- Strongarm: [after Optimus relates a story] Amazing. Tell us another.
- Sideswipe: Ugh. Give it a rest, will ya, Strongarm? You bugging Pops for war stories is getting older than, well, Pops.
- Bumblebee: Sideswipe, you'd better watch your...
- Optimus Prime: Young Bot, you may call me Optimus Prime or Optimus. Those are your only options. Understood?
- Sideswipe: [cowed] Yes, sir.
- Fixit: My theory is that something in the Prime's reversal process altered your basic chemistry, Optimus. When you went through the portal, you affected the Ground Bridge the same way a magnet damages a hard side- card five- hard drive.