It was a normal day when Team Prime got reports of strange things happening on Cybertron's moon lunar 1.
So they sent Arcee and Starscream who had turned over a new leaf and joined the Autobots to investigate knowing Arcee and Starscream didn't get along Smokescreen had gone with them in case they needed someone to help keep the peace.
Ratchet was currently cleaning the medbay and chatting with Knock Out while they waited for the three to return, everyone else was currently on Earth helping Bumblebee's team deal with Steeljaw and his pack, so things slow but that was about to change.
"So wanna watch a horror movie or something while we wait for the others?" Asked Knock Out who was feeling board.
"No thanks I saw Bulkhead and Miko watch and scream at them enough to turn me off to watching any of them myself." Ratchet declined.
"That's ok Starscream doesn't like them either." Knock Out explained with a chuckle." I guess not everyone can handle that much suspense."
Just then the space bridge opened and Arcee, Starscream and Smokescreen came back to base and explained that Airachnid and her Insecticon army were responsible for the strange goings on on lunar 1.
"Unfortunately Airachnid escaped." Arcee said not sounding happy that her arch nemesis was still at large.
"We'll get her next time." Smokescreen told her encouragingly.
"Hey Screamer bet you can't read this creepypasta without screaming." Knock Out smirked at the seeker while holding a datapad that was opened to a story.
"I don't have time for this nonsense I'm going for a flight." Starscream said as he walked out the door.
"Wait for it, three, two, one." Knock Out told the others while hold out the datapad.
"Oh I'll prove it's not scary at all." Starscream huffed as he came back and took the datapad then went to his room to read it.
"Knew he couldn't back out of a challenge." Knock Out said fighting back laugher.
"I'm blaming you if he starts having nightmares and keeping the rest of us up." Ratchet grumbled.
Just then they heard Starscream let out a cry of terror.
"Already?!" Knock Out questioned not expecting Starscream to have gotten scared that fast. "There's no way he could have gotten to the scary part that quickly."
Then the red medic went to check on the seeker but was shocked when he opened the door to his room and saw Airachnid who had somehow followed Arcee, Smokescreen and Starscream through the space bridge was now looming over the seeker who she had webbed to the floor like a fly.
Seeing his friend in trouble and remembering what the spider had done to Breakdown Knock Out jumped right into action activating his drill and saw.
"This is for Breakdown!" Hissed the red sports car pure rage in his voice.
The others heard the sounds of a fight going on and rushed in to help only to be greeted with the sight of Knock Out struggling with Airachnid who had one of her legs stabbed into his shoulder and was attempting to use her acid on his faceplates, while the Austin Martin was struggling to hold her servo back and trying to kick her off him.
While meanwhile on the other side of the room Starscream was going crazy trying desperately to free himself from the webs that had him stuck to the floor wanting to help his friend.
Then Airachnid tossed Knock Out into a wall before escaping out the window, then Smokescreen freed Starscream while Ratchet got to work tending to Knock Out who appeared fine other then having a wound on his shoulder where Airachnid had stabbed him, a small burn on his cheek from her acid and a dent on his helm from hitting the wall.
Ratchet had just finished patching Knock Out's shoulder when he noticed another wound on his neck cables that Knock Out had felt and noticed at the same time.
Upon realizing what it was Knock optics widen in sheer horror and the red sports car suddenly bolted out of the medbay before Ratchet could stop him.
Knock Out shoved passed Smokescreen and into the room where the stasis pods were kept, Smokescreen went in after him to see what was going on, and saw Knock Out had just sealed himself inside one of the pods.
"What are you doing?" The race car asked confused seeing that Knock Out was about to seal himself in stasis.
"Smokescreen I need you to promise you'll tell the others not to ever open this pod or bring me back online." Knock Out pleaded sounded on the verge of sobbing.
Before Smokescreen could reply Knock Out was already put into stasis.
Smokescreen rush out to get Ratchet to asked what was going on and ran into Arcee and Starscream just as Ratchet had made it to that hallway, And Smokescreen told them what had just went down and that Knock Out had just sealed himself in stasis and begged to never be brought out of it.
"He was bitten wasn't he?" Starscream asked.
"Yes he had a bite on his neck cables." Ratchet explained.
Then Starscream told them about the time him and Knock Out had experimented with Synthetic Energon and Dark Energon and how Airachnid had been infected and turned into a terrorcon.
"He locked himself in there because he knows he's about to turn into a terrorcon and he wants to protect the rest of us because he doesn't want to infect and turn anyone else." Ratchet said realizing what Knock Out was doing.
"It's my fault." Starscream cried letting his wings drop.
"No it's not Airachnid is the one who bit him." Smokescreen told the seeker.
"But I'm the one who decided to mix Synthetic Energon with Dark Energon and now Knock Out is paying the price for it and he's the one who told me back then that it was a bad idea, I should have listened." Starscream said completely blaming himself for Knock Out's situation.
"We can worry about that later right now we need to figure out a way to save Knock Out." Ratchet told them. " I'm going to start working on a cure."
Then Starscream told Ratchet exactly how he and Knock Out had made the terrorcon virus, And the medic got to work hoping to save Knock Out.
While Ratchet was working on a cure Starscream decided to go ask someone else for help too wanting to do everything he could to save his friend.
So he went to an Autobot scientist named Brainstorm only to be scared away when Brainstorm asked him to be the test subject for something completely unrelated and started laughing maniacally.
Starscream had bolted out the door the first chance he got. "And I thought Shockwave was scary!" The seeker thought to himself.
Then he bumped into Megatron and Starscream told him what was going on and the former warlord told the seeker he would help look for a cure.
And as soon as they parted ways Megatron went to Shockwave and told him what he wanted and the cyclops got to work.
"I'll need a test subject." Shockwave told the former gladiator.
"I'll find one." Megatron replied as he left to do just that.
Megatron was having trouble finding the test subject because he was feeling conflicted not wanting to put some random but through pain even if this was the only way to save Knock Out.
Then he got the idea that he could be the test subject and was about to head back to the lab when he saw a bit who looked upset and the bot explained that the medic at the clinic wouldn't treat him because he was a Decepticon, and he kept turning away any Decepticon who needed treatment.
Megatron frowned feeling mad at the bot for letting cons suffer and even die just because he didn't want to treat them and most of the Decepticons now we're just trying to make up for the wrong they'd done and live normal peaceful lives.
And this was in Kaon where most of the Decepticons lived.
"Well that medic is going to save one former Decepticon tonight." Megatron thought to himself feeling angry.
Then he saw a bot leaving the clinic and went up to him.
"Pharma?" Megatron asked.
"Yes?" The bot replied only for Megatron to puch him out and carry him off.
"Should we do something?" Asked a bot who had witnessed the kidnapping.
"How about grabbing some oil?" Replied the other bot.
"Ok." His buddy agreed. (Because no one cared about Pharma.)
Later Pharma woke up strapped to a table in Shockwave's lab and gagged.
Then Shockwave gave him the terrorcon virus and started testing cures on him.
Meanwhile Ratchet was still working on the cure when the power went out and unfortunately it cause a malfunction in Knock Out's stasis pod letter him out and the red medic who had now changed into a terrorcon started wondering the base.
Smokescreen and Arcee were in the medbay with Ratchet when Knock Out came in and started chasing them while growling "Energon!"
"Oh scrap he's gone full zombie!" Cried Smokescreen who aimed his blaster.
"What are you doing that's Knock Out?!" Yelled Arcee who stopped him.
"Him or us make a decision!" Smokescreen replied in a panic before Knock Out hit the blast out of his servos and made it spine around on the floor and fire in random directions before Arcee managed to shoot and destroy it.
Fortunately no one was hurt, but they were all forced to run from Knock Out who was trying to suck their energon.
Meanwhile Shockwave managed to invent a cure that worked and Megatron called Starscream and told him to come get it.
"Now use the stun ray on Pharma and put him back where you found him." Shockwave told Megatron.
Then Megatron grabbed the gun off the table and was shocked when he fired on Pharma and instead of being stunned he was blasted with cosmic rust and desolved into nothing.
"I thought you said this was a stun ray?" Megatron said in disbelief.
"That's the rust gun the stun ray is over there." Shockwave explained.
"Oops." Megatron replied with the most horrified expression imaginable. "It never happened."
"Understood." Shockwave told him.
Then Starscream showed up and got the cure.
"Why is that lab table covered in rust?" Asked Starscream noticing the mess.
"There was a misshape." Shockwave replied.
"You don't wanna know." Megatron added.
Starscream didn't ask about it anymore he just thanked them and took the cure with him back to base.
Meanwhile the others were still running and hiding from Knock Out, when they saw his Energon Prob on the other side of the room.
"If we can get that we can stun him." Ratchet told Smokescreen and Arcee.
Then Arcee went for it and managed to get it only for Knock Out to grab it and break it in two.
"Knock Out we needed that!" Ratchet scolded him.
Then the three had to run behind a desk and kept going back and forth because whenever they started to take off in one direction Knock Out kept cutting them off and forcing them to turn the other way.
Smokescreen used his phase shifter to run through the desk and Knock Out took off after him but Smokescreen phased through the red medic who was now looking at the door only for it to open and hit him knocking the red terrorcon out could.
And Starscream walked in.
"Just some payback for hitting me with the immobilizer that time." Starscream said as he quickly took out the needle and gave Knock Out the cure Shockwave had sent with him.
And explained to the others what it was, and that Shockwave said Knock Out would probably be in recharge for a few hours and should be fine when he came back online.
Then they got a call from Megatron saying he had captured Airachnid and Shockwave had cured her from the terrorcon virus and they had taken her to jail where she would be held accountable for her crimes.
Later Knock Out woke up on a berth in the medbay with everyone in the room and glad he was OK and back to normal, And he thanked all of them for saving him and apologized for any harm he might have caused as a terrorcon.
Then he looked at himself and made a face.
"My poor finish." He groaned.
"Your poor finish my poor medbay!" Ratchet replied pointing to the huge mess from Knock Out's terrorcon zombie rampage. "We needed that."
"I'll clean it up." Knock Out offered feeling bad.
"We all will." Starscream added.
Then everyone worked together to get the mess cleaned up, All happy that Knock Out was ok and Airachnid wouldn't be causing them anymore trouble.
And Knock Out was given a new job at a clinic in Kaon because apparently the medic who ran it disappeared mysteriously, And he couldn't help noticing Megatron looked uncomfortable when he mentioned it so didn't talk about it anymore.
Knock Out accepted the job and all the Decepticons in the area liked him happy to have a medic who would treat them.
Knock Out was happy with his new clinic and told the rest of the team they were welcome anytime.
The End.
Hope this Halloween special turned out ok, Happy Halloween everyone have a good one.
