they have to claim someone outside the gestalt. otherwise they would be hissing and clawing at EVERYONE

Raid: i'm actually a little upset about the ceasefire.
Dive: why?
Raid: six words. angry glitching out giant jet gestalt
Dive:.... we'd win in like... three minutes. all we'd have to do is say megatron was looking at their claims. he wouldn't live long enough to work out what in the pit was going on.