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Meanwhile, as Optimus was snuggling close to Lancex and loving it as his systems were healing faster it seemed, over on the Con air ship in the con med bay, Knockout is fixing breakdown after their most recent confrontation with Prime. Breakdown was still furious about that new bot interrupting their destruction of Prime. Knockout sighed as he repaired the blue bot, and a call came in from Megatron as Knockout was doing so. "I demand an accounting of your actions, come to the throne room immediately" Megatron demanded, in a dark, cold voice.

The pair head from the med bay to the throne room. Upon arriving, Knockout and Breakdown see that Megatron is not alone. Gathered as well was Starscream, Soundwave, Shockwave, and Predaking. Knockout isn't sure he liked the look of this. "My liege?" Knockout asked.

"Where have you two been? Betraying me?" Megatron demanded to know.

After flinching, Knockout replied, "No.. we would never betray you, my liege."

"You still haven't answered why you were out without my order" Megatron replied sharply.

"Well… you see.. um…" was all Knockout could get out.

Breakdown cut in then. "We were in the middle of getting rid of Optimus when we were interrupted by a strange new bot and this strange new bot drove us away." All the bots in the throne room looked to Megatron then, wondering what his response to this new information would be.

Megatron's red optics narrowed. He hated how more Autobots seemed to appear out of nowhere. "Another new Autobot? And just when we're you going to inform me of this?" Megatron queried angrily.

"Breakdown was heavily damaged from the fight, so I had no choice but to repair him first, but here" Knockout replied before showing a visual of his memory from the fight, showing the new bot. The thing was, no Decepticon had seen this bot before, as he didn't look familiar. Megatron studied the hologram, thinking that this strong bot would make an excellent breeder bot mate for the con leader, presuming the bot could carry. Megatron offered a dangerous smirk, causing most bots to look at him in total confusion. Well, all but one, as the site of this new bot stirred something deep inside Predaking. He didn't know what it was, but he knew something had been activated inside him that hadn't been activated before.

Meanwhile, back with the Autobots, Lancex woke and found Optimus snuggled next to him. Lancex wasn't sure about this, but seeing that Optimus had injuries, Lancex laid back down and allowed them both to rest and recover. Lancex, being the dense bot he was, had no idea his presence had now activated certain programming in at least three bots, but eventually he would learn. For now,he just needed to help with the fight.