It was a nice and warm lovely Saturday for a ride and Arcee and Emily hit the road for some girl time. Emily was riding on her blue and red 07 ZX motorcycle while Arcee was driving solo and using her holo-form driver, Sadie, as they could bond together like a mother and daughter would at a mall.
"Nice day for a ride huh, Arcee?" Emily smiled behind her helmet as she glanced back at Arcee.
"Sure is." Arcee agreed since she was enjoying the company of their new friend.
"Too bad Jack couldn't come with us." Emily playfully pouted but knew that Jack had something to do.
"He had to make an extra shift at the K.O driving. It's about time we had some girl moments." Arcee couldn't help but make a motion as if shrugging her shoulders and Emily agreed to it before having a thought of adding Miko to their little girl talk before asking Arcee about it.
"Do you think we should've brought Miko with us?" Arcee glances at her with her side view mirror when she asks that.
They then thought about having Miko join their girl time but that might ruin the fun. Miko is only 15 and is quite reckless a few times.
"Nah." Both Arcee and Emily shook the thought away as they both started to laugh.
"So what are we doing? Other than talking?" Emily asked curiously as they continued to drive down the road.
"Not much, just exploring and doing a little scouting." Arcee glanced at her again with a side mirror as Emily shrugged with a cheeky smile.
"If I'd known that we were scouting, I would've asked for Bumblebee to come with us." Emily told her with a cheeky smile.
"And ruin our girl moment?" Arcee told her cheekily but knew it was true.
"Good point." Emily giggled before noticing that her fuel was running low and there wasn't a gas station around.
"Hey, I'm running low on gas here." Emily told the transformer-motorcycle as she should've thought that maybe should have refilled the gas tank of her motorcycle before they left on patrol.
"I'm good here." Arcee told her but Emily quickly sensed the playful tease in it as she rolled her optic-eye playfully.
"You're an alien robot that can transform into a vehicle, Arcee but my motorcycle is not. We better find a gas station." Emily refocused her optic-eye on the road ahead and hoping that they come upon a gas station so she can refuel
"Don't worry. If you run out of gas, I'll be glad to give you a ride. Besides, we can just send your motorcycle back to the base through the ground bridge." Arcee reassured her 18 year old friend who smiled behind her helmet.
"Yeah you're right." Emily smiled softly before spotting a gas station up ahead.
"Look, there's a gas station up ahead." Emily said excitedly as Arcee looked ahead and felt a sense of nostalgia hit her since she remembered that particular gas station.
"Emily-" Arcee started but knew that she wouldn't stop.
"Last one there helps Ratchet clean the base for a week." Emily smirks playfully before she accelerates towards it as Arcee was really shocked but surprised nonetheless.
"Wait!" Arcee tried to make her slow down but Emily didn't hear Arcee as she went straight to the gas station.
"Scrap." Arcee cursed under her breath as she started to accelerate to catch up.
Arcee tried to catch up with Emily but the way the 18 year old was driving was like a pro dirt biker. After Emily finally arrived at the gas station, she turned the key of her motorcycle and turned off the engine before taking off her helmet as she shook her head to let her hair out. She then looks around and sees that the place looks abandoned but notices a few damage to the place like scorch marks and craters before the sound of Arcee's engine was heard as she turned around. Arcee arrived before turning off her hologram driver before transforming back to her Cybertronian form and looked around the place that was familiar to her.
"This place looks abandoned." Emily observed as she noticed that the gas was still operative and started to refuel while looking around.
"Yeah..." Arcee couldn't help but feel nostalgia as she looked around with a slightly tense form which Emily took notice quickly and grew concerned.
"You okay?" Emily asked in concern as Arcee snapped out of her thoughts and smiled down at her friend.
"Yeah. I was just... thinking about something funny... and about someone. This place makes me feel a little nostalgic." Arcee couldn't help but grin as she remembered the little magnetic incident that happened between her and Bulkhead before but grew silent as she thought of someone that made her life a nightmare and what she did to Tailgate.
"What do you mean?" Emily asked curiously as she turned the gas pump off and took it off her gas tank opening and closing it while Arcee stayed silent for a moment.
"Let's go." She told her as she was sensing that something might happen if they don't leave right now.
Arcee then transforms back to her alt mode and takes off down the road, leaving a confused and concerned Emily behind. Emily shook her head before putting her helmet back on, turned the engine on and followed Arcee and quickly caught up to her.
Meanwhile in the Nemesis, Starscream was with Megatron and Soundwave as they were discussing the slight decrease of activity from their enemies.
"Lord Megatron, it appears that there's been a slight decrease in Autobot activity. I strongly advise you to spread a trap to attract and ambush them." Starscream suggested but Megatron knew that it was a waste of time as he was plotting on how he was going to capture the newest addition to the Autobots.
"Once again, Starscream, you have proven to be nothing but a fool." Megatron told him as he glanced at him with a red optic and it made Starscream a bit nervous.
"Master, I don't understand." The seeker second in command asked in confusion.
"Spreading would be a waste of time. It takes more to destroy Optimus and his Autobots. Especially since they added a new addition to their ranks." Megatron couldn't help the sneer from becoming known to him as Starscream instantly knew that their leader was talking about the unexpected addition to their enemies.
"You mean that wretched human girl?" Starscream asked in frustration and hatred as he clearly remembered the beating she gave her as Megatron nodded as he thought of their new target.
"Yes. Ever since she joined the Autobots, I've had Soundwave collect information about her. Especially our first encounter with her. As you know, Soundwave is good at collecting useful information about anyone." Megatron told him as Starscream nodded to what he just said as he had a sinister smile.
He just can't wait to finally teach the human a lesson for what she did to them.
"Yes, master, It's a brilliant plan. Outstanding." Starscream agreed as he was sure that whatever plan Megatron has in store for their newest thorn.
"Spare me your flattery, Starscream." Megatron growled slightly as this caused the seeker a bit nervous before the voice of their only femme Decepticon was heard as she approach them since the conversation got her attention.
"Yes, Starscream, you should know better than anyone that our one true master doesn't like groveling at all." The spider-like Decepticon taunted as she examined her claws as Starscream grew annoyed with her.
"Airachnid, always a pleasure to see you. What brings you here today?" Starscream greeted her sarcastically before asking her normally.
"Only my wish to serve our leader." Airachnid bowed in respect to Megatron who turned around to look at them.
"In what way, Airachnid?" Megatron couldn't help but ask.
"I've heard rumors about a new addition to the Autobot's rank." Airachnid told them as she couldn't help but grew curious and interested about the newest addition of the Autobots.
"See for yourself." Megatron motioned for the silent Decepticon to show what he showed to Megatron a moment ago.
Soundwave then showed them through his visor pictures of Emily, social media, friends and her first fight with them and this made Airachnid a bit more curious but took note on the footage of the battle and made a plan to add her to her new collection
"Emily is her name huh? She doesn't look that strong to me." Airachnid put her servos on her hips as she looked back to Megatron and Starscream and instantly noticed their serious looks in their optics.
"Do not underestimate her." Megatron warned her as he clearly remembered that he and some of the cons back at the battle were taken by surprise back then.
"Understood, my liege. I must say she makes interesting prey." Airachnid couldn't but smiled sinisterly as she thought about capturing the girl.
"Oh, please, as if you could catch her." Starscream said sarcastically while crossing his arms but Megatron saw what Airachnid was trying to imply.
"Maybe she can. After all, Airachnid is a born hunter. Her skills could be what we needed in order to capture our little human friend. Soundwave." Soundwave instantly knew what he wanted since he sent out Laserbeak to spy on their target.
Soundwave then uses his global surveillance to find Emily thanks to Laserbeak who was sent on reconnaissance. Soundwave was able to find her along with Arcee as they were both shown on the screen of his visor as the two drove down the road.
"It looks like our global surveillance has proven useful." Megatron couldn't help but smile evilly at the sight of the two.
"And look at that. Our little human friend is accompanied by Arcee." Starscream noted on the second motorcycle as Airachnid became even more interested in the situation.
"Arcee huh? This makes the hunt a little more... interesting. It will be my pleasure to bring you this human and kill Arcee with my own hands." Airachnid told them as she wanted to settle the score with Arcee and taking the human girl as a prize and giving her to Megatron
"No, Airachnid. You will capture the human girl. Do not distract yourself with killing the Autobot Arcee. Do I make myself clear?" Megatron instructed on just capturing the human girl and wanted her to keep Arcee busy in order to capture their target.
"Yes, Lord Megatron." Airachnid bowed in respect before leaving the room to get ready for her mission and will need some cons to help her and leaving the three cons in the room.
"My liege, I don't want to question your wisdom. But you do know she will ignore your orders." Starscream informed him since he remembered very well that Airachnid sometimes disobeyed some orders.
"Rest assured, Starscream, I'm counting on it. Soundwave, prepare to record everything. Any information about this girl can be quite useful to us." Megatron turn to Soundwave who nodded before he left to record the upcoming fight and capture to gather more info about Emily
"So you're using her to collect information? Nicely thought, my liege. I'd be surprised if we ever see her again." Starscream smiled evilly as he couldn't wait to get his revenge on the human girl as Megatron agreed with him. Now all they can do now is wait.