Yes, that's correct. I tried to remove it from him, but alas...our captors were quite determined.

[ There's a clinical, almost bored tone to his voice, but it's half-feigned; a grin tugs at his lips, something under his tone most definitely suggesting that he expects Ratchet to be slightly impressed. ]

Orion and Starscream weren't the only victims. I was taken in for processing, too -- but unlike them, I wasn't fortunate enough to have whatever they did to me undone when the towers were destroyed. They left some kind of...I don't know, malicious code in my brain. I can't entirely locate it, and I can't figure out how to excise it, either.