Chapter 2 Spiked.

After he put the box he label evidence away where he was confident no one would find it.

Knock Out decided to try to get his mind off what happened to him by watching TV for a bit.

He decided against watching a horror film since it felt like his life was starting to become one. So he started watching a cartoon instead and was enjoying it.

Until his com-link started beeping and he answered it even though he really didn't want too thinking it might be another threatening call. But was relieved when it was Ratchet on the other end.

"Hi Ratchet." He answered. He didn't want to tell anyone what was going on. Because 1. He didn't want to worry any of them. And 2. He was afraid of what whoever was targeting him might do.

"I have some bad news Knock Out First Aid was arrested." Ratchet told him.

"What why?" Knock Out asked in shock.

"He found some illegal Circuit Speeders in a bag during his shift and it was hook to a com-link that was rigged to call the police when he opened it." Ratchet explained.

"But we managed to prove it was a set up so everything's fine now." He continued then they ended the call and Knock Out rushed to the hospital to get the full story.


A few minutes later he was talking to Ratchet and First Aid.

"I was doing paperwork and saw that bag setting there and thought someone lost it so was looking for clues to who the owner was so I could return it and the next thing I knew the cops showed up and put me in stasis cuffs." First Aid explained.

"Luckily we we're able to prove it wasn't his by showing some camera footage that showed someone else placing it there for him to find but unfortunately whoever put it there was wearing a clock so we couldn't make out who it was." Ratchet added.

"I feel so embarrassed." First Aid told them.

"It wasn't your fault First Aid it was a set up and that would have happened to any bot who happened to find that bag." Ratchet reassured him.

"In this case me." First Aid said still feeling shaken by what happened. "And if Ratchet hadn't stood up for me and got them to check the camera that would have definitely cost me my job and even gotten me jail time."

"I'm sorry First Aid I think that set up was meant for me." Knock Out told him.

"If I hadn't called in that would have been my shift meaning I would have found it. And Velocitronians love racing and speed so it would be easy to believe one would use Circuit Speeders and something tell me a former con wouldn't have gotten off as easy."

Then Knock Out told them both what he'd been going through since the day before.

And they agreed to help him find out who was doing this to him and stop them and tell the other Autobots what was going on so they could help as well. After Ratchet scolded him for not telling them sooner.


Later Knock Out brought Bumblebee, Prowl and Ratchet to his place to show them the evidence he'd saved. But found his home had been trashed while he was gone.

Luckily whoever had vandalized his house hadn't found where he hid the evidence but had left a huge mess.

Prowl and Bumblebee started looking around for clues to who might have done it but didn't find anything other then a big mess. Then Knock Out showed them the evidence he saved.

Ratchet looked at the syringe and pointed out that the reason Knock Out had gone back under and overslept was whoever drugged him had used an unsafe dosage and that was why they didn't expect the red medic to call in. And Knock Out had been lucky that hadn't seriously harmed him.

"They had an opportunity to kill you last night why didn't they take it?" Asked Prowl.

"Because they want me to suffer first." Knock Out explained and the others could hear the fear in his voice.

"So do you think they might try to kill you when their done tormenting you?" Asked Bumblebee worried about the Austin Martin's well being.

"Probably they killed this glitch mouse." He told them and they could see from the sad look in his optics that the situation was taking it's toll on him.

Bumblebee suddenly had a thought of someone who might want revenge on Knock Out and went to make a call.


Bumblebee left Knock Out's place and went to the police station and found out the mech he was looking for had been released on good behavior and just got off probation a month before.

So Bumblebee went to the Autobot base and sent him a transmission using the console. And only had to wait a few seconds before a femme answered it and thought he got the wrong number.

"Hello I'm with the police." Bumblebee told her before she screamed and ran off. "Okay?" He thought.

"Bumblebee?" Asked Starscream who had now appeared on the screen. "Thanks for scaring my date away."

"Sorry." He told the seeker.

"No seriously thanks for scaring my date away all she wanted to talk about was Megatron and it was really annoying." Starscream told him. "That's the last time I let my friend Rattrap set me up on a blind date." "But something tells me you didn't just call to rescue me from my bad date with Thunderblast."

"Yeah have you been threatening Knock Out?" Bumblebee asked the seeker knowing they hadn't parted on the best of terms after Knock Out change sides.

"No why what's going on?" Asked Starscream.

Then Bumblebee told him what had happened to the red medic the day before and earlier that morning and how his home had been trashed.

Then Starscream explained that he hadn't even contacted Knock Out since the war ended.

And Bumblebee could tell he was being honest because he could see genuine shock and concern in the seeker's reaction.

"I'm coming to help." Starscream said making up his mind that he wanted to help stop whoever was hurting Knock Out. And took the nearest ground bridge to Bumblebee's location and agreed to help Knock Out in anyway he could.


Meanwhile after hearing what was going on Smokescreen and Blurr took Knock Out to Macadam's to try to help him get his mind off things knowing how frightened the red sports car was.

At one point they heard a scream from outside and all ran out along with several other bots to see what was going on. And apparently a mech had tossed a fake scraplet at a femme as some kind of prank and she screamed because she thought it was real.

So they all went back inside to their tables after they saw everyone was ok and it had just been a mean joke.

They all finished their drinks and started to leave when Knock Out staggered and almost fell but caught himself on the table and was struggling to steady himself and Smokescreen and Blurr noticed he could barely hold his head up and his optics were dazed and kept rolling to the back of his helm.

"G..get..hhelp!" Knock Out managed to choke out because whatever was wrong with him was making it hard for him to speak or even focus.

He felt like he was under water because everything sounded far away and distorted. His vision was blurred and everything was spinning and out of focus and he felt really dizzy and out of it.

"Hold on Knock Out." Smokescreen told him as he help him lay down in one of the booths while Blurr ran over to the bar.

"Call the paramedics I think someone spiked my friend's energon!" Blurr yelled to Macadam who wasted no time calling the hospital to get Knock Out some help.

Then Knock Out suddenly started to shaking as if he were having a seizure.

Smokescreen and Blurr stayed with him till the paramedics arrived and put him onto a stretcher to take him to the hospital.

One of the paramedics got out a syringe and filled it with a sedative.

"D..don't!" Knock Out tried to tell him. But he stretched out Knock Out's arm and injected the sedative into his joint and Knock Out blacked out as he became still and went limp.

Ratchet had just showed up on the scene after Smokescreen had called him. And saw the paramedic sedate Knock Out and ran over and slapped him.

"What in the Allspark were you thinking?!" Ratchet yelled at him. "You don't sedate a bot who's drink was spiked especially when we don't know what it was spiked with!" "Do you realize you might have just killed him?!"

But Ratchet stopped yelling at the paramedic and turned his attention to Knock Out who was still alive but very still and started focusing on saving his life he could yell at that stupid paramedic later.

Right now Knock Out needed him. So Ratchet got to work trying to save the cherry colored mech and hoped it wasn't too late.

To Be Continued.

"Left you with an evil cliffhanger." "Will Knock Out survive?" "You'll find out in the next chapter." "Which I'll try to have up soon." "In the meantime feel free to rate and review."