A few stellar cycles ago and Optimus probably would have chalked all of this up as nonsense. But that was before he met Prowl, and after all the times Prowl's 'feelings' and instinct were right he wasn't quite as quick to dismiss Optimus' story.

"Ok," he responded after a long pause, sounding like he was still processing the information. Which was, quite honestly, how he was feeling about this whole day.

"Do you mind if I ask, why you? I mean, why not some other bot?" He caught himself before instinctively adding 'Someone more qualified,' having considered how he would feel in that situation.