IDW: 𧪠When did you lose the plot of your own damn cause?
âDo you think that kind of thing is easy to pinpoint?â
Megatron leans forward where heâs sat, all bulk and angles as he rests his elbows on his knees, servos hanging between them.
Heâs tired. He has the luxury of admitting that, now.
âShould I tell you of the first time I beat Starscream unconscious? The way his energon splattered hot and tacky against my chassis when my knuckles split his lip? Inexcusable violence, really, without purpose other than to sate my own rageâ inarticulate as it was in the moment, and every moment after that. But that was between individuals. That was⌠personal. For all that it set an example.â
The tank sucks in a vent through his teeth.
âPerhaps it was the execution of the Senate and Council? Youâd be hard pressed among even the most staunchly deep-coded of Autobots to find one who truly, genuinely mourned them⌠even your Optimus, tender thing that he is, held no love for them after what was done to Shockwave. One of their own, fed to the slavering beast of the Institute⌠Something about due process, Iâm sure. Right to a fair trial. But they stacked the deck against Cybertron and her people for millenia. Whoâs to say they wouldnât have weaseled their ways out? Whoâs to say death by court would have been more merciful than swift obliteration?â
âIt doesnât matter, in the end, does it. You seek me out to soothe yourself. You, a monster who has done monstrous things, can look at me and go âAt least I am better than that.â âAt least I didnât do this.â âAt least I didnât make that choice.â But oh⌠thereâs still time. Thereâs always time. And when it happens? When that moment comes, the tipping point? Youâll feel too righteous to see it. Youâll step right off that cliff, too, and youâll drop all the way down knowing you had to do it.â
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