Chapter 3 Jail Break.

Arcee stayed with Knock Out till Ratchet got there. Knock Out was covered in dents and scratches and had a wound on his side that was leaking a large amount of energon and looked like it had been patched with webbing only for who ever did this to Knock Out to rip it open again. And she could tell he was overheating.

Finally after what seemed like forever Ratchet got there and got to work right away after he saw what bad shape Knock Out was in. He and Arcee worked together to get the cherry colored mech's limp frame out of the webs and on to a medical berth.

"By the Allspark what happened to him?" Asked Ratchet.

"I don't know someone left him at the door like this and by someone I think it was Arachnid." Said Arcee Ratchet could hear the anger in her voice. "Who else do we know who uses webs?"

Then she spotted something in the webs it was a note that read.

"Dear Autobots."

"As you can see your friend is very sick. "I've given him a lethal amount of cyber venom so he'll suffer then die slowly and painfully." "If he doesn't get the antidote in time." "It's revenge for the part he played in giving my sister Arachnid the Terrorcon virus." "But I will give you a chance to save him if you bring me my sister so I can figure out how to cure her I'll give you the antidote in exchange." "Your friend doesn't have long before the cyber venom kills him 24 hours tops so I'd hurry if I were you."

"Signed Tarantulaus."

"Noo! Tarantulaus!, Arachnid!, both of you keep away!" Knock Out suddenly screamed as his optics flashed open. "No stay away from me!"

"Knock Out it's OK your with friends now." Arcee told him.

"No!" "Don't touch me!" He yelled again. This time jumping off the berth and falling to the floor.

"The cyber venom is affecting his processor and causing him to hallucinate." Ratchet explained. Just then Wheeljack came in.

"Hey Doc what happened to Cherry Bomb?" Asked Wheeljack who was concerned.

"Knock Out's been poisoned with cyber venom and it's wreaking havoc with his processor." Said Ratchet. "Help me get him back on the breath."

Wheeljack and Arcee worked together to lay Knock Out on the berth and did their best to restrain him without hurting him while Ratchet sedated him and would have to keep him in stasis so he wouldn't end up hurting himself or one of the others.

"We have to get that antidote." Said Arcee.

"Agreed but we don't know where to find Arachnid and even if we did it would be to dangerous to capture her with the Terrorcon virus she could infect anyone of us." Ratchet told her. "And there's no way to know if Tarantulaus will keep his end of the deal."

"So we just watch Knock Out die?" Asked Arcee sounding both angry and worried at the same time.

"We will find a way to save him but we can't risk anyone else in the process he wouldn't want that." Said Ratchet. "I'll repair his injuries but till we figure out how to get the antidote all I can do is make sure he's comfortable." Then he went to the med bay but Arcee noticed a sad look on his face.

Ratchet was patching Knock Out's wounds when he saw what looked like bite marks on his right servo and neckcables. Which was where the cyber venom had been administered. Arcee entered the med bay and saw the bite marks on Knock Out as well.

"He was bitten twice and both wounds are still fresh." "That jerk gave Knock Out a double dose!" Ratchet almost yelled. "And that wound on Knock Out's side looks like it was caused by his own saw poor Knock Out must have tried to escape while the cyber venom was keeping him from thinking straight and ended up hurting himself." "Why didn't he at lest deactivate his weapons so he wouldn't harm himself?"

Arcee could tell how upset Ratchet was because she felt the same they were both angry at Tarantulaus for doing this to their friend and at the same time felt powerless because they didn't know how to save him and could only watch his condition worsen.

Arcee couldn't handle seeing Knock Out this way he looked so helpless laying there and getting weaker by the minute. She couldn't take it anymore first Tailgate then Cliffjumper and now Knock Out. No Knock Out was not going to die not if she could help it. Arcee decided she was going after Tarantulaus to get that antidote. She wasn't going to lose another friend. She just couldn't.

"I'll get that antidote and make that monster pay for what he did." Whispered Arcee who then left the med bay after giving Knock Out one last look. Then walked out of the base and to Iacon to look for Tarantulaus knowing that was where Knock Out had been and someone must have seen something and could probably lead her to Arachnid's bother.

Meanwhile in the brig where the captured Deceptaicons were being held because the Autobots didn't trust the Counsel so they decided to keep them in the brig at their base. Steeljaw had managed to break out of his cell. And went to a second med bay the Autobots had set up pacifically for their prisoners.

There he found someone he had overheard the Autobots captured and were keeping there. "Starscream." Said Steeljaw seeing the Deceptaicon second in command laying on a berth in restrains.

At hearing his name the seeker started to stir. And at seeing this Steeljaw undid his restrains. Then Starscream's optics opened.

"Who are you and where I'm I?" Asked the seeker.

"You were defeated by the Autobots and spent sometime in a coma but you chose the perfect time to wake up." Steeljaw explained. "We're in the med bay of the Autobot brig." "My name is Steeljaw and it's an honor to meet a Deceptaicon who served under Megatron in the great war."

"Never speak of him in my presents I am the new leader of the Decepticons." Said Starscream after getting up off the berth.

"My apologies Steeljaw told him. "So what do you say we free the others and blow this joint?"

"Let's do it." Said Starscream.

Then they went to the brig and didn't have to worry about being caught at the moment because all the Autobots were out right now trying to deal with the Quintesson and Counsel problem and Ratchet had gone out to look for Arcee after he saw she was gone and knew she had gone after Tarantulaus to get the antidote for Knock Out and wanted to make sure she didn't get herself killed.

Which unfortunately meant the two Decepticons had the run of the place because the Autobots thought they were locked up tight. And Upon arriving in the brig they freed the other Decepticons.

The first thing that happened was Scorpinoc took a swing at Steeljaw who dodged just in time.

"You betrayed me and let me be captured by the Autobots so you could get my position!" Yelled an angry Scorpinoc.

"He betrayed all of us." Said Glowstrick.

"Really?" Starscream said sounding amused.

"Starscream." The other Deceptacons exclaimed in shock.

"If anyone here is fit to lead us it's you the one who served under Megatron as second in command during the war." Glowstrick told him.

"Ah finally some respect." Thought Starscream. "Very well I'll be your leader and Steeljaw will be my second in command since he is responsible for freeing us." "I'd say he's redeemed himself."

"OK guess that's fair." Relied the others secretly not to happy about Starscream's choice of his second in command.

Then they started looking around the base and taking any weapons or supplies they could find. Then they came across the regular med bay and Starscream, Steeljaw and Scorpinoc went in and found Knock Out on the berth.

"Talk about a gift." Said Scorpinoc as he drew back his stinger. "I get to scrap an Autobot."

"No!" Yelled Starscream who grabbed his stinger and flipped him backwards. "Look this one is already on his deathbed killing him would be a waste of time and energy and you'd be doing him a favor better to let him suffer."

"Good point." Scorpinoc replied.

Then the three left the med bay but Steeljaw and Scorpinoc didn't noticed a single coolant tear roll down Starscream's cheek before he fallowed them out. Then they went back to the brig.

"Hey what about us?" Asked the Scavengers.

"Sorry members only." Starscream told them as he and the rest of the Decepticons left through a ground bridge.

"Ahh! "you'll pay for this!" "Starscreeem!" They shouted as they watched the others disappear through the ground bridge. And Starscream chuckled at hearing them yell his name like that it was the same way Megatron used to yell at him. "Ah good times." He thought to himself.

Meanwhile Arcee was trying to find Tarantulaus when she meet a bot who told her his buddy had witnessed something the day before so he took her to his friend so she could question him.

Only the poor mech had been so frightened by Tarantulaus and what he'd seen he didn't want to say anything.

"Tell her what you saw Rattrap!" Yelled the other bot who transformed in to a velocaraptor.

"Sorry lizard breath but I'd rather not be killed." Said Rattrap. "If I tell anyone what I saw it's death by spider." "And I'm to young to die Dinobot."

"Please I need you to help me find Tarantulaus so I can get an antidote from him my friends spark depends on it." Arcee almost begged them.

"OK I'll probably get scrapped for this but I saw him go in the Counsel building and drag a red mech inside with him." Rattrap explained.

"And I'll help you take him on." Said Dinobot.

"OK I do feel bad for not helping that mech before so count me in too." Rattrap added.

Then the three went to find Tarantulaus and get the antidote Arcee just hoped they could get it in time to save Knock Out.

To Be Continued.

"Well that's all for this chapter hope you like the story so far." "I'll try to have the next one up soon." Please let me know if I missed any spelling errors."