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Later on, after a long and thorough recharge, Lancex woke up. Well, his systems came on slowly at first but then snapped quickly to full awareness. Lancex felt like he was stuck in between two very large objects. Lancex glanced to his sides. The first side he looked to he saw Bulkhead and the huge bot was holding Lancex like an earth toddler held a teddy bear. Lancex felt a bit queasy at that, as Lancex wasn't big on fluff stuff. But then Lancex was distracted by the feeling of hot breath on the other side. Lancex turned his head and saw Predaking. The dragon bot's disgusting sulphur breath seemed to burn as it hit Lancex. Lancex didn't know what was going on, but at this point, he wasn't sure he wanted to.

Lancex was going to silently slip out, but his empty tanks roared loudly and woke the other two bots up. Both bots quickly woke and then blushed when they realized what happened. Lancex glanced between the two. "I don't know what has screwed with your systems, but I wish you would leave me out of it" Lancex said, not paying attention at all to the fact that his spark was reacting being around these two. The two blushed even more as they realized that they had made Lancex feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.

Lancex quickly left, leaving the two behind. Lancex planned on getting some energon and then heading out with another bot, like Bee or even Arcee, as Lancex didn't really want to be at the base for the time being. He was a proud warrior bot who had fought in many battles of many kinds, but this was not something he really wanted to be a part of, at least right now. Right now, Megatron needed to be stopped.

Bulkhead and Predaking glared at each other after Lancex left. "This is your fault, you overgrown softy" Predaking threw at Bulkhead.

"At least my breath doesn't burn bots" Bulkhead retorted. They threw a few more jabs at each other before they finally got up off their afts and headed to the break room.

Meanwhile, having grabbed his energon and sitting alone with his energon and his thoughts. True, he had been weirded out when he woke, as he wasn't expecting something like that. But now that he thought about it, in a way, it felt nice. He felt like he was wanted, but he knew he couldn't act on it at this time. He also hoped that for the time being, he could keep those two at bay.