That was how things often worked with the Decepticons, too. At least his version. But he wasn’t worried about being indebted her a little over such a minor thing. Besides, she was a fellow Seeker. That fact alone won her at least some respect and cooperation from him. Even if he wasn’t overt about it.

“We did, yes. About four million Earth years ago, initially.” Briefly, he told her about the Autobots’ ship leaving Cybertron, their chase and attack, how both ships had gone down on a previously-unknown planet, and how a volcanic eruption had served as the catalyst to everyone’s revival after so long in deep stasis. “That was two solar cycles ago, by Earth’s standard orbit. We’ve spent the time since then re-establishing a link and a means of return travel, and trying to gather the energy we need to go back and revive Cybertron.” Not to mention conquer it and Earth, Life, the Universe, and Everything – at least, according to Megatron’s plan – but he didn’t feel like going into that side of things just then.
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