[Something Optimus is thankful for, to be honest. There was worry that he wouldn't get Shockwave back. That he couldn't overcome the Shadowplay. But he'd always underestimated the senator--he had strength, if not physically, mentally. Far more than he would admit to having sometimes. Something he'd always admired about him.]

I do. Despite their size, they are resilient, and even resourceful. They've evolved to adapt to their surrounding. Everything their planet--or anything extra-terrestrial that's thrown at them...

They rethink, and survive.

[It's why he didn't want to come back, true. He respected them too much as a species to bring them back into the war. They'd already suffered to much without a choice in the matter.

Another thing to stack upon that list of guilt.]