"Not mine. Right." He relaxes somewhat when given this information, trying to consider what he'd even do if his was here. It...would have been awkward.

At the feet shuffling, though, he shakes his head. "Sorry. It's not that. It's...complicated. My first mentor was Shockwave."

And, given the fact that he's an Autobot and that Shockwave was, as far as he knew, not an Autobot...that's where the complexity comes in.

"So you were just numbers to them? Hah, the only surprise there is that they didn't actually paint the digits on you." There was just the mask.

"And here, ironically, it makes you stand out more. Good for the formality, though."