Find Me (You Saved Me Series Book 3)

Journey Home

"You need to rest. You have to get your strength up." Knockout ordered, pushing her back down as she tried to stand up. 

"I have to get back to the Autobots. I can't just sit here." She whined, easily falling back to the floor. 

"You just about died in an explosion. One you should have died in. You have extensive injuries. There is no way your going anywhere." Knockout attempted to reason with her. 

"Ratchet can patch me up." She argued. 

"No, he can't and neither can I. I did what I could, but I know it's not enough." He sighs, looking her over again. 

"Just give me my suit. It helped me with my broken arm. Then I can walk to the Autobots. June should be with them and she can help me." She sits up against the wall, wincing in pain. 

"Your suit is too damaged. There is no way it will help you now. And I don't exactly have another one to give you. Stop moving!" He growls, his servers turning into fists. 

She freezes in place, remembering that he is a Decepticon. "Knockout, your a con. Why are you doing this? Why didn't you finish me off? Why did you bring my suit to Cybertron? Why are you helping me?" She rattles off question after question. Not giving him a chance to answer. 

"It doesn't matter. Once you are well enough, I'll help get you to the Autobots, then you'll never see me again." He says sadly. 

Shelby's face falls at his answer. The realization hit her. He can't go back to the Decepticons. Helping her has sealed his fate.

"We can protect you." She whispers, her eyes locking with his optics. 

"The Autobots can't protect me. No one can. Megatron may have yet to notice I'm missing yet, but once he does, I will be targeted. This is why we need to get you better enough to move, then get you far away from me as possible." He explains, his optics leaving her eyes, almost afraid of what will happen. 

"Where are we?" She changes the subject. 

"An abandoned energon mine. It was the closest one I could get too without causing more damage to you." He answers. "But we can't stay here to long. We will still have to move. I just wanted you to rest a little more and do a more thorough check on your injuries."

"I feel fine. That suit took most of the damage." She barely finishes her sentence and starts to cough. Her hand goes to her chest, the coughing not ceasing. Small amounts of blood fall from her mouth. 

"You are not fine. You have internal damage. That is something I can not fix. You can't walk either. Your leg is broken as well as your arm. You need rest for now until I can get you to a human doctor." Knockout kneels down next to her, pulling a polishing rag out of his subspace and bringing it up to her mouth, carefully wiping the blood from her face. 

"You shouldn't have saved me." Her voice hoarse, her head leaning back against the cave wall. 

"I had to save you." He corrected. 

"I was supposed to die. I'm not even sure how I managed to survive, but it wasn't supposed to happen." She claimed, looking off into the cavern. 

"What I don't understand, is why your the only one that was in the base. Where did the Autobots go? Obviously, they must bridged out just in time, but why didn't you leave? Why did they leave you behind? There is no way Dreadwing was okay with that?" Knockout asks, sitting down next to her. 

"He wasn't okay with that. But I gave him no choice. Optimus either. Someone had to stay back, so I chose to be the one to stay back. Someone had to make sure Megatron wouldn't be able to track them. It was my decision and my decision alone. I intended to die in that explosion. I didn't give my suit enough credit." She explained.