[Snickering at that, Cliffjumper nods - it hadn't been fun, but well. He couldn't really regret his ill-concieved attempt at trying to school Optimus. Not that he hadn't yelled insults at the Prime since then, because he had.]

I'd pay a good amount of energon rods to find out what he was thinkin' before he shot me.

[Then he grimaces and shrugs.]

It wasn't fun, no. I'd rather not have been shot either, but it'd taken more time than we'd have had at the point to convince me. Tome we slaggin' well didn't have, what with the Ark.

[He's hardly delusional about his own attitude to not know he'd have been really stubborn about any attempts at convincing him of the truth.]