TFP: A Girl Anew, Chapter 10

Waking up

Quikie review. So I have been really sick the past couple weeks, and have not been able to write much since looking at a computer screen gave me headaches and I have had not felt up to writing. But here I am now updating in who knows how long, feels like it's been forever to me. So I also want to say that this chapter was more of a 'write and go' chapter because of my predicament and I wanted to update badly so please no negative comments if it seems different I more just wrote what came to mind at the moment and am now updating late so I'm a little to tired to review for any mistakes. I have a few references in here but nothing happens. 'I swear'. Enjoy!

"It's been to long, maybe he's dead."
"Why the heck would you think that?"
"I dunno maybe because he hasn't budged in over two weeks."
"It's called stasis, that's what bots go into while healing."
"Right, I forgot."
"You always forget."
"Shut up."
"No you shut up."
"Stop it you two, she'esh I swear you two fight more than talk."
"whatev's." Knockout could make out a quiet conversation between girls.
"I'm still surprised you even told us, you know with this being top secret government stuff."
"What they don't know don't hurt em."
He fidgeted a little trying to get comfortable on what he thought was ground.
"He just moved."
"You're just seeing things."
"And your blind."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Do you two ever shut up!?" He heard small footsteps walk up to him and felt a human hand rest on his chest.
"His chest is becoming warmer, a sure indication his systems are starting to run properly again."
"Oohh, yay he's alive!" He could faintly make out a girl jumping up and down with a cup in her hand.
"Not the shirt."
"I didn't even get you." The other girl growled and looked over to Knockout.
"Look his eye thingies are coming on."
"Optics." Knockout tried to talk but it came out more like a groan. "Try not to talk, you need to be fully working before anything." he let out a sigh and turned his head more to look at a group of girls all staring at him wide eyed.
"Fri-en-ds?" he finally but barley got out, looking at Amanda.
"Yes, I told them." He looked back at the girls he noticed them to be her friends he had met in the treehouse. He saw jacee lean over to her sister and whisper something in her ear. After wards her sister let out a loud gasp.
"Jacee Karen Oshel how could you even think like that." Jacee just shrugged.
"Just a thought."
"What?" Kandy inquired.
"I am not going to even repeat it, never in a million years." Her sister folded her arms and looked away. Knockout looked to Amanda confused she walked over to him and talked quietly.
"Jacee has a...uh...dirtier mind than most, don't pay attention to what just happened." He nodded.
"I don't...think I want...to know." She smiled and let out a laugh. Jacee looked at him harder.
"he doesn't look so well, maybe he needs a recharge, wheres his plug!?" Amanda Burst out laughing.
"Transformers don't recharge like cell phones. Recharge means he needs sleep."
"I knew that. Duh. just seeing how you would react."
"Sure sis, sure." Danielle replied, Jacee stuck her tongue out at her sister and folded her arms. Amanda looked to knockout and saw that he did indeed need more rest.
"Alright everyone let's go Knockout needs some quiet time."
"Awww, I wanted to stay."
"He needs sleep and I do too."
"Alright girl, you get some rest and we'll hopefully see you tomorrow."Jesse said walking off some type off device that lowered them to the ground.
"Maybe, tomorrow I'll be with him the whole day figuring some things out." After the girls left Knockout looked around at his surroundings, he wasn't outside anymore instead he was in a room.
"Where am I?"
"A room that I built for you, I tried to make it seem like yours."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." She made herself a transformer and sat on the edge of the berth. "Are you feeling better?"
"Much better, how long was I out?"
"Two weeks give or take."
"That long, what have I missed?"
"Nothing much, I just told my friends about you, got your room built, hung out with my family, nothing much from there."
"Oh, ok. Has Megatron or anyone tried to bother you?"
"No, my mother gave me a tool that made us invisible to electronics, but not to eyes that's why I built this." He smiled and waved his hand at her motioning her to lay down. She did and snuggled up to him. He was becoming warmer by the minute and he seemed much healthier than before. He kissed the top of her helm and then rested his chin on it, closing his eyes he let out a long sigh.
ThornRush was excited to have Knockout awake, she had missed him so much the past couple weeks she was even getting worried that his stasis would become locked. She turned around and had her face against his upper chest, burying herself as close to him as possible. ThornRush decided a decent nights rest would do her good, she shut her optics fell into recharge.

Knockout laid there thinking, he was partially surprised when ThornRush flipped over and buried herself closer to him, after a few minutes he heard nothing and realized that she had fallen asleep. He kissed her helm again and kept on thinking of the night she saved him, while he was riding in the back of her car mode all he could think was he was going to lose her, and it would of been all his fault for leaving. He should have never gotten into the fight with her, instead he should have respected her and her mother, but he overreacted and freaked out. He shut his optics in anger, he was losing a fight against himself. Another sigh escaped his lips he had thought losing his friend was hard enough but losing one he loved was even harder. He though of Megatron and how he said he will not hesitate to kill him on sight, but Knockout knew well enough if Megatron found him again he would kidnap him and search for ThornRush, after he found her he would make him watch as Megatron himself, killed her making sure he could see the pain in her optics. Knockout cringed at the thought, he would never let that happen to her, not in a thousand millennias.
"I love you." his voice was barley above a whisper making sure he wouldn't wake her up. He closed his optics and let sleep cover him as well, feeling the comfort of ThornRush's warm spark.

ThornRush woke up to the sound of a metal door sliding open and large footsteps coming towards her.
"Wakey wakey." She slapped at the voice. "Ow." she gave a moan an flipped to see who she got.
"Sorry, not my fault I don't like being woken up in the morning. What do you want?" She stretched her arms and let out a large yawn.
"I got us some breakfast." he help up a crate full of cubes of energon.
"How?"
"Your mom pulled a few strings and got us some."
"Told you she wasn't a monster."
"I know she isn't, I just...got caught up in that moment, forgive me?"
"I forgave you right after the incident I just hope we never fight like that again."
"You and me both." They finished up their energons and sat on the berth together.
"That energon tasted a little off. Did it to you?"
"Not really, but a little." She shrugged and grabbed another cube.
"I am so hungry." He grabbed another too and they downed it. ThornRush and Knockout grabbed a few more, she didn't know why but they seemed more..addicting today. After a few minutes of drinking five cubes ThornRush was holding a half drunken cube in her hand and she was swaying back and forth on the berth.
"I told you these..*Hiccup*.. tasted a little weird, what do they..*Hiccup*...Have in them?"
"I don't know but I feel great." Knockout threw his arms into the air and laughed, ThornRush joined in the laughter.
"I know...*hiccup*..right I feel as if I'm walking on the clouds."
"I'm seeing sounds." They burst into another fit of laughter before Knockout fell back onto the berth pulling Amanda with him.
"I..*Hiccup*...Love you."
"Me too." He kissed her passionately and she returned the favor. She reached her hand out towards the energon.
"I think I might..*hiccup*...have another." She reached for another and ended up stumbling over herself landing on the floor with a loud thud. She burst out into laughter and fell over spilling a cube. "Oops." Knockout took the cube from her and set it back into the crate.
"I think you have had enough of this." She gave him a pouty face. Knockout shook his helm and held it, he stood there for a minute regaining himself. "I should have paid attention to this energon better."
"*Hiccup* Why?"
"Your experiencing and showing the effects of a first time high grade energon drinker."
"Oh. Is that bad?"
"High grade energon for transformers is the equivalent of alcohol to you humans."
"So then why aren't you affected like me?"
"Unlike you who has just been affiliated with high grade I used to have it on cybertron sometimes and am immune to it's.. powers."
"*Hiccup* Oh." He helped her up and she almost tipped over again. He set her on the berth and laid next to her, since he had already known the affects he also knew good rest let them fade away.

Martha stood in her kitchen mad listening to the man on the other end of her phone.
"So you're saying that somehow that energon you gave me accidentally got left open and somehow a high grade chemical cybertronians use as a ferment fell into it making it High Grade Energon, am I repeating this correctly."
{I am sorry ma'am, we were creating an experiment the differences between high grade and normal energon somehow you were handed they high grade crate instead of the normal crate.}
"Now I have to go talk to my daughter about this, call me when you get the correct crate!"
{I would advise against seeing her if she is with Knockout and they both have been drinking.}
"So help me if anything happens because of this I will be coming to your lead scientist and whoever gave us that crate personally."
{Yes ma'am I understand.} She could hear the hesitation in his voice. She hung up and slammed her phone down, She just hoped this wasn't part of their 'little experiment'. She pinched her nose and took in a deep breath. Some days she just had to wonder about people's actions, she just hoped it didn't affect them badly she really wouldn't be able to take little Knockout babies running around the house not like one was bad enough.
"You ok, you seem really tense." her husband walked up to her and started to rub her shoulders.
"It's nothing."
"It's something, you're never this stressed."
"The men in charge of giving me the energon accidentally mistake normal energon for High grade energon."
"And I'm guessing that's not good?"
"No not unless you want an unexpected surprise of little transformer babies running around the house."
"What! Please don't tell me!"
"I doubt anything has happened, I am just really mad at the guys right now."
"And you have a reason. Give them the day and by this time tomorrow they should be sober."
"Alright." john looked into Martha's eyes and could see stress.
"Well Damion and Amanda are taken care of, Ian is off at Donnie's house for the all nighter, so why don't you and me go out on a nice relaxing date and come home to a romance movie."
"And this is why I love you." They gathered a few things and walked to johns silver Ford.

ThornRush woke up as Amanda, she she felt like her back was a stiff as a rock and she found out why. Apparently sometime during her sleep she became Amanda and fell asleep her back on Knockouts face, her back was where his nose would be and her hair was draped inside his mouth. She sat up and slid down feeling a throbbing pain in the back of her head.
"Man, I feel like I just got hit by a freight train." She rubber her temples in hopes to ease her headache. She heard knockout shifting and went to get out of the way but it was to late his arm swung around and pinned her to the berth. "Off." Nothing, she squirmed a bit trying to get loose."I said OFF!" Knockout shot up, and since she hadn't noticed her shirt got caught on some of his metal when He flung up his arm and her shirt slid from his metal making her fly across the berth. He noticed her get flung through the air and he caught her just in time. "You are so lucky you have a pitchers catch."
"You and me both." He held her close to him and she could feel his spark beating faster.
"You don't have to worry I'm safe." She used her finger to poke him. "But do not ever do that again or you will have a very angry fiancee."
"Promise." He held his helm and groaned. "My helm feels like it's splitting."
"Me to, do you know what happened?" He pointed over to the energon cubes.
"You don't remember, do you?
"What?"
"High grade energon, not exactly the ideal meal for a wake up call."
"You could say that again." She held her head thinking for a minute. "I kinda remeber you telling me what that stuff is." She held her head and sighed. "And you say my mom gave us this."
"Technically, she got it from the other agents, so it's their fault not hers."
"I didn't say it was her fault I was just asking."
"I know don't get a hissy on me." She gave him a glare and slid down onto the berth, she stood on the edge of the berth staring at him.
"What?"
"I need off." He sighed picking her up in his hand and setting her down onto the ground. She walked over to a door fit for a human that was attached to the larger door and opened it. Walking out Amanda had to shield her eyes, since their were no windows in the room, for safety precautions, there was no sun to see. Amanda let out a long breath and slowly walked towards her house. Her mind still felt fogged up and as a result she didn't pay attention to the glass door leading into the house. She hit it and stumbled back. "My nose." She held her nose and opened the door. Her mom was standing in the kitchen chopping vegetables. "Whoever though of making the back door clear glass was an idiot.!" She was still holding her nose so she sounded stuffed.
"Afternoon sweetie. Are you feeling alright?"
"Except for this splitting headache...fine." Her mom raised an eyebrow and went back to work. Not looking over, Martha began to speak.
"I am glad you're feeling well, I thought it would be nice for you to get out of the house today and see the city."
"Sounds exciting." Amanda spoke with no emotion and slumped down into a chair. Her mom stopped chopping and turned around, putting her hands on her hips.
"Are you sure you're alright. I mean for crying out loud, your skin looks like you have seen a ghost." Amanda began to rub her temples again to ease out the headache.
"I..." She let out a sigh and groaned.
"If this is about the high grade energon you drank, don't worry I already know about that. And I will be having a nice little chat with the scientist in charge of handing me the energon, so don't get yourself into a knot...By the way nothing happened did it?" Amanda perked up and shook her head.
"Never in a million years. Apparently Knockout is used to the stuff to an extent... To say better he isn't affected that badly and not as long, so ya. He would never take advantage of me, I know him. And trust me when I say I don't believe we want to end up in that kind of fight again or worse."
"I trust you, I always have. It's him who can be hard to trust, I mean he is an ex-decepticon."
"Ex mom, ex. and I know that after that little beating episode he got, Knockout won't be going back." Her mom huffed and closed her eyes forgetting about the knife in her hand.
"Gosh-Dan-get! That freaking Hurt!" Amanda rushed to her mom to see blood flowing from her finger. Amanda handed her mom a towel and immidialty put pressure to her finger. "Go get the peroxide. Now!"
"Going, going." Amanda ran up the stairs and into her parents master size bathroom. She looked high and low until she found the peroxide. She ran back down and pulled her mom's hand over the sink. "This is going to sting." She poured the peroxide over the cut, her mom let a few tears stain her eyes as the wound started to reveal itself. "It's a ok size nothing to be worried about."
"That freaking hurt." her mom shook her hand and held her cut finger.
"The small ones hurt the worst. Lest this be a reminder that closing the eyes and holding a knife at the same time is a fools choice." Martha gave her a glair and turned to retrieve a bandaid just as Damion walked in. She walked past him and mumbled.
"Damion."
"Martha." He cocked an eyebrow and walked over to Amanda. "And that was about."
"Mom cut her finger cutting up the vegetables." Amanda took the knife and set it into the sink, she then grabbed another identical knife from a droor and began to cut the remaining vegetables.
"So how was your nap?"
"Good, I have gotten so much sleep the past few day I wouldn't be surprised if I never slept again."
"You and me both, quite frankly I am sick of sleep." He let out a chuckle and walked over to the islands chairs, he sat down and lean back. Amanda stopped chopping and looked Damion in the eyes.
"Nothing...Happened while I was out..right?"
"What do you mean?" Damion sat up and gave a concerned but curious look.
"I mean, you didn't take that time to..."
"Do you not trust me Amanda?" His voice seemed to get offended along with his face.
"No, I trust you with my life I jus need reassurance that I can keep trusting you."
"I understand. You have to know though that I would never be like that towards you, not without your permission." She let out a relieved sigh and started to chop again. he leaned back into the chair and took a deep breath in. "And besides I'm not ready for kids yet."
"Oh really, and who died making you the ruler over when we are going to have kids.?" She spoke to him in a mocking voice.
"No one, I am just saying, that after reading human babies needs and wants I just am not ready to do any of that."
"Ok. Again who said you were the one who had to do all that, I am pretty sure that when we have kids I will be the one stuck with taking care of all their needs and wants."
"Pshh, please I'll do my part."
"Oh and what per-say would your part be."
"Being their father and playing with them." Amanda rolled her eyes and laughed. They stayed quiet for a few minutes until Amanda was done chopping the vegetables. She set them into a pan and let them sizzle for a bit before mixing them together. A few minutes later her mother came down the stairs with her father.
"Smells delightful." Her mother spoke in a cheerful voice. She turned to her husband and spoke still walking down the stairs. "Darling would you mind getting Ian it's almost dinner time and he hasn't washed up yet."
"Sure." Her dad left and went back up the stairs. Her mom came into the kitchen and gave a protective look to her daughter and Damion.
"Calm down mom, he's safe." Amanda walked from the pan and over to her mother.
"Trust is something a family must have, is it not?" Damion smirked at his sentence.
"And trust issues is something you have to deal with." Damion frowned and stood up.
"I need the bathroom, I'll be back in a minute." Damion left with agitation in his step.
"Really mom? Come on you two are not going to start acting like two year old now are you?"
"No, I am acting like a protective mother. Who want to protect her little baby girl."
"I'm not little anymore mom, I mean gees. I was trapped on the Decepticon war ship and survived, I think I can handle a man."
"A former ex-con man." Amanda blew a piece of her hair form her face and sighed, she grabbed her mom's shoulders and looked her in the eyes.
"Trust me mom, I will not let anything happen to me. I am safe in Damions hands and always will be, I know it's hard for you to trust an ex-con but in all reality you need to too. He saved me and I him, no con would ever save me unless I truly meant something to him." She leaned in and hugged her mom whispering into her ear. "I know you feel like you are going to lose me, but you aren't, I will always be here, no matter what." Her mom nodded and hugged back. Amanda let go and turned to stir the vegetables, her mom set noodles inside of boiling water and let them simmer for a bit before stirring and straining them. She mixed up noodles, olive oil, and the vegetables to make angle hair pasta. Amanda looked over her moms shoulder and licked her lips. "Looks delicious."
"Go get ready then, I will not be having dirty hands at my table." Amanda walked away towards her bathroom, when she arrived at her room she saw Damion resting on her bed with his eyes closed. She walked over to him and sat on the beds edge and stared.
"Enjoying the view?" She looked over to see his eyes barley opened and a smile on his face.
"In fact I am. Got a problem."
"Nope. Dinner is ready and my mom said no dirty hands at the table."
"I like to keep my hands clean, who knows what germs you human have around you."
Amanda stuck her tongue out at him and walked over to the bathroom, shutting the door behind her.

Damion stood up from the bed after Amanda left and walked over to the open window. He had to admit, even though being a human was revolting at some times, other times it had it's moments. Like now just looking out the window to see a human sized view of the still snow capped mountains, it seemed more exhilarating than looking at them from a twenty-five foot tall mechanical being who gave no care in the environment or it's inhabitants. He drew in a deep breath and held it before letting it out slowly. He repeated the process a few more times before shutting the window and turning around just in time to see Amanda walk out from the bathroom. He couldn't let his gaze go, she was perfect in his eyes. Her black hair always seemed to flow freely on her face, giving it a slight angelic look. He let a smile form onto his face again and walked over to her.
"Ready for Dinner?" He grabbed her waist and pulled her close to him, and he swore he saw her cheeks begin to redden.
"Ready as I'll ever be."

Amanda was never one to blush but she had been a little out of whack lately and anything romantic seemed so beautiful to her. She leaned her head onto his shoulder and smiled, she didn't know what it was but whenever she was close to Damion or Knockout she felt safe, like nothing could happen to her. They walked down to the dining area and sat down. Her mom dished up everyones plates and set them down in front of them. Ian dug into his food, but before Amanda could take a bite her mother spoke.
"So Amanda dear, me and your father have something to tell you."
"What?" She took a bit and chewed. her mom waited until she swallowed to finish her sentence.
"Well dear... We have been thinking that you have been away from society to long and should get back out."
"We can go downtown tomorrow if you want to." She took a sip of water and swallowed almost hastily worried what her mother had to say.
"Yes we can, but we think it would be great for you to go back to school and get out there. Oh and plus we have learned that the school we want to enroll you into had a doctor, though he quit for some reason and with Damion's permission though it would be great for him to be the doctor." Both Amanda's and Damion's eyes widened at Martha's proposal, they stared at each other for a bit before speaking.
"I..Uh...Well...It sounds nice and all, but do you really think that public school is safe for me?"
"Another reason to why we thought Damion would be great as their doctor he could help take care of the students and protect you at the same time." Damion gave a scared smile and nodded politely before shoving a forkful of noodles into his mouth.
"What do you say sweetie, can you give it a try?" Her father gave her a puppy face and she looked away.
"Don't give me the guilt trip..." She paused letting herself breath in and out before speaking again. "But if you really think that getting out and going to school will help me then, yes I will go.." She looked to Damion who was trying to chew all the food he had taken. "Only if Damion agrees to be their doctor. Why the heck do they need a doctor anyways, I though most schools had nurses." Ian rolled his eyes and spoke sarcastically.
"I went with mom to see the school and they say they have doctors because they are a more 'sophisticated' and 'advanced' school than most." Flinching his fingers at the so called compliments.
"Ian! Don't be rude. They have a doctor because of the many new food allergies and stuff like that gaining higher in students and they just feel safer with a more equipped person there who can help evaluate a tough situation better." Amanda nodded her head slowly.

Damion had swallowed his food by now and was staring around the table, his head was spinning in all different directions. He knew he was a doctor but only for cybertronians. And he was better at dissecting things than fixing them. Plus he was very unknowledgeable on the human body, anything he had started reading he stopped because he found the humans to be disgusting creatures. He looked to Martha with a concerned look.
"Here's the thing, You all know my secret and well I only know the cybertronian anatomy and structure not a humans, anything I studied about the humans I disregarded as trash. So I do not know how much of a help I would be as a human doctor."
"Nonsense. You will be great, not like you are preforming surgery all you need to know is the basics. If you have that information then you would be a great doctor."
"I don't have any records saying I am a doctor though."
"You learned how to become a doctor and graduated? No?"
"Well, Yes but on cybertron not on earth."
"If you have graduated then I am sure we can fix something up." Damion huffed and slunk down into his chair, he really did not want to be there at that moment.
~I can't let Amanda down, I can learn the human basics and go without a fight. Huh, the more I think the more I seem like some kind of understanding human and not a Decepticon medic. Love it's a blessing and a curse.~ He snapped out of his thoughts and came back to reality realizing he hadn't heard the last of their conversation.
"So then it's settled, you go to school with Damion and get out into society. I am so glad you agreed with us." Martha had a large smile on her face and was speaking in a happy-free voice. He looked over to Amanda who seemed a bit concerned about the whole thing but she also seemed a bit happier that she was going to get out. Damion couldn't help but smile, he sat up in his chair and agreed with her mom.

After dinner Damion followed Amanda up to her room. She shut the door and walked over to the window. He walked up to her and kissed her head.
"You're going to be alright."
"I know, I just... am feeling a bit overwhelmed right now."
"Don't. We still have a few months before school starts up for you and until then we can just enjoy ourselves." She gave him a smile and leaned her head against his chest.
"My mom though it would be good for me to get out today possibly tomorrow."
"Sounds good, though don't you think it's a little late to get out today?"
"Maybe, but it's only seven so a little night time ride wouldn't hurt."
"I guess so." She grabbed his arm and walked out to the kitchen where her mom was cleaning the dishes. Damion sat down on an island chair and listened as Amanda and her mom spoke about getting out of the house and driving around town. After a few more minutes Damion had his eyes closed and he was snoring. Amanda walked over to him and nudge his shoulder, he didn't budge.
"He's out cold."
"Do you know if he is ticklish?"
"No not really, but I'll try." She set her hand onto his abdomens side and started to tickle him. After a few moments his face started to cringe up and laughter escaped his lips. he slapped her hand away and sat up.
"What they heck was that for!?"
"You wouldn't wake up, I had to improvise."
"A simple scream would have sufficed." She rolled her eyes and walked away.
"Me and my mom decided to go out for a drive, I though you would like to come." He shrugged and stood up following Amanda to the door where her mom was waiting with a pair of car keys.
"You two love birds ready?" They nodded and headed out for her moms car.
"I could drive us, if you wanted me to." Damion spoke with hope in his voice.
"Na I would like it if you came with us as a human, you know to get out and around others."
"That is exactly why I would like to drive. I can be around you guys but others. Uck!" He let a shiver pass him and a disgusted expression crossed his face.
"Other humans aren't that bad anyways it would do you good to be around others before school starts, just so you can get used to it." Damion opened his mouth to protest but Amanda gave him a glare.
"You win." He crossed his arms like a little boy who just lost his toy car and pouted.

Three hours past and Damion was sitting in the back of Martha's car squished in-between stacks of shopping bags. Amanda and her mom were talking and laughing in the front seats each enjoying a chocolate ice cream cone.
"Are we done yet?" Damion's asked in a annoyed voice.
"Nooo." Amanda and Martha answered in unsision.
"Then where are we going?"
"Out to a small country shop that I found a few months ago." Damion sighed and let his head fall back, he hated being bored and not being able to do anything about it.
"Do we have to go.?" His words were barley below a whisper but Amanda still managed to hear him. She turned around in her seat to face him.
"Yes we do have to go, do you know how long it has been since I have been out like this." she held out her ice cream towards him. "Want some?"
"No."
"Suite yourself." She shrugged and turned back around. Half an hour passed before they arrived at the shop which was placed in the middle of nowhere. As they climbed out of the car Damion noticed a black and purple car resting a few feet away form them. Amanda noticed it to and held her hand out to him, he took it and walked closer to her gripping her hand tight keeping an eye on the vehicle.
"Do you think?" She asked in a quite whisper to make sure her mom couldn't hear her.
"I'd have to get a closer look, but just be cautious around it, ok."
"Ya." They walked into the store and looked around for a bit. Amanda found great decoration items for her room and a few human size chairs for Damions transformer room, so that her family and friends could have somewhere comfortable to stay. Damion collected a few worn down mini replica's of some sports cars to tinker with when he was bored, since he was great with mechanics and a cars anatomy he thought it would be a nice pass time to get them up and running. Martha found a few gardening tools and kitchen appliances for the house. They walked up to cashier and bought their finds. Afterwards, when they went out to the car Amanda and Damion saw that the black and purple car was still there and form it came the sound of a revving engine. Damion opened up the passenger side door for Amanda and then walked over to Martha.

"I would like to drive if you don't mind." She stared at him and then Amanda.
"You know mom he was a car base on earth, I think it would be good for him to drive sometimes. and don't worry he's a very safe driver."
"Fine." Damion opened up the back door and let Martha crawl in between the mound of bags. He then proceeded to get into the drivers side eyeing the car that was now beginning to slowly back out as if waiting for him to leave first.
Damion backed out and drove down the road looking in the rearview mirror every few seconds checking on the car behind them. Martha could see worry on his face and decided to get a clear answer about his behavior.
"Are you alright Damion?" She asked looking back a the car Damion was watching.
"I'm fine."
"Are you sure?" She looked back again and saw the car seemed closer.
"Yes, I'm sure."
"I mean if you don...ooff." Martha jerked forward a bit and then looked back again to see the car right on their tail.
"Piece of scrap metal is trying to off-road us!" Amanda was looking back as well.
"What the heck is going on here." She jerked forward again with another hit.
"Does everybody have their seat belts on?"
"Why would you ask that?" Before Martha could get an answer Damion sped up trying to out race the car. Martha was holding onto her seatbelt with dear life. Some of the bags fell onto her lap but she could care less, for some reason a car was hitting them and Damion seemed to know who it was. that's when it hit her. The car was a decepticon trying to hurt them. It had seemed a bit familiar to her but she couldn't put her tongue on it. She looked back to see a frame from the car lifting up and weapons showed. Damion swerved the hits, and barley got away with a knick. She swerved back to Damion who was hitting the wheel with anger.
"Frag it! I need to be me right now." Martha got a confused expression on her face but it faded when Amanda answered.
"He needs to be Knockout so he can be in his car form." Her mother nodded in agreeance.
"Your cars are weak and made out of weak metal that won't be able to withstand a cybertronians gun fire. And I also have built in guns I could easily kill the piece of scrap off."
"Calm down Damion." Amanda rested a hand on his shoulder and he gave her a glare.
"For crying out loud Amanda we are in a life or death situation and you tell me to freaking calm down." He pressed his foot harder onto the gas petal reaching up to the max speed. "Primitive driving. Neve goes fast enough." He growled out his words. Damion looked over to see a large setting of grass and few trees, he contemplated his thoughts for a moment before swerving into the grassy area and hitting the brake. All three jerked forward and the two girls screamed.
"Damion what the heck!?" Amanda now was the one to glare at him. All three saw the black and purple car drive past and then make a sharp U-turn coming back to them.
"Stay here." Damion walked out of the car and made himself a transformer. He reverted his hand into a drill and walked up to the car that was chasing them. The car transformed and saw it to be one of Megatrons drone cons, which she had suspected the whole time. She opened up her door and listened.
"Now what kind of surgery shall be do today?" The con formed his hand into a blaster and shot. Knockout swerved away and went closer.
"Ah-ah-ah. That is no way to treat your doctor. I was thinking maybe we could fix this jaw of yours it seems to be out of place." Knockout jammed his drill up into the Drone cons jaw and shoved it all the way through, which made energon spay out from the mechs wound and dribble down to the ground. Knockout took back his drill and made it into his hand again. "That looks much better." The former con let a devious smile form onto his faceplate. His smile faded and he walked over to Martha's car. He pushed Amanda back in and lifted the car up. Martha leaned her head out of the back window and yelled.
"What in the world wide blazes are you doing!?"
"Checking to see if he put any tracker on your car, we do not need them to know where you live."
"For your information I have a distributer that blocks out tracking devices. No one would be able to follow us."
"That is what you think, but our technology is more sophisticated than yours and can track even if put next to a distributer." He placed his hand under the car and pulled out a circular device. "Aha!" He fiddled with the device in his hands and set it onto the now dead con.
"Why don't you crush it?" Amanda seemed confused.
"I know how to do a few things and one of them would be how to turn a tracker into a frequency bomb."
"Oh. And how does that work."
"When the others come to search for the tracker device, most likely thinking it is us the new bomb will pick up their frequency and blow up."
"Nice." Amanda nodded her head with a large smile. Knockout changed himself back to human form and sat back into the drivers seat.
"Now who is ready to head back?" He started the car and drove off.

Amanda laid in her bed thinking about the days events. What had seemed like a normal average day turned out to be a drag race to the death. She smiled at the thought of Knockout protecting her. Amanda closed her eyes and heard the sound of a closing door, but she didn't care and let sleep wash over her.

"Lord Megatron, the tracker has picked up on their whereabouts. Shall we investigate?" Starscream said with a devious smile.
"Yes but be warned this is Knockout were talking about, not some lowly Drone con." Starscream turned to leave. "Oh and if it is Knockout or Amanda bring them back alive I want to torture the spark right out of them until there is nothing left. Let that be clear to your men, or it will be your spark drained." Starscream nodded and left.
Starscream met with five drone cons and Soundwave at the Space Bridge.
"We are to leave Knockout and, or Amanda alive if we see them. Any others you may kill."
"Yes sir." the drone cons answered all at once. Starscream looked at the silent mech who just nodded in agreement. Soundwave opened up the bridge and followed through to the open grassy land. Starscream growled at the sight. There were tire treed marks deeply engraved on the ground that indicated a fast stop was used. and not to far away was a Drone cons lifeless body surrounded by a pool of energon. There seemed to be no sign of the duo. He watched as three drone cons walked over to the lifeless body, he noticed some kind of devise set on top and before he could say anything it went off surrounding the area with a cloud of smoke, dust, and metal. After the cloud dispersed the sight Soundwave saw made him clench his fists. Four new drone cons lay on the ground either charred to death by the explosion or had shards of metal enveloped into their armor. Starscream ordered more cons to come and get the bodies so they may not be seen by humans. he left the sight and returned to the main brig.
"I regret to inform you that the trap we set for them was turned around into a trap set for us." Megatron growled at the statement.
"And you are sure Knockout or Amanda were there."
"I am positive, why would you think they would be there?"
"Unlike some, Knockout wouldn't miss a show from one of his experiments." Megatron looked over to one of the screens and there in fact was Knockout on the hill watching all the action. Megatron watched for a few more minutes before receiving a comm
{Enjoy the show, I call it bait and blow.} Knockouts sidistic voice could be heard over the comm.
{In fact I did Knockout, that was very well played}
{Don't take me for a fool Megarton I know you knew what I did to the devise. Just I wonder why you would still send out your men?}
{Let's just say I could of had one less second in command to worry about.} Starscream backed away at the statement and left.
{If you consider your options wisely Knockout, I may be lenient on add ing you to my ranks again as medic.}
{I have found a better life here, none of your offers interest me.}
{Do not be a fool Knockout you know just as well as I do that humans are disgusting creatures, letting ourselves go as low as them is unforgivable.}
{Then there is nothing to forgive I have made my choice.} The comm shut down and Megatron saw Knockout leave his post.

Knockout sped down the highway, he was elated that his little trick worked. He had to admit, getting back into the fight was fun and gave him a sense of freedom from humanity. knockout came to a stop at the top of a hill and transformed. he looked over himself and saw that he was, as a transformer scratched from helm to pede. He grumbled to himself, he may of changed a bit but he still wanted to keep a pristine outlook. He made his hand a buffing tool and started to fix himself up. Breakdown had always been the one with the buffer tool, but since he had died Knocout was pushed to add that to his tools. He frowned at the thought of Breakdown dead. He knew that breakdown would congradualte him on finding the right gal, but then freak out on him for her being part human. He huffed out a laugh and then frowned.

"I lost Breakdown I am not going to lose ThornRush." He stopped buffing and starred at the sky. He knew that by staying in one place to long the decepticons would eventually find them, he had to keep her safe and away from harm. he started to buffer again and think.

~Amanda says she has this last year of school left before she graduates, so i might as well let her get that. but any sign of threat and I will make her leave. One year Knockout, One year that is all you have. After time is up we will leave.~

Knockout used the whole night to think of a plan for his and her saftey from the cons. he sorted out that they could travel the world so that way they were never in the same place at once to long. He decided to head back to her house when he saw the sun rising up from the mountain tops. He went to alt-mode and drove off towards Amanda's house.

Hope you enjoyed it! Please review. So I went through and re-read the story, I liked the rest but this ending was, well, ough! so I re-wrote it for you. I hope you like it! Sorry if it seemed really fluffy in some parts but I like fluffy stuff! It's a blessing and a curse.