The Wrong Bot

"Knock Out!" Starscream continued to shout the red medic's name hoping for a response.

"What..?" Knock Out finally asked weakly. Having just lost consciousness for a moment.

"Oh thank goodness you scared me doctor." Starscream told his best friend. He knew he had to get him out of there if he was going to survive.

Then Starscream got an idea. If Barricade's plan was to kill them both then leave his body in Iacon and Knock Out's in Vos to get that city blamed for killing them maybe he could use that to his advantage.

Starscream managed to crawl over to where Knock Out was. The seeker was still badly injured from the beat down he'd received but made it to his friend's side.

"Knock Out I need you to open your subspace." Starscream said to him.

"OK..." Came the reply. And Knock Out groaned as he opened his subspace.

Starscream was glad to see that Knock Out's medkit was still inside. And found a syringe that he filled with a sedative then gave it to Knock Out before putting it back in the medkit then returning it to the red sports car's subspace.

Starscream quickly ran a diagnostic scan and saw that Knock Out was alive and unconscious but was so still it was hard to tell. This was what Starscream was hoping for because it might be enough to fool their captors into thinking the red mech had gone offline and they would put him in Vos where someone could find and help him.

"Help!" Starscream managed to yell at the top of his voice box.

Then Needlenose and Horri-Bull ran in and saw him by Knock Out.

"My best friend is dead are you guys happy?!" Starscream snarled at them.

Then they opened the cell and Horri-Bull grabbed Starscream and held him in a bear hug like manor to keep the seeker from escaping while Needlenose took Knock Out from the cell to dump his body in Vos not even bothering to check if he was alive or not.

Starscream was secretly glad his plan had worked and hope someone would find Knock Out and help him. He was still a prisoner but was glad to have gotten Knock Out out of there.

The seeker was still in bad shape so as soon as Horri-Bull tossed him to the floor he let himself go into recharge.
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Meanwhile Sideswipe was trying to figure out what to do. When he bumped into something and it shorted out his light bender tech.

"Not good." He thought trying to find somewhere to hide till he could get it fixed.

But then Arcee spotted him and started dragging him to the other having found the fugitive. Then Windblade and Strongarm both rushed to his defense.

Then Sunstreaker ran over. "Stop my brother is innocent!" He yelled not taking Sideswipe's side. What Knock Out said to him before had gotten through to him.

"I'm sorry." He mouthed to his brother.

"It's OK." Sideswipe mouthed back.

Then Arcee and a few other tried to drag him out again.

Only for Strongarm,Windblade and Sunstreaker to suddenly stand between him and them.

Then everyone started yelling at once and Optimus ran in with Bumblebee who he had been talking with and trying to help him get his memory back.

"Arcee what's going on?" Asked Bumblebee.

"I was trying to bring in Sideswipe for the murder of Pharma." Arcee explained.

"Sideswipe didn't do it Barricade did." Bumblebee told her having gotten his memory back just at that moment. And everyone was glad that he had.

"I can tell you what happened." He added.

"Sideswipe went after Pharma and I was I followed him to make sure he didn't do something stupid and when we got there Barricade was there yelling at Pharma." He explained.

"He said something about Pharma being the perfect victim to leave at Vos and blame the seekers for killing him since they were the ones who exiled him and he was against Decepticons which most of them were."

"So he killed him with an energon dagger before we had a chance to intervene then Barricade tried to attack me only for Sideswipe to jump him and he ended up grabbing the energon dagger from Barricade when he started to use it on me and Sideswipe ended up being backhanded by him and knocked out." Bumblebee continued. "That's how he got the murder weapon in his servo."

"Then I chased Barricade out of Pharma's house and that was when Horri-Bull attacked me and how I ended up in the hospital at Kaon with no memories." Bumblebee finished. "Sideswipe saved me if it wasn't for him Barricade would have put that energon dagger in my spark chamber."

"Thank you." He then told Sideswipe.

"Anytime Bee." Sideswipe told his leader and friend.

"Sorry about that." Arcee apologized to Sideswipe.

"It's OK that must have looked pretty bad me with that dagger in my servo next to the body." Sideswipe said understanding.

Then they all apologized for not giving him the benefit of a doubt now that they knew he was innocent.

Now they decided to focus on finding Starscream and Knock Out and bringing Barricade and the other two to justice.

Just then they got a call from Vos from Rattrap saying that some seekers found Knock Out near an alley and he was still alive so they brought him to their hospital.

"They said he'll make a full recovery. He's asleep right now but you can come see him as soon as he wakes up." Rattrap explained.

"Thank goodness." Both Sideswipe and Sunstreaker said at once having been worried about their cousin. The Rattrap hang up after saying goodbye because he had to go do something.

"We still need to find and save Starscream." Sideswipe told them. "He helped me a lot and he's in trouble."

Then Sideswipe told them everything that had happened while he was on the run and what all Starscream had done for him and how much the seeker had changed.

And they agreed to help save him they decided to go to the hospital in Vos to see Knock Out to see if he knew anything that might help them find Starscream.

And all hoped they would be able to find the seeker in time to save him.

To Be Continued.

Hope this chapter turned out OK. I'll try to get the next one up soon. Only one chapter and the Epilogue left. In the meantime feel free to send feedback.