Well, at least that seemed to have made the human feel better. "Sure, kid." This Hochstetter must have been a piece of work, if such a seemingly gentle human as Carter was so enthusiastic over the thought of his end.

"It may not work out that clean most of the time," Ratchet said, wondering where Carter got the idea that wars always ended up with the right side winning as some kind of moral imperative. "Our Great Wars started when our enemy faction tried to wipe out all of my kind, and they were run off the planet for their troubles. So, I guess you could say the Decepticons got what they deserved, for all the good it'll do. They'll never change." And it had taken far too many Autobot sparks and far too much of Cybertron to achieve even that much.