This Chapter takes place during the episodes of "Darkness Rising."
It's just a regular day in jasper, nevada. A red sports car careers down the lonely roads of the land. Knockout, burning through his energon resources profusely. The decepticon had nothing to do. Megatron isn't around, and Starscream leads the forces in his place. "Power hungry mule" The Car scoffed. "when Am I going to get anything done around here? so far all we've done is collect heaps of energon. no biological research. and we haven't encountered an Autobot in 3 years, So there's no casualties to take care of!" He took a moment, and then chucked. "Well. Apart from when starscream trips over trying to pat himself on the back, maybe."
Celeste hastily makes her way out of school, Today was rough. Triple history was a bore, but, She couldn't help but smirk slightly. Celeste sits right next to a student called miko. Class clown. she doesn't really know her, but she's always up to something. which is fun. Looking over her desk there's usually something interesting, and never something productive.
Knockout was bored out of his sick mind. Perhaps he should start a project of his own. off- the-grid kind of work. but what would he do? combine animal parts? duplicate himself? and that is when he spotted the girl with the blond hair. Celeste. " Youknow, 3 years and I haven't run over a single human. Makes me wonder what happens when their insides come out. Hm, Knockout I think we just found our project. Project slice and dice." He pondered to himself. he wouldn't usually think about touching such a revolting creature. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Boredom.
Though that wasn't really Celeste's nature, she did enjoy watching the chaos unfurl in her classroom. the environment was a lot different than home. Her parents were loaded. And they had recently pulled out of private school so they could come and live in nevada for work related reasons. They put Celeste in public school until they can move somewhere else that would provide a private one.
Overall, Jasper was Quiet and boring to her. Although she felt somewhat out-of-place in this school considering her apparent wealth, what student doesn't feel alone in their first month in a new school. she had made friends with a girl briefly called Sierra, but only on a first-name basis. not that Celeste had tried to hang out with her, but they got along whenever in class.
Her mother had sent for a cab to come pick her up again as said over text, So around the corner of her school she waited. with her tiny bag and her high-speed phone. Typical princess of the modern world.
Knockout saw this and pulled up, with no plan, hoping she would somehow get in. kind of a stupid plan, but, she barely looked up from her phone. opened the passenger door and got in.
there was a brief moment of silence after she closed the door. "Yeah, Can you take me to 132 maple drive? Thanks." the girl said. Again, not once lifting her head. She closed the homescreen on her phone and put her phone in her bag. she looked up, and was taken aback when she saw nobody was in the driver seat.
"Uh, what?" she said. Twisting around in her seat to look and see if the driver got out of the car.
knockout sped forwards, Celeste didn't do up her seatbelt so she was forced into the middle section of the car.
" oh my, Jeez!" she screeched as she scrambled up and sat down correctly. "what is this some kind of autocab?" she questioned.
"Not quite" Knockout remarked
"who is this? what in the world is going on?!" Celeste demanded to know.
"Well, i'll be honest with you worm, I was feeling somewhat.. depleted of stimulation so I thought i'd snatch you up. make a day of it. what do you think?" Knockout wooed as he sped off out of town.
"Are you crazy? I'm calling my mom! you sick, whatever you are." Celeste said as she scrambled in her tiny bag for her phone. she pulled it out only to find she had no bars. "No, No way." she sighed. Knockout chucked " Seem i've scrambled your service. What a pitty. sit sight, rat. This is the safest you will ever be for a while. and with that, he slammed the seatbelts down on her, so tight it was, pressing ever so lightly into her throat. she Squirmed and shrieked in the sat, trying to reach for the door handle that was obviously locked. she kicked up against the glass, but no prevail. the car sped ever faster. exceeding the normal speed limit of a human car.
"Soundwave, Be a dear and send me a ground-bridge will you?" Knockout requested. Celeste's seat jerked back suddenly so she was lying flat inside the car. the belt covering her mouth tightly, pressing on her jaw, so she couldn't scream. " we can't have anyone seeing you in here if you're my secret now, can we." a strange portal opened up around the car, it appeared to the girl. Green in colour, with flashing flares of light. and suddenly. she was in a dark place. Metallic in appearance, with purple lights glowing steadily.
knockout sped out of the main deck, which isn't what he's supposed to do but he had forbidden cargo, nobody could know!
he sped down the hallways, near missing a few guard in the process, Celeste still laying flat inside of him.
He reached his lab, barely anyone visited apart from starscream every now and then. the belt unbuckled and the seat straightened. Immediately celeste tried to get away. the car door opened to her surprise and she scrambled to her feet and screamed, and ran for the door they came though. she ran as fast as her human legs could take her, but the car transformed into a robot, extending his limbs from compartments that seemed to exist nowhere, and then, A face twisted into view in between all the gears. His red, piercing eyes squinted at her and he smirked with sharp metallic teeth. He caught up with her quickly. Knockout picked her up and pulls her in close, she could feel his spiked, Uncomfortable physique pressed up against her supple skin.
"Going somewhere?" He laughed. Celeste struggled endlessly in his arms, trying her best to escape his cold grip, yet he just squeezed harder, which pressed on her Ribs.
"Who do you think you are, trying to escape me" He complained. He threw her. She hit the floor. hard. hard enough to hear her already damaged ribs crack. She Wailed in pain.
Celeste curled up, as a last attempt to shield herself. the strip across her chest where her ribs lay now ached with damage.
she looked up, Knockout Towering over her, he crossed his arms and chuckled loudly. "Yes, this was quite what I was expecting! Squirm little human, Squirm!"
"Why… Why are you doing this? is it because.." Celeste murmured from her tiny ball on the floor.
"what? Speak worm." Knockout said, he used the tip of his robot foot to flip her over from her hiding place .
"Is it because I've met... one of you before?" she wheezed.
Knockout put his hands on his hips. "met one of us before? hah." He scoffed. "not likely"
"I doubt someone like you would be what, Racing with Optimus prime?"
Celeste now lay on her back looking up at the ceiling, her blond hair was caught up in her face so she couldn't see the horrible robot who terrorised her so.
"wh.. Yes. That was his name. He's one of you, isn't he. He… He didn't try to kill me. He was very.. kind. makes me wonder if any of it was real."
Knockout bent down. " oh, So you know something do you? I brought you here for fun. but, as it seems you are suddenly useful. Go on." He cocked his head. "Tell me what you know, and I won't make you scream." Celeste held her chest where it hurt most and staggered to her feet, luckily her legs were still in tact so she was able to keep them straight, but her spine and her ribs felt like they were on fire. she coughed, her breathing felt restricted now that she had been dropped and manhandled.
"Never. If he is the kind one, the one who I remember he would never want me to tell you where he is, -i Don't even know if that was were he lived.."
Celeste looked at him with dread in her eyes. Knockout rolled his optics, briefly looked away and looked back. "Very well then. you have forced my hand." Knockout slowly lowered a hand to the level of her head, he knew exactly the right angle and force to use to knock her out. Celeste tried her best to scramble out of his way however
With a quick flick of his index finger he smacked her in the back of the head. She yelped and hit the floor again. She had been knocked unconscious.
the body lay like dead weight on his floor. Still bent down, He picked her up, taking no time to put her shoes back on which had flung off in one of the violent attacks.
He lay her down on his operating table. He wasn't sure if a cortical psychic patch would work on a human but there's no reason not to try.
