"This supersedes your authority," he remarks calmly, continuing to pick at the console and not bothering to turn around to meet him this time around. Really, as the CMO he should have kept himself updated to the goings on around the ship.

As it were, he currently had a much more interesting set of records to devote his actual attention to. But Knockout will get an answer to get him to go away.

"My designation is Shockwave. I was summoned by Megatron to lead research on synthetic energon."