AN: I must say, this is probably my best one-shot. I feel pretty decent about.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind – Reign of Kindo

Honestly, Knock Out didn't feel like doing anything today. Yes, nothing. No working, no walking around the ship, not even buffing his pristine paint job. Yes, today, today… he just wanted to stay in his berth and do nothing. He wanted to act like one of those earth animals, what were they called… sloth. Yes sloth. Just laying around, doing nothing. It would be nice.

So he did. It's not like there was much need for him right now. The Autobots were now in hiding after the Decepticons had blown up their base and would likely not be bothering them for a long time, if ever. Thanks to that, there was a lack of people wanting help for injuries. That didn't mean there weren't injuries. The day after they destroy the Autobots base, a few of the Vehicons decided to celebrate.

The day after, over 50 Vehicons and Starscream entered his domain for injuries.

After that party, which has since been dub as "The most awesomest party ever," there was a real lack of patients. Only ones that come in were too dumb to live, and those are usually dead before they enter the med-bay (to Knock Out's eternal delight).

So Knock Out just laid in bed, thinking about his other crew members' responses to this. Starscream was the most visually happy of everyone. After all, he was the one that gave the Decepticons a key advantage on Cybertron and had gain part (never all) of his trust back with Megatron. Every time Knock Out sees him walking around, he has a grin on his face. Slag, he even joined the Vehicons in the party (and enter Knock Out's medbay to replace his arm that had fallen out again)!

Which begs the questions of why Soundwave didn't stop the party? Decepticons weren't well known for throwing parties. Maybe he made an exception just this once, in light of the demise of Optimus Prime or maybe he was just using this as blackmail material further on later; wouldn't surprise him either way.

And there was Megatron. It was hard to see sometimes, but he was definitely happy about Optimus' demise. If you were lucky, you could hear him talk to Soundwave about it like a little school girl. Walking around, bragging like he was the shit. Granted, he had very good reason to think he was the shit, but still a bit annoying.

Oh well, it didn't matter to Knock Out. Out of sight, out of mind. If they weren't here bothering him, he might as well just forget about them. And so he did. He just laid there in his berth, thinking about all the good times in his life: graduating from Iacon Medical School, being name one of the best surgeons on Cybertron (yes, he's that good), being name 'Sexiest Mech' on Mexim hot 100 (that was a fun day), and, of course, meeting Breakdown.

Ah, Breakdown.

Of course, it didn't look like that at first. Breakdown, when he first met him, was a neurotic individual. He was always paranoid of the people around him, thinking they were out to get him. It was easy to see why he was a part of the Stunticons A.K.A. the most mentally unbalance group of Decepticons ever. I mean, 'Each member was assign their own personal doctor,' unbalance. Knock Out was assigned to Breakdown and thus began their long friendship.

Knock Out thought about all the times he shared with Breakdown. The first day that Breakdown willingly went to him (which ended with him freaking out at the end of the meeting), the first time Breakdown stick through an entire meeting without freaking out and leaving the room, the first time he stick with him through a crowd, and the first time Knock Out manage to convince him to hand out with his teammates (with very mixed results, but still good.

Yep, there was a lot of good memories and there was only more as Breakdown became less paranoid. He started becoming his medical assistant, he hung out with his teammates without being asked, and actually become a good soldier (and a wonderful bodyguard). Breakdown got better through one method that Knock Out verbally beat into his head.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Very simply, Knock Out made him pretended that nobody was watching him. It didn't work at first, but it started becoming more affective as Knock Out became closer to him. Breakdown just forgot about everything else and concentrated on Knock Out once they got friendly and Breakdown was convince he wasn't out to kill him. Eventually, Knock Out made him add more to his mind, eventually getting use to everybody else. Yeah, it took a long, long time for him to get use to everybody else that was friendly, but he did get better. He was the sanest of the Stunticons.

At least, he was, until Airachnid violently killed him. That title now belongs to Dead End.

Of course, Knock Out didn't believe Breakdown had died yet. No body, no prove. There was numerous times when someone was declare dead without a body being found only for them to show up again sometime again letter, alive and mostly well. This obviously was just one of those times, despite the fact they couldn't find his signal or that Dreadwing heard him let out a scream that sounded like he was being killed, but Knock Out ignore that. There were worse situations that people come out of alive. Heck, Breakdown had even got out of worse situations that just one femme. Of course he was still alive and Knock Out wouldn't think otherwise.

That is, until he met Cylas or Silas or whatever he was called. It didn't matter. Point was, here was this filthy human inside of his friend's corpse, desecrating it and proving to Knock Out that Breakdown was dead. Of course, Knock Out got his revenge on him later that day and it was very interesting. It was interesting how fast a vivisection could turn into a dissection. And all that blood….

Knock Out looked at the other berth in the room; the one that Breakdown used to use. Breakdown and he were partners and they wanted a room together. Starscream concede with his demands and set them up with a room together. The two were very happy about that. The two had many late-night conversations about the current affairs of the ship, mocking the events going on, and sometimes comforting each other over things. The amount of nights that they spent comforting each other rose drastically after Breakdown was vivisected and lost his eye. He didn't have any spare eyes to use, but he could build one. It would just take time. Too much time…

Knock Out got off his berth and headed out of the room and went to the med-bay. He couldn't like at that damn berth anymore right now. He needed to stop thinking about him. He needed to work to get rid of him. Maybe he could ask Starscream or Megatron to move him to a new room. He needed to forget all about Breakdown.

Out of sight, out of mind.