"Don't you think if that were possible I'd have done it already?" Knock Out spreads his hands in resignation, letting out a sigh. "I didn't come here on a ship, Starscream, I crashed. In a shuttle. Which now rests..." He twirls a finger in a vague gesture. "...at the bottom of one of this planet's endless oceans."

That part is at least true -- mostly. He had crashed to Earth in a shuttle -- but not in this sector of the planet. His shuttle had laid to rest in smoldering ruins on another continent entirely, but that part's not important. Details.