The Transformers: Rise

Chapter VII: Judge, Jury, and Executioner

"What do you see Arcee?" Skids asked the pink femme next to him, who was looking through a pair of Cybertronian binoculars. "Same thing you do, idiot." Arcee replied. "You shouldn't have taken me out of that war room, Skids." The pink femmed continued as she put the binoculars down. They were attacking a Decepticon outpost which contained one of Shockwave's labs. "Springer, Warpath, Cliffjumper, take point. Me and Arcee-" Skids said before getting cut off by Arcee. "Arcee and I." She said. "My bad. Arcee and I." Skids said sighing. "We're still on the west side of the base and are waiting to move in." The red and blue Autobot said. "On your mark." Springer said with a sigh. "We have Roadbuster in the dropship with Whirl, so if things get messy we're going to count on them to get us out of here. Which is probably a bad idea since Whirl is on board." The green triple changer said. "Hey! Shut it before I rip your face off!" Whirl yelled through the radio. "Ahem, anyway." Skids said turning to his side and noticing Arcee was gone. "Arcee, I swear to Primus..." Skids said looking around, then finding her in her alt mode, a Cybertronian cruiser, racing toward the base. "Okay, I'm making the call." Skids said as he started running down the hill. "Move in." Skids said transforming into his alt mode. He started speeding toward Arcee, who was transformed into her robot mode and slaughtering the Decepticons in the outpost with her swords. "Decepticons, battle stations, we are under attack." One of the Decepticons said over the intercom. "Shut up!" Arcee yelled looking up. Suddenly, she gets blasted backwards. A large Decepticon then stands over her with a gun to her head. The Decepticon hears a sound next to him. "Huh?" He asked as he looked to his side. Then Skids flew toward him, feet first, and kicked him in the face plate, and knocking him into the wall. The Theoretician then shoves his hand through the wall, and blasts his forearm cannons at the Decepticons head, killing him. He then takes his hand out, and backs off of the wall. He walked over to Arcee and grabbed her hand, then putting her onto her feet. "You're fine." Skids said looking at the pink femme. "Obviously." Arcee said back as she stood back on her feet slowly. "Watch out!" Skids yelled as he dived with Arcee in his arms, dodging gunfire from an incoming jet. Suddenly, Springer chases it, and blows it out of the sky. "Cleared North, East, and West so we got bored." Springer said transforming into his robot mode and landing softly on the ground. Warpath comes rolling in, blasting everything in his way. Cliffjumper then jumps onto a Decepticons back, then stabbing his neck cords. Remaining on his back, he pulled his blaster and started shooting at the Decepticons in front of him. "C'mon!" Cliffjumper yelled as he kicked himself off. The Autobots remained fighting, and soon finished, the base cleared. "Lets move inside." Arcee said walking inside the empty base. The other Autobots followed blankly, but scared. Not of the Decepticons, but of her. Except for oddly, Skids, who was used to it. They walked inside the lab, only to see the back of an orange and black figure. Arcee knew who it was, her optics illuminated with rage. "Jhiaxus..." She said quietly. He turned around. "No!" He yelled. "Get her away from me!" Jhiaxus yelled as he ran to the back of the room. "Ugh, keep Arcee restrained Warpath. Me and Cliff will get Jhiaxus. Arcee, do not move, do you understand me?!" Skids yelled at her. "No! If there's someone thats going to kill him its going to be me!" Arcee yelled. Warpath grabbed her arms and put them behind her back. "You need to calm down 'Cee." Warpath said. "Let me go!" The pink femme yelled, struggling against Warpath's strength. "Go!" Springer yelled at the two, who started running toward the back of the lab. Skids dived toward Jhiaxus, but ended up freezing in mid-air, trapped inside a bubble. "Aha!" Jhiaxus shouted. "What the hell?!" Skids yelled. "Agh!" Jhiaxus yelled. The bottom of his jaw dropped to the floor, his cords snapping. Shockwave's mentor fell to the ground, in stasis lock. Suddenly, Cliffjumper uncloaked, his orange blades illuminating the room. "Got him." He said. The bubble suddenly disappeared and Skids fell to the ground. "Looks like your cloaking trick actually came in handy for once." He said with a chuckle. "Give him to Arcee but tell Springer to make sure she doesn't hurt him. We need him for questioning." Skids said as he threw the body to Cliffjumper. He nodded. Skids then searched the lab, reading any documents, and absorbing the knowledge. Skids was an outlier, his ability was to absorb any knowledge he could see. So basically he could remember everything that happened and happens, then remembers every detail, and ultimately makes him much smarter. He then turns on his camera, recording Shockwave's experiments. "Alright Optimus. There's something you need to see."