[It wouldn't even be a secret if some people hadn't pointed out Tarn's... occupation. People will trust him or not after they know about that.]

Mm, I suppose, but my frame didn't look much like this at the time I switched sides. [In fact, it'd been decidedly more... graceful, if no less powerful in its flight capabilities.] That came a lot later, but chasing after traitors that don't know much... er, technically anyway, would've been a waste of resources.

[He might not have known much of military operations but he did know of a lot of scientific projects... as well as the weapons he'd been working on.

Jetfire huffed a static sigh and nodded.]

Hopefully so. Of course, if I'm not at least in the reality I'm from, Earth has been a burned wasteland for over a year by now.

[Jetfire doesn't know of occam's razor, though!]