As Loki speaks, Soundwave's expression grows softer, and even though he is wearing a mask, his smile shows through somehow, perhaps in what shows of his eyes through his visor.

"I believe that everything will be fine," he says--probably more to Ravage than to Loki himself, though he looks carefully at them both--when Loki finishes his explanation.

"I know what you feel while you speak to us. Not being Megatron, I have no reason to care what you call it." Soundwave shrugs, then shakes his head.

"Ravage did not ask if you were willing to follow Megatron wherever he chooses to go. Please, even after your children are grown, even a thousand years from now, if you and he should find yourselves alone--do not promise to follow Megatron wherever he chooses to go. We made that promise once. We do not advise that anyone else makes it. He does not need followers. If you ever do go away with him, take his hand, and don't be afraid to pull him back from the edge of a precipice if you have to. Because you will. I think it's better, at least for now, if he follows you. And I think you can get him to do it."