lift you up, put you back on solid ground

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Who: Dok Knokko and BDz
Where: Deceptiland
When: now?! or maybe it's backdated. who even knows.
What: EYE SURGERY. it's real romantic.
Warnings: probs not

He'd gotten a message from Knock Out -- a summons, really. Breakdown doesn't mind. He hadn't been in the middle of anything too important, and the dog didn't mind waiting on him. Sometimes. Sometimes waiting resulted in a puddle, and Breakdown took that to mean it had minded.

But he's on the way now, dog safely locked out of sight of the other 'Cons. He lets himself into the medibay with a quick glance around.

"Doc?"

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Knock Out's in the midst of setting out all the tools and materials he'll need for the operation, laying them out with neat precision. He looks up as Breakdown enters the medibay, not quite smiling, but his optics do light up -- he's been looking forward to this day for a while, and he knows Breakdown has been, too. Thanks to Ratchet, Knock Out has the materials he needs to replace Breakdown's optic -- finally making him whole again after all that time he'd spent with TRIDENT.

"The doctor is in," Knock Out answers smoothly, his mouth twisting into a smug grin, and he huffs out a soft vent of air, almost a laugh. "Are you ready?"

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His optic settles on the tools arrayed, a little grim. Knock Out knows his reservations about this — they've lessened considerably, especially in the face of the lengths Knock Out went to get the materials. It's definitely a step up from his original outright refusal.

"Guess so." He heads nearer, footfalls as heavy as they ever are, and a small smile picks its way over his faceplate when his attention moves up from the tools and onto Knock Out. It's worth it to make him happy, at least. "It'll be good to have binocular vision again, anyway."

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Knock Out knows Breakdown had insisted on leaving the optic the way it had been, but all other concerns aside, it simply wasn't efficient. Far be it from Knock Out to prioritize function over form, but Breakdown's a Decepticon soldier as well as his bodyguard -- and they're in a hostile environment, after all. Knock Out would rather give Breakdown the edge of two fully functioning optics in a world where TRIDENT has a bounty on his helm.

That, and the patch covering the empty hole has served as a constant of reminder of Breakdown's time in TRIDENT. Oh, it's not as though Knock Out feels responsible -- it wasn't his fault Breakdown had been captured, after all -- it still...nags at him, hovering just on the edge of personal failure. And at any rate, it'd been a destruction of his personal handiwork, and Knock Out has never liked to have his work so thoroughly undone.

"Mm. Well, now that I've got the proper materials, it shouldn't take long to install. And then you'll be good as new." Knock Out pauses to glance over Breakdown again, his engine humming lightly in his chassis. He turns over the optic glass in his fingers almost artfully. "Well, better than new."