Knock Out quickly called Strongarm and explained the situation. Bumblebee was still healing and currently under observation for a helm injury he had received. So had to stay in the hospital right now.

Strongarm agreed to come see him. And Knock Out decided to head back knowing even though he was currently off he could still be called in at the hospital in Iacon. So told Bumblebee he'd be back later and that a friend was coming to see him.

The he started heading back feeling glad to have at least found Bumblebee alive and well aside from his helm injury, a few dents and having amnesia.

Knock Out hoped he'd remember soon so he could help clear Sideswipe's name. He was worried about his cousin.
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Knock Out was driving home and just approaching Iacon when suddenly a metal bull charged his alt mode at the last second flipping him over.

Knock Out rolled a few feet in his alt mode before slamming into a wall and transforming on impact. Before he could pull himself up the bull rushed over and stopped him several times with it's hooves.

Then started attacking him with it's horns. And he felt them stab him a few times. Poor Knock Out didn't know why it was attacking him like this. He heard that Earth bulls hated the color red and his paint job was red but would it really attack him this violently over something as small as that.

Then it tossed him into a different wall he had ended up in an alley. And Knock Out's could feel energon leaking from different parts of his frame.

Then the bull transformed into a cybertronian mode. And started beating him with his fists. Now Knock Out recognised the dark blue mech as a Decepticon named Horri-Bull who he remembered from the war Knock Out had never met him personally but had heard about him.

"Look like your the one in need of a medic Doctor." Horri-Bull mocked the downed Aston Martin as he continued to beat him. "I heard you were the Deceticon medic during the war until you betray the case."

Knock Out started to say something only to be hit several more times until he was leaking energon from the mouth. He was now trying to fight back but Horri-Bull had taken him by surprise having attacked out of nowhere and he couldn't find an opening.

Horri-Bull seemed to be enjoying beating the scrap out of him and Knock Out could feel himself starting to go unconscious.

Then Horri-Bull noticed the cherry colored transformer was now dazed and his optics were now rolling to the back of his helm.

"Oh don't fade on me now Doctor the party's just getting started." Horri-Bull told the dazed medic as he yanked him up by the neckcables.

Then a plane landed nearby and transformed revealing it's self to be Needlenose Horri-Bull's best friend.

"Hey Horri-Bull Barricade is looking for you he called us both." Needlenose told him.

"I was just having a bit of fun." Horri-Bull said to him as he tossed Knock Out into one of the walls again. Where the red mech just laid there.

"Barricade got to kill Pharma and so far all I've gotten to do is beat up that Autobot Bumblebee." Horri-Bull added.

Knock Out was just conscious enough to hear what they were talking about. "So it was Barricade." He groaned. Poor Knock Out was still leaking energon and had sparks coming from several parts of his frame.

"He heard us now I have to finish him before we go." Said Horri-Bull.

Then he started beating Knock Out some more until the red medic's body  went slack then the two left him laying there in the alley since they knew he wouldn't be a problem now.
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Meanwhile in Vos Sideswipe was talking to Starscream. The two of them were trying to figure out who might be trying to frame Sideswipe and way and also trying to figure out who tried to kill Starscream.

"Do you think it could be the same bot?" Asked Sideswipe.

"With everything that's happened I wouldn't rule out the possibility." Said Starscream. "The seeker who tried to chase them down said the only thing they could tell was it was a grounder because from what they could make out the bot didn't have wings."

Just then Rattrap who had been let out of the hospital having recovered but still being told to take it easy came in with some bad news.

Apparently a building in Iacon had been attacked and they had identified the culprit as a seeker.

"What?!" Starscream cried in shock. "But all the seekers were in Vos and I've given them orders not to cause trouble for anyone in the other cities and so far they've all been staying in Vos unless they needed something from one of the other cities or were visiting someone."

"It's possible someone went against orders." Rattrap replied.

"Who?" Asked Starscream.

"They don't know they didn't get a good look at the bot who attacked them it was night and all they said was the bot had wings so they panned it a seeker." Rattrap explained.

"That's completely unfair not all bots with wings are seekers they could have come from Camanus." Starscream pointed out.

"Most of the seekers were Decepticons so it's easier to think one might do something like that." Rattrap told them. "Their words not mine."

Both Rattrap and Sideswipe could tell Starscream was upset as leader of Vos he didn't want his people being blamed unfairly.

After what he'd been going through for the past few days Sideswipe understood how the seeker felt.

"Wow a grounder tries to assassinate the leader of Vos and a seeker appears to attack a building in Iacon." Said Rattrap. "Plus all those random Con attacks if we're not careful we may end up with another war."

"What if that's what's the one behind this wants?" Asked Sideswipe starting to come up with a theory.

"Think about it most of the seekers were Decepticons and by making them think their attacking Iacon will cause a lot of bots to want to take action and killing their leader would give the seekers a reason to attack for real and a lot of bots might blame it on them being Cons and the other Decepticons would take that personally." Sideswipe explained.

"That makes since." Starscream agreed. "But why go through the trouble of starting another war after what the last one did to this planet?"

"I don't know." Sideswipe replied. And none of them could think of an answer.
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Meanwhile Knock Out laid in the alley badly wounded from the beating he took. His whole frame hurt and he had lost a lot of energon and was still losing it. And sparks were still coming from different part of his body.

He had play dead after the last few punches and fortunately it worked. He knew if Horri-Bull had continued any longer he would have killed him.

But now it didn't seem to matter Knock Out was badly damaged and had already lost a dangerous amount of energon and was still bleeding it and he was too weak to move. And it was a fight just to stay conscious.

He was going to die anyway. Then he heard pedsteps. Oh no did Horri-Bull and Needlenose realize he wasn't dead when they left him and were they coming back to finish the job?

Before he got his answer Knock Out fell into emergency stasis lock as his whole world went dark.

To Be Continued.

Hope this chapter turned out OK. I'll try to get the next one up soon. In the meantime feel free to send feedback.