Everyone had friends, Starscream, come on. She wrote that off as exaggeration, since he seemed prone to it.

Likewise, even Nautica didn't entirely buy his poor-little-me act, but she made a better audience for it than most, and she nodded in sympathy. "Yeah, I've noticed that people here are really confrontational. We're all understandably jumpy, but everyone I've talked to has been fine once they calmed down."

Her altmode was not, in fact, a Care Bear, but possibly only because Hasbro doesn't have that license.