If it comforts you, I didn't join until the war was technically over in my reality. Not that I didn't fight Decepticons before that, but I wasn't with the faction.

[She smiles a little, lopsidedly. And wonders, quietly, how and why Ambulon defected - the one she knows anyway.]

Just trying to figure out the differences... [She shakes her helm slowly, frowning a little.] And I'm feeling pretty good about where I am. I wouldn't want Grim after me if I did defect!

[The thought is both amusing, since she never would, and sobering, because this is Grimlock.]