It was just another day at the scrap yard the team was just hanging out and relaxing because there had been no Deceptaicon activity in a while so they were all taking it easy. When suddenly they got a transmission from Optimus Prime.

"Hi Optimus how is everything with the Counsel going?" Bumblebee asked him.

"Not so well the situation has taken a very grave turn." Optimus replied. "The Quintessons are on Cybertron."

"They came claiming they've changed and the Counsel welcomed them to our planet after everything they did to us in the past." Ratchet cut in not sounding a bit happy about the situation.

"What the Quintessons?" Asked Bumblebee. "But the Quintessons can't be trusted they must be up to something?" "What is the Counsel thinking?"

"Their not." Said Arcee who had been standing behind Optimus and Ratchet. "The Counsel is going to end up dooming our home all over again."

"We have managed to get someone on the inside to get us information on what the Counsel is up to." Ratchet told them. "The Counsel wanted a medic so Knock Out took the job and he's been spying for us."

"Unfortunately I haven't been able to get very much information because I'm not aloud in the counsel room unless there's a medical emergency other then that I have to stay in the med bay." Explained Knock Out who was also with Optimus's group.

"How do we know your telling us everything Knock Out and that your not holding something back?" Said Arcee.

"What do you mean?" Asked Knock Out. "The only reason I haven't been giving any information is because I can't get any to give without being compromised."

"You didn't switch sides because you wanted to be an Autobot you did it because you wanted to be on whatever side came out on top." Arcee told him. "Face it you'll just do anything to save yourself."

"That's not true!" Huffed Knock Out. "Now if you'll all excuse me I have a mission to finish!" And with that he walked out of the base, transformed and drove off.

"Arcee Knock Out is doing the best he can." Optimus told her.

"Yeah that was cold." Said Bumblebee who was still on the line.

"I'm sorry I really didn't mean for that to come out it's just this whole situation is getting to me and I'm still not quite sure of Knock Out's loyalty." Said Arcee. " "But that's no reason to take it out on him."

"Better go see if you can catch him." Suggested Bumblebee who was still on the screen.

"Actually that would be a bad idea he was just here on his break so he's heading back to work and if anyone saw him talking to Arcee or anyone else from our team it would blow his cover." Ratchet explained. "And he could probably use time to cool off because he seemed pretty upset."

"I'll apologise the next time I see him." Said Arcee.

"Bumblebee we need your team to come help us with this Quintesson situation something tells me we'll need all the help we can get to deal with them and the Counsel." Optimus said to him.

"We'll come help as soon as we get transportation." Bumblebee replied.

"Wheeljack and Bulkhead are already on their way with a ship." Said Ratchet.

"Great we'll be waiting for them." Bumblebee told him with a smile it would be nice to see Cybertron again and his team would return to Earth after helping Optimus's team get things on Cybertron under control.
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Meanwhile Knock Out was in the med bay at the Counsel building and noticed no one was there now would be a good time to do some poking around in the computer database so he went to the computer room and started looking at fillies hoping no one would walk in and catch him. What he found shocked him.

According to what he found in the database the Counsel had struck a deal with the Quints that if they left Cybertron alone they would help them take over the rest of the universe starting with Earth. "No I've got to warn the others." Knock Out whispered to himself. Then he managed to sneak back out without anyone seeing him. Or so he thought. Little did he know a camera caught his every move.
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A few hours later Knock Out was on his way back to base he had just gotten off and hadn't made it out of Iacon yet when he noticed a mech who looked like an Insecticon of some kind at the side of the road setting in the fetal position like he was sick or injured.

"Hey what's the trouble there?" Asked Knock Out as he changed from his vehicle mode back to his cybertronian one. "I might be able to help I'm a medic."

The other bot didn't reply he just hugged himself as if in pain. which worried Knock Out. So he approached the other bot to have a look at him and make sure it wasn't serious. After getting a little closer he noticed this Insecticon was more spider like.

Knock Out didn't like spiders for one thing they reminded him of Arachnid. But as a medic he knew Doctors can't choose their patients and this wasn't Arachnid for one thing it was a mech not a femme. And helping him would be the right thing. And Knock Out didn't want to discriminate him because of what Arachnid did. Which this mech had nothing to do with.

"Hey are you OK?" Knock Out asked again putting his hand on the other transformers shoulder.

"Yes now I'm just fine!" The other mech hissed as a sinister smile crossed his faceplate.

Suddenly fearing for his own wellbeing Knock Out started to back away only for the other mech to grab his servo.

"Hey let go of me!" Scream Knock Out as he managed to break free from the spiderbot's grip by kicking him then started to run. Only for the mech to transform in to a tarantula and shoot webs at him that wrapped around his legs causing him to fall to the ground.

Knock Out was going crazy trying to free himself only for the other mech's tarantula mode to shoot him with more webs. "Why?" "Why are you doing this to me?" Knock Out managed to whimper.

"I'll tell you when you wake up." Said the tarantula.

Knock Out struggled against the webs that held him as the tarantula crawled over him then he felt a sharp pain in his right arm and didn't know what the other mech did to it. Then the tarantula hit him hard across the helm and Knock Out knew no more.

Knock Out came to a few hours later and realized he was strapped to a table. He felt sick and was having trouble focussing he didn't really even need to be restrained because he could tell he was paralyzed from something and couldn't move anyway.

"Well I see you've decided to join us." Said the tarantula. "My name is Tarantulaus and your going to be here for awhile so you should get comfortable on that table because you won't be leaving it anytime soon."

"Why did you bring me here?" Moaned a weak and terrified Knock Out.

"Because the Counsel and Quintessons ordered me to keep you out of the way after one of their cameras caught you snooping around." Tarantulaus told him. "I gave you just enough cyber venom to make you miserable the paralysis will wear off in a little while that why you've been restrained but you'll be sick for about a week before I'll have to give you another dose."

"You won't get away with this." Huffed Knock Out.

"I'm afraid there no one to stop us." Said a Quintesson who was also there.

"Now tell us who sent you." Ordered Tarantulaus.

"Never!" Hissed Knock Out. "I won't betray my friends!"

"How noble." "But I'm afraid you have no choice." Said the Quintesson. "Now prepare the chronic psychic patch."

Knock Out's optics widened in horror as they hooked him up to the patch and the next thing he knew he was forced into stasis.

To Be Continued.

I decided to put this story here too. Hope you all like it.