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Jazz, unable to rescue Lancex on his own, ran back inside, looking high and low for Prime. Jazz stopped by the med bay, but Aquaformer and Ratchet said that they hadn't seen Optimus for several hours and last thing they knew was he was in his office. Jazz rushed off, but not without leaving Aquaformer and Ratchet with an uneasy feeling that something was very wrong.

Jazz continued on his mission. He first went to Optimus' office but didn't see the Prime there. Finally, as he was running out of places to find the Prime, he found the bot in the secondary rec room trying to separate Cosmos and Grimlock. "Prime! Prime! We have a problem. A big problem" Jazz shouted over the din.

That stopped the verbal confrontation between Grimlock and Cosmos as even they sensed something wrong. "Jazz, what news do you bring? What is wrong?"

"Soundwave captured…captured Lancex" Jazz finally managed to get out. That caused all three bots, Optimus, Grimlock and Cosmos to face jazz.

"Lancex was…captured?" Cosmos asked, worriedly.

"Yes, I was too far away to stop it and I'm only one bot. I don't know if Soundwave had more bots in waiting or not. I figured it was better I bring report than be potentially captured myself and then no one would know" Jazz explained.

"Me Grimlock go now, save bot!" Grimlock roared, trying to take off.

"Grimlock, I know you want Lancex, but we must have a plan to rescue him. If we race off Willy nilly then we may end up causing Lancex's destruction. And none of us wants to see that for any reason" Optimus retorted, straining to restrain the infuriated dinobot and barely managing to do so. "Trust me, Megatron would have no qualms terminating your existence if we don't be careful." Only at that did Grimlock settle.

"Jazz, we need all bots on deck to help. Have everyone meet in the main room. This is not a drill" Optimus stated. Jazz nodded and did as asked. He commed everyone, including Aquaformer and Ratchet. And while Ratchet was reluctant to leave the med bay as some one needed to remain here to fix those hurt, Aquaformer came racing. She wasn't going to miss this for anything even though she should have due to her condition. All just hoped that Lancex could be safe.y rescued.