Not dying in a halfway house is an acceptable price for joining up with a suicide squad kicking around since the mesozoic era.

[ Verity was speaking in hyperbole, but no Cybertronian ever had to go unwanted through an uncaring foster system. Enough that homelessness and hitchhiking seemed and preferable alternative. ]

Sentinel...Zeta...

[ Her brow furrows, drawing up half-remembered names from old texts. ]

Zeta was Optimus's predecessor and Sentinel was the dumb muscle, right? Just one more reason a title like Prime leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.