Whirl winces, his shoulder hunching suddenly and it looks for a moment like he's going to pull away, before he forces himself to stay in place, almost painfully happy to have something to talk about so he doesn't have to focus on this and how he feels.

"Turns out, the crew didn't like Ol' helmet head, and anyone they thought would give him a chance was shipped off to the necroworld. And at the same time they decided to get rid of Roddy too cause they thought he couldn't captain for slag, and cause he was all co-captainy with megs."

And then after a moment, realising what that sounds like.

" And me! Cause I was decidedly not in the give Megs a chance camp, they just weren't fond of me since the whole Getaway incident. Aaaaaand then the DJD found Megatron and everything went downhill from an already downward hill."