No matter the battlefield, hatred was the same. Be it between friends, strangers, lovers, or enemies, nothing could alter or disguise the burning light of hatred; the wish for harm and destruction on an opponent. Many times he'd felt that fire himself - had used it as fuel for countless blows. He recognized it in his canine visitor; in her walk and in her bared fangs.
The warlord smirked. The barest hint of surprise stained his expression at the name of Optimus Prime, but it faded quickly, swallowed up by something darker and far more dangerous. "And what, then, is your quarrel with me?" His voice was measured, rough, and insidious; it twisted like a serpent between them, mocking the daughter of Optimus Prime. "Why approach me, to face what your father could not destroy?"