There was no benefit! For anyone! Nothing went as it was meant to in that forsaken pit of a city.

Can you say it has been any better here?

[He laughs.] Soundwave, you should see what 'cruelties' the Autobots of my world had committed, long before my spark was a glimmer of electricity. Perhaps they haven't been truthful with you, either.

Perhaps we should start anew.

[This is as close to a truce as he can offer.]