Autobot base

It was another sunny day at the base and unlike most days it was quite and peaceful, until.

"Prime!" Said an agitated fowler on the screen. Optimus and arcee walked over to the terminal and Optimus began to address fowler when he was cut off. "Special agent fowler? To what do we owe?" Optimus started to say. "What else? Cons!" Interrupted fowler. "I chased them off with some hard ordnance, but not before they blew me out of the sky." Continued fowler.

"Again?" Laughed miko to jack and raf from where they were laying down at the other side of the room. "They tried a smash and grab for d.n.g.s." Said fowler. "The...what's it?" Asked a confused arcee which got a chuckle from the dragons in the base and a smirk from arcee. "Dynamic nuclear generation system, a.k.a, d.n.g.s." Corrected fowler.

"It's a prototype energy source I'm porting to the coast for testing." Said fowler switching the screen to show them the cargo he was transporting. "That's absurd. Why would starscream bother with such primitive technology?" Asked ratchet who didn't believe in earth tech as usual. "Don't underestimate humans innovation ratchet, they have a way of making things that have the potential to destroy something or almost an entire race." Said jack glaring at fowler who paled under jacks glare then he noticed the bots were glaring at him as well but decided to get back to the serious matter at hand. "I'm guessing to make a big fat primitive weapon of mass destruction. If this baby were to melt down, it would irradiate this state and the four next door." Said fowler which got wide eyed looks from the dragons in the base.

"Uh did agent fowler say what state he was currently in?" Asked a nervous raf. "I'm a sitting duck here, prime. I need you to spin up your bridge and send the d.n.g.s. To its destination before the cons come back for it." Said fowler.

"I'm afraid that sending such a volatile device through a ground bridge is out of the question." "If there were to be an accident during its transmission, the radiation of which you speak could propagate through the ground bridge vortex and harm all 50 states...and beyond." Optimus said gravely.

"You got any better ideas?" Asked fowler. "I have an idea." Said jack from his spot where he was laying down in the base gaining the attention of the bots and fowler. "What is your idea jack?" asked Optimus. "What if we transport it in the form of a convoy we're we have the cargo in your trailer Optimus with bumblebee and bulkhead behind and Infront of you while arcee is in the trailer as a form of ambush should anyone manage to open the trailer door and of course miko, raf and I can cover you from the air." Said jack.

The bots were impressed by jack's idea and thought it was worth a try to attempt it. "That's brilliant jack!" Said arcee which got a shy grin from jack and snickers from miko and raf. Optimus asked ratchet to ready the groundbrigde while he prepared his trailer. Once the trailer was ready arcee got in. "Becareful arcee." Said jack. "Don't worry about me Jack your the ones who need becareful." Replied arcee with just a little concern in her voice.

Jack reassured her they would be fine and with that they headed through the bridge and arrived at fowlers location where jack and arcee loaded the precious cargo into the trailer where they strapped it down. With that accomplished fowler got into Optimus's cab and reached for the steering wheel. "Ah! No need agent fowler. I will handle the driving." Said Optimus which made the others chuckle. "It's going to be a long trip." Said fowler. "Autobots, roll out!" Optimus said and then dragons took off while the bots followed. Later on the highway things were peaceful and quiet until of course the sound of primes horn could be heard which for those of the group who had sensitive hearing was annoying. An hour later nothing big had happened but jack knew that they could not let their guard down.

"Since we dragons don't have built in com units we will have to communicate by mentally talking to each other ok." Said jack.

"You got it jack and your right you guys don't have com units so we will have to resort to mental communication with you guys." Said arcee which got jack to smile proudly at arcees progress in mental communication. Later jack started to sense that they were being followed and he was right when he noticed a helicopter and some cars following the bots, at first he thought it was cons like fowler had said but something stuck out to him and that was the color scheme.

"Hey aren't the cons usually purple and black?" Asked jack to miko and raf. "Yes they are, so either the cons got a new look or those aren't cons." Said raf. "Be advised guys, I don't think those are decpticons." Said jack. The bots answers that they would becareful. The dragons watched as one of the cars moved infront of bee and another pulled up along side Optimus but they were shocked when they saw a human stand up an point a gun at fowler. "A human!" Exclaimed the three dragons mentally in shock.

The three watched as Optimus swerved and hit the car to mess up the humans aim soon bee and bulk were bashing into the cars to try and keep them away and it seemed to be working pretty well for the moment. jack miko and raf followed the bots from the air out of the helicoptors line of sight as they to needed to make sure that they were not discovered as well. jack saw how one of the humans jumped on primes trailer hitch and started to cut it with a laser.

"Optimus there's one on your tralier hitch! said jack. thats when they noticed fowler opening optimus's driver side door and start to make his way toward the trailer hitch.

"what dose that fool think he is doing out there?!" exclaimed miko. "I don't know but he is going to get himself killed out there." said raf. the three dragons watched as fowler grabbed the human by the collar of his outfit and hold him over the road but unfortunatly fowler could not get any information from the human as he wrenched himself from fowlers grasp. fowler made his way back into optimus's cab.

"who are these humans?" asked a confused jack mentally so that everyone could here the question.

"I don't know jack but they seem to have a lot of advanced technology." said arcee from her spot in the trailer waiting for a suprise ambush should the need arise. one of the humans fired three projectiles at the door of the trailer and sent out an electrical charge to blow the door open, as the humans drove closer to the door of the trailer arcee suddenly raced out of the trailer and hit one human who was standing out of the sun wroof and threw the car of balance causing it to flip and tumble. the three dragons cheered for arcee as she raced forward to take position in front of optimus.

"Nice move arcee, you sure showed those humans whose boss!" exclaimed miko cheerfully.

"It was a very good suprise ambush arcee well done." complemented raf.

"Excellent suprise attack arcee, you would make a great dragoness." said jack with much pride in his voice. the statement shocked all the autobots, fowler, raf and miko. Arcee, had she not been in vehicle mode would have turned crimson from what jack had just said which filled her with a sense of acomplishment and pride that she had impressed jack. Meanwhile in the air with Raf, Miko, and Jack, raf and miko were staring at jack in amazment at the compliment he had just given arcee. Finally miko asked jack the million dollar question that was on the minds of raf and herself.

"Jack are you actually thinking what we think you are?" asked miko in awe and even slight concern. Jack was silent for a moment contemplating miko's question and then thought back to some of the moments that the bots had shown the qualities of dragons eventhough they weren't and then finally came up with an answer.

"Yes I am." replied jack without an inch of doubt in his voice. For a brief moment there was silence between the three dragons as raf and miko took in what jack had said while the wind whistled past their ears and under their wings to help keep them airborne. At last raf and miko were able to form a response to jack about the statement he had just made.

"Are you sure about this? This is no small task that we are talking about here jack." said a concerned raf.

"Yeah the amount of energy required could easily send you to the void, and plus something like this has only ever happened once and that was way back in the beginning of our kinds history with the first king and queen of dragon." replied miko. At the mention of the first rulers of dragons jack was hit with a memory that was not his own

Flashback

When jack regained his sense of awareness he saw that he was on what appeared to be a battlefield. As he walked he past numerous human and dragon corpses and was brought back to the memories of the great war between the humans and dragons, the war that took his sister form him. Upon closer inspection of the humans he saw that these humans were dressed differently than the ones he fought and even the battlefield was different from the ones he had been on during the war which was all of them. His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of war cries and roars in the distance, unfurling his wings jack took off in the direction from where the sounds of battle were originating from.

After a thirty minute flight Jack was able to see the battlefield and was shocked to see humans using weapons that were not made of meatal but instead made of wood and stone. As he observed the fight from a safe distance out of sight of the combatants he saw one of the humans pick up a wooden spear and hurl it towards one of the opposing dragons, now Jack was not surprised that the shaft of the spear was made of wood, even the humans he fought in the war used spears that were made of wood but what surprised him was that the tip was made of stone instead of metal like the ones he encountered during the war. As he watched the spear travel through the air to its intended target he knew instinctively that it would not cause a lot of damage to the dragon hit as it was heading for the stomach area where the scales were thicker, it was then Jack realized that these humans must not have been fighting dragons for long since they didn't seem to know were the weaker scales were on their bodies. Suddenly Jack felt a strange sensation travel down his spin and while he couldn't determine the cause of it he could feel something telling him to head west of the fight that was in front of him.

As Jack was flying he started to notice that the field gave way to a forest with lush green trees that were at least forty feet tall, as he flew over the forest Jack sensed something on the ground in a thick grove of trees thirty yards in front of him so he landed to investigate what it was that lead him to this place. As he parted the leaves of the trees to see past them he saw a sight that made him freeze in his tracks, for there lying on the ground in front of him, wings wrapped in a bola was blue dragoness. At first Jack chocked up with emotion as the dragoness in front of him was the spitting image of his sister Sapphire, but as he took a closer look at the female in front of him he realized that this dragon was bigger then his twin was. Before Jack could truly process what was going on there was a rustling noise that came from the right of Jack that caught the attention of the dragoness on the ground, who turned her attention to the direction that the sound was originating from and watched the bushes directly in front of her with baited breath.

Suddenly a boy no older then seventeen stepped out of the brush with a bow slung over his back and a quiver full of arrows, but what caught Jacks attention was that the boy carried no other weapons aside from a knife he had strapped to his hip and turning towards the downed dragoness showed that she noticed it to and was confused on why this boy wouldn't have more weapons on him if he was here to kill her. As the two dragons were thinking this over the boy who up until now had his head down as he dusted off his clothes looked up in front of him only to meet the sight of the most amazing creature he had ever seen in his life, he was so amazed that he didn't even realize that he had gasped in wonder of the dragon before him nor did he notice her head moving closer to him until a breath of air hit him in the face which knocked him out of his amazed stupor and face to face with a dragon.

The grove was silent as the dragon and human stare into each others eyes, sapphire met brown as something unseen to the naked eye seemed to pass between the two. Then suddenly the boy spoke. "My name is Eragon, what's yours?" he asked which seemed to surprise the dragon since she didn't think that humans knew they could talk and after a moment of hesitation she answered. "My name is Saphira."

End of Flashback

Jack was suddenly shaken out of the strange vision he was having by the sound of Optimus's mental voice saying that phase two was beginning and that they would reach the rendezvous point five miles ahead to the south. Soon enough the bots reached the rendezvous point and Jack explained what would happen next. "We wont be able to fly in the tunnel with you while you unload the D.N.G.S. onto the train so we will fly above the tunnel and meet you guys on the other side." said Jack as the bots turned off the road to pull up beside the train while Jack, Miko, and Raf stayed at their current altitude. "Understood Jack we'll unload the device and be out of here in no time." Said Arcee confidently as the bots drove into the tunnel and the three dragons continued to fly over it to reach the other side.

Soon the bots emerged from the tunnel and rejoined the highway while Jack and the others changed direction to end up over the bots as the train continued down the tracks. suddenly jack noticed a number of purple jets pull up beside the helicopter that had been following the bots. "Uh Optimus, we've got company and its not the good kind either." said Raf as they watched the jets shoot ahead of the chopper and launch missiles at the bots. "Optimus, Arcee look out! Missiles inbound!" shouted Jack as the missiles headed right for the bots. Jack and the others watched as the bots evaded the missiles with a sigh of relief but instantly grew concerned when they saw the trailer come unhitched from Optimus and get caught in the explosion from the missiles impact.

"Oh no! The humans could catch onto our plan since they thought the device was still in the trailer!" exclaimed a concerned Raf.

"Don't worry Raf, we will make sure that the device does not end up in the wrong hands." said Jack firmly.

"That's great and all but we have another problem, look!" said Miko with urgency in her voice as Jack and Raf turned their attention to where Miko was looking and found that the bots had stopped at the edge of a cliff and were cornered as the jets went vertical and suddenly transformed to reveal a squad of Decepticons. "Oh that's just great." said an annoyed Jack as they watched the bots transform so that they could defend themselves and Fowler.

"We have to help them!" shouted Miko to the others.

"But what about keeping our race a secret from the humans? Do you want to be the one responsible for reveling our entire race?" asked a nervous Raf. It wasn't that he didn't want to help the bots, he really did but he also didn't want to live through another human and dragon war like when all three of them were still young. "If we don't help them we will regret it for the rest of our lives!" said Miko in a no nonsense type of voice as she turned to Jack and asked for his opinion since he was the leader of theirlittle group and more importantly the alpha. "What do you think we should do Jack?" enquired Miko.

Jack thought about his decision for all of one minute before giving his opinion to his fellow dragons. "I will not stand by and watch our friends fight for their lives when I know that we can help them. Even if it means our race is reveled, but I will not lose someone I care about again!" said Jack in an authoritative voice as he tucked his wings in and dove towards the bots intent on helping them even if he had to sacrifice his own life to do so. As he dove he could hear Miko and Raf right behind him as the fast approached the ground. Suddenly all three dragons unfurled their wings and landed right beside the bots who were shocked to see that they had actually reveled themselves, that shock soon turned to great concern and fear for their new friends and allies and somewhere in the back of Arcee's processor a little voice said "And something more to you in the case of the blue one."

Arcee quickly shook those thoughts away, denying that there was something about Jack that made him different in her optics compared to Miko and Raf and she didn't mean that he was the alpha, no it was something about how he was always there for her even though they only knew each other for a very short time, something that always made her spark race whenever he looked at her and for the life of her she couldn't figure out what it was but she felt like she was so close to the answer only to have it blocked from her reach. Her inner struggles were brought to a halt at the sound of Jacks voice.

"Looks like you guys could use a hand." said Jack as he kept the cons in his line of sight.

Arcee instantly protested against Jacks comment out of shear worry. "No Jack you cant! What about keeping your kind a secret? Wont these humans come after you and try to kill you just like they tried to with your entire race a thousand years ago?" she asked concerned for the dragons that had slowly changed their lives in the short time that they had been with them. Jack turned towards Arcee and answered her with a firm resolve. "That doesn't matter right now. What matters is that we are not going to stand by and let you risk your lives for our world when we know we could have done something to help. So discovered or not we stand together as one." Jack's declaration had effectively stunned the bots as in that moment they thought Jack sounded just like Optimus. Optimus looked at Jack with amazement that a being that was so young compared to him had just as much if not more wisdom then him. Optimus's amazed quickly turned into a proud smile that was hidden due to his battle mask, a look that was shared by Raf and Miko as they looked at their life long friend with pride and admiration.

"Very well Jack. We will not stop you from fighting beside us if that is your choice, and you are correct we shall stand together as one." said Optimus with strength in his voice.

Jack nodded his head at Optimus in agreement before turning his attention to the cons standing in front of them as he and his fellow dragons summoned their armor. Miko's and Raf's armor was the same as Jacks except for the color and size. Miko had purple armor with pink highlights while Raf had plan orange armor. The group strode forward and got into their respective fighting stances. While the bots held up their servos in preparation, the dragons crouched with their muscles tense just waiting to spring into action.

"After a long road trip, it feels good to get out of the car, stretch my legs and kick some tailpipe!" said Bulkhead as he smashed his fists together before activating his mace which seemed to be the signal that they were waiting for. Jack, Miko, and Raf lept towards the cons as the bots charged behind them, the cons answering with their own charge. soon both sides met with Jack leaping at one of the cons and tackling it to the ground, from there the fight escalated.

Bulk was hitting the cons with slow but powerful blows from his mace while Arcee was fast and agile as she landed a series of quick but strong blows to her enemy's helm all the while Bee was hitting his adversary with a series of punches while in a boxing stance. Miko swiped her opponents away with a swing of her tail and then batted another away with a slash of her claws. Raf was using his claws to slash at his opponents and was dodging any attacks that came his way with a simple shift of his body. Optimus was handling the fight really well as he dodged his opponents swings and then dealt his own blows with the skill of a warrior whos has seen many battles, but Jack was the one who was doing the best out of everyone, he used his tail to knock back the opposing side as well as a way to stun them so that he could land his own set of hits without having to worry about dodging any incoming attacks. Aside from his tail, he was also using his claws like his fellow dragons but in addition to that he was also using his jaws as a way to pick up and throw the cons away from him as well as cause some major damage to the bodies as his teeth were able to penetrate their armor. Jack was also using his fire which was very effective as it melted the armor of the cons and kept them at a safe distance, in short Jack was like a one dragon army as he countered each and everyone of his opponents attacks.

As he was fighting he heard Fowler call out to Optimus. He turned his attention to the prime to see that a couple cons had picked up a log and were heading for Optimus. Dropping everything Jack ran towards Optimus with the intention of stopping the blow that would at best leave the prime dazed and vulnerable long enough for the cons to get in a few good hits. Unfortunately Jack's plan didn't work and instead of stopping the hit like he intended to, he ended up taking the hit that hit home right on the side of his head, but the force of the hit also made Jack's head collide with Optimus's helm which sent both the young alpha and the prime careening backwards towards the edge of the cliff behind them which they both fell down as Jack gave of a roar of pain from the blow to his head which caught the others attention, as the y watched their leader and their dragon friend and ally fall of the edge.

"Jack! Optimus!" cried Arcee as she watched the two fall backwards over the edge. Jack and Optimus landed on a ledge below the cliff edge that they had fallen from, Optimus landed first with Jack landing on top of him before rolling to the right to rest beside Optimus, both being unconscious temporally. Back at the top of the cliff Fowler explained that the human in the chopper who went by the name of Silas had figured out phase two of their plan and was heading for the train. Suddenly Raf had an idea that might help by them some time until they finished with the remaining cons. He turned to Bumblebee and told him to contact ratchet and have him hack into the satellite and pinpoint the trains location and see if he could find anyway to stall for them until they cleaned up the rest of cons that were standing before them.

Meanwhile on the ledge Jack and Optimus were just starting to come to as they both shook of the dazed feelings they both had before they noticed that the humans had landed on top of the train, the mere sight of it was enough to knock Jack and Optimus out of their dazed stupor. "Oh no!" said Jack in concern as he started to run along the pathway that ran the side of the canyon wall with Optimus following right behind him. Jack jumped of the pathway and opened his wings to fly after the train as Optimus transformed and continued to drive on the pathway that eventually lead to the train tracks. Jack and Optimus both raced after the train as the chopper took off from on top of the train and started to fly away.

Suddenly a missile was fired from the side of the chopper and flew down the line before it hit the tracks ahead of the train leaving a crater and some mangled rails that would surely lead to the train derailing and the device inside to a serious meltdown which irradiate the state they were currently in as well as the four next door. Jack was able to see the trouble ahead from the air. "Optimus we have a problem. The humans have blown the tracks, the humans that are on the train are in danger, we need to stop that train or we're all going to experience what its like to be on drown zero of radiation meltdown." Jack said to Optimus as he flapped his wings furiously in order to gain more speed in order to catch up to the train. "Understood. Maximum overdrive!" Optimus said as he sped up to match Jack in speed as they both raced after the train.

Meanwhile with the other bots and dragons, Bulkhead had just finished with the last con by hitting him with his mace. As he dusted his servos Arcee walked forward to join the group. "Where's Jack and Optimus?" she asked. Fowler responded "They had a train to catch." he said as he peered down the canton to watch the action unfold, the bots and dragons walked forward to see what he meant and watched in awe as the events unfolded.

Jack and Optimus had reached the train and had both taken opposite sides of the train. Jack folded his wings and hit the ground running as he raced beside the train on foot while Optimus transformed and ran alongside the train with Jack. Once the reached the engine Optimus grabbed onto the train and dug his pedes into the ground to try and slow the train down. Like Optimus had done Jack also grabbed onto the train and dug his claws into the ground as well and also unfurled his wings to help slow the train down even more. Both dragon and autoboot strained against the momentum of the train until finally they managed to stop the train just before they hit the blown up tracks. Once the train had been stopped, Jack and Optimus moved to the car that the bots had unloaded the D.N.G.S. into and opened the door to check on the guard as well as to see if the device was secure.

Luckily both the guard and device were safe though the guard would likely be out for awhile, as they were inspecting the device they heard the sound of chopper blades spinning above them. Jack and Optimus turned around to look above them and narrowed their eyes at the sight of the helicopter that had been following them. The chopper hovered for a moment before it turned and flew away, but as it was flying away Jack launched a fireball at the chopper and watched as it sailed through the air heading for the humans that had been interfering in the mission from the beginning. Just as the fireball reached the chopper something happened, the fireball hit the helicopter but it didn't even singe the paint on it which left Optimus amazed and Jack instantly suspicious, to the outside observer it looked like the chopper was heavily armored but to Jack it was as clear as day, just before the fireball had hit the chopper Jack sensed the presence of magic being used.

Autobot Base

After the bots had safely transported they returned to the base with their dragon friends.

"Did you see the way Jack and Optimus stopped that train!? Talk about awesome!" said an excited Miko to the others.

"Yeah that took some real bearings kid." said Bulkhead as he patted Jack on the back. Jack smiled in pride at the compliment and watched as the others kept talking about the mission or commenting about something the other did. As this was happening Jack slipped away from the group towards the elevator unnoticed by everyone except for one. Outside on the top of the silo Jack stood and watched the stars in silence. His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a voice calling out to him. "Its a beautiful night isn't it?" Jack turned towards were the voice came from and found Arcee standing in front of the lift with a smile on her face.

"Yes it is." said Jack as he turned back to look out at the sky again with a troubled look on his face. Arcee's smile fell and was replaced by a worried frown as she walked forward to stand beside the young alpha.

"What's wrong?" asked Arcee in a concerned voice for her friend.

"When I shot that fireball at that helicopter, just before it hit I sensed the presence of magic being used. Someone must have used magic to stop the fire from damaging the chopper. Someone on that chopper knows how to use magic and that means that they are more dangerous than any ordinary human could ever hope to be." Jack said in a serious voice that left no room for humor. Arcee's optics widened in horror as she realized that whoever it was that used magic was a serious threat and they needed to be careful from now on especially since they reveled themselves today.

"Well magic or not we will stop them together." said Arcee in a firm voice that showed just how serious she was. Jack smiled at her in thanks for her much needed words and proceeded to lay down while still watching the night sky. "Thank you Arcee, that means a lot to me." Jack said in a gentle voice that showed how much it meant to him. Arcee smiled at him and sat down and propped herself up against him when he offered for her to watch the stars with him. Together the two sat under the night sky gazing at the stars in silence but both having many thoughts running through their minds not least of which was the one beside them.

Unknown Location

In an abandoned warehouse several computer screens had several photos on them but there was one photo on the center screen that had the most important picture to the person looking at the screens. On the main screen there was a picture of three dragons, one was blue while the other two were purple with pink highlights and orange respectively. Silas looked at the main screen with an evil grin on his face.

"Today has certainly had its share of surprises." he said.

"I never thought I would see the day when the son of the great Johnathan Skyscales would show his face, oh what a glorious day this is. After all its not everyday you get to see the new alpha." said Silas with a malevolent grin on his face as his eyes changed into slits with a crazed laugh echoing off the walls of the abandoned warehouse.