Alliance

{1 week later}

"The Training room has been completed" Jarvis informed

"Good, I'll be there in a minute" John answered before kissing Vivianne on the cheeks

She didn't stop him from leaving and silently rubbed her belly.

"I'll be back in a while" He smiled

"mmm" she nodded

John walked downstairs into the training room in the basement.

"Alice, start it up" he ordered as he put on a white headset

The room turned dark and he closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he is in Afghanistan.

John knew that he himself is extremely lacking in combat experience. He needed to get into a real combat environment. But, since Vivianne would likely not allow him to travel to a battlefield for a long period of time, he devised a new strategy. Applying Neuro link technology, he created an extremely realistic virtual reality game devised completely from an actual warzone. As his mind is absorbed into the game, his body would move accordingly. No matter how much he fought in the game his body would not be able to adapt to a long and intense combat environment in reality if his movements are restrained inside a pod which is why he allowed his body free movement.

Inside the game, he couldn't use his abilities like telekinesis or internal energy. Death in the game would feel like it was real and he had increased pain receptors to 110%.

Equipped with an Ak-47 and only several grenades, he joined a resistance movement against American troops. Why? Troops are restricted to certain rules and guidelines while the resistance could use guerilla tactics. But, his quality of items and tech would be lower than that of the American troops. The goal is to survive and kill all the enemies. Difficulty increases after every round until he has to infiltrate the enemy base and kill everyone on his own.

The first round is just a squad of soldiers and would slowly increase as he progresses. Five days in the game is just one day outside, meaning that he has plenty of time. The downside is that he can't replenish his ammo or equipment, he must pick up equipment from the dead bodies.

John looked around him. The squad of soldiers could be positioned anywhere in ambush. Squads are randomly spawned into the battlefield but as convoys are spawned in, he could ambush them instead.

John hid in a broken down house in wait as he knew that they would eventually enter his area. He was right, as it didn't take 20 minutes before the squad blasted open the door doing a sweep. He pointed his gun around the corner and went for the head. Modern bulletproof vests could take a couple of shots, but the helmet couldn't.

Bang.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

As soon as the first shot went off, the soldiers reacted quickly and took cover. He took down the first soldier from his ambush. The difficulty went up now that he was stuck in a corner.

Soon, he was killed as the bullets went right through the wall.

"agh, that fucking hurt" John grumbled as he restarted the round

He did better after utilizing gun kata and ended up on round 5 before he was called for dinner.

A week later, John took two teams with him to Hong Kong to hunt down a Decepticon detected in the area. He outfitted himself with the scout kit and looked like another member with their masks on except for a blue stripe on his shoulder pad. His relationship with Hong Kong special forces SDU, allowed them to have fewer restraints after notifying them of their arrival.

He and his team met up with SDU to discuss their operations.

"I want you to set up a perimeter around the AO," John said in Cantonese

"We can do that, but can you really kill it?" The commander asked

"There will be no problems" John assured

The commander fell into thought and discussed it with his superiors before giving him the thumbs up.

"Happy working with you" They shook hands and got ready for the operation.

{19:00 University of Hong Kong}

Local police forces have already evacuated the area an hour ago. Students were forced to leave the campus as SDU and John's team were inserted into the area.

John promised that he would pay for the damages in return for absolute discretion about their involvement.

As his team was sweeping out the area for the exact location of the Decepticon, Alice brought him news of NEST and the Autobots.

"Boss, NEST forces have arrived in Hong Kong and are making their way over to your area"

John paused and thought for a moment

"Sir?" One of the men asked

"All teams be advised, we have NEST forces arriving at our AO, do not engage and cease activities for now" John ordered

"Yes Sir" His men replied over the comms

NEST forces rolled up in front of him with SDU members chasing from behind.

Bang.

The soldiers of NEST disembarked their vehicles and pointed their guns at John while John's men returned the gesture of pointing guns at each other.

The SDU commander rushed over and stood between our forces

"Calm down, let's talk about it"

"This wasn't part of our deal" John stated

"I have no part in this, the higher ups decided it" The commander replied

John turned towards the NEST soldiers, Lennox in particular before ordering "Stand down"

His men unhesitantly put down their guns.

Lennox returned the favor and told his men to stand down.

"Captian Lennox, this is our target, what does NEST want?" John asked

"I'm afraid I cannot allow that" Lennox replied

"Why don't we reach an agreement here?" John asked after a moment of silence "You let us do our work or we become allies and kill it together"

"How can we trust you?" Lennox asked

"You already did, you bought your equipment off of our website did you not?" John chuckled

Lennox raised an eyebrow "You're in charge of selling the equipment?"

"No, but we can allow for you to get some better ones," John said "In exchange for giving us this kill"

"Boss, the Decepticon is now alarmed of your presence in the area, it's a good time to start the operation now" Alice warned

"All teams, be advised the Decepticon is now on high alert," John said into his comms

"Now if you excuse me, we have a Decepticon to hunt down" John turned to Lennox and said

"Stop-"

"Commence operation, do a thorough sweep and report in once you have a visual" John ordered into his comms

Optimus, Ironhide, and Jazz arrived at the scene as he sent the order

"Optimus, Ironhide, Jazz" John nodded towards the three of them

"Do we have a deal or not?" He asked Lennox

"You were that human a year ago" Ironhide looked at John after recognizing his voice

"You look kind of small now," Jazz said after a moment of realization

John thew him a middle finger

"Just this once" Lennox answered after seeing that Ironhide and Jazz knew him