The next day Knock Out remained unconscious while Pharma continued to keep up the elusion of caring for him. Later that night Knock Out regained consciousness but couldn't move because his IV was still pumping him full of sedatives.

Pharma wasn't here right now this was his chance to escape but he was so drugged up he couldn't even think. Knock Out managed to roll himself off the berth and he was able to get the IV out.

But he was already so heavily sedated that everything was spinning and out of focus.

He struggled to pull himself up using the berth and IV pull for leverage and then started trying to head for the door while leaning against the wall for support.

He felt so tired and dizzy that it was hard just keeping his optics open. Knock Out continued to try to reach the door but his helm kept bobbing forward.

He was feeling so weak and shaky it was difficult to hold his head up. And Knock Out slumped to the floor. Then he started using his servos to try to get up. But just didn't have enough strength. Knock Out suddenly heard the door open.

"Someone's been a bad patient." Mocked Pharma who walked over to where Knock Out was laying on the floor but Knock Out suddenly got a second wind and started trying to fight him.

Pharma slammed Knock Out hard into the floor face first. Then took out a syringe and stabbed it into the back of the red mech's midsection Knock Out felt the drug enter his system and became still.

"I think I need to up your meds don't want you getting to restless and causing trouble for me." Said Pharma as he gave Knock Out another shot in the neck cables.

The last thing Knock Out knew before blacking out was Pharma lifting him back on to the berth and putting the IV back in his servo then shooting something into it before his optics rolled shut and he lost consciousness again.
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Meanwhile Bumblebee was speaking on his com-link.

"So I heard you came out of your coma and want to offer you a deal you see we think patients are being murder in the hospital on Cybertron and a lot of the victims are Decepticons so we're planning to catch the one behind it by setting a trap and need you to be the bait." Bumblebee explained over the com-link. "And we'll give you a full pardon in exchange for your help." "You'll do it great."

Then Bumblebee hung up on the call. And a few hours later a space bridge opened and out walked none other then Starscream.

"So how are we going to do this trap?" Asked Starscream.

"Your going to pose as still being in a coma and not being able to resist an easy target the killer will hopefully try to offline you and we can catch them in the act." Ratchet explained.

"Wait your hoping they'll offline me!" Starscream said looking hurt.

"No I'm hoping they will fall for the trap." Ratchet told him. "We'll jump in before they can harm you because we'll be monitoring the whole thing on a hidden camera that we'll all take turns watching."

"OK it's just the way you said that." Starscream told him now more relaxed.

"That was a poor choice of words Ratchet." Added Bumblebee.

"Alright I apologise." Ratchet said getting a chuckle from the seeker.

"Let's get this over with so you can stick me in the brig and be done with it." Starscream said to them.

"But we're offering you a full pardon." Bumblebee told him.

"You think I actually believe that after all I've done you Autobots would just let me go for doing you a favour." Starscream told them. "I can't see anyone ever thinking of me as something other then a traitor you just wait and see once this is over I'll just be tossed into a cell."

"If you believe that why did you agree to help us?" Asked Bumblebee.

"Because even if I'll never be accepted or forgiven I want to try to make up for what I've done." Starscream explained with a sad look in his optics that Bumblebee could tell he was trying to hide.

"So let's do this." The seeker added.

Then they had Starscream lay on a stretcher while First Aid and Red Alert rolled it down the hall to the room Starscream would be in. Starscream let himself lay unmoving pretending to be in a coma.

"Here we go taking the new patient to his room!" Yelled Red Alert in a singsong voice. "The new Decepticon patient!"

"He's in a coma totally helpless!" First Aid added. "I mean it would be easy for someone to just walk in kill him!"

"Seriously this is their idea of setting a trap Autobots are horrible liars I guess that why there not Decepticons." Thought Starscream. While Bumblebee and Ratchet both facepalmed.

Then they got Starscream to his room and put him on the berth and made it look like he was hooked to medical equipment then left the room.

"We're just gonna leave him here now completely unprotected!" First Aid practically shouted.

"Yes unguarded and venerable!" Red Alert said before they walked away.

"OK we have got to teach you two how to be more convincing actors." Bumblebee told them.

"We'll work on it." They both said to him. As they went to watch the camera.
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Meanwhile Pharma met someone in the hallway.

"Hi Sunder I need your help you see I have my hands full with Knock Out but the Autobots seem to be setting a trap for the one killing patients so I want you to help me throw them off the trail." Pharma explained to him. "And help me finish off Knock Out."

"OK it been awhile since I've killed and I'm starving for some dark thoughts." Said Sunder.

"Great you can end Knock Out first." Pharma told Sunder as he took him to Knock Out's room. "Is it true you can prob a bots processor with out even having to touch them?"

"Why yes and I love to feed off of their darkest memories and cause havoc on their processor before killing them." Sunder told him.

Then they entered Knock Out's room where the red medic was still out cold from being drugged. Sunder went over to him and started creasing his faceplate as he prepared to kill Knock Out by invading his mind.

"Oh so your worst memory is learning of the death of your partner Breakdown." Sunder mused. "Don't worry your going to join him in just a bit." "It'll all be over real quick."

Knock Out got a look of discomfort almost as if in pain to spite being unconscious. But all of a sudden Sunder jumped back and screamed in pain.

"What happened?" Asked Pharma seeing Sunder hold his helm and that Knock Out was still alive unconscious but alive.

"Something kicked me out of Knock Out's processor." Sunder told him. "It felt like I was just punched in the face hard."

"Odd?" Said Pharma.

"Yes that's never happened before." Sunder told him.

"So what is he an outlier or something?" Pharma asked Sunder.

"Actually I don't think that was Knock Out it was more like something protecting Knock Out." Sunder explained.

"OK?" "We'll call it a fluke and leave it at that." Pharma said wondering what just happened. "You can kill Starscream and I'll have to go back to my other plan to kill Knock Out gradually with a drug overdose."

"Sounds like a deal Doctor you stay and tend to your patient while I go attack the seeker's processor." Sunder told him before running off.
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Sunder went to Starscream's room and began his mental assault on the seeker.

Starscream had just been laying there pretending to be in a coma as planned when Sunder had walked in and Starscream suddenly felt like he was back on the Nemesis getting a beat down from Megatron and the seeker was being punched, kicked and stepped on.

Then the Decepticon Warlord yanked the poor seeker up by the neck and poor Starscream was going crazy trying to free himself.

The others saw what was happening on the camera only Sunder had managed to stay hidden and ducked into a closet and to them it just looked like Starscream was going in to shock. And they all ran in to help the seeker.

"No Starscream what's wrong?" Asked Ratchet.

"No please stop!" Cried Starscream who was slamming his helm against the berth and clawing at himself.

"Starscream you have to stop your hurting yourself!" Said a concerned Bumblebee. But the seeker didn't respond.

Then First Aid and Red Alert did their best to restrain Starscream without hurting him. While Ratchet sedated him.

But putting Starscream under sedation just made it worse. Starscream still thought he was being attacked by Megatron but now suddenly couldn't move to defend himself. And to the others Starscream suddenly became still and started coughing up energon.

"Starscream!" "What wrong with him?" Asked Bumblebee.

"I don't know his vitals are all over the place!" Yelled Ratchet.

Then Red Alert opened the closet to get something and found Sunder there and he started to attack them all but Bumblebee managed to shoot him in the spark chamber offlining him instantly.

Then Starscream snapped out of it and was now sound to sleep from the sedative. But everyone was glad to see his vitals were back to normal. And all realized it was Sunder who did that to him.

And a few minutes later Starscream woke up after the sedative wore off. And everyone was glad he was OK.

"So is this case closed?" Starscream asked after seeing Sunder dead on the floor.

"No we don't think he was the killer because none of the victims were killed the way that bot tried to kill you just now." Red Alert explained.

"So the real killer is still out there." Starscream said not sounding happy.

"Sorry about what you just had to go through." Bumblebee apologized to Starscream. "You kept your end of the deal so you can go if you want to."

"I'm staying I want to help you catch this killer and make up for the wrong I did in the war." Starscream told them whitch surprised all of them. "And you guys saved me just now so I owe you."

"OK then welcome to the team." Bumblebee told him.

To Be Continued.

I put Sunder in this chapter as a request from one of my readers on Fanfiction.net. This was my first time using him in a story so I hope I did ok with him.