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Predatory Part 1
Appalachian Mountains
Jack, Arcee, and Justin
Earlier today, Ratchet had managed to pick up an energon signal coming from the mountains on the northern east coast. Optimus sent Arcee Jack and Justin to investigate. With the weather being moderate in April. It was only necessary for Jack to wear a shirt with long sleeves with jeans and Justin wearing a black hoody with black track pants.
Immediately as soon as we hit our destination. The cool air came at us with full force, but it felt nice. Although Jack seemed to be getting the worst out of it all, cause of the bugs that survived in the weather.
"I'd really wished I packed some bug spray. The mosquitoes on this recon are the size of vampire bats, and they drink about as much blood" Jack said as he squashed a bug on his arm.
"Quite the outdoors man, aren't you Jack" Arcee said
"You wouldn't be making fun of my survival kit." "Maybe" Arcee smiled at her partner. "I'm may not have stinger proof metal skin Arcee. But in pinch I can use my multi-function pocket knife, and magnesium fire starter, to cook up some freeze dried mac n cheese" he replied
Justin who was walking next to Jack "Well if ever I was in a situation, I can simply use my powers to spawn a SPAS 12, to protect myself from lions, tigers, bears-"
'Oh my" Arcee finished. We stopped walking, we all looked at each other for a few seconds before laughing. As we soon got that out of our systems we kept walking. "You have your tools, I have mine" Arcee said.
Just then Arcee's scanner beeped. "That's odd, Ratchets satellite scans were accurate, But subterranean energon deposes don't cause this kind of surge" Arcee said looking around before continuing to walk forward. The boys followed her until the scanner beeped again, Arcee look up to see what was in front of her. A path a destruction cause by an unknown vessel a few yards away. She got behind one of the trees and observed the wreakage.
"What happened here?" Justin asked.
"Crash landing. Stay behind me, low and close" She replied as she jogged off to the crash site with her blaster readied. Justin took out two pieces of metal and made 2 M9 pistols. He handed one to Jack but he rejected it before Justin told him Since Jack refused the gun, Justin took both guns and duel wield them. The boys caught up to Arcee, who was crouched behind a large boulder.
"Bot or Con" Justin asked. With his gun pointed at the ship.
"Can't tell" She said as she readied her blaster and ran to the ship, she moved silently to the opining of the ship as Justin and Jack stayed and watch. They saw Arcee walk into the unknown ship. It took all of 10 seconds until she came out, with her hand on the ship looking down as if she saw a ghost. "Arcee" Jack said in shock as he and Justin rushed over to see Arcee, she looked up into the distance with the look of fear in her eyes with a horrible vision being played back in her mind. It wasn't until Jack snapped her back into reality.
"Arcee whats wrong" Jack asked with concern
"I know whose ship this belongs to." She replied with a frown, she brought up to fingers to her coms. "Arcee to base I need a bridge ASAP" Arcee asked, but received nothing but static
"What. Why? Whose ship is this?" Justin asked.
"Base do you read." there was still static "Scrap! Com links dead." She said in frustration. "The ships gotta be transmitting a high frequency scrambler pulse." She said as she started to walk. The boys rushed a little to catch up.
"Arcee? O-ok you're kind of freaking me out here" Jack said as he caught up. Arcee stopped.
"Wait here" She said as she walked again. She noticed strange scratch marks on all the trees she passed, as if something had marked their location.
Arcee then noticed some type of tracks on the dirt the seemed to run off into the forest. But these tracks were unusual, the size was too small for a cybertronian, or that of a human foot, the tracks seemed to be made by something very sharp. As she took one final look at the tracks, the painful memory hit her again, but harder, with a familiar face and smile. As she became her prey.
'No, please, anything but her' she thought to herself, she stared out again in fear with her mouth agape, only again for Jack to bring her back to reality again "Arcee?" Jack said as she looked at him, only to transform into her bike mode. "Climb on" she told the boys. The teens looked at each other before they got on. Arcee drove as fast as she can, swerving between trees and rocks. As the boys hanged on for dear life, as she jumped over a pit and came to a sudden stop.
"Was that really necessary" Jack asked in anger of his partner's actions. But Arcee was too busy trying to contact base. "Arcee to base" she commed base, but the only response was static again. "Scarp" she muttered in frustration. "Look, I've seen danger before, what's the bi-"
"Wait here, I mean it this time" she ordered. Jack sighed
"Ok, first you shut us out and now you're ditching us?" Jack asked in frustration. Arcee took a moment to transform, and looked at the boys. "And I thought I was you're partner. Jack argued.
"No Jack, You're a KID, you guys are only here because this was supposed to be 'No Risk'. Got It" She responded before she transformed and drove away, leaving the teens behind. Justin was getting annoyed and curious.
"Arcee is hiding something from us Jack, She's acting like this something far worse than Decepticons, which means I'm going to need more fire power" Justin said as he took the M9's and turned it into a UZI.
"Come on lets go find her" Justin said as he cocked his SMG he began to run. Jack followed.
Somewhere deep in the forest
A lone camper had just finish setting up his tent, with that he decided to retire to inside his tent and prepare dinner. Little did he know, a pair of eyes were watching him.
"My first local" a femme voice said. "Time for Humankind to feel my sting" as the femme used her extra limbs to sneak closer to her prey. She began to think of all the possible things she would do when she captured her prey. As she got within close range, she pounced into air and was about to kill the human. But out of nowhere Arcee tackled her out of mid-air with lots of force that they both ended rolling down a hill trying to get a grip on the other Once they came to the bottom of the hill, they keeped rolling until they crashed into a rock wall. Arcee was slammed into the wall while the black, purple, and gold femme bounce off of her and landed a few feet away. She slow got back up on her spider like limbs and approached Arcee
"Arcee~" she sang "Small universe." The femme smiled.
"Too small Airachnid" Arcee spat back.
"You're still holding a grudge? The war been over for Mega-cycles" Airachnid said. Starting to circle around Arcee.
"Tell that to the Decepticons" Arcee replied getting into a fighting position.
"These days I travel solo in pursuit of my new hobby" She smiled, while Arcee was disgusted. By her words.
Flashback 20 Minutes ago
As Arcee enter the ship she soon came across a hall full of animal heads that were hanged up on the wall. She gasped at the sight of the collection which made her knew whose ship this was.
Present
"I got a look at your Souvenir Case" Arcee spat.
"You mean my trophies." Airachnid corrected her. "I collect endangered species. Of course they aren't real in danger, until they meet me. And I have a slot reserve for HUMAN" Airachnid was determined to add another being to her collection, no matter what, and she wasn't going to let anything stop her, even if it means taking Arcee's head too. Airachnid smiled.
"Not gonna happen" Arcee quickly tackled Airachnid to the ground. Arcee was about to punch her but Airachnid used her spider limbs on her and pushed Arcee off of her with enough force to smash her back into the rock wall. As she got up, Arcee opened fire using both her blasters. Airachnid jump up between two trees and used her web blaster. It wrap around Arcee's arms preventing her from usage. Arcee pulled with all her might to knock down Airachnid from the tree. She used that time to cut the webbing off of her by using her knee spike and resumed firing. Airachnid started to return blaster fire on Arcee by using hers. Arcee dodge her blasts heading straight towards her. She jumped up in a tree and used to a branch to swing into another tree, she was right above her. She jumped down landing right on top of her with her foot on her chest. She pointed her blasters right at her, about to end her war nemesis once and for all. Arcee's nightmare was about to end.
Or so she thought.
Both femmes looked behind them and saw rocks rolling down the hill. Arcee looked up to see Jack and Justin sliding down the hill. Airachnid took the opportunity to strike Arcee across the face with her limb as she sadistically smiled. Arcee stumbled back try to regain her composer. But Airachnid use her webs to pin her against the wall.
"Arcee" Jack called out. She looked to see the two boys run at her. Airachnid turned around to see the two teens, getting ready to strike. Arcee managed to use her wrist blade to cut her left arm free and fire a straight shot at her knocking her back and in between the two teens, until final coming to a stop, lying on her back, but that hit made her take a short time to repair herself, while Arcee was webbed.
"I told you to wait for me" Arcee yelled. As the boys ran up to her.
"Well partners don't ditch partners" Jack said trying to remove the webs with Justin helping.
"Get this though your head, you're not my partner you're a liability" Arcee replied in frustration.
"I don't believe you. I can see it in your eyes. You're afraid Arcee, and you're never afraid"
Those words snapped Arcee out of her anger and back into another memory, but much more vivid.
Flashback
After being caught by Airachnid
"You know, for an Autobot your resilience is quite impressive." Airachnid stated as she circled Arcee.
Arcee remained silent, in hopes that she would just leave.
In fact, I'm guessing no matter what I do to you, you'll never crack. Am I right?" Airachnid smiled
Arcee looked at her with anger.
"That's what I thought"
The doors opened to two drones dragging in a heavily beaten and damaged Autobot that was all to familiar with Arcee.
"Tailgate?" Arcee whispered. Arcee first partner that she had grown on since the time she was partnered up with. She had consider him to be a great friend and ally during the war, and now she was afraid of what will happen to him
The drones chained him up, in the similar way Arcee was.
"What have you done to him?" Arcee asked in anger.
"Not much." Airachnid replied "Yet." She smiled
"Just tell me what I want to know. Or. Well…You're a smart bot. I think you can imagine what happens to Tailgate next" Airachnid finished.
"I don't know the attack coordinates" Arcee quickly replied, knowing what the Decepticons want.
Airachnid didn't believe a single word, she was disappointed. She walked off.
"I swear upon the Allspark it's the truth" she said trying to break free from her cuff
"We shall see" Airachnid said as she walked up to Tailgate
"No… Please…" she begged as the coolant tears began to run from her optics. Arcee watched as Airachnid positioned her spider limb right in front of Tailgate. More tears fell through as she watched as the sharp end of Airachnid limb pierced right through his frame, into his spark chamber, killing him as the energon blood sprayed the walls.
"TAILGATE" She screamed.
End of Flashback
Arcee snapped back into reality "Your right Jack I am afraid, of losing you" Arcee said looking at him with a sad expression, in which he replied with. Jack looked right back at her with worry.
"You sure have trouble holding onto your partners don't you." Airachnid said as she grabbed everyone's attention. She was now repaired and walking in her spider alt up to the group. "We both know what happened to Tailgate. But I've recently picked up some Decepticon radio chatter regarding the passing of CliffJumper" She smiled
Arcee showed only fear. She vented heavily in and out.
"At some point you really have to ask yourself Arcee, is it them, or is it me" She said smiling all innocently, except she was no saint.
"Jack get ready to change size" Justin whispered to Jack.
"Do you get it now guys, she not interested in me she hunts indigenous species, and she's on earth…that means humans… you guys…RUN!" Arcee yelled as she got covered in more webbing.
"CHANGE NOW JACK" Justin yelled. As he also changed sized.
Jack changed his size with his Mass Shifter and ran as fast as he could back up the hill. Airachnid watch Jack run away and back up the hill.
'Mmm, something interesting' Airachnid thought to herself.
She looked to see Justin who was pointing the UZI right at her. Justin opened fire on her only for Airachnid to dodge his gun fire.
"Justin, it's no use, she too quick" Arcee stated
"I GOT THIS" He shouted over the gun fire.
Airachnid shot a web at Justin only for him to dodge it. Justin started to run up the hill while still shooting at Airachnid. She quickly dodge his bullets like they were nothing. She soon got a perfect web shot at Justin which covered his arms and his Gun. He could not fire it.
'Shit, some web got into the gun' he thought as he abandoned the fight and started to run up the hill. Airachnid smiled and soon laughed as she walked over to Arcee.
"And that's why I now prefer to work alone." She dugged her spider limbs into the rock and held Arcee's chin with her single finger. "It's so sad when bad things happen to those close to you. But don't get me wrong. I fully intend to snuff out your spark, and believe me. I WILL make it hurt." She said facing Arcee upside.
But that won't compare to the pain you'll fell knowing I'm adding your humans… to my collection. She said turning around to look at the teens at the top of hill, Justin getting free of the webbing with the help of Jack. They both started to run as fast as they can as the eyes meet Airachnid's.
'Let the hunt begin' Airachnid smiled as she jumped off Arcee and started to chase the boys.
"NOOOOOOO"she yelled as the tears returned to her.
The past seemed to repeated itself
End Of Chapter
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