After The Race

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Narrator POV

Knockout was confused. He had made it back to the Nemesis and was looking at the 'gift' the human had given him. The human had given him flowers, but why? If he remembered correctly, humans only give flowers to those they love. Or at least that is what the movies told him. So why did that human give him these? There had to be a reason.

"What's that?," Breakdown asked Knockout. Knockout looked up at the other bot.

"That human gave them to me. The human that I had been told to capture," Knockout replied. Breakdown looked at the bonnet and his optics widened a bit.

"Can I see it?," Breakdown asked, holding out a servo to grab the bonnet. Knockout handed him the bonnet and Breakdown took a closer look.

"These are orange lilies, they translate to hatred in the flower language. This is milkweed and it translates to 'let me go'. Candytuft means indifference. Basil means good wishes. And yellow carnation means disappointment. In other words it's a bonnet of negative but neutral feelings," Breakdown said, looking over to Knockout. Knockout's optics widened, but then a cocky smirk appeared.

"Since when were you so good with flowers," Knockout commented. Breakdown panicked a little and gave the bonnet back to Knockout.

"It just caught my interest, that is all," Breakdown said before he excused himself and left. Knockout watched the mech runoff and his smirk widened even more. Once out of sight though, Knockout looked down at the bonnet. There were a lot of things Kat did that speak in volume to him. Kat had package it carefully to where they wouldn't get all over the inside of his car form. He had to admit the flowers were pretty. He also knew that most of these flowers came from Kat's garden, he had seen them there. Despite the message of the bonnet, Kat gave him what looked like the best of the flowers. He looked at the bonnet one last time and then walked back towards the medical bay, debating whether or not to get rid of the flowers. 

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