Transformers: Prime: The New Beginning

Chapter 35: The Autobot Rescue

It had been 13 hours since Knock Out had been captured by the New Decepticons. Ultra Magnus and the Autobots felt guilty that they accidentally left him behind when they went through the ground bridge portal and it closed before Knock Out could enter it. Orion Eclipse rapidly recovered and his injured shoulder healed thanks to Ratchet's medical help. However, Megatron was still mad at Ultra Magnus for accidentally leaving Knock Out behind when they had to retreat due to being outnumbered by Doomsayer's army of New Decepticons as well as half of Airachnid's Insecticon army and Predaking's new army of Predacons.

"This is all our fault. We left Knock Out behind by accident when we retreated and now he's being held captive by Doomsayer and his army of followers! This is just as bad as when we couldn't help Cliffjumper in time when the Decepticons captured him before Starscream killed him back on Earth years ago." Arcee said in regret.

"I just hope and pray to Primus that Knock Out doesn't get killed by the enemy. For all we know, Doomsayer might use him for ransom." Hot Rod replied.

Ratchet left the med bay and Bumblebee asked him, "Ratchet, how is Orion? Is he doing okay?" The yellow Autobot lieutenant asked. Ratchet replied, "He's healed now. The young bot managed to recover quickly somehow." The medic said. "And how is Altair Comet?" Bumblebee asked. "She's doing fine. She has been keeping Orion Eclipse company for a while before he healed from his injured arm." Ratchet explained.

"I can't believe that all of this is happening." Ironhide said before he made a long recap, "First the Great War ended for five years before we tried to search for Shockwave and Starscream so we could bring them to justice. But when we went to Earth to find a relic called, The Sword of Primus in Idaho, that is when we met Orion Eclipse and his human friend and we thought he was a Decepticon scout before I touched the Sword of Primus which caused the spirit of Optimus Prime as well as the spirits of the Thirteen Original Primes to appear from that relic. Optimus tried to warn us about Doomsayer being the new leader of the Decepticons and he told us that Orion Eclipse would help us light our darkest hour before we took him to Cybertron where we trained him to be an Autobot. Then Doomsayer tried to lure us into his traps plenty of times to either kill us or force us to reveal where we are keeping Unicron and his Anti-Spark hidden and imprisoned inside the Allspark container within the vault at our base. Then we learned that Orion was the long-lost son of Megatron before he went to find his father so that he could help us stop Doomsayer before he and his legion of followers find Unicron and bring doom on both Earth and Cybertron. Then after Megatron joined us and he apparently adopted Smokescreen as his surrogate son, our friends went to visit Earth where they reunited with their old human friends and even met some new human friends before we found the long-lost daughter of Optimus Prime and Elita-One and we arrested Barricade and Overload for trying to kill Altair Comet as part of Megatron's old revenge plan to hire those two Decepticons to hunt down and kill Optimus Prime's conjunx-endura and daughter to make him suffer just as Megatron had suffered when he lost his family. Then after Orion Eclipse got into a fight with his father, he learned that he is not worthy to wield The Sword of Primus because it might be meant for someone else to become the next Prime. I was there when Orion was rejected by The Sword of Primus. Now our friend Knock Out has been captured by our enemies and it seems that we are going through on what seems to be the beginning of a Second Great War. I fear that this war might become worse than the first one that lasted for four thousand millennia because now Doomsayer has about 4 armies at his disposal. The Decepticons, the New Decepticons, the Insecticons, and even the Predacons!" Ironhide told every Autobot in the room before he finished.

"Calm down, Ironhide. We'll have to come up with a plan on how and when we're going to rescue Knock Out and blow up Doomsy's warship." Wheeljack said.

"But how are we going to blow up an entire ship that's bigger than the Nemesis?" Bulkhead asked. "It's not like in the Earth's movies where you can just blow up an alien spacecraft by pushing the red button for the ship to self-destruct, right?" he said.