Chapter 4.
Starscream went ahead and told Knock Out his plan to stay human.
"It's just I've made so many mistakes and I don't think anyone really wants me on the team so I think this might be my chance to start over." He explained.
"Well if this is what you want I won't stop you but I will miss you." Knock Out told his best friend.
"I'll still visit the base I just won't be part of the team anymore." Starscream told him. "After you change back you can be my guardian if you want too."
"I'll think about it." Knock Out replied with a smile.
Then they went to join the others in the main room.
Where Soundwave and Ratchet were working on the relic still a ways from having it fixed.
Then Jack, Miko, Raf, June, Alexis and Agent Fowler took the bots turned human out to explore the town but they decided to use a buddy system in case MECH tried something.
Optimus went with Megatron and Jack. And Smokescreen went with Raf and Miko. While Starscream was with Alexis. And Arcee went with June and Agent Fowler and Knock Out tagged along with them much to Arcee's dismay.
They were all having fun Optimus, Megatron and Jack went to a museum because Optimus was interested in learning about human history. And Megatron was actually impressed to learn that there were once human gladiators.
Smokescreen, Miko and Raf went bowling and were all having fun. While Starscream and Alexis went to see a movie and were pretty much on a date.
Agent Fowler, June, Arcee and Knock Out were all sight seeing and there was a carnival in town that they decided to check out. But got caught in a huge crowd of people.
When they got out of the crowd Arcee and Knock Out realized they got separated from June and Agent Fowler.
"Well this is just great." Said Knock Out. "Should we look for them or wait for them to find us?"
"You look for them I'll wait." Arcee told Knock Out not wanting to be anywhere near him.
"Arcee what exactly is your problem with me?" Knock Out asked having enough of her giving her giving him the brush off and cold shoulder.
"You think you, and those other cons can join us and it will make up for everything you did during the war all the pain you caused and lives you took and you think you can get a free pass!" She hissed at him.
"Arcee we've changed and we're all trying to make up for what we did." Knock Out told her.
"Oh stop already you only joined the winning team to save yourself you weren't thinking about what was right or wrong you just wanted to save you own sorry spark!" She yelled at him but not loud enough for any bystanders to hear.
"And if having you on the team wasn't bad enough you just had to invite those three to join us too. And I know you guys are going to turn on us given the next opportunity." She finished.
"Well for the record I only invited Starscream and it was Optimus who invited Megatron then he invited Soundwave but that's not the point." Knock Out told her. "The point is we're trying to make up for the past and doesn't everyone deserve a second chance?"
"Not you three." She told him. "And this conversation is over." She said as she started to walk off.
"Arcee we should stay together." Knock Out told her as he grabbed her wrist knowing they shouldn't split up till they found June and Agent Fowler.
"Don't touch me!" She growled at him as she punched him and pull her arm away then walked off.
Knock Out pulled himself up and wipe blood from the side of his mouth where he now had a small cut and saw that Arcee was already gone.
"Well that went well." He complained. "Thanks for lending her some rings to wear today Miko." He added sarcastically.
Then he went to a bathroom where he used the sink and a paper towel to clean the cut fortunately it wasn't a bad one and stopped bleeding after a few minutes.
Then he left the bathroom and went to look for Arcee or June and Agent Fowler whichever he found first.
Meanwhile June and Agent Fowler were trying to find Arcee and Knock Out after they had gotten separated and Agent Fowler was gonna try again to ask June to marry him taking advantage of the moment alone with her.
But as soon as he opened his mouth a band that was there as part of something the carnival was doing started playing and she couldn't hear him over the music.
"What?" They both kept saying to each other not being able to hear anything over the loud music.
"Why do I even bother?" Agent Fowler thought to himself.
Then they ran into Starscream and Alexis who decided to came to the carnival after their movie ended and Alexis had convinced Starscream to try cotton candy and he found out he liked it.
Then they decided to help June and Agent Fowler look for Arcee and Knock Out.
Knock Out was still looking for Arcee or really just anyone from the team at this point because he was totally lost at the moment.
"Scrap I think I passed that same pop corn stand three times already." He said to himself.
He finally spotted Arcee who was still looking for June and Agent Fowler.
"Hey Arcee!" Knock Out yelled to her as he started that way hoping she wouldn't punch or try to ditch him again.
Suddenly Knock Out felt a prick in his neck and put his hand there and pulled out something that was sticking in the side of it he looked at the object in his hand and saw that it was a dart of some kind and he could see droplets of liquid but other the that it was empty.
Knock Out suddenly felt dizzy as his vision blurred and he staggered to the ground as his body suddenly felt really heavy.
Knock Out was trying to push himself off the ground and everything looked dark and fuzzy and now some men were standing over him he couldn't tell who they were he just noticed they had weapons.
He tried to speak but he felt to weak to form words. All he could do was lay there and look up at them. Then one of them that was holding a gun of some kind hit him with it and Knock Out's whole world went black.
Arcee saw Knock Out slump to the ground after being shot with a dart of some kind and then being carried off by MECH after one of them hit him with their gun.
"No wait!" She screamed as she took off after them hoping to save Knock Out.
She saw them carry him to their van then toss him into the back of it. She was running as fast as she could but wasn't going to make it in time.
Starscream and Alexis had just gotten there in time to see MECH put Knock Out in the back of their van and start to drive off with Arcee giving chase.
Alexis went to help Arcee while Starscream took off down a short cut he saw hoping to cut them off not wanting to let MECH escape with Knock Out.
He managed to get ahead of them and ran out in the road not wanting them to getaway.
"STOP!" He cried.
But they didn't listen and instead of stopping they drove their van into him even swerving just to hit him.
Starscream rolled over the hood of the van and landed hard on the pavement the van stopped only long enough for one of the MECH Agents to get out Starscream laid there in pain he just knew he had broken or fractured several things.
He knew he wouldn't be able to fight or even move for that matter. For a moment he thought MECH was going to take him too but the MECH Agent pulled out a gun.
"We only need one of you and I don't think you'll make it anyway." The man said before he fired his gun at Starscream.
Starscream felt a sharp in his chest as he saw the man get back in the van and MECH drove off leaving him to die.
Then Arcee and Alexis caught up just in time to see a MECH Agent with no mask, blonde hair and a scare on his chine get back in the van after shooting Starscream.
The van was already to far off to catch so both women turned their attention to Starscream. Alexis was the first one by his side.
Starscream was in bad shape. He had a wound on his chest where he'd been shot. And was coughing up blood.
"No Starscream please hold on." Alexis pleaded with him. And he smiled at her weakly before going unconscious.
Just then an ambulance pulled up. But they didn't know if this was a good thing or not. Because if Starscream was taken to a hospital they might ask a lot of unwanted question he didn't have any history as a human and they was no telling what problems that might lead too. Alexis was trying to think of what to do.
While Arcee could only stair in the direction the van had drove off in. As far as Arcee was concerned MECH had Knock Out and it was all her fault.
To Be Continued.
I hope this chapter turned out ok. I left a pretty good cliffhanger for you guys. I'll try to get the next chapter out soon. In the meantime feel free to rate and review.