Megatron stops, straightening up. Somehow, despite everything he's seen here so far, that's not a voice he was expecting to hear. Of course, after a moment or two, he dismisses his shocked reaction – he's spoken to his literal past self since he arrived on this Cybertron, this certainly isn't more bizarre than that.

All the same, he turns around slowly, and there's an odd, unreadable look on his face as he stares down at the far smaller bot.

"Bumblebee," he says. "I suppose I should have expected to see you here, sooner or later."

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