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After thinking for a period of time, Optimus made a decision and he decided to go find the dinobots and Lancex to assign them quarters to recharge in. Ratchet watched with a bit of glee at this and hoped that Optimus would admit his feelings for Lancex soon. The medic bot also made a note to himself to teach those hard headed dinobots – Grimlock, Swoop, and Snarl – about the nuts and bolts of mating, such as dominant bots, submissive bots, carrier bots, and other pertinent information seeing that Grimlock wanted to frag Lancex into oblivion so to speak.
Meanwhile, Optimus finally located Lancex, but unfortunately, the bot was with Grimlock and the other dinobots, with Grimlock seemingly standing possessively next to Lancex. Optimus sighed, as he didn't like that, but he had a job to do. Seemingly unfazed, Optimus asked, "so are you bots returning to where you came from or do you wish to stay here?" Optimus, and the reframed the question about returning to the island or staying.
"Me Grimlock stay here" Grimlock barked out, and Swoop and Snarl nodded in agreement.
"Okay. Bulkhead, Prowl, would you two mind sharing your rooms tonight?" Optimus asked. Both nodded in agreement and Optimus assigned Swoop to stay with Prowl and Snarl to go with Bulkhead. The pairs soon headed off to go rest, leaving Optimus, Grimlock, and Lancex there alone. "So, where do you want to stay, Grimlock?"
"Me want to stay with him Lancex" Grimlock answered firmly, leaving no room for argument. Where Lancex went, Grimlock was going. Lancex blushed fiercely at that while Optimus sighed and then asked the two to follow him. There was really only one prepared quarters that could hose these two along with another bot. Both carefully follow the Prime, unsure exactly where they were headed.
And after a few more twists and turns, they reached the quarters Optimus called his. "What room this? Why puny bed?" Grimlock asked, while Lancex wasn't sure what to think as he was so tired.
"These are my personal quarters, and…" Optimus started saying before pushing a hidden button that expanded the "puny berth" and making it the size three large bots would be able to rest on comfortably without laying on top of each other if they didn't want to. And while Grimlock and Lancex were shocked, Optimus smirked, found a special place on the wall where he could safely hang Lancex's sword, and then invited the pair to checkout the bed for comfort. Landed could only hope the bed would be comfortable as he was ready to crash hard into recharge.
