Knock Out had two small passions, racing and the rush, he loved it. He'd normally take a drive down near a town called Jasper, Nevada. Most of the teenagers and adult punks seemed to enjoy taking around there.

But there had been another reason to him coming back too this spot the most. The man who ran the races would offend give his daughter to the WINNER for a certain amount of time. To do with what they pleased and to Knock Out, that reminded him of everything he and his twin had to suffer under their own enslavement. But why? Why would one's own creator do that to them?

It seemed complete barbaric.

He soon reached the starting line, he'd normally hang at the back of the racers, but it didn't really bug him today.

"Not from around here," Knock Out, look through his side mirror at the car next to him. An orange headed teenager was in the car next to him.

Knock Out didn't answer him. He knew the teenager, Venice, and from his little pet's description, a total pain in the tailpipe. He also seemed to be rather stupid; Knock Out had be racing here for at least a year.

"European design," He asked.

Oh, he was talking about his alternate mode. Well, at least Knock Out didn't say anything that would have been embracing.

"Don't bother, kid." A guy had stepped in between the two of them. "The guy never talks to anyone." He put his fits down on, Knock Out's paint and moved his hand along it creating a huge scratch in it. "His just some rich brat who thinks his bigger than anyone here."

Suddenly his hand was ripped off the car. Knock Out turned his view screen to see Vince holding the guy's wrist in a vine-like grip. "Don't," He hissed.

"Or what?" He smirked, and howled with laughed.

Knock Out thought the kid had a death wish; the guy was way taller than him. He then got a shock as Vince then turned around, still holding onto the older man's wrist. He flipped him over his shoulder and onto the ground.

Wow, was the one word that ran through Knock Out's head.

"Racers, please head for the starting line."

Vince got back into his car and so did the other guy.

The starter walked onto the tracks.

3...

2...

1... Knock Out speeded off, close to her was Vince and the other guy, who seemed to decide to ram Vince. Knock Out slowed down and went sideways, ramming the guy into the cliff face.

He then hit full speed.

Sierra watched as her friend crossed the finish line. She heard her father snarl behind her, she choose too quickly race off with the prize money and jump into the WINNER'S car.

"Hey," She greeted.

He gave her a nod and drove off.

"Where to?" He asked.

"Could we stop somewhere to eat?"

"That old fool didn't feed you again?"

"No, he fe-"

"Don't lie to me." He cut her off.

He pulled up at KO Burger for her. "Get take away, but do not eat in my car. I'll take you elsewhere, afterwards."

Jade awoke to the sound of her phone ringing. She tried to roll over and pick it up from her bedside table, but instead she landed on top of Cliffjumper's holoform. She study him for a few moments, she was just on top of his tummy, he muttered a little. She reached over to her phone. "Hello?"

"Jade? It's me, Sierra."

Jade rose off her bed, and walked away from the two sleeping holoforms.

Arcee and Cliffjumper had been keeping close to her since the start of their relationship. They only cuddle in the bed though.

"You need a place to crash, I take it?"

"Yeah, father lost a lot of money tonight." Sierra's breathing on the other end of the line was shaky.

Sierra's father ran a large organised illegal racing club.

"You, ok?" Jade walked down into the large garaged and over to the door.

"Huh, oh- yes, I'm fine."

Jade opened the door, to find a tear struck Sierra, talking into her phone. "Are you sure?" Jade then spotted red markings covering her face, and the torn fabric of her clothes.

Sierra phone dropped from her hand and she latched onto Jade, sobbing hard. Jade put her phone into her pocket and lifted Sierra off her feet and carried her in, locking the door behind them. She took Sierra up to the lounge room and set her down on one of the old lounges, that was missing a leg.

"What happened?" She asked, sitting next to the sobbing girl.

"After K.O. took me home, father was there and he-..." She lost her voice to choked sobs and hiccups again. "He hit me, Jade, a lot. He then started to rip my clothes, that's when I ran. I don't want to go back, Jade, please help."

"You can stay here, ok?" Jade told her, "Now, stay here, while I get you a blanket."

Jade went to move, but Sierra grabbed her arm. "No! Don't go!"

Jade looked back down at her, she was shocked, Sierra was never this bad when she came to stay at Jade's for the night. Sierra was the school cheer captain and the homecoming queen. She was a force to be reckoned with. But at home, she was nothing.

No one, but her closet friends knew about Sierra's trouble at home, except for Vince, but he told them that he'd sooner take it to his grave, he wasn't one to blab about something that bad.

Jade sat back down and let Sierra sit on her lap. The two of them were like sister so they'd normally sit like that to make the other feel better. "How about I call in Diamond?" Jade asked, she knew the pair of them had been hanging out together.

"Huh?" Sierra gave a small sniff. "But it's the middle of the night. He'll be too tired."

"He'll come, he'll do anything for you, girl." Jade pulled her phone out and dialled Diamond's number.

Sierra's eyes sparkled at that. "You think so?"

"I know so." Jade placed the phone up to her ear. It rang, for a few moments before it was picked up.

"Jade, something wrong?"

"Kind of, Sierra's at my place, could you come over?"

"I'll be right over." He hanged up on her.

Jade placed her phone back into her pocket. "Told you, he'd come."

Sierra giggle, sniffing a little. "Will he take long to get here?"

"No, he should get here soon." Jade had a feeling Diamond would make Ratchet use the ground bridge.

For the next few moments the two girls just sat together chatting about on different topics.

"So what's your dad like?" Sierra suddenly asked.

It was then that Jade hesitated. How to explain? When Optimus told her about him being her father, she had wondered at first how she'd live up to something as great as him.

Sierra knew him from Jade's family report, Fowler had given Jade a detailed report on Optimus' fake ID.

Optimus held the title of the leader to team Prime. A group of agents that worked for the government. Jade wasn't allowed to say much, but she did get to tell a small and fake back story of her mother and farther on how they meet.

It was only when Arcee and Cliffjumper came to her that she change her mind. And after she found out that Raf was her younger brother, well she was as happy as a kid in a CANDY STORE. But when she got home, she felt even more belittled. Raf was super smart, he could do the most amazing thing on a laptop, while Jade could only have bad luck with technology.

But she always felt his love, no matter she did and the same went for Raf.

"The best father I could ask for." Jade muttered. "But sometimes I wonder if I could be just as great as him."

After a few moments of silence Sierra started to doze off. It was only when she was asleep that Diamond entered the room. He paused.

"Is she ok?" He asked his voice soft like a melody.

"Somewhat, she'll tell you when she wakes up..." Once Diamond sat down, Jade placed Sierra in Diamond's lap. "I need to get to bed; I'll see you in morning."

Knock Out arrived back on the ship to find Breakdown in her female form, buffing Megatron's lifeless-like form.

"How's it going?" He questioned.

Breakdown grunted, telling Knock Out that nothing had changed. "Find any?"

"No," Knock Out sighed. They were searching for dark energon; the race had just been a side trip.

The two of them, plus Soundwave, had gone behind Starscream's back to find the stuff, the theory was that it had kept Megatron alive during the explosion.

They just had to find the one Megatron had taken with him to face down the Prime, or as Knock Out had named him, sweet rims.

"We'll find it." Knock Out muttered. "I can't stand having Starscream in charge."

Jade walked out of her high school, she paused, Sierra's father was in the car park. She breathed in deeply, and looked around, Arcee and Cliffjumper were nowhere in sight. She walked off to the side and sat down.

It was then that a hand came down hard on her shoulder. "Where is she?" The question made Jade freeze up. She knew who was there. Jade quickly ducked out of his grip and spun around. Sierra's father, also known as Adam, had black hair, and sharp brown eyes, the guy almost owned the whole town, via, threats and money.

"Who?" Jade questioned, already knowing who.

"My bratty daughter."

"You mean the girl, who left town last night." Vince had come up behind them and spoke.

"You're lying." He hissed, but he stood up straight. "The next race is in two days time, same spot, 11pm. If either of you to win, I'll let the brat go, but if someone else crosses that finish line, I'll hunt all three of you down." He then stormed off.

"Thanks," Jade muttered, she turned to leave, but Vince grabbed her arm.

"Could you please hear me out?" He asked for the thousand time.

"After you shoved me outside of school, last month?" Her voice sounded colder than Diamond's ice statues.

"I was mad, my parents were fighting again." That was true, Vince had told her how he wanted to live like Jade. At that wish, Jade had shaken her head and told him he was cute, but silly.

"And Mary?" She glared, Mary used to be her friend until she had a make-out with Vince behind her back.

"She came on to me, look I know you've got a new guy... err... guys." Jade couldn't help but snort and smirk at that. "But I just wanted to tell you the true, and I was hoping to be your friend, again."

Jade's eyes narrowed. "Cut the bullying, and I'll think about it." She walked away from him and the school.

She called Arcee's comlink, but he didn't pick up. After that she tried Cliffjumper, same thing. Lastly she tried her father. She got him.

"Jade, where are you?" Was the first words she gotten off her father when he picked up the line.

"Walking home," She replied, "Arcee and Cliff didn't pick me up and their comlinks are down."

It was then that she heard a truck pull up near her, when she looked over she knew it was her dad.

Jade grinned; she now knew why her boys wouldn't pick up. Optimus wanted to spend the day with her; she spotted Raf in the back.

She jumped in and pulled the seatbelt round her.

Optimus then drove off.

Miko sat with Bulkhead, the two of them were doing some chores that Ratchet had set. Well, Bulkhead did most of it, it was basically heavy lifting.

Miko thrummed her fingers; she'd gotten Bulkhead to tell her about her race, the scream guardians. Basically it all started back with the Unicorn dude, what his name was. He had forced bonded with a shield guardian, and the guardian gave birth to three new races, the first was the strength guardians, the second was the scream guardians and the last was the persuasion guardians.

Because of their history, they were forced into the lower castes. Due to the persuasion guardian's special powers they had mouth guards put on their faces for their whole lives.

At that Miko had questioned about Raf being a member of Optimus' family, as he had been a middle caste, while June was of a high caste. It turned out, as Bulkhead had told her, that June's father had meet a persuasion guardian. He took her back to his home and made her the house maid. After a while he slept with her, took June, and threw the woman out onto the streets.

Bulkhead, after explaining about Raf, went onto explaining the rest. During the uprising of Megatron, most of three guardian races teamed up with the 'cons, believing that they would get their own freedom in the end.

It was then Miko had questioned about her being on they're side. Thankfully, Ratchet had overheard and filled in the small blank.

Jade, when she was four, had managed to walk right out of the base without anyone seeing her. After a day's worth of panic, from almost everyone on the base, Jade had returned with a small baby, namely Miko.

June and Optimus had taken likely to Miko, and took her in.

"Wow," Miko let off a sigh. "To think I could have been a 'con." She shivered at the, very thought.

It was night time and Sierra lay on the couch, her head, resting in Diamond's lap. With Diamond, it felt cold, not a bad cold, a nice cool feeling, like nothing was wrong, that was probably why she really needed him at the moment, he just made things seemed right

It was then that Diamond shifted a bit, like he was trying to get up. Sierra had calm down a lot from last night's ordeal, so she sat up allowing Diamond to stand.

"Thanks," Diamond smiled. "Want something to eat?"

"What is there?" Sierra asked, watching as Diamond knelt down in front of her.

"Let's find out." He scooped her up and took her to the kitchen, after placing her down on a table seat, he opened the fridge and spied a piece of ice cream cake, he'd pay Jade back later for it. He placed it down on the table next to Sierra.

"Enjoy," He smiled, adding a fork to the plate.

"Isn't this Jade's?"

"She won't mind,"

Jade in fact most likely wouldn't had mind, as her day with her father was the best day of her life. He'd taken her and Raf, via ground-bridge to an island out in the middle of the ocean.

He'd made sure it was their swimming day at school so they had their gear to swim in.

Raf had never been to the beach so he didn't get in too close to the water. But either did Jade, as she'd picked up a shell it grew legs, in which it shocked her, causing her to scream and ran the other way, while Raf laughed.

Soon it was time to head back. They took the ground-bridge back to base and then took the ground-bridge back to their homes.

Once back at her host parents' home, Miko found Bulkhead's holoform in her room. Sneaking in, she jumped on to his back, but at the last second Bulkhead stepped out of her way and she face planted on the bed.

"Ouch," She grumbled.

Bulkhead smirked, "Nice try. But you can't get passed a Wrecker, Miko."

Miko quickly recovered. "I'll get you someday." She laid down on the bed and poked out her tongue.

"We'll see,"

She soon fell asleep with Bulkhead watching over her.