[Well, if Perceptor were from sufficiently far enough in the future, your answer might have been perfect, Springer. Sadly, it is not.]

Power core? Hmmm... Such an incident is not familiar to me.

[Which could mean that this is his Springer, just from the future, or that this is not his Springer. He sighs.]

I require the exact date, please? [He rattles off the date of the attack on Autobot City as an example.]