Danger On The Track

Chapter 7

The next day everyone was looking for Knock Out but we're having no luck in finding him or any of the other missing racers.

Starscream who had spent the entire day searching came to the hospital to see if Ratchet had learned anything about the dead Knock Out lookalike that was in the morge and Ratchet explained that it had been identified as Knockoff a bot who had been notorious for impersonating Knock Out.

After learning this Starscream went back out to continue looking for Knock Out after saying goodbye to Ratchet.

Then the seeker spotted Swindle in an alley and started to move on till he spotted an idom among his merchandise that he had on a table, And the seeker rushed over to the table.

"Where did you get this?!" Starscream demanded holding Knock Out's energon prob that he had picked up off the table in Swindle's face.

"Oh that's just a bobble I come across yesterday." Swindle replied. "I can see your interested.."

"No the truth!" Starscream cut him off seeing through his lie. "This is Knock Out's weapon I know because see in the middle it was welded back together and repaired after it was snapped in half and Knock Out would never throw this away."

"And if you have this you must know where he is now spill!" Starscream hissed.

"I don't know what your talking about I found it laying on the ground." Swindle lied again, But then Blue Jay jumped out of Starscream's subspace and went to a datapad on the table and growled smelling Ransack, Starscream took the datapad before Swindle could stop him, turned it on and looked at it.

"These look like instructions for something." Starscream said as he started scrolling through what was on the datapad. "It says descriptions of speedsters your supposed to convince to race on Velocitron?"

"Yeah you weren't supposed to see that." Swindle told the seeker as he started to use Knock Out's energon prob on him that he had set down to look at the datapad but Starscream dodged and took the weapon back from him having been too fast for him and seeing it coming.

"Ok you know where Knock Out is and are probably working with the one's kidnapping the racers because I'm betting these instructions are from them telling you what kind of bots they want lured to the races." The seeker hissed at him. "Where are they and who's behind this?"

"Look they paid me not to say anything." Swindle explained. "But I might be willing to let it slip for a price."

"Here's your price for every answer I don't like or hesitation to answer I'll brake another idom on this table!" Starscream said darkly as he snapped a scanner in two.

"Hey that's expensive if you don't pay for it and keep that up I'll call the cops!" Swindle threatened.

"Go right ahead I'll be sure to show them this datapad and everything on it." Starscream replied unfazed, And Swindle knew he had been beaten. "Now tell me everything you know about where the racers and Knock Out are being held and who has them or the stuff on this table isn't the only thing I'll brake."

"Ok I'll talk." Swindle gave in and then told the seeker everything.

"You not only left Knock Out and the other racers but you took Knock Out's weapon and agreed to help their kidnappers, Swindle I knew you were a con artist but that's low even for you!" Starscream yelled at him and there was no messing the anger and disgust in the seeker voice, And even Blue Jay was giving him the stink eye.

Then Starscream left with Knock Out's weapon. "So Ransack is behind this no wonder Blue Jay was growling at him, guess bumble puppies are good judges of character." He thought as he took off for the outskirts of Kaon in his jet mode where he had been told was the location where the racers were being held, After sending a message to the others telling them where to go.