Arcee – Honda S2000 Hardtop

Story of BinalTech Chapter 18 - Unfinished Business, Part 3

Two experiments were going on in the BinalTech research facility in Cybertron City. One was the "Timaeus Project", an experiment involving super-dimension control. The other was to give the messenger from the future known only as the Protector a BinalTech frame so that he could function as a robot life form.

Arcee, who had switched to an experimental BinalTech frame, touched the Protector's container and said, "Soon I will be able to speak with you as well." The Protector's spark blinked energetically and began to shiver. Arcee worried about this slightly as she hurried to her experiment lab.

Arcee's function in the Timaeus experiment was to wear a device near her brain that would enhance her consciousness and to drive through a circular circuit with an acceleration field running through it. She did not understand the point of this strange experiment, but Perceptor praised it as a revolutionary new way of generating a super-dimensional space.

As Arcee maintained her speed of 715 km/h, she focused her thoughts and consciousness on the center of the ring that she was driving through. At the end of her gaze, there was suddenly a bright flash of light and a shockwave. A black object floated in the air.

At that moment, emergency-situation sirens rang through the entire city. The alarm said that in the #5 Hangar, where the Protector's experiment was going on, sabotage was taking place. The controlled BinalTech shell "Autosoldier" that the Protector was to be contained in had begun destructive activity along with other Autosoldiers. It was all the work of Laserwave, who was using an unknown link technology to take over the machines in order to capture the Protector.

Arcee attempted to head to the rescue, but if she followed proper procedures, the slowing-down and exit would waste 10 minutes. As she made her decision and steeled herself, she broke free of the circuit and charged into the damper areas surrounding the course. Her pure white chassis was crushed by the undissipated kinetic energy and she lost consciousness.

When she woke up, Arcee was in pure darkness. Before her was a gently glowing silhouette. She couldn't see any details but the general outline of the body, but for some reason, she knew who it was. "Protector?" The silhouette gently nodded. "I'm coming to save you now," said Arcee as she reached out her hand to him, but he shook his head and said, "The Timaeus Project is the key to the birth of 'Alternity'. You must protect the results of the experiment and the researchers."

Arcee awoke. At the instant of the impact, her life core had been automatically transferred to the spare S-2000 unit, and she had rebooted in a new body. It had taken only 38 seconds. But rather than head to the #5 Hangar, she elegantly shot down the several Autosoldiers that had burst into the lab and were causing destruction, and she saved the humans from the wreckage.

One of the researchers, with an air of despair, said, "Security has lost sight of the enemy...the spark has also been taken."

"But you and that thing are safe. That is the good news," said Arcee, looking at the metallically shining magatama floating in the middle of the circuit. "That's how much value this has..."

(story translation originally by Quezovercoatl and SwiftEagle of The Allspark)

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