Knock Out's on the verge of another haughty snapback when Shockwave introduces himself and he goes still where he is, optics going just slightly wide. Shockwave? The legendary Decepticon scientist who'd stayed behind on Cybertron all those years, working on Primus even knows what? Shockwave the science officer, who almost certainly outranks Knock Out several times over? That Shockwave?

This has just not been his week.

"Shockwave?" he splutters, incredulous. "But -- but I heard you were on Cybertron!"