Drift's always been good for a heart to heart but the truth is, Arcee doesn't really feel up for talking about her feelings right now. Mostly because she can't afford to. She has to keep her head in the game, keep focused on the mission, her team. This isn't about her.

"I've been better," she admits grimly, "but we've got way bigger things to deal with. Optimus is here, but he's...not Optimus anymore. As far as we've been able to figure out, at some point Megatron managed to take the Matrix from him and the two of them both wound up on this planet. I guess the removal of the Matrix just...turned him back into Orion Pax. He doesn't have any memory of the last seven thousand years, and his old friend Megatron got to him first. He filled in the gaps, of course, but with the Decepticon twist. Filled his head with a load of scrap about the Autobots being terrorists and the Matrix being corrupted."