Knock Out drove to the building the sparkling had described and then transformed and went inside to look for her Carrier.

"Hellow?" "I'm here to help!" Knock Out shouted hoping to get a reply thinking a life was on the line.

After he didn't get an answer Knock Out started looking around thinking the sparkling's Carrier might be unconscious.

The whole building was old and falling apart and everything in it was broken and worn from how long the building had been abandoned.

With the exception of a chair he passed while moving to look in another room.

"There's no one here." He told himself after searching every inch of the building and not finding anyone. "That sparkling must have been pulling a prank on me."

Knock Out started to leave the building but noticed the chair that had been there when he entered was gone now.

"Strange I could have sworn there was a chair here a minute ago." Knock Out said scratching his helm.

Then suddenly he heard pedsteps behind him and turned just in time to see Kaon who he'd heard about and remembered was part of the DJD.

Knock Out reached for his energon prob but realized he didn't have it on him and knew he must have dropped it somewhere. "Scrap!" He scolded himself for having misplaced one of his best weapons.

But before he had time to react any more he felt electricity shoot through his frame as Kaon shocked him until Knock Out blacked out and Kaon dragged the downed medic outside the building.
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Meanwhile Ratchet and Arcee left the medbay and Ratchet found Knock Out's energon prob outside the door.

"Knock Out must have dropped this." Ratchet said holding the energon prob.

"You don't think he heard our conversation do you?" Arcee asked now feeling bad about what she said about the Austin Martin not having thought he might have heard it.

"I don't know it depends on when he left this here." Ratchet told her. "I'll call him and tell him we found it."

Then Ratchet tried to call Knock Out over his com-link but the cherry colored mech didn't answer. And he tried several more times and got the same result.

Then Arcee tried but still no answer. "Why isn't he answering his com-link?" She asked.

"I don't know but I don't like this." Ratchet said with a hint of worry in his voice.

Then they saw Bumblebee walking down the hallway and asked him to try calling Knock Out.

"Hellow Knock Out this Bumblebee." Bumblebee spoke into his com-link but then his face fell. "Nothing." He told Arcee and Ratchet.

"Something's wrong it's not like Knock Out not to answer his com-link." Ratchet told them gravely.

"Try to get a fix on his signal." Bumblebee suggested.

"I'll try it." Ratchet told them as he pulled up Knock Out's life signal and both Arcee and Bumblebee shared worried glances.

"Oh no we have to find him his life signal just went critical and he's on the move!" Ratchet almost shouted.

And the three of them ran for the ground bridge.

"No Knock Out!" Ratchet yelled as his expression saddened.

"What is it?" Asked Bumblebee almost afraid of the answer.

"Knock Out's life signal just went offline." Ratchet told them.

"No!" Arcee sobbed.

"Let bridge to his last location anyway there's a chance his signal might just be shielded somehow." Bumblebee said to them hopping this might be the case. And if it wasn't at least they should give their friend a proper burial.
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Meanwhile at the sametime Ratchet and Arcee had found Knock Out's energon prob. Knock Out had regained consciousness and was being tortured by the DJD who actually played music while they tortured him Tarn's favorite track the Empyrean Suite.

First Kaon had shocked him some more. Then Tesarus had forced Knock Out's servos into the grinding pit that was in his chest.

Then Helex put him inside his alt mode and used his acid on him not long enough to melt him but long enough to give him some serious burns.

Then yanked him out of it and tossed him roughly to the ground. Where poor Knock Out just laid there optics wide with terror and pain surging through his entire frame.

Then Vos took his faceplates off which had spikes on the inside and started trying to force it over Knock Out's faceplates like a mask. Since he and Tarn were the only two who hadn't tortured the red mech yet they thought all the fight had been taken out of him.

But Knock Out surprised them. To spite being heavily damaged he somehow managed to kick the torture device out of Vos's hand then quickly jumped to his peds and in spite of how much it hurt him he managed to transform into his alt mode and drove away as fast as his wheels would spin.

But the DJD wasn't finished with him yet and gave chase. Knock Out was hurt badly which was making it difficult for him to drive. And he was slower than usual and having trouble because his tires kept jerking in different directions and his vision was blurred.

Knock Out knew he was really in no condition to be driving but it was his only hope of escape at the moment.

So he forced himself to put on more speed even though it was hurting him. Then to his horror there was a cliff in his path and one of the biggest drops on Cybertron.

Now he had a choice either take his chances with the cliff or be killed by the DJD. He chose the former thinking if he could by some miracle ramp over the cliff he could escape.

But would he be able to make the jump in his broken and beaten up state?

Knock Out let out a cry of pain as he forced himself to go as fast as he possibly could. It hurt like the pit but he was going fast enough to make the jump. "Just a little more." He thought to himself.

"He's getting away!" Yelled Kaon.

"No he's not." Said Tarn as he fired Vos who was in his rifle mode.

All poor Knock Out knew was one moment he had been racing toward the cliff and the next moment he felt a blast hit his alt mode that caused him to lose control.

Then his alt mode was sent flying foreword then rolled off the side of the cliff and he popped one tire and lost another one and busted his windshield then lost a door before hitting the bottom and transforming on impact before everything went black.
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A few hours later Knock Out come to himself laying on his back at the bottom of the cliff.

He tried to get up but found it impossible. It was like he had no control of his body because he couldn't get it to do anything he wanted it too.

And he could feel something wet and know he was bleeding energon. His entire frame hurt and his systems were sending him alarms that they were seriously damaged.

His com-link had already been fried when Kaon zapped him when he was captured and even if it was working he couldn't move to activate it.

Knock Out's optics flickered to stay on but he was quickly losing his fight to stay conscious. Until finally he fell into emergency stasis lock.
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Meanwhile Ratchet, Arcee, Bumblebee and Optimus who they had gotten to come with them arrived at the location where the DJD had tortured Knock Out.

Where they found spelled energon and signs that someone had been tortured then tire tracks that they knew were Knock Out's leading towards the cliff. The DJD had already left long before they got there because it took them a while to pinpoint the location.

Then Arcee saw something off the side of the cliff and transformed into her motorcycle mode and started ramping from ledge to ledge going down to the bottom since she was the only one small enough to do so.

The others took a ground bridge to the bottom of the cliff. Arcee got there first and found Knock Out laying there motionless. His frame was covered in dents, scratchs and acid burns and his servos were crushed beyond recognition.

She had actually spotted the door he lost on one of the ledges she ramped on as well as his tire and broken shards of glass.

Arcee noticed there were a few scraplets biting Knock Out and picking at him which she quickly chased away.

Then the others came through the ground bridge. And Ratchet hurried over to Knock Out and ran a diagnostic scan on him.

"He's alive but just barely." Ratchet told them as he got to work trying to save Knock Out. "His single was being shielded by the cliff."

"Well he be ok?" Asked Bumblebee.

"It's too soon to know." Ratchet said sadly. "Even if Knock Out survives he might never be the same again."

"We'll call the hospital and have them send an emergency ground bridge." Said Bumblebee.

"No that would be a bad idea if the DJD know he survived what's to stop them from finishing him later?" Arcee pointed out.

"But the medbay at base doesn't have the proper equipment to save him." Ratchet told them.

"I have an Idea." Bumblebee said to them. "I just have to make a quick call."

Then a few minutes later Bumblebee got of his com-link and explained to the others that he had called Starscream and told him the situation and the seeker had agreed to let him go to the hospital in New Vos since it was currently safe from the DJD.

And they had agreed to keep it a secret that Knock Out had survived so the DJD wouldn't go after him again even if they somehow did manage to enter the city.

A few moments later a ground bridge appeared and Starscream came through along with some seeker who were medics who put Knock Out on a stretcher and took him to their hospital and Ratchet went as well to help anyway he could.

Arcee watched them go just hoping Knock Out would live because she had never seen the red medic in this bad shape and she didn't like it.

She had said horrible things about him and just hoped she'd get a chance to apologize to him. Because she wouldn't get a chance to if he died.

Ratchet had to go grab something from his office in the hospital before going to the one in New Vos. And Starscream went with him.

While they were there Pharma past Starscream in the hallway and both seekers shot each other glares and if looks could kill.

As soon as Pharma was out of hearing range Starscream pulled Ratchet into a corner.

"What is he doing here?" Starscream asked.

"Oh Pharma works here don't worry he didn't go against you orders he's a seeker but he hasn't lived in New Vos so he didn't leave it without permission." Ratchet explained.

"Of course he didn't because Pharma was told to never step foot on Vos if it was rebuilt while the war was still going on." Starscream told him.

"For being an Autobot?" Asked Ratchet.

"No for murdering patients because they were Decepticons." Starscream explained. "There were rumours that he was working with the DJD helping them out and giving them parts if they would leave him alone."

This news hit Ratchet like a ton of bricks Pharma was killing patients and working with the DJD how could someone like that be working in the hospital at Iacon. They had all thought of him as a trusted college.

Ratchet and Starscream walked to the ground bridge but before they left Ratchet took the tape from a security camera that was in the hallway and put a new one in it's place so it would still record.

"Why did you do that?" Starscream asked.

"I just want to check on a hunch." Ratchet told him.

Then they ground bridge to the hospital in New Vos where Starscream joined the members of Team Prime and Team Bee who were already in the waiting room. And Ratchet went back to help save Knock Out just hoping he would survive and wouldn't have any lasting damage.

To Be Continued.

Another cliffhanger. I'll try to get the next chapter up soon in the meantime feel free to send feedback.