"Optimus! Ratchet! Bulkhead!" y/ns words went unheard as the battle wore on.
Currently, y/n was laying against a rock in the middle of a deception energon mine. Injured and unable to move she just laid there accepting no one was around to help her.
The battle raged on a couple of human miles away in the mine and your optics started to close. It felt like you were on the brink of being offline. That was until your optics shot open at the sound of large pedes coming closer to you and quickly.
As your optics opened, they were instantly met with a bright red chest plate, and you knew immediately who it was. You would've sighed slightly angry if it wasn't the situation, you were currently in.
The mech, formally known as Knockout crouched down Infront of you, his red optics meeting your own. A large smirk was plastered on his face plates, and you couldn't help but roll your eyes when you saw the cockiness hidden in it.
"My my.. if it isn't the autobot medic! My dear competition." You snarled, staring at him with lifted optics. "I am not, you're competition Knockout." You lowered your optics down to the ground and but your derma, the pain was starting to become unbearable. "Where does it hurt?" A large servo was placed onto your shoulder, and you shivered at the touch slightly but didn't shake it away. "Everywhere." Red optics meeting yours once more, a feeling surged through you, one that you were not use to and one that hadn't happened in eons.
He put two digits to his helm and looked me up and down, like he was scanning my injuries. Once he finished that he took his hand off my shoulder and took a few steps back to just ... look at me.
"Are you enjoying the view of me in pain?" A sly grin came upon my face plates, and he rolled his optics. "Keep the attitude to yourself, autobot. I'm going to help you." The grin got wiped off my face and instead was replaced with a look of confusion. "What..." he hushed me quickly before I could say anything else. "Quiet."
As much as I didn't want to, I complied and didn't say another word when he walked back towards me and kneeled down, making optic contact with me for a couple seconds before pulling something out from behind him.
He started patching up my wounds as I watched entranced, his working style was so different yet so familiar. The way his digits brushed across my body... No! What am I thinking!?
Opting to shake my helm to get rid of these thoughts I instantly regretted it as a helm ache occurred because of the movement. A whimper of pain left my mouth, and I leant my helm back against a rock to conceal any more. The mech Infront of me turned his gaze towards me and watched me intensely for a while, examining me in a way, until I moved my helm to watch what he was doing once more.
Once he was finished with repairing me I had almost 28% of energon left in me and if it wasn't for knockout, I would probably be offline currently. I met his gaze as he stood up and offered me a servo to help me up also. I took it, making sure to be wary still just in case.
As I stood on both my pedes, I almost lost my balance but managed to regain myself by holding myself up with a large rock. "Thank you... Knockout." In this moment I let my eyes rake over my saviours' form, he had a few scratches on his paint job, and I had to stifle a laugh as I thought about how he would react to them once he noticed. "Of course, y/n. Though you are my enemy... you are also my competition, so I do have to keep you online."
A frown made its way into my face plates, and I stepped back slightly away from him. "Oh yeah... your right. Uh thanks anyway Knockout I'm going to go back to base now." This time a frown made its way onto his face as he noticed your expression, why did you seem upset at that answer, you were enemies after all... nothing more. But did you want to be?
"I understand y/n, and I advise you not to tell any of the other autobots about this little..." his stare stuck to my face as he thought of a word to use. "Encounter." I nodded agreeing with his words, "Agreed... I won't tell anyone."
I put two digits to my helm and requested a ground bridge, I hoped everyone was okay back at base as I assumed the battle had finished due to the eerie silence that had now taken over the mine. The large green portal opened behind me, and the sound made me jump slightly, Knockout had to laugh at my fear. Classic Knockout after all.
"Thank you again Knockout, I am forever in your debt." My helm nodded to him in a sign of respect, and he nodded back. "You are welcome." His signature grin appeared on his faceplates, and you couldn't help but smile with him. You adored that smile, though you would never admit that to anyone...
"Bye..." you walked through the ground bridge and instantly saw your fellow autobots staring at you in shock. Oh god I forgot they could see through the ground bridge...
A nervous smile appeared on your face as you realised you would infact have to explain to them what had happened. And explain is what you did. The shocked expressions on their face plates were extremely funny to you. Many made comments of their own and Optimus even said how Knockout would probably be better off on the autobot side, you agreed with him Of course but you also liked the way he was on the deceptions side... something about it just... it was very hard to explain, and you didn't want to confuse the others, so you kept your derma shut.
