Knockout started to walk back to the room when he got a call. -Knockout here.-
-Knockout I want you to report to the command center with the human first thing tomorrow.- Megatron ordered.
-Yes my Lord.- Knockout replied as Megatron cut off the com link. He sighed. "Looks like Megatron heard of your powers."
"Heh, with the way I scared everyone, I bet!"
Breakdown remembered Soundwave then. "Hey Soundwave did look kind of interested in her."
Knockout thought about this. "You don't think he'd allow Shockwave to..."
"To what?" Elyon raised an eyebrow.
Breakdown and Knockout exchanged looks. "Nothing, it won't happen." Breakdown said.
"Uh huh. Hey, I can handle it. What's up?"
Knockout looked at her, worry in his optics. "Shockwave likes to... experiment."
Her mouth opened and closed. "I'll crush him like an empty soda can if he even tries."
Knockout shook his head. "It wouldn't work. But I don't Megatron would let him. At least I hope not."
"Like I'm scared." She rolled her eyes.
Knockout opened the door to the room and they all stepped inside. "Hmph. If you knew about him you would be." He set her down on the table and turned to Breakdown. "You think he will?"
"Doubt it. Seems like he finds her valuable."
"So, since I got these powers, you might wanna watch it. Hint-hint to the movie, boys." She said, flopping on the pillow and laying upside-down.
Knockout rolled his optics but stepped away from her. Breakdown laughed. "She's going to end up deactivating at least one bot."
Knockout smirked. "Well you'll know what happened to me if you can't find me one day."
"Oh ha-ha-ha. Real funny."
Both mechs laughed. "All right I'm going go and turn in, see ya both tomorrow."
"See ya Breakdown."
Breakdown left the room and Knockout looked towards Elyon. "So I'm guessing you aren't tired yet?" he asked, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Uh, no." Elyon picked up her sketchpad, plugging into 'Edge Of Glory' by Lady Gaga on her skull cased IPod.
Knockout groaned. "You'll leave me to fend for myself, thanks." he said sarcastically. "I can't sleep with you still awake ya know."
"Go to sleep for crying out loud!" She said, briefly hearing him. "I'll KO whenever I get tired enough."
He quirked his head. "You know, bots used to call me KO when I was younger!" He walked to his berth and sat down, back to the wall.
She ignored him, softly humming as she sketched herself and Carrie, Prom dress, pig's blood and all staring face-to-face. Except, Elyon added to herself a small gash on her cheek. What it was she'd never say a word. Knockout stared at the wall, trying to occupy himself.
"Hm, maybe I'll look up that 'Slenderman' she was talking about." he said to himself. He pulled out a data pad and looked it up. He cane across a game and began playing it. "Well this is stupid." he mused to himself. He continued to play when all of a sudden the game started to frizz and Knockout yelled out as Slenderman appeared, throwing the datapad away.
Elyon's head shot up. "What?!"
Knockout started laughing at himself. "I get why you called him Slenderman." He said, shaking with laughter.
Elyon laughed herself. "Told ya soooo!" She sang, turning back to her sketch. He shook his head laughing.
"You know, you are fun speak with. You should speak more." he said loudly, trying to speak over her music.
"Nah, I'm good." She misheard, continuing to shade in her sketch.
Knockout quirked his head confused. He got up and walked over, hearing the music as he approached. He tapped near her, as not to hurt her. She didn't even look up, lost in her music and thoughts. He rolled his optics and pulled on her headphones gently, making them fall out. "You're going to damage your ears."
"HEY!" She yelled, suddenly irritated. "I was listening to that!"
He stepped back a bit. "All right! All right! Sorry!" he said holding up his hands. "You have mood swings ya know."
She huffed and slammed her earphones back on as Lady Gaga sang the final lines of the song.
He rolled his optics, grumbling to himself. "Stupid human." He went back to his berth, still talking to himself. She ignored him still, sighing and began to sketch another drawing. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Knockout stood and went over, wondering who it might be. He opened it and saw the last femme he wanted to see. "What do you want Airachnid?" he asked flatly.
"Well, can't I come in?" she asked, much too sweetly for Knockout's liking. He opened the door wider for her to come in and then closed it.
"So?" He asked, hands on his hips.
Elyon didn't hear anything, back turned and 'Born This Way' surging through her ears. She kept her optics on the human. "A human! Well, isn't this perfect." she said with a smirk.
"Don't even think about it." he said, glaring at her.
"Aw, think about what?" she asked, with a chuckle.
"You will NOT touch her."
Elyon looked up. "Hey I'm sitting right-" Her eyes widened when her eyes hit Airachnid. "S-S-S-S-Spuh... Spuh..." She stammered, beginning to shake.
Knockout looked at her confused. "Spuh?"
Airachnid smirked. "Isn't that cute? She's afraid of spiders."
Knockout scoffed. "Oh please, she's not afraid of spiders!"
"SPIIIIIDEEEER!" She shrieked, and her powers activated as she rammed Airachnid into a wall!
Airachnid growled as she stood. "You little pest!" she said, about to lunge for her.
Knockout stepped in the middle of them. "All right, calm down both of you!"
"C-CALM DOWN?!" Elyon screeched, causing them BOTH to lift up in the air!
Airachnid yelled as she was lifted. "I'll kill her!"
Knockout glared at her. "You aren't helping!" He looked at Elyon. "Elyon calm. I need you to be calm before you deactivate one of us."
"I-I'll deactivate h-her that's what I'll do!" Elyon stammered.
"ELYON STOP!" Knockout yelled as Airachnid yelped and hissed from a sudden pain. "Elyon be calm, you can't do that! Just calm down!"
"NO!" She yelled, beginning to slowly crush Airachnid. Something dark from inside of her was slowly coming out.
Airachnid cried out in pain. Airachnid NEVER cried out in pain.
"ELYON STOP THIS! SHE DIDNT DO A THING TO YOU, I'LL NEVER LET HER DO ANYTHING. BUT I NEED YOU TO STOP THIS!" Knockout yelled, unable to do a thing as he saw the femme in front of him yell out in pain.
Elyon's eyes widened. She couldn't control it! She couldn't! 'Release! Release!' She ordered herself, but the more she tried, the more she hurt the spider-like femme.
Airachnid couldn't do a thing but sob as she felt her body closing around her, slowly, painfully she was being crushed.
Knockout squirmed, trying to help somehow. "Elyon! Think about drawing again! Don't deactivate her!" He tried all he could to get out of the tight hold but couldn't. All he could do was yell and watch as she was crushed in front of him.
Elyon tried to focus on that. Drawing... drawing... Carrie. She was turning into what Carrie was. Uncontrollable. 'No, that's not going to be me!' She concentrated. 'I can control this. I can control this!'
Airachnid could slowly feel the pressure stopping.
"Good Elyon, I know you can do this. You are strong enough to do this." Knockout said, feeling the grip loosen.
Elyon's brown eyes glowed with an eerie purple essence as she made it stop. Airachnid feel to the ground, her frame badly dented damaged.
As Knockout landed on his feet he rushed over to her as he called Breakdown. -Get to the Medbay now! Emergency!- was all he said before he cut off the intercom.
"Airachnid, can you stand?" She tried to but failed. He held her up. "I can't carry you, but I'll help you." he said. She nodded weakly.
Elyon just slowly turned and sat down, plugging in and shutting out the world. As usual.
Knockout hurried to the Medbay where he found Breakdown waiting. "What happened!?"
"Just help me get her stabilized!" Breakdown nodded, picking up the femme and placing her on the medical berth. She did not protest as they worked to get her stabilized well into the night. They did not speak, only small sounds of pain escaped from the femme's mouth. It was extremely frightening to Knockout how Elyon caused one of the most troublesome and feared Decepticons to be reduced to a whimpering mess, like a broken sparkling. Finally, just before dawn she was stabilized and they left her to rest as they went back to their rooms, not bothering to say a word.
Elyon was asleep, hand on the sketchpad.
He walked into his room, very angry. "Congratulations! You almost deactivated her!" he yelled, waking her.
She sat up and turned her head to him, and Knockout could see her cheeks were wet. He was taken aback by the fact she had been crying. "Elyon..." he sighed, anger disappearing. "What happened? Why couldn't you control it?"
"I don't freaking know okay?!" She blurted out. "It's hard for me to control in the first place!"
"Elyon, calm down. I don't want you to lose control. We have to work this out. You can't get so angry or frightened that you use your powers! It isn't safe."
"I'm like her okay?! You know why I like Carrie so much?! Because almost every single event that happened at the beginning of the movie, happened to me!"
"Elyon, you are not like her! You were frightened! It isn't your fault. You just need to try and control your emotions better." Knockout pulled out a chair and sat at the table facing her. "I'm sorry for yelling."
Elyon's eyes narrowed. "My dad died when I was a baby, like Carrie! My mom literally abused me until she died! Like Carrie! Everyone picked on me! Like Carrie! Don't you get it?!"
Knockout was stunned. "I-I didn't know... I didn't realize your mother was... I-I'm sorry." he said, never able to find the right words.
"Get it now?! Huh?!" She snapped. "I just want you to leave me alone!"
Knockout was actually hurt by this. "You know what?! Why don't I just take you home because obviously this isn't turning out well and you don't want to be here!"
"Fine! Then just do that!" She snapped.
Knockout took the time to actually think through his words. He glared at her. "Unfortunately I can't do that. Not without being deactivated!"
She just turned her head and sat down, plugging into her IPod.
Knockout was angry. Angry and hurt. He was not about to allow her to ignore him! He pulled at her headphones, yanking them off. "No! I'm not going to let you ignore me again. Talk. Say something! What's wrong with you?!"
"I'M SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYONE PRYING INTO MY LIFE AND TRYING TO FIX ME!" She yelled, and a few lights above them shattered.
Knockout ducked as the glass fell onto him. "I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU BECAUSE I FRAGGING CARE!" he yelled, angry that she was rejecting him.
"WELL TOO BAD, BECAUSE MAYBE I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING ANYMORE! NOT EVEN MYSELF!"
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME! YOU ACT LIKE ANYONE NEVER HAS! YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS DEPRESSION YOU'RE HAVING AND REALIZE THAT MAYBE YOU DO NEED SOME HELP AND MAYBE I COULD HELP YOU! STOP SHUTTING ME OUT!"
"ITS CALLED PROTECTING MYSELF FROM BEING HURT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN!" Now every single light in the ship shattered to pieces.
Knockout was more than a little startled, fear starting to creep into his spark. "You know what?! You're hopeless! You can't see that I'm trying to help you and that I won't hurt you like the others have because I know how it feels to be utterly alone." With that he walked to his berth, being careful not to trip over anything and turned to face the wall, shutting his optics off so that he could try and rest.
Elyon forbid herself to cry. 'Why should I over HIM?!' She thought to herself. She closed her eyes, sliding on her headphones and a song echoed into her ears. And she, very softly began to sing. "I wanted you to know, I love the way you laugh... I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away... I keep your photograph, I know it serves me well... I wanna hold you high and steal your pain ...'Cause I'm broken when I'm open... And I don't feel like I am strong enough... 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome... And I don't feel right when you're gone away."
Knockout onlined his optics, slightly moving his head to look at her. He turned back to the wall, softly singing the next verse. "The worst is over now, and we can breathe again... I wanna hold you high... you steal my pain away." He sighed softly, trying to ignore the feeling in his spark, the forbidden, painful feelings.
For once, she didn't snap, only sang the next part. "There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight... I wanna hold you high and steal your pain... 'Cause I'm broken when I'm open... And I don't feel like I am strong enough... 'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome ... And I don't feel right when you're gone away..."
He listened to her voice, softly singing as they finished the song together. He sighed softly, trying to find the words to speak, to help her, to do something worth doing for once. He opened his mouth to speak, and closed it again, opting not to speak at all for fear of hurting her.
"I'm sorry." She apologized. "Look, it's just that people have backstabbed me more times then one! I've got trust issues."
He shook his head. "Why does it really matter? No matter what I say, what I do you'll never open up to me." He continued to look at the wall as he spoke. "I just want you to let me in. I'm not even sure why. I... care about you."
She sighed. "It's called, 'I've built walls around me'. But maybe... you're starting to break through." She admitted.
He turned to look at her, still a bit hurt. "Look, I understand that. But I feel like we could help each other. I understand more than you realize." he said quietly, studying the small girl.
"Just, give me some time to get used to you okay?! Again, I have trust issues."
He sighed, knowing he wasn't going to win in this. "Fine." He checked the time and then got up, looking at his own finish. "Hm, you gave me some dents and scratches but I'll have to wait to redo them. Let's go, we have to go to the command center." He said, offering his hand for her to jump into, as was their usual way of traveling together.
She got up and leapt in it, crossing her arms and sitting cross-legged. At least things were starting to patch up...