That night in Shockwave's lab he had just finished working with the duplicate of Starscream's spark which he had been calling Protoform X and was now about to bring the new Predicon online. When he opened the tank out came a really big crab Predicon.

"Welcome I'll call you Rampage." Shockwave told him. "And I already have a mission for you I want you to go to the Autobot base and bring back another Predicon named Fire Wing she escaped and I found out she joined their ranks and getting her back is paramount."

"Why should I take orders from you?" Asked Rampage. "I'm probably strong enough to destroy you?"

"Because I can make an army of Predicons for you to lead." Shockwave replied.

"Now your talking." Said Rampage. "Get cracking."

"I need Fire Wing before I can make your army her spark is important." Shockwave explained.

"Very well I will retrieve her." Rampage said before running out to do just that.

"That Predicon inherited Starscream treacherous lust for power." Thought Shockwave. "That one could be more dangerous then any of the other Predicons the Autobots won't know what hit them."
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The next day the Autobots were all just working around the base and spending time with their human friends. Knock Out was now back to normal but Ratchet still wanted him to take it easy. So he was chatting with Shayna while fixing his paint job.

Meanwhile Fire Wing was standing in a corner still filling a bit out of place with the Autobots and their human friends. Starscream noticed this and went over to her.

"Hey Fire want to go for a flight?" Asked Starscream.

"OK that sounds nice." She answered as they walked outside and the two of them transformed and took to the sky.

Bumblebee watched them fly off glad they were getting along so well. Then Ratchet asked him to get something out of storage. So he walked to the storeroom but thought he heard something.

He turned to see if someone was there but saw no one and noticed an energon sword was gone.

"Probably just Sky Warp or Sideswipe pulling a prank." He told himself. And thought nothing of it till he was suddenly impelled by it.

Bumblebee turned to face his attacker and saw it was a crab Predicon who stabbed him he managed to kick Rampage and pull the sword out of his shoulder where he had been stabbed.

And staggered toward the exist only for Rampage to beat him to the floor then hit him hard across the helm knocking the yellow Autobot unconscious.
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Meanwhile Ratchet realized it was taking Bumblebee a really long time to come back from the storeroom. So Knock Out and Shayna went to see what was keeping him.

They entered the storeroom and noticed the injured yellow mech. "Bumblebee!" Shouted a worried Knock Out as his medical training kicked in and he started trying to help the downed Autobot.

"Ah another bug for me to squish." Hissed Rampage making both Knock Out and Shayna turn to see him standing there.

"Why did you do this to Bumblebee?" Yelled Knock Out.

"Because I could." Said Rampage. "I'll just keep killing every one who comes down here till I find who I'm looking for."

"Your sick!" Growled Knock Out.

"Wow what is she?" Rampage exclaimed looking at Shayna.

"Don't you touch her!" Yelled Knock Out as he slashed Rampage with the sword that the Predicon had used to stab Bumblebee. "Shayna run!" Knock Out practically screamed. Shayna obeyed and ran off to get help.

All slashing him with the energon sword did was make Rampage mad and he slammed the red medic into the wall making him drop the sword and knock over some boxes.

Then Rampage held the smaller mech up pressing him against the wall. Knock Out was struggling hard trying to get free. Then he tried to use his saw only to have his arm ripped off for his trouble. Then slammed into the wall a second time harder.

Then he ripped Knock Out's other arm off making him cry out in pain. And tossed him to the floor. And was about to finish him. When Starscream and Fire Wing showed up because they had just gotten back when they ran into Shayna who told them what was going on before going off to get the others.

"Ah I've found you." Rampage said to Fire Wing who was now freaked out and took off running after seeing he was headed for her.

Starscream wanted to help Fire Wing but also didn't want to leave Knock Out and Bumblebee like that.

"Go help Fire Wing the others will come for us." Knock Out told him and the seeker obeyed.
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Meanwhile Fire Wing was running for her life through the hallway. Rampage was huge compared to her he was close to Optimus's size. Fire Wing knew she probably wouldn't have a chance against him.

Then Starscream who had managed to pass Rampage in his jet mode caught up to Fire Wing and the two of them ducked into the training room where Starscream quickly pushed Fire Wing into a closet and told her to stay there and not make a sound no matter what before closing the door.

Fire Wing found a crack in the wall just big enough for her to look through so she could only watch in terror as Rampage busted through the door.

"Where's the femme!" Rampage yelled as he went after Starscream.

"Your not getting her!" Starscream yelled back at him.

Fire Wing could see them fighting and it was pretty close until Starscream suddenly grasped his spark chamber and she could see pain in his optics.

"No not now!" She hard him groan as Rampage started to close in on him. But lucky for Starscream he was close to a control panel and hit a button that made some drones that were used as opponents for battle training came out and started attacking Rampage.

Which was good because all Starscream could do at the moment was lean against the wall with one hand on his spark.

But Rampage just pushed through the drones like they were nothing and was about to take advantage of the moment and kill Starscream. But suddenly Fire Wing shot out of the closet and transformed to her Phoenix mode, sent a wave of fire at Rampage and blasted him out the window.

Then she ran over to Starscream who had recovered because the pain in his spark chamber had subsided but he was secretly starting to worry about himself.

"Are you OK?" Fire Wing asked him.

"Don't worry I'm fine thanks to you." He told her. Then she through herself into his arms and started crying mainly do to the shock and terror of what they'd just been through and he wrapped his arms around her in a hug and told her it was going to be OK.

Then the others got there and they all looked out the window to see Rampage had retreated somewhere and they all had a feeling they hadn't seen the last of him.

"Are Bumblebee and Knock Out OK?" Asked Starscream and Fire Wing at the same time.

"That's what we are going to find out." Said Optimus Prime. "Let's go to the medbay." Then they all followed him that way.
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When they got there they found Sideswipe reattaching Knock Out's arms while the red medic talked him through it.

"Please hurry up and get my arms back on me so I can fix my finish." Said Knock Out.

"I'd be faster if you would stop telling me to redo it every five clicks." Sideswipe shot back.

"Well if you would just do it right." Knock Out told him.

"I better help before this comes to Rose, Hose, Blows." Said Fixit.

"I don't think you'll have to worry about that since Knock Out's been disarmed." Joked Sideswipe. And even Knock Out had to chuckle at that.

"Knock Out's going to be OK but what about Bumblebee?" Asked Fire Wing.

"Bumblebee is going to be fine it was just a mesh wound." Ratchet told them as he came out of the medbay. "He's going to make a full recovery it looked worse then it really was."

Everyone was relieved to hear that. But they knew the same thing was on all their minds when would they have to deal with Rampage again and what did he want with Fire Wing?

To Be Continued.

This chapter is done. Hope you all like the story so far.