Arcee - Transformers: Prime - Animated Series - Season 2

Season 2

When an amnesiac Optimus joins the Decepticons, Arcee goes on a violent rampage on board the Nemesis, killing many Decepticons on her way to find her leader, but she is swiftly ejected from the ship by Soundwave. She then acts as Jack's chaperone on Cybertron when the boy goes to retrieve the collective wisdom of the Primes from Vector Sigma, and holds off both an Insecticon and Megatron himself to allow for Optimus' return. Arcee would later be at Airachnid's mercy, only to be saved by Starscream, who then drove Airachnid away, before repaying his debt to Arcee for sparing him when he was at her mercy by releasing her.

While waiting to hear from Bulkhead (who had become trapped aboard the Nemesis,) Ratchet picks up as unusual readings come from where they last encountered Airachnid and her Insecticon. Arcee join Optimus and Bumblebee to the location of the readings, where they find Airachnid sending her Insecticons to attack the Nemesis. They decide to take down Airachnid, but she orders her rear guard to attack them while she tries to escape. Arcee follows Airachnid, leaving Optimus and Bumblebee to deal with the Insecticons. Airachnid travels underground and Arcee follows her into a cavern that houses the Insecticon's now empty Stasis Pods. Airachnid tries to sneak up on Arcee, but she seeing Airachnid's reflection in one of the pods and dodges just in time. She manages to corner Airachnid who realizing she has lost, goads Arcee into making it hurt, as she would have done to Arcee. Despite having her hated enemy at her mercy, Arcee responds to Airachnid's goading by saying "I'm not like you." Airachnid uses the opportunity to turn the tables on Arcee, but ends up landing on an empty Insecticon stasis pod which activates, trapping Airachnid in stasis lock. Arcee, Optimus, and Bumblebee transport the stasis pod holding Airachnid to their base for safekeeping. Optimus commends Arcee for her actions and better judgement. In "Flying Mind", Arcee is one of the Autobots who attacks the Nemesis, but is put in stasis like the rest of them until the Nemesis is emptied of Dark Energon.

In "Tunnel Vision", Arcee and Bumblebee are sent after the first relic from the Iacon Data Base which the ship was able to decode. Jack and Miko accompany them into New York, but they are separated later. Arcee and Bumblebee have a fight with Knock Out and his insecticon partner. Arcee was able to kill the insecticon by tricking it into stepping on the third rail of the subway track. She and Bumblebee were able to obtain the relic, the Phase Shifter. In "Hurt", she, Jack, Bumblebee, and Miko victoriously return back to base with the Phase Shifter, only to find Ratchet desperately trying to stabilize a critically injured Bulkhead. Arcee and the others learn of Bulkhead's ordeal with Tox-En and encounter with the Insecticon Hardshell. She tries to go after Miko when she runs off (being able to relate to what she is going through), but Optimus stops her saying she needs sometime alone.

In the episode "Out of the Past", she talks with Miko, telling her that Bulkhead needs her to be his friend while he recovers. She then tells the story of her and Cliffjumper while they were partners. After telling Miko about the story, she admits to missing his chatter, and the loudest thing to her was the silence.

In the episode "New Recruit", when the new Autobot Smokescreen arrives on Earth, Arcee does not trust him as she remembers when Makeshift infiltrated the base.

In the episode "Legacy", Arcee is angered by Smokescreen's action that caused the Autobots to be seen by a human. When Optimus assigns Smokescreen to be tutored about living on Earth by Jack, Arcee shows great concern about his safety. Later, after being led astray by Soundwave with a decoy to distract the Autobots from the Star Saber. When Ratchet alerts them of the situation (in which Smokescreen and Jack were being attacked), Arcee rushes to Jack's aid and kills the Insecticons attacking him. After the battle in which Optimus obtains the Star Saber, Arcee is enraged at Smokescreen for putting Jack in danger.

In the episode "Alpha; Omega", Arcee learns from Optimus about the final four Iacon relics, the Omega Keys, which together have the power to revive Cybertron. At first, Arcee and the others are excited to return to their homeworld, but they realize that they do not want to leave because of their human friends. Arcee is sent to find the first Omega Key, and Smokescreen accompanies her. They find the key, but they discover Megatron, with the arm of a Prime and his new weapon, the Dark Star Saber. Arcee watches as Megatron seemingly kills Smokescreen, and allows her to live, to deliver Optimus the message to face him for the relic. But after the battle, Arcee sees that Smokescreen is alive, thanks to the Phase Shifter.

In "Hard Knocks", Arcee and Bumblebee go to retrieve the second Omega Key, but Knock Out attacks them with Soundwave's resonnence blaster. They are both knocked out and awake to find the relic gone. Later, when Smokescreen loses the third Omega Key to Starscream, she confronts him, telling him to stop trying to be a hero, and to be an Autobot, like everyone else. The lecture causes Smokescreen to leave the base, only to be captured by the Decepticons.

In "Inside Job", Arcee congratulates Smokescreen for getting two of the Omega Keys to the Autobots. When Starscream contacts the Autobots about the final Omega Key, Arcee is concerned whether or not they can trust Starscream. She operates the ground bridge during the time that Optimus, Bulkhead and Ratchet go to meet with Starscream, and Starscream actually infiltrates the Autobot base, stealing all of the Omega Keys.

In "Regeneration", Arcee takes the Apex Armor with her when the Autobots return to Cybertron. With it she is able to defeat the Decepticons and retrieve the Omega Keys with the other Autobots.

In "Darkest Hour", when the Autobots are attacked at their base by the Decepticons, Arcee takes Jack with her when they have to depart, separate from the others.