Chapter 10 Hostel.
The next day Megatron passed the room where Starscream was still next to Flame Shadow's berth.
The seeker had fallen into recharge and Megatron could tell he was worried about Flame Shadow because he hadn't left her side since she had been brought in the night before.
Megatron felt bad for him and responsible for Flame Shadow's condition. He had trained the DJD and made them into the monsters they now were. As far as he could see it this was all his fault.
"I'm sorry I just keep hurting you and everyone else I come into contact with." Megatron said to the still recharging seeker. Then left the two seekers and upon stepping into the hallway heard the alarm start to sound. So he rushed down the hall to the entrance of the base.
On arriving there he saw Optimus and Bumblebee who had also went to see what had triggered the alarm. And they were surprised when they were greeted by Cyberwarp, Steeljaw and Soundwave.
"What brings you here?" Bumblebee asked Cyberwarp. "And why did you bring Soundwave and Steeljaw with you?"
"The Decepticons have teamed up with the DJD and they held me prisoner till Steeljaw and Soundwave who don't agree with their goals freed me." Cyberwarp explained.
"I don't like how the DJD treat my fellow Decepticons." Steeljaw told them.
"And once I heard Megatron had joined the Autobots." "I wish to join you as well I wish to fight on the same side as my leader." Soundwave added. "My loyalties lie with Megatron."
"Soundwave I've let you all down I led you and all the Decepticons onto a horrible path of destruction." Megatron told his former third in command. "Can you ever forgive me?"
"Yes and the fault is not yours alone we all chose to fallow the Decepticon cause but maybe now we can work towards peace and make up for the past." Soundwave said to him. "I chose to side with you because you are my friend."
"Yes that would be great." Megatron agreed. "And you are my friend too."
"Welcome to the team." Bumblebee told all three Cons.
"Actually these two are joining you I'm just helping you take down a common enemy." Steeljaw said to them. "Then it's back to business as usual."
"Well in the meantime thanks for the assist." Said Bumblebee then his com-link went off.
"Guys the Decepticons are attacking the scrapyard." Strongarm shouted over the com-link. "Cyclonus is leading them."
"Are the DJD there too?" Bumblebee asked her.
"No Sir just the Decepticons from the prison break." Strongarm replied.
"We'll be right there." Said Bumblebee before hanging up.
Then Bumblebee, Optimus, Soundwave and Cyberwarp went to the scrapyard to help fight and capture the Decepticons who were attacking it and the rest of the team who were there at the time.
While Megatron, Ratchet, Moonracer, Steeljaw, Starscream and Flame Shadow who hadn't come out of her coma yet stayed at the Autobot's other base at Hanger E.
But then Megatron noticed Starscream was gone and saw that the space bridge had been used recently. And he didn't like where the cornets were set. Just then Steeljaw walked in.
"Steeljaw you were with the Decepticons and DJD for awhile right?" Megatron asked him. "So you must know where their base is?"
"Yes it's on the planet Chaar." Steeljaw told him. "It's funny Starscream asked me the something just a little while ago."
"Where the space bridge is set." Megatron said looking again at the cornets. "Starscream you idiot." He whispered to himself knowing the seeker had gone to get revenge on the DJD for Flame Shadow.
"What's going on anyway?" Asked Steeljaw completely clueless about the current situation.
"I'm going to get something out of the weapons vault then I'm going to go stop Starscream from doing something stupid and getting himself killed." Megatron explained. "Don't tell any of the team."
"OK just tell me how it goes." Steeljaw replied.
"And Steeljaw you remind me much of how I was years ago do me a favor and don't became the monster I did." Megatron told him before running off to the weapons vault and then coming back and going through the space bridge with something in his servo.
Meanwhile the fight at the scrapyard was still raging on. None of the DJD had showed up but all the other Decepticons who had escaped the prison on Cybertron were there and it had become a war zone. And all the Autobots had their hands full fighting the Decepticons.
Bumblebee was currently fighting Overload and losing when all of a sudden Knock Out's vehicle mode came speeding their way.
"Stay away from me!" "Don't you touch me!" Yelled Knock Out as he was driving away from Filch.
"Shiny." Filch said as she flew after the austin martin.
"Just leave me alone!" Knock Out screamed.
"What?" Overload asked as he turned just it time to have Knock Out's rear tires hit him right in the face as the sports car ramped off him then Filch flew into him knocking them both out cold.
Then Bumblebee went over to where Knock Out had crashed into old some washing machines much to Denny's dismay. And help the red mech up.
"Thanks Knock Out you save my life." Bumblebee thanked him.
"Your welcome but I also totaled my finish." Knock Out said not sounding happy. "And what was with that crazy femme she went after me and wouldn't stop?"
"She was probably chasing your finish she likes shiny things." Bumblebee explained.
"Well at least she has good taste." Knock Out added with a smile. And Bumblebee couldn't help but laugh.
Then the two mechs noticed something unsettling Lockdown's stasis pod was empty and he and Cyclonus were nowhere to be seen.
"Oh no the ground bridge is near here they might have gone to the base at Hanger E." Bumblebee told Knock Out then they realized the com-links were down. "We have to get there and warn them."
But right when Bumblebee opened the ground bridge Springload and Quillfire showed up. And he had to fight them became the others were all busy fighting the other Decepticons.
"Leave it to me Bumblebee." Knock Out yelled to him as he drove through the ground bridge to warn the others at Hanger E. About Cyclonus and Lockdown.
Meanwhile at the medbay in Hanger E. Ratchet was cleaning some of the medical equipment and realized he hadn't seen Megatron or Starscream in a while and Moonracer came in and said she hadn't seen them ether.
So they started to go check on them when Cyclonus showed up at the door waving a blaster at them.
"What do you want?" Ratchet asked him.
"I want to get revenge on Bumblebee and his team for taking Cybertron from me." Cyclonus told them. "And to get whatever weapons you have in your vault only I need the code to open it."
"And what makes you think I'll give it to you?" Said Ratchet.
"Because if you don't this one dies." Hissed Cyclonus as he grabbed Moonracer and held his blaster to her head at gunpoint.
"Let her go!" Ratchet yelled at him.
"Only if you give me access to the weapons vault." Cyclonus said darkly. "If not I shoot her."
"Wanna bet!" Shouted Knock Out's voice from behind Cyclonus. The red medic had just gotten there from the ground bridge and had taken Cyclonus off guard and grabbed his arm that had the blaster in it and caused him to let go of Moonracer in the process.
And now the two mechs were struggling over the weapon. Moonracer ran over to try to help Knock Out but ended up being slammed into the wall for her trouble. Which made Knock Out mad and he started fighting Cyclonus harder.
Ratchet started to run over to help Knock Out and Moonracer but then Lockdown came in and started attacking Ratchet.
Which caused Knock Out to look up only to quickly remember he was in a gun struggle. And right as Cyclonus was about to yank it back from him he made a grab for it by jumping forward and the two mechs fell into each other and a boom was heard as the blaster fired.
At first no one could tell which transformer had been shot. Until Knock Out suddenly staggered then collapsed to the floor. And Ratchet notice energon leaking from his midsection where he had just been shot.
Ratchet started to run over to the downed medic but Cyclonus suddenly fired another blast hitting Knock Out in the shoulder. Making Ratchet stop in his tracks. Luckily both blasts had missed Knock Out's spark but Ratchet could tell that at least one of them had hit his main fuel line and the sports car was losing energon rapidly.
"One more step and I shoot his spark." Cyclonus threatened. "He's still alive but I will kill him unless you give me access to the weapons vault."
"OK just please don't hurt anyone else." Ratchet begged him.
"OK doctor your coming with me to open the door to that vault." Cyclonus told Ratchet as he held his blaster facing the medic at gunpoint.
"Please let me treat Knock Out first." Ratchet pleaded knowing the red mech was going to bleed out if he didn't get help soon.
Cyclonus then shot a look to Lockdown who used his servo to reach into the wound on Knock Out's shoulder and yanked some wires loose causing the red transformer to scream out in agony while Lockdown held him up by the helm.
"No please stop!" Moonracer begged. Then Lockdown let go of Knock Out and let him drop back to the floor.
"Ether lead me to the weapons vault and give me access or you won't have a patient to treat Doctor." Cyclonus hissed. "Lockdown guard these two Ratchet and I have some business to attend."
Then Cyclonus forced Ratchet down the hallway. But the only thing on the Autobot's mind was Knock Out laying on the floor wounded and dying back in the medbay. If his damage remained untreated for much longer Knock Out wasn't going to make it. And it was killing Ratchet inside one of his team. One of his friends was laying on the floor gravely injured and there was nothing he could do. And as a medic it was tarring Ratchet apart.
The two walked down the hall for what seemed like forever to Ratchet. Until they got to the weapons vault and Cyclonus told Ratchet to open it. Ratchet punched in the code and the door opened.
"Now can I please go back and save Knock Out?" Ratchet pleaded with Cyclonus.
"Actually I'd be more worried about myself if I were you." Cyclonus told him now aiming the blaster at Ratchet's head planning to kill him became he had outlived his usefulness.
Ratchet closed his optics waiting for the end and inwardly cursing himself for not being able to save Knock Out.
Then several shouts of pain echoed through the hallway but they weren't from Ratchet. The ambulance opened his optics to see Cyclonus burned to a crisp and Flame Shadow standing behind him having just changed her arm canon back to her servo. She had come out of her coma just in time to save Ratchet's life.
She had been on a berth in her room because the medbay only had one berth that they might need for other patients.
"Ratchet are you OK?" She asked him.
"Yes perfect timing." Ratchet told her as he closed the weapons vault. Then they both race back towards the medbay as Ratchet explained to Flame Shadow what was going down on the way.
Meanwhile Moonracer was kneeling down on the floor next to Knock Out sobbing when the red medic started to stir.
"Moonracer." He said in a whisper.
"Knock Out please save your strength." Moonracer said to him. Seeing the red mech was in a great deal of pain and barley conscious from the amount of energon he'd lost.
"I love you." Knock Out told her before going unconscious again. Then Lockdown who had been guarding the door came in.
"You know this one looks like he might have some decent weapons as a medic he probably has all kinds of goodies built in." Lockdown said thinking about upgrading himself with Knock Out's parts. As he started to approach the downed transformer.
"Don't touch him!" Moonracer yelled as she tossed herself over Knock Out as a shield. Only for Lockdown to start trying to pry her off him.
When suddenly Lockdown was tackled from behind by Steeljaw who saw what was going on but had been waiting for just the right moment to attack.
Moonracer didn't move determined to protect Knock Out who remained unconscious and badly wounded. While Steeljaw continued to fight Lockdown.
But the wolf like mech was quickly overpowered and slammed into the wall. But was still trying to fight Lockdown.
When suddenly Lockdown was hit from behind by Ratchet who along with Flame Shadow had just entered the medbay. And after Ratchet hit him Flame Shadow and Steeljaw did the something and the Bounty Hunter fell to the floor unconscious.
Then Ratchet had Moonracer and Flame Shadow help him move Knock Out to the medical berth where he started performing emergency surgery hoping it wasn't to late to save the red medic's life.
While Steeljaw put Lockdown and Cyclonus in stasis pods to be taken back to jail on Cybertron when this was over.
Meanwhile on Chaar the DJD had stayed behind to let the other Decepticons take their revenge on the Autobots. When suddenly Starscream showed up.
"What do you want seeker?" Asked Tarn as he and the rest of the DJD look over at the flyer who had just landed and transformed form his jet mode to his cybertronian one.
"I want to settle a score with all of you." Starscream said to them angrily. "Specially your leader."
"OK we destroy you then we go to Earth and destroy the Autobots and take the planet for ourselves then after we conquer Earth we'll take over Cybertron and won't stop until we've taken the whole universe as our own." Said Tarn.
"True conquest is in the ashes of ones enemies." Starscream told him. "Now get ready to burn!" The seeker yelled as he fired his missiles at the DJD. "This is for Flame Shadow."
Then the DJD rushed at Starscream who was ready to fight them all.
To Be Continued.
"This was a long chapter." "The next one will be about Starscream's battle with the DJD." "While Ratchet works desperately to save Knock Out." "I'll try to get it up soon." "Please let me know if I missed any spelling mistakes."