Oh noooooooooo now I’m thinking about Soundwave suddenly being roped into a gladiator school after somehow surviving his execution, being given frame upgrades as soon as physically possible, and Laserbeak coming into the world in the wee hours of the morning in the darkest corner of Soundwave’s tiny room.

*tada hands* 

The decision is made to let him keep Laserbeak rather than snuffing her unborn spark because he’ll fight all the harder knowing that she’ll die without him. She’s tiny, she’s helpless, and she relies entirely on him for everything. 

You think a mother bear is ferocious, but she can’t hold a candle to a symbiote host with full understanding of the situation.