TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED HEROES

Along came the spider

It was a crisp, fall evening in Detroit, just a few hours before Halloween night begins when the Autobots, along with Sari and Daniel, were looking at some pumpkins at a pumpkin patch. Optimus Prime: "Let me see if I got this right, this Halloween night is a time when you put on a disguise to scare strangers and escort sugar induced... nuggets?" Daniel: "You're making it sound like it's a bad thing." Optimus Prime: "It's not that, it just sounds a little no sense." Daniel: "It's not supposed to, it's just for fun, eating lots of candy, but most of all, finding the right costume." as he was talking, Optimus looked at some fake spider that was hanging from the gate of the pumpkin patch, which reminded him of his past. For it turns out that Orion Pax had a bad encounter with giant alien spiders on a planet that he, Sentinel and Elita 1 were exploring, and it was where the female Autobot met her end as well. That was when Bulkhead came out in front of Optimus Prime with a white sheet covering his head. Bulkhead: "Boo!" Optimus Prime: "Ahh!" yelped Optimus as he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings at the moment. Sari: "Are you alright, Prime?" Bumblebee: "What's got you so jumpy?" Optimus Prime: "Just a ghost... from my past." Bulkhead: "You mean me?" Optimus Prime: "Uh no... but I think you're gonna need a costume that's a little uh... bigger." Bulkhead: "And one that can allow me to see too." later, at the Autobot base, Bumblebee was wearing a Dracula costume while Bulkhead seems to be under what he thinks as a large bad sheet that has a mist coming from under it. Sari: "Uh, where did you get that?" Bulkhead: "It was just draped over a building, weird place for it though." Daniel: "That's not a bed sheet, that's a fumigation tent." Bulkhead: "Oh... so should I put it back?" Bumblebee: "Considering you've already put eye holes on it, I don't that will work." Sari: "Just make sure to turn off the fumes before we go out trick or treating." Bulkhead: "Got it." that was when Daniel tired to use his key to make a claw turning towards Optimus Prime, with a fake spider attached to it. Of course the sight of the spider freaked him and made him use his axe to destroy it, which really surprised the group. Bumblebee: "Whoa there boss bot!, that spider wasn't real." Optimus Prime: "Right... sorry about that... it's just that... I had a really bad experience with spiders." Sari: "I can see that." Daniel: "Hey guys, check out my costume." said Daniel, before leaving and coming back with a costume that looked similar with Optimus Prime. Daniel: "I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots." said Daniel, trying to imitate Optimus Prime, which made the other Autobots to snicker. Optimus Prime: "That's not what I sound like... is it?" Sari: "Well maybe a little bit." Daniel: "I'm just messing with ya." Optimus Prime: "Sure, but to be honest, I'm not the leader of the Autobots, just leader of this crew." Ratchet: "He's right, the only Autobot with that title is a Magnus, and the current one is Ultra Magnus, the supreme commander of the Autobot Elite Guard." Sari: "Well I think Orion here would make a great leader, even if he's afraid of spiders." Optimus Prime: "Thanks... I think." Sari: "Well, we better go trick or treating, are you sure you can't join?" Optimus Prime: "No thanks, I'll pass, you go have fun, and be careful out there." Sari: "Don't worry, I'll keep my eye on Bumblebee and Bulkhead." said the young female former Decepticon, before she, Daniel and the two other Autobots went off to go out trick or treating. Little did the group knew that while they were at the streets, they were being followed by a giant spider, who was really Blackarachnia in spider mode. That was when some webbing caught Daniel and the Autobot pair and former Decepticon were shocked to see what they were seeing. Bumblebee: "A giant spider?!" Bulkhead: "And it's got Daniel!" Sari: "Oh no... is that..." said Sari, as she had a feeling what this spider was. Bumblebee: "Hello?!, Bumblebee to Prime!, can you hear me?!, we got a situation!, there's a giant spider here!, and it's got Daniel!" calling Bumblebee to Optimus Prime from his radio com-link, and this made the repair bot leader's eyes to open wide in shock as he might have an idea what it might be. Optimus Prime: "Is it like a giant spider with a red hourglass?" Bumblebee: "Yeah, I take it that you know it?" Optimus Prime: "Yes, just hang in there, I'm on my way!" Bumblebee: "Hurry!" called out the young Autobot, as Optimus Prime transforms and rolls out to where the others were. Back with Daniel, he was getting scared by the sight of the spider, before Bumblebee used his electric stinger to blast the web off of Daniel and catching him just in time. Bumblebee: "Alright giant spider, we got you cornered!" Suddenly, Blackarachnia transformed into her robot mode and bites both Bulkhead and Bumblebee on their necks while touching them with her hand that had some kind of mod on it that made her hand glow. Once the glow in her hand was gone, the two Autobots were down for the count. Daniel: "Who are you?!, and what did you do to them?!" Blackarachnia: "The name's Blackarachnia, and I just gave them a taste of my venom, and I thought they would be a challenge as they're the Autobots who destroyed Megatron." Sari: "Well there's no way I'm gonna let you hurt them any more!" that was when Optimus Prime came to the scene and transform to robot mode, before glaring at the female spider Decepticon. Optimus Prime: "Get away from them, now!" Blackarachnia: "Optimus Prime, we meet again." Optimus Prime: "Do I know you?" Blackarachnia: "I'm not surprised about how easily you forget your friends... although you managed to remember Sentinel that day on the planet with the giant spiders while leaving me behind." said Blackarachnia, which made Optimus Prime gasped in shock. Optimus Prime: "Elita 1?!" Blackarachnia: "It's Blackarachnia now." Optimus Prime: "But... I thought you were... offline... what happened?" Blackarachnia: "If either you or Sentinel bothered on searching for me, you would have seen what happened... I tried to use my downloading powers on the spiders... only to download their venom... and that somehow caused me to mutate into this techno-organic freak..." Optimus Prime: "Your organic half must have masked your spark signature... if I knew... I would have..." Blackarachnia: "What?!, take me to some lab where I'll be experimented on some lab table?!" shouted the spider Decepticon in anger, which made Optimus Prime back away a little. Sari: "Do the Autobots really do that?" Optimus Prime: "Of course not... but never mind that... Elita... you decided to join the Decepticons instead?" Blackarachnia: "At least I know my place with them... they allow me to do experiments to find a cure for my mutation... and speaking of which..." said Blackarachnia, before she takes the Cybertronian key from Daniel, much to the boy's shock. Daniel: "Hey!, that's mine!" Blackarachnia: "Sorry brat, but if anything can cure me, it's the power of the AllSpark, which this key has as well." said Blackarachnia, before she tries to put it on herself, but then she started to get weak and fell down to her knees. Sari: "That doesn't look good." Blackarachnia: "What's happening...?" Optimus Prime: "Your spark can't survive without your organic half I fear!, you got to get the key out!" Blackarachnia: "I... can't... too weak..." said the spider Decepticon, before Optimus Prime pulls the key out of her just in the nick of time. The Autobot comes over to Blackarachnia, who was getting her strength back. Optimus Prime: "Are you alright?" Blackarachnia: "I'm fine... but leave me... I don't want you to see me like this anymore..." Optimus Prime: "You can come with me Elita, we'll find a cure together." Blackarachnia: "Sorry... but it'll be a very long time before I can trust an Autobot... especially you Optimus." said Blackarachnia, before she runs away from the scene, leaving Optimus and the others behind. Some time later, Ratchet was giving Bumblebee and Bulkhead the once over to make sure Blackarachnia's venom left no lasting impact on their systems. Daniel: "So that spider lady was an old friend huh?" Optimus Prime: "Yeah, she was the one I never should have left behind, it was because of her seemingly demise that... I was expelled from the Autobot academy, and gave Sentinel Prime to hate me." Ratchet: What happened then was not your fault, and you manage to save the kid and the young bots just in time too." Optimus Prime: "That's true." Daniel: "One thing I'm sure about, that this year's Halloween is one I won't forget anytime soon." Sari: "Me too." the other Autobots nodded in agreedment.