Drift just grins, because that's a great start. A start to what, he doesn't know. But just being around the jet more? It's a dream come true. He doesn't know if it's one he deserves, but he'll enjoy it however can.

"It's a country," he chuckles, "Earthers don't have a unified government. Or if they do it's...really terrible. But anyway yes it's still around, the people of that world are quite, uh, resourceful and tenacious. Megatron couldn't complete his domination plan there."

Drift has a sizable respect for the humans because of that, but at the same time a wary uncertainty given what they did to overcome Cybertronian forces.

"Should we keep going? It seemed like there was some trouble at that cortex place?"