off quick.

The entire group went quiet while Miko started talking, she was quiet at first but quickly spoke up. "All he just said is true we've known the bots for just a little less than a year. We've helped them out multiple times, Raf was almost killed, and Jacky here has been to another planet to help Optimus." Miko finished the room went absolutely dead quiet.

"Sh-she's right, we-we've known them for a while and I d-did get hurt during a really b-bad time but thanks to Mrs. Darby and Ratchet the team medic I c-came out fine," Raf added quietly and to solidify all this June spoke and stood up.

"They're all right, although they've known the bots longer than I have they are most definitely real and so are the Decepticons. The Autobots will help us if they can but they would not just leave us." June finished then sat back down to help keep Raf calm.

"So Miko those pictures you always drew, were those the Autobots?" Mikaela questioned trying to figure out more of what was happening.

"Oh yeah I forgot you saw those, Yea those were the bots, do you remember the big green one I drew the most?" Mikaela nodded in response. "That would be Bulkhead; he's my partner/friend. He transforms into on truck and was in a military group with his friend Wheeljack..." Miko started walking away from the group of people with Carly and Mikaela listening intently to the exchange student's crazy stories.

Jack looked over and saw Sari walk over to Raf. "Hey Raf how you holding up?" she asked. Raf looked up at her with a small smile.

"I'm doing better thanks for asking."

"Don't worry I promise I'll find us a way out of here." Jack patted the smaller boys' shoulder smiling at him.

Raf seemed to have calmed down greatly and was no longer shaking. Sari sat next to him and they started to talk to each other each smiling at the other. June stood up gave Raf a sad smile and walked over to her son who was still stood in the middle of the room with the remainder of the gathered group.

"Jack? Are you doing alright?" June asked giving him a hug which normally would have embarrassed him.

"Mom I'm doing fine, I'm just trying to figure out what we're gonna do. How's Raf doing" Jack said looking over at the smaller boy. Compared to earlier Raf looked much better.

"He's doing better, that laugh Jameson gave him and talking with Sari seems to be helping," June replied smiling slightly.

"Hey, Jack," Jameson spoke up catching the young man's attention. Jack turned towards him and the other people still there in the small group. For the most part, everyone else looked fine although Sierra looked like she was about to have a mental breakdown at some point.

"Yea Jameson, what do you need?" Jameson looked back over everyone real quick then back to Jack.

"So Miko said her guardian was Bulkhead, who's your partner? Is it Arcee, or Cliffjumper? I know it can't be Bumblebee because well we can't exactly understand him." Jack took a small step back out of shock while Jameson just kept on rambling about who his partner probably was or wasn't.

"Woah Woah Woah, hold on how do you know about the Autobots?" Jack questioned when Jameson finally stopped talking to think for a second. Jameson looked at Jack for a second with wide eyes at seeing the surprised teen.

"Ah did Fowlie and the bots never talk about me? That's kind of saddening." He said with mock hurt before shrugging. "Ehh I'm not too surprised I didn't really get along with them to great, Bulkhead and I did talk occasionally though." Jameson just shrugged again before clearing his throat and continuing.

"Well anyway, I used to help Fowler liaison the bots or keep them off the news. Speaking of the old stick up the aft, he still being a 'bot-sitter' as he put it?"

Regaining his composure Jack looked at the taller man wondering if what he said was true or not but decided to trust him. "Uh yea Fowler still is the bots liaison but how come you're not if he still is and why are you a teacher?" Jack questioned once again.

"Well…" Before he could even really continue he was cut off by a loud scream and shouting "No, no no no, NO!" Sierra cried out as she paced around the cell. "This-This cannot be happening! It just can't! There are no such things as giant transforming alien robots! This isn't happening! It's just some messed up dream, a nightmare!" Sierra continued to scream and cry out angrily and in fear.

Jack looked back at Jameson who in turn just shrugged back at him and looked back at the freaking out girl. After nearly a minute of ranting, Jack looked around. Miko, Mikaela, Jameson, and Sean were ready to knock Sierra out, Carly and Spike were holding each other, Vince was slamming his head against the wall, and his mother and Sari were still trying to comfort Raf, but it was obvious Sierra's screams were not helping and Jack had enough. "Sierra! Be quiet!" he yelled, surprising everyone. Jack was never one to yell. He normally kept cool and calm, but the situation had been building his nerves, and Sierra's ranting pushed them over the edge.

"As much as you don't want to believe, scrap, as much as I don't want to believe it, it did happen. The Autobots and the Decepticons are real. They came to earth, fighting a war that maybe millions of years old. The Autobots protected the earth while the Decepticons want to destroy and conquer it. The Decepticons captured us, and it is not a dream. We might be the only ones left from Jasper."

Jack sighed. He walked over to the redhead and places his hands on her shoulders. "I know you're scared. I was too when I first met the Bots and encountered the Cons, but you must stay calm. The Decepticons thrive on fear; they love watching those they believe are beneath them cower and shake. We have to stay calm and stick together because that's what the Autobots taught me. As long as we stand together, nothing will take us down."

Sierra was awestruck by Jack's speech. She had never heard someone talk with such heart, bravery, and calm as Jack did. She sniffled a bit before wrapping her arms around the raven-haired boy and embracing him tightly. She pressed her head to his chest, letting the remaining tears on her face fall. Jack was a little stunned by the sudden embrace but did not reject it. He wrapped his own arms around the girl, letting her cry into his shirt.

June was proud of her son. Even in the most depressing situations, he kept his calm and caring personality and knew just how to help those in need. She understood perfectly why Optimus saw Jack so much like himself.

"What a touching performance," a familiar menacing voice, shocking the human captives. Everyone turned to see Megatron outside the cell, with Knockout standing right next to him. "…a performance worthy of a Prime."

"Megatron," Jack growled, pushing Sierra behind him protectively. Sierra had no qualm with this, considering she was scared witless from the enormity of the Cons. Miko practically jumped right next to Jack, just a little behind him, while June hugged a shaking Raf. The others all simply stared in shock and terror at the Cons.

"Everything is ready now," Megatron said. He turned to Knock Out. "Pick whichever one you want, but leave Prime's pet for last."

"With pleasure my lord," the red egomaniac replied. He gave a silent order behind him and stood back with a smirk on his faceplates.

An unseen Vehicon trooper walked into the cell and looked around for a moment before walking towards Jack and reached towards him. Jack closed his eyes preparing himself to get crushed or grabbed but felt nothing.

Then a scream ripped through the air.

He opened his eyes to see the Vehicon picking up Sierra. She was struggling to no avail in the drone's grip screaming and sobbing trying to get out of its ironclad grip. "NO, leave her alone. She had nothing to do with the Autobots." Jack shouted Glaring at the silver warlord. The warlord looked down at the boy and chuckled.

"That may be the case but it seems to me that you want to try and protect your friends isn't that correct?" Megatron gave another sinister grin. The Vehicon walked back outside the cell and Knockout closed and locked the door and preventing the human's escape.

Once the Decepticons left Jack fell to his knees glaring at the metal floor of the cell mentally cursing Megatron for practically being the incarnation of evil. And he cursed himself, Maybe he could have done something, anything it would have been better than just letting him take her.

"Jack are you ok?" Miko put a hand on his shoulder hoping to console her friend. Jack stood up again and started pacing.

"I'm fine, but why take her she had nothing to do with the bots it was just us four!" Jack almost shouted struggling to calm himself. The rest looked worriedly at each other wondering what was happening.

"Jack do you know what they plan to do or are you just as in the dark as we are?" Jameson asked stopping Jack's pacing. He looked up at Jameson for a moment before continuing his pacing. What were they going to do with Sierra she had no information that could be even remotely valuable in the slightest.

"I don't know I haven't heard or seen anything that might have a hint as to what they've been doing at the bots base all things have been relatively quiet since Wheeljack came back," Jack said still trying to piece things together.

But, Jack saying the old Wrecker's name confused the former liaison immensely since while he was there he had never seen the bot except for in some stories Bulkhead had said occasionally.

"Hey you said Wheeljack but I don't remember him being there. Bulkhead told me about him a little did he find his way to earth or something?" Jack just nodded in response and kept pacing while Miko decided to inform the tall man of what's happened for the past year give or take.

Jack just zoned out for a while enveloped in his thoughts trying to figure out what was happening and why. Jack was so out of it that he hadn't realized approximately an hour had passed until he was snapped out of it by the sound of the door opening again.

He looked up to see two more Vehicon troopers walk into the cell with a third standing guard in case anyone tried to escape. The two troopers started walking over to Jack's mother and Raf making the boy start to panic even worse.

Before Jack could even get up Jameson and Miko stood in between the foot soldiers and two other captives. The first trooper looked over at the second one who simply just shrugged and they proceeded to pick up Miko and Jameson.

"Hey put me down you overgrown tin can. I swear once Bulkhead gets here." She let the threat linger in the air to either make it sound more threatening or she couldn't think of the right words, Jameson on the other hand.

"You dimwitted clankers put us down, damn drones!" Jameson who was quickly tired of being held reached in between the plating of the Vehicons fingers and started tugging as hard as he could at the cables hoping something would happen.

Sadly the cable was far too hard for the man to try and pull out and ended up tiring himself out. The Vehicons just walked on not caring about the human's futile escape attempts and threats and walked out of the cell with the field coming back on after them.

One by one his friends were carried off to who knows where, it seemed to take various amounts of time each time one was taken. It could take one hour or three, either way, it kept happening till it was just Jack left alone in the massive cell. Although when Mikaela was taken away she called Knockout an oversized walking jalopy pissing him right off everyone remaining but Jack got a small laugh out of it.

Jack at this point was quite depressed, he was the last one left he practically begged the troopers that came to collect the humans to take him instead and leave them alone. They just ignored him and took everyone. The last person they took was his mom, which was the worst out of everyone even harder than seeing Raf get taken. She had put on a brave face for him but he could easily see the terror and fear in her eyes.

That was a little over an hour ago so he assumes they would come for him soon. And there was nothing he could do to escape and what reason would he have to anyway his family and friends had been taken his town was in ruins he had nothing left.

Twenty minutes after the first hour mark he felt the small tremors of approaching cybertronian footsteps which only meant one thing Megatron was coming. He was the only one large enough to make the ground slightly shake from walking. He assumed Dreadwing could also but he had yet to see the large seeker which could have been a good thing

A moment later the Megatron was stood in front of the open cell once again. He stared at Jack for a moment before speaking. "Ah, boy it is just you that remains now. Leave us; I shall handle this one personally." Megatron ordered a Vehicon trooper who did so without hesitation.

Megatron stepped into the cell straight towards Jack. Jack knew he probably wasn't going to escape at this point but he could at least make it hard for the warmonger, he got into a stance that allowed him to quickly dash away from Megatron's servo but that did little to help because he was picked up in the other servo almost immediately.

The mighty titan grabbed him, rather tightly and making him let out a small grunt of pain. "Now, let us go. We have much to do." and with that, Megatron started walking down the halls of the ship. All Jack could do was glare at Megatron. He didn't bother trying to struggle in his grip it was useless to do so he decided to save his strength for when a chance to escape presented itself.

Megatron's grip loosened slightly when he didn't struggle which Jack was grateful for as it was getting hard to breath but he would never say such a thing to the con. An odd thought struck Jack during the mundaneness of the walk was how oddly warm cybertronians were, they were almost never extremely hot nor cold unless being in extreme elements like during the scraplet attack. It was indeed an odd train of thought but it was something to mull over during his imprisoned transit.

Megatron hadn't spoken a single word since Jack was taken from the cell. So instead of just pointlessly glaring at the titanic con, he turned himself around as best he could in the warlord's grip. As far as he could tell all of the halls looked almost identical with some minor differences here and there it was a wonder anyone found their way around the ship at all. Estimating the time they had been walking for approximately ten minutes, the ship was so large it took a while to get from point A to point B even for cybertronians.

Megatron finally stopped at a large door and waited. Jack was curious as to why Megatron stopped walking but decided it was probably best not to ask. They didn't need to wait for long as two Vehicon troopers came walking out of the room dragging something.

Once Jack got a clear view as to what it was he was shocked to see it was another cybertronian, but he had never seen this one before and it didn't have an insignia on it either. He could, however, tell that it was a femme due to her faceplate and frame. It was obviously feminine but also strangely familiar like he had seen her before. He could barely make out her color scheme in the dark corridor which was mostly white with bits of black and red running down her arms, legs, and helm, she also looked like she had a doctor or nurses uniform with smooth but easily bending kind of metal design that made it look like a kind of like an opened doctors coat only added to the increasing familiarity,

'Who was this femme?' Jack only got to ponder this question for a second before Megatron started moving into the room the Vehicons had just left with the mysterious femme. Jack looked back at Megatron who had a sinister grin which unsettled Jack even further.

The room on one side was full of consoles and tubes leading to other parts of the room and one large control panel where Soundwave stood monitoring something. On the other side of the room sat a large transparent looking containment cell big enough to hold at least three cybertronians the height of Megatron surrounded by machines and lights of varying color.

"Knockout is the machine ready again?" Megatron shouted getting the crimson medic's attention.

"Yes Lord Megatron but it will need a moment to re-cycle lest a malfunction happen. And we don't want that now do we?" Knockout replied looking back towards a large blue mech who was buffing his arm, why Knockout didn't do it himself no one knew and Jack figured no one really cared.

"Regardless we shall start now Soundwave open the containment pod," Megatron ordered. Soundwave gave a silent and quick nod and a moment later a small window opened up a few cybertronian feet off the ground.

Megatron walked up towards the Machine and kneeled down putting his servo with Jack in it through the window and dropped him. Jack landed in the cold metal flooring with a pained grunt and the window shutting after.

It didn't take him long to stand back up he turned around and glared at the warlord who just evilly grinned back at him once again. "Soundwave operate the machine," Megatron ordered without turning around.

Soundwave immediately ejected his tentacles and inserted them into the command console and initiated the activation protocols. The machine all around Jack started whirring and whining almost sounding like the engines from a jet starting up getting higher in pitch before a loud *THUNK* was heard and multiple lights across the machine switched from red to green.

On the inside, Jack could hear things moving, buzzing, revving, and creaking. He heard something come from above and looked to see multiple tubes connected to the chamber he was in. it was clear, so he could see something pouring inside the tube.

It looked like it was shimmering between transparency and very light teal. It couldn't be energon because energon was a kind of constant glowing neon blue. And that's what made Jack nervous the most; he didn't know what it was.

And the fact that that tube connected to the one Jack was currently residing in made him worry even more as to what was going to happen.

"Lord Megatron the transmutator is ready and awaiting activation." Knockout reported without any hint of his usual tone.

"Very well initiate the startup sequences," Megatron said with a flick of his hand almost dismissively still staring into Jack's eyes. With the clicking of a few buttons, the multiple pipes connected to the central tube opened up letting the mysterious liquid run free.

Jack naturally decided to stay as far from the liquid as best he could and go to the center of the tube. Upon doing this Jack heard a clicking noise and looked up at its origin point just in time to see the top of the tube slide open revealing more of the liquid. Before he could even think about trying to escape it the entire tube was flooded harshly throwing him around.

Jack instantly started panicking he was now surrounded by an unknown liquid and he could only hold his breath for so long, to add to this problem trying to swim was almost impossible because of the clothes he had on and the odd thickness of the liquid. Outside the tube Jack could still faintly see Megatron grinning at him, his shark-like denta still clearly evident even through the hazy distortion.

"Knockout, activate the Transmutator," Megatron ordered once again.

"With pleasure my lord." Knockout bowed then turned and pressed more buttons this time the Machine's whining and whirring got even louder while small electrical discharges started flashing all around the outside.

In the tube, Jack started to feel like he was vibrating from the inside out, that was all Jack could describe the feeling at first it was an odd feeling. After a few seconds of still holding his breath in the strange liquid, he started feeling a sharp pain in his chest from lack of oxygen. It got to the point where he unconsciously started to try and breathe only to have the liquid enter his lungs.

The pain seemed to cease for a moment before coming back at full force all throughout his body this time. This was way worse than anything he had felt in his life. It was as if he was getting ripped apart, his skin felt like it was on fire while his blood boiled. He was on the verge of passing out from the pain he had his eyes clamped shut while he writhed on the floor of the tube pressed against it from the weight of the liquid.

The pain racked his entire body causing small spasms. Outside the tube, Megatron kneeled down to get a better look at the boy. Like a true sadist, he chuckled enjoying the obvious pain the boy was being put through.

"Knockout how long will the process take?" Megatron questioned looking away from the boy towards the crimson medic and standing to his full towering height above the medic.

"Hmm I'm not exactly sure my lord it could be a few human hours like the others or it could be longer it could be shorter only time will tell, In the meantime why don't you enjoy the show." Knockout said dismissively turning his attention back to his buffing

Back inside the tube, Jack laid on his back arching it in a muffled yell of pain allowing more of the liquid inside. All he could think about was if his friends and mom had gone through this pain he couldn't care what he went through he just hoped everyone else was alright. Jack tried to move to try and stand up. But the weight and pain pushed him down forcing him to kneel. He tried to scream but only let more of the liquid in, his eyes were closed tightly but the liquid found its way in regardless, burning his eyes, this was not a pain he would wish on anyone nor would he.

Jack could feel the liquid seeping into his body, making it twinge and itch with uncomfortable pain. He could feel his bones crack, his skin rip, and his body break inside the liquid substance. He let out a silent cry inside, letting the blue liquid flow into his throat. He struggled to stay awake, to withstand the pain, he had to. He had to know what happened to the others, but he could imagine they had faced the same pain as he.

His mother…Miko… the girls… little Raf… Spike… Vince… Sean… and Jameson… all suffering, crying out for help, and he could do nothing.

Jack's pain grew more as the time went on he started to see metal spreading down his hands. Eventually, he noticed he was gaining in height to be much taller, his clothes started ripping and his shoes practically exploded revealing to Jack's sight what had happened to him.

His body was being converted into dense metals with cables and pistons in between his chest, half cybertronian, half-human. The metal continued to spread painfully he felt more bones being converted into the cybertronian equivalent the pain was excruciating making Jack fall on his stomach again.

He could feel the plating, His plating finish spreading over his body and start going up to his neck. The pain from his chest paled in comparison to this. He felt as if he was having his neck speared by sharp razors. Jack started clawing at his neck to try and stop the progression and pain but nothing worked it kept going.

Once his neck finished it started converting the rest of his head starting the worst migraine Jack had ever felt. He started clutching at his head only to start pulling out chunks of his Jet black hair in his now instead of hands, Servos which resembled Optimus's.

And then all like that the pain just… Vanished it completely stopped.

Megatron raised his servo "It is complete. Soundwave shut it off!" Soundwave beeped a response before pressing some buttons on the keyboard. The pod started draining of its liquid contents.

Jack felt… numb, tired, and completely sore. He heard the sound and felt the tube he was in start to drain.

With the tube now emptying Megatron now had a clearer picture of what his new soldier looked like. He was tall almost as tall himself and his form was strange compared to his former self instead of being thinner he was actually more blocky looking and one thing that surprised Megatron was the fact he had wings on his back flat like Dreadwing's but he also had wheels on his pedes and in his shoulders showing he was a triple-changer one of the more rarer types of cybertronian.

His chest resembled that of a large armored truck while his helm looked like it was similar to Optimus' but sharper and with a ridge going down the center of his helm, although another thing that surprised him was his optics instead of being electric blue or blood red they were pure silver almost white. He overall looked naturally intimidating making Megatron smirk in a sick twisted sense of accomplishment.

All in all, Megatron was impressed with the machines work and started walking up to the new cybertronian.

Jack heard the sound of a sealed doored opening and looked up from his kneeled position straight into the blood-red optics of Megatron. He tried to stand up but his insides and out racked with pain. He suddenly felt extremely tired and the edges of his vision started to blur. The warlord looked down with a terrifying smirk at the young new mech. "Welcome to your new body, Jack." with that he lost consciousness no longer having the strength to stay awake.

DONE

Alrighty, now I know this is only like half of the first original chapter but I realized it kinda had like multiple chapters in one and felt it could be expanded upon. And because I am a new writer your feedback about this chapter is invaluable so feel free to review whatever because I can only guess as to what I'm doing.

Now I hope you guys like this because well it's taken me a little while to write this. And I wanted to make this as right and well written as possible so I've gone through it with a proofreading app and then gone through it afterward just to remedy things I missed so hopefully this has as few mistakes as possible. And before people tell me about beta's I know I just don't have anyone that could do it so eh.

Now as far as I can tell that's all I got so all of ya have a good day/night/afternoon and stay frosty my friends and keep on reading.