[Thundercracker could relate to the not-much-time… for him, it had been not being allowed while having to follow orders to help /destroy/ a planet. Or two.]

Hmn. Well, that's one advantage to this place. Time is about all you have here. No agenda if you don't want one. No one to order you to anything you don't want to do. Hmn…you probably didn't have much of that to deal with.

[He knows that Megatron never ordered /him/ to anything. He never really gave the Seeker any orders at all, just support for anything /he/ wanted to do. Which was . . . novel, to say the least.]