Jack was sitting on the couch at the Autobot base with his feet on the coffee table and his eyes straight ahead…. Staring at the wall. He was silent for almost half an hour.

Miko and Rafael were playing videogames next to him although they weren't really getting into the game due to Jack's mood. And the fact that the argument between him and Arcee could be heard by everyone in the base. Well…. Only the yelling part of it anyways.

"Jack?" asked Miko. "Are you okay?"

Raf looked a little worried. "C'mon Miko I think Jack wants to be alone."

Jack blinked and looked over to Miko and Raf. Worried faces on both of them.

"I'm okay guys…Just thinking. You can keep playing if you want." Said Jack with a small smile.

Miko sighed in annoyance. "You clearly aren't okay. Tell us what's going on between you and Arcee."

Jack was silent.

Raf spoke up. "Miko please. I don't think Jack wants to talk about it." He said as he tugged on Miko's arm, trying to get her to leave with him, hoping to give Jack some space.

Miko sighed in annoyance again. "Fine…but you-"

She pointed at Jack.

"-owe me an explanation."

Jack sighed and managed another small smile. "Don't worry, you guys stay here and play, I need to speak Optimus." Said Jack

Raf and Miko looked at each other worriedly as Jack walked off.

…

Airachnid walked behind Starscream as they went through the officer's deck of the Nemesis.

"Here are your quarters. I hope they are satisfactory." Said Starscream as he opened the door on the left at the end of the corridor.

"It's fine." Airachnid said with a scowl. "Is there anything that I need to do? Because if there isn't than…leave me alone." She growled.

"Calm down." Said Starscream. "You are lucky that I even considered asking you to join us but since our 'Master' isn't feeling optimal at the moment. We basically would need all the help we can get."

Airachnid scoffed. "Don't try your luck Starscream." She said as she traced her digit over Starscream's Decepticon insignia. "Because you are even luckier that I accepted this little….deal in the first place."

"Oh really? Because it looked like you had quite the ordeal to overcome in that cave with only a few Energon rations."

Airachnid chuckled. "That's easy. I've been through much worse."

Starscream grinned. "Including killing that human?"

Airachnid froze and hissed. "Shut up!"

Starscream chuckled. "I just can't stop pestering you about that. It's too amusing to just ignore."

Airachnid grabbed Starscream by the neck and pinned him against the wall, one of her legs extended towards the main energon lines on his neck.

"Don't play games with your life Starscream because unlike that…..filthy human, I have no problem in offlining you."

Starscream looked slightly nervous as Airachnid's leg was lingering around his neck.

"Very well." Said Starscream.

Airachnid let him go and made her way inside her quarters.

But right before the door closed Starscream looked her in the optics.

"At least you admitted the difficulty you have."

The door shut and Airachnid was left in the room with wide optics.

…

Bumblebee and Bulkhead just returned from a recon mission in the center of Jasper. Decepticon activity was thought to be there strangely enough, although it was probably just a routine patrol. But they barely caught Jack and Arcee's argument because they had to leave as soon as they arrived. So they were unaware of what happened.

But they quickly caught on at Jack's mood and asked their respected companions about it.

"Jack and Arcee got into an argument." Said Raf. As he looked at Jack speaking with Optimus and Ratchet.

"About?" Asked Bulkhead.

"I don't know." Huffed Miko with her arms crossed.

Bumblebee spoke some beeps and whurs.

"I agree, I think it does have something to do with the recon mission that they had." Said Raf.

"I don't get it." Said Bulkhead. "Nobody was injured, well…..Airachnid got away but….how would that cause an argument between them?... Man I'm so confused."

"Guys I don't think we should get involved in this. If Jack wants to tell us what's wrong then he can tell us. It wouldn't be right to intrude." Said Raf.

Miko pouted. "Okay….."

Bulkhead reassured Miko.

"Miko I know you're curious but. Raf's right. It just wouldn't be right."

Miko looked sad for a few seconds but then she began grinning.

"…And no asking Arcee." Pressed Bulkhead.

"Aww…." She pouted.

…

Jack walked over to where Optimus and Ratchet were in the main room, next to Ratchet's workstation.

"Optimus, Ratchet, I need to ask you guys something."

They both looked over to him. Optimus more than Ratchet.

"What do you need Jack?" Asked Optimus.

"I want to know why Arcee acted like that during the mission. What happened between her and Airachnid."

Ratchet stopped his work abruptly and slowly raised his helm to look at Jack.

"Why would you want to know that?" He asked.

"I want to help Arcee get over this but she refuses to budge." Said Jack with worry.

Ratchet responded. "This isn't something that she can simply 'get over' Jack. This incident has reopened some old wounds." Ratched sighed. "Especially with what happened with Cliffjumper recently."

"Please Ratchet….Optimus. I only want to help her." Said Jack as he looked at both of the Mechs before him.

Optimus was silent for a few moments as he stared at Jack.

"I'll tell him Optimus." Called out a voice.

Everyone in the room looked at the source of the voice and found Arcee leaning against the doorframe of the corridor.

"A-Arcee." Said Jack in slight shock. "How long have you been there?"

She smiled with warm optics, staring at Jack. "Long enough. Thanks for worrying about me."

Jack smiled. "It's not just me Arcee. Everyone is worried about you."

Her smile faltered a bit as she gazed at the ground. "I appreciate it. Very much."

She then walked over to Jack and the others. "I'll tell you what's going on. I owe you that much at least." Said Arcee as she stood infront of everyone. Including Miko, Raf, Bumblebee and Bulkhead.

Arcee than began telling about the mission that she was on when Airachnid killed Tailgate. She told everything in great detail. Her voice was void of any emotion. Everyone was silent as she told her story. But her voice changed from emotionless to sorrowful at the end of the story. When she told everyone how Airachnid had tortured her and killed Tailgate in front of her own optics.

When she finished the story. Everyone was silent.

"Oh man." Whispered Miko.

"Yeah." Scoffed Arcee. But then she looked at Jack. "Now you know why I was so worried Jack. I didn't want you to get hurt by that…Glitch!"

Arcee's denta was clenched as she said her statement.

Jack was silent as he looked down in front of him.

He felt really bad for Arcee, he wanted to help her as much as she could. But after hearing much of her story, he just didn't know what to do, didn't know how to help. And that made him feel more for Arcee's sadness.

But he wasn't going to give up. He was still going to try to help her somehow.

But then he remembered something.

"Wait a minute." Said Jack. "Airachnid couldn't harm me."

"What?" Asked Ratchet.

"Yeah-" Said Jack. "-she couldn't do it. Every time she tried she started shaking and telling me to shut up because…. My voice reminded her of someone."

"Your voice?" Asked Raf.

"Yeah. Weird isn't it?" Said Jack. "She also had a pained look on her face. Something bad happened to her in the past and I remind her of it."

Bumblebee spoke.

"Yeah Bee-"Said Raf. "It's more like Jack reminds her of someone. Someone she probably cared about."

Arcee scoffed and muttered. "That's hilarious and something I could never imagine seeing."

Optimus spoke up. "Airachnid may have had a different life before the war."

Arcee shot up. "I don't give a frag! She's a ruthless killer who languishes in the pain of others! She kept telling me that if it wasn't for Starscream then she would have killed Cliffjumper."

The Autobots froze at her statement.

"So it was Starscream that-?" Whispered Ratchet.

"Yeah….it was." Interrupted Arcee with a hate filled voice.

"And that Glitch wanted to kill him first! HER SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT IS THE DEATH OF EVERYONE THAT I HOLD DEARLY!" She screamed.

Everyone was silent. Until Optimus spoke up.

"Arcee. Nobody is born with hate and sadistic tendencies. The environment around an individual is what changes them, not the individual themselves."

Arcee just stood there shaking slightly. Slowly calming herself down.

"Optimus is right." Said Jack.

Arcee quickly looked at Jack with a shocked expression. But Jack noticed the distress in her optics.

"I'm not saying that what she did was right Arcee. All I'm saying is that something happened in her past that changed her into what she is today. And I triggered all those memories to come back."

Arcee still stared at Jack. The determination on his face.

"I feel sorry for you Arcee, everything that Airachnid did to you. But I also feel sorry for her."

Arcee stepped back slightly. "You can't be serious."

"I am Arcee. Imagine the life she had that turned her into the monster she is today. Only the unloved hate, Arcee. The unloved and the unnatural."

Everyone was shocked after hearing that. Optimus had a smile on his face. Ratchet shook his head with a small grin.

Arcee stared at Jack's eyes, the determination they held rivaled Optimus's. Her spark was twitching slightly and she felt heat going up her faceplates.

She was falling in love.

…

Airachnid gasped as she shot up from her berth.

Another nightmare.

She was really getting angry about it. She NEVER had nightmares. Well… before she met Jack. But the real reason she was angry was the fact that these nightmares scared her….frightened her. She wasn't afraid of anything. Of anyone. So why this? Why now?

All of those nightmares she had never recognized before but they felt very familiar as well.

She thought of Jack and that managed to settle her down.

No, strike that. The real reason that she was angry was that a filthy human that she barely knows has escaped death from her. And she felt okay with it. Every time she thought of Jack it somehow calmed her, she felt safe. This pissed her off.

"RAAH!" She screamed as she threw an energon cube at the wall in front of her out of frustration and anger.

After a few moments someone knocked at her door. She got up from her berth and made her way towards the door. She opened it and peered out.

A Vehicon was standing there. "Commander Airachnid I heard a loud noise. Are you okay?" Asked the vehicon.

Airachnid stared blankly at the Vehicon with her intense purple optics. This was making the vehicon nervious.

"C-Commander Airach-?"

The Vehicon was interrupted by one of Airachnid's legs going through its headpiece. The Vehicon twitched slightly before its optics offlined. Airachnid pulled her leg from the Vehicon's headpiece and the limb body of the Vehicon toppled on the cold floor.

Airachnid closed her door and sighed before making her way back towards her berth.

"Maybe that will get me some rest tonight."

AN: Thanks for reading. I want to say that the reason that I did not write Arcee's mission in detail is because everybody knows what happens from the show and I wrote it than I would feel like I'm repeating something everybody knows. Besides this story is more about Airachnid's past. Anyway that's for reading and PLEASE REVIEW! It will really keep me motivated to continue this story.