Starscream flew with Shayna in his jet mode as they went to where Knock Out's signal was coming from.

They arrived at Order of Gray's base that was located in the Amazon jungle not far from where Knock Out had been sent by the space bridge.

Starscream told Shayna to wait outside while he went in to find Knock Out knowing this could get dangerous and knowing Starscream would have his hands full getting Knock Out out of there Shayna didn't want to further complicate things so she obeyed and waited outside.

Once he was sure she was safe Starscream went in the base to look for Knock Out and found the place was deserted but he was still picking up the red medic's signal.

So Starscream walked around inside the base looking for any sign of his friend. When suddenly he spotted a red transformer standing at the end of the hall.

"Knock Out are you OK what did they do to you?" Starscream asked. But then the transformer turned around and he saw that this wasn't Knock Out. It was actually Stinger who Order of Gray had left to guard their base.

Starscream quickly realized the mistake as Stinger started attacking him. And the seeker fought back to defend himself.

Starscream knew there was no point trying to reason with this opponent because he could tell Stinger didn't have a spark. And was actually just a drone that couldn't feel or think for it's self. So Starscream wasn't holding back. But Stinger was proving to be an even match for the seeker.

Unlike Stinger Starscream could feel pain. And the beating he was taking hurt. Stinger was being damaged just as badly but he didn't feel any of it and kept going.

Stinger now had Starscream pinned to the floor. And was about to finish the seeker. When suddenly another jet crashed through one of the walls of the base then transformed into a cybertronian. And started fighting Stinger knocking him away from Starscream.

Then Starscream managed to blast Stinger with one of his missiles blowing his head off and destroying him. Then the other transformer walked over and helped Starscream to his feet.

He was a yellow and blue mech with hints of red and white and Starscream could tell by his wings and the fact that he also changed into a jet that he was also a seeker.

"Thanks for the save." Starscream told the other seeker.

"Your welcome I'm Metalhawk." The seeker introduced herself.

"I'm Starscream." Starscream told him.

"I heard the fighting and came to see what was going on." Metalhawk explained. "I left Cybertron during the war because I didn't want to join either faction I just wanted to stay out of it I hate violence." He told Starscream.

"For someone who hates violence you sure fight well." Starscream said looking at the remains of Stinger.

"It helps if my opponent isn't alive to begin with." Metalhawk explained. "I don't like fighting but I can't stand by when another is being harmed." "Other then that I usually stay hidden and just give any human or cybertronians I see their space."

"I have to find my friend he's somewhere in this building some humans captured him and brought him here." Starscream told Metalhawk. And the other seeker agreed to help him.

They looked around till they found a cell that was locked and then worked together to blast it open and found Knock Out on the other side.

Starscream ran over to his friend and saw that he was badly hurt and banging his helm against the floor and his optics had turned green and he was shaking like he was trying to fight something but was to weak to move.

"Knock Out!" Starscream said to the weak and injured medic. "What did those monsters do to you?" He added picking up his friend.

Starscream and Metalhawk left the base and found Shayna still waiting outside and Starscream introduced her to Metalhawk and Shayna got back in Starscream's jet mode while Metalhawk carried Knock Out and they went back to Shayna's house and the three transformers went in the barn to hide.
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Just as they had gotten in Blake got there to see Shayna and Starscream then spotted Metalhawk.

"Not another one." Blake said feeling like he'd missed something. "Their multiplying." Then he saw Starscream go over to where Knock Out was laying not having seen the red mech before because he had been laying on a pile of hay still in really bad shape.

"That one doesn't look so good." Said Blake now concerned and wishing he knew how to fix a cybertronian because even as a mechanic who worked with machines on a daily bases he didn't know what to do about this.

He decided to try to fix what damage he could but unfortunately couldn't do much.

Then Knock Out suddenly started shaking harder his optics still a bright shade of green and they kept rolling to the back of his helm and to spite them being open he didn't respond to anything. But kept moaning and groaning.

"Come on Knock Out you have to snap out of it." Starscream said to his friend. "What ever those humans did to you." "You can beat it." The others could tell Starscream was worried about Knock Out.

"I'll make those monsters pay for doing this." Starscream whisper to the red medic. "If only Ratchet was here." He thought. Just then they saw a ground bridge open outside Shayna's house.

Starscream and Metalhawk both ran out to where the ground bridge opened ready to protect their friends if it was Decepticons who were coming.

But they were relieved to see Optimus Prime, Arcee, Bulkhead and Bumblebee come out. Who Starscream greeted and introduced to Metalhawk and his new human friends.

Then the four Autobots explained that after Arcee and the other Autobots who had infiltrated the Decepticon space station told Optimus what happened to Starscream and Knock Out he had called Bumblebee's team on Earth and told them to look for the two former Decepticons and Optimus had returned to Earth to help search for them and Arcee had insisted on coming as well still feeling bad about her argument with Knock Out.

And Bulkhead had come as well because he wanted to see Earth again and hang out with Bumblebee and his team. And they had only just now been able to lock on to Starscream's signal.

"I'm sorry Starscream your one of us now and I should treat you as such." Arcee apologized to the seeker. "And I forgive you for what you did to Cliffjumper." "What's done can't be undone and I know your not the evil Decepticon you used to be your an Autobot now."

"It's OK I understand why you'd hate me you have ever right to after all I did." Starscream told her. Then they shook hands to show that they now accepted each other as friends.

"Now I just need to make up with Knock Out." Said Arcee.

"Oh scrap Knock Out!" Starscream scolded himself. "We need to get him medical attention he's hurt, very sick and maybe dying!" Then he explained to them what had happened.

Then Optimus called Ratchet who was waiting at the scrap yard with Bumblebee's team and opened a ground bridge and Bulkhead carried Knock Out through it and took him to the med bay.

And then they all went through it to the scrap yard and they welcomed Shayna, Blake and Metalhawk to the team and told them they could stay or come by anytime they wanted. And introduced them to the rest of the Autobots and Denny and Russell.
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Then Ratchet who had just been examining Knock Out came out of the med bay and explained that Knock Out had received serious damage. Several of his circuits had been fried. And even though Blake had fixed some of the damage to Knock Out's frame the red medic still had cracks all over it where Order of Gray had drilled into him.

But what worried Ratchet is that he found traces of Synth-En in Knock Out's system. That's what was making him so sick. Synth-En made cybertronians aggressive and that was why Knock Out kept shaking like he was trying to struggle with something and moaning and groaning the way he was.

But because they had given him the Synth-En in his already injured and weakened state and as a result he was burning through his energon and in a restless state but was so weak he could barley move. And the amount they'd given him was too big a dose for his frame size.

Ratchet had treated his wounds and put him on an energon drip. And strapped him down to the berth and put him in stasis to keep him from hurting himself because after regaining some strength when Ratchet repaired his wounds Knock Out started shaking harder and clawing at himself.

"Is he gonna be OK?" Bumblebee asked Ratchet.

"I don't know his wounds will heal." Ratchet told him. "But it's the Synth-En I'm worried about they gave him way to much. Normally it would wear out of his system after a while but I don't know if this will or not." "All I know is till it wear off on it's own or we find a way to get it out of his system Knock Out is going to be really sick."
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Meanwhile Arcee was setting next to Knock Out's berth worried about the red medic. She felt terrible that the last thing she'd said to him before he and Starscream had been sent to Earth was that she didn't think he deserved to wear the Autobot shield.

Now She wanted more then anything to take it back and apologize to him but now she might now get the chance. Then she noticed where the paint was still covering his Autobot insignia and she gently scratched it off so his Autobot shield was showing again.

"Your an Autobot and I want you to know it." She told the unconscious transformer. "Your part of this team."

Then Starscream also went over and set by them worried about Knock Out as well. The whole team was and were trying to figure out how to save their friend.

To Be Continued.

Well that's it for that chapter. Hope your all enjoying it.