Hello everyone, and a very Happy Holidays to you all. With the rush of the season, I had some trouble finding time to write this chapter, but we got there in the end. Anyway, I must warn you that this chapter has some sensitive material and a couple of trigger warnings include intentional misgendering and religious fanaticism. I apologize in advance if it offends anyone.
"Arcee!?"
The shocked exclamation from her son jolted June back into consciousness. Groaning, she pressed a hand to her head. The last thing she remembered was finding her children alongside her grandchildren. She thought she remembered a shimmer out of the corner of her eye, and then, nothing.
"Where's Arcee?" She aske
d as she got shakily to her feet.
"I'm right here June." A soft but deep voice from across the hall called out.
Walking up to the bars of the cell, June took in the mech in front of her.
"Arcee?" She asked. "What happened to you?"
"He has simply been restored to what Primus dictated he be." Came a new voice from down the hall. Looking in the direction of the voice, they saw a white and yellow mech with a red helmet and several holes in his body walking towards them.
"She!" Jack spat, glaring at the mech. "Was perfectly fine before you kidnaped us." Suddenly, the pieces clicked together for June.
"You're transgender?" She asked. Arcees' wince was all the confirmation that June needed.
"It's all right." June placated, hoping Arcee didn't take her question the wrong way. "You're still my sister and we will fix this."
"Please do not feed his delusions." The mech said, giving both Jack and June a disappointed look.
"The only delusional one here is you Jhiaxus." Arcee growled.
"Gee, axe us?" June questioned.
"He was the 'doctor' who helped me transition." Arcee explained, her optics never leaving Jhiaxus.
"A folly that helped set our race back countless years." Jhiaxus argued. "By de-transitioning you, not only have I righted one of my greatest sins, but made it so that you can heal properly."
"She did heal properly." Jack yelled. What this mech had done to his partner and aunt had infuriated him to no end. "She wanted to become her truest self, not a clone of her brother."
"Ah." Jhiaxus countered with an air of superiority. "But Primus placed his spark next to Galavars'. They were meant to be twins."
"And who's to say Primus doesn't make mistakes?" Jack countered before Jhiaxus punched him hard enough to knock him to the floor of the cell.
"JACK!" Arcee and June cried out.
"I will NOT, allow you to speak blasphemy of our creators good name." Jhiaxus yelled. Taking a calming breath, he looked at June. "Seeing as how Arcee has infected you with his corrupt CNA, I shall use your sons' to purify yours." He explained. "If you'll excuse me." With that, he turned and left the holding area.
June knelt to check on her son.
"Jack, sweetie, are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah." Jack replied as he blinked the spots from his eyes. "What is that guys' problem?"
"A hole in the center of his forehead." Arcee explained. At their looks of disbelief, she continued. "He is the Cybertronian equivalent of what humans would call a cutter. He's been drilling holes into his body for years and recently drilled into his forehead by accident."
"So, he gave himself a lobotomy and suddenly he's a born-again zealot?" June asked. Jhiaxus' words reminded her of several televangelists figures she'd seen on TV.
"More or less." Arcee sighed, looking down at her now masculine body.
"Arcee." June spoke, looking at her sister. "We WILL find a way to restore you, sister."
To Arcee, those words meant a lot.
Meanwhile back in Autobot City, Lightbright was going through the data packets that Sideswipe had recovered from the Deaths' Head. Unfortunately, the data had a safety feature to self-encrypt if it was downloaded or accessed by another computer. It was a high-end program, but not high end enough to keep her out.
"Okay, and now I pull this line of code and run it through the cipher." Lightbright mumbled to herself. She laughed as the purple code on her screen turned green and began to stream. "Aha."
"You cracked it?" Ultra Magnus asked. When one of the teams returned with the data, he pulled Lightbright off her job to begin decrypting the data immediately. While he'd preferred to use the Death's Heads' computer to access the files, it was programed to wipe itself after Lockdown died. Effectively allowing him to take his secrets to the grave.
"More like I cracked the cipher." Lightbright explained. "Lockdown didn't leave anything to chance, even the cipher was encrypted. Luckily, he used the same program so I can pick up on the idiosyncrasies of the program to decrypt both messages."
"Alright, keep me informed." Magnus replied. "I'm going to recall all away teams so we can swarm the locations once we have a lead."
"Ow." Jack groaned as he sat up again.
After taking a moment to take in their surroundings, the trio of prisoners began attempting to escape Jhiaxus' holding cells. Arcee was quick to discover that her weapons systems had been deactivated after Jhiaxus' detransition of her so shooting the locks was out of the question. The ventilation system was out since they'd have to be human sized to crawl through it. Jack then had the idea of using his extended claws to cut through the bars on their cell since he couldn't reach Arcees'.
Apparently Jhiaxus accounted for this. After sawing his way through an outer coat, Jacks' metal claws met an electrified core in the bars. The resulting jolt would have killed him had his mother not pulled him back with a web.
"Kumara, Maximize." June whispered as she sent a pulse of energy through her webbing. Giving a sigh of relief, she saw Jack stop convulsing and the electrical burns rapidly heal themselves.
"Are you all right Jack?" Arcee asked.
"Yeah, I will be."
"That, was entirely unnecessary." Jhiaxus' voice spoke in an irritated tone, causing them to jump. "I fully intend to release you two after you've recovered."
"Two?" Jack asked, glaring at the scientist.
"Arcee will be released once he has accepted that the body he was born with, is the one that our creator wanted for him." He replied pompously. "Now, if the two of you will come with me, I shall purge Arcees' corrupted CNA from." He was cut off as a green spiderweb throwing star was flung at him. Dodging right, he heard it clang off Arcees' cell bars before clattering to the floor.
"I had hoped that you two would come quietly." Jhiaxus growled as he deployed a pair of blasters from his wrists and took aim at the two Maximals. "Now, we can do this in two ways." He threatened, making sure to keep out of Arcees' reach. "Either you two come to my lab where I can cure your mother, or I shoot you both dead. Either way, the last of my mistake with Arcee is erased."
"What about your redemption?" June growled. "I don't think killing us would quite equate with Cybertronians taking the next step in evolution."
Jhiaxus grinned as he pressed the button for their cell with his elbow. "Those two goals are mutually exclusive. Once I've redeemed myself, our evolution will move forward." Keeping his blasters trained on the Maximals, he watched as their cell door opened. "Now march."
As Arcee watched as Jhiaxus led Jack and June down the hall to his lab, she couldn't help but feel helpless. No weapons, no tools, and no way to help her family. Sinking to the floor in despair, Arcee felt a sharp pain in her aft. Standing back up, she looked down to see that the sharp thing she'd felt was the throwing star June had thrown at Jhiaxus moments ago.
Picking the star up, Arcee felt hope grow in her spark again. She took a quick glance at the bars to her cell. She would hedge her bets about them being electrified too. Looking at the control panel Jhiaxus had used to open Jack and Junes' cell. Comparing it to her own she deduced that the wiring for the panel on her cell ran in a similar direction. Taking the throwing star in hand, Arcee began to cut into the wall that the wiring ran through at the same height as the panel. With luck, she would be able to access the wiring in minutes.
"Hang on you two, I'm on my way."
"Ultra Magnus, I've got something!" Lightbright yelled from her computer.
"You know where they are?"
"Not quite." Lightbright admitted. "But I have contact information for one of Jhiaxus' employers." A few keystrokes later, an image of Jhiaxus and his ship appeared on screen. "Apparently, this one wanted Arcee as well as Leobolt and Kumara."
"Not quite what I was hoping for, but it'll work." Magnus muttered. "Send the contact frequency up to Blaster and have him begin looking for them. In the meantime, keep decrypting the files. We still have one Maximal unaccounted for."
"Gyah, I'll get back on it." Lightbright
As Jhiaxus led the two technorganic Maximals into his lab he noticed the communications console blinking. Ignoring it, he motioned to the pair of examination tables with his blasters.
"Now, each of you onto one table." Jhiaxus explained.
"And if we don't?"
"I will shoot you both." He reiterated. "And if one of you hesitates, I'll shoot the other person."
Seeing little option, Jack and June each sat down on a table. A further gesture from Jhiaxus hinted that he wanted them laying down on the tables. Reluctant as they were to comply with the mech, they did as he indicated and gave a start as metal restraints emerged from the tables, locking them in place by their wrists, ankles, thighs, shoulders and heads.
"Sorry for the discomfort." Jhiaxus explained at their cries of surprise. "But I can't risk you two thrashing about, or worse, trying to escape."
"What are you even going to do?" June asked as she struggled against her restraints.
"It's quite simple really." Jhiaxus continued. A glass lid slid over June while a scanner array unfolded over Jack. "I plan to use what you humans call mitochondrial DNA (or CNA as this case may be) from your son in conjunction with nanites to purge Arcees' corrupted CNA from your genome while replacing it with the CNA from your son."
"I actually like the way I look, thank you." June spat at Jhiaxus.
"I'm sorry my child, but it isn't natural. It isn't what Primus would've dictated."
"You do realize that WE are not natural." Jack argued.
"Ordinarily, I'd agree with that." Jhiaxus countered. "However, I have found traces of Vector Sigmas' code in your CNA strands along with energy from the Enigma of Combination. Such a thing could only be Primus ordained."
"I think that hole in your head knocked a couple of screws loo-." Jack was cut off as Jhiaxus clenched his hand around his throat.
"I grow tired of your arguing." Jhiaxus growled. "Now, if I hear one more word out of you, I will kill you and use the CNA from your corpse before it cools." Releasing Jack, he strode over to the computer.
"Now, let us begin."
He went to begin the process before a large cobalt blue tank smashed its way through the lab door and rammed into Jhiaxus. Transforming, Arcee grabbed the lab fire extinguisher and pointed it at the scientist.
"Hold it right there, you little pit." Arcee growled. "You hurt me, but I won't let you hurt them." Seeing the release button on the control panel, she hit it, freeing the two Maximals. "You two alright?" She asked, looking at the two.
"Arcee, lookout!" Jack yelled as June hooked her with a web and yanked her out of the way of a shot from Jhiaxus.
"You just can't reason with crazy." He grumbled. "Very well, I shall finish atoning for this sin the hard way." With that, he began firing at the three, causing them to scatter to avoid being hit.
"He calls this the hard way?" June muttered. "Arcee, are you alright?"
"Yeah." She called back. "It's been a while, but I still remember how to fight with this body." She turned the extinguisher on Jhiaxus and fired, watching in satisfaction as ice developed on his left knee. Grabbing on to the table that both her and June had been strapped too, she gave a mighty upward push. This had the effect of ripping the table out of the floor and sending it rolling towards the mad scientist.
Jhiaxus barely managed to hobble out of the way of the table, all the while firing on June and Arcee. He was determined to finish this, to wipe away his past sins. Even if it meant executing every single one of them. To earn Primus' forgiveness for the affronts to his will, he'd do anything.
"Why do you fight me so?" He asked, dodging back behind the table to evade Junes' throwing stars. "I'm only doing Primus' work."
"Excuse us for not believing a zealot." June yelled before ducking behind the second table to avoid another blast.
"You'd probably make more headway if you didn't have a hole in your head." Jack taunted, trying to get Jhiaxus' fire away from his mom and partner. "Tell me, did you feel guilty before, or after you gave yourself a lobotomy?" This question incensed Jhiaxus.
"Die abomination!" He screeched. Firing indiscriminately in Jacks' direction. No longer truly believing he was worth the effort.
"Leobolt, Maximize!" Holding up his forearms to defend himself, he watched in fascination as the blasts began to circle around his body. Moving his hands over his head, the blasts coalesced into a singular ball of energy between them. With an angry yell, Jack threw the energy ball at Jhiaxus, forcing him to dive aside as both the table and computer console behind him exploded.
"Woah." Jack whispered to himself. He didn't know his new body could do that.
"Good trick partner." Arcee commented. Taking look around, she noticed that Jhiaxus had disappeared in the confusion. "June, do you see-" She was cut off as a laser blast ripped through her abdomen, nearly cleaving her in half. As she fell, the culprit was revealed to be the scientist in question.
"Finally. Another sin off my ledger."
"You monster!" June screamed as she ran to her sister. Throwing her webbing onto the wound to stem the rapid loss of energon, she glared up at their assailant.
"I'm sorry, but it had to be done." Jhiaxus said in a sagely voice. Walking up, he aimed at June. "However, your suffering shall not be long, you will see him again in oblivi-" He was cut off as Jack jumped onto his back. The sudden motion caused his helmet to slip backwards, exposing his forehead.
"Hey doc." Jack yelled in rage. "Shut your pious hole." With that he jammed his index finger through the hole in Jhiaxus' forehead, and right into the mad scientist's brain. The sudden presence of a foreign object in his head caused an explosion of anger in Jhiaxus such as he'd never known before. Reaching behind his back he tossed Jack across the room and into the wall.
"KILL YOU!" Jhiaxus screamed as energon flowed out the hole in his head and down his face. Homing in on Jack, he transformed into a Cybertronian jet mode. "I SHALL CAST YOU UNTO THE DEPTHS OF THE INFERNO WHERE ONLY MEGATRONUS DOTH TREAD!"
"Mom, help Arcee!" Jack yelled as he transformed into his beast mode. "I've got an idea." Turning, Jack took off down the hallway. He just needed to get back to the cells for this to work.
"THAT IDEA MUST BE PRAYING FOR MERCY!" Jhiaxus screamed as he took off after the Maximal.
Navigating the ship as fast as he could with the crazed scientist almost literally on his tail, Jack finally came to the brig section of the ship. Seeing that the hallway was narrow enough, he put on a final burst of speed before leaping into the air and somersaulting through his transformation.
"AH, GOOD." Jhiaxus laughed. "FINALLY READY TO ACCEPT THE PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR SINS?!"
Jack grinned. While Cybertronian anatomy may have been Rafs' forte, he did pick up on a few things. Like that fact that most bots needed ample room to transform. Hence why bots like Optimus and Bulkhead couldn't transform in most human buildings.
"Actually." Jack spoke as he extended the claws on his arms. "I noticed that this hallway is too narrow for you to transform in." Sinking to one knee, he held both his arms up and thrust forward, meeting Jhiaxus at the nosecone.
Realizing what was about to happen, Jhiaxus cut off his thrustors and attempted to transform. Unfortunately for him, Jack was right about the hall being too narrow.
"NOOOO-!" He screamed, only to be cut off as the momentum from his flight ran him through the Maximals' sharp claws, carving him to ribbons.
Covered in energon and bits of metal, Jack retracted his claws and looked back at the sparking and twitching wreckage of Jhiaxus. Part of him felt pity for the mech, but the far larger part was still angry at his treatment of his family both now and years ago. Turning back around, Jack began to run back towards the lab.
Back in the lab, June was trying her best to stabilize Arcee.
"Come on sis, you can't die on us now." June whispered as she wrapped her webbing tighter around Arcees' shredded midsection. "Kumara, Maximize!" She cried out, sending as much energy as she could in hopes of healing her sister enough to get her back to Autobot City. Junes' vision swam as she noticed Arcees' optics start to flicker. The horrid memory of Cyclonus' death suddenly flashed in her mind.
"No, NO!" June cried. "Kumara, Maxi-."
"June, stop." Arcee groaned, shutting her optics. "I'm too far gone." She hated to say it, but even contacting Ratchet wouldn't do much good now. "Just know that I was happy to be your sister, tell Jack that I'm proud of him, and I'll miss him." With a shuddering breath, Arcee went limp in her sisters' arms.
As June began to sob, she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"All is not lost yet June Darby." Came a single voice that sounded like many. A voice she'd only heard once but would never forget. Looking up, she saw Jack had returned covered in Cybertronian gore and his eyes lit up in an ethereal white light.
"V-Vector Sigma?" June asked.
"Yes." The computer replied, nodding Jacks' head. "I can help your sister, but I need something from you." Opening Arcees' chest with a gentle stroke with Jacks' finger, they took in the flickers of a dying spark.
"Now, give me your hand." Vector Sigma continued as they picked up one of Junes discarded throwing stars. Shaking, June held her hand out to Vector Sigma over Arcees' flickering spark. Taking the throwing star, the computer sliced Junes' palm open and the two of them watched several drops of energon drip into Arcees' spark chamber.
"That shall suffice." Vector Sigma commented, releasing Junes' hand. Seeing the concerned expression on her face, they smiled. "Be at peace June Darby." It began. "Your sister is about to be, reformatted."
With those words, white light lanced out of Jacks' eyes and into Arcees' chest. For a moment her spark flickered again before flaring into a bright light. Moments later the light enveloped her entire body before it began to shift and change again.
In the void between life and death, Arcee looked down at herself. Her body had returned to its' previous state before Jhiaxus had gotten his servos on her again. Albeit now her body was ghostlike with her spark being visible in the center. Taking in her nonexistent surroundings, she was caught off guard by a horrifically familiar voice.
"Well, well, well." Purred a feminine voice. "It may not have been me, but someone managed to bag you in the end."
"Airachnid!" Arcee gasped. Of all the people she thought she'd meet in the Afterspark, her nemesis wasn't one of them. Turning to look at the dead spider bot, she saw that her body was just as ethereal as her own.
"Oh yes." Airachnid grinned as she transformed into her spider mode. Arcee went to activate her blasters only for the femme to lunge and pin her limbs to the 'ground'. "And now that we're both dead and gone, we are going to have all the time in the world for our games." Deploying one of her finger blades, she moved to gouge one of her captives' optics out only for a loud car horn to interrupt her.
"What in the?" Airachnid yelled as a red muscle car with a pair of horns on the hood barreled into her, knocking her off Arcee.
"Haven't you heard?" The car said as it began to transform into a very familiar mech. "You mess with the bull; you get the horns."
"Cliff!" Arcee exclaimed as she got back up.
"Hey, Cee." Cliffjumper laughed as he waved at the stunned femme. "Been a while."
"No matter." Airachnid growled, glaring at the ghostly red mech. "I'll just end you first."
"Yeah, about that." Came another voice that shocked Arcee so badly she dropped to her knees. Airachnid turned in time to see a diminutive white and blue Autobot dropkick her in the side, sending her staggering.
"Tailgate." Arcee whispered hoarsely.
"That is enough out of you demon." Growled a third familiar voice. Airachnid felt a presence behind her. Turning, she was met with the tip of a sword pointed at her head held by a familiar purple mech."
"YOU!" She screamed at her other murderer, taking an involuntary step back.
"Me." Cyclonus affirmed. "Arcee is under our protection here. Begone!" He finished with a yell. Airachnids' form flickered before fading away, leaving only her spark to retreat into the void.
As the three friends she'd lost in life approached her, Arcee drank in their appearances. Cliffjumper smiled at her.
"It's great to see you again Arcee." He greeted, pulling her back up to her feet.
"Cliff." She began. "I'm so sorry I-."
"I'm going to stop you right there Cee." Cliffjumper interrupted. "I chose to go into that mine without backup." He smiled. "If anything, I owe you an apology for what that Terrorcon wearing my chassis did." Wrapping his arms around Arcee, he whispered a quiet "You did nothing wrong."
"And before you say anything to me, partner." Tailgate picked up where Cliffjumper left off. "I don't blame you for my death. I never did." He gave Arcee a hug of his own. "And I'm happy you were able to move on eventually. You found a new partner to be there for you."
"As I said to you before I died." Cyclonus began, having sheathed his sword. "You managed to grow as a person where I could not. I am honored to have called you a friend."
"You always did judge yourself too harshly Cy." Tailgate gently chastised his Conjunx Endura, earning a soft smile from the mech.
"So, this is it then?" Arcee asked, looking at the three. While it felt good to see them again, she knew the reason it was possible. "I take it you three are here to lead me to the afterspark?" The trio looked at each other before Tailgate spoke up.
"Not quite yet." He began. "Your time to join us in the hereafter will come one day. Hopefully not for a long, long, long time." Tailgate added.
"Your work in the mortal plane is far from finished." Cyclonus continued. Suddenly the void they'd been standing in was awash in white light. Cliffjumper smiled at Arcee one last time before the trio took a step back.
"We'll be waiting for you Arcee. In the meantime, live for all three of us, and yourself." As the light began to grow brighter, the three friends' bodies faded until only their sparks remained before flying off into the unknown.
Rather than sadness at their departure, Arcee felt that a massive weight had been lifted from her shoulders. She no longer felt the guilt she once did. Whatever came next, she would face it head on. Holding out her arms and raising her head up high, she allowed the light to pull her back into the living world again.
Taking a shuddering gasp, Arcee opened her eyes and sat up. Looking to her left, she saw June staring at her wide eyed with a bleeding palm. Turning her gaze upwards, she saw Jack covered in gore with glowing white eyes.
"It is done." Vector Sigma spoke. "Rise and go forth young one. You are transformed." With that, the light faded from Jacks eyes as he slumped and shook his head. The last thing Jack remembered was hearing his mom crying. His eyes widened as he looked at his partner.
"Arcee?" He whispered dumbfounded. "You're."
"I'm what?" Arcee asked before looking down at herself. Her jaw dropped as she examined herself. Instead of the mech body Jhiaxus had restored her to, she was a femme again. She still retained her cobalt blue and pink color scheme, but she looked like herself again.
Glancing back and forth between herself and June, she realized there was more of a physical resemblance now. Getting up from the floor, she walked over to one of the blank monitors and used it like a mirror. She was about the same height she'd been for millions of years (one she now shared with June) she seemed more streamlined than before, less angular.
Running a hand down her abdomen, she gave an involuntary shudder. It took her a moment to realize that she had inadvertently tickled herself a little. Looking at her face, she realized that she was now technorganic like Depthcharge was. However, something caught her interest.
"I have eyes." Arcee said in astonishment. She turned to look at Jack and June. Upon closer inspection, she was right. Instead of her original optics, she now had hybrid eyes that were the same shape and color as the mother and son before her as well as a similarly shaped face.
"Vector Sigma used my DNA to reformat and restore you." June explained. She looked down guiltily. "I didn't know that it'd-" Arcee cut her off by wrapping her in a bone crushing hug.
"June." Arcee began. "This is the most like myself I've ever felt. Even before this happened, I always had the feeling lurking in the back of my mind that my body was a modified copy of my brother's." She explained. "Now, my body is wholly my own. With a little help from my new family." Arcee finished, releasing June before pulling both her and Jack into another hug.
The three separated a few moments later. Taking a closer look, Arcee noticed something.
"I wonder?" She asked herself as she concentrated. A few seconds later she let out a sigh. "It looks like I need a new alt mode now." Her eyes widened when she saw the Maximal insignia on her left hip. "Make that a beast mode."
"Welcome to the Maximals, aunt Arcee." Jack laughed, giving his aunt and partner another hug. The moment was ruined by the communications console going off again.
"Did the override work?" Came Ultra Magnus' voice.
"Probably. Although he heard us if it did." Lightbright replied.
"Starship Crucible." Ultra Magnus continued. "Come in, we have an urgent missing person case we need to speak of." He'd decided to use a ruse to buy Blaster more time to set up a spacebridge to storm the ship. Shaking her head, Arcee activated the comms.
"This is Arcee commander." Arcee replied. "We have commandeered the ship and dealt with Jhiaxus. If you could give us our location, I'm sure we could plot a course for home."
"Good to hear from you Arcee." Magnus replied. "According to our sensors, the Crucible is currently hidden behind Earths' moon."
"You mean to tell me we're in outer space?" June whispered. There was a brief time in her childhood she thought of becoming an astronaut. Now it seemed that dream had come true.
Lightbrights' voice interrupted the communication.
"I've decrypted the rest of the data!" She exclaimed. "Lockdowns' other clients were earthlings. They paid him to capture Wingsaber."
"Who?" Magnus, June, and Jack all asked tersely.
"He had them listed as Imako and Tadashi Nakadai of Nakadai Industries." She answered. The silence was deafening across the comms afterwards. "Does that mean anything to you guys?"
"Forget bridging us back." Jack said, slipping into leadership mode. "Send us coordinates for that area of Japan. We'll take the ship. Arcee?" He continued, looking at his partner. "Plot our course."
"Understood." Magnus answered. "We shall attempt to narrow down where they are holding her while you are enroute."
"Jack, are you going to be all right?" June asked.
"Not until we get Miko back." He replied as the coordinates appeared on the console. "I just hope we're in time." Jack didn't want to think about a world without Miko "Wingsaber" Nakadai in it.
"Hang on Miko." Jack whispered to himself. "We're coming."
A/N: I did end up deciding to make this a three parter in the end.
Anywho. I based Jhiaxus design on his G2 Legacy toy, but his personality is a mix of Chief Justice Tyrest from IDW and several televangelists I've seen over the years with a dash of Emperor Belos from The Owl House and the Bad Albus Dumbledore trope for additional flavor. Throw in the lobotomy and you've got yourself a villain.
I will reveal Arcees' new beast mode in the next chapter. I did say that her and June sharing CNA would come up again. And what better way than for it to be the catalyst in Arcees' rebirth.
Next time: Specters of the Past Pt. 3 (The final part)
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