Knock Out came back online a few hours later and felt terrible. his body felt weak and he couldn't even get his optics to open. And could feel pain through his entire frame. He could hear people talking but was too out of it to understand what they were saying. He felt tired and was barely conscious and couldn't move.

"So how's our guest?" Spencer asked a man who was a scientist for New Mech.

"He keeps fighting the effects of the EMP and trying to regain consciousness but all I have to do is turn the frequency up and he's back out like a light." Said the scientist as he turned it up making Knock Out go back to being unconscious.

"Excellent I don't want him to come online and try to escape." Hissed Spencer. "At least not tell I have his friends." "Then I'll let him come online and force him to watch us kill them one by one then when we're done with them we'll kill him slowly and painfully."

"To get revenge for your bother right?" Asked the scientist.

"Yes and for messing up my plans last time." Spencer added. "Maybe when we finish with him and his friends I'll make what remains of him into a trophy."

"Yes but what if he somehow gets free or his friends come to rescue him." Asked the scientist.

"That's what the EMP is for if you as much as see one of his fingers twitch turn it up." Spencer ordered. "And as for his friends coming to save him that's what I'm counting on." "In fact I want them to come so we can captured them." "Oh and I didn't get your name."

"Doctor Arcavill." The scientist introduced himself.

"Well Doctor Arcavill welcome to New Mech." Spencer told him. "Now we have a trap to set."
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A few hours later Ratchet got a call he thought was from Knock Out but Spencer's voice came through the line instead.

"How are you on Knock Out's com link?" Asked Ratchet. "And what have you done to him?" Everyone in the room could hear both worry and anger in the medic's voice.

"Don't blow a gasket your friend's alive for now." Hissed Spencer and everyone could hear the venom in his voice. "Now if you want him to stay that way I want all of you to came to our base." "Or we could send him back to you piece by piece." "So what will it be?"

"Alright we will came to your base but if Knock Out has been harmed you will have to answer to all of us." Said Optimus who had cut into the conversion and everyone knew didn't take kindly to his friends or any of his team being threatened.

"OK we'll meet you outside the base just lock in on your friends cordnets." Spencer told them. "And don't forget to bring all the transformers on your team." "We'll worry about the humans later." Spencer didn't say the last part out loud.

"OK we'll be there." Said Bumblebee. "And Knock Out better be OK."

"We'll be waiting." Spencer said to them. Then the call ended.

"This is going to be a trap." Groaned Starscream.

"Yes but we have to save Knock Out." Sideswipe told him.

"Don't worry Optimus and I have a plan." Said Bumblebee. "We're going to meet them while Fire Wing goes in the base and rescues Knock Out."

"Great plan she just finished her training and New Mech doesn't even know about her." Chimed Starscream.

"And I've been wanting to go on a field test." Fire Wing added. "And I still kind of need to make it up to Knock Out since I burned him when we first met."

"Be careful." Starscream told her. "I mean Knock Out is my best friend." He added after seeing everyone look at him.

"I will be and I'll make sure we both make it out in one piece." Said Fire Wing. "And you guys be careful too." Everyone noticed she didn't take her optics off Starscream.

Then they went through the ground bridge. And after that Fire Wing went through another one they opened behind the base so she could sneak in and save Knock Out.
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After arriving at New Mech's base the team was confronted with nets like the one used to capture Knock Out. But unfortunately for New Mech two of them didn't work out.

Starscream shot the one aimed at him out of reflex and sent it back at some of them. And the guy who fired one at Grimlock was a really bad shot and missed him completely.

"How do you miss a Dinobot!" Growled an angry Spencer. Who looked like he was going to wet himself when Grimlock took off in a charge right at them. While Starscream helped the others out of the nets.

"I don't even think we really needed to send Fire Wing these guys are messing up on their own." Laughed Sideswipe.

"Can you spell incompetent?" Asked Strongarm.

"So undisciplined." Added Drift.

"Tell me about it." Said Ultra Magnus.

Then Spencer and his men started to retreat but then some men Agent Fowler sent arrested them before they got very far.
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Meanwhile Fire Wing came to a room where she saw Knock Out strapped down and unconscious. She saw he had several dents and was leaking energon in a few places and saw where his com-link had been ripped out of him and some wires could also be seen and he just laid there unmoving. Fire Wing was worried she couldn't tell if he was dead or alive.

Then Doctor Arcavill turn the EMP up after spotting Fire Wing hoping if he turn it high enough it would knock her out and they could catch her too.

But she transformed to her Phoenix mode and shot flames at the EMP making it explode and burst into flames. and unfortunately for Doctor Arcavill he had been right next to it and was sent flying and hit his back hard on a wall that had been made of bricks and was knocked out on impact.

Fire Wing changed back with a look of horror on her face she had only ment to stop the EMP and hadn't ment to hurt anyone even if it was a bad guy who had hurt her friend. She was horror stricken what if she had just killed a man.

Then Starscream who had ran into New Mech's base after seeing smoke coming from inside and hearing a boom got there.

"What happened?" Asked Starscream who was worried about his friends.

"That thing was hurting me and Knock Out and I just wanted to make it stop!" Cried Fire Wing who was on the verge of tears. "I didn't mean to hurt him." She said pointing at Doctor Arcavill who just laid there.

"He's still alive." Said Starscream who ran a diagnostic scan on Doctor Arcavill. "I'll carry him out you get Knock Out." "This place is about to go up in smoke!"

Fire Wing obeyed and got Knock Out after getting the restraints off him and gently half dragged half carried him through a ground bridge and Starscream came through right behind them with Doctor Arcavill in his hand and not a moment to soon because the whole place went up in flames.

The others had already returned to base and were there waiting all of New Mech were now being taken to prison including Spencer. And they had paramedics take Doctor Arcavill to the hospital who said he would probably survive but would be immobile for the rest of his life.

While Ratchet wasted no time getting Knock Out to the medbay. And after Fire Wing and Starscream explained what went down the others told Fire Wing everything would be OK and no one blamed her for what happened. They all knew it was an accident but Fire Wing still felt bad.

Then Ratchet came out and said Knock Out was in bad shape the EMP had been turned up way too high and he had gone into a coma. Ratchet had repaired his injuries that New Mech had inflicted. But he was unresponsive and Ratchet was afraid it may have damaged Knock Out's processor. And the longer he stayed offline the slimmer his chance of recovery.

Fire Wing felt like it was all her fault. But Ratchet quickly informed her that if she hadn't taken out that EMP when she did Knock Out would have certainly been killed.

"Fire Wing you saved his life." Ratchet told her. "And Knock Out is going to make it I won't give as long as he still has a spark he still has a chance."

To Be Continued.

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