Soundwave laughs. "I literally did fall in love at my first sight of her," he admits. "Sometimes with us, it does happen like that. The spark knows its mate and they call to each other. I saw her spark light up her entire field and I was so disoriented at that time that I could see nothing else when she or he wandered my way. I remembered Ravage's name when I was too ill to remember my own. We were both in a bad way when she decided to take me in. When I opened my spark to him, he was mine, and we have hurt each other terribly a few times, but we know each other better now."

He thinks for a moment. "That is probably a strange thing for me to tell you, but maybe it will help you understand things. We saw this happen with him once before. He had us, and a few others. The other party had a few other people in his orbit as well, but they chose not to join us. In the end, the other party left us as well and ended up with no-one at all, but I think he deserved it, and I take a certain vindictive pleasure in seeing that he still wears a mask and helm crest that look almost exactly like mine. I hate him so much," Soundwave says, laughing with a soft, melodious and utterly vindictive tone that somehow also drips with love, though the love is for Ravage, and maybe also for Megatron, too.

"You have no idea how much pleasure it gives me to see that he doesn't even know how much it shows that he thinks of us all. Ravage wrote an angry poem about him that got posted to an Autobot website and he ordered it taken down within hours. Of course I have no idea how that got there. But since someone who had an account there decided to humiliate Ravage and me by posting something that Ravage had written about me, I thought it was only fair."