He could see the sense of it, even if the thought left a bad taste in his mouth. Still, he gave Kitt a nod and the door reeled up for both AI and Decepticon to pass through. "Okay," he said, opening a comm line. "Let's pick a good place to wait for these assholes to go past. Then we can rescue an AI."

That's what it was. He wasn't going to fool himself. This was a rescue, a liberation. Period.