Chapter 2: The Fall

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As the group went off, Jack directed them to the place he talked about. It was in the middle of the Arizona plains, at a large slightly hilly wheat field where there was nothing else but a single oak tree. Not even a single soul was to be spotted.

On arrival at the tree, Jack got out, removed his helmet, and stared at the sunset, as old memories filled his head. The days where he and Arcee would try to set new speed records, scouting for Cons, teaching Arcee about life here on Earth, and even the days where he got to even flex his sick motorbike at high school.

As he stared out into the sunset, he heard everyone else transform. Optimus walked over to his side and took a look at the sky for himself. Jack looked back at him to see his face pondering with an expression of what at first seemed like nothingness. But he knew that it was just his wistful face.

Ratchet joined him, while Bee, Smokescreen, and Arcee took a seat next to Jack.

Smokescreen teased,

"So, got anything to say Jack? Any words of wisdom? Cuz you seem like the kind of guy with better speeches than the ones Bee gives at Iacon Hall."

Bee annoyingly glared,

"HEY!"

"Haha!"

Jack chuckled, while Optimus was talking to Ratchet about how life has been since they were separated. They were old friends, after all.

Jack stood up to stretch, when he saw something...

Strange.

A small beam of white light shot out from the ground, then faded.

"Uh guys?" He asked, "What was that?"

Bee looked at him.

"What was what?"

But before Jack could say anything, two more of the same, but slightly larger, lights appeared from the ground in between the whole group. Now everyone noticed. All the bots stood up now, concerningly curious.

Arcee squinched her eyes,

"Some sort of trap...?"

Then suddenly, more and more lights, growing larger and larger, began to appear all around them. Everyone stood firm. Suddenly, Jack's ear perked up to hear a loud vroom followed by a transforming noise and giant running stomps. He turns to see a giant blue autobot with tall blue shoulders running towards them at full speed. Ratchet notices and yells,

"ULTRA MAGNUS, NO-!"

Jack closed his eyes, expecting for some Decepticon to just show up like how it used to be back then. Then, a giant white circle appeared, and then the next millisecond...

They were falling in the evening sky. Jack opened his eyes to see a white bird fly right past him, and that's when he realized the feeling of uneasy weightlessness. And he was the one at the lowest elevation and was headed straight to a mountain. Jack turned to see that he was in a Crash Course towards a mountain. He heard everyone else scream his name. He screamed as he got closer to ground, and when he did...

He felt nothing but a thud, as if he just fell from the top of a bunk bed onto a wooden floor. Jack's screams went from terrified to confusion. As he bounced off the mountain, he looked to the rest and yelled,

"WHY DID THAT FEEL LIKE STUPIDLY NOTHING?!"

He also saw Optimus flying over with his jet pack and soon, he was in the safety of his hands. All the bots continued bouncing off mountains, and they all landed on the ground in the middle of a foreign forest, scaring the local birds elsewhere.

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