Chapter 5
Test subjects
Knockout was typing away at some kind of project. He sensed the human, Barricade's newly found pet, in its cage across the room opposite him. He had heard it's breathing as well as its heartbeat deteriorating. This was unusual behavior for a human, so it made him wonder what was going on. He turned his head to the side so he could see what the human was up to, all he could see was a small ball of matter curled up in the farthest corner of the cage. He turned to face the screen again and saved the file he was working on. After he was done he turned around slowly to face the caged human. After watching it for about a minute, Knockout decided that he would start making those, all to important upgrades on the small organic. He walked to the cage in a slow snide manner, he could hear the human's heartbeat and breathing quicken as he approached it.
Amelia could hear Knockout's footsteps coming closer and closer to her cage, she tried with every once of her being to stay calm, take deep, slow breaths and think of happy nice places. But each time Knockout's ped's made contact with the ground she could feel herself becoming more and more afraid. She squeezed her eye's shut and, just before her cage, the footsteps stopped.
Knockout looked down and into the cage, at the human that it held. She seemed very tense and scared. He frowned and then decided to get on with the testing. He stretched out his arm into the cage and grabbed the human by its waist.
Amelia could not stop the cry of pain that escaped her as Knockout held her by her sore waist, her ribs were still badly bruised if not broken and if even the smallest amount of pressure was applied to them, it would cause her to whimper.
Knockout decided to place, the obviously injured human, on the palm of his servo. He was probably only going to cause it more pain and suffering in the next few days but for now he was focused on getting it to med bay without it making to much noise.
Amelia sat on Knockout's servo with her arms protectively crossed over her chest and abdomen. She was still wincing from when he had picked her up a little to roughly.
Knockout walked down the corridor with Amelia cupped in one servo and the other one cupped over it, similar to when holding a frog or a moth. He arrived at med-bay in less than a minute, he then typed in a code and the doors opened effortlessly. He stepped inside and the door automatically slid closed behind him. He proceeded by putting Amelia into a see-through box/crate on one of the large examining tables. As knockout left to get some tools, Amelia got up and walked to the side of her glass prison. She put her hands on the stainless glass and peered out. After looking around herself for a few minutes she saw a small figure strapped down to table near the other side of the room. After scrutinizing it, she realized that it was her friend. Abigail did not seem to be awake or physically injured from what she could see. She had a few wires running down her arm and body though. Amelia did not really know what to do, she was, after all, a helpless little human at the mercy of a handful of big brutal Cybertronians. Knockout came back from the tool's room and had a few of them put on a type of hovering metal slab. Knockout scooped Amelia up from her glass enclosure and laid her down on one of the examining tables. Without being able to do anything about it, metal straps slid over her wrists and ankles and connected back onto the table. Amelia started to panic a little and tried to squirm herself out of the metal cuffs, Knockout saw this and leaned himself over her slender form and hushed her with a sadistic smile spread over his faceplates. Amelia then felt a sharp jab in her left arm and before she new it her world went fuzzy and then black.
Knockout looked at his little test patient. He had every test laid out in front of him and he knew exactly what he was going to do with her. She needed to be able to morph or transform into a water creature and something fast, strong and flexible. Barricade wanted to have his pet to be able to transform into an earth based animal but for the rest, the choice was up to Knockout. As for Abigail, Breakdown wanted her to be able to fly because he had always wanted a pet like bird. That week both the medic and his assistant worked hard and long to get both of the young humans set and ready.