Beast Wars Prime

The Good, the Bad, and the Reformatted

Buckle up everyone. This is going to be a bumpy ride. Sorry about the delay on these chapters. Between work and the holiday season, I've been getting my butt handed to me most days. It also didn't help that my computer has been on the "El Fritzo" for the last week and a half. Now, in this story I plan to do some things I haven't seen in the fandom yet. One of which is in this chapter. Enjoy! Note: edited 3/15/22

Scanning the chaos that was now the space bridge control room Jack noticed something missing. "Excuse me Optimus, but where's my mom and agent Fowler?" He asked tiredly. Amidst the various returned teams, he hadn't initially noticed that the only remaining fully human members of team prime were missing.

Optimus looked at him. "Your mother received a call and left not long after the rest of you did to handle some kind of emergency involving her workplace. Agent Fowler decided to accompany her." He responded diplomatically. Was it Jacks' exhausted imagination, or was Optimus not mentioning something?

His ponderings were cut short by a cry of joy from the bulb near Miko. Two new vines shot out from her bulb body and wrapped around Vince, giving him something akin to a hug. "OMG Vinnie it's you!" She exclaimed. Jacks' eyes widened. Was that Sierras' voice?

Sierra continued to talk at a high rate of speed. "Where did they take you? When did you escape? Did Jack and those other robots save you?" Her eye vines looked Vince over. "And what happened to you? Last time I saw you, you looked like a 'Franken-bat'?"

Vinces' eyes widened. "Sierra, is that you?" He asked looking at the bulb and vines. She must've been mutated like he was. Looking around he saw that Allison, or whatever she'd been turned into was sitting in the lap of a yellow and brown robot similar to Jack, though much larger. His musings were cut off when the large red and blue bot Jack called Optimus spoke.

"That would indeed be the one you know as Sierra Krosney, Vincent Raider, and the one sitting with Rafael is Allison Blackrock." He said, pointing to a far corner. Vincents' wide-eyed stare turned to where Optimus was pointing. Sitting there was a robot, he realized with a gulp, that was Rafael Esquivel. At his current size he genuinely hoped Raf wasn't going to want payback for shoving him in his locker at the beginning of the year. Looking back near Sierra he realized that the bird cyber ninja chick could only be Miko Nakadai.

Deciding to answer her questions he nodded. "Alright, I woke up in a cave somewhere with these three and some other bots." He said indicating Jack, Arcee, and Smokescreen. "I was in pain when I woke up and lashed out, causing the cave to collapse." He decided to not mention begging to die. "Jack found me in the rubble and freed me. After that this thing called 'Vector Sigma' spoke using him and changed me into this." He summarized, indicating his new body.

Miko looked over at Vince, then to Allison, and then back to Sierra. "Okay, if it did that for you, why didn't it do that for them?" She then looked at her currently bestial boyfriend. "Do you think you can do that for Sierra and Allison too?"

Jack cocked and eyebrow. Miko was being surprisingly caring about someone who was until recently a romantic rival, let alone someone she barely knew outside of the occasional shared detention. Jack shrugged his shoulders a bit. "I'm not sure." He answered honestly, transforming into robot mode. "Reformatting Vince was pretty draining on me as it is." At Mikos' questioning look he responded. "It seemed like a good name for it."

Optimus interjected. "How were you able to connect with Vector Sigma, Jack?" He knew the answer to that question would be key to helping the two girls. He also wondered if it was similar to his own connection with the matrix.

Jack closed his eyes. He wasn't sure how he connected to Vector Sigma. After the cave in his last coherent thought was where Vince was and how to help him. At that realization it hit him.