(Please see all previous disclaimers)
A week went by, and oh what a week it was for the poor mage. Lancex had never had such a busy week. Over the course of the busy week, Lancex had found himself face to face with the Decepticons over and over again. The first time wasn't so difficult as Lancex was fully rested and had fought normal sized cons.
But the second fight was more difficult, as the largest bot Lancex had ever seen was joining in the fight, the Decepticon known as Tidal Wave. The stupid lug was huge and had massive defenses to most of Lancex's usual attacks. The big oaf easily fended off most of those. Finally, with the combination of his Fairnaught Bow and a couple of brave swords, Lancex was at last able to gain an edge and cause damage to the big lug and send the cons running. Lancex was so determined to fight the bot, he had no idea he was so damaged until after the fight was over.
Thankfully, those injuries appeared minor, and so Lancex was ready for battle again. After the battle with Tidal Wave, the Autobots learned that Sideways had not only burned them but had also burned Decepticons and revealed his true nature – his master was Unicron and Sideways did whatever he had to in order to secure what Unicron wanted. It made things even more of a mess.
After that fiasco, Lancex helped the rest of the Autobots and kids fix the ship that would allow the Autobots to fly through space and return to Cybertron. Blurr, being assigned to the same area to work as Jetfire and Lancex started asking the mage some questions. "So, are you a solider bot or another type of bot?" Blurr asked, as he hadn't really gotten to know this bot.
"I am a soldier bot now, I wasn't always, and once this war is over, I won't remain one" Lancex answered honestly, unaware his answers to these questions were starting to rile Jetfire up, as well as Optimus who had just come to check progress,
"What do you want after the war?" Blurr asked, seemingly naturally.
"Well, I hope I can find mates who will love me for me and won't try to change who I am" Lancex replied.
"What are you looking for in these mates you want to find?" Blurr asked, seemingly innocently enough. Neither were aware that Optimus was upset, but also was holding back an irate Jetfire who was ready to pummel Blurr.
Optimus pulsed a secret comm to Jetfire, "not now, we need him to repair the ship." Jetfire growled and tried a few more times to get loose to "knock some sense" into Blurr, but gave up seeing as Optimus held the defiant Jet tighter and tighter the more Jetfire squirmed to get away.
"Well, I am looking for strong, kind, gentle, compassionate bots who would defend and protect me if necessary" Lancex revealed. Blurr nodded, he wasn't really the protective type, but this Lancex bot wasn't bad looking,
"Does it have to be more than one mate?" Blurr asked, wondering if he alone would be enough.
Lancex nodded. "Yes, because the pair has to balance each other out" Lancex replied. Blurr silently swore, there went his chance. Optimus was relieved when the conversation stopped and work started again. Optimus just hoped that Jetfire didn't get unhinged again as Optimus needed to leave and check another area. They had to get home and soon.