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Arcee was a teacher on Cybertron Endgame, Part I and an Autobot intelligence officer during the War. The Thrill of the Hunt She encountered the "Kremzeek" trojan horse virus and energy being at least once during her intel days. The Return of Blurr Originally intended to be the commander of Omega Supreme, she carried crucial access codes for his activation. TransWarped

At one point, Arcee was damaged in the line of duty. Ratchet repaired her and tried to take her to safety, but the two were attacked by Lockdown, who had been hired by the Decepticons to bring her in.

Held prisoner within Lockdown's ship, Arcee insisted that Ratchet use his electromagnetic pulse tool to wipe the codes from her head. Lockdown overheard this and tried to stop the pair, but in the struggle, the device overloaded and sent out a powerful burst. In the confusion, Ratchet and Arcee were somehow able to escape... but Arcee no longer knew who or where she was. The EMP blast had wiped her memory clean. The Thrill of the Hunt

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Well, this looks familiar. Arcee was later taken to Cybertron, where Ultra Magnus made Ratchet perform open-processor surgery on her vivisected head in an attempt to obtain the access codes for Omega Supreme's activation. This triggered a failsafe which copied the codes to Ratchet's memory. TransWarped

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Dames—always waking up at the worst possible moment! Arcee never awoke from the open-processor surgery and was stored for the subsequent four-million-plus years in the Cybertron Central Infirmary in a comatose state. When the Decepticons needed to acquire the command codes to "restart" Omega Supreme into a dreadnought loyal to them, both Shockwave and Ratchet reasoned that their best chance for this would be from Arcee herself. The two of them battled over Arcee and, thanks to the blundering interference of Sentinel Prime, Shockwave won—abducting Arcee and escaping with her onto Omega Supreme, which Megatron then commanded to transwarp back to the Solar System. Perceptor was certain that the damage to Arcee's circuitry was totally irreversible, and there was thus no way for the Decepticons to get the codes from her... but apparently he forgot to tell Arcee herself, who soon woke up on the Decepticon-controlled Omega Supreme, calling for Ratchet. This Is Why I Hate Machines

On Earth's Moon, Shockwave proceeded to rifle through Arcee's memories, initially putting her into a fugue state where she relived her days as "Teaching Unit R-C-687-040" with little awareness of what was going on around her. When Bumblebee transwarped onto the moon, he found her like this and—fearful of what would happen if he disconnected her from the cables plugged into her segmented head—merely opened her commlink before returning to Earth.

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But is it art? Eventually, Shockwave managed to access the data tracks from her time as an intel bot, making her aware and—transforming into Longarm Prime mode—asked her to confirm she had the activation codes from Project Omega. When she did so, he unplugged her from the cables, knocking her into stasis mode. Outside, with three purple Omega Supreme clones standing by, as well as the original, he took her fully online again and ordered her to give them the codes. Given that Megatron himself was standing right in front of her, she refused, and instead Shockwave "had to extract it manually". The code transferred to Lugnut was "missing a security upgrade patch", however, meaning Lugnut had to be wired directly into Omega Supreme to get them online; while Shockwave worked further on Arcee to try and get the patch. Endgame, Part I

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She's rather personable when she's not a prop. As Shockwave rooted through her processor, most of the restoration work he had previously undertaken was undone, which left her once again as a fugue-state Teaching Unit, even as Shockwave still failed to get the codes. Instead, he used her as bait when Ratchet—accompanied by Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Sari Sumdac—transwarped to the Moon with the aim of retrieving her and Omega Supreme. While Bumblebee and Bulkhead fought off Shockwave, Ratchet and Sari took Arcee and fled to a lab inside Omega Supreme. There, as Ratchet bemoaned the damage the "Deceptiscum" had done to her, Sari was able to use her nascent technopathy to instruct Ratchet in how to restore Arcee, using the very EMP generator which had caused the original damage to her so long before. She came back online, recognizing Ratchet but remembering nothing since their capture by Lockdown. Ratchet promised to fill her in on the stellar cycles she'd missed, but said that they first would need to regain control of Omega Supreme.

Ratchet and Arcee traveled to Omega's head, and the field-tech lowered her using his magnetics to allow her to reactivate Omega Supreme. With this done, Omega ejected Lugnut, and Arcee joined the Earth residents in flying to Detroit aboard the shipbot so that Omega could confront his Decepticon clones. Soon afterward, with Megatron's crew all captured or dead, she presumably flew back to Cybertron with them aboard Omega, although she wasn't seen to join them in their triumphant disembarking. Endgame, Part II

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Following her return to Cybertron, Arcee's memories were fully restored by Sari. She also received a pair of laser swords from Ratchet, who had intended to build her pointers for her re-instated position as a teacher but had gotten carried away. She took a small group consisting of Sari, Hosehead, Nightbeat and Siren on a field-trip to Cybertron's Metroplex. During the trip, she noticed that Sari had gone missing, and thankfully found her down in the facility's recycling center just in time to save her from being crushed by the machinery there. Sari informed her that a Kremzeek had gotten loose, and Arcee was forced to fight against her own students as they became possessed by the creature. The Kremzeek eventually escaped, intent on making its way to Fortress Maximus, where it could do untold damage to Cybertron. Arcee and Sari pursued it, eventually containing it before it could do anyone serious harm. The Return of Blurr Arcee then attended the Stunt Convoy show in Kaon alongside her companions from Earth. The Stunti-Con Job She was later present when Optimus Prime used the AllSpark Matrix to restore Blurr to full working condition. She was pleased that her class had learned a valuable lesson about not judging individuals based on their appearances after their adventure together. The Return of Blurr