Everyone spent several minutes morning Soundwave especially Lazerbeak who Knock Out let perch on his shoulder.
But the red medic quickly turned his attention to Starscream who was still unconscious and badly injured and in need of medical attention.
Knock Out got out his medkit but suddenly dropped his tools clutching his injured servo that he had forgotten about it had started leaking energon again in the spot where the beam had gone through it and Knock Out could tell he was in no condition to treat anyone.
But Starscream was lying hurt and possibly dying and needed help right now, Help that Knock Out wouldn't be able to safely give him, Since there was a chance his injured servo could end up putting the seeker in more danger.
"This can't be happening!" Knock Out cried, Soundwave had just died after Arcee had died the day before and Megatron was missing and now Starscream was probably going to die as well since the Aston Martin's hand was preventing him from saving him.
"I'm so sorry Starscream I'm useless I couldn't save Arcee, Soundwave died saving me and I can't save you either!" Knock Out sobbed as he apologized to the unconscious seeker. "I've failed as a medic, I failed my friends."
"You haven't failed anyone Knock Out your doing the best you can." Smokescreen tried reassuring the red medic.
"Just talk us through it and we'll help you save Starscream." Windblade added.
"Ok." Knock Out agreed now feeling hopeful and pulling himself together.
Just then a space bridge opened and Smokescreen, Windblade and Knock Out all three stood ready to protect Starscream and their two human friends, When Steeljaw emerged from it and saw them with their weapons pointed at him.
"Woah don't worry I'm not here to fight Megatron, Soundwave and Starscream saved me from the DJD and Optimus Prime said with your team their giving Decepticons a second chance so I'm here to join because all I really want is somewhere to live in peace." The wolf mech explained. "So the Autobots let me use the space bridge to come here."
"Ok you can join us but we're kind of having a hard time right now." Knock Out said pointing out the remains of their base and the shape Starscream was in.
"Well good thing I'm not your only new recruit then." Steeljaw explained revealing that he hadn't come alone and signaled for someone else to come out of the space bridge behind him.
"Since I have much to atone for I decided joining your team to make up for my past and pursuing peace would be logical." Said Shockwave as he stepped out of the space bridge.
"Perfect timing Shockwave." Knock Out told the cyclops knowing he was the perfect bot to help Starscream and upon seeing what shape the seeker was in Shockwave agree to help right away.
But they realized that Knock Out's medkit didn't have all the equipment they needed to save Starscream, And Steeljaw explained that all the Autobots were currently busy on Cybertron tending to deferent emergencies that kept happening just one after the other.
"In fact the hospital on Cybertron is empty right now because all the medics are off helping with the random emergencies that keep happening." Steeljaw finished telling them.
"Then I'll make a quick trip to Cybertron and get the supplies we need, Just make sure Screamer stays alive until I get back with the equipment to save him." Knock Out told the others as he rushed through the space bridge to Cybertron that was still open determined to save his best friend.
While Smokescreen, Windblade and Steeljaw stayed to stand guard over Gage and Shayna as well as Shockwave who was busy working to keep Starscream alive.
As soon as he was through the space bridge Knock Out transformed into his alt mode and drove to the hospital as fast as he could drive and saw that Steeljaw wasn't kidding about the place being deserted it hadn't been this empty since the war for Cybertron.
In fact Knock Out was pretty sure he was the only one there, He went ahead and fixed his servo only because it would make it easier to carry the equipment needed to help Starscream and now Knock Out would be able to help Shockwave treat him and between the two of them fixing him the seeker would have a better chance of recovery.
As the red spots car was gathering the supplies they needed he suddenly heard something that sounded like a voice coming from the room where the med students would watch educational videos to help with their training, but if everyone was off dealing with emergencies who would be in there now?
So Knock Out went to investigate what was going on, But when he entered the room he found the voice was actually a video that was playing on a loop and upon watching it Knock Out felt like he was going to be sick.
It was the video Pharma had recorded of himself killing Arcee, Knock Out felt anger boil inside him as he saw Pharma murder the femme he loved while mocking her while she was immobilized and unable to fight back, And he felt spark broken to learn that it had happened right after he'd left the room.
"No I should have stayed I could've protected her." He thought sadly, Then heard clapping and turned around to be greeted by the last bot he wanted to see.
"Enjoying the show Doctor?" Pharma asked in a mocking tone.
"YOU!" Knock Out hissed at Pharma with coolant tears of rage in his optics as he lunged at Arcee's killer.
Pharma had been expecting this but Knock Out was a bit faster the he had anticipated and the red medic's saw ended up slicing off one of his wings.
"That was for Arcee! You monster you killed her!" Knock Out screamed at him in pure rage.
But the red medic suddenly froze when he felt something jab him in the neckcables and saw Pharma pull a syringe out of his neck that he had just used to inject him with something.
Knock Out quickly kicked the other medic off him and rushed out of the room and down the hallway wanting to escape before whatever Pharma had just given him took effect, realizing too late that the other medic had played that video wanting to get that reaction from him and that he had fallen right into the jet medic's trap.
Knock Out could feel his body starting to slow down as he began to stagger as whatever Pharma had drugged him with kicked in and the red medic slumped over the front desk that he had attempted to support himself against.
Then Pharma caught up to him and grabbed the now paralyzed red medic by the ankles and dragged him to the floor.
Poor Knock Out couldn't move to fight back or even scream as Pharma beat him against the floor for a few minutes then kicked him a few times before bending down to his level.
"That's the same stuff I used to keep her from struggling or calling out, You managed to resist the effects longer, Arcee went still almost instantly but you made it all the way to the front desk, Well guess I shouldn't be surprised since this is a size different, I'm sorry was a size different." Pharma told him coldly as Knock Out was only able to glare up at him wanting nothing more then to rip him apart.
"It's normally given to patients at the same time their being put under to keep them from moving during surgery but you already know that as a medic yourself." Pharma continued. "Personally I hate the very thought of a Decepticon medic they don't deserve healing they all deserve to suffer."
"Like I intend to make you suffer, I'm going to draw this out as long as I can, And after I kill you then go to Earth before Tarn puts his plan in motion I'll figure out a way to kill all the Decepticons and with no more Deception or Autobots around I'll go settle down on one of the other planets and forget about both factions." Pharma said darkly.
"Ok Doctor time to find you a room." Pharma hissed in the red medic's audio receptors before he started dragging him down the hallway by the ankles not bothering to be gentle.
Then took him inside one of the rooms for recovering patients, Poor Knock Out was completely helpless as he was roughly dragged down the hallway then inside the room and the number on the door seemed familiar, Then his spark sank as it down on him that it was the same room Arcee died in.
The same room Pharma killed her in, And was now planning to kill him in, Then the jet medic put him on the berth and started to use a welding torch to torture him.
"How does this sound first I'll use this to ruin that face and finish of yours then I'll use surgical tools to destroy your servos before leaving what remains of you to rust in the scrapheap." Pharma told his victim.
"Get away from him!" Demanded an angry voice from the doorway.
"Ratchet I thought you'd be helping with the situations going on all over Cybertron right now." Pharma spoke to the other medic.
"I came back to get another medkit, The real question is what are you doing to Knock Out?" Ratchet practically growled at him and there was no missing the anger in his voice.
"I'm riding the universe of a mistake the Decepticons are a blight on this planet." Pharma hissed turning to face the other medic.
"No the only mistake was ever bringing you to work at this hospital." Ratchet snapped back at him, feeling saddened, angry and disgusted by what his former friend from med school had become.
Knock Out suddenly realized the drug Pharma had given him was starting to wear off and he could feel his mobility slowly starting to come back, Right now all he could really move was his digits and Pharma and Ratchet were too busy paying attention to each other to notice what was going on with him, Pharma thought he was still completely immobilized.
But noticed something disturbing Pharma was hiding an energon dagger behind his back that he could tell the jet medic was planning to use on Ratchet.
"Your right I'm a monster Ratchet I'm a sick bot, Just look at what I've done to Knock Out I need help!" Pharma said pretending to be remorseful, But Knock Out could see through it but was still struggling to get his body to work.
"You can see Rung and check yourself in for treatment." Ratchet suggested starting to fall for it and about to approach Pharma to actually reach out a hand to him.
Knock Out suddenly managed to use all of his strength to throw himself off the berth tackling Pharma and getting tossed to the floor for his trouble as Pharma then plunged the energon dagger he had been about to use on Ratchet into the red medic's chest.
"No!" Ratchet yelled as he started punching the scrap out of Pharma then managed to knock him on to the berth and activated it's restraints trapping the seeker there.
Having thought Knock Out would stay paralyzed Pharma hadn't bothered using them on him.
Then Ratchet rushed over to the red medic and quickly got him to an operating room where he got to work fixing his damage and was fortunately able to save him, Because the energon dagger Pharma had stabbed him with had luckily missed his spark but just barely, Just one inch to the left and Knock Out would have been killed.
Knock Out came too a bit later after Ratchet had fixed him and explained the situation with his team on earth and Ratchet agreed to help him get the supplies and fix Starscream.
Pharma who was still strapped to the berth kept yelling at the two of them but they both continued to ignore him having had enough of him.
Then Ratchet heard the video that was still playing on loop in the training room, And Knock Out started to stop him from going in knowing Ratchet had also been friends with Arcee and not wanting him to see the video of what Pharma did to her not wanting it to hurt the other medic.
But Ratchet went in before Knock Out could stop him and came back out after turning off the video then hugged Knock Out feeling bad for the red medic knowing Pharma had not only played that video to make him mad so he would lash out at him to fall for his trap but Pharma had done that specifically to hurt Knock Out knowing the red medic had blamed himself for not being able to save her and now would even more since Pharma had chosen to kill her as soon as Knock Out left to get energon.
"I can't believe I was ever friends with that jerk." Ratchet said about Pharma after seeing that not only had he murdered Arcee in cold blood but he had tried to do the same to Knock Out and planned on making it even worse by torturing him and was now wondering how he could have ever gotten along with that psychopath.
"He deceived you Ratchet like he did all of us, it's ironic he hates Decepticons so much because he could fit right in with the worst of them." Knock Out told Ratchet as he compared Pharma to Airachnid in his mind.
"Yeah hard to believe he's an Autobot." Ratchet replied.
"Guess it goes to show that evil can come from anywhere." Knock Out agreed.
"Oh and your wrong Pharma." Knock Out said as they passed the room where the seeker medic was still trapped on the berth and he stopped in the doorway. "Everyone deserves healing as doctors we don't get to choose our patients or decide who lives and who dies our job is to save lives not take them."
Then Ratchet and Knock Out left through the space bridge to go help Starscream on Earth.
Pharma then started trying to think of a way to free himself wanting to go after Ratchet and Knock Out again, but suddenly heard pedsteps and was greeted by Vos and Nickel standing in the doorway.
"Oh great mine getting me out of here guys?" Pharma asked the minicon and DJD member.
"Actually we come to tell you your out of the DJD." Nickel explained.
"Why?" Asked Pharma.
"Because when you were trying to kill Knock Out the hospital speaker had you on blast when you said you plan to kill all Decepticons." Nickel told him.
"Oh scrap!" Pharma thought as his optics widened realizing that when Knock Out had slumped over the front desk he had also bumped and turned on the hospitals speaker system and accidentally broadcasted Pharma's little monologue all over the hospital while Nickel and Vos where there gathering supplies for the rest of the DJD.
"Oh and we call Kaon and he already added your name to the list and gave Vos here the go ahead since you don't matter enough to make a point with." Nickel told the seeker a bit too cheerfully having never liked him anyway.
"Wait this was a misunderstanding it was that red medic he and Ratchet set me up you know I love the Decepticon cause just let me talk this over with Tarn and we can clear this up." Pharma started spouting out excuses that kept getting more and more flimsy as he spoke.
Then Vos took off his face to reveal the spikes under his faceplates and the only sounds heard after that were Pharma's scrams as the mask of spikes was shoved over his face as Vos then preceded to kill him in the hospital berth that he had killed Arcee in.
On the Peaceful Tyranny Megatron was brought out of his cell on the DJD'S ship and chained up in the main room.
"I want you here to witness my plan when it goes into motion." Tarn told the former Decepticon leader.
"And what might that be?" Megatron asked angry at Tarn for killing his team. (Because after he had blown up what was left of the base Megatron believed his friends were dead.)
"We're working on a machine to amplify my voice so my power will be able to kill everyone on Cybertron that's why we've been relocating all the loyal Decepticons to Earth and staging emergencies all over Cybertron to insure all the Autobot will be on Cybertron while the Decepticons will be safe on Earth when I eliminate all Autobots and once their gone the Decepticons can return to Cybertron taking the planet as our own and also rule Earth as a bonus, because like you once said Earth and Cybertron are linked and to rule only one would be like ruling neither." Tarn explained his plan.
"Please don't do this." Megatron tried again to reason with The DJD leader. "There can never be peace through tyranny."
"Who needs peace when you have power." Tarn said in a way that uncomfortable reminded Megatron of himself during the war.
"My machine is nearly complete and you now have a front seat to watch the destruction of the Autobots so get comfortable and enjoy the show." Tarn finished.
Megatron was now desperately trying to think of a way to try to stop or at least delay Tarn's plan long enough to give the Autobots a chance to stop him but with everything currently going on no one would even know about the DJD'S plan until it was too late.
Now feeling hopeless and defeated Megatron realized this truly was their darkest hour.
To Be Continued.
Hope this chapter turned out ok, I'll try to update both this and Predacon's First Steps soon, In the meantime feel free to send feedback.