Riptide and I have been destined to be enemies the minute that I boarded the Moira. As a Decepticon, it is my civic duty to kill Autobots. As has been the way for millions of years.

It did not help his case that ever since he and I met-- almost two months ago now-- he has attempted to lie and make a fool of me at every opportunity.

He knows who I am, and what I do for the Decepticons, and yet he still pushed.

At that point I realized that he must truly have a death wish. So, I simply relieved him of his burden of being alive.

[He makes it sound so simple and matter of fact.]