The next day the group arrived at the scrap yard and were glad to be greeted by the rest of the Autobots who had all made it there in one piece.

And told them about everything that had happened. And both Soundwave and Screamout were welcomed to the team as Autobots.

And Optimus was sad to learn of Megatron's fate. He, Starscream and Soundwave spent awhile talking about it. And ironically Starscream was the one taking it the hardest.

Now everyone was just doing their own thing and trying to think of how to stop MECH and wondering what Shockwave was up too.

When they all heard singing and saw that Shayna was listening to a song on her headphones and singing with it. And all thought it sounded pretty.

"Well looks like DeAnn's not the only one who can sing." Said Knock Out. "And is it just me or is her voice a little bit stronger then DeAnn's?" He thought not saying the last part out loud.

Then she finished and saw everyone looking at her and almost fainted.

"How long have you guys been there?" She asked them as her cheeks turned as red as her guardian's paint job.

"Long enough to know you have a pretty voice." Knock Out told her.

"Thanks." She answered shyly.

"Yeah we both like to sing." DeAnn explained. "But Shayna is a bit more shy about it."

Just then they heard something and ran to see what was going on and saw that Grimlock had accidentally knocked over some stuff in the medbay.

"Grimlock I needed that." Ratchet scolded the dinobot who apologized.

Then they all decided to just relax a bit before trying to come up with a way to stop MECH knowing the team needed a break after everything that had happened.

The human members of the team were all hanging out and having a picnic. While the bots were either  training or just hanging out. They were all just enjoying some much needed down time.

Knock Out was buffing his finish when Sideswipe, Smokescreen and Blurr who was visiting from Griffin Rock came over and asked if he would have a race with them.

They had asked Bumblebee but he was busy doing something with Raf since the two hadn't seen each other in a long time. And they wanted a forth bot to race with.

Knock Out accepted being a velocitronian who loved to race. "This is gonna be fun." He thought.

Not being able to foresee how badly this joyride would end or what awful consequences it would have for all of them.
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The four of them went to an old dirt road where no humans would see them. And started racing and were all having a great time.

Blurr and Knock Out were in the lead. And they were having fun. Blurr had shot way ahead and Knock Out was trying to catch up to steal the lead having already left Sideswipe and Smokescreen in the dust.

Knock Out was having so much fun that he forgot to pay attention and took a wrong turn and suddenly realized he was lost.

"Scrap this is embarrassing." He thought. Then after attempting to find his way a few times and only getting himself more lost he decided to call and explained what happened and ask for a ground bridge to get back on track.

But only got static. So calling the scrap yard or his friends was a no.

Knock Out was trying to figure out why his com-link had stopped working and realized there was some kind of frequency in the area that was interfering with the signal.

He didn't like this one bit and decided he had to get out of there because something just didn't feel right.

"Ok things just got ominous." He told himself before he saw a deer run off like it had been really freaked out by something actually jumping over his alt mode.

"Well that's not at all chilling." He said sarcastically. Then continued to drive being careful in case there were more deer or other animals that might run out not wanting to hit something.

All of a sudden a black and red sports car drove up out of nowhere and rammed into him.

"Hey watch the finish!" Knock Out yelled at them.

But the other car rammed him a second time and Knock Out put on more speed trying to lose the black and red car before it could seriously damage him.

Then he noticed some other black and green cars pulling up around him on both sides and realized they belonged to MECH and started trying desperately to lose them seeing that they were trying to box him in because the black and red car was still behind him.

He was trying to put on enough speed to pass them because right now the only way he could go was forward and he was afraid another one of their cars would pull up in front of him then he'd have no way to escape.

Knock Out suddenly shot ahead as fast as his alt mode would go and got past them.

"Eat my dust!" He quipped.

But then realized too late that they had stopped and let him pass because there was a sharp turn that went off a cliff.

Knock Out slammed on his breaks making his tires screech. And stopped with his front half hanging over the cliff and was now attempting to back up not wanting to go over it.

But the black and red car had other plans and started ramming him from behind trying to push him off the cliff and did on the last push.

Now panicked and desperate Knock Out transformed into his bot mode and managed to grab on to the side of the cliff and started trying to pull himself back up.

Only for the black car to suddenly transform into Night Wolf. Who grabbed Knock Out's servos and forcefully yanked him back up then before Knock Out could react he dig his claws into his shoulders and pushed him backwards sending them both off the cliff.

Knock Out hit the ground hard on his back and just know he felt something break. Night Wolf was on top of him and had him pinned.

Knock Out was trying desperately to fight off his attacker but Night Wolf had his claws in his shoulders causing Knock Out to bite back cries of pain.

Then Night Wolf activated the electricity in his claws and sent several jolts through the poor medic's body. Then yanked his claws out which now had Knock Out's energon on them.

Then Night Wolf started beating him until he saw Knock Out's optics kept rolling to the back of his helm and realized he had him dazed.

Knock Out was now fighting to stay conscious as sparks were flying off his frame from Night Wolf claws shocking him.

He was trying to speak but was too weak to form words. And was in no shape to even attempt to fight back.

Then Night Wolf pulled Knock Out up by the faceplates and used one of his claws to leave a gash across the red medic's cheek.

He could see the fear, pain and even a little anger in the cherry mech's dazed optics.

"Don't worry I'm not going to kill you yet first me and my new friend Cane are going to take you back to MECH's base and torture you until your begging for death and only then well we offline you." Night Wolf hissed in Knock Out's audio receptors.

Then he used his supersonic howl to send Knock Out backward into some trees knocking them over. And poor Knock Out could only look up weakly as Night Wolf walked over and used the EMP on him.

Then Knock Out's whole world went black. Then Night Wolf went over and kicked him to make sure he was down for the count and once satisfied he grabbed Knock Out's ankles and dragged him onto a giant aircraft MECH had made as a new base.

"You over did it a bit we'll have to patch him up before we can torture him." Said Cane who greeted Night Wolf aboard the aircraft.

"Don't worry I'm a medic and I don't plan to let him die till I think he's suffered enough." Night Wolf told him darkly.

"Yeah and the fun is just beginning I want to get Shayna here next so she and her guardian can watch each other suffer." Cane said with a sinister grin.

To Be Continued.

See I told you things were gonna get exciting. I decided to go ahead and give you another chapter and leave you with this very evil cliffhanger. I'll try to get the next part up soon. In the meantime feel free to send feedback. And the song on the header is the one Shayna is supposed to be singing.