... Well, he supposed that much is true, but he's still going to offer a defense for his actions. "My energon prod has never been the same since Silas snapped it," he mutters resentfully. "I work on it from time to time, that's all."

The reassurance that his vision had gotten at least that much wrong, no matter how trivial, does make him feel better.

"Speaking of the Null... I'd like to get my servos on one to get a better idea of what we're dealing with. Apparently if you wake any of the ones offlined around the city, they all know of it. So it seems best to deal with one... elsewhere."