"You're free to murder as you like, I doubt what anyone says will stop you, but you will not do it in my name."

Megatron stands to his feet, leaving no sympathy for Tarn to find as anguish crashes through the warrior's frame. Despite what Tarn had done, a little part of him did still feel wrong for wrenching his faction from him - it was clear enough that Tarn had been trained to be so fanatical.

But, at the same time, he couldn't turn a blind eye to this. Admittedly, there's a small hope that separating Tarn from his Decepticon identity may help him break out of his own self-fulfilling cycle of violence, as painful as the process would be.