Chapter 1

It had been several months since Bumblebee and his team had liberated Cybertron from Cyclonus. And the Autobots were doing a good job of running Cybertron while Bumblebee and his team were protecting Earth.

Bumblebee had come back to Cybertron for a vacation since his team had things covered at the scrapyard and Decepticon activity had been slow. It was the perfect time to take a break and catch up with his friends on Cybertron.

He went to the base and was talking to Ratchet. Who told him a Decepticon ship called the Leviathan had showed up on Cybertron. And they had been trying to figure out what the Decepticons who came in the ship were up too.

"We sent Knock Out to spy on them because they don't know he switched sides so he was welcomed into their fold and was supposed to report back to us but never did." Ratchet explained.

"You don't think something happened to him do you?" Asked Bumblebee.

"We don't know we've been trying to contact him but can't. We don't know if he's in danger or if he just can't contact us for some reason." Ratchet explained. "And if it's the latter we can't risk blowing his cover."

"We have to find out what those Cons are up too and if he's ok." Said Bumblebee.

"We've split up the team to look for him and try to find out what the Cons are doing." Ratchet told him.

"Hope he's ok." Said Bumblebee.

"Me too." Ratchet added feeling worried about the red medic.


Meanwhile on another part of Cybertron Starscream was flying in his jet mode having come out of his coma and been released from prison much to his surprise.

The seeker didn't know why he had been pardoned they hadn't given him an explanation after he woke up they just told him to go.

Starscream decided not to question it and just enjoy his freedom not wanting to fight anymore and just wanting to be left alone.

He went to an oil house for some energon and noticed all the bots their were giving him dirty looks that made him feel uncomfortable.

But he didn't really expect anything less after all the trouble he'd caused in the past.

Then he saw another mech who was hitting on some femmes who didn't seem to want any part of it. And he could tell the mech was plastered.

Starscream didn't want anything to do with this situation and started to leave as the orange mech started arguing with and poking fun at several other bots.

Starscream was halfway out the door when he suddenly heard one of the femmes scream and saw that that orange mech had forcibly grabbed her and was trying to kiss her but the femme wasn't exactly willing.

"Just leave me alone!" She yelled but the mech wouldn't stop trying to hit on her and refused to let go of her servo.

And before he even knew what he was doing Starscream rushed back inside and barged over to where the mech and femme were.

"Stop it she doesn't want anything to do with you." Starscream told the mech firmly.

"Hey we were just having a chat and she's totally into me." Said the mech.

"Then why is she screaming and pulling away from you?" Starscream hissed at him. "And last time I checked leave me alone only had one meaning."

"Wow your Starscream the former second in command of the Decepticons looks like we have a celebrity in here." Said the mech as he literally tossed the femme aside.

"Name's Quick Force it's an honor to meet you how did it feel to kill Autobots and work for Megatron?" Quick Force asked.

"Shut up!" Starscream growled at him not wanting to relieve any of his past serving under Megatron. The seeker turned to leave.

Then Quick Force grabbed one of his wings and Starscream turned around and decked him right in the faceplates knocking him onto a table.

But Quick Force returned the blow and sent Starscream face first into a wall then Starscream kicked him in the midsection and knocked him to the floor.

Only for Quick Force to grab the seeker by the ankles and pull him down too. Then another bot who just happened to be walking by with a tray of oil tripped over the two struggles mechs and dumped the tray on some bots who were sitting at the bar.

Who in turn started fighting him and knocked him into some Vehicons who were sitting in a booth who blamed and started fighting with each other and some more bots got involved and before long it was a full blown bar fight.

Quick Force actually seemed to be enjoying it. Screaming "Yahoo!" And chanting "Fight!" "Fight!"

Starscream manged to sneak out during the chaos and confusion and dashed out the door not even looking back Quick Force hadn't been drunk at all he was just insane.

"Hey Starscream buddy where'd you go?" Quick Force called. "We should really do this again sometime."

Starscream just ran until he was far enough to not have to worry about Quick Force finding him. "I hate that mech." Starscream thought to himself hoping he'd never see him again.

Then realized he was covered in oil and energon that had been spilled on him during the scuffle. Then went to get cleaned off hoping no one would see him. Just wanting to forget the whole encounter.


On another part of Cybertron Knock Out opened his optics he felt weak, sick and tired and to spite being fully conscious it was really hard to focus or think straight.

He was trying desperately to move but it proved impossible. He wanted to yell for help but realized something disturbing he couldn't scream or make any sound at all.

The only parts he could move were his optics and he could barely twitch his digits he didn't know where he was he just knew he was laying on his back on a berth somewhere.

And he didn't remember how he got there he could see an IV from the corner of his optic and knew he was being medicated which explained why he felt so out of it.

Then he heard pedsteps and a mech was now standing over him. Knock Out tried to speak but he was too doped up to form words.

"So your awake." Said the mech. Knock Out could only look up at him.

"You shouldn't have snooped around on the Leviathan like you did." Pharma told him. As Conduit and Flatline walked in.

"The thing is Knock Out we can't have you reporting to the Autobot and telling them what you've learned." Flatline cut in. "But we'll keep you alive for now only because we may find a use for you later."

"It was just a good thing Pandemic caught you looking through our computer files and you still almost got away if I hadn't surprised you by the exit and used a static lance on you. you would have escaped." Conduit mocked him. "Did you really think you could fool us?"

"And we made a deal with Pharma here that we won't bother him if he'll keep you here strongly sedated and on enough medication to keep you immobilized and unable to speak." Flatline added.

Poor Knock Out could only lay there and was so out of it he didn't even really understand what they were talking about. Everything sounded far away and unimportant.

Then Pharma took a syringe and give him another dose. He held Knock Out's helm up forcing the drugged medic to look him in the optics.

Knock Out's optics were dazed and flickered to stay online. Pharma could see the drugs he'd given the cherry colored mech were working and Knock Out was so out of it he probably didn't even know his own name at the moment.

"You can forget what you've learned and get comfortable because your going to rust here." Pharma told Knock Out just before the Austin Martin went unconscious again as his optics rolled shut.

Then they left him laying on the berth after Pharma strapped him down just in case. Then Flatline and Conduit went back to the Leviathan to join the rest of their group.

While Pharma went to run some errands since he was keeping Knock Out in a back room of his private clinic he didn't have to worry about him being discovered.

To Be Continued.

I kicked this one off with a cliffhanger.