Chapter 9.

Agent Fowler call in Unit E to capture all the MECH Agents. And they were all brought back to base to be tossed in the brig tell they could be taken to prison.

Knock Out's body was carried in and taken to the medbay. Everyone on the team was saddened to learn what happened and that their friend didn't make it. Starscream and Arcee were the two who were taking it the hardest. Especially when they learned the full story of everything MECH did to him. Arcee blamed herself and Starscream had seen Knock Out as a brother.

Then Commander Bishop broke loose from a soldier who had been taking her to her cell and ran passed where Ratchet and Soundwave had been working on the relic where they lost sight of her for a second until Arcee spotted her trying to run out the exit.

And managed to catch her and was dragging her back through the main room towards the brig.

"Well at least I killed that former Decepticon medic and got revenge for Silas." She said with a twisted smile. "But really I just enjoyed making him suffer then ending his life." "I mean how many humans can say they did that to a transformer?" Then laughed.

"SHUT UP!" Arcee practically roared. "You don't get to talk about him after what you did to him!"

Then she slammed Commander Bishop against the wall and put her hands firmly over her nose and mouth. Commander Bishop let out muffled screams as she tried to struggle for air.

"Hurts doesn't it!" Arcee yelled at her. "It's exactly what he felt when you taped that bag over his head!" "I'm just sorry I don't have any energon to inject into your heart like you did his you monster!" "I want you to feel everything he did!"

"Arcee stop." Said Smokescreen who had just gotten there.

"Why because I'll kill her like she did Knock Out?!" Arcee screamed and she now had tears flowing from her eyes. "Because I want her to pay for what she did!"

"Arcee killing her won't bring him back it'll just bring you down to her level and that's not what Knock Out would want." Smokescreen told her.

Arcee released her hold on Commander Bishop then punched her out cold. "That was for Knock Out." She said as she walked away with Smokescreen as some soldiers took Commander Bishop to her cell.

They went to the main room.

"What happened?" Asked Optimus.

"Smokescreen just stopped me from crossing a line and making a huge mistake." Arcee told him and thanked Smokescreen for stopping her from doing something she would have regretted.

Then both Smokescreen and Optimus hugged her. Understanding the pain and grief she was feeling because not only were they feeling it too but everyone on the team was. And were all dealing with it in their own way.

Starscream locked himself in the bathroom and just scream for several minutes before coming out with his eyes red from crying. And there were dried tears on his cheeks.

Then Megatron put a hand on his shoulder to try to comfort his former second in command a rare jester from him. Then Starscream noticed Megatron had one of his hand bandaged.

"What happened?" Starscream asked.

"I was venting like you just were and got the ingenious idea to punch my reflection since there was nothing in the room to hit and in all my knowledge I forgot that mirrors are made of glass, glass shatter and shattered glass cuts flesh." Megatron explained.

"You do know braking mirror is seven earth years of bad luck right?" Starscream told him.

"Scrap I hope that's not true." Megatron groaned before he and Starscream both had a much needed laugh.

Later they all took turns looking at Knock Out's body and saying their goodbyes to him as a form of closure. He looked like he was just sleeping and they all kept excepting him to wake up. Which made it sad for each of them when it sank in that it wasn't the case.

Then Ratchet and Soundwave announced that they fixed the relic and could change them back now they got the ground bridge ready so they could use the relic with out accidentally changing the other cybertronians in the base human.

They saw Starscream hug Alexis and them kiss both in tears. And Starscream walked over to where the others were about to enter the ground bridge.

"What was that about?" Asked Megatron.

"I decided to change back with the rest of you I figured with the team down a bot this is no time for me to be staying human." Starscream explained fighting back tears. "That was just my human form saying goodbye to Alexis."

"Starscream are you sure this is what you want?" Asked Megatron.

"Yes even if Alexis and I can't be together as a couple I still promised to be her guardian." Starscream replied feeling touched that Megatron was showing genuine concern for his happiness.

Then Megatron pick up Knock Out's body.

"I think he should be laid to rest in his cybertronian form as crazy as he was about his finish I think that's what he'd want." Megatron explained. And they all agreed.

Then Optimus took the relic and they start through the ground bridge. But Alexis noticed Commander Bishop smiling and knew something was off.

"What did you do?" She asked knowing if she was happy about something it was probably bad for them.

"I sabotaged the relic so when they use it it'll kill them." She explained.

"So that's what she was doing when she was out of sight for a minute during her escape attempt." Thought Alexis who immediately took off to warn them.

"They can use the relic Commander Bishop did something to it it'll kill them!" She cried running into the main room where she saw that they had already gone through the ground bridge. And everyone still in the main room's eyes widened in horror knowing there was no way to warn them.

Without thinking and before anyone could stop her Alexis sprinted through the ground bridge to try to get the warning to them in time.

She came out in the middle of the desert where Optimus was about to activate the relic.

"No stop it's been sabotaged to kill all of you!" She screamed.

Unfortunately Optimus had already activated it a split second before she warned them. And the relic started to glow and was doing exactly what it did the last time.

Starscream quickly rushed over and put his arms around Alexis to protect her just as the relic blew up again. And all of them were caught in the blast.

They all regained consciousness a bit later in their cybertronian forms again. And they all got up and noticed Starscream had his arms wrapped around an unknown red and orange seeker femme with white detailing.

"Alexis?" He asked.

"Yeah it's me." She smiled. "I was trying to warn you that the relic had been tampered with and I guess I ended up transforming with you guys."

Then they saw Knock Out's body that was cybertronian again laying there.

"Knock Out's body did change back." "So when do we bury him?" Smokescreen asked sadly.

"Bury him!" "You don't bury him!" Yelled a voice. "That would completely destroy my finish!" Then Knock Out opened his optics and got up.

"Knock Out weren't you dead?" Asked Smokescreen. "I thought Starscream was the only one who could become a ghost?"

"A what?!" Knock Out cried. "But I was so young!"

Then Starscream walked over and tapped him on the forehead A few time before Knock Out slapped his servo away finding it annoying.

"He feels pretty solid to me." Starscream told them.

"The last thing I remember is Commander Bishop leaving me to die of suffocation when I was already dying from the energon she injected into me." Knock Out explained. "I don't know how I'm alive again."

"We don't care how. We're just glad you are." Smokescreen said with a smile.

Then much to Knock Out's surprise Arcee ran over and hugged him. And he smiled and returned it.

Then they went back to base where Ratchet explained that he had found what Commander Bishop did to the relic and undid it before he handed it to Optimus. So Alexis running through to warn them had been completely unnecessary.

And he offered to look for a way to change her back but she declined saying she'd like staying cybertronian because she could be with Starscream and she kind of liked her new form.

And then everyone at base was happy to see Knock Out walk through the ground bridge. But were all wondering what brought him back to life.

"There's only one explanation I can think of." Ratchet told them. "When you guys were humans you didn't have sparks. The life force of a cybertronian and you guys got them back when you changed back to your cybertronian forms so regaining his spark is what brought Knock Out back online."

"And we're all happy it did." Said Starscream smiling at his best friend. "Don't ever scare us like that again Doctor."

"Don't worry I have no plans to be turned human and kidnapped, tortured and killed ever again." He assured them.

Then they all just hung out and celebrated the fact that they were cybertronian again, Knock Out was alive and well, MECH had been stopped and Starscream and Alexis were now officially a couple.

To Be Continued.

Well next is the Epilogue hope you all enjoyed the story.