Arcee put on her mask and pretended not to remember anything. She continued to decode more slowly than before. She took out the disk and placed it in a visible place.

She was listening to the children talking to her when the communicator interrupted her.

"Ratchet, send the underground bridge" Optimus' voice was heard. Arcee walked over to the underground bridge and activated it to its coordinates. They were fine except for a few small dents.

Bulkhead went to Miko to show her new scars and Bumblebee went to take Jack and Raf home. Optimus came to Arcee.

"How's the decoding going?" he asked, noticing that he was wearing a mask again.

"Okay, but I have a question, if you still have energy, would you like to spar with me?" Arcee asked, giving her an innocent look to agree. Optimus thought for a moment as he nodded.

They walked towards the training room in silence. They came there and both of them got into fighting stances. Arcee had one advantage against most mechs, except for Bumblebee, she was shorter.

Arcee attacked and saw her defend herself by keeping her legs apart so she could slide. She gave a well-aimed kick to the side or a strong one, as if they were on the battlefield, just sparring.

He went to give her a blow of his own when she slipped between his legs and kicked him in the back. She stood in a straight posture and the wheels in her leg began to move. Optimus looked at her curiously.

It opened under her space and from there she took out a small dagger, identical to the two hundred that Optimus had in his room.

"Where did you find it?" Optimus asked, his voice serious.

"You didn't think I only had two" Arcee said and Optimus realized she remembered. "I thought that being a Prime would make you more creative, but I guess I had high opinions of you," Arcee continued as she twirled the dagger between her fingers.

"How did you remember if I may ask?" Optimus asked as his mask clicked into place.

"I had images while I was reloading, then I felt that I needed to find something and I found two daggers. I saw that you never cleaned it" Arcee said and thought of the first one he got from her and started walking closer but slowly as if to provoke him.

"I couldn't do it, so I at least kept her, it's the only thing left of Elite, her energon on the dagger" Optimus said seriously, but Arcee started laughing.

"Well, I see that you don't think much of it. There is no Elite energon on that dagger. I didn't leave any victim's energon on any dagger, but I hope it will help you find me," said Arcee and Optimus shook his head as a sign that he didn't believe her. She laughed.

Arcee tossed the dagger to the ground as she unfastened the armor on her forearm, leaving scars there. "So tell me there's my energon," Arcee said, her optics showing no emotion.

Arcee put her armor back on as she turned to leave. Optimus grabbed her hand within a second.

"Where do you think you're going!" He said and held her steady. They were looking at each other."I will leave this base back where it belongs, you said yourself, my wings, the Decepticon insignia, I am your enemy," said Arcee and Optimus quickly caught her and threw her further into the room. Arcee landed perfectly on two feet.

"As you wish, Prime, but I'm leaving and you won't be in my way" Arcee said and activated her shoulder blades.

Optimus tried to grab her hands and didn't even notice that she was leading him in a circle until he got caught in a trap. Optimus almost caught her, when she jumped away from him, her optics beamed with joy.

"What's so funny?" he asked when she stopped for a moment and his answer came in action. A force field activated around him that contained the sound. He touched it and nothing happened.

"I'll get out of there, you won't get in my way," Arcee said before turning and walking away.

Optimus screamed at her and tried to destroy the force field, but it didn't work and his scream was suppressed. He tried his communication and as usual, static. The only thing left for him was to wait for someone to come.

Arcee continued walking when she came to the main hangar, where only the medic was. She went to control the underground bridge and the paramedic must have had good hearing when he turned around.

"What are you doing?" Ratchet asked seeing that he had his mask back on.

"I'm leaving," she answered, entering random coordinates, when someone, namely the doctor, grabbed her hand.

"Who do you think you are?!" Ratchet asked, something annoyed him, but Arcee didn't feel like arguing with anyone anymore. She tried to yank her hand out of his grip, but she managed to back away a few steps. then Ariel took my advice" Ratchet said and Arcee's attention was on him.

"What did you say! "Said Arcee, annoyed, her stoic face returned to Cybertron, where she killed Elita in a fit of rage, and now the same rage gripped her.

"I was the one who told Elite not to keep you, I said Optimus would never want sparkling" Ratchet said and started acting like he had synthetic energon all over him.

Ratchet didn't even realize it when he was lying on the ground and Arcee was above him and her blade was close to the main line of energon.

"What did you say Elite-One?!" Arcee asked, not knowing when she would lose control of her anger.

"You heard right, I told her to leave you in Kaon, I gave birth to you and said that Optimus will never want you" Ratchet said and Arcee's lips began to tremble under the mask, but not from anger, but from sadness. What if , what Orion Pax said was not true but he tried to deceive her.

Arcee slowly got off Ratchet, opened the underground bridge and left.

Ratchet stood up and immediately went to the training room, where Optimus was in some kind of force field that was slowly weakening. Arcee set a timer for it, after a few minutes it would be useless and it would turn off by itself.

Optimus was sitting there on the floor and one emotion shone in his optics, but only against one robot and was surprised that it wasn't Arcee.

The field turned off and Ratchet walked up to Optimus. He was about to touch his shoulder and call him back to the land of the living when he turned his head in his direction. Ratchet could see the hatred in his eyes.

"Why did you say that?" Optimus asked and Ratchet only now realized his mistake. He wanted to hurt Arcee and he knew he did it very well. But he also hurt Optimus for saying something like that even though it wasn't true.

"Optimus, it wasn't my plan to hurt you, but her" Ratchet said and it was the first time they had talked about Arcee, he managed to finish before Optimus cut him off.

"And how did you even dare to do something like that, you don't know what she went through and she apologized," Optimus argued, keeping his anger in check for now.

"You know what Optimus, I don't understand you, if we were on cybertron you'd still like to see her dead, but now that you know she's your sparkling, you just defend her, you won't let anyone hurt her, get it, she'll never like you , he only sees you as an enemy, nothing more" Ratchet said walking out of the training room.

Optimus stood there. He didn't believe what Ratchet said was true. Something they still didn't know about Arcee. She was somewhere for several thousand years before she became the Silent Slayer. Optimus picked up the dagger she left behind. He already had three in his collection. Later, when he went to decode, he saw the disk and it only confirmed his theory. Arcee is not like she is on the battlefield.

Arcee

Arcee left the Autobot base and went out into the forest. She wanted nothing more than to cry and she couldn't go back to Nemesis now, everyone would think she was weak until the Autobot medic's words destroyed her.

Arcee was walking through the forest when she found a small cave. She didn't know where he was and she didn't care. She sat there looking ahead. Arcee looked at her pod again and pulled out a holocaust. It was the one thing that even Slinder couldn't see.

She turned it on and there were many photos. Mostly her and Soundwave, but some featured Orion Pax, Megatronus, and even Ariel.

She remembered the times when she liked Ariel's nail polish and wanted to have the same one. One day when she was in Kaon with Orion, she asked Ariel if she would help her.

Ariel couldn't refuse and Arcee at that time didn't understand why she always did everything she wanted. Well, a few hours later, when Ariel and Arcee came back and wanted to return Arcee Soundwave, Arcee had light pink polish, lighter than her highlights.

Soundwave was smiling at the time, but after a few weeks the color faded and the blue color returned.

Arcee didn't even realize that a tear had started to fall from her eye.

"I'm sorry mommy, I didn't mean to kill you, I'm so sorry," Arcee said quietly, her words drifting into Earth's atmosphere, unheard. Arcee slowly fell asleep and a small pink sparkle appeared around her.

"I forgive you my little femme, I know you will still go through a hard time, but when you end the war you will meet me, I promise I will watch over you," Iskra said as she disappeared again when she heard movement.

A tall moss with a black visor came into the cave and with it a small roar. Sound waves. He was happy to finally see Arcee.

He walked over to her and lifted her head so he could rest it on his leg. She was sleeping so peacefully that he didn't have the spark to wake her, so he left her alone. Then he saw a holocaust photo of Orion Pax, Ariel and her.

"Arcee what's wrong" he said quietly. You looked at other photos, etc. He smiled through the viewfinder as he saw more photos. He was glad to finally find her after days of searching and that she was okay.