Gotta go fast

Chapter 25

It had been a whole month since Optimus had sacrificed himself to allow new life to grow on Cybertron. Everyone had begun helping with the reconstruction of cities so that the planet was ready for the population to grow. Bee had managed to organise everyone so that they were working efficiently enough while Ratchet kept a close eye on Ultra Magnus as he recovered from his violent attack from the predacons. Knock Out on the other hand had gone back to isolating himself though he kept closer to the others as he watched them build from afar. The emptiness feeling having returned to him the moment everyone went back to helping construction, he chose to stay away even though Bee had insisted that it would do him good to be in the company of others but he refused.

It hurt more to be with others now that his spark was broken. He knew that if he tried to work with the others or had the slightest bit of fun he would most definitely feel guilty. His spark would extinguish because he knew he would immediately think about Luna. It wasn't like he wasn't happy about his home being restored or it being able to create life but out of everything that had happened the only life he wanted was that of Luna's right next to him. He understood that the others were upset about it too but not as much as he was, the medic was far closer to her than they would have ever been - excluding perhaps Bumblebee.

Knock Out did pull some of his weight around however reporting to the autotbots about any new bots that had emerged on the planet while he was searching for Starscream. The ex-con had killed Megatron and the warlord had suffered under Unicron so he was satisfied that he had paid his dues but the seeker had not. Instead Starscream had flown away and adverted him so Knock Out was still going to find him and make him pay for his role in Luna's death. Of course Bumblebee had tried to talk him out it but nothing was going to change his mind. Not now not ever. The only times he returned to bots was when he needed energon but that was only for a short time before he would head out again. He was currently scouting north of where the autobots had set up a temporary base of operations having found some energon that he could easily tell belonged to the stilettoed mech that he seek. He smirked when he had found it knowing that the seeker was wounded and wasn't having the best of times lately.

Having looked everywhere he could in destroyed buildings and heaps of rubble he had not found any sign of Starscream which meant that the seeker knew he was being hunted and must have put all his power into his thrusters. This only meant that it was not possible for Knock Out to find him, the energon leak Starscream had wouldn't be worth following now that he had no clue where Starscream was going. For all the medic knew Starscream had changed directions to avoid detection. Growling at the empty space in front of him where he wanted Starscream to be kneeling begging for his life Knock Out kicked the nearest piece of metal he could find in frustration and transformed. His alt mode being the fastest way to travel he set his course for the autobots hoping that he could perhaps use their more amplified sensors to detect the decepticon while he refuelled.

Upon arrival at the base he was met with the gazes of Ratchet, Bumblebee and Smokescreen. They knew why he was there and so didn't bother with greetings nor long goodbyes, though Bee had tried to make Knock Out feel welcome around them all.

"Bumblebee have you been picking up any decepticon signals?" Knock Out always approached the young bot if he needed something.

However before Bee could continue Ratchet spoke up rather annoyed about hearing of Knock Out's activities "If we did we wouldn't tell you Knock Out. You need to let Luna go and focus on the future now, no amount of revenge is going to change what has already occurred" the red mechs fists clenched. His temper having shortened every single day he had been having no success. Before anything could go down between the two medics Bee stepped in front of Knock Out to distract him. "Sorry Knock Out but our scanner couldn't pick him up just like we couldn't before when Starscream was with Shockwave, perhaps you should rest for a while" this earned him a not so friendly glare "Starscream will turn up eventually and you haven't given yourself a break since we returned home" the yellow and black mech tried putting a friendly servo on his shoulder but it was immediately swatted away. Knock Out heading quickly to a joining room to get his energon.