-When Knockout was assigned to the Project Predacon, Shockwave was convinced that he would be hindered by Knockout's presence. He was right of course, but not in the way he thought. Shockwave is a naturally quiet person. He doesn't engage in small talk and when he does there is always purpose behind his words. Knockout on the other hand, doesn't stop talking or flirting. After some time, (quite some time), and many surprisingly insightful comments, Shockwave didn't hate K.O as much.
-One of the most difficult tasks required for Project Predacon, was the re-engineering and altering of the ancient CNA code. Shockwave was struggling with the correct line of code and was starting to tap his foot softly. Knockout had then come over, as his lab partner never taps or fidgets. "Oh what if you reversed the code and filled the gaps with know CNA?" Shockwave stopped what he was doing, looked at knockout, and for a minute, tried to gauge the right course of action, and landed on just patting K.O on the head. "Did you just pat me on the head?" "Was that not the correct gesture for thanks?" " No, maybe next time just give me a hug instead, yeah? Or a quick thank you?" "I see, I shall store that information for later use." "Just anything put patting me on the head, Shocks."
-Knockout eventually creates a program for himself to make his life simpler. He first started to notice that the fins on the side of Shock's face would move in accordance to his (very subtle) emotions. While finding this adorable, K.O also used it to read emotions better. A little drawing here, a line of code there, and Knockout had created the "Eyebrows+" software. What does it do you may ask? Well it takes K.O's line of vision, and any time that Shock's face is in view, it adds a comical eye brow above his one good eye (tm). Now Knockout has to stifle laughter every time he looks in Shockwave's direction. The worst time though, is undoubtedly when He started laughing when giving an update to Lord Megatron. Shockwave look like he was about to sprint out of the room at any second. This was also when Shock found out about it in the first place. He was not happy, but he also can't do anything about it.
- Shockwave isn't a very affectionate person, but Knockout hangs off of him at any possible time. He'll put his arms around his neck, lean against him, or sometimes even wedge himself between Shock's arm and the desk. In the occasional time that Shockwave is actually affectionate, the two will sit on the ground and K.O will sit in Shockwave's lap as he continues to work.
-Shockwave doesn't use nicknames but Knockout comes up with them by the dozens. Shocks, Shocky, Wavey, and even mi amore are all on the table. Glitch is also on the table when Shockwave ignores K.O.
-Knockout is a neat freak and will always keep the med bay as clean as possible. Often times he wonders how Shockwave finds anything. There are piles of stuff just hanging on tables and on the floor. Scrapped inventions, tools and spare parts are every where. Shockwave some how knows where everything is located, but Knockout still tries to clean up his very organized ("It's as far away from being organized as Megatron is to surrendering to the prime!") lab space.
-They also talk about how annoying Starscream is and how he hasn't been offlined by Megatron yet. Knockout taught Shocks how to gossip and now he won't stop. Its quite honestly the only bad thing about their partnership. At least to Starscream that is. Soundwave will sometimes listen in but he'll never admit it.
