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Soon enough, night had come and darkness blanketed the land. Lancex found himself sitting next to a deserted, partially dilapidated building though it was bigger than it appeared. But he wasn't focused so much on that, but on the kiss he could still kind of feel on his lips if he thought about it hard enough. Said kiss, from Grimlock no less, felt slightly weird but mostly right. Mostly hidden due to a broken street light, Lancex could watch without being observed himself. He noticed a car driving around without headlights on but breaking street lights as it drove by. Lancex noticed that the Autobots were following the car. Sensing something, Lancex smiled before using his flash step ability to see what was up, vanishing as he did so.
Meanwhile, the muscle car stopped and transformed into a bot known as Lockdown. Ratchet instantly recognized the bot and grew angrier than usual. "Why are you here, Lockdown?" Ratchet demanded. Lockdown flashed an evil smirk and indicated that he was here for something. The Autobots, minus Ratchet, charged toward the unknown bot. Lockdown couldn't hide his evil grin even as Ratchet tried to warn his fellow bots about this serious rotten apple of a bot.
Lockdown revealed one of his many stolen parts, an EMP generator that he had in fact stolen from none other than Ratchet himself. And with misusing and abusing the power of the EMP generator, Lockdown flattened Optimus and the others who had charged the disgusting mercenary with a powerful blast of the generator. Seeing that his pray was thoroughly stunned, Lockdown slunk to where Optimus was, picked up the knocked out bot, and headed off, knowing the bounty hunter would be paid well for this capture. Ratchet can only watch as the bot tries to carry off Optimus.
Then, something unexpected showed up. "Flame sword style 5: dragon dance" was shouted from a darkened corner. Lockdown dropped Optimus, too shocked at the sudden appearance of the unknown bot. Fearful though not showing it, Lockdown fired from another stolen weapon, but Lancex was able to stop all the bullets with one stroke of his blade, melting them down.
As Lancex charged the bot, Lockdown used his most cowardly weapon – a smokescreen. And when he set it off, no own was able to see anything. For the precarious short time of the smoke, Lockdown quickly took Optimus back up and headed off. No way was he going to blow this.
Once the smoke cleared, Ratceht was left with three knocked out bots and Lancex. "I hate to ask you this, kid, but would you assist me in getting back Prime?" Ratchet asked. Lancex was going to get a bit upset at being called a kid, but then he realized Ratchet was a much, much older bot. Realizing it was a compliment, Lancex agreed to help Ratchet. For some reason he couldn't explain, Lamcex knew Optimus had to be saved. And just then, the other three – Bee, Prowl, and Bulkhead – were coming b online. Things had just become a lot more chaotic.