"The prisoner, my lord," Shockwave announces as he and Arcee walk onto the bridge where Megatron is standing.

Megatron turns around, "Arcee, so nice of you to join us."

"Not like I had a choice."

Megatron ignores her remark, "I have to admit, that attack you all did was clever. But also foolish, we could have easily struck you all down to where there was nothing left."

"But you didn't. We still came out victorious."

"Victorious? You talk about being victorious when you're now our prisoner. And you still failed to take us out, I'm still standing and the Decepticons are still going strong."

"Our goal wasn't to take you down, it was to take down Darkmount and we succeeded. Your tower has been destroyed and you can no longer terrorize Earth."

"Terrorize? My dear, you have me all wrong. I wanted to help better the planet, all the humans had to do was follow my orders."

"Yeah, to the point they were enslaved or killed."

"Their lives would have been better."

"Pfft yeah right," Arcee says as she rolls her optics.

"Tell me, Arcee. Where is your team?"

"Do you really think I would tell you? I would never tell you even if I knew."

"You do know we could just pull it from you."

"She knows that all too well," Shockwave says as he remembers his first encounter with the femme. She was holding the coordinates to Optimus' location and Starscream wanted those coordinates, but she refused to say anything no matter what he did. Even after capturing Cliffjumper and putting his life on the line she still refused to speak, so Starscream had no choice but to take them to Shockwave where the Cortical Psychic Patch was used on Arcee and they were able to get the coordinates.

Arcee remembered that too like it was just done yesterday. She shivered slightly as the memories flooded her processor. She hated the feeling of that thing being connected to her helm as information got pulled from her processor like a human pulling information from a computer. She hopes she never has to experience it again but she probably will if they decide to do it on her to get the location of her team. But that would be a waste as she really doesn't know where they are. "You won't get anything because I really don't know where they are."

"I find that hard to believe."

Arcee just rolled her optics again as she folded her arms, "If you're gonna kill me then do it already."

"I don't intend to kill you. You're one of the last femmes alive, probably ARE the only femme alive, so I'm not gonna kill you. Better yet, I may just give you to one of my soldiers as a mate."

Arcee's optics widened, surely she didn't hear that right, "What did you say?"

"You heard right, I may give you to one of my soldiers as a mate."

Arcee scowled, "Never!"

"You don't have a say in the matter. But we'll discuss that more later. Shockwave," Megatron turns his attention to the said mech, "how is Project Predacon coming along?"

"It's going well." Shockwave turns and heads off the bridge, "If you would follow me, my liege."

Megatron looks to Arcee and motions for her to go first. Arcee unfolds her arms and starts walking off the bridge behind Shockwave, with Megatron and Starscream trailing behind. When the four get to the room Shockwave leads them to, Arcee sees Shockwave grab something and place it on a table that's suited to scan stuff. Arcee takes a good look at the thing as Shockwave scans it. Is that a Predacon fossil?

"A Predacon fossil? On Earth?" Starscream asks as he looks just as confused as Arcee, "I mean, isn't it just a little preposterous?"

"They are not the remains of Predacons, Starscream. But rather the remains of Predacon clones," Megatron begins explaining. "For you see, our recent Autobot hunter wasn't the first beastly super soldier Shockwave has ever attempted to breed from prehistoric matter. During the war for Cybertron, I sanctioned the dispatch of a small army of these Predaclones to Earth to unleash the beasts on Autobot forces stationed here. Once they accomplished their mission the surviving Predacons held settler on this very world for ages to come, guarding the Energon reserves they had managed to secure while awaiting my arrival. Of course, our reunion here was much delayed, it would seem we lost the beasts to the ravages of time."

"But not their endomatter," Shockwave adds in, "From which I am logically able to extract their very CNA."

Arcee listens to everything they're saying with wide optics. She had no idea the Predacons were even a factor during the war, certainly didn't know there were some stationed on Earth. Now they have their endomatter and Shockwave can breed more of them, soon the planet will be overrun with Predacons. She just hopes her team has made the discovery and is now coming up with a plan to stop this Project Predacon.

"Pff another scavenger hunt? How logical would it really be to locate all the dusty remains of your former pets?" Once again, Starscream has to question Shockwave's logic, most likely having doubts about Shockwave's plan to bring back the Predacons.

Naturally, Shockwave has a comeback, "You are not suggesting that I would send my creation to a distant planet without first having them microchipped."

"Well.. well I was. But seriously, you did?"

Arcee rolls her optics, Starscream will never learn to not speak out of place.

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Arcee could do nothing but pace, she knows she's irritating Megatron with all the pacing she's doing but she doesn't care. She's worried. Shockwave had gone to retrieve a Predacon fossil and it's known that three of her teammates were in the area he went to, which caused Soundwave to go there and help Shockwave. Arcee is so worried for her teammates, she doesn't want any of them to get hurt.

Megatron lets out an irritated growl, "Will you stop pacing!?"

Arcee stops walking and stands still. She's startled by the sound of a Ground Bridge opening up. When she looks she sees it right overhead and notices something falling through it and land right into Megatron's servo. Once she realizes it's a Predacon fossil she starts becoming more worried. Are the three alright? Are they still alive? That's all she can think of at the moment despite the fact that the warlord now has in his possession a strand of CNA that could create a whole Predacon army.

Arcee walks with Megatron to greet Shockwave and Soundwave upon their return. They meet up with the two and Megatron hands Shockwave the fossil and he immediately heads to his lab to get to work. Megatron consults with Soundwave about what happened in the field and Soundwave shows him everything. Arcee watched as the two 'Cons took on Optimus, Bumblebee, and Smokescreen, fighting to obtain the fossil that was found. She was relieved to see that they did make the discovery about the Predacons and to see that the three made it out alright.

She is also disappointed that the Decepticons now have the strand of CNA they need. Just one strand is all it takes to create their Predacon army. There has to be a way to stop it. But how?

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Arcee listens to Starscream and Shockwave discuss Project Predacon, she's not sure why she has to be in this room with them and Megatron as they have this discussion. She should be in the brig but Megatron has her trailing behind them everywhere they go instead. She guesses it's to keep an optic on her to ensure she doesn't try to escape or anything, but it's still weird to be roaming like this instead of being chained up in the brig. 

Once Shockwave mentions he has an offsite lab where he can breed the other Predacons, her interest is piqued and she suddenly feels happy she's here for their conversation. She can try to find out everything she can about this lab, like where it's located. But even if she could find out she's not sure how she would be able to tell her team when she's being watched like a hawk. She's sure she can find a way.

As the mechs have their discussion there is suddenly a loud clunk and the ship shakes like something hit it, or landed on it. "We are under attack! Autobots?" It's no surprise Starscream would be scared. No matter how tough he makes himself to be he's just a sniveling coward in the end.

"Illogical," Shockwave says as he brings up the ship's exterior on the systems, "Though there appears to be an enormous mass on the upper haul."

Arcee walks with the three mechs up to the upper haul to see what was making the loud clunking noise. They are joined by a group of Vehicons as they get closer to the doors that lead outside. Once the doors open they are all shocked to see what is on the other side. The Predacon has returned.