Arcee, Rattrap and Dinobot were on their way to the Counsel building when Arcee got a call on her com-link from Ratchet.

"Arcee where are you I'm coming to help." Said a worried Ratchet.

"No you have to go back Knock Out needs you." Arcee told him. "And I have two other bots helping me."

"OK but be careful and if you need help call me right away." Ratchet replied before turning around to go back to base.

"I will." Arcee told him before they hung up and Arcee, Dinobot and Rattrap continued to the Counsel building.

When Ratchet got back to the base he found it in a mess and saw the Deceptaicons had broken out of their holding cells fortunately the Scavengers were still in their's. The first thing Ratchet did was go to make sure they hadn't killed Knock Out and was relieved to see they hadn't touched him. The second thing he did was call and inform the rest of the team about what happened.

Just then Bumblebee and Strongarm got there with Waspinator it had taken a long time to get to base because Waspinator kept walking into walls and crashing into things because he was still seeing double. They told Ratchet what happened to Waspinator and he told them what was going on with Knock Out.

"I think I know why Waspinator fell." Said Ratchet pulling some web off his foot and showing it to Bumblebee and Strongarm.

"Tarantulaus must have pulled him down intentionally." Bumblebee exclaimed. "But why?"

"Sir I could have sworn I heard banging before Waspinator hit the floor." Strongarm said to Bumblebee.

"Come to think of it so did I." He replied. "Tarantulaus must have did that to detract us from it."

"Tarantulaus is the one who did this to Knock Out." Ratchet told them then brought them to the med bay and showed them what condition their friend was in.

"No." Said Strongarm. "He must have been banging for help trying to get our attention."

"We could have saved him." Bumblebee said in dismay. "I failed him I should have known it was a detraction."

"It's not your fault Sir he fooled me too." Strongarm told him.

"Don't blame yourselves right now we need to focus on helping Knock Out." Ratchet said to them and they both agreed.

"Noo!" "Don't touch me!" They all heard Knock Out scream. And saw that his sedation had worn off and he was hallucinating again. Only this time his optics were closed and the only thing moving was his mouth it was more like he was having a nightmare.

Until he started shaking as if he had completely lost control of his frame. And was now coiffing up energon Bumblebee and Strongarm had to restrain him while Ratchet got to work trying to keep him online.

"It's getting worse." Said Ratchet. "If I put him in stasis or even lightly sedate him it could speed up the affects of the cyber venom." "We just have to keep him restrained to make sure he doesn't hurt himself."

Bumblebee and Strongarm did their best to keep the red medic still. And could tell Ratchet was at his wits end. Doing anything and everything to save Knock Out.
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Meanwhile Arcee, Rattrap and Dinobot had just arrived at the Counsel building and Rattrap had snuck in through the vents to find the antidote. Dinobot had wanted to storm the building and Arcee secretly felt like doing just that but knew this was the best way to help Knock Out.

Because if they had a fight there was a chance the antidote could be destroyed along with any chance of saving Knock Out. A chance Arcee wasn't willing to take.

Things got a bit scary when Rattrap fell through a weak spot in one of the vents. And hit a computer and almost accidentally cut the power making the lights blink. But managed to hide when some mechs came in to fix it. Arcee sighed in relief. And she saw Dinobot facepalm. And a few minutes later Rattrap appeared with the antidote.

"Great job now we have to get to the Autobot base and get this to Knock Out." Arcee told them. And they hurried to the base.
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When they got there Arcee who was carrying the antidote went straight to Ratchet.

"Ratchet we got the antidote!" She almost yelled handing it to him.

"Ratchet!" Cried Strongarm who ran into the main room. "Knock Out just lost consciousness and his life signal is getting weak."

"We don't have much time we have to give him this antidote now." Said Ratchet rushing to the med bay.

Arcee and the others followed him. Bumblebee was already there and look frantic. "Ratchet he's dying!" Yelled the worried black and yellow mech.

Ratchet wasted no time giving Knock Out the antidote. All the others were worried about how still the red mech had became. And what worried Arcee even more is that at the same time Ratchet give him the antidote Knock Out's life signal flatlined. And he remained still.

"No!" "Knock Out!" Yelled Arcee. "We were to late."

But then they saw Knock Out's signal slowly comeback online.

"Oh next time I stop to help an ill or injured mech at the side of the road I'm calling for back up." Said Knock Out as he opened his optics.

"Your ok." Exclaimed both Arcee and Strongarm who both hugged him.

"Welcome back to the land of moving parts." Ratchet told him.

"Hey Cherry Bomb glad to see your not scrapped." Said Wheeljack who had just gotten back.

"You guys aren't getting rid of me that easy." Knock Out said with a smile. "And Wheeljack how many time have I told you not to call me that."

"I think the same amount of times Doc bot's told me not to call him Doc." Wheeljack replied with a mischievous grin before running out of the room.

"Wheeljack!" Yelled Ratchet who tossed a wrench at him that he dodged because he knew it was coming and it ended up hitting Waspinator who was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time right in the helm.

"Waspinator see double again!" Yelled Waspinator.

"Oh scrap." Huffed Ratchet with a priceless look on his face that made everyone chuckle. "Looks like I have to fix Waspinator again." "I'm So sorry about that." They heard him shout to Waspinator before saying Knock Out would be fine and back to normal after a few days of resting and taking it easy. Then went out to help Waspinator and continued to apologize for the wrench.

"Glad your alright Knock Out you really had us scared." Bumblebee told him.

"I had a close call but it'll take a lot more then that to snuff my spark out." Knock Out told them.

"Good because we don't want you leaving us anytime soon." Bumblebee said to him. "And sorry Strongarm and I didn't help you back there at the Counsel building."

"Don't worry about that Tarantulaus tricked the two of you he's as sick and twisted as Arachnid." Knock Out explained.

"Bee and Strongarm aren't the only one's with an apology I'm sorry about what I said yesterday I know you wouldn't betray us your a valued member of this team and don't let anyone tell you otherwise." Arcee told him.

"It's OK I made a lot of bad choices before changing sides and this thing with the Quintessons and Counsel has everyone stressed out." Knock Out told her. "Your the one who got the antidote and saved me thank you Arcee." "And I did betray the team that jerk Tarantulaus and one of the Quints used a patch on me." "I'm so sorry." He said to them with sad optics.

"You didn't really betray us." Arcee told Knock Out. "They went in your mind and took whatever information they got you didn't willingly volunteer any of it and you didn't have a choice they dug around in your head and you didn't have any say over it."

"Yeah but I'm the one who got himself captured." Knock Out said to them.

"But only because what I'd said before upset you and you weren't thinking straight." Said Arcee. "And at lease you didn't leave the base unattended and let the Cons escape like the rest of us did."

"Well I was kind of busy fighting for my life at the time." Joked Knock Out. "Guess we all messed up."

"Oh I forgot I found out the Counsel and Quintessons made a deal in exchange for the Quint not touching Cybertron the Counsel is going to help them take over the rest of the universe starting with Earth." Knock Out told them what he'd learned.

"No wonder they wanted to keep you from talking." Said Bumblebee. "Great job Knock Out now we need to think of a way to stop them."

"We also have a problem Tarantulaus left Knock Out at our base to make that deal to get Arachnid." Bumblebee pointed out. "He knows our location so we all need to be careful and keep our eyes open." "No telling what that monster might do next.

To Be Continued.

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