Knockout sighed in relief as the students began coming out from the school hours later. He waited. And waited. And waited. "What the frag- where is that annoying human?!"

Meanwhile, inside, Elyon was doodling away, eyes darting around the room. She sighed, flopping her head onto her desk then lifted it up. Only five minutes had passed. "I hate detention..." She growled, drumming her fingernails.

'That's it! I'm getting deactivated. Megatron is going to deactivate me. Blast a hole right through my spark.' Knockout thought, irritated beyond belief.

-Knockout where is the human girl?- Megatron growled through the intercom.

-I'm n-not sure my Lord. I've been waiting outside her school for hours.-

Finally she walked out, hands shoved into pockets and eyes lowered. "My lord, I see her now. We'll be at the Nemesis shortly." Knockout said hastily, opening the door for her. "Are you fragging CRAZY!? You almost got me deactivated!" he yelled as she entered.

"It's called, 'you made me late so I got detention'!" She explained with a harsh glare.

He slammed the door shut. "Well you could've gotten out of it SOMEHOW. Megatron was about ready to come down here and deactivate me right here where I was parked!" He turned on his engine and drove to a solitary street. "Soundwave, groundbridge."

"Well, that would've been pretty cool to watch." She said, smirking.

Knockout drove through. "No, it most certainly wouldn't have been! I like being alive and well thank you!"

"Whaddya think I like being? Hmm?" She retorted as they drove back through. "So what's the dealy-o with me sticking around here for?"

"Lord Megatron's business, not mine." He said, opening the door. "Out."

"What. Ever." She got out and walked a few paces before seeing Starscream strut in. "Who's she?" The Seeker froze, peering down at the human. Had it just called him a...?!

Knockout transformed, practically doubling over with laughter! "S-she would be Starscream, second in command and air commander." He said as Starscream glared at him.

"It would be Commander Starscream. And I am NOT a FEMME."

She smirked. "Then what's with the girly heels?"

Starscream's optics narrowed angrily, powering up his missile. "THEY ARE NOT HEELS!" He shrieked.

"Starscream!" Megatron bellowed. "Control yourself."

Starscream powered down his missile but continued to glare at her. "What is that PEST doing here?"

"Pest? So I'm a pest hm?" She retorted skillfully. "Well too bad, 'cause I was booorn this waaaay!" She began to sing again. "Ooh there ain't no other way! Baby I was born this way! Baby I waaas booorn this waaay! Ooh there ain't no other way! Baby I was born this way! Right track, baby I was booorn this waaaay!"

Knockout slammed a palm to his forehelm. "Lord Megatron, perhaps Starscream is right. She's more of a hassle than anything!"

Megatron glared at him. "She will be worth it once she is trained. And you are just the mech to do such a thing, being that I somehow trained you."

Knockout was taken back. He was no animal to be trained! "So you are making me train her. And if I don't succeed?"

"Breakdown will do well enough as main medic, I suppose."

Knockout gulped. Not good.

"Train? Do I LOOK like a dog? Uh, no wait don't answer that." Elyon said, crossing her arms.

Knockout looked at her then back at Megatron. "She is stubborn, rude, and sarcastic. She will refuse to listen!"

"Then how about I just deactivate you now and get it over with?" The sound of a cannon powering up made Knockout's spark skip a pulse.

"I-I will try my best, L-Lord Megatron."

"Whoa, hey, easy on the firepower hot-shot." She stared up at Megatron.

Knockout looked at Megatron, fear plain in his optics. "Am I free to leave with the human my Lord?"

Megatron glared at her for a moment, then waved his servo. "I want her trained by the end of next week. Dismissed."

"Trained?! Again, do I LOOK like a dog?!" She asked.

Knockout scooped her into his servo and hastily walked out of the room to the safety of his own quarters. "You're going to get both of us deactivated!" he said, placing her onto a table. "Lord Megatron does not expect such actions from anyone, much less a human!"

"Well, he's gotta learn not EVERYONE he meets is afraid of him!" She locked her small brown eyes into his black-and-red ones.

He looked into her eyes for a moment. They were quite... entrancing. He looked away quickly. "Lord Megatron should just deactivate me now!" he growled, pacing the length of his small room. "I'm never going to get you to listen to me, what is the point of this?!"

"Hey, why doesn't he adopt a dog or something? Not that I don't mind getting away from my stupid aunty and that dumb school."

Knockout glared at her. "Megatron wants YOU. I don't know why, but I know he does. He will settle for nothing else! You'll have to cooperate."

"Uh, as long as I don't do any stupid tricks, I'm cool with this." She sighed, sitting down.

Knockout stared at her, dumbfounded. "All right! What in Primus' name is wrong with your life?!"

"Uh... what?" She raised an eyebrow. "I said I'm cool with staying here and stuff! As long as I don't have to do any dumb tricks!"

Knockout pulled out a chair to sit. "Why would you want to stay here? It makes no sense. YOU make no sense! The way you act, dress, talk. What's wrong with you?! I'm starting to think you really are defected!"

"I'm just me, okay? I like dressing like this. The way I act is how I express myself. And if YOU have a prob, then too bad!"

Knockout tilted his head, staring at her with curious optics. "Why are you so angry all of the time?"

"I'm not angry!" She protested. "FYI, YOU'RE the one who's angry!"

Anger did flare in his optics. "If you are not angry then why are you yelling?!"

"Because I like to be HEARD. Ever think 'a that?"

He glared at her. "You are heard just as well when you don't yell!" He fought back his anger. "Look, if this is going to work you need to be more cautious of how you speak! ESPECIALLY to Lord Megatron!"

"If he kills me, whatever! Like my life is worth anything!"

Knockout looked stunned. "Why would you say that?" he asked, his voice softer than usual, filled with emotion.

"Because one, aside from my dumb second-aunty, I'm all alone in the world. And two, no one at school cares if I come or go. The teachers just give detention to me to keep me out of trouble."

Knockout was quiet. "I understand how you feel." he said after a while.

"Oh yeah? Uh huh, sure." She rolled her eyes. "So does every other kid in this world but it doesn't change anything."

He shook his head, snapping out of his sober emotions. "Yeah fine, whatever. Don't you need to get back to your aunt? She's probably also VERY worried." he said, venom filling his tone.

"She's always out doing her own thing. But if you want your face blasted off by his lordship Megatron, be my guest!"

Knockout glared. "Watch your tone! And besides, she'll be looking for you, right?" He began thinking through the events of the day. Oh, he was as good as deactivated. "She won't call the authorities, will she?"

She sighed. "Fine! Whatever! Take me back, for all I care!"

Knockout sighed, aggravated. "All right I'm giving you a choice. Stay here or go back. I'll be there through the night and drive you to school, obviously."

She sighed, closing her eyes. "Whatevs. Stay here. Better than hearing my aunty make love with some guy she picked up at a bar."

Knockout sighed again. "Fine. I'll see if I can get you a medical blanket and you can use one of my pillows, its as big as a bed for you. Unless you want to sleep on the berth with me?" He asked, somewhat sarcastic yet somewhat truly curious.

"I'm fine with wherever. Don't care." She said with a shrug.

Knockout shrugged as well. He went into his closet and grabbed a medical blanket then went to his berth and took a pillow, coming back and setting them both on the table. "They're both rather large for you, but we haven't anything smaller." he said, smirking at the size difference. "Aren't you tired yet?"

"Nah, it's only like six 'o clock." She said, whisking her hand.

Knockout sighed. "Whatever. What do you normally do anyway?"

"Just watch TV. Sketch. Listen to music, that sort of thing."

He scrunched his face. "I guess you'll have to find somehow to occupy yourself, because I have nothing to offer you except talking, which I take you're not very fond of."

"No." She said flatly, grabbing her sketchpad and beginning to sketch Megatron.

He rolled his optics but watched her draw. "You're better at that than most." he said after a few minutes of quiet. For the vain mech this seemed like a fantastic complement, even though a bit vague.

"What?" Her head snapped up, locking her eyes into his again.

He kept her gaze this time around. "I said, you are better at that than most. Drawing, I mean."

"Hmph. All how you look at things." She turned back to it, slowly sketching in every single shade and detail to upmost perfection. It looked like Megatron indeed, as if he'd leap out and claw Knockout at that very moment!

Knockout stared at her face for a few moments then went back to the sketch pad. He stared at it, mouth ajar slightly. "It looks just like him!" he whispered, voice full of amazement.

"Uh, I hope. Because if I'm dissing him with this, then you can use it to scream at or whatever."

Knockout actually laughed at this. Not a chuckle, or a rude laugh. A real genuine laugh. "You are going to get me deactivated." he said, still laughing slightly and shaking his head.

"Whatever, man." She didn't laugh, in fact... her face was a bit crestfallen.

Knockout stopped laughing and tilted his head, as he always did when curious. "What is wrong Elyon?"

"Nothing." She snapped, instantly going back to her regular self, ignoring the fact that he was using her name instead of 'human'. She whipped out some coloured pencils and proceeded to colour in the silver warlord.

Knockout sighed. "You don't ever let anything out do you? Is that why you like to draw?"

"Shut up." She said flatly.

Knockout shook his helm. "It's not like I can judge you. Talk to me. Don't you talk to anyone Elyon? That's why you draw then."

"Just stick your nose, if you have one, in your own business."

He rolled his optics. "You hide too much."

"And you're distracting me."

"Why don't you just let something out for once?"

"Why don't you just let me work?!" She snapped, getting angry.

Knockout ignored the fact that she was angry at him. "I want you to talk. You're like a volcano-"

"JUST! LEAVE! ME! ALONE!" Suddenly, Knockout was thrown back by some unseen force, making him crash into a wall! Elyon's jaw dropped. What the...? The...?

Knockout hit the wall and fell to the ground, sensors practically buzzing with pain. "W-what did you do?" he asked through clenched dentas, fighting off the pain.

"Hey don't look at me!" She snapped.

He stood, although his processor told him not to. "You hit me with something. It was like Soundwave when he- oh never mind. It was strong, it hurt." He shook his head, trying to clear the haze from the pain. "You don't know what you did?"

"Uh, no?!" She exclaimed, making a tool lift and drop on his helm, and she burst out laughing. "S-still... now THAT was hilarious!"

Knockout rubbed his helm. "You have a power. What else can you do?" He looked himself over then, grumbling about his finish.

"Uh, I only JUST did that! And that's just both creepy and cool."

Knockout glared at her. "It might be smart for me to examine you, being as all of a sudden you're gaining these powers." He walked over to her. "Try not to kill me." he instructed her, irritated. "Control it."

"Control what?! I just, got angry and BAM! I moved you!"

"Well don't get angry! keep calm for once or for all we know I'll be deactivated on the floor in a moment!"

"I wish..." She muttered very lowly under her breath, and focused. Slowly, Knockout lifted back into the air, but the very second his peds were just barely off the ground, he was dropped flat, Elyon panting.

Knockout growled. "What makes you angry? Think of one thing and focus. Your aunt maybe?" He braced himself, figuring to be hurt again. She closed her eyes, and they snapped open, sending him crashing up into the ceiling, and then dropped him like a rag doll.

Knockout lay limp, panting on the ground. Frag that'd hurt! "What did you think of?" he demanded as he forced himself to sit up.

"You." She said, crossing her arms.

He glared at her. "What did I do to upset you that much?! You're going to deactivate me if you don't control yourself!"

"Just... AARRRGH!" She threw her hands up in the air as Breakdown came in, lifting both Knockout again and several tools into the air!

Breakdown stared from the door, looking from human to bot for an explanation. "WHAT IN PRIMUS' NAME IS GOING ON?!" he yelled, going to take Knockouts hand.

"Don't move! I'm not sure what will happen!" Knockout commanded from the air, and Breakdown stopped as commanded. He turned his attention to Elyon. "Look, you need to control yourself! Think calm, soothing thoughts, and try to place me down gently before something knocks loose from all this banging around!" he said, fighting to keep an even tone.

"I... C-Can't control it!" Her eyes were frozen open as other things began to lift as well!

Knockout sighed deeply. "Okay. Okay Elyon. Think about..." He looked frantically around and his optics landed on her sketchpad. "D-drawing! Think about how calm that makes you feel. Think about the release, the anger and frustration, the fear, all fading away. J-just try." He looked at Breakdown briefly. He was fearful, but not for his own wellbeing. For hers.

Her hands began to tremble as she watched everything begin to lift higher into the air. She swallowed hard and closed her eyes, breath coming out in shaky gasps as slowly, ever-so-slowly, she dropped everything as she concentrated.

Knockout landed lightly on his feet. "Elyon, I need you to keep trying to keep calm. Focus on thinking about everything that makes you feel happy and peaceful."

"Knockout, maybe-"

"Breakdown I'll com you later! I need to deal with this." He turned his attention back to her as he walked slowly over. "Just think calm. Calm and peaceful."

Slowly, things dropped, but mostly hit his helm and shoulders, giving him small dents.

He tried his best to ignore the denting, once or twice grunting in pain as larger tools hit him. "Good job..." he said quietly as he finally got to the small human. "Are you feeling all right?"

"Major... Headache." Was all she groaned before passing out from the surge.

Knockout stared at her nervously. What in the world was she?! Surely, she wasn't completely human! "Defected. Definitely defected." he said aloud, musing to himself. He sighed and picked her up gently, placing her on the pillow and covering her little with a corner of the blanket. "Probably tired." he mumbled to himself. "Have to work on this more when she awakes."