"This is stupid, why did I agree to this." Knock Out muttered. He was driving, much too slowly in his opinion, down main street Jasper.

"Because you knocked my bike down, tore it apart and then whined about not having the right tools and left it, thus, you owe me." Diana smirked, resting her elbow against the door so she could twirl her braided hair between her fingers.

"Whatever." the Decepticon sighed. "Where are we going anyways?"

"I need groceries, so hang a left here."

"Groceries?" he asked.

"You know, supplies for people, food and all that good stuff. Don't you guys ingest, something, to keep yourselves happy?" she quirked a brow.

"We consume energon." he took a moment, searching the internet for the usuals of human groceries. "It doesn't spoil like your foods do, oh disgusting, they can grow stuff when they go bad? You are not putting that in me." he abruptly stopped, still in the middle of the street.

Diana blinked at the halt, shifting to look around as traffic began to back up behind them. "You can't just stop where you want!" she exclaimed, glad he had his windows tinted so darkly that no one could see her when people began to honk and shout at them. "You have to move!"

"Hah, I'd like to see them make me - hey!" he snapped as Diana leaned forward and slapped the dashboard. "Do NOT hit the interior!"

"Then move your mechanical ass! You're causing a ruckus!" she lifted her hand again, holding it menacingly.

"Fine." he muttered, a bit of a pout to his tone, as he lurched forwards with tires squealing. Minutes later he pulled into the parking lot of the store Diana had directed him to. He came to a halt in front of the store.

"You have to park dummy, the spaces painted on the pavement." she pointed to the parking lot.

He sighed, over exaggerating the sound as he moved for the nearest stall, one that had some sort of symbol painted on it.

"This is handicapped, you can't park here." she laughed, amused at his frusteration.

"Why do you humans have so many idiotic rules?!" he huffed, jerking forwards and zipping to the next available spot, his actions drawing a few curious looks from the people in the parking lot. "The strongest should be able to do as they please."

Diana only laughed at him, reaching for the door, though it popped open at her touch. "Thank you."

He mumbled something she couldn't make out.

"Just wait, I won't be long."

"Wait? Here? What am I supposed to do while I sit here?" he whined.

"I don't know. look up funny pictures of cats or something, that's always popular with people." she teased, blowing him a kiss before turning to head for the store, her ballet flats tapping softly on the pavement.

"Right, cats." he mumbled. "What's a cat..."

Diana had barely gotten half of the items on her mental grocery list when her phone bleeped. She tugged the touch screen phone from her pocket, a message for her, but no name or number. "Oh great." she muttered, having a sneaking suspicion as to who it was as she tapped it to read it.

"You're taking too long." the text read.

Before she could type a reply another text flashed over the screen, then another.

"It's hot out here."

"People keep walking over to stare at me, you'd think they'd never seen a car before."

"Most of them murmur about how good I look, at least they're smart enough to know that."

"Are we going anywhere else after this?"

"You'd better hurry because if someone touches me I'm going to kick them across this lot."

"Why are cats so afraid of a vacumn?"

Finally, her phone rang. Flustered, she answered it. "What?!"

"Why are you taking so long?" Knock Out's voice quipped over the line.

"I'm going as fast as I can alright? Just shut up and let me shop!" she said a little too loudly, the few people in the aisle glancing to her.

The bot grumbled softly. "Then talk while you shop, sitting is boring, that's why I sneak off the ship."

"Should you really be blabbing about that stuff over the phone? Your, alien stuff?" she frowned, pulling a bottle from the shelf and dropping it into the basket that hung from the crook of her elbow.

"Oh please, I dare a human to try and get through to this line."

"Uh huh."

"What're you doing?"

"I'm picking out cereal." she shook her head, it was like talking with a five year old.

"At least that can't rot like your vegetables and fruit, or meat, or dairy."

"Will you just shut up about that? Honestly! I'm not even getting anything perishable, and I'm done, I just have to pay."

"Why pay?" he asked, confusion in his voice. "You want it, just take it."

"That would be stealing." she said with a grin, arriving at the check outs.

"They wouldn't catch us."

"It's still wrong."

"A technicality." he replied, humor in his voice.

"You're an idiot."

"You're a glitch."

She rolled her eyes, hanging up on him as she stalked out of the store.

Her feet had barely touched the pavement of the parking lot when he tore from his parking spot, flying towards her and slamming on his brakes so he skid in a two hundred and seventy degree turn before opening the door for her.

"You are such a show off." she groaned, being stared at for the millionth time that day as she climbed into the Aston Martin.

"If you've got it, flaunt it." he hummed happily, accelerating out of the parking lot.

"Ever heard of modesty?"

"On occasion, sounds boring."

"Right." she rolled her eyes, setting the two bags she had in the back and relaxing in her seat. "Alright, I need to head out of town now, it's a bit of a drive."

She could hear the grin in his voice. "Now we're talking." he shifted his engine, streaking out of the city limits.

"Need to head to the mountains, I have to pick up some parts for a car I'm working on, this is the only place I can get them given their age. It's about a two hour drive."

"Oh fleshy, you have much to learn about speed."

A grin was on her lips. "Show me what you've got bolt breath."

He only laughed as he obliged, pushing himself faster.

Diana was still grinning, her eyes on his speedometer for a bit before she glanced out the windshield. "Put the windows down."

Knock Out obeyed, rolling the driver and passenger side windows down, allowing a blast of air inside.

The girl laughed, tugging the tie from the end of her braid and shaking her hair free, closing her eyes as it billowed about her in the wind, still damp from her shower.

He found himself distracted for a moment, watching the streams of gold dance about her, her face perfectly serene, happy.

Eventually she opened her eyes. "Actually, we probably shouldn't be speeding."

"You think someone could catch us?" he replied.

"I didn't say that, I guess, it doesn't really matter out here, but if we were closer to a more populated area, the police have helicopters to track you. You can't outrun that."

"I'd deal with it."

"How?" she frowned, not liking the tone of his voice.

"I do have weapons you know, cannons, blades and so on."

"You can't just, kill someone, you're the one who broke the law, it'd be your fault." she kept her frown, turning to look out the window again.

"I'm not human, why should I follow your rules?" he teased.

"Because they're there for a fucking reason." she snapped, turning to glare at his dashboard.

Knock Out paused a moment, hesitating before querying. "Why so touchy?"

She didn't reply, only stared out the window.

"Fleshy?"

"My parents died in a car accident, a drunk driver hit them, he was speeding." she said flatly.

The bot pondered that information. "I'm, sorry I guess, I can't really relate."

Diana looked back, a brow raised. "Did you just apologize?"

"You have no proof of that." he sang, eager to cheer her up, not at all acting like he usually did. Why was he behaving so odd around this human?

She rolled her eyes, falling silent for a bit before asking. "Your people don't have parents? How are you, made?"

"Well, we all started with Primus and Unicron, our gods you could say. They fought, a lot. Unicron pretty much wanted to destroy everything and Primus wanted to prevent that, so he created the first Thirteen Primes."

Diana nodded, listening quietly.

"They defeated Unicron and he hasn't been heard from since. After that, Primus gave himself to create our world, and that was where the All Spark settled, in the Well of Sparks."

"What's the All Spark?"

"It is what gives us life, it has the power to create Cybertronians."

She hummed thoughtfully. "So you all come from that?"

"Most do, myself included, but we do possess the capability to reproduce with a partner if we desire."

"I see. Sounds, interesting." she smiled, posture and face relaxed once again.

"I suppose."

Diana glanced back out her window. "So what was life like for you before coming here?"

"Like I said, I'm a doctor." there was a hint of pride to his voice.

"Right, and you were that before the war?"

"Mmhmm."

"Tell me more."

Warming up a tad...