Darkness.
Darkness was all that she could see. Her audio receptors faintly pick up the sound of gunfire being shot and the sounds of impacts making contact. 'What happened?' her processor chimes. Her optics quickly come online as they glow a bright blue in realization of what happened. "We were attacked," she murmurs to herself. She and her crew were attacked by an unknown assailant for unidentified reasons. The femme stares straight out and sees the twinkling lights of hundreds of stars in the sky. Lying on her back, she starts to stand up only to find something has pinned her lower half to the ground.
She looks down before setting her optics on a piece of her ship covering her legs. A loud explosion rings within her audio receptors as she turns towards it. The femme sees a small dust cloud forming. 'I need to help my friends.' She quickly grabs a hold of the debris and tries to pry it off of herself but to no avail. The Autobot struggles under the wreckage to free herself, only to have intense pain shoot through her body as she does. Her arms limply fall over her chassis in defeat. She arches her head to see if she can spot her comrades in the distance, hoping they will come to her aid. The femme stares up at the stars before her optics slowly close. She lets out a soft sigh as she prays to Primus that her friends are safe.
"Cee!" Her optics pop open at the voice calling out to her. She bends her neck around to see who that was that called out to her. "Arcee," calls the voice again. The femme merely rolls her optics at her obliviousness. The voice is coming from her com-link, "Arcee… What is your status?"
Arcee soon taps the side of her head opening up her com-link. "Nothing big… just stuck under some fallen debris," she half-chuckled at her response.
The voice on the other end, clearly a mech, chuckles before saying, "Don't worry, I have your coordinates. We'll be there as soon as-," his words were quickly cut off by the sound of gunfire. He shouts out another Autobot's name, nearly blowing out Arcee's audio receptors. He lets out a scream through the com-link, completely forgetting it was still open. "You'll pay for that bounty hunter!"
Arcee only could remain helpless underneath the debris of their crashed ship. She struggles even more at the thought of losing her comrades to some hunter who had been hired to deal with them. Her optics widen at the sounds of more gunfire, the scraping of metal punches, and even a couple of loud explosions. Her audio receptors pick up the mech pronouncing his battle cry, "You want the horns? You got'em!" She hears more of the fight and hopes and prays she will see her friend online. Suddenly her hope is shattered by the sound of her companion grunting in agonizing pain.
"No," she mouths to herself. She taps the side of her head, hoping her voice will travel across the frequency, "Cliffjumper."
No response.
"Cliffjumper… please answer," she pleads. The next thing she hears is what she can only guess as Cliffjumper's offline body falling to the ground. She closes her optics tight as a tear of energon slides down her face. Her watery optics slowly open at the sounds of approaching footsteps. She arches her head to try and see who is vastly approaching her position. All she is able to see is a tall mech coated in a silvery metal. She watches as he slowly comes to a halt in front of her. Her optics narrow as there is something eerily familiar about this mech.
The tall robot looks down at the fallen femme only with a smirk written on his face. He lefts up his left arm up before looking down at the engine upon it. The mech pushes a button on the engine as it seemingly begins to drain the silver coating into it and off the mech's body.
Her mouth slowly opens but no words come out as her optics widen as well. Arcee is stunned at the mech in front of her. Her shock soon fades as it is replaced by anger. She clenches her servo at what the mech did to her near the beginning of the war.
His optics glow a bright shade of orange as he smirks. "Arcee!" He reaches out to grab hold of the femme. "So glad to see… you." With that said the world turns to…
Darkness.
This story is basically a retelling of Tales of the Fallen Issue 6, pretty much the only comic I've read from the movie universe.
Originally it was going to be about the twins and their ordeal, but turned into being about Arcee.
And even then I wanted it to be a one-shot but it turned into a multichapter story.
So I hope you enjoy this story.