Chapter 14 Crisis.
It didn't take long for Knock Out and Starscream to find the steel mill and they sent Pixel ahead to look for Seeljaw.
Starscream and Knock Out were trying to think of how to beat Night Wolf.
"I say one of us approach from the front door to get Night Wolf's attention then the other can jump him from behind." Starscream suggested.
"That could work I'll be the one to get his attention because it won't be hard given how much he has it in for me." Knock Out agreed.
"Then I'll be the one to jump him." Said Starscream.
"Ok what's my role in the plan?" Asked a voice.
"Well you can make your way to the.." Knock Out started to answer when he released the voice was Night Wolf and stopped. "Ok plan B!" He yelled.
Then he and Starscream just started fighting with Night Wolf who had spotted them as he was about to leave.
Meanwhile Pixel found Steeljaw and untied him and got the IV out. Then starting trying to wake him up.
"Five more minutes." Steeljaw groaned.
Then Pixel kicked him.
"Alright I'm up!" Steeljaw said. "And Up and up." He added as he got on his feet and almost fell over twice.
Apparently the circuit boosters were still in his system and had made him loopy.
"Don't worry sparkling I'll help find your Carrier." Steeljaw told Pixel who in his doped up state he mistook for a sparkling. The minicon just let out some confused beeps.
Then Steeljaw put Pixel on his shoulder and danced out of the room humming The Touch.
Meanwhile Knock Out and Starscream were still fighting Night Wolf in the steel mill.
And he was managing to hold his own against both of them. And they ended up in part of the steel mill were there was a conveyer belt and some equipment.
Night Wolf shot Starscream with his EMP and the seeker fell backwards and landed on the conveyer belt and Night Wolf turned it on.
Knock Out was now fighting Night Wolf while desperately trying to reach the panel to stop Starscream who was currently stunned and unable to move from getting hurt.
Knock Out managed to reach it and backed it up then turned it off. Only for Night Wolf to shove him away and turn it on again. And was now fighting Knock Out and wouldn't let the red mech near it again.
Starscream was now screaming for help and just knew he was going to die. When Pixel ran over to the panel and back it up and turned it off again.
"Pixel you are my favorite minicon." Starscream told him. Then Steeljaw walked over.
"Ooh what does this button do?" He asked as he pressed it and turned the conveyer belt back on much to Starscream's horror.
"Scrap Steeljaw who's side are you on?!" Starscream yelled at him.
Then Pixel hit the button that turned it off again right when Starscream was two inches form the machinery. And the seeker's optics widened before he fainted.
Steeljaw had walk away and was now where Knock Out and Night Wolf were fighting.
"Hey Bro, Knock Out how it hanging?" Steeljaw said to the two fighting mechs.
"What?!" They both said at once feeling completely confused.
"You gave him circuit boosters didn't you?" Knock Out deadpaned.
"Well I had to keep him out of the way and I didn't want to kill my little brother." Night Wolf hissed.
"Wait you two are brothers?" Knock Out asked in shock.
"Yes I got the looks, we both got the brains and he got everything else." Steeljaw said before going into a giggle fit.
"I had to teach him to not be scared of the dark." Steeljaw added and Night Wolf looked mortified.
"Oh really?" Knock Out asked now interested.
"Shut up!" Night Wolf growled now humiliated to have his enemy know his childhood phobia. "My brother doesn't know what he's talking about right now I obviously give him one circuit booster too many."
"Then why did you have a night light till you graduated from medschool?" Steeljaw asked.
"Stop it Steeljaw!" Night Wolf scolded his brother.
"Ok goodnight." Steeljaw said then saluted before he passed out.
Then Knock Out punch Night Wolf who was still distracted knocking him out too.
Then he checked out Steeljaw and was relieved to see other then being sedated he was fine. Then ran over to make sure Starscream was ok.
And was glad when the seeker met him halfway with the effects of the EMP having worn off.
"You ok Screamer?" Knock Out asked his friend.
"Other then being a bit motion sick from being jerked back and forth so much I'm fine." Starscream joked.
Then they went back over to where the two wolf mechs were.
"Is Steeljaw gonna be ok?" Asked Starscream.
"Yeah he'll probably wake up with a helmache and probably won't remember anything that happened while he was under which might be a good thing." Knock Out chuckled knowing Steeljaw would probably be embarrassed by how silly he acted.
Suddenly Night Wolf came too. But luckily they had already tied him up with some chains they found.
"You have to let me go so I can stop MECH!" He cried.
"Yeah right you'll just attack us." Knock Out told him.
"Please they plan to wipe out all cybertronians on earth with a missile that's going to send out a frequency when it hits." Night Wolf explained. "Quintessa helped them build it but she was disguised as a human female and they don't know it but the missile won't just kill cybertronians but all life of Earth."
"What?" Knock Out asked optics wide.
"It's ture I overheard Quintessa bragging about her plan to make sure Unicron wouldn't be able to come back." Night Wolf added. "She thinks she can do it by destroying Earth."
Knock Out quickly activated his com-link which was working now because communications were back online. And asked Fixit to patch him through to the others and told them what he'd just learned.
They explained that they had already stopped MECH but Cane had escaped and the missile had already been launched.
Now the only way to stop it would be for someone to shoot it down before it entered Earth's atmosphere and make it blow while it was still in space where no one would be harmed.
"Optimus, Windblade, Screamout and Soundwave are already flying to space to try to shoot it down." Bumblebee explained over the com-link.
Just then Knock Out heard a jet engine and turned to see Starscream was now flying up in his jet mode and knew the seeker was going to help them. Then Knock Out called for a ground bridge to get back to the scrap yard.
And Steeljaw who had just come too help him take Night Wolf back with them to be put in a stasis pod until they could get him to prison on Cybertron.
After getting back to the scrap yard and putting Night Wolf in a pod. Knock Out and Steeljaw joined the others who were all gathered at the mission control area in radio contact with the team members who were in space.
They arrived just in time to hear that Windblade had gotten hurt when she had struck a satellite trying to get to the missile. And Screamout had brought her back to base.
While Optimus, Soundwave and Starscream were still trying to take out the missile.
Starscream and Soundwave were both faster flyers then Optimus was but Knock Out was worried about Starscream knowing the seeker's wings hadn't fully recovered from his fight with Night Wolf when Knock Out had to fix him.
Soundwave has deployed Laserbeak to send a video feed to the scrap yard so the others could see what was going on. And they noticed that Ravage, Rumble and Frenzy were at the scrap yard as well because Soundwave didn't want to risk them suffering the same fate if something happened to him.
They saw the missile getting closer to Earth's atmosphere and were afraid they weren't going to destroy it in time. When they saw Soundwave wrap his tentacles around it to try to get it off course he managed to pull it back a bit.
"Starscream this is our only chance!" Soundwave yelled to the seeker who fired his missiles on it.
Optimus was still flying fast trying to reach them. When Starscream's missiles hit the missile that was heading to Earth. This caused it to blow and the mission was a success.
But much to everyone's horror both Soundwave and Starscream were caught in the blast. And they could see them both now on fire falling towards Earth and couldn't even tell which was which.
But the last thing they saw before they had a power outage and the video feed was cut off was Optimus catch one of them while the other crashed to Earth.
Ratchet ran over and was trying to get the power back one with the help of Raf, Denny and Fixit. Because right now they couldn't even get a fix on their signals.
Knock Out was in shock two of his friends were hurt and might be dead and one of them was missing and he didn't even know which. He felt sick and powerless the same way he'd felt when he found out Breakdown had been killed or anytime he lost a patient. He hated that feeling.
Then he heard Ratchet talk to Optimus over the com-link that kept cutting out.
The only words they could make out were. "This is Optimus...returning to scrap yard...I have...he is critical.." Then the communications went down.
"Stupid Earth technology!" Yelled a frustrated Ratchet.
Then he and Knock Out went to get the medbay ready to treat either Starscream or Soundwave whichever Optimus came back with hoping they could save them and wondering how they would find their other friend assuming they were alive.
To Be Continued.
The Epilogue is next. Hope you guys like the story so far.