Arcee was sitting next to Bumblebee while he was hooked up to Megatron through the Cortical Psychic Patch. She kept an eye on him as she waited for word to pull him out. She then heard the door open and saw Starscream, Knockout and Soundwave come through, "Knockout, if you would be so kind as to tell Soundwave your expert medical opinion, for the record"
"Simply put unaided Lord Megatron could be in this deathly slumber forever"
"Our master would not want to be seen this way, trapped in his own body. Is it not just?"
They're trying to kill off Megatron Arcee thinks to herself as Soundwave walks up and points to the monitor.
"Brain waves activity. Not evidence of consciousness but of an endless dream of which he may never wake from" Knockout informed.
"Soundwave, we must face reality, Megatron is lost to us" Starscream says as he tries to act saddened by the news.
"The most honorable option would be to show him mercy" Knockout adds as he too acts saddened by what their saying.
"A quick throw of the switch"
"Quick and painless"
"Ratchet, are you hearing this?" Arcee asks through the comm.
"If Megatron perishes Bumblebee's mind will be separated from his body, forever" Ratchet responds back.
"We'll lose both Bee and Optimus?" Jack asked feeling concerned for his friends.
Time goes on as Soundwave stands there pondering over it until Starscream speaks up again, "Soundwave, do I take your silence to mean that you concur with Knockout's medical expertise?"
Soundwave remains silent as he continues to ponder. Starscream looks at Knockout then back at Soundwave as he walks over to Megatron's body and gets ready to pull the plug, "Speak now or forever hold your peace" he tells him, but still he remains silent.
Arcee readies her gun and points it at Starscream ready to shoot him. She can't believe she's about to save the life of the war lord but she's willing to in order to save Bumblebee.
"Going, going" Starscream says as he looks at Soundwave waiting for his response. Soundwave then points to the Cortical Patch that was coming out from behind Megatron. Starscream goes to check behind the war lord and sees the cord coming from behind Megatron's head, he looks it over then goes to see where it was leading.
Arcee sees this and starts panicking a bit, "Scrap" she whispers as she turns around and looks at Bee, "You better hurry up Bee"
Starscream gets closer and Arcee is prepared to fight when she finally gets the call from Ratchet, "Arcee pull Bumblebee out of there now!" Arcee then carefully pulls off the cord from Bumblebee's head and starts shaking him to wake him up. Starscream gets to their position and kneels down to look and sees them and Arcee transformed her hand back into her blaster and got ready to blast him when she heard Bee finally waking up then a groundbridge opened up behind them.
Bumblebee goes on into the portal while Arcee points her gun at the cables hooked up to Megatron, "Allow me" she says before she fires a blast which hits the cables pulling them out of Megatron's chest. With a smirk Arcee then jumps backwards into the portal, but before she can get fully through two tentacles grab her by the legs and pulls her back in and she suddenly finds herself between Starscream, Soundwave and Knockout with Soundwave holding her legs with his tentacles.
She brings out her blades and slices at the tentacles making them release her legs. She the jumps up and manages to land a kick to the side of Soundwave's helm before she took a good swing at Starscream, hitting him right in the faceplate. She then heads for the groundbridge which is still open but she is again grabbed by Soundwave who picks her up then slams her onto the floor. She then feels a foot pressing down on her body, she looks and sees Soundwave hold her down with his foot while Starscream comes over and points a missile at her. She looks back at the groundbridge and watches helplessly as it closes, "Your now our prisoner, Arcee" Starscream tells her, "Well done Soundwave. Now take her to the prison chamber" he then said as he walked out, "ONE OF YOU BETTER GET THE SHIELDS UP! We do not need the Autobots finding us, especially since we now have their femme"
Back at base Bumblebee and Bulkhead was looking at the groundbridge wondering why Arcee hadn't came through yet while Ratchet got to work on the antidote for Optimus, "You sure she was right behind you?" Bulkhead asked Bee.
Yes, she was right behind me Bee insisted.
"She'll come, don't worry" Ratchet said trying to cheer up the mood. Then the bridge closed and Arcee never came through, "Oh dear, seems something happened" Ratchet said.
"Those con scums must have captured her and taken her prisoner" Bulkhead said as he balled up his fists, ready to fight.
Bumblebee looks down to the ground, I should have double checked. Why didn't I double check to make sure she was behind me?
"It's not your fault Bee, don't blame yourself" Raf tells him. Bee just looks at him as Ratchet finishes getting the antidote together and goes and gives it to Optimus.
A bit later Optimus starts making a recovery and they star telling him about what happened but he stops them, "No need, I heard you guys talking so I know Arcee didn't make it back. No doubt they took her captive and we must now work on getting her back. Are we still tracking the ship?"
Ratchet goes over to the monitor and looks, "No, we lost it"
"See if you can get it back"
"Already on it" Ratchet says as he searches for the location of the ship.