What strange ideas some people come up with, he thinks, very happy about the fact that neither the Decepticons nor his side ever tried mainframe deletion in the civil war. That would have become very messy and lost all control because the people wouldn't know who to... trust.
"Say, are you afraid of me?" he asks. "Because you should know that I'm not with those guys that gave you the zipper. That kind odf interogation is barbaric."