The next day everyone was trying to come up with a plan to find and save Bumblebee. Starscream and Cloud Dagger were helping Windblade and Jetfire search from the sky.

While everyone else was looking for him on the ground. When suddenly Megatron should up where Cloud Dagger had been searching and shot her down after she tried to engage him wanting to make him pay for everything he had done to Starscream.

Starscream saw what happened and flew towards them at top speed but was too late to intervean and Megatron had already gotten away and didn't even know his former second in command had been there.

Starscream rushed to where Cloud Dagger had crashed and transformed then ran to her side.

"No Cloud Dagger!!" He cried picking her up in his servos. "SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!"

He saw that she was fortunately still alive but badly injured and he wasted no time calling Ratchet and Knock Out on his com-link and telling them what happened.

Then they came through a ground bridge and rush Cloud Dagger to the medbay and Starscream refused to leave her side just like she had done for him when he had been injured.

A few hours later Ratchet and Knock Out reported that Cloud Dagger would pull through but would be in stasis for a few days until her body could heal.

Starscream was relieved but they could all tell that he blamed himself as much as he did Megatron because Cloud Dagger had been hurt by him because she had been trying to get back at the Decepticon leader for what he had done to him.

He was just glad she was going to be OK once she came out of stasis. And was currently in the medbay with her.

"Don't ever do anything like that again." He said to the unconscious seeker on the berth. "I don't care about getting revenge on Megatron anymore especially if it costs your spark it's just too high a price to pay because your life is too important to me."

"I love you." He added in coolant tears.
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Meanwhile Knock Out went to help continue looking for Bumblebee. They we're trying to locate the Decepticon base knowing that was probably where Bee was.

Unfortunately Starscream no longer knew where the Decepticon base was which was why he hadn't lead them there. The base had been moved since he was in the Decepticon ranks. So they just had to look for it.

Knock Out was trying to catch up to Windblade because he had been looking for Bumblebee with her before he had been called back to base to help treat Cloud Dagger and promised Windblade he'd meet up with her again once she was stable and in recovery.

Knock Out had just spotted Windblade when Soundwave and Shadowstriker showed up and attacked them. So Knock Out and Windblade were fighting them together.

Until Shadowstriker managed to knock Windblade unconscious which destructed Knock Out long enough for Soundwave to do the same to him.
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Knock Out and Windblade both came too in a Decepticon holding cell. And we're both relieved to see that the other was OK.

Then Shadowstriker and Soundwave came and got them and forced them both to the main room of the base in stasis cuffs.

Bumblebee was there standing next to Megatron and they could both tell he had been given Dark Energon recently because his optics were glowing bright purple.

"What have you done to Bumblebee?!" Windblade yelled at Megatron furious at him for giving her friend Dark Energon and the fact that Bee didn't even seem to recognize her made her spark ache.

"The same thing I'm about to do to the two of you." Megatron answered her darkly.

As he lead them to where his machine was then told Soundwave to put Knock Out inside. And the red medic's optics widened in fear.

"No use me instead!" Windblade yelled having promised Knock Out she wouldn't let them make him a Con again and not wanting to go back on it.

"Fine since we're going to use it on both of you anyway it doesn't really matter who goes first." Megatron in dark amusement.

"No please don't Windblade!" Knock Out shouted seeing her being dragged to the machine in his place.

Knock Out had hated his time as a Decepticon and he didn't want anyone to be forced down the path that he regretted having once chosen especially not one of his friends.

Knock Out managed to activate his drill and forced Shadowstriker to let go of him because the Decepticon had neglected to deactivate their weapons and hadn't put the stasis cuffs that they had removed to strap him into the machine back on him yet. It was actually what Shadowstriker had been about to do.

After forcing Shadowstriker to jump back to avoid his drill Knock Out activated his saw and bolted at the machine and drove his saw into it's power core before any of the cons could stop him saving Windblade and destroying the machine.

The explosion knocked him back but he smiled when he saw that Windblade was fine and staggered back to his feet he could feel that he had been hurt in the explosion but not badly.

And he couldn't help smirking a little when he saw Megatron's angry reaction to having the machine he had been using to reprogram bots into cons destroyed.

"That was for Breakdown." He hissed remembering when Megatron had ordered his and his brother's exacution and gotten Breakdown killed.

"Bumblebee make an example of that defect and punish him for interfering with my plan." Megatron ordered the yellow scout.

"Gladly I've been itching to beat the scrap out of something all day." Bumblebee answered being under the effects of Dark Energon and not in his right mind.

Before Knock Out could react Bumblebee had used his stinger to stun him so he was now unable to move or fight back. Then Bumblebee punched him to the floor of the Decepticon base where he continue to beat him. While Shadowstriker and Soundwave held Windblade back to stop her from intervening.

"No Bumblebee stop it!" Windblade pleading hoping some part of the Bumblebee she knew was still in there and that she could get through to him.

"BEE PLEASE STOP YOU'LL KILL HIM!!!"  Windblade have screamed half sobbed seeing Knock Out was in a pool of his own energon and his optics were blinking off and on at this rate Bumblebee would end up beating him to death.

Bee look down at the cherry colored mech who was now covered in dents and cracks and leaking a large amount of energon. Poor Knock Out was still stunned and too weak now to move or speak even if he wasn't.

Then Bumblebee saw the hurt and devastated look on Windblade's face at seeing one of her beast friends about to kill another.

"That's enough take that worthless piece of junk to the medbay and have Scouple see if any part of him is worth salvaging then once you're done toss him into the scrapheap." Megatron ordered Soundwave.

Then Soundwave went over and injected Knock Out with a circuit booster to keep him from being able to struggle just in case the red medic got a second wind which given his condition was unlikely but he figured it wouldn't hurt to be safe.

As soon as the circuit booster was administered Knock Out's optics rolled shut and he lost what small amount of consciousness he had managed to hold onto.

Then Soundwave dragged him down the hallway to the medbay not even  bothering to be gentle with him.

While Shadowstriker forced Windblade back to the holding cell to spite her struggles to get down the hallway where Knock Out was taken just wanting to make sure he was alright because she couldn't tell if he was dead or alive.

But to spite her struggles and pleas she ended up being toss back into the holding cell that was quickly shut and locked behind her.

Then Megatron went order some other Decepticons to try to fix the machine planning to use it on Windblade when it was done.

Bumblebee who was now alone in the main room looked at Knock Out's energon that was on the floor and his servos as his optics turned blue again and his face turned to horror as he realized what he'd just done as the Dark Energon wore off.

He couldn't get the dazed look in the red medic's optics and the pleas of the other Autobot off his mind. She seemed familiar to him. And that was when it all came flooding back.

To Be Continued.

Hope this chapter turned out OK. It was tricky to come up with. And sorry about the evil cliffhanger. I'll try to update everything soon. In the meantime feel free to send feedback.