(Please see all previous disclaimers, Kryptobug is my OC)
Wanting to plan things, Optimus headed out of the room to talk with Vector Prime. That left many curious bots and humans to listen to what Lancex had to say. "Well, as far as growing up… mom and dad had Optimus, who was planned. I was an unexpected surprise many years later. They loved both of us none the less, but Optimus is much older than I."
"Who were your parents?" Jetfire asked.
"Sentinel Prime and his mate Elita one. They had only expected to have one sparkling, as Mom nearly offlined as she sparked Optimus. But since my spark grew attached to my mother's spark, she was actually able to carry me safely." The kids didn't get all this stuff, but the other transformers were okay with that for the time being.
"Where did you train for use of your vast array of weaponry?" Wingsaber asked, a bit jealous of all the cool weapons the bot had.
"I worked with a combat instructior for ten years, one that Optimus sent me too to learn about all the weapons I had been asssigned - the god arc, my hades gun, all of the other weapons I keep hidden. Unfortunately, after the ten years, I came back to Cybertron and things were different and Optimus was nowhere to be found. For about 5 years, I was a mercenary, but I never gave up hope that I would, one day again find my brother" Lancex answered, slightly rubbing his eye patch, as he thought about all he had done to survive.
"What's wrong with your eye?" Lori asked, a bit confused.
"Nothing is wrong. Just remembering" Lancex asked.
"Remembering what?" Cody asked, curious. Lancex removed the patch and revealed his purple optic. "And why is your optics purple?"
"One time, when I was working as a mercenary, I might up with a formidable bot, unaware that he had been possessed by a demonic force. I went to attack, and he put out my optic, damaging it beyond any repair. I ended up finishing off the bot, but I was in bad shape and the demon just went elsewhere. I met up with a bot who offered to repair it. A bot named Kryptobug, who became a powerful friend and ally of mine. He repaired it, but I doing so, he also told me my optic was now different. I could see into the future…" Lancex started before being interrupted.
"You can see into the future. Vector Prime said he could do that, but only in a limited sense. It would be totally cool if you can really see into the future" Lori stated.
"My future vision is limited as well. I mean, if something happens within a short span of time, say 10 minutes or so, I can see it only if I choose to wjen i remove the patch, but the further ahead I look, the more limited the vision becomes" Lancex revealed, having the same limitation as Vector Prime. Lori looked a bit disappointed, but said nothing further.
Another bot was going to ask a question, but Optimus and Vector Prime suddenly returned. "There is no way to find the fourth and final key" Optimus stated.
"If only I had my map" Vector answered.
Lancex overheard the pair. "I might be able to help with that" Lancex stated.
"Help with what? The map is gone, Megatron stole it"Vector stated emphatically.
"Let's just say in my many years wandering in the special abyss, I found out where all the keys are." The bots looked at him. Was this true? Had they really just found where the last key resided? They could only hope Lancex spoke the truth.