Hey, life could be a lot worse, right? Trailcutter can think of a lot of things he'd put above this on 'list of bad things that can happen.' Like most of his life.

"What about you? I mean, you're not exactly my Captain right NOW...but you're still my Captain."

And that's all that mattered to him. Not that 4 million years of war. Unless Megatron wants to deck him. That's...okay, yeah, he's a little afraid of that right now.