Gotta go fast

Chapter 2

A/N: I know this one is earlier than scheduled but I wanted to see if I can get two chapters out a week, if all goes well then I will keep to it. Shout out to Andyan and Char for reviewing thank you very much your views are appreciated and help a lot, I hope you enjoy the rest.

Knock out would never usually leave the ship during the day unless it was for a mission as he preferred his nightly activities of racing against the humans but in this case he had to escape the constant rambling going on around the Nemesis. He had already finished most of his daily projects and fixed a couple of vehicons already so it wasn't like the others could say that he hadn't done his part for the cause. He hadn't really had a good look around Jasper seeing as whenever he was there it was usually at the night and he never had enough time to properly take a look at what the humans called home. He was driving steadily through the town watching as all the humans walked along the pathway, he really didn't understand much about the humans and the way they lived their lives. As he drove by he took particular notice of the buildings around him. Cafes, restaurants, beauty shops something he saw as unnecessary. "Pathetic humans" he grumbled driving past a fast food restaurant.

A while afterwards he pulled over to one side of the road watching as the humans walked past, most of them taking a glance at him as they walked past. Something he admired as he took valuable time accomplishing his goal of looking fabulous. "Hey Birch, you sure there's nothing I can do for you?" Knock out's attention was snapped back to reality by the sound of the name. It took a while but he managed remember where he heard it before. "No Jack believe me, you've helped me out plenty of time before" It clicked then the voice it was the same as well as the name from a couple of nights ago when he had gone racing against the humans again. He paid close attention to where the voice had come from across the street at what seemed to be a mechanics garage.

He glanced over to her, immediately recognising the thin curves on her body and the chocolate brown hair that she had now tied back. As well as her clothing had changed from their last encounter, she was now wearing baggy trousers and a half sleeves top with a backpack on her. She had appeared to be walking out of the garage with a laptop in her arms. "Well I'll drop it off tomorrow afternoon"

She smiled at the older man giving him a hug before leaving and walking down the street. He watched as she disappeared into another building. As soon as she left his sight he quickly zoomed off towards where she had gone and stopped outside it, looking in through the window he could see her att he counter talking to another human, she began laughing before taking a pile of something from the human and leaving. As she exited the building and her attention was draw to the aston martin parked there that wasn't there before she went inside to collect her mail. She gave it a frown before placing her items in her backpack and throwing it over her shoulder. She shrugged as she left again this time she walked right in front of him and crossed the road heading straight for the shop opposite that seemed to be some sort of techy shop for the humans. Knock out then recognised her bike that was parked outside the shop, he figured that she ridden it to town from where ever she was staying outside of town.

He couldn't make out much from his position but it looked like girl had taken some things out of her backpack and handed them over to the man at the counter. It didn't take long for her to come back outside now holding something in her hand that she seemed to be counting. She gave a big grin when she had finished and gave the sports car a quick glance before putting the object in her pocket and climbing on her bike, her helmet being placed on her head again like before. It didn't take long for her to then ride off down the main street heading out of town.

Knock out deciding to have a little bit of fun with the humans before leaving himself, he would have to follow after her along that street if he was to be able to call for a ground bridge back to the ship. He mostly had in mind annoying them with their traffic laws.

It was early evening when the medic had finally left the town, he needed to get far enough away from it so that no one would see him transform. He was quite far away as he recognised the turning up ahead was the race track that he had gone to. It was at this point that he really increased his speed giving in to his desires to be fast. His attention was taken away from his thoughts as he noticed dust being thrown in the air and there was low sound of an engine rumbling. He didn't need to think as he skidded into the area of the race course and rolled up to the start. He couldn't quite see who was racing around as the dust clouded air and made it impossible to see but he hoped that it would be the human that he had beaten before, he made entertainment in his frustration of losing. Beating him in the race was too easy.

It only took a couple of minutes before a bike appeared through the dust cloud and rolled to a halt beside him, the rider giving him a glance "Are you following me?" the voice was muffled from the helmet but Knock out already knew who it was under nether. She pulled it off, the weight of the bike reliant on her foot that was making sure it didn't topple over on its side. Her face was now revealed, she had now let her hair fall to its natural state instead of being tied back.

"No what gave you that idea?" he replied

"You were in town earlier"

"Just because I was in town doesn't mean I was following you fleshling"

Her face was confused at what he had called her. As she turned her head away from him to look at the sun setting in the distance Knock out took particular notice to the marks that lined her neck, it was still hard to see as her hair was long and was in the way but he was sure that wasn't there the other night. "Wanna race?" she asked

"Why would I waste my time with you?"

She quickly plodded the head gear back on and sped forwards slightly only to return to Knock outs left side now facing the start.

"Because I'd rather not return home right now, and you're scared that your lose"

"I'm not scared" he seemed insulted by the very idea "and I won't lose"

She revved her engine at him "Oh yeah let's see what you got motor mouth"

Immediately he revved him engine as well showing that he was ready, she gave a quick nod not that she knew what she was nodding at. "Three…two…one…..GO!"

Knock out had to admit she was good as she kept pace with him as they left the starting line, he had quickly pulled in front but she was still on his tail pipe. The girl had some skills on the two wheeler. She they approached the first corner the girl tried to overtake but Knock out saw this and reacted, blocking her path. As they rounded the corner she went to his left but as he moved to block her again she shifted to the right and passed him. A slight growl came from him as she had managed to outsmart him. She had sped around the second corner with Knock out in tow.

The third corner proved to be a challenge as the medic had caught her up and was now playing with her as he was now speeding beside her. Every so often he would closer and closer to her while she tried to keep her distance. It wasn't hard to work out that he was trying to force her into a corner and when the final corner came which was basically a big U-turn she would fall right off the track. However she hadn't even pushed the bike to full throttle yet so she wasn't concerned at all. The straight bit was coming to an end and Knock out made one final attempt to push her away but as he did she slowed her pace falling behind a little.

A small bit of laughter could be heard from the car as he speeded round the U-turn but he felt something behind him as he readjusted his mirrors and saw that she had stuck her leg out and hooked her foot on his rear bumper. He was practically towing her along like some old rusty tow truck. As they were now on the straight bit off track before the finish the girl unhooked her foot and steered to the right. Both gave everything they had as they zoomed down the track, it looked as though they were evenly matched until the car slowed down a moment to fall behind and clip the back of the motorcycle causing it to move about out of control. His speed increased again to get ahead of her even if she was wobbly but just as the bike was about to lose its balance the girl jumped up onto the seat and lunged forward, leaping towards the finish.

It all happened so fast that it was pretty much as blur. The bike had now fallen over and was skidding on it's side to the finish line although it lagged behind Knock out while the girl had lept forwards and fell to the ground rolled at such a fast pace from the speed she was travelling at on her bike that she had over taken the red bot by the smallest measurement as if it was Knock out's night mare she crossed the finish line practically milliseconds before he did.

Knock out came to a sudden stop. A couple of mumbles was heard as he saw her roll to a stop, the bike still skidding towards her, the sound of it alerted her in no time she rolled to the side out of the way letting her bike skid past to a stop. She took a moment to grumble at the pain she was feeling, certain that she was going to have some bruises and that she'd probably feel it tomorrow. She managed to gather to pluck herself up off of the ground "What the hell do you think you were doing?" she shouted lifting her visor on her helmet up, her eyes glaring at the aston martin

"Winning, didn't mean to hurt you fleshy"

"But you didn't win did you?"

She immediately turned to her bike and picked it up assessing the damage to it. "Look at this mess. It's going to take a lot of work to get this fixed up"

She slide her hand over the bike feeling for the damage. There were a couple of dents on the front of it hella lot of scratches and dust. "You know it's a race right? Not a fight to the death" she mocked

"I don't really play nice"

"I can see that" she said pointing to the bike for evidence

The girl didn't waste time in walked past him to collect her backpack that she had put down earlier to the side and move back to what used to be a beautiful motorbike. Before she could do anything more her phone inside the bag began ringing her eyes grew wider as she didn't need to get it out and see who it was. Their little race was entertaining apart from the wrecked bike, and Knock out was happy to admit that she was good. A worthy opponent for him to go against, his thoughts went over how she was smart throughout the race using everything to her advantage even using him to make sure she didn't run off the track. "Dam it"

His thoughts were cut short as she now seemed annoyed at something else. And was now situated on the bike again ready to leave, but before she did she gave the sports car another glance. "Good race guy, we'll do it again sometime after I restore my bike to its former glory" she laughed

"You're leaving?" Knock out saw that her mood had changed completely and she was now a bit wobbly on the bike like she was shaking. Was she cold? It was another warm night there was no reason for her to be.

"My name's Luna Birch. You ever want a rematch, look me up" Before another word could be said she sped away turning right again heading away from Jasper. But she still seemed a bit wobbly which really confused knock out as well as her sudden mood change after hearing her phone beep. He knew it wasn't because he clipped her. It as something else.

Before he even knew it he started driving after her at a steady pace though to make sure she wouldn't see him following. The night had settled in now and he knew that should have gone back to the ship by now but he was curious. It was odd that he was this interested in the human it made him question himself a bit at what he was doing and what his fellow decepticons would think about this behaviour. Surely if he was needed he would have been commed by now. Although he didn't really want to face Megatron's fury if they did need him and he was missing. It didn't matter he was following this fleshy being that had given him a good run in a race.

He had driven for many minutes following behind her although she did seem to be taking her time in returning to her home, Knock out had suspected that she perhaps knew he was following but it didn't seem that way after she had kept on riding constantly speeding up and slowing down. It looked as though that she was losing balance on her bike for a couple of moments as she was about to fall but she did manage to take control quickly. Eventually she slowed and pulled over at a large warehouse looking building that seemed to have been fixed up from an old state. He stopped a little way from it and watched as she came to a stop and was greeted by a bunch of people. One of them to say the least he had immediately recognised as the Billy guy, she had removed her helmet and placed it on the ground her attention now on the four men that circled around her and a woman that clung on to Billy's arm like a love struck puppy.

The mech was too far away to hear what they were saying but he was close enough to see. The four men seemed tough, quite muscular and the way they were stood looked quite threatening but the human didn't look fazed she seemed to show courage that only made them angry. A couple of minutes passed of them talking until they began shouting and Knock out could just make out murmurs from his distance. She had now climbed off of her bike leaving it leaning on its stand. The shouting continued until sudden action was taken when the Billy bully stepped towards her and slapped her across her face the impact swatting her away. Luna now holding her cheek as she looked back at him a smirk on his face as he backed away with his so called girlfriend and the other two men leaving just her and the last one.

The last guy slowly approached her but as she saw this she began to back away from him, her head shaking as if asking him to stop. A devilish smirk was on his face, He had short dark blonde hair, their appearance similar although this one was taller. Knock out wondered if he should interfere as the others had retreated in to a car waiting for the other. It crossed his mind that he had no reason to charge in there and what would he do once he got there?

His thoughts were cut short when a small scream sounded, the guy had reached for her neck and was now tightening his grip around her. Her hands held on to his as it was a small attempt to free herself from his grasp. But she was being suffocated of oxygen so there was little she could do to stop him. Only gasp for air.

Without any thinking Knock out flashed his headlights and drove towards them along the dusty road. They were all alerted by the sound of a sudden engine especially seeing as it was late and this far away from Nevada it was very unlikely that anyone else will be around. The tall guy let Luna go, her body limply falling to the ground as she tried to breathe. After seeing the approaching vehicle he quickly ran to his car. Wasting no time in starting the engine and driving away leaving the others behind. Knock out sped up towards Luna as she was coughing violently.

He skidded to halt in front of her now facing the rest of gang that stayed still while Luna was behind him. Billy's face turned red as he recognised the sports car that had interrupted their business, although he didn't need to think as he jumped out of his own car and stomped right up to the hood of the aston martin slamming his fists down. "Stay out of this asshole" he spat

"It's not nice to hit a lady" Knock out mocked him

"And it aint nice to poke your nose where it doesn't belong"

Luna had now stopped coughing as she had managed to calm her breathing down. Her shaking had stopped now that the sports car guy had showed and was now standing up to the guys. She had managed to pick herself up off the floor giving Billy a glare that made him frustrated that she had the nerve to do that even when she knew what he was capable of. "Get out of here Billy. You're not welcome here"

"Oh yeah. You act all tough Birch" He walked around the car at her seeing this Luna hesitated but she didn't back down. He grasped her arm tightening his grip and pulling her away to his car. It was obvious that his grip on her was hurting her but she wasn't going to let that be known, she struggled to get her arm free as there was no way she was going to go with him "Let me go" she tried slapping him away but it was useless. Knock out revved up the violent sound scared them slightly, he scooted forward and stopped and then repeated the process until he had blocked Billy's path to his car. He grit his teeth and let Luna go. "Fine!"

Before they knew it the guys had left leaving just the Luna and the aston martin. As the lights of the car disappeared Luna peered at her arm where there was now a dark bruise to add to her collection, she turned to the car. "Thank you"

"You helped me so…" he remembered when the bully had scratched his paintjob that took him hours to buff out.

"So do you ever come out of your car?" she smiled at him

"In a way yes" he replied

"How's that?"

"It's complicated"

She raised an eye brow at his answer walking over to her bike kicking up the stand and walking it to two large doors on the left side of the building, she dug around in her pocket feeling for something before right sided door began to open automatically. "Care to elaborate"

The door didn't open fully, only high enough for her to quickly walk the bike in and then walk back out to the sports car the door closing behind her. "Not really, how come you're tied up with those fleshies?"

"It's complicated"

He groaned a little knowing he should have seen that coming. He pondered for a moment knowing that they were supposed to keep their existence under the radar for the time being but after researching and witnessing some of the humans moving entertainment on a large screen it seemed like they already knew about other life forms just not actually encountered any. He thought humans were disgusting with their body fluids. He found that they were quite dismissive and had too much emotion but this one seemed quite curious and even when she was in trouble she still had the heart to stand up and not cower. "Fine just no screaming, it would be useless seeing as no one would hear you"

Luna didn't quite understand what he was talking about but she watched him as he reversed to a safe distance and out of the blue the metal of the red aston martin started shifting to different positions. What was once a beautiful sports car was now a 20ft robot. Her eyebrows were raised at the astonishing sight that had occurred before her, he somehow changed form which she had to admit impressed her. He stood there looking down upon her as he dusted off his shoulder like a right show off. Even his eyes were red must have been his favourite colour.

"Space?"

"Yep" he answered his arms folded across his chest

"So why were you following me?"

His optics widened at her question. It was something he couldn't really answer, he didn't even know himself. So he just shrugged.

"Got a name?"

"Yeah" He looked away staring the strange place that she was staying in

"Want to enlighten me?"

He noted her cocky look which he found quite insulting. Any other human would run off screaming but this one just stood there asking him for his name. "Knock out"

"Bit of an understatement isn't it"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well take one look at my bruises and my bike in there and I think you might get it"

She seemed to be taking him as a joke. "You tried to kill me and then followed me home to try and save me" Knock outs gaze became a curious one. "Try?"

"Believe me all you did was delay the inevitable" She waited for him to process what she had said before making her way to her front door on the far right side, digging out her keys from in her pocket and using them to unlock the door. "Leaving again?"

"What? Don't like being left on your own" he didn't say anything to her as she was quite cocky towards him "It's late. I've had a hell of a day and you now know where I live" he searched the area for a minute before returning his gaze to her with a cheeky grin on his face "In the middle of nowhere" Luna rolled her eyes at him.

"You're annoyed that I'm not running away scared or passed out as the sight of you. You were hidden in plain sight for a reason and now that 'you're out of your car'" she empathised her wording referring to his answer he had given not long ago "and I know about it I know you'll be back"

She returned his grin and retreated inside locking the door behind her. "Smart ass fleshy" he mumbled.

She waited a moment listening to Knock out transform again and drive away. Only when she could no longer hear his engine, which she knew he was revving hard so that she could hear, did she look around her small living area and kitchen for moment before tiredly stumbling to the spiral makeshift staircase at the far end of the room that lead to her bedroom to retreat to her bed.

A/N: Thank you very much for reading, your reviews are very much appreciated. Next chapter Wednesday 13th.