This fic is inspired by [link] by

YES, I did get permission, so no need to nag at me about that.

This is mainly scene setting.

Pretty damn awesome action-y scene setting though.

To get the basic idea of where I'm coming from, I decided to place it during Flying Mind. If you want to, go rewatch the first few minutes of that. I mainly explored the idea of what would have happened if the Autobots had launched their offensive before Nemesis got reanimated with Dark Energon. Also, Prime accepted Agent Fowler's offer an air raid (plus I added ground troops for the slag of it), hence why the humans are there. The Autobots are using that as a distraction to get closer to the ship with the spark extractor.

Otherwise, go ahead and read so I don't have to explain this.

There will be more chapters to come.

The title is temporary, since a name for this fic isn't coming to me easily.

The drawing and basic concept belongs to pika. I claim no ownership. Thanks for the inspiration and great interpretation of KO pika.

Transformers, Knock Out, Megs, etc. belong to Hasbro. I also claim no ownership.

Any italicized lines (there are only two) were borrowed from the episode and I claim no ownership either. They’re mainly there to transition from the canon scene to the written one.