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All those who were available soon headed for top side. Landmine, Mirage, and Jetfire headed out as did Lancex. He was not going to stand this Megatron character destroy things. Little did the overconfident Lancex realize he was the target of the deviant bot known as Megatron.

Megatron was blasting things to kingdom come to lure out the Autobots, hoping that the bot the leader of the cons wanted would come forth. Megatron was not disappointed as he saw the bot Megatron wanted. Megatron wanted to scoop the bot right up, but Optimus began blasting the bot. Megatron was angry and especially angry at seeing the traitorous Mirage, but Megatron didn't let is show. He needed to hide his hand.

Distraction for Optimus soon came as the partially visible Starscream soon made an appearance to distract Optimus. Optimus was no long able to provide back up fire for Lancex. The young bot, not realizing that Megatron was more of a fight than bot realized, prepared to take on the old fart. Lancex drew his special weaponry, unaware that this wouldn't be that effective on Megatron, or at least not the effect Lancex thought it would have.

Megatron smirked, drew his own sword and began to battle with Lancex. Lancex was a little too confident in his abilities and his limited knowledge of the sword he was wielding. Megatron knew he just needed to bide his time. Lancex thought the longer he fought, the weaker Megatron would get. But that is not what happened at all. While Lancex was using all he had, Megatron was not using all he had and could see that Lancex was running low in the energon department.

Lancex soon found himself isolated and low on energon. He had not paid attention and now Megatron had Lanex alone. True, Lancex could see the other bots, but they were very busy with fighting off the terrorcons and other cons. Lancex swore when he realized he had let his guard down. And worst of all, Optimus could see the two but couldn't reach them, as the sword fight was too far away. And with the distraction, Megatron swiftly knocked Lancex out cold and then placed on the temporary stasis locked bot on the tyrant's shoulder. Megatron shock a definitive smirk towards Optimus.

Upon seeing what was going on, Optimus wanted to drop to one knee and cry, but he couldn't just yet. First they had to fight off the cons. Then and only then could he react how he wanted to. And so, once Megatron left with Lancex in tow, Optimus helped the others get rid of the rest of the cons.

Once the other cons were gone, Optimus dropped to one knee and felt crushed. His only son was now prisoner of the tyrant Megatron. Optimus swore one thing – Megatron would pay, and pay dearly.