(Please see all previous disclaimers)
As they searched the planet to find the key and Optimus and his team kept getting annoyed by Ransack and his oafish partner crumplezone, Lancex and his team made it to a forested area of one of the ancient citadels on the giant planet. The troop was searching for the way out of this area, not sure why they were led here. "Why are we here?" Asked Landmine, not liking this. He didn't like that things were so big that they easily hid him.
"Because I sense that are target is directly below us" Lancex replied.
"How far below us?" Asked Evac, wanting to know as this planet was enormous and built upon so many layers.
"Oh, about 25 citadel layers" Lance replied, leading the others to groan. That seemed like so far away, yet it was closer than they realized, as all the citadels below this, except the core layer, were the exact copy of this layer. Lancex blew a whole in the floor with one of his many weapons. The others were stunned but quickly followed once Lancex jumped into the hole. The others soon followed suit, as they needed to remain together as a team as that was how Optimus wanted it.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, Vector Prime, Metroplex, and Menasor were closely following behind Bud and the minicons who had run pretty far ahead of the group. Optimus let them, as it kept the young human and minicons busy and active. Metroplex did have a question for Optimus. "Optimus, I do have a question for you" Metroplex suddenly blurted out, thankfully unheard by Bud and the minicons.
"Please, ask your question" Optimus replied, knowing it was important to communicate.
"Well, there are only four of us transformers on this team, if you don't count the minicons. Yet, with Lancex, you sent many more bots. May I ask why the disparity between the teams, especially since you sent Wingsaber and Override as the only two bots with the young human Lori?" Metroplex asked, sincerely wanting to know.
Optimus sighed, as he wanted to explain, but he knew that an explanation was in order. "Lancex is my younger brother and Red Alert, my medic, stated that Lancex has a medical issue that needs to be monitored. I had assigned certain bots to monitor him for that purpose, and so hence the size of their team" Optimus explained. Put in that context, it made sense, as the others assumed that it had to do something with Lancex's systems not working properly at times, and not real issue, which relieved Optimus.
"That makes complete sense to us, Optimus. Now let's go find that key" Metroplex answered.
Optimus nodded, and once again they headed on, only to once again meet up with the two decepticon dolts, and this time, they had Jolt in their hands. Optimus silently sighed, this was so not his day.