After learning that others had witnessed his true nature, Sentinel Prime dispatched Airachnid to hunt down the threats to his lies. Eventually, Airachnid returned with D-16, B-127, Starscream, and a chunk of the High Guard as prisoners to Sentinel's tower. D-16 angrily confronted Sentinel for his treachery, but Sentinel laughed him off and insisted the truth would be whatever he declared it would be for Cybertron, and plotted to publicly execute his prisoners. You are one of the prisoners kneeling down in front of him.

“You, all of you, are traitors. You have been working together with the Quintessons to sabotage my expeditions. You’re the reason I haven’t found the matrix of leadership yet.”