Smokescreen winced some, unable to look at Perceptor before he really was starting to hate the fact that he was a lot younger than all the others. He was inexperienced and just..not on par with his comrades.

And it sucked.

"Yeah...guess so. Unfortunately," he murmured, feeling the urge to just go hide somewhere now and just..he didn't even know what. He was feeling more and more inadequate as of late. And Smokescreen knew it wasn't going to do him any good to wallow it was just hard. Really hard sometimes.

He glanced up at the other, feeling like he was getting a lecture all of a sudden and he wasn't really sure how to take it. What Perceptor was saying was very true but...that didn't mean he wanted to hear it at the moment.

"You don't think I've been growing up? I'm just not--I haven't had the experiences others have had, and I know that's no excuse but I have no idea what I'm doing or how to handle any of this!"