Ahaha. Very well.

[He laughs, but he doesn't seem in the mood to actually come off as light-hearted.]

I expected this. Well, I would not begrudge you a battle for your own life. But know this. If you ask me whether I could make beasts my tools and use them for my own wicked ends, if you ask me whether I could reveal myself as enemy and betrayer, the answer is yes! I have never hidden my nature! I have never attempted it.

But Missile...his desire to protect the humans here is true. It is his own heart.