Arrival of the Elite

by Rowena Bensel

While on Cybertron to get Optimus's memories, Arcee and Jack run into an old comrade. But as she adapts to live on Team Prime, she remains haunted by her time was warden of a dead planet. Only the support of her friends and the love of her life can help her move past it, but will she even realize there is something wrong? [ On Indefinite Hiatus ]

1. Chapter 1

A space bridge signal.

That shouldn't have been possible, the last spacebridge had blown several groon ago. She hadn't been there to do it, but she saw the damage, looking through the wreckage for supplies. Unless someone had managed to create a new one. Or the bridge itself was elsewhere and this was the exit point. She wondered who could have come through. Most likely Decepticons.

When the signal did not vanish, she realized it was still open. She would go to it, then, find out who or what had come through, and possibly use it to get off the desolate planet. She'd spent thousands of vorns as Cybertron's guard, most alone except for the few Decepticons she'd encountered. The planet was either going to recover far in the future, when she'd be offline and unable to care, or it would remain dead. It was better that she didn't die on it in vain.

And what was this singing in her spark that said this course of action, while against the orders of the mission she'd signed up for, was right?

Ignoring it, or maybe following it, she packed her meager supplies into her subspace, transformed into her alt mode and made her way across the cityscape, aiming for the spacebridge.

For the first time since the Exodus, Elita One was out of hiding and ready to take the fight right to the Decepticons.