Gotta go fast

Chapter 7

A/N: Hi guys so this one is earlier than usual but that's because this is kinda short and the next chapter is longer and I'm not quite sure if I should upload it tomorrow or not so I'll leave it up to you. Thank you very much StormRaven333, don't worry a little revenge will come next chappy.

She woke from the blackness he eyes slowly opening. The light blinded her slightly from its intensity after being unconscious for a period of time. She had remembered feeling scared as she had not noticed that there was someone behind her. For a person living a decent distance from the rest of the population in Nevada she had a fair few visits from people. Well she had to admit she had had a lot more company since Knock Out had come in to her life. She didn't count her unfortunate experience with the guys because she always knew that it would happen sooner or later but she had always found a way to avoid it. Perhaps it was her attitude towards them since Knock Out came that really pushed their buttons that lead to what they did. Even so it was done now.

Why hadn't she called the cops? A fair question considering that she should have and it would make her feel a lot better knowing that they were paying for the crimes against her but for some reason she couldn't. She didn't have the stomach to call them because if she did they would ask her exactly what happened and that was painful. Not to mention how was she going to explain the events that occurred around her alien friend. Knock Out.

She suddenly remembered that it was him that she had screamed at when he got her attention and his face at the time showed that she had scared him too with her reaction. The fact that she screamed must have surprised him. It was ironic that when she first met him properly she didn't run, didn't scream, and didn't flinch. But now she had for all the wrong reasons. She lifted herself up from where she was lying.

She figured she wasn't on the floor she was lying on because it was too soft and comfortable, it was her bed. No her bed was way more comfortable than this. Her vision cleared as they compensated for the light. She groaned as her stomach throbbed from the intense bruise that ran around her not to mention her wound from when she was stabbed. She sat up and rubbed her head before she laid eyes on the red mech that was standing in her garage looking back at her, his arms were folded across his chest. He must have moved her from the floor when she fainted to the couch while she lay unconscious. Wait…Couch!

Luna widened her eyes as she jumped up and backed away from the couch. She didn't want to re-live it again. Where it had happened. Without even thinking she decided quickly that she had to burn her couch along with her clothes that she had worn that day, they were still in a pile in her bathroom. She didn't care about them, she could always buy more and a new couch.

"Luna" her attention turned to him as he had a half worried and half smug look on his face. How she missed that face. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" she smiled at him but she could tell that he could see right through that smile. She wasn't happy at all. "If your fine then why did you scream and try to get away from me?"

Her eyes wondered as he spoke an answer slowly concocting in her brain "You just scared me, I didn't hear you coming. For all I knew you were a strange guy in my home"

"Well I'm definitely a strange alien in your home but you were squirming away even after you saw me" She had no reply to him. What did he expect? He had been gone for just over a week with no messages to let her know he was fine. She figured if she just shrugged him off then she's be fine. He wasn't here so he didn't know. He didn't have to know. "What's wrong with your couch?"

"Nothing. I was…just getting…cramps"

The medic leaned on his left side as he listened to her excuse. Yeah she was trying to avoid something. "So you want to tell me what happened here?"

"You want to tell me what happened to you?" He frowned at her. Fair enough she had the right to be angry but from what he could see as his optics scanned the building, well what he could see there was no way he could get up into her bedroom and bathroom, something had gone down that meant for the place to a complete mess.

"I think this is a bit more important considering you were working on your bike AGAIN"

His brow arched as he waited. She figured that it was going to kick her in the ass working on it again. Even if Knock Out wasn't around he would always know. He wasn't against her racing or going fast, in fact he quite liked that they both shared that enjoyment however he knew that the bike was a distraction for her and that if she was ever doing work on it or racing it was because she was running. And not letting out her emotions and it was always because of the brothers that she was involved with.

He had met them so he understood her complication that they wouldn't just simply leave her if she asked. "It's not just the bike either" he pointed to the deconstructed computer that was half on the floor and half scattered on the bench, the mess indicating a struggle. If that wasn't bad enough for evidence then the bloodied knife she had picked up and placed on the bench was obviously a giveaway. She hid her face in her hands as all the evidence was there and Knock Out had seen it.

Luna withdrew her hands as she felt the warmth of his touch around her torso. She saw that he had lifted her top up slightly to see the black painful bruise and the bandage that stretched around her that was hiding the gaping hole that knife had left in her side. She saw that Knock Out was really concerned at this point he was putting all the evidence together and figuring it out like a detective. He had probably been researching human culture in his free time. He let her top fall down over her thin body as he waited for her to give in. "Mess that shows signs of a struggle especially considering that your work could have been damaged in the process plus a bloodied knife and you injured plus the petrified response to someone sneaking up on you equals something going on during my absence involving Billy and Ricky"

She was quite surprised that he had worked all that out. He was quite the investigator and the interrogator considering that he wasn't giving up until he knew what had gone on. "Smart toaster" she mumbled to him as she sighed and gave in to him.

She spent a good ten minutes explaining that she was worrying about him and had managed to fix the car for Jack. Explaining that she had convinced Bumblebee to not take her back to the autobot base and that she had become friends with him. But this was before she got on the more painful memories. Recalling that she had been working when she thought that Jack had come to pick up his car when it was really the brothers. Knock Out hadn't pressured her to continue when she stopped for a moment to calm herself and take a breath. He saw the tears that were forming in her eyes but she always held them back; trying to seem stronger and less affected by the whole ordeal. The decepticon had never considered himself to have a soft spot for these primitive lifeforms, these pests that resided on this rock pile but as he listened and kneeled down to her he realised that this human had changed him. He loved her company, she always listened to him and understood what he was talking about. Having said that if it was something knew he would have to explain it first. This woman hadn't been afraid of him even after he told her that he was one of the bad guys, she trusted him. He remembered when he had told her to jump and she did because she trusted him.

This little squishy was his new soft spot. He didn't let his partner kill her and he tried to protect her from the autobots because he knew that they would take her away from him, even so she had managed to convince the scout to let her go home. Although if it wasn't for his master he would have pounded a few dents in the scout but he was forced to leave because of Megatrons interference.

Knock Out grew angry as he continued to listen, fury building when he heard that they had knocked her unconscious and abused her. They violated her and treated her like a rag doll. He clenched his fist as he could see how it affected her, how she was haunted by the memory; one that won't go away so easily. He could see now why she had jerked from the couch and why she was so scared when he arrived. She was scared it was them, she feared they were back for more. And where was he when she was frightened? Where was he when she needed him?

Luna allowed one tear to run down her cheek and fall off on to the floor. She stared down at the floor, not wanting to meet his gaze but he wasn't even looking at her either. He was looking out of the open door his mind pondering on searching for the two fleshbags and making them feeling what Luna was. The day was dull, clouds covered the sky but even so it was still warm out. A perfect day to make them suffer. Luna was sure she could see steam coming off of his armour plating when she finally looked at him. His knees were bent and his arms were draped over them but his left fist was shaking.

Luna could read body language well, she knew he was angry and he was trying to hold it in. Not let it show. She was surprised by his quick outburst as he jerked his fist down into the ground. He saw how she stepped back from his outburst but she still wasn't afraid of him. "Knock Out its okay"

Well that caught him off guard. How could she say that? It was obvious that she wasn't alright and he knew that she was just trying to calm him, make him feel better. "No it's not. I should have been here but instead I was on the Nemesis slaving away for Megatron, fixing his drones"

"That's where you were?"

He nodded to her as the events of last week replayed in his mind. "I'm sorry I didn't go after you but Lord Megatron came ordered us to retreat. He scolded us for engaging the autobots had me and Breakdown slave away for a while and then…"

She wondered why he had stopped mid-sentence. She could see that he was a little upset but more enraged. "Then Breakdown was captured by a human organisation called MECH, they dissected him and made him watch"

He noticed that Luna looked quite upset by the news; it was something that she didn't really need. She really needed to forget the past week had happened and replace it all with memories that made her happy. "Is Breakdown okay?"

"He's fine, missing an optic but fine"

Some weight was taken off of her shoulders as she was glad the big blue brute was fine but she did tense at learning that he was missing an eye. "I had to patch him up but even my work is limited"

"Knock you did the best you could. I'm surprised that Megatron helped him" Knock Out was intrigued by the nickname she had given him, it made his spark hum a little louder in his chest.

"Megatron didn't. He said that if Breakdown could be captured by the humans then he was on his own. Starscream secretly went to help him though only to find that the autobot Bulkhead had rescued him" The news confused him at why Bulkhead did so. He had nothing to gain from helping Breakdown out.

Luna noticed his bewildered look on his face plates; obviously the con was questioning the autobots reasoning for helping his partner. "I just don't get it Bulkhead and Breakdown hate each other. So why…"

Knock Out didn't get to finish his sentence the question he was asking was being answered before he could even finish.

"Because it was the right thing to do, when in doubt follow your heart" she placed her hand over her heart to emphasise her point although she knew that they had sparks that were sort of like a human heart. They both sighed now that they had got it all off their chests so to speak but that didn't change what had happened.

"Humans, single minded pests" he grunted as he thought of what had occurred to each of them that was all due to humans

"Oi" Luna kicked his foot as she tried to defend her race, Knock Out had to laugh at that. No matter how bad things were he always seemed to smile around Luna. "I didn't mean you"

"What makes me so special?"

"You care about other people. I don't see you dissecting one of us just so that you can win in some kind of war"

"That's because I'm not that sort of person, I'd rather protect life than destroy it because there's too much to see, too much to do"

They both fell silent as they reflected on her words. Life was precious but that didn't mean anyone had the right to go around ruin other people's. It didn't give them the right to take that life anyway, not until it's ready. And that was the balance.

It made the decepticon question himself and his loyalty not only to his master but the causeas well. The decepticons wanted to rule and enslave. What kind of world is that? One where they weren't doing the right thing and Luna would be in great danger, not that she wasn't in danger at the moment considering that if Megatron found out about her he wouldn't hesitate to order her termination. Just like Breakdown was going to but the warlords mind couldn't be changed as easily as his partners.

He sighed as he then began to think about Luna. If he had been around she wouldn't be freaking out all the time about people around her. It definitely wasn't normal for a decepticon to be feeling this way. "I'm so sorry Luna" He broke her thoughts as she met his crimson gaze but as he looked into her eyes he lost himself. His knee joints buckled and he struggled to hold himself up as he was still crouched. "I should have been here. I promise I won't let anything happen to you ever again"

She was quite surprised by his sudden outburst. It was as if he felt guilty for not being there. "I'm going to make those skin jobs pay for what they've done"

"Knock you…" she was cut off by the sound of her phone. She brought it out and saw that an unknown number appeared on it.

"If you ever need me" He was indicating for her to call him. She smiled at his gesture and knew that he was experiencing something no con probably has in cybertrons history.

"Knock Out you can't make a promise that you know you can't keep. How come you want to protect the squishy instead of step on it?"

"I would never step on you" he laughed "but it's the right thing to do"

She loved that but wondered about the other decepticons, they wouldn't share Knock Outs feelings. She knew that whatever they did was always as ever to take over the planet. How would he protect her against that? She didn't exactly expect him to live up to such a promise.

She thought about it for a moment, he had said that he was going to make Ricky and Billy pay for what they did. In her mind she wanted to make them pay, make them feel her pain but she didn't want to hurt them even if they did hurt her. Knock Out was showing that he was understanding what was right and wrong so she hoped that he would see that his loyalty is misplaced to Megatron. Even so she assumed that he wouldn't understand that hurting them no matter what they had done was wrong as well.

"Knock you know you can't hurt them"

"I know" he pouted as he lied, he hadn't known. Either way he was still going to make them pay. But if Megatron found out that he revealed himself to the humans then he would surely get into trouble. He followed Luna out of the warehouse as she stood looking out at the glum view with a smile on her face.

"I have the perfect the revenge scheme"

"Does it include this?" He asked as his left hand shifted into his favored spinning saw that was deadly to anything that it touched. A devilish smirk rose on his faceplates as he stared down at her shaking head. "No, better. It involves racing"

Knock Outs weapon shifted back as he was getting a little giddy at his squishy's little plan that she was concocting. Of course she knew them best. She had been putting up with them for a surprisingly stupid amount of time. He knew that she had been wanting to get some revenge for quite some time and now she was happily complying with what she desired. Of course it was obvious that Knock Out was going to help, he wanted to be the one that made the guys pay for what they did to Luna. Mostly due to the fact that he blamed himself for letting this happen to her which is why he had given her a way to contact him for when she needed him and he hadn't hesitated in telling her that she could contact him whenever she wanted to even if she felt alone.

Her plan was sly and it preyed on the two brother's flaws and their anger issues. For the time being Luna had told Knock Out that they required the race later that night which meant they both had some time to kill although the decepticon medic knew that if he was going to be out for most of the night from the Nemesis then he would have to return soon so that no one would notice that he was gone. Though he often feared that Soundwave would pick up on his sudden disappearances, he had been quite surprised that he hadn't been caught out just yet.

Luna knew that he couldn't stay long so she made sure to tell him to meet her at the race track at 1am sharp the next day. And that the race was on, which meant that she would be racing alongside him in her little plan.

They both hadn't bothered dwelling on what was going to happen and what had happened, they only focussed on the here and now. Luna had climbed on to the roof through another ladder and sky light in her bedroom and sat down looking out at the view that was blessed upon her home, it was beautiful to live with such a view of the landscape. Knock Out had joined her on her roof as she had assured him that the large warehouse could take him, so out of confidence he sat down with her and they peacefully looked out of course they both couldn't stay quiet for long.

"Knock Out if you had the opportunity to save your planet at the cost of another would you?"

The question perked more questions as he raised a brow plate at it, him thinking for a moment. "I don't know, I miss my home but I wouldn't say that another planet should suffer just to bring it back so we can fight and destroy it again"

"What about crystal city?"

"This planet has its beauty and I have my memories"

They both smiled at each other as they continued to talk. Luna wished she could have seen Cybertron in its hay day, from what Knock Out would happily share with her, it was wonderful. A new adventure was the way she saw it. She loved hearing about his stories on his home planet whether it be during the war or not.

Her heart skipped a beat when Knock Out had asked about her, his curiosity in her continued and he wasn't going to let up about her. He had promised to protect her and he was going to do just that.

A/N: Thanks for reading please review.