And Thrust is maybe nine months old, for all he sounds a lot older. He's just a kid-saying kind of guy. Even if he does figure the serious-face is more about the 'con portion of Vehicon. (He doesn't know much about Great War history, especially the last battles on and around Earth, but he knows that Autobots were mostly ground-based, so it'd be easy to confuse him with one, and that Decepticons were not human-friendly.)

"Three times, now," Thrust admits, and this is three times out of... call it seven, because Stephen met him forewarned. "Gotta admit, it's just been good to know I don't have to explain my species."