(A/N): Just to let everyone know that Elita-1 is the same bot and voice from the 2007 Transformers Animated Series. Thanks for reading. Excelsior!

Chapter 33: Arcee's Original Tragedy-Part 2

Elita, Arcee, and Windblade looked in awe and shock at what their optics were showing them. There on the up floor were completely covered in thick webs from top to bottom as far as the optics can see let alone see dozens of medium strange-shaped grouped objects in each corner of the area that was slightly glowing purple.

"What is the name of the Allspark is this place?" Windblade looked around and felt uneasy.

"If you ask me, Wind, I would say that this must be a nest," said Elita, going closer to the wall covered in webs to touch.

"Elita, you shouldn't touch that," warned Arcee when giving her the authority facial expression. "You don't know if it's contagious or acid-based."

Elita waved to webs off her hands and rolled her eyes at Arcee. "In case you forgot, sister, I am a grown fembot. I know what's is and not dangerous. I'm not a naive and careless little sparkling anymore."

Arcee frowned a little bit in a loving sisterly way and said in honesty, "Yeah, you're grown, alright. Grown enough to be a pain in my tailpipe."

Elita could only laugh at this before coming over to Arcee. The two sisters embraced each other like any siblings would do when they had a short fallout. The bond and love of the twin or sibling are so stronger and more powerful that can not be broken no matter what is going on or what happened amongst them. It was impossibly unbreakable! That is until today. Windblade looked at the scanner in her hand that Arcee have given her and noticed that the energon signature is getting stronger in the straight direction.

"Love you always and forever, sister," said both Arcee and Elita when looking and holding each other with big smiles.

"When you two are done having your 'Big Sis and Little Sis' moment, can we please continue on the search of founding and getting ourselves filthy rich?" Windblade looked at the two with a smirk before leading the way to what the device was showing her.

The two sisters followed behind their best friend in arm and arm and kept up with her. Elita smirked at an idea joke that came to her and just had to say it to Arcee.

"Hey, Arcee?" Elita got her attention as she lean over for her to whisper it. "Windblade's family is so poor that, yesterday, they had to put their spaceship up for a second mortgage."

Arcee busted out laughing at that joke because, in complete honesty, Windblade's family is very poverty-stricken. Windblade turned back to face the two with a stern eyebrow raised with the mindset of thinking that Elita pulled another 'Broke' joke about her and her family as she hated it. Even though Elita did not mean it and just loved to make bots laugh but still it irritated her like any other fembot. Shaking her head, she resumed leading the way which made them turn to the left to a triple tunnel. Of course, Elita was not done cracking another zinger about Windblade or her family which she only makes jokes about them only twice a day.

"Eh, too bad drinking booze every day isn't a paying job, or else Windblade's mom and dad would be millionaires by now," whispered Elita.

"Hehe, so true, Elita. Wind's mom is such a booze hag. She's so drunk that the Cybertron alcohol factors named multiple booze after her," said Arcee, when covering her mouth to prevent her laugh to escape and echo.

Windblade immediately snapped around with a frown at two which got Arcee and Elita's full attention.

"If you two dare crack another wise mouth joke about myself or my family throughout this whole exploration, I'll certainly gonna put both my feet so far up both your tailpipes, that the oil on my knees will quench your thirsts. And I'm not joking either," said Windblade, before focusing back on the device and noticing that the readout on the scanner was fuzzy.

Arcee and Elita came over to their best friend to have a good look at what was the new issue that is preventing them from reaching the rich wealth.

"Weird." Arcee looked around with her hands on her hips. "Something is interfering with the scanner. Could this cave have metals within these walls?" She asked.

Elita kept her optics at everything surrounding them such as the webs and medium-sized eggs. "Or these things that decorated the caves. Why do I get the feeling that these things are organic sparklings inside a cocoon? As in the same organic creature that tried to kill us or suck our energon."

Windblade looked closely at those web eggs that surround them. Seeing them glow and move uncontrollably and understanding what is going on. "Girls, I believe these eggs are exactly what we think. In fact...,"

All three instantly put out their hand blasters once hearing huge stridulations coming from behind them. Without waiting any longer than they have to, the three fembots saw thousands of medium-sized spiders running towards them. Both looking at the Cybertronian woman with aggression in their eyes and pure hunger for their sweet energon. All three opened fire at their unwanted enemies while stepping back to keep a far distance from them, based on their Autobot army boot camp training as the spiders in front were reduced to gooey bits and pieces. Of course, it only encouraged the infant alien spiders to keep charging and hissing at the three.

"Too bad we do not have any grenades," said Elita, while shooting out her share of spiders.

"And cause a cave-in? Forget it. We want to escape, and not become permanent inmates with these nasty things," said Arcee, blasting the ones that were getting too close to her.

"Can things get any worse?" Asked Windblade, before she and the two heard strong hissing.

The three stopped in the middle of the in-between two tunnels with both of them having the noise. The three heard multiple hissing from both the left and right tunnel and could see adult alien spiders charging their way in. This motivated the three dash forward without daring to look back at the chased danger. The spiders continued chasing without slowing down for anything while crawling up the ceiling as soon as they saw the three took the moment to turn back to fire another round of blasting. Arcee, Elita, and Windblade needed to think quickly and fast before their energon level will run low.

"We're not going to last long if we keep burning our fuel like this," said Windblade.

"Agreed. There that open area should help keep our distances away from them," said Elita, pointing at the large open hole.

"Good optic, Elita. Let's go!" Said Arcee.

The three ran towards and entered the tunnel. Only except that this particular tunnel is not a walk straight cave tunnel. No, but instead it's an incredibly large slide tunnel that they accidentally slip right into. All three yelled in shock, surprised, and a little bit fun when sliding down with nonstop speed. The three were sliding up and down, twisting, turning, and even having to jump over a dead-end gap to reach the other half of the slide.

"I'm going to lose my meal!" Said Elita, before covering her mouth to prevent herself from puking.

Both Elita and Arcee heard strong vomiting in between them and saw Windblade buffed behind herself before facing forward while holding her abdomen. "Too late, I already lost my food. Geez, your wild rastro steak covered in motor grease and oily wires are delicious, Elita."

"Well, what can she say, Wind?" Arcee jumped up in the air and landed back down after making contact with a huge bump while holding herself for dear life. "My sister is an outstanding chef than any bot on our homeworld."

"Heads up!" Yelled Elita.

Arcee looked to see another dead-end gap and immediately she and others got back to their feet and jumped up to reach the other side. Unfortunately, upon doing so the three saw three slide tunnels and not a single slide. Thus, causing the three to enter each separate hole and went somewhere where neither knows where due to being separated.

"Arcee!" Said Windblade, calling her best friend's name out before falling into the middle tunnel hole.

"Windblade!" Cried Elita, before falling into another hole.

"Elita!" Yelled Arcee, before entering the tunnel.

Arcee slid all the way down and got pushed off and landed on solid and sturdy ground. Arcee relaxed when finally being free from the long wild sliding experience and was so close to being crushed by huge falling rocks. She looked at her surroundings which were a tight squeeze and can only see one way out when seeing light. Managing to pull out her one-hand blaster, Arcee crawled through the tight tunnel that she could easily fit into and reached to the other side. Once doing so, Arcee could see a big empty space covered in thick webs and stay alert when moving her feet to go forward while eyeing her surroundings.

Arcee had a few struggles when walking due to having her boots getting caught into the thick webs and had pulled off or ripped off with quickness. Not wanting to give those things the advantage of attacking her when she is down, Arcee moved with speed while attempting to make comm contact with Windblade and Elita. So far, Arcee can only get pure static and can only hope that they were alright. Making her way down a low hill to reach the other side she had to climb up a half wall that had an open entrance, before noticing burnt marks around her. Arcee examined the marks before realizing that these were burn marks that were formed by huge multiple exhaust pipes.

"If these are burnt marks from exhaust pipes, then...," Arcee quickly ran forward to see if she can confirm her suspension by finding the desired object.

It did not take long for Arcee to find it. She stopped at the edge of a cliff and looked down at what she sees. What she saw was exactly what she, Elita, and Windblade are looking for. Right there covered in at least fifteen layered webs was the one hundred and seventy-five tall bank ship which Arcee grinned big at the sight of it as she instantly slid down to head on over to it.

"Jackpot!" Arcee said, knowing where to find one of the door hatches to get inside.

Only except that the door that Arcee was planning on going to open was gone. Instead, it was nothing but a hole without a door. With caution, Arcee slowly entered inside to find even more webs and multiple eggs but continued to find the vault that she knew is on the fifth level floor. With time, patience, and a whole lot of caution, Arcee found the vault and went to look to see if it had enough power for her to type in the code that she found on her job's personal file. Seeing that the supply of energy to the vault was dead, Arcee sighed as to knowing what she had to do but didn't want to do so due to her energon level.

"For my sake, I hope that nothing is on this ship but me," Arcee told herself when out her arm blade.

She reached down and made a small cut on her left thigh. Next, she stuck her finger into the wound and held her pained cry when taking out a good drop of her energon before putting it into the vault's power supply. Once that was done, she saw the keypad light up and quickly typed in the code. The door of the vault started to open itself up wide once Arcee had pressed entered and saw mountains of shanix piled up or in caches.

"We hit the mother load," she said with a big smile on her face.

But that all came to an end once hearing a big noise coming from the left side of the room. Arcee stepped away from the loot to see what was it that interrupted her moment of glory. She looked into the dark to find multiple red eyes looking at her before coming into the light and hollowing out in anger.

"Scrap, that's the freaking queen," Arcee said, pulling out her blasters to shoot.

Her blasters had no effect on the queen spider as it charged its way towards her and shoot its webs at her. The webs had caught hold of Arcee's left foot causing her to hit the floor, this give the queen the chance to reel her in and suck her energon. Arcee gave it her all to break free from that web by cutting it with both of her arm blades but no luck. Turns out, the queen spider's webs were too strong and thick to cut which Arcee knew that she is at the queen's mercy. Unfortunately, the thing does not even know the meaning or experience of giving mercy.

"S...Scrap!. I'm screwed!" She said while continue to shoot at the queen.

The queen was inches away from sticking its fangs into Arcee's body until a sharp pain had struck its back. The queen yelled in pain before causing itself to accidentally cut the web that Arcee was attached to. Arcee took this opportunity to roll back away from the thing to see none other than her little sister who backflipped over the queen spider and landed heroically on all fours. Elita looked at Arcee and smiled before going over to pull her up and dash out of the ship.

"Elita, you have excellent timing," said Arcee when noticing a deceased bot on the ground and telling it was one of the ship's drivers that got their energon sucked by the neck.

"I was lucky enough to literally land out to this place. After I entered the ship and find all the crew members were drained out of their energon by that queen. She made this bank ship into her personal nest," said Elita, pulling out her round shield that had the Autobot symbol on it to use to defend against the coming spiders.

The two looked up back at the ship after hearing a huge hiss as the queen busted out in anger. Arcee and Elita took in on how big the queen spider is as it hissed loud to summon the rest of its hive to attack them. Arcee and Elita worked hard to defend themselves from all the spiders that were surrounding them and emptied everything that they got. From blasters to blades. From infant spiders to adult spiders. The two sisters were starting to fatigue in the wrong way as their energon is running super low and don't know if they survive another second.

"Where is Windblade?!" Arcee questioned before ducking down when Elita threw her shield at a nearby spider.

"I don't know, Arcee," spoke Elita, before raising her hand to catch her shield after it bounced back from smashing a few heads of the spiders. "But I tell you one thing. If we are to join the Allspark by getting our energon drained out of our bodies by these sick bloodsuckers, then she too needs to be here with us and accept our sad demise."

"Well, I have a better idea...,"

Arcee and Elita looked up to see not only Windblade but also see Optimus, Jazz, and Ultra Magnus right with her with their guns in their hands.

"Windblade!" Said Arcee, in pure joy and relief.

"That snitch fembot!" Said an upset Elita.

They both said what came to their minds before realizing that they spoke something different and looked at each other. That was short-lived when the spiders tried to give them the jump.

"Arcee! Elita! Quickly climb up and reach way up to us!" Ordered Optimus, when shooting down at the alien spiders to aid them.

"We'll hold them off, now go!" Said Jazz, while shooting at the queen.

"Double time, soldiers! Move it! Move it!" Ultra Magnus yelled while firing at the spiders and queen.

Without any hesitation, both Arcee and Elita did what they were ordered to do as they started to jump on the flat tall rocks like stairs while shooting a few incoming spiders that were following them. As for Windblade, she pulled out two super grenades that Wheeljack have given her as her wedding present and started setting the time dial on them before throwing them down the hole.

"You girls have precisely two minutes to get up here and escape!" Windblade informed them when slicing a spider in half with her sword.

"You've should have set it for five minutes, Wind," said Jazz.

"Too late for that ,my friend," said Ultra Magnus before blowing a spider's head off.

Arcee and Elita both climbed up the webbed wall as fast as their body could allow them to reach their friends while some of the spiders were trying to reach them, but couldn't do so all thanks to Optimus and the other's effort of shooting them back. With enough energy, the two have made it to where the others were and started running out of the large pit and head out from the soon explosion. Things were going smooth and looked like everything turned out fine even though they did not get the money that they desired to get until that final moment.

The Spider-Queen has managed to crawl out of the pit halfway and had its eyes set on claiming a victim and getting even. The thing landed its sights on Elita who was slowly running behind the others and shooting out a string of web into the air. The front of the string of webs that is in the air had opened itself up and became a net, and captured Elita inside of it. This caused Elita to fall hard to the ground and started reeling her in with quick speed.

"Arcee!" Elita cried out in a sacred tone.

Arcee turned around and saw her sister being pulled by the queen spider. It put so much emotion into Arcee. "No, Elita!"

Arcee forced her feet to run and grab hold of a net captured Elita. The queen spider hissed at this and pulled even harder. Arcee made her attempt to break loose on the net and grabbed Elita's hand. Optimus were already at the ship before looking back to see what was happening and ran back as fast they could.

"Sister!" Elita had tears of fear of the thought of losing her life.

"Don't worry Elita, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I promise to you!" Arcee said, trying to pull her out of the thick webs with much effort that her biceps can give.

Unfortunately, her efforts were in vain as she and Elita were an inch away from the queen who hissed. Arcee had her arm blade out and raised in the air to land the strike at the queen of the organic planet.

"Stay the scrap away from my little sister, you energon sucking freak!" Said Arcee with a strong warning and was really did not expect a response to what she said.

"Your sister's fate has been sealed!" Said the Queen Spider.

Before Arcee could even react to what she just heard, the Queen Spider spit purple goo into Arcee's eyes that started to increasingly burn by the second.

"My optics!" Arcee let go of Elita's hand and pushed herself away from her to worry about her own health.

"Arcee!" Elita yelled and screamed at her big sister before being pulled back into the pit with the queen spider making her attempt to consume her energon.

"Elita!" Windblade ran after her and try to save her but forgot about the grenades going off.

"Wind, no!" Jazz warned her, but was too late.

The pit blew up sky high, thus agressively pushing Windblade back away and left her unconscious and injured along with Arcee. Everything went dark for the two. What came next was Arcee slowly waking up to feel herself on a medic bed with wires hooked up to her and her eyes being covered and bandaged up real good. She wanted to move freely but her injured body did not want to do so with so much chronic pain on her body and eyes.

"Calm down, Arcee. You are safe and back home on Cybertron," said Jazz, who was by Arcee's bedside.

"W...W...Where's Windblade?" Arcee asked in worry and fear.

"She is alright, Arcee. She is right here in her own medic bed all hooked up just like you except for her optics having bandages. She is resting right now. Ultra Magnus is informing Tailgate and Bulkhead about what has happened to you guys," said Jazz, trying not to tell anymore and wanted Arcee to rest. Plus, not wanting to tell her everything about what happened to a particular fembot.

"And my sister?" Arcee slightly lifted up a bit despite the pain with anxiety in her voice. "First lieutenant, Jazz, where is my little sister? Where is Elita?"

Jazz sighed in sadness as he stood up walked out to let Optimus tell her who just entered the medic bay. The last Prime looked at Arcee with grief and sadness as he did not want to tell her but had to do so since she has her right to know so.

"Arcee...," Optimus gave one more sigh. "Elita went offline. Between the organic life form and the massive explosion, Elita is no longer amongst the living. I'm sorry, Arcee."

Arcee took in what Optimus just said and took notice that her twin spark was no longer active. Informing her that her twin has joined the Allspark. However, instead of making peace with this, Arcee began to move and yell out in anger and disbelief.

"You're lying! Elita is a warrior. A Wrecker! She can not die so easily. I don't believe it! Elita! Elita! Elita!" Arcee cried out while damaging her healing sights by crying.

"Arcee, stop!" Optimus warned, putting his hands on her shoulders to keep her down.

Arcee was wildly kicking her injured feet in the air like a spoiled sparkling. "Sister! Sister! Elita! Elita!"

"Sedate Arcee at once, Ratchet!" Optimus ordered, trying not to aggravate Arcee's injuries any further.

Ratchet ran in and quickly started preparing the injection. The old medic ordered Jazz to come and hold Arcee's legs before injecting the medicine into Arcee's right bicep. Arcee stopped screaming and slowly calmed down and felt herself getting fatigued. Ratchet calmed down from the excitement as he started caressing her cheek to help encourage Arcee to relax even further before going to sleep.

End of Flashback...

Arcee sighed on that memory. She had Elita by the hand that day and lost her due to letting her go. All because of having burning pain in her eyes. Arcee looked at Miko and sighed at her.

"I may have failed to save and protect my sister, Elita. But I'll be scrapped if I failed to save and protect you, Miko. From your own quote that you used when you spoke to Bulkhead on the day he came back home critically injured after both fighting that Insecticon Hardshell and dealing with Tox-En." Arcee lean over and gave a strong motherly kiss on Miko's cold head. "I'm never leaving you again. Like what you young earth teenagers say...no cap."

Jack heard the dedicated promise that Arcee made and know she sounds extremely serious. After what happened to them with being kidnapped by Simmons and Miko eating her Cybertronian key, Jack knew that Arcee have every right to do so as a mother. And now he had to stay on her good side as her best friend and not on her mother side. He was about to say something until he felt the right human part of his unconscious girlfriend and soon to be Mrs. Darby move and her hand squeezed his.

"Everyone, Miko is finally waking up!" Jack informed them while getting up and getting everyone up and at attention in seeing Miko wide awake.

Miko slowly opened her eyes. "J...Jack?" She asked weakly. "Wh-What happened?"

"That's a long story, kid," Evac said.

Miko looked up at Ratchet, who sighed. "Brace yourself, kiddo," he said as he sat down beside her, ready to tell her what happened.

Miko's awake. :)

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