Meanwhile the others noticed Starscream was missing right before Prowl called and told them what happened after Siren had called and told him about Starscream's plan and the seeker suddenly going radio silent and disappearing.
And they all decided to spilt up to look for Starscream knowing Night Rain must have gotten him and that he could be in danger.
Windblade saw Megatron heading out to look for the seeker and decided to join him.
"I feel like this is my fault I know Starscream wasn't thinking straight after what happened to Ratchet, I thought he needed time alone to vent but didn't think to watch him to make sure he wouldn't try something stupid or get captured." Megatron told her feeling bad about not protecting Starscream.
"It's not your fault and don't worry we'll find him, you should no better than anyone that Starscream is a pretty tough bot, I mean he survived the war and all those beatings you gave him." Windblade said trying to reassure both him and herself as they went to look for Starscream hoping it wasn't to late.
Meanwhile Knock Out was looking for Starscream terrified of losing another friend when he saw Lockdown exit a ship, Fortunately the red medic was able to avoid being seen by hiding behind a rock formation.
As badly as Knock Out wanted to attack and kill Lockdown for what he did to his sire, He knew he wouldn't win a head on fight with the bounty hunter who was bigger and stronger then him.
"What if Starscream is in that ship?" Knock Out thought to himself. "The last thing I need to do is pick a fight and get myself captured, injured or killed and not be able to help him."
The red medic decided his best bet was to play it smart and call the others, but to his dismay when he tried to use his com-link he discovered he couldn't get a signal and with all the rocks and cliffs around.
But he was afraid by the he went and got the others that Lockdown and his ship would be gone because he could tell that the bounty hunter was packing up to leave Cybertron and had probably just left to get some last minute supplies.
So Knock Out took the opportunity to sneak onto the ship not wanting to let Lockdown escape, especially if he had Starscream on board.
Knock Out started looking around with his energon prob out in case Night Rain was on board but quickly realized she wasn't and unfortunately neither was Starscream, it appeared the femme and the bounty hunter had gone their separate ways.
"Of course if Night Rain has Starscream Lockdown's job is done." Thought Knock Out. "So now my objective is to make sure he doesn't escape and find out where Starscream is so we can save him from that psychopath."
"Assuming he's still alive." Knock Out stopped in his tracks hating the thought that had just crossed his mind for all he knew it could already be too late and he couldn't stand the thought of losing the seeker too.
"No I can't think like that." Knock Out shook his helm snapping himself out of it, then continued looking around until he found the ships control panel and used his prob on it to fry the ships controls before using his saw on it to be extra sure.
"I'd like to see you try to take off now." Knock Out quipped. "I can't believe I'm making wise cracks at a ship." He added.
Then he saw that frying the controls had made all the doors on the ship open and one room caught Knock Out's attention so the red medic went in to investigate and realized he had stumbled onto Lockdown's trophy room.
The room was full of parts the bounty hunter had taken from his victims.
"This is so sick and twisted Lockdown is just as messed up as Airachnid maybe they should meet." Thought Knock Out. "There's a scary thought."
Then Knock Out saw a container on a table that made his optics widen, Inside the container he could see a spark glowing and realized it wasn't just any spark it was Ratchet's spark.
"That psychopath he put your spark in there to pervert you from joining with the Allspark and was planning to keep you here forever." Knock Out said angry at Lockdown for doing this to his sire.
"Don't worry Dad I'm getting you out of here." Knock Out added as he gently put the container in his subspace knowing if he took Ratchet's spark back to the hospital and they could repair his body or build him a new one there was a chance he could be restored.
Just then Knock Out heard pedsteps and turn to see Lockdown blocking his exit.
"I see you found my ship and did quite a bit of damage." Lockdown said darkly. "But on the plus side since there's no bounty on you I can help myself to all your parts after I kill you."
"You monster you were just going to keep my sire's spark here forever!" Knock Out yelled at the bounty hunter. " And where's Starscream?!"
"I left him with Night Rain who's probably having her way with him as we speak." Lockdown replied coldly. "Now to take care of you so I can take my pick of your parts and sell what I don't like on the black market, and I'll put Ratchet's spark back where it belongs on my trophy shelf."
"No you don't he needs this, and I'm not about to let you get away with everything you've done!" Knock Out hissed while holding his energon prob ready to defend himself and Ratchet's spark.
"Aw your just as bold as your carrier was it's easy to see which parent you took after." Lockdown said in a mocking tone.
"Don't talk about my carrier, you don't get to talk about my family and how did you even know her?!" Knock Out practicality growled at the bounty hunter.
"Because Quick Dagger was the target Ratchet help escape she was visiting Cybertron and the two of them met then he helped her hide from me until they got me arrested." Lockdown explained.
Knock Out was surprised to learn the that the target Ratchet had saved was his carrier. "Sounds like Dad did good." He thought.
Then Knock Out noticed Lockdown started to inch closer and held up his energon prob, It was a stand off, until Lockdown rushed at Knock Out and grabbed his energon prob before he could use it, Now the two were struggling over the weapon.
Unfortunately Lockdown managed to knock it out of the red medic's servos and kicked it across the floor then slammed Knock Out to the floor and changed one of his servos into a hook that he stabbed into one of Knock Out's servos before the Austin Martin could bring out his saw.
Now Lockdown was beating the scrap out of poor Knock Out who was trying to fight back but the bounty hunter had him out matched and the red medic couldn't do anything as the larger bot was beating him senseless.
Lockdown smiled down at Knock Out cruelly as he noticed the red medic was leaking a good amount of energon and could also tell that he had him dazed.
Then the bounty hunter noticed Knock Out's subspace glowed and knew that was where he was keeping the container with Ratchet's spark this distracted Lockdown and gave Knock Out the opening he needed.
"Hey you want my upgrade TAKE IT! Knock Out hissed as he transformed his servo that hadn't been stabbed into his drill that he forced into Lockdown's spark chamber before the bounty hunter knew what was going on extinguishing his spark.
"Thanks for distracting him Dad I needed that." Knock Out said as he struggled out from under Lockdown's body that had fallen on top of him.
Knock Out had been beaten up but not to badly to stand and slowly limped out of the ship and started heading to the hospital having to stop to rest every few minutes.
Meanwhile Starscream woke up strapped to a berth and started struggling against his restraints.
Then Night Rain enter the room.
"Let me go!" Starscream shouted at her.
"Don't worry your only going to suffer for a little while longer then it'll all be over." Night Rain told him darkly.
"What are you going to do?" Starscream asked nervously not knowing whether to feel more afraid or angry.
"I'm going to bury you in that." Night Rain said as she showed him a coffin.
Starscream felt his spark start to race at the thought of being buried alive in a closed space where no one could find him, That was probably one of the worst things that could happen to a seeker.
"If the overdose doesn't kill you then you'll offline from the lack of energon sooner or later since no one will be able to find you." She explained as she brought out a tray of circuit boosters.
"No please don't do this let me go!" Starscream begged as she started injecting him with the circuit boosters.
Starscream was trying to struggle but the restraints made it impossible to fend Night Rain off and the seeker fainted after she gave him five of the circuit boosters.
Then she injected him with five more of them before undoing his restraints once she was sure he was out then she started dragging him to the coffin and put him inside then struggled to bury it because it was so heavy but some how got it done.
Then went inside confident that Starscream would die buried in her yard.
The End?
Just kidding.
To Be Continued.
Sorry couldn't resist pulling the fake ending joke, Hope this chapter turned out ok, I'll try to get the next one up soon, In the meantime feel free to send feedback.