"Primus, no, nothing of the sort. You squashed that miserable excuse of a mech, Apex Armor and all, and let me tell you, it was was VERY deserved." Aftermath reaches out with his free arm as they start climbing the crater's side, trying to steady himself without burdening Megatron too much.

"That battle marked the end of any peaceful resolution to the conflict, however. We murdered nearly the entire Senate. You and Orion Pax- chosen as Prime by the Matrix and renamed Optimus Prime- you two filled the power vacuum they left behind. Things took a turn for the worse after that."

His words trail off into a quiet grunt of pain as the change in elevation forces his hurt leg to drag along at a new angle.