The coldness in Megatron's voice draws Aftermath's visor back onto the young mech. It occurs to him briefly that, perhaps, it wasn't Sentinel Prime that he should be worried about.

He stops that thought in its tracks, examines it quietly for a moment.

"... I don't want to assume, Megatron," Aftermath begins carefully. "But you wouldn't happen to have had any involvement with his current state of being, would you?"