slenderwave:

@mightymegatron​ from here

::Do not mistake my refusal for ignorance! Of course I carry a grudge, of course I’m wary of this choice! Should I instead hurry to my likely death, when there could only be a slim chance that it may work to our betterment?::

::After all, the last few times I acted on such an impulse, it worked so incredibly well.::

[[Your likely death should have been the space bridge explosion. All of your time since then has been stolen, and you only grow weaker with age. You may survive now. Delay will sentence you.]]

A long pause. Soundwave does not feel loyalty toward this mech, nor toward his former leader, but he still remembers who they once were and what he used to admire about them.

[[…Your alternate let no mech own his spark in the pits of Kaon. Why do you not fight to reclaim yours? When did Megatron become afraid to die in battle?]]

There are very few in the world who understand how Megatron thinks as well as Soundwave does. This is apparently true of even those from other universes, and it both pleases and irks Megatron like nothing else can.

He’s right about one thing. If there is no other way to remove the Dark Energon, he will succumb to Unicron upon his death, no matter how far into the future that may be. He’s seen it happen to his alternates. However…

::What I have always done is take my life into my own hands. Giving it over to a being whose existence I repeatedly attempted to end would be a sentence in and of itself! What you speak of is no battle, it is surrender.::