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<div>:''Jacob "Jake" Williams is a [[human]] in [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] [[continuity family]].''<br />
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'''Jacob "Jake" Williams''' is a former trucker. He lived a good life, but with the death of his [[Rose Williams|wife]] and [[Bobby Williams|son]], he has no more good years to look forward to. He took to long trips in his pickup "[[Starheart|Nelly Belle]]", out among the deserts of west Oregon to stare at the stars. It didn't make the hurt any less, but it made him able to go on a little longer.<br />
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Jake is a low-level telepath, an ability he's never done anything with, despite his wife's urgings to do something to benefit mankind. When he's upset or excited, those near him can feel his emotions.<br />
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Now… Jake lost his wife, his son… his [[Yeller|dog]] has cancer, so he'll lose him too… but mostly, Jake lost his heart. The man is a country song waiting to happen, and then he meets giant robots.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===Lonesome Diesel===<br />
Following the death of his son, Jake heads out to the western desert in the company of his dying dog Yeller. The solitude of the mountains does not cure his pain, but it eases it enough for him to go on a while longer. That and the bourbon, the bourbon helps.<br />
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The [[Mini-Con]] healer [[QuickFire]] is attracted by Jake's psychic distress (and his sexy truck). He re-energizes the aging Jake, curing his eyesight and taking away the little aches and pains that creep in with age. (He also cures Yeller's cancer.) QuickFire's comatose partner [[Riptide]] turns into a Mack Truck. Jake agrees to help QuickFire, hauling freight across the country to hide their presence from the Decepticons while QuickFire heals Riptide.<br />
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Several pleasant months pass doing this. Jake's return to work, and purpose, heartens him, and he find a friend and kindred spirit in QuickFire, who has renounced the life of war he once led, wanting never to fight again.<br />
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When a Decepticon attack threatens to create a massive volcano, they reluctantly break cover to alert the Autobots. Jake saves QuickFire from Megatron by crashing his pickup truck off a cliff into him, following it up with a couple shotgun shells.<br />
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After the battle, Riptide and QuickFire return to their peaceful life with Jake rather than rejoin the Autobots. {{storylink|Lonesome Diesel}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Jake and his search for peace may be a reference to the song "Feed Jake" by the Pirates of the Mississippi.<br />
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