Chapter 3

Starscream made his way to the nearest clinic. But found it had already closed for the night.

"Just my luck." The seeker said to himself. As he started to walk away. But then he noticed the door was open so went in to see if everything was ok.

"Hello your door was open is everything ok in here?" Starscream asked.

He decided to look around to see if anyone was in the back to let them know that the door had been left open and unlocked so anyone could just walk in if they wanted.

Starscream entered the back room and wasn't expecting what he found.

"Knock Out!" Starscream cried seeing his best friend from when he was a Decepticon laying on a berth and strapped down with an IV in his servo and a mask over his face that was giving him Cryo-gas.

"What in the universe are thay doing to you?" Starscream asked and there was no missing the anger in his voice.

Starscream and Knock Out had had their differences and hadn't parted on the best of terms after the war.

But Starscream still cared about the red medic and didn't want to see any harm come to him. The seeker would never admit it but Knock Out was like a brother to him.

And Starscream didn't like seeing him this way. He could tell the cherry colored mech was a prisoner here. And wanted to make whoever was doing this to him pay.

"Don't worry Doctor I'm getting you out of here." Starscream told the unconscious mech.

Starscream was about to free him when he heard someone coming and knew he wouldn't be able to defend Knock Out while he was currently damaged and in no condition to fight.

The seeker quickly hid in a supply closet. And saw Pharma enter the room.

"I can't believe I forgot to close the door behind me luckily no one got in and found you here." Pharma told Knock Out as he walked to a table.

He didn't know Starscream was in the closet and could hear everything.

Pharma gave Knock Out another shot even though it hadn't been that long since he'd given him the last one.

Then he tightened the restraints again they were so tight now that they were threatening the break Knock Out's armor plating.

Then Pharma took something else off the table it was a scalpel he went over and started cutting Knock Out with it.

"Well Docter how do you like your surgery don't worry I won't cause enough damage to kill you I'll just mess up that pretty finish of yours and you'll feel pain when you wake up." Pharma said to Knock Out who was still out. "That is if I decide to let you wake up."

Never in Starscream's life had he wanted to end a bot so badly. He hated the way Pharma was spilling his friend's energon, hurting him and mocking him while he was doing it.

Pharma appeared to be taking glee in the causing Knock Out pain. And it was making Starscream sick. If this continued there was a chance Pharma might end up killing the Austin Martin.

Starscream couldn't let that happen but unfortunately he was still too damaged from his fight with Arcee and Quick Force to be able to fight if he tried to jump Pharma or take him on it would just result in his capture or even death.

Then he got an idea he would get Pharma to chase him and lead the other medic away from Knock Out.

Starscream suddenly shot out of the closet like a bullet slashing Pharma's cheek with his claws on the way passed him.

Pharma quickly gave chase knowing Knock Out wouldn't be going anywhere. But that Starscream could tell someone what he'd seen and mess up everything he needed to catch him.

Starscream rushed through an alley with Pharma in hot pursuit. And the seeker quickly activated his com-link as he continued to run.

At the Autobot base Ratchet suddenly got a call on the base's consul. And was surprised when it was Starscream.

"Take your ground bridge to these cordnets it's an emergency and a life is at stake!" Starscream almost shouted over his com-link.

"What going on who's life is at stake?" Asked Ratchet but Starscream had already hung up having to focus on not being captured.

Ratchet heard panic in the seeker's voice so he took the ground bridge to the location with his saw ready in case it was a trap or he was attacked.

Ratchet came out on the other side of the ground bridge and saw that he was in a clinic and for a second thought there had been a mistake until he spotted Knock Out laying on the berth.

"Knock Out?!" Ratchet cried as he rush over to examine the other medic. Knock Out was covered in cuts and scratchs and Ratchet wasted no time getting his restraints off and saw that they had been so tight that it actually cracked his armor plating.

Then Ratchet got the IV out of him and took the mask off him after turning off the Cryo-gas.

Ratchet could tell he was sick from having been too heavily medicated. And the red medic was currently unresponsive.

"I'm so sorry we didn't find you sooner." Ratchet told the other medic as he half drag half carried him through the ground bridge and rush him to the medbay.

The next thing Ratchet did was send the cordnets of where he'd found Knock Out to the rest of the team so they could try to catch whoever did this to him.

While Ratchet got to work trying to save Knock Out and fixing his damage. The red medic had been given a dangerous amount of circuit boosters and Cryo-gas as well as Nucleon which is what Pharma kept injecting into his neckcables.

"I'm sorry we never should have sent you on that mission." Ratchet said to Knock Out just hoping the cherry colored mech would survive and wouldn't have any lasting damage.

Meanwhile Starscream thought he'd lost Pharma. But suddenly felt the other seeker grabbed him from behind.

Then a struggle took place that Starscream was winning until he felt something poke him in the midsection. And saw that Pharma had stabbed him with a syringe.

Starscream pushed Pharma off him then pulled the needle that was still sticking in him out and tossed it to the ground but to his horror it was empty and whatever it had contained had been injected into his system.

"What was in this?" Asked Starscream who was already starting to feel sick.

"A type of poison that is especially dangerous to seekers it causes the victim to suffer paralysis and hallucinations before slipping into a coma." Pharma explained. "And if left untreated it will kill you eventually."

"Youu..won't get..away with this.." Starscream managed to choke out.

"Oh I think I will you have quite a reputation Starscream I don't think anyone on Cybertron will care enough to help you or will even find you." Pharma hissed in the other seeker's audio receptors. "Your going to die here all alone."

"Goodbye Starscream." Pharma added kicked him and then left him laying there.

To Be Continued.

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